Bronchial balloon dilatation combined with cryotherapy for tuberculous cicatricial central airway stenosis, with Adobe Photoshop for the degree measurement: A multicenter, retrospective study.

Objective: To explore bronchial balloon dilation (BD) combined with cryotherapy and Photoshop (PS)-base image processing technology in the interventional treatment of tuberculous cicatricial central airway stenosis (CCAS).

Methods: This multicenter, retrospective study analyzed the clinical data of patients with CCAS from six hospitals in Henan, China between June 2019 and October 2022.

Results: A total of 307 patients were included, including 152 (62 males) treated with BD alone and 155 (54 males) treated with BD combined with cryotherapy.

[Clinical observation of compound xiatianwu tablets in treatment of 120 cases with active rheumatoid arthritis].

Objective: To observe the clinical efficacy of Compound Xiatianwu tablets in the treatment of active rheumatoid arthritis.

Method: One hundred and eighty cases with active rheumatoid arthritis were randomly divided into the control group (60 cases) with leflunomide, sulfasalazine, and celecoxib; the treatment group (120 cases) given compound Xiatianwu tablets on the basis of the control group, 2 tablets each time, 3 times/day, with the course of treatment of 3 month. Patients of the two groups were observed for clinical symptoms, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein, rheumatoid factor, and immunoglobulin changes before and after the treatment.