An Interdisciplinary Nutrition Support Team Improves Clinical and Hospitalized Outcomes of Esophageal Cancer Patients with Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy.

Background: The prevalence of malnutrition is very high in patients with cancer. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether or not a nutrition support team (NST) could benefit esophageal cancer patients undergoing chemoradiotherapy (CRT).

Methods: Between June 2012 and April 2014, 50 esophageal cancer patients undergoing concurrent CRT were randomly assigned into two groups: The NST group and the control group.

[Changes of T-helper 1 and T-helper 2 ratio in peripheral blood and decidua in hypertensive disorder complicating pregnancy].

Objective: To investigate the role of immune response induced by different T-helper 1 and T-helper 2 (Th1 and Th2) ratio in peripheral blood and decidua from patients with hypertensive disorder complicating pregnancy in the pathogenesis of the disease.

Methods: Peripheral blood and decidua from 12 non-pregnant women (no deciduas) (normal women group), 12 healthy pregnant women (healthy pregnant women group), 10 patients with gestational hypertension (gestational hypertension group), 25 patients with pre-eclampsia (PE) (including 10 patients with mild pre-eclampsia and 15 patients with severe pre-eclampsia) (pre-eclampsia group). Th1/Th2 ratio in peripheral blood and decidua was determined by flow-cytometrically.