Imaging characteristics and prognostic factors of Behcet's disease with arterial involvement: A long-term follow-up study.

Purpose: To investigate the imaging characteristics and prognostic factors for the long-term survival of Behcet's disease (BD) with arterial involvement.

Methods: In this retrospective study, BD patients with arterial involvement were identified from January 2003 to January 2020. Arterial lesions were detected by ultrasonography, traditional arteriography, and/or computed tomography angiography (CTA).

Meta-analysis reveals variations in microbial communities from diverse stony coral taxa at different geographical distances.

Coral-associated microbial communities play a vital role in underpinning the health and resilience of reef ecosystems. Previous studies have demonstrated that the microbial communities of corals are affected by multiple factors, mainly focusing on host species and geolocation. However, up-to-date, insight into how the coral microbiota is structured by vast geographic distance with rich taxa is deficient.

Nestin represents a potential marker of pulmonary vascular remodeling in pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with congenital heart disease.

Objective: Reportedly, nestin was re-expressed in proliferative synthetic-type pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (PASMCs) and obligatory for PASMC proliferation in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Accordingly, nestin is increased in pulmonary vascular lesions of congenital heart disease (CHD)-associated PAH patients. We tested the hypothesis whether nestin was re-expressed in proliferative synthetic-type PASMCs and associated with pulmonary vascular remodeling in CHD-PAH.

[Relationship between PMI and ATR-FTIR Spectral Changes in Swine Costal Cartilages and Ribs].

Objective: To analyze postmortem chemical changes in Landrace costal cartilages and ribs using attenuated total reflection-Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy, and to provide a novel technique for estimation of postmortem interval (PMI).

Methods: The swines were sacrificed by hemorrhage and their costal cartilages and ribs were kept in 20 degrees C. The chemical analysis of the costal cartilages and ribs were performed using ATR-FTIR every 72 h.

Ulinastatin attenuates oxidation, inflammation and neural apoptosis in the cerebral cortex of adult rats with ventricular fibrillation after cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Objective: The role of Ulinastatin in neuronal injury after cardiopulmonary resuscitation has not been elucidated. We aim to evaluate the effects of Ulinastatin on inflammation, oxidation, and neuronal injury in the cerebral cortex after cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Methods: Ventricular fibrillation was induced in 76 adult male Wistar rats for 6 min, after which cardiopulmonary resuscitation was initiated.

Ulinastatin improved cardiac dysfunction after cardiac arrest in New Zealand rabbits.

Objective: The present study was designed to evaluate the effects of ulinastatin (UTI) on cardiac dysfunction after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

Methods: A total of 48 healthy adult male New Zealand rabbits were untreated for 8 minutes after the induction of ventricular fibrillation (VF) by an external transthoracic alternating current and then treated by CPR. These rabbits were then randomly divided into the control and UTI groups after the return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) and were observed for 8 hours after the ROSC.

Early enhanced external counter pulsation improves neurological recovery after the return of spontaneous circulation in a mongrel dog cardiac arrest model*.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate whether early enhanced external counter pulsation therapy after cardiopulmonary resuscitation improved neurological outcome in a mongrel dog cardiac arrest model.

Design: Randomized, animal study.

Setting: Assisted circulation laboratory.

Changes in expression of Nogo receptor 1 in hippocampus and cortex after cardiopulmonary resuscitation in rats.

The aim of this study was to investigate changes in Nogo receptor 1 (NgR(1)) expression in the cerebrum after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in rats. Cardiac arrest was induced by alternating current in 50 SD rats through transcutaneous electrical epicardium stimulation, and CPR was performed with the Utstein mode 6 minutes after cardiac arrest. Rats were killed 1, 3, and 7 days after CPR.

Drug associated vanishing bile duct syndrome combined with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis.

A 28-year-old woman with untreated autoimmune disorder, demonstrated skin rash and fever after taking Amoxicillin-clavulanate and developed progressive jaundice. A bone marrow aspiration indicated an increased number of macrophages with hemophagocytosis and liver biopsy showed pure centrilobular cholestasis with necrosis and some absence of portal bile ducts. Furthermore, a serological test for Epstein-Barr virus was positive.

