Neutrophilic granulocyte percentage is associated with anxiety in Chinese hospitalized heart failure patients.

Background: In patients with heart failure, anxiety disorder is common and associated with adverse prognosis. This study intended to find more confounding factors of Chinese heart failure patients.

Methods: We enrolled 284 hospitalized heart failure patients, whose New York Heart Association (NYHA) classed as II-IV and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≤ 45%.

Performing Precise Biopsy in Naive Patients With Equivocal PI-RADS, Version 2, Score 3, Lesions: An MRI-based Nomogram to Avoid Unnecessary Surgical Intervention.

Purpose: The primary objective of the present study was to avoid unnecessary prostate biopsy in biopsy-naive patients with Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data System, version 2 (PI-RADS v2), score 3, lesions.

Materials And Methods: We reviewed our prospectively maintained database from January 2012 to July 2018. Logistic regression analyses were performed to test different clinical factors as predictors of clinically significant prostate cancer (CSPCa) and build nomograms.

How to make clinical decisions to avoid unnecessary prostate screening in biopsy-naïve men with PI-RADs v2 score ≤ 3?

Purpose: To determine whether patients can avoid systematic prostate biopsy (PBx) if their Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data System version 2 (PI-RADs v2) score is ≤ 3 and how we clinicians make decisions that can maximize benefit.

Materials And Methods: We reviewed our prospectively maintained database of consecutive men who received transrectal ultrasound-guided 24-core biopsy as well as pre-biopsy multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (mp-MRI). Of the 1276 men who were performed PBx in our institution from 2012 to July 2018, 491 patients conformed to the criteria.

[Study on commercial specification of Gardenia jasminoides].

Collecting different commodity grade Gardenia jasminoides of wild and cultivated varieties all over the country, obtaining color information from each batch of G. jasminoides by the standard D65 light source and image acquisition system, quantifing the gardenia plumpness information by the digital display vernier caliper, determinating 6 kinds of effective components of G. jasminoides by HPLC, classifing from ten indicators by two step clustering analysis and correspondence analysis method of statistics, clearing the importance of the traditional identification indexes, establishing multiple corresponding relation between the skin color and commercial specification of G.

[Cloning and Expression Analysis of Acetyl-CoA C-acetyltransferase Gene in Isodon rubescens].

Objective: To clone the acetyl-CoA C-acetyl transferase( AACT) gene from Isodon rubescens, and to analyze the bioinformatics and expression of the gene.

Methods: According to the IrAACT gene sequence of Isodon rubescens transcriptome,a pair of primers was designed, and the ORF of cDNA sequence was obtained by reverse transcription PCR. Bioinformatic analysis of this gene and its corresponding protein were performed.

[Treatment of local low/intermediate risk prostate cancer with low dose rate brachytherapy: a report of 133 cases at a single center].

Objective: To investigate the safety and efficacy of low dose rate brachytherapy in local low and intermediate risk prostate cancer patients.

Methods: All 133 local prostate cancer patients were included and divided into low and intermediate risk groups respectively according to Memorial Sloan Kettering Group (MSKG) definition followed by brachytherapy. All the data including prostatic specific antigen (PSA), international prostatic symptomatic score (IPSS), post-operation complications and image evaluation were collected and recorded.

[Comparison of the diode laser and the thulium laser in transurethral enucleation of the prostate for treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia].

Objective: To compare the validity and safety of diode laser and thulium laser transurethral enucleation of the prostate in benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) patients.

Methods: In our study, 63 BPH patients treated with transurethral enucleation of the prostate were divided randomly into 2 groups by diode laser (Di group) or thulium laser (Thu group) respectively. The operation time, bleeding volume, electrolyte, international prostatic symptomatic score (IPSS), post-voiding residual volume (PVR) and maximum urine flow rate (Qmax) were recorded and compared.

[Intermittent androgen deprivation for aggressive prostate cancer: 8 years of clinical experience].

Objective: To investigate the safety and medication cycles of intermittent androgen deprivation (IAD) in the treatment of aggressive prostate cancer.

Methods: Based on prostate cancer clinical staging, we divided 178 patients with aggressive prostate cancer into groups A (T3-4N0M0), B (TXN1M0) and C (TXNXM1) to receive maximum androgen blockage for at least 6 months till the PSA level remained at < or = 0.2 microg/L for 3 months, followed by an off-period (without medication).

[Ultrasound-guided transperineal 24-core saturation prostate biopsy is superior to the 14-core scheme in detecting prostate cancer in patients with PSA < 20 microg/L].

Objective: To compare the detection rates of prostate cancer (PCa) and complications of the transrectal ultrasonography (TRUS)-guided 24-core saturation scheme versus 14-core scheme for transperineal prostate biopsy in patients with total PSA < 20 microg/L.

Methods: We performed TRUS-guided 24-core saturation transperineal biopsy for 136 patients suspected of PCa (24-core group) and 14-core biopsy for another 116 (14-core group). We compared the PCa detection rates and post-biopsy complications, such as gross hematuria, urinary system infection, and acute urinary retention between the two groups.

[Comparison of holmium and thulium laser in transurethral enucleation of the prostate].

Objective: To investigate and compare the effect and safety of Holmium laser and Thulium laser in transurethral enucleation of the prostate in BPH patients.

Methods: Ninety-eight BPH patients were divided into 2 groups and underwent transurethral enucleation of the prostate with holmium laser (Ho group) and thulium laser (Th group) respectively. Comparisons were made between the 2 groups in operation time, bleeding volume, electrolyte, IPSS score, PVR and Qmax.

[Xuanju compound capsule combined with erogenous focus exercise is effective for premature ejaculation].

Objective: To investigate the effect of the Chinese medicine Xuanju compound capsule combined with erogenous focus exercise on premature ejaculation.

Methods: Fifty-two patients with premature ejaculation were divided into a treatment group (n = 28) and a control group ( n = 24) , both treated by erogenous focus exercise and the former given Xuanju compound capsule in addition. After four weeks of treatment, comparisons were made of the sexual satisfaction between the two groups.