Publications by authors named "Shao-wei Li"

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  • Sepsis is a serious condition with high rates of incidence and death, and it's linked to changes in gut microbiota, sparking interest in research on this interaction.
  • The review discusses the challenges in proving a direct causal relationship between sepsis and gut microbiota imbalances due to the complexity of critical illness and various treatments.
  • It proposes new targeted therapies based on microbiome research and highlights the need for better bacterial selection and timing in treatment, while emphasizing ongoing studies that may lead to effective probiotics for restoring gut health in sepsis patients.
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  • - HPV is the main cause of cervical cancer and a contributor to rising head and neck cancer rates, creating a significant global health burden.
  • - Current diagnostic and treatment methods, along with low vaccine coverage in developing countries, hinder efforts to meet WHO's 2030 HPV prevention targets.
  • - Recent research on HPV proteins has led to important insights into infection mechanisms, paving the way for better prevention and therapeutic strategies, including vaccine development.
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Aim: To optimize gastric cancer screening score and reduce screening costs using machine learning models.

Methods: This study included 228,634 patients from the Taizhou Gastric Cancer Screening Program. We used three machine learning models to optimize Li's gastric cancer screening score: Gradient Boosting Machine (GBM), Distributed Random Forest (DRF), and Deep Learning (DL).

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Background: Gout and seronegative rheumatoid arthritis (SNRA) are two distinct inflammatory joint diseases whose co-occurrence is relatively infrequently reported. Limited information is available regarding the clinical management and prognosis of these combined diseases.

Case Summary: A 57-year-old woman with a 20-year history of joint swelling, tenderness, and morning stiffness who was negative for rheumatoid factor and had a normal uric acid level was diagnosed with SNRA.

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Objective: To explore the perception of good death of patients with end-stage cancer by nurses in the oncology department.

Method: In the study we used a phenomenological approach and semi-structured interviews. A total of 11 nurses from the oncology department of a Grade A hospital in Taizhou were interviewed on the cognition of good death from July 1 to September 30, 2022.

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Diabetes is a prevalent chronic disease that traditionally requires severe reliance on medication for treatment. Oral medication and exogenous insulin can only temporarily maintain blood glucose levels and do not cure the disease. Most patients need life-long injections of exogenous insulin.

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  • Endoscopy is crucial for detecting esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and precancerous lesions, but improving detection rates is still a challenge.
  • A new system using deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) was developed and tested to enhance the detection of high-risk esophageal lesions (HrELs) during endoscopy, and showed significant improvement in detection rates.
  • In a clinical trial with over 3,100 patients, the CNN-assisted endoscopy group had a HrEL detection rate of 1.8%, compared to 0.9% in the control group, demonstrating greater sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy without any adverse events.
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Background: Kidney transplantation is considered the most effective treatment for end-stage renal failure. Recent studies have shown that the significance of the immune microenvironment after kidney transplantation in determining prognosis of patients. Therefore, this study aimed to conduct a bibliometric analysis to provide an overview of the knowledge structure and research trends regarding the immune microenvironment and survival in kidney transplantation.

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Background: Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a relatively rare vascular complication of acute pancreatitis (AP), and its mortality rate is high. To our knowledge, relevant literature reports still need to be summarized. In this study, we analyzed the clinical characteristics, treatment, and prognosis of five patients with AP complicated by PE and summarized and reviewed the relevant literature.

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Anoikis, a mechanism of programmed apoptosis, plays an important role in growth and metastasis of tumors. However, there are still few available comprehensive reports on the impact of anoikis on colorectal cancer. A clustering analysis was done on 133 anoikis-related genes in GSE39582, and we compared clinical features between clusters, the tumor microenvironment was analyzed with algorithms such as "Cibersort" and "ssGSEA".

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Background: Given the high incidence of esophageal cancer in China, an increasing number of patients there are undergoing endoscopic mucosal dissection (ESD). Although the 5-year survival rate after ESD can exceed 95%, esophageal stricture, the most common and serious postoperative complication, affects the long-term prognosis of patients and the quality of life. Autologous mucosal grafts have proven to be successful in preventing stricture after ESD for early esophageal cancer.

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Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is a rare autoimmune liver disease with few effective treatments and a poor prognosis, and its incidence is on the rise. There is an urgent need for more targeted treatment strategies to accurately identify high-risk patients. The use of stochastic survival forest models in machine learning is an innovative approach to constructing a prognostic model for PBC that can improve the prognosis by identifying high-risk patients for targeted treatment.

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It is now understood that islet transplantation serves as a β-cell replacement therapy for type 1 diabetes. Many factors impact the survival of transplanted islets, especially those related to the microenvironment. This review explored microenvironmental components, including vascular endothelial cells, inflammatory cytokines, and immune cells, and their profound effects on post-islet transplantation survival rates.