Investigation of the relationship between venticular fibrillation duration and cardiac/neurological damage in a rabbit model of electrically induced arrhythmia.

Background: To establish a simple, economic, and reliable alternating current (AC)-induced cardiac arrest (ACCA) model in rabbits for cardiopulmonary cerebral resuscitation research.

Methods: Ventricular fibrillation was induced in 27 New Zealand rabbits by external transthoracic AC, which were randomly divided into three groups according to the duration of untreated ACCA (ACCA-3 minutes, ACCA-5 minutes, and ACCA-8 minutes). After ACCA, all animals received cardiopulmonary resuscitation for 2 minutes and subsequent defibrillation until return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC).

Myelin-associated glycoprotein inhibits the neuronal differentiation of neural progenitors.

Nogo-66, myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG), and oligodendrocyte myelin glycoprotein, possess axon growth-inhibiting properties by binding with the Nogo-66 receptor. Recent studies have shown that Nogo-66 inhibits neuronal differentiation of neural progenitor cells (NPCs) and the neurite outgrowth of the neurons differentiated from NPCs. However, the effects of MAG on the differentiation and proliferation of NPCs are unclear.

[The expression and clinical implication of advanced oxidized protein products in patients with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome].

Objective: To investigate the expression and clinical implication of advanced oxidized protein products (AOPP) in patients with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS).

Methods: Serum concentrations of C-reactive protein (CRP) and AOPP were determined in 180 patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) or MODS (90 patients, respectively). The acute physiology and chronic health evaluation III (APACHE III) scoring system was applied to assess severity of patients' condition.

[Expression of brain natriuretic peptide and c-fos gene in rat after acute myocardial ischemia and its medicolegal significance].

Objective: To study the mRNA expression of BNP and c-fos gene in rat heart after acute myocardial ischemia (AMI) and to provide a marker for its medicolegal diagnosis.

Methods: AMI animal model of rat was made by ligating LAD. mRNA expression of BNP and c-fos gene were studied with RT-qPCR and ordinary PCR at 10 min, 30 min, 60 min and 3h after the successful ligation.

[Evaluation of gingival inflammation related to different retraction agents].

Objective: To choose the best retraction agent for the clinic by evaluating the gingival inflammation related to three kinds of retraction agents.

Methods: 40 maxillary premolars were divided into four groups according to the randomized block design: Ferric sulfate group, aluminum chloride group, epinephrine group, sodium chloride group(control group), each 10 teeth, respectively used 25% AlCl3, 15.5% Fe2(SO4)3, 0.

A meta-analysis of cardiopulmonary resuscitation with and without the administration of thrombolytic agents.

Objective: To pool data on the role of thrombolytic agents in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and evaluate the efficacy and safety of thrombolysis.

Materials And Methods: The clinical studies in MEDLINE database from 1966 to August 2004 that studied the efficacy and safety in CPR with and without treatment with thrombolytic agents were assessed by a meta-analysis performed to evaluate the effect of the treatment.

Results: A total of eight papers evaluating the effect of thrombolysis in CPR were identified.

[Protective effect of p38 mitogen activated protein kinase inhibitor on organs in sepsis in rats].

Objective: To investigate the pathogenesis of multiorgan injury and the protective of p38 mitogen activated protein kinase(p38MAPK) inhibitor on organs in sepsis.

Methods: Cecal ligation and puncture was adopted to reproduce sepsis model. The levels of serum biochemical parameters [including alanine aminotransferase (ALT), blood urea nitrogen(BUN), creatinine(Cr), MB isoenzyme of creatine phosphokinase (CPK-MB), tumor necrosis factor-alpha(TNF-alpha) and interleukin-1beta(IL-1beta) were determined at different time points.

[Analysis of the status of diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism and a study of further strategy to improve the diagnostic level].

Objective: To analyze the present status of diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE) by analyzing the clinical data of patients admitted during last 10 years to our hospital, in order to look for a significant diagnostic strategy to improve the diagnostic level.

Methods: The data of patients diagnosed to have PE in last 10 years were analyzed. In the last 5 months, the patients suspected to have PE were diagnosed by a comprehensive approach including clinical manifestations, lung scan and/or spirals computer tomography (SCT) in our emergency department.