Publications by authors named "Li-Ru Wang"

Objective: To investigate which indicator is more advantageous when using arterial oxygen saturation (SaO) and fingertip pulse oxygen saturation (SpO) for blood oxygen detection in patients with hyperleukocytic acute leukemia (HAL).

Methods: In this prospective research, the difference between SaO and SpO of 18 HAL patients (observation group) and 14 patients (control group), as well as the relationship between the difference and white blood cell (WBC) counts were analyzed.

Results: SaO was lower than SpO in the observation group ( <0.

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  • The study focused on evaluating low-dose decitabine as a treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in patients aged 65 and older who were not eligible for intensive chemotherapy due to health concerns.
  • Conducted in Beijing, the research involved 47 patients, with a median age of 78 years, who were monitored over a median follow-up period of 22.2 months; 31.9% achieved complete remission, with an overall survival (OS) rate of 36.1% after one year.
  • Results indicated that patients who were deemed 'unfit' based on geriatric assessments had a median survival of 11.2 months, showcasing the potential effectiveness
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  • Intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) is a serious and sometimes fatal condition in adults with immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), with a mortality rate of 33.80% based on a study of 142 cases in China from 2005 to 2020.
  • The study identified several risk factors for 30-day mortality, including low platelet counts, the type of hemorrhage, and the level of consciousness at admission, and developed a prognostic model to predict outcomes.
  • The model was validated internally and externally, showing strong predictive performance, and an application was created to help healthcare providers estimate the risk of mortality in ITP patients experiencing ICH.
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Background: Patients with hematological diseases are immunosuppressed due to various factors, including the disease itself and treatments, such as chemotherapy and immunotherapy, and are susceptible to infection. Infections in these patients often progress rapidly to sepsis, which is life-threatening.

Aim: To evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of the neutrophil CD64 (nCD64) index, compared to procalcitonin (PCT) and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), for the identification of early sepsis in patients with hematological diseases.

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Intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) is a devastating complication of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). However, information on ICH in ITP patients under the age of 60 years is limited, and no predictive tools are available in clinical practice. A total of 93 adult patients with ITP who developed ICH before 60 years of age were retrospectively identified from 2005 to 2019 by 27 centers in China.

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Immune-mediated thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (iTTP) is a rare and life-threatening haematological emergency. Although therapeutic plasma exchange together with corticosteroids achieve successful outcomes, a considerable number of patients remain refractory to this treatment and require early initiation of intensive therapy. However, a method for the early identification of refractory iTTP is not available.

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Objective: To improve the method for detecting the neutrophil CD64 (nCD64) index and to enhance the detection rate and accuracy of nCD64 index in patients with hematologic malignancies.

Methods: The nCD64 index in peripheral blood of patients with hematologic malignancies combined with suspicious bacterial infection (255 cases-time) was detected by using array method. When the detection of nCD64 index in samples was interfered with abnormal cells in detection process of enrolled patients, the antibodies CD45, CD15 and CD10 were added into samples on the basis of routine detection by using the primary detection kit, in order to more accurately distinguish the neutrphils and obtain the nCD64 index.

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Objective: To investigate the clinical features of acute myeloid leukemia patients aged over 80 years.

Methods: The clinical data from 24 cases of acute myeloid leukemia (non-M3) aged over 80 years were analyzed retrospectively. Clinical characteristics, therapeutic efficacy and overall survival rate of the patients received low dose chemotherapy and/or decitabine were compared with that received only supportive care.

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Under the catalysis of chiral palladium(0)/ligand complex, the [4 + 2] cycloaddition between vinyl benzoxazinanones and barbiturate-based olefins proceeded readily and provided barbiturate-fused spirotetrahydroquinolines in up to 96% chemical yield with up to >99:1 dr and 97% ee. The absolute configuration of barbiturate-fused spirotetrahydroquinolines was clearly identified by X-ray single crystal structure analysis. The reaction mechanism was proposed to shed light on the enantioselective formation of barbiturate-fused spirotetrahydroquinolines.

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Ki-67 antigen expression is closely associated with the cell cycle. Its expression is in almost the entire mitosis in cell cycle. Detection of Ki-67 antigen can reflect the cell proliferation activity in hematological malignancies.

