Publications by authors named "Zu'an Liu"

Climate change and its negative effects are driving the global shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. To tackle the dependency on traditional energy sources in harsh winter regions and improve heating quality during periods of thermal demand fluctuations, this paper proposes a new distributed heating peak shaving system (DHPS). The system combines municipal heat and clean energy within the secondary network while reducing the return water temperature in the primary network.

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To achieve carbon neutrality in 2060 (China), building energy-saving has been highly concerned. University buildings have great energy-saving potential as part of energy consumption where 70% of energy loss is caused by heat transfer from the envelope. However, most of the research on energy-saving factors for envelopes is limited to a certain climate or a specific building type, and the optimal configuration of envelopes under different climatic regions has not been well solved.

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Objective: To recognize the characteristics of necrotizing fasciitis patients complicated with sepsis and summarize the experience the treatment.

Methods: A retrospective study was conducted. The clinical data of 57 patients with necrotizing fasciitis complicated with sepsis admitted to Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital from July 2009 to December 2019 was analyzed by collecting such factors as gender, age, complications, infection sites, pathogens, surgery information, treatment options and outcome.

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Inflammation is a defensive response in the living tissue of the vascular system that acts against damage factors and involves various types of immune cells, including macrophages, neutrophils, endothelial cells and other associated immune molecules. If the release of inflammatory mediators is excessive, systemic inflammatory response syndrome may develop. Sepsis is the most common complication of severe burns and is a systemic inflammatory response syndrome that is caused by infectious factors and is capable of leading to multiple organ dysfunction and potentially death.

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Objective: To analyze the development of liver damage and reactivation of hepatitis B virus (HBV) during the treatment of extremely severe burn injury in HBsAg positive patients, in order to provide reference for prevention and treatment of liver damage in patients with HBV infection after extremely severe burn.

Methods: Medical records of 54 HBsAg positive patients after extremely severe burn injury admitted from January 2004 to December 2014 were retrospectively analyzed. Development of liver damage and HBV reactivation of these patients during the treatment were analyzed according to the classification of their gender, results of hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) and HBV DNA examinations on admission, and development of sepsis in the process of treatment.

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Objective: To define the classification of sternal wound complications after cardiac surgery and to explore the appropriate surgical treatment.

Methods: Between July 2008 and January 2014, 260 patients with sternal wound complications after cardiac surgery were treated. There were 124 males and 136 females, aged 11-75 years (mean, 49.

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Objective: To evaluate the clinical efficacy of low molecular weight heparin (Fraxiparine) in rescuing venous crisis of island skin flap.

Methods: Of the 73 patients with venous crisis of island skin flap, 47 received subcutaneous injection of low-molecular-weight heparin (group I) and 26 were treated with phlebotomy, local compression and topical application of unfractionated heparin solution gauze (group II).

Results: The flap survival ratio was (88.

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Objective: To establish a rat model of full-thickness skin defect to receive bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell transplantation for wound repair.

Methods: A full-thickness skin defect measuring 4 cmx4 cm in 36 F344 rats, which were divided into 3 groups with the wound covered with alloskin graft, acellular dermal matrix, or petrolatum gauze. In vitro cultured BMSCs in the 5th passage were transplanted into the skin defect, and the time of wound dressing dissociation and number of transplanted Brdu-positive cells in the wound were observed 14 days later.

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Objective: To establish a parabiosis model between allogenic conspecific adult mice to study two-way paradigm.

Methods: Fifty-four female Balb/c mice and 54 male C57BL/6 mice were paired and equally divided into 3 groups, namely group 1 with normal saline (NS) injection, group 2 with injections of spleen cells and cyclophosphamide (CP), and group 3 injected with spleen cells, CP, and cyclosporin A (CsA). The treatments were performed by injecting the spleen cells from one of the mice in a pair into the other via tail vein and vise versa, and two days after the operation, CP (150 mg/kg) was injected intraperitoneally.

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