Of the 700,000 people in the United States who experience a new or recurrent stroke each year,more than 500,000 survive(American Stroke Association,2007)[1]. Occupational therapy practitioners are critical rehabilitat...Of the 700,000 people in the United States who experience a new or recurrent stroke each year,more than 500,000 survive(American Stroke Association,2007)[1]. Occupational therapy practitioners are critical rehabilitation professionals for stroke survivors.展开更多
BACKGROUND: Thrombolysis therapy is not suitable for the elderly patients with acute ischemic stroke who delayed to be diagnosed for more than 3 hours, but traditional medicine is also not very ideal. OBJECTIVE: To ...BACKGROUND: Thrombolysis therapy is not suitable for the elderly patients with acute ischemic stroke who delayed to be diagnosed for more than 3 hours, but traditional medicine is also not very ideal. OBJECTIVE: To observe the clinical therapeutic effect of modified hemodilution combined therapy applied in elderly patients with acute cerebral thrombosis and analyze the mechanism of this therapeutic method. DESIGN: 1:1 paired grouping according to gender and controlled observation SETTING: Department of Internal Medicine, Chengzhanyuan District, First Hospital Affiliated to Zhejiang University. PARTICIPANTS: Totally 90 elderly patients with acute ischemic stroke who received the treatment in the Cadre Ward and Mental Ward, Department of Internal Medicine, Chengzhanyuan District, First Hospital Affiliated to Zhejiang University from March 1996 to June 2004 were recruited. They all met the diagnosis criteria revised by the Fourth Academic Conference of National Cerebrovascular Diseases in 1995 and were diagnosed as acute ischemic stroke by skull CT. They were informed of therapeutic plan and detected items. According to 1:1 paired principle in gender, 90 enrolled patients were assigned into treated group (n=45) and control group (n=45). There were 39 male and 6 female in the treatment group, and they were aged (76±6)years, ranging from 71 to 84 years, and hospitalized at the 14^th to 76^th hours after onset. There were 39 male and 6 female in the control group, and they were aged (76±6)years , ranging from 70 to 82 years, and hospitalized at the 16^th to 72^th hours after onset. METHODS: Therapeutic method: Patients of treated group received modified hemodilution combined therapy. 200 mL whole blood of patients was exchanged with 500 mL dextran-40 (including 20 mL danshen parenteral solution and 32 mg heparin) at the beginning of therapy; From the 2^nd day, compound huangqi tea bag (Huangqi mainly, including danshen, honghua, chuanxiong, shishao and a little acetyl salicylic acid) was made, twice a day, 1 bag once. At the same time, the above-mentioned dextran-40 liquid of 500 mL was intravenously injected, once a day, 14 days in total; On the 6^th day after therapy, the above-mentioned aseptic autoblood stored in refrigerator at 4℃ was transfused back into the patients following pre-treatment of high-concentration oxygenation and ultraviolet irradiation by light quantum instrument. Patients of control group were intravenously injected of 0.4 g venoruton(Traditional Chinese medicine compound parenteral solution for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis ) and 50 g/L glucose of 500 mL, 75 mg acetosal was taken orally, once a day, 14 days in total. ② Measurement and observation of index: Blood coagulation index, change of platelet aggregation rate and change of hemorrheology of patients in two groups were monitored before and after therapy. The level of blood lipid of patients in two groups was measured with American Beckman automatic biochemistry analyzer. Blood flow rate of middle cerebral artery of resting electrocardiogram were measured with American HP SONOS 2500 sonoscope. Neuro-dysfunction score revised in the national conference (1995) was used to evaluate the recovery of neurological function of the patients in two groups at the 3rd, 5^th, 7^th and 14^th days after therapy. ③Therapeutic effect and adverse effect were observed at the same time. