Publications by authors named "Zong Fei Ji"
Objective: To investigate the utility of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG-PET/CT) in assessing disease activity in Takayasu arteritis (TA).
Methods: Ninety-one patients with TA were recruited from a Chinese cohort. Clinical data, acute-phase reactants and 18F-FDG-PET/CT findings were simultaneously recorded.
Objectives: We aimed to construct and validate a risk assessment model to identify risk factors for heart failure (HF) in patients with Takayasu's arteritis (TAK).
Methods: Three hundred sixty-five patients with TAK were recruited in the East China Takayasu Arteritis Cohort from January 2012 to December 2019. Patients were assigned into training and validation sets following a 2:1 ratio according to the date of enrollment.
Article Synopsis
- - The study aimed to find key ultrasonography markers and clinical signs that can predict the progression of carotid artery involvement in patients with Takayasu's arteritis over a one-year period.
- - Out of 77 patients, 16 showed progression in carotid artery issues during the follow-up, with younger age, thicker vessel walls, and a higher prevalence of refractory disease being significant indicators of this progression.
- - The findings suggest that younger patients with thicker carotid walls (≥1.9 mm) and refractory disease are at a greater risk for carotid progression, indicating the need for closer monitoring in these individuals.
Objectives: As a rare systemic autoinflammatory disease, adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) has heterogeneous clinical manifestations, response to treatment and outcome. This study tried to assess the clinical characteristics, laboratory tests, and treatments of Chinese AOSD patients, and make a retrospective analysis.
Methods: We collected from 7 hospitals in China a total of 517 Chinese patients with AOSD who satisfied the Yamaguchi criteria.
Early diagnosis and prevention of glucocorticoid (GC)-induced osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) continues to be a challenging problem for clinicians and researchers. However, the role of circulating biomarkers for GC-induced ONFH, which may reveal individual susceptibility and facilitate earlier diagnosis, remains to be determined. The aim of this study was to identify potential biomarkers that may predict early GC-induced ONFH.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD) is growing in the young population. We aimed to investigate the association between serum uric acid (SUA) levels and cardiovascular involvement in individuals under 45 years old diagnosed with early-onset CAD (EOCAD). Seven hundred eighty-six EOCAD patients were recruited and stratified into four groups by SUA levels.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPOEMS syndrome is a rare paraneoplastic disorder associated with an underlying plasma cell dyscrasia presenting polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal protein, and skin changes. This study reviewed the clinical characteristics of 14 POEMS patients in Zhongshan hospital. The ratio of male to female was 9 : 5, and the average age was 47.
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