Publications by authors named "Dijia Pan"
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- The ERAS-CaRe trial aims to determine if integrating cardiopulmonary rehabilitation into enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) can lower postoperative complications for patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).
- It involves a randomized-controlled study with 360 patients split into four groups: standard ERAS, pre-operative ERAS-CaRe, post-operative ERAS-CaRe, and perio-operative ERAS-CaRe.
- The primary focus is on the incidence of cardiopulmonary complications within 10 days of surgery, with additional attention to various other complications and patient outcomes.
The successful use of exosomes in therapy after myocardial infarction depends on an improved understanding of their role in cardiac signaling and regulation. Here, we report that exosomes circulating after myocardial infarction (MI) carry LncRNA TUG1 which downregulates angiogenesis by disablement of the HIF-1α/VEGF-α axis and that this effect can be counterbalanced by remote ischemic conditioning (RIC). Rats with MI induced through left coronary artery ligation without (MI model) and with reperfusion (ischemia/reperfusion I/R model) were randomized to RIC, or MI (I/R) or sham-operated (SO) control.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMortality of patients suffering from critical illness has been dramatically improved with advanced technological development of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy. However, the majority of ECMO-supported patients failed to wean from ECMO therapy. As one of several options, cardiopulmonary rehabilitation serves as effective intervention in the improvement of cardiovascular and respiratory function in various major critical illness.
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- - The study investigated how gut microbiota changes after a stroke might relate to patients' overall functional recovery, highlighting the connection between gut health and the gut-microbiota-brain axis.
- - Researchers compared fecal samples from 38 stroke patients and 35 healthy controls, finding that stroke patients had greater diversity in gut microbiota and significant changes in the abundance of various bacterial genera.
- - Specific changes in gut bacteria were linked to functional outcomes following stroke, with strong correlations to assessment scores that indicate recovery, suggesting gut microbiota could serve as potential biomarkers for stroke prognosis.
Background: The expression of the platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), angiopoietin-1 (Ang-1) in patients with coronary artery disease of different studies was inconsistent. This study was to investigate the expression of the PDGF and Ang-1 in peripheral blood and coronary artery in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and the relationship between the expression of the PDGF and Ang-1 and the severity of coronary artery disease.
Methods: A total of 81 patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing coronary angiography were enrolled from September 2012 to December 2013.