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES : ① Changes of coagulation index, blood lipid level and hemorheology; ② Blood flow rate of middle cerebral artery and NDS of patients with acute ischemic stroke in two groups; ③Adverse effect of drug. RESULTS: Totally 90 patients were enrolled in the experiment. One patient from treated group died of hyperosmolar nonketotic diabetic coma of complicated diabetes mellitus. One patient from control group died of severe pulmonary infection. The rest 88 patients entered the stage of result analysis. ① Change of coagulation index and platelet aggregation rate: prothrombin time (PT), activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) and thrombin time (TT) of patients after therapy were significantly longer than those before therapy in the treated group and those after therapy in control group [After therapy in treated group: (18.4±1.9), (41.8±2.1), (19.7±1.7) s, Before therapy in treated group: (13.4±1.3), (35.8±1.3), (12.5±0.9) s, After therapy in control group: (16.9±1.5), (39.1±1.1), (11.9±2.1) s, P〈 0.05]:Concentration of fibrinogen (Fbg) after therapy was significantly lower than that before therapy in the treated group and that after therapy in control group[After therapy in treated group: (3.4±0.4) g/L; Before therapy in treated group: (4.3±0.7) g/L; After therapy in control group:(4.0±0.6) g/L; P 〈 0.05]. Platelet aggregation rate decreased from (37.92 ±0.85)% before therapy to (26.42±1.01)% after therapy (P 〈 0.01). ②Change of blood lipid level: Levels of total cholesterol (TC), triacylglycerol(TG) and low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) of patients after therapy were significantly lower than those before therapy in treated group and those after therapy in control group [After therapy in treated group: (5.2±0.9), (1.9±0.9), (2.08±1.1) mmol/L, before therapy in treated group: (5.9±1.2), (2.8±0.9), (3.94±0.5) mmol/L, After therapy in control group: (6.0±1.1), (2.6±0.8), (3.84±0.9) mmol/L, P 〈 0.05]. ③Change of hemorheology index: Hematocrit of patients of treated group was significantly lower after therapy than before therapy [Before therapy: (43.84±4.55)% ;After therapy: (40.48±4.02)%;P 〈 0.05]. Blood flow rate of middle cerebral artery of patients of treated group was significantly lower before therapy than after therapy [(90±1.2), (97±2.1) cm/s,P〈 0.01]. ⑤NDS of patients in treated group was significantly lower than of control group 14 days after therapy. The total effective rate after therapy was significantly higher in the treated group than in the control group (93%,78%, P 〈 0.05). ⑥There was no obvious adverse effect. CONCLUSION: Modified hemodilution combined therapy can improve hemorheology, decrease hematocrit, increase blood flow rate of middle cerebral artery, so as to improve the impaired clinical neurological function of elderly patients with acute cerebral thrombosis through anticoagulation and antiplatelet aggregative activity as well as regulating blood lipid.展开更多
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma(NPC),a malignant tumor originating from the nasopharynx,is one of the common malignant tumors of the head and neck.There are significant geographical differences in the incidence of nasopharyn...Nasopharyngeal carcinoma(NPC),a malignant tumor originating from the nasopharynx,is one of the common malignant tumors of the head and neck.There are significant geographical differences in the incidence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma,with a high incidence in China and Southeast Asian countries.Herein,we designed and synthesized a novel near-infrared fluorescent(NIRF)probe to detect glutathione(GSH)in cellular and tumor environments using semi-naphthofluorescein(SNAFL)as the fluorescent molecular backbone and 2-fluoro-4-nitrobenzenesulfonate as the recognition moiety.Upon reaction with GSH,SNAFL-GSH emitted a fluorescence signal,and its emission wavelength at 650 nm was remarkably enhanced.The results of selectivity experiments indicated that SNAFL-GSH was able to discriminate GSH from Cys,Hcy,and H_(2) S.Moreover,SNAFL-GSH could image both endogenous and exogenous GSH and distinguish normal and cancer cells by fluorescence signal difference.At the cellular level,cisplatin(DDP)-induced ferroptosis and inhibition of proliferation of various NPC cell lines(CNE2,CNE1,5-8F cells)by erastin combined with DDP were visualized with the help of SNAFL-GSH.In a mouse tumor xenograft model,we successfully employed SNAFL-GSH for the evaluation of the efficacy of erastin combined with DDP in the treatment of NPC.More importantly,the probe could image cancerous tissue sections from NPC patients with an imaging depth of approximately 80µm.It was foreseen that SNAFL-GSH offered great potential for application in the diagnosis and evaluation of the therapeutic efficacy of NPC,and these results would also provide new ideas for the clinical treatment of NPC.展开更多
The scientific literature presents a modest amount ot evidence m the use or complementary ana al[erna- tire medicine (CAM). On the other hand, in practice, relevant results are common. The debates among CAM practiti...The scientific literature presents a modest amount ot evidence m the use or complementary ana al[erna- tire medicine (CAM). On the other hand, in practice, relevant results are common. The debates among CAM practitioners about the quality and execution of scientific research are important, Therefore, the aim of this review is to gather, synthesize and describe the differentiated methodological models that encompass the complexity of therapeutic interventions. The process of bringing evidence-based medicine into clinical practice in CAM is essential for the growth and strengthening of complementary medicines worldwide.展开更多
