Background: Pancreatic cancer is a highly heterogeneous disease, making prognosis prediction challenging. Altered energy metabolism to satisfy uncontrolled proliferation and metastasis has become one of the most important markers of tumors. However, the specific regulatory mechanism and its effect on prognosis have not been fully elucidated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To observe the effect of purgation and detoxification therapy on gastrointestinal dysfunction of critically ill patients undergoing abdominal surgery.
Methods: Totally 56 inpatients with severe gastrointestinal dysfunction after abdominal surgery at ICU of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine were assigned to the treatment group and the control group, 28 in each group. All patients received routine Western medical treatment.