Delineation of intersegmental plane: application of blood flow blocking method in pulmonary segmentectomy.

Background: The Modified Inflation-Deflation Method (MIDM) is widely used in China in pulmonary segmentectomies. We optimized the procedure, which was named as Blood Flow Blocking Method (BFBM), also known as "No-Waiting Segmentectomy". This method has produced commendable clinical outcomes in segmentectomies.

Carotid revascularisation versus medical treatment for asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis.

This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: To compare the safety and efficacy of carotid revascularisation plus best medical treatment with best medical treatment alone in people with asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis.

In-stent restenosis after vertebral artery origin stenosis stenting: a nomogram for risk assessment.

Objective: To propose a nomogram for individual risk assessment of in-stent restenosis (ISR) after vertebral artery origin stenosis (VAOS) stenting.

Methods: We included 793 patients with VAOS treated with stenting from October 2006 to May 2013, with a median follow-up of 27.8 months.

Frequency-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography for Intracranial Atherosclerotic Stenosis: Feasibility, Safety, and Preliminary Experience.

Despite advances in non-invasive imaging, the characterization of atherosclerotic plaque remains superior with frequency-domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT) in the clinical coronary and experimental cerebrovascular literature. An assessment of the feasibility and safety of FD-OCT for intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis (ICAS) is desirable. We analyzed a cohort of all consecutive FD-OCT evaluations for ICAS performed at our institution from April 2017 to August 2018 (16 months) in patients who suffered from transient ischemic attack (TIA) or non-disabling stroke despite optimal medical management within 90 days of admission attributable to angiographically verified 70-99% stenosis of an intracranial artery.

Neovascularization in Human Intracranial Atherosclerotic In-Stent Restenosis.

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has seen widespread use in cardiovascular and interventional endovascular imaging. While scattered reports of intracranial usage have been reported for the assessment of atherosclerotic stenosis, nutrifying neovasculature supplying plaque and neointima have not been demonstrated until now. We report the first in-vivo illustration of this phenomenon, which is a high-resolution depiction of a critical pathway for in-stent restenosis.

Long-term outcomes and prognostic factor analysis of resected Siewert type II adenocarcinoma of esophagogastric junction in China: a seven-year study.

Background: The incidence rate of adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction (AEG) has significantly increased over the past two decades. Surgery remains the only curative treatment. However, there are currently few studies on Chinese AEG patients.

Drug-coated balloon for vertebral artery origin stenosis: a pilot study.

Background: Drug-coated balloon (DCB) is a potential treatment for patients with low restenosis risk in vertebral artery origin stenosis (VAOS). However, the clinical data of long-term outcome are limited.

Objective: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of a DCB in patients with severe VAOS.

Juvenile-onset gout and adipsic diabetes insipidus: A case report and literature review.

The prevalence of juvenile-onset gout has been increasing. Hereditary factors and secondary diseases should be considered in these patients. Adipsic diabetes insipidus (ADI) is characterized by arginine vasopressin (AVP) deficiency, which results in hypotonic polyuria, and dysfunction of thirst osmoreceptors, which results in failure to generate a thirst sensation in response to hypernatremia.

Link predication based on matrix factorization by fusion of multi class organizations of the network.

Link predication aims at forecasting the latent or unobserved edges in the complex networks and has a wide range of applications in reality. Almost existing methods and models only take advantage of one class organization of the networks, which always lose important information hidden in other organizations of the network. In this paper, we propose a link predication framework which makes the best of the structure of networks in different level of organizations based on nonnegative matrix factorization, which is called NMF here.

Studies on culture and osteogenic induction of human mesenchymal stem cells under CO2-independent conditions.

Human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) are one of the important factors that regulate bone anabolism. Osteoporosis resulting from microgravity during spaceflight may possibly be due to a decrease in osteogenesis mediated by hMSCs. This speculation should be verified through culture and osteogenic induction of hMSCs in a microgravity environment during spaceflight.