Objective:To evaluate the objectivity and comprehensiveness of Response Evaluation Criteria of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Solid Tumor(Draft,REC-TCM-ST) in application of Chinese medicine therapeutic effect in...Objective:To evaluate the objectivity and comprehensiveness of Response Evaluation Criteria of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Solid Tumor(Draft,REC-TCM-ST) in application of Chinese medicine therapeutic effect in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC).Methods:A retrospective clinical research was used in 104 NSCLC patients in stages of Ⅲ-Ⅳ,53 cases were in Chinese medicine(CM) group and 51 cases were in Western medicine(WM) group.The therapeutic effect of the two groups was evaluated with both REC-TCM-ST and Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumor(RECIST).Kaplan-Meier method was used to analyze the survival time.Kappa test method was used to test the consistency of the two kinds of evaluation results.Results:According to REC-TCM-ST,the effective rate on relieving tumor mass in the CM group was significantly lower than that in the WM group(P〈0.05),but there was no significant difference in tumor-mass stable rate(P〉0.05);the symptom of weakness in the CM group was improved significantly,indicating better therapeutic effect than that in the WM group(P〈0.01).Karnofsky score in the CM group was significantly better than that in the WM group(P〈0.01).In terms of survival conditions,the median survival time and the survival rate of 6 months,1 year and 2 years of the CM group were higher than the WM group.The total effective rate was 9.62%,and the total stable rate was 72.12%for 104 cases according to RECIST;while the total effective rate was 34.62%,and the total stable rate was 84.62%according to REC-TCM-ST,thus there were significant differences between the results of the two criteria(P〈0.01),and there was also some consistency between them,but not satisfactory.Conclusions:REC-TCM-ST was used to evaluate the therapeutic effect of CM in the treatment of advanced NSCLC,which shows that its evaluation results can better reflect the advantages and disadvantages of CM,and the effectiveness of CM is more objective and comprehensive than RECIST,so REC-TCM-ST is worthy of further improvement and clinical expansion.展开更多
文摘Of the 700,000 people in the United States who experience a new or recurrent stroke each year,more than 500,000 survive(American Stroke Association,2007)[1]. Occupational therapy practitioners are critical rehabilitation professionals for stroke survivors.
基金the Grant from Science and Technology Development Foundation of Railway Bureau of Shanghai, No. 3402052304/A
文摘BACKGROUND: Thrombolysis therapy is not suitable for the elderly patients with acute ischemic stroke who delayed to be diagnosed for more than 3 hours, but traditional medicine is also not very ideal. OBJECTIVE: To observe the clinical therapeutic effect of modified hemodilution combined therapy applied in elderly patients with acute cerebral thrombosis and analyze the mechanism of this therapeutic method. DESIGN: 1:1 paired grouping according to gender and controlled observation SETTING: Department of Internal Medicine, Chengzhanyuan District, First Hospital Affiliated to Zhejiang University. PARTICIPANTS: Totally 90 elderly patients with acute ischemic stroke who received the treatment in the Cadre Ward and Mental Ward, Department of Internal Medicine, Chengzhanyuan District, First Hospital Affiliated to Zhejiang University from March 1996 to June 2004 were recruited. They all met the diagnosis criteria revised by the Fourth Academic Conference of National Cerebrovascular Diseases in 1995 and were diagnosed as acute ischemic stroke by skull CT. They were informed of therapeutic plan and detected items. According to 1:1 paired principle in gender, 90 enrolled patients were assigned into treated group (n=45) and control group (n=45). There were 39 male and 6 female in the treatment group, and they were aged (76±6)years, ranging from 71 to 84 years, and hospitalized at the 14^th to 76^th hours after onset. There were 39 male and 6 female in the control group, and they were aged (76±6)years , ranging from 70 to 82 years, and hospitalized at the 16^th to 72^th hours after onset. METHODS: Therapeutic method: Patients of treated group received modified hemodilution combined therapy. 