Investigation of quality of life and relevant influence factors in patients awaiting lung transplantation.

Purpose: To investigate the quality of life and influence factors in patients awaiting lung transplantation.

Methods: Fifty five participants who waited for lung transplantation were enrolled and received multiple surveys including Short Form 36 Health Survey Questionnaires (SF-36), Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS) and Perceiving Social Support Scale (PSSS).

Results: The subjects awaiting lung transplant scored ranging from (23.

[Relationship between the efficacy of inhaled corticosteroids and the leukotriene expression in children with asthma].

Objective: To evaluate the relationship between leukotriene expression in blood polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNL) and the efficacy of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) in children with asthma.

Methods: Thirty-two children with asthma (5-12 years) and ten healthy children (control group) were enrolled. The asthmatic children were subdivided into ICS well-controlled and ICS poorly-controlled groups based on their clinical symptoms and lung function.

[Circumcision affects glans penis vibration perception threshold].

Objective: To evaluate the effect of circumcision on the glans penis sensitivity by comparing the changes of the glans penis vibrotactile threshold between normal men and patients with simple redundant prepuce and among the patients before and after the operation.

Methods: The vibrotactile thresholds were measured at the forefinger and glans penis in 73 normal volunteer controls and 96 patients with simple redundant prepuce before and after circumcision by biological vibration measurement instrument, and the changes in the perception sensitivity of the body surface were analyzed.

Results: The G/F (glans/finger) indexes in the control and the test group were respectively 2.

[Physiologic response to proportional assist ventilation in patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease].

Objective: To investigate the effect of different assist levels during proportional assist ventilation (PAV) on patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Methods: Nine patients with acute exacerbation of COPD received different levels of assist ventilation during PAV. The change of inspiratory muscle effort and breathing pattern of the patients were observed.