Totally mechanical linear stapled anastomosis for minimally invasive Ivor Lewis esophagectomy: Operative technique and short-term outcomes.

Background: Anastomosis is one of the important factors affecting anastomotic complications after esophagectomy, and multiple reports have compared anastomotic complications among various techniques. However, there is insufficient evidence in the literature to definitively recommend one anastomotic technique over another.

Method: We retrospectively evaluated 34 consecutive patients who underwent an improved totally mechanical side-to-side: posterior-to-posterior linear stapled (TM-STS) technique for minimally invasive Ivor Lewis esophagogastric anastomosis, performed by a single surgeon between February 2015 to November 2017.

Unmedicated patients with schizophrenia in economically underdeveloped areas of China.

Objectives: Untreated schizophrenia commonly leads to poor prognosis. The medication treatment rate of schizophrenia patients in economically underdeveloped areas of China has not been well-studied. This study aimed to examine the pattern of unmedicated schizophrenia patients in economically underdeveloped rural and urban areas of China.

[The Protective Effect of B7-H4 on Concanavalin A Induced Hepatic Injury in Mice].

Objective: To explore the protective effect and its mechanism of B7-H4 on the immuno hepatic injury.

Methods: The immuno hepatic injury was induced by Concanavalin A (Con A). Sixty KM mice were randomly divided into 4 groups with 15 mice in each group: Group A (saline), Group B (pcDNA3.

[Clinical application of VerifyNow-P2Y12 assay in evaluation of platelet inhibition efficacy of clopidogrel].

Objective: To evaluate the platelet inhibition efficacy in patients under regular maintenance dose of clopidogrel by VerifyNow-P2Y12 assay and explore the clinical characteristics of clopidogrel non-responders and related predicting factors.

Methods: A total of 99 patients underwent percutaneous coronary intervention procedure and receiving clopidogrel in regular maintenance dose for at least 1 week were enrolled. Platelet reactivity, including baseline, P2Y12 reaction unit (PRU), and platelet inhibition rate were measured with VeifyNow-P2Y12 assay.

Metabolic restaging of hepatocellular carcinoma using whole-body F-FDG PET/CT.

Aim: To evaluate the ability of (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission and computed tomography ((18)F-FDG PET/CT) in restaging of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after treatment.

Methods: We reviewed a database of the diagnostic performance of (18)F-FDG PET/CT scan for patients with HCC following local or regional treatment. The database consisted of (18)F-FDG PET/CT information of 21 male and 4 female (age range, 27-81 years; mean age, 51.

Clinical value of F-FDG PET/CT in assessing suspicious relapse after rectal cancer resection.

Aim: To evaluate the value of (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography ((18)F-FDG PET/CT) in the restaging of resected rectal cancer.

Methods: From January 2007 to Sep 2008, 21 patients who had undergone curative surgery resection for rectal carcinoma with suspicious relapse in conventional imaging or clinical findings were retrospectively enrolled in our study. The patients underwent 28 PET/CT scans (two patients had two scans, one patient had three and one had four scans).

Post-traumatic hepatic artery pseudo-aneurysm combined with subphrenic liver abscess treated with embolization.

A 23-year-old man with post-traumatic hepatic artery pseudo-aneurysm and subphrenic liver abscess was admitted. He underwent coil embolization of hepatic artery pseudo-aneurysm. The pseudo-aneurysm was successfully obstructed and subphrenic liver abscess was controlled.

[The radiolabeling property of oligonucleotide with 99mTc using NHS-MAG3 as a chelator].

Objective: To explore the radiolabeling property of oligonucleotide with 99mTc using NHS-MAG3 as a bifunctional chelator.

Methods: Three 15-base single-stranded amine-derivitized oligonucleotides, which were antisense(ASON), sense(SON) and mismatched oligonucleotides(MON) of c-myc oncogene mRNA, were coupled with NHS-MAG3 and labeled with 99mTc. The labeled oligonucleotide was purified by Sephadex G25 column chromatogram, then the stability was evaluated.