200 mL whole blood of patients was exchanged with 500 mL dextran-40 (including 20 mL danshen parenteral solution and 32 mg heparin) at the beginning of therapy; From the 2^nd day, compound huangqi tea bag (Huangqi mainly, including danshen, honghua, chuanxiong, shishao and a little acetyl salicylic acid) was made, twice a day, 1 bag once. At the same time, the above-mentioned dextran-40 liquid of 500 mL was intravenously injected, once a day, 14 days in total; On the 6^th day after therapy, the above-mentioned aseptic autoblood stored in refrigerator at 4℃ was transfused back into the patients following pre-treatment of high-concentration oxygenation and ultraviolet irradiation by light quantum instrument. Patients of control group were intravenously injected of 0.4 g venoruton(Traditional Chinese medicine compound parenteral solution for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis ) and 50 g/L glucose of 500 mL, 75 mg acetosal was taken orally, once a day, 14 days in total. ② Measurement and observation of index: Blood coagulation index, change of platelet aggregation rate and change of hemorrheology of patients in two groups were monitored before and after therapy. The level of blood lipid of patients in two groups was measured with American Beckman automatic biochemistry analyzer. Blood flow rate of middle cerebral artery of resting electrocardiogram were measured with American HP SONOS 2500 sonoscope. Neuro-dysfunction score revised in the national conference (1995) was used to evaluate the recovery of neurological function of the patients in two groups at the 3rd, 5^th, 7^th and 14^th days after therapy. ③Therapeutic effect and adverse effect were observed at the same time. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES : ① Changes of coagulation index, blood lipid level and hemorheology; ② Blood flow rate of middle cerebral artery and NDS of patients with acute ischemic stroke in two groups; ③Adverse effect of drug. RESULTS: Totally 90 patients were enrolled in the experiment. One patient from treated group died of hyperosmolar nonketotic diabetic coma of complicated diabetes mellitus. One patient from control group died of severe pulmonary infection. The rest 88 patients entered the stage of result analysis. ① Change of coagulation index and platelet aggregation rate: prothrombin time (PT), activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) and thrombin time (TT) of patients after therapy were significantly longer than those before therapy in the treated group and those after therapy in control group [After therapy in treated group: (18.4±1.9), (41.8±2.1), (19.7±1.7) s, Before therapy in treated group: (13.4±1.3), (35.8±1.3), (12.5±0.9) s, After therapy in control group: (16.9±1.5), (39.1±1.1), (11.9±2.1) s, P〈 0.05]:Concentration of fibrinogen (Fbg) after therapy was significantly lower than that before therapy in the treated group and that after therapy in control group[After therapy in treated group: (3.4±0.4) g/L; Before therapy in treated group: (4.3±0.7) g/L; After therapy in control group:(4.0±0.6) g/L; P 〈 0.05]. Platelet aggregation rate decreased from (37.92 ±0.85)% before therapy to (26.42±1.01)% after therapy (P 〈 0.01). ②Change of blood lipid level: Levels of total cholesterol (TC), triacylglycerol(TG) and low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) of patients after therapy were significantly lower than those before therapy in treated group and those after therapy in control group [After therapy in treated group: (5.2±0.9), (1.9±0.9), (2.08±1.1) mmol/L, before therapy in treated group: (5.9±1.2), (2.8±0.9), (3.94±0.5) mmol/L, After therapy in control group: (6.0±1.1), (2.6±0.8), (3.84±0.9) mmol/L, P 〈 0.05]. ③Change of hemorheology index: Hematocrit of patients of treated group was significantly lower after therapy than before therapy [Before therapy: (43.84±4.55)% ;After therapy: (40.48±4.02)%;P 〈 0.05]. Blood flow rate of middle cerebral artery of patients of treated group was significantly lower before therapy than after therapy [(90±1.2), (97±2.1) cm/s,P〈 0.01]. ⑤NDS of patients in treated group was significantly lower than of control group 14 days after therapy. The total effective rate after therapy was significantly higher in the treated group than in the control group (93%,78%, P 〈 0.05). ⑥There was no obvious adverse effect. CONCLUSION: Modified hemodilution combined therapy can improve hemorheology, decrease hematocrit, increase blood flow rate of middle cerebral artery, so as to improve the impaired clinical neurological function of elderly patients with acute cerebral thrombosis through anticoagulation and antiplatelet aggregative activity as well as regulating blood lipid.