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Malignant hematologic disease with sepsis has been characterized by high mortality and difficulty in diagnosis at early stage. A good biomarker may help to improve the accuracy of diagnosis and to reduce the mortality rate. In the early diagnosis of sepsis, neutrophil CD64 expression is a better candidate for biomarker rather than C-reactive proteins.

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Objective: This study was aimed to investigate the roles of PDCD5 (programmed cell death 5) in pathogenesis of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and the relevance of PDCD5 with the clinical characteristics and prognosis of patients by testing the PDCD5 expression in adult AML patients.

Methods: The mRNA and intracellular protein levels of PDCD5 from 36 newly diagnosed AML patients were analyzed by real-time fluorescence quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RQ-PCR) and flow cytometry (FCM), respectively. The correlation of mRNA levels and intracellular protein levels of PDCD5 with the clinical characteristics and survival time of patients were analyzed.

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This study was aimed to investigate the role of B-cell lymphoma 2 (BCL-2) in pathogenesis of hyperleukocytic acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The levels of intracellular BCL-2 in 48 AML patients were detected by flow cytometry (FCM). Serum levels of BCL-2 in 40 AML patients were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).

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We aimed to improve the outcome of t(8;21) acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in the first complete remission (CR1) by applying risk-directed therapy based on minimal residual disease (MRD) determined by RUNX1/RUNX1T1 transcript levels. Risk-directed therapy included recommending allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) for high-risk patients and chemotherapy/autologous-HSCT (auto-HSCT) for low-risk patients. Among 116 eligible patients, MRD status after the second consolidation rather than induction or first consolidation could discriminate high-risk relapse patients (P = .

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Objective: To study the prevalence of human herpesvirus 7 (HHV-7) infection in recipients following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT).

Methods: Peripheral blood samples were collected before and weekly after allo-HSCT from 72 consecutive recipients and 53 donors. Nested polymerase chain reaction (nPCR) was used to monitor HHV-7 DNAemia.

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In order to study the prevalence of human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (allo-HSCT) recipients in China and to analyze the relationship between HHV-6 and cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in post-HSCT patients, nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to monitor HHV-6 DNAemia in 72 consecutive allo-HSCT recipients. 680 EDTA anticoagulated peripheral blood specimens were gathered before HSCT or weekly until 12 weeks after allo-HSCT. The variants of HHV-6 were identified by Hind III restriction analysis.

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Objective: To study the potential relationship between HHV-6 activation and acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD) after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HSCT).

Methods: Peripheral blood samples were collected before and weekly after HSCT from 72 consecutive recipients. HHV-6 DNAemia was monitored by nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR).

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Although human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) has been considered an important opportunistic and potentially fatal pathogen for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), the clinical significance of HHV-6 reactivation remains controversial. In this study, we monitored HHV-6 DNAemia in 72 consecutive allogeneic HSCT recipients by real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction. A total of 680 peripheral blood specimens were collected from the recipients before HSCT or at weekly intervals after HSCT.

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Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) reactivation was studied in 72 consecutive allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients and 53 "healthy" donors. The feasibilities of real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RQ-PCR), nested-PCR, and antigenemia assays in the assessment of HHV-6 reactivation were also evaluated. HHV-6 DNA was detected in 62.

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To investigate whether the dendritic cells (DC) could grow up in cultural system with umbilical cord serum (UCS), the UCS was used in the culture instead of fetal calf serum. The phenotype of dendritic cells was detected by flow cytometry and the antigen presenting ability of DC in allo-MLR was measured by MTT assay. The results showed that DC grown in UCS (UCS-DC) had higher expression rate of CD86, CD83 and HLA-DR than that in grown in FCS (FCS-DC).

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Purpose: The International Standard ISO 9337-1, which sets forth the method for measuring back vertex power of contact lenses with manually focusing focimeters, specifies that test lenses conforming to ISO 9342 may be used to calibrate focimeters on its spectacle lens support, and correction values obtained in this way can be used directly in measuring contact lenses on its contact lens support. This study was conducted because of concern that the method mentioned in ISO 9337-1 is not good enough for the calibration of focimeters used to measure contact lenses.

Methods: To test the validity of this method, a research group from China National Institute of Metrology (NIM) studied it theoretically and carried out a series of comparison experiments, respectively, with the conventional test lenses conforming to ISO 9342 and test lenses made at NIM (with an expanded uncertainty of 0.

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