This review compares the effects of peripheral dexamethasone and dexmedetomidine on postoperative analgesia. We included six randomized controlled trials (354 patients) through a systematic literature search. We found that analgesia duration was comparable between dexamethasone and dexmedetomidine (58.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study was designed to identify the protein profiling in patients with triple vessel coronary artery disease (CAD) undergoing CABG, in order to detect CAD-related differential proteins in these patients. CABG patients with triple vessel disease with/without left main stenosis ( =160) were compared to normal coronary angiographic subjects ( =160). Plasma samples of 20 males and 20 females in each group were analyzed with iTRAQ technique.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This study aimed to investigate the efficacy and safety of palliative bypass surgery combined with cryoablation in treating patients with advanced pancreatic cancer and compare this combination therapy with palliative bypass surgery alone.
Methods: Medical records of 118 patients with advanced pancreatic cancer who received palliative bypass surgery combined with cryoablation (the combination treatment group) or bypass surgery alone (the bypass surgery alone group) at the Department of Pancreatic Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital (Tianjin, China) were retrospectively reviewed. Their baseline and peri-operative parameters were collected and compared.
Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the role of ascites metabolism measurement in (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose ((18)F-FDG) PET/computed tomography (CT) for auxiliary diagnosis and prognostic evaluation of malignant ascites.
Materials And Methods: This was a retrospective study on 55 patients, including 36 with malignant ascites and 19 with benign ascites of undetermined origin, before they underwent their first (18)F-FDG PET/CT scan. The χ(2) -test was used to compare the diagnostic efficiencies among (18)F-FDG PET/CT ascites metabolism measurement, tumor localization, and ascites cytology examination.
Zhongguo Wei Zhong Bing Ji Jiu Yi Xue
July 2003
Objective: To observe the effects of intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV), synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation (SIMV), and biphasic intermittent positive airway pressure (BiPAP) on the recovery time of automatic breathing in patients in different stages of recovery of general anesthesia with muscle relaxant.
Methods: Thirty patients were randomly divided into three groups. The initial ventilation pattern was IPPV for all patients.