Assessment of sarcopenic obesity as a predictor of pneumonia in patients with stable schizophrenia-A prospective study.

Objective: The European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) and the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) recently released the first international consensus on the diagnostic criteria for Sarcopenic obesity (SO). The present study aimed to explore the ability of SO to predict the risk of pneumonia in patients with stable schizophrenia.

Methods: This was a prospective study involving hospitalized patients with schizophrenia aged ≥50 years from two mental health centers in western China.

The effectiveness of the sarcopenia index in predicting septic shock and death in elderly patients with community-acquired pneumonia.

Background: Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) causes high morbidity and mortality in all age groups worldwide. Lower muscle radiodensity was associated with worse clinical outcomes (including shock) and higher in-hospital mortality. Prompt detection of sarcopenia in older adults with CAP is important.

Case Report: First Case of Cefotaxime-Sulbactam-Induced Acute Intravascular Hemolysis in a Newborn With ABO Blood Type Incompatibility by the Mechanism of Non-Immunologic Protein Adsorption.

Background: ABO blood type incompatibility hemolytic disease of newborn (ABO-HDN) and drug-induced immune hemolytic anemia (DIIHA) due to non-immunologic protein adsorption (NIPA) mainly cause extravascular hemolysis. All the reported severe DIIHA were caused by drug-induced antibodies, and rare report of acute intravascular hemolysis was caused by the NIPA mechanism or ABO-HDN.

Case Presentation: We report the first case of acute intravascular hemolysis induced by cefotaxime sodium - sulbactam sodium (CTX - SBT) in a case of ABO-HDN which resulted in death at 55 h after birth.

Analysis of Risk Factors for Cognitive Dysfunction in Disabled Elderly Patients in Chengdu, China.

BACKGROUND With the aging population comes an increase in functional disability that leads to dependency and institutionalization, as well as social, medical, and economic challenges. This study aimed to classify and assess the factors affecting cognitive deficits in disabled elderly people. MATERIAL AND METHODS Disabled patients ≥60 years old were assessed by face-to-face cross-sectional surveys, which were conducted using advanced peer-to-peer software.

[Genetic mutation screening of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in Dongguan district].

Objective: To determine the incidence and genotypes of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency in Dongguan region of Guangdong Province and assess the efficacy and feasibility of flow-through hybridization.

Methods: Peripheral blood samples were randomly selected and detected by modified G6PD/6PGD ratio method. Flow-through hybridization was used to detect 14 G6PD mutations among all samples.

Single Stage Surgical Outcomes for Large Angle Intermittent Exotropia.

Although there were many prior studies about exotropia, few focused on large-angle intermittent exotropia. The goal of this study was to evaluate single-stage surgical outcomes for large-angle intermittent exotropia and analyze risk factors that may affect the success of surgery. Records from intermittent exotropia patients with exodeviations >60 prism diopters(PD) who were surgically treated at the Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, of Sun Yat-Sen University were reviewed.

Clinical Characteristics and Surgical Outcomes in Patients With Intermittent Exotropia: A Large Sample Study in South China.

The clinical characteristics and surgical outcomes in a large sample of patients with intermittent exotropia (IXT) as well as an analysis of risk factors associated with surgical failures are presented in this article. Data from IXT patients who received surgical management at the Eye Hospital, in the Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, of Sun Yat-Sen University, China from January 2009 to December 2013 were reviewed retrospectively. Included within this analysis were data from pre- and postoperative ocular motility, primary alignment, and binocular vision.

Severe microphthalmos with cyst and unusually huge dermolipoma.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to report an unusual case of severe microphthalmos, together with an orbital cyst and huge ocular surface dermolipoma.

Methods: This is a clinical report relating clinical features as well as imaging and histopathologic findings, along with surgical management of the patient.

Results: A 5-month-old Chinese male infant was referred, with 2 large masses in the left eye that were present since birth.

Cholesterol granuloma of the orbit.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to present image findings, clinical and histopathologic features, and surgical management of orbital cholesterol granuloma (CG), a rare orbital entity.

Methods: Findings from 2 patients with orbitofrontal CG are presented along with a review of the literature on CG of the orbit.

Results: Both patients were 40-year-old men.

Orbital schwannoma originating from the superior oblique muscle.

Purpose: Orbital schwannoma in extraocular muscles is quite rare. In this study, we describe what, to the best of our knowledge, represents the first report of a schwannoma in the superior oblique muscle.

Methods: A case report relating clinical features as well as radiologic, surgical, and histologic findings is presented.

Rare orbital cystic lesions in children.

Purpose: To analyze the clinical features, imaging findings and surgical management of rare orbital cystic lesions in children.

Materials And Methods: Clinical records of 5 Chinese children with rare orbital cystic lesions including cystic teratoma, congenital cystic eye, optic nerve sheath cyst, parasitic cyst, and meningoencephalocele were reviewed. Their clinical history, symptoms and signs, ultrasonography or computed tomography/magnetic resonance imaging (CT/MRI), surgical management were presented in detail.