Transfusion Strategies for Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: A Meta-Analysis and Trial Sequential Analysis.

This study aimed to compare the effects of restrictive and liberal red blood cell (RBC) transfusion strategies on pediatric patients undergoing cardiac surgery, including cyanotic and non-cyanotic children. A literature search of the MEDLINE, EMBASE, PubMed, and the Cochrane Library database was conducted. Meta-analyses were carried out comparing restrictive and liberal transfusion strategies.

[Effect of transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation combined with epidural labor analgesia on postpartum depression].

Objective: To observe the effect of transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation (TEAS)combined with epidural analgesia on postpartum depression and to explore its underlying mechanism.

Methods: One hundred and twenty cases of full-term primiparous women with singleton pregnancy were selected from May 2018 to November 2018 in Jinzhong Maternal and Child Health Hospital. The parturients with labor analgesia requirement were randomly divided into the epidural group and the combination group, and the parturients without labor analgesia requirement were used as the control group, with 40 cases in each group.

[Comparison between Ye Tianshi and Wu Jutong in treatment of summer-heat disease].

Through the traditional Chinese medicine inheritance platform system, with the help of medical records, Ye Tianshi and Wu Jutong's medication characteristics for summer heat sickness were analyzed, the laws of the two people's medication were summarized, and the similarities and differences between the two were explored to explore the relationship. As a result, it was found that both of them recognized the relationship between summer heat and wetness, and Wu Jutong believed that "wind" was also an important pathogenic factor. Both of the patients were treated with cold medicine and warm medicine.

Percutaneous transluminal renal angioplasty with stent is effective for blood pressure control and renal function improvement in atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis patients.

Background: Percutaneous transluminal renal angioplasty with stent is an effective procedure for atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis. However, the decision to perform this procedure has recently raised considerable debate. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of percutaneous transluminal renal angioplasty with stent in atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis patients, especially as it relates to blood pressure control and renal function improvement.

[Surgical treatment of 154 patients with non-traumatic acute lower limb ischemia].

Objective: To analyze the surgical treatment and prognosis of non-traumatic acute lower limb ischemia, and compare the morbidity and prognosis of acute arterial embolism and acute arterial thrombosis.

Methods: The clinical data of 154 acute lower limb ischemia patients surgically treated from July 1999 to December 2007 were retrospectively analyzed. Fogarty catheter embolectomy was used in all patients; in which, 128 cases underwent Fogarty catheter embolectomy only, 8 cases Fogarty catheter embolectomy combined with endarterectomy, 13 cases Fogarty catheter embolectomy combined with vascular reconstruction with prosthetic graft or great saphenous vein, 5 cases Fogarty catheter embolectomy combined with amputation.

Complications of open stent-graft in treatment of aortic dissection.

Open stent-graft has been used in the treatment of aortic dissection in recent years. Two device related complications happened in two patients. One was stenosis of the true lumen in the descending aorta caused by infolding of the distal end of the stent-graft immediately after its deployment.

[Experiences of retroperitoneal approach for aortoiliac reconstruction].

Objective: To summarize experiences of aortoiliac reconstruction through retroperitoneal approach.

Methods: Twenty-eight patients underwent retroperitoneal aortoiliac reconstructions, including aortic aneurysmectomy with graft replacement, aortic endarterectomy with patch angioplasty, thoraco-abdominal aortic bypass, resection of retroperitoneal mass with ilio-femoral bypass, iliac aneurysmectomy with aorto-external iliac artery bypass, removal of aortoiliac foreign body, common iliac endarterectomy, aorto (ilio)-femeral bypass and common ilio-femo-popliteal bypass. Drainage tubes were placed retroperitoneally in 24 cases.