基金supported by the Hainan Province Science and Technology Special Fund(Nos.ZDYF2021SHFZ219,ZDYF2022SHFZ288)National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21961010,22264013,22204037)+3 种基金Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(No.822RC831)Natural Science Research Talent Project of Hainan Medical University(No.JBGS202101)Project for Functional Materials and Molecular Imaging Science Innovation Group of Hainan Medical UniversityHainan Province Clinical Medical Center(2021).
文摘Nasopharyngeal carcinoma(NPC),a malignant tumor originating from the nasopharynx,is one of the common malignant tumors of the head and neck.There are significant geographical differences in the incidence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma,with a high incidence in China and Southeast Asian countries.Herein,we designed and synthesized a novel near-infrared fluorescent(NIRF)probe to detect glutathione(GSH)in cellular and tumor environments using semi-naphthofluorescein(SNAFL)as the fluorescent molecular backbone and 2-fluoro-4-nitrobenzenesulfonate as the recognition moiety.Upon reaction with GSH,SNAFL-GSH emitted a fluorescence signal,and its emission wavelength at 650 nm was remarkably enhanced.The results of selectivity experiments indicated that SNAFL-GSH was able to discriminate GSH from Cys,Hcy,and H_(2) S.Moreover,SNAFL-GSH could image both endogenous and exogenous GSH and distinguish normal and cancer cells by fluorescence signal difference.At the cellular level,cisplatin(DDP)-induced ferroptosis and inhibition of proliferation of various NPC cell lines(CNE2,CNE1,5-8F cells)by erastin combined with DDP were visualized with the help of SNAFL-GSH.In a mouse tumor xenograft model,we successfully employed SNAFL-GSH for the evaluation of the efficacy of erastin combined with DDP in the treatment of NPC.More importantly,the probe could image cancerous tissue sections from NPC patients with an imaging depth of approximately 80µm.It was foreseen that SNAFL-GSH offered great potential for application in the diagnosis and evaluation of the therapeutic efficacy of NPC,and these results would also provide new ideas for the clinical treatment of NPC.
文摘The scientific literature presents a modest amount ot evidence m the use or complementary ana al[erna- tire medicine (CAM). On the other hand, in practice, relevant results are common. The debates among CAM practitioners about the quality and execution of scientific research are important, Therefore, the aim of this review is to gather, synthesize and describe the differentiated methodological models that encompass the complexity of therapeutic interventions. The process of bringing evidence-based medicine into clinical practice in CAM is essential for the growth and strengthening of complementary medicines worldwide.
文摘Objective:To evaluate the objectivity and comprehensiveness of Response Evaluation Criteria of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Solid Tumor(Draft,REC-TCM-ST) in application of Chinese medicine therapeutic effect in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC).Methods:A retrospective clinical research was used in 104 NSCLC patients in stages of Ⅲ-Ⅳ,53 cases were in Chinese medicine(CM) group and 51 cases were in Western medicine(WM) group.The therapeutic effect of the two groups was evaluated with both REC-TCM-ST and Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumor(RECIST).Kaplan-Meier method was used to analyze the survival time.Kappa test method was used to test the consistency of the two kinds of evaluation results.Results:According to REC-TCM-ST,the effective rate on relieving tumor mass in the CM group was significantly lower than that in the WM group(P〈0.05),but there was no significant difference in tumor-mass stable rate(P〉0.05);the symptom of weakness in the CM group was improved significantly,indicating better therapeutic effect than that in the WM group(P〈0.01).Karnofsky score in the CM group was significantly better than that in the WM group(P〈0.01).In terms of survival conditions,the median survival time and the survival rate of 6 months,1 year and 2 years of the CM group were higher than the WM group.The total effective rate was 9.62%,and the total stable rate was 72.12%for 104 cases according to RECIST;while the total effective rate was 34.62%,and the total stable rate was 84.62%according to REC-TCM-ST,thus there were significant differences between the results of the two criteria(P〈0.01),and there was also some consistency between them,but not satisfactory.Conclusions:REC-TCM-ST was used to evaluate the therapeutic effect of CM in the treatment of advanced NSCLC,which shows that its evaluation results can better reflect the advantages and disadvantages of CM,and the effectiveness of CM is more objective and comprehensive than RECIST,so REC-TCM-ST is worthy of further improvement and clinical expansion.