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Complex quantum electronic circuits can be used to design noise-protected qubits, but their complexity may exceed the capabilities of classical simulation. In such cases, quantum computers are necessary for efficient simulation. In this work, we demonstrate the use of variational quantum computing on a transmon-based quantum processor to simulate a superconducting quantum electronic circuit and design a new type of qubit called "Plasmonium", which operates in the plasmon-transition regime.

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Gastric cancer continues to be a significant health concern in China, with a high incidence rate. To mitigate its impact, early detection and treatment is key. However, conducting large-scale endoscopic gastric cancer screening is not feasible in China.

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Mesenchymal stem cells have shown noticeable potential for unlimited self-renewal. They can differentiate into specific somatic cells, integrate into target tissues via cell-cell contact, paracrine effects, exosomes, and other processes and then regulate the target cells and tissues. Studies have demonstrated that transplantation of MSCs could decrease the expression and concentration of collagen in the liver, thereby reducing liver fibrosis.

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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second deadliest cancer and the third-most common malignancy in the world. Surgery, chemotherapy, and targeted therapy have been widely used to treat CRC, but some patients still develop resistance to these treatments. Ferroptosis is a novel non-apoptotic form of cell death.

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Background: Endoscopic resection for duodenal gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) is still considered a great challenge with a high risk of complications, including perforation, bleeding, tumor rupture, and residual tumor.

Aim: To assess the effectiveness and safety of endoscopic resection for duodenal GISTs.

Methods: Between January 2010 and January 2022, 11 patients with duodenal GISTs were treated with endoscopic resection.

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Aim: To study the microecological characteristics of the airway and similarities and differences between healthy people and patients with the acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) in Inner Mongolia, and analyze the correlation between the characteristics of the airway microecological structure and clinical indicators of AECOPD patients.

Methods: Sputum samples from 36 healthy volunteers and 34 patients with AECOPD were detected by 16S rDNA high-throughput sequencing, and the airway microecological characteristics of healthy people and AECOPD patients were revealed by an alpha diversity analysis, beta diversity analysis, and LefSe difference analysis.

Results: There were differences in the airway microecological structure between healthy people and AECOPD patients in Inner Mongolia.

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Background: Small intestinal lymphangioma is a very rare benign lesion. Thus far, the literature on small intestinal lymphangioma has mainly involved case reports. The present study retrospectively examined the clinical features of patients with a pathological diagnosis of small intestinal lymphangioma.

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Purpose: To investigate the feasibility of immediate implantation after extraction of anterior teeth in patients with periodontal disease and its clinical effect within 2 years.

Methods: Thirty patients (36 implants) who underwent anterior dental implant treatment for periodontal disease from 2016 to 2018 were randomly divided into immediate implantation group (17 implants) and delayed implantation group (19 implants). The patients were followed up for 2 years, the clinical parameters such as periodontal probing depth, pink esthetic score(PES)and implant neck bone resorption volume of implant neck were obtained.

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  • A phase 3 trial investigated the long-term efficacy and safety of a bivalent HPV 16 and 18 vaccine produced by E. coli, showing it was well tolerated and effective against HPV-associated high-grade genital lesions and persistent infection over 66 months.
  • The trial involved 7372 eligible women aged 18-45, who were randomly assigned to receive either the HPV vaccine or a control hepatitis E vaccine, with strict exclusion criteria to ensure accurate results.
  • The findings indicated 100% efficacy against high-grade genital lesions and 97.3% against persistent HPV infection in the vaccinated group, with serious adverse events occurring at similar rates in both groups.
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Convolutional neural networks in the field of artificial intelligence show great potential in image recognition. It assisted endoscopy to improve the detection rate of early gastric cancer. The 5-year survival rate for advanced gastric cancer is less than 30%, while the 5-year survival rate for early gastric cancer is more than 90%.

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Liver transplantation is the ultimate method for treating end-stage liver disease. With the increasing prevalence of obesity, the number of patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver, a common cause of chronic liver disease, is on the rise and may become the main cause of liver transplantation in the future. With the increasing gap between the number of donor livers and patients waiting for liver transplantation and the increasing prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver, the proportion of steatosis livers among non-standard donor organs is also increasing.

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  • * Nanotechnology has emerged as a significant advancement in medicine, offering unique methods for disease diagnosis and treatment that outperform traditional techniques.
  • * This article reviews how nanotechnology is revolutionizing kidney and islet transplantation, focusing on topics such as organ preservation, creating artificial biological islets, improving organ imaging, and enhancing drug delivery.
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