Publications by authors named "Shu Tian Xu"
Objectives: To explore the clinical potential of multiparametric cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) in evaluating myocardial inflammation in patients with exertional heat illness (EHI).
Methods: This prospective study enrolled 28 males with EHI (18 patients with exertional heat exhaustion (EHE) and 10 with exertional heat stroke (EHS)) and 18 age-matched male healthy controls (HC). All subjects underwent multiparametric CMR, and 9 patients had follow-up CMR measurements 3 months after recovery from EHI.
Background: To explore the clinical and pathological features of renal lesions in patients with kidney involvement in idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome (IHES).
Methods: The demographic, clinical, and pathological characteristics and the treatment and follow-up data were analyzed.
Results: We identified 18 patients with IHES and renal involvement.
Previous studies have shown that transcranial pulse current stimulation (tPCS) can increase cerebral neural plasticity and improve patients' locomotor function. However, the precise mechanisms underlying this effect remain unclear. In the present study, rat models of stroke established by occlusion of the right cerebral middle artery were subjected to tPCS, 20 minutes per day for 7 successive days.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Practitioners of complementary and alternative medicine have suggested that electroacupuncture (EA) could improve post-stroke cognitive impairment, based on the clinical evidence. This study protocol is aimed at showing the effectiveness of theta and gamma EA for post-stroke patients on working memory (WM) and electrophysiology.
Methods: After assessing their eligibility, 66 patients with stroke will be enrolled from two Chinese medicine hospitals and randomly divided into theta frequency EA group, gamma frequency EA group, and sham-EA group according to the ratio of 1:1:1.
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to explore the clinical and renal characteristics of patients with cryoglobulinaemic glomerulonephritis linked to hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, as such cases are rarely reported.
- A total of 12 patients were analyzed; most exhibited nephrotic syndrome, with significant renal impairment and distinctive findings of cryoglobulinaemia, including various types and kidney pathology like membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN).
- Despite treatment with antivirals and immunosuppressants, the study found a concerning prognosis, with many patients facing serious outcomes, highlighting the need for better detection and management of cryoglobulins in HBV-related kidney issues.
Background: Pathologic studies play an important role in evaluating patients with Alport syndrome besides genotyping. Difficulties still exist in diagnosing Alport syndrome (AS), and misdiagnosis is a not-so-rare event, even in adult patient evaluated with renal biopsy.
Methods: We used nested case-control study to investigate 52 patients previously misdiagnosed and 52 patients initially diagnosed in the China Alport Syndrome Treatments and Outcomes Registry e-system.