Publications by authors named "Wenyao Fang"

Objective: This study aimed to explore the effects of Electroacupuncture (EA) on chronic cerebral ischemia (CCI).

Methods: A CCI rat model was established by blocking the common carotid arteries. Model rats were treated with EA at the "Baihui" (GV20) and "Dazhui" (GV14) acupoints and/or ARB.

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Chronic cerebral ischemia (CCI) is a common neurological disorder, characterized by progressive cognitive impairment. Acupoint catgut embedding (ACE) represents a modern acupuncture form that has shown neuroprotective effects; nevertheless, its effects on CCI and the mechanisms remain largely unknown. Here, we aimed to explore the therapeutic action of ACE in CCI-induced cognitive impairment and its mechanisms.

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Background And Objective: Mismatch between invasive mechanical ventilation and the requirements of patients results in patient-ventilator asynchrony (PVA), which is associated with a series of adverse clinical outcomes. Although the efficiency of the available approaches for automatically detecting various types of PVA from the ventilator waveforms is unsatisfactory, the feasibility of powerful deep learning approaches in addressing this problem has not been investigated.

Methods: We propose a 2-layer long short-term memory (LSTM) network to detect two most frequently encountered types of PVA, namely, double triggering (DT) and ineffective inspiratory effort during expiration (IEE), on two datasets.

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Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of the proprioceptive sensibility reflexotherapy by tendon acupuncture needling at trigger points for patients with proprioceptive disorder of cervical vertigo.

Methods: Seventy-nine patients with proprioceptive disorder of cervical vertigo were randomly assigned into a treatment group (42 cases) and a control group (37 cases). Patients in the treatment group received the proprioceptive sensibility reflexotherapy with tendon acupuncture at trigger points in the neck.

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