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<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To investigate the impact of timing of nasojejunal feeding tube placement and enteral nutrition on clinical outcomes in children with acute pancreatitis.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>A retrospective analysis was performed on the clinical data of 31 children with acute pancreatitis, who received nasojejunal feeding between January 2008 and July 2013, to investigate the relationship of abdominal symptoms/signs and serum amylase level with the tolerability of catheterization and success rate of enteral nutrition. The treatment outcome and incidence of adverse reactions and complications were compared between the early enteral nutrition group ( ≤7 days from the onset of the disease) and late enteral nutrition group (>7 days from the onset of the disease).</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Abdominal symptoms/signs and serum amylase level were independent of the tolerable rate of catheterization and success rate of enteral nutrition. Compared with the late enteral nutrition group, the early enteral nutrition group had a shortened time to normal serum amylase level, significantly reduced incidence of systemic complications, length of hospital stay, and hospitalization expenses, and less weight gain. The tolerable rate of catheterization and success rate of enteral nutrition showed no significant difference between the two groups. Similarly, no significant differences were found in the increase in albumin level after enteral nutrition, duration of enteral nutrition, incidence of adverse reactions, and incidence of local complications.</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>Abdominal symptoms/signs and serum amylase level cannot be used as a measure of whether nasojejunal feeding tube placement and enteral nutrition can be performed. Early enteral nutrition can better improve clinical outcomes in children with acute pancreatitis, and it is feasible.</p>
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Adolescent , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Male , Acute Disease , Enteral Nutrition , Intubation, Gastrointestinal , Pancreatitis , Therapeutics , Retrospective Studies , Time FactorsABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: Ventricular reconstruction after myocardial infarction is one of the important dangerous factors to the remote occurrence of cardiac functional disturbance. Chinese medicine is of unique advantages in the main therapeutic principles and methods for the post-infarct ventricular reconstruction.DATA SOURCES: To search for and proofread the relevant literatures on the researches on post-infarct ventricular reconstruction in Nuclear Journals of Chinese Medicine from January 1987 to December 2003 by www. google. com,Medline. Referring word: ventricular reconstruction,myocardial infarction,removing blood stasis and resolving phlegm,clearing heat and nourishing yin.STUDY SELECTION: Fifty-six papers on post-infarct ventricular reconstruction were selected, excluded the original literatures on non-random researches and included the original literatures on non-blind researches.DATA EXTRACTION: Of 56 papers,14 papers were deleted for they were repeated in the contents in different degrees. The rest 42 papers were classified and 12 papers of which were selected as the references.DATA SYNTHESIS: Myocardial infarction is the syndrome in which the root cause is deficiency and the symptoms are excess. The main therapeutic principles are to benefit qi,eliminate stasis,resolve phlegm,activate blood circulation,regulate qi,strengthen spleen,clear away heat and nourish yin. Of which, benefiting qi is the primary of the treatment for the root cause and nourishing yin is the secondary of the treatment for the root cause. Eliminating stasis and resolving phlegm is the primary of the treatment for symptoms,regulating qi and clearing away heat is the secondary of the treatment for symptoms. To benefit qi and activate blood circulation can improve blood dynamics to probably benefit the protection of ventricular reconstruction by reducing ventricular pressure and vascular resistauce of systematic circulation.CONCLUSION: After myocardial infarction, it happens inadaptable myocardial hypertrophy and external stromal accumulation and fibrosis of cardiac muscles. Long-term application of the principles for eliminating stasis,resolving phlegm,clearing away heat and nourishing yin can resist ventricular reconstruction and improve post-infarct cardiac function.
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Objective To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of half-Fourier single-shot TSE MR cholangiopancreatography (HASTE-MRCP) of 0.5 T MR scanner, and to assess its imaging advantage and clinical value by comparing with 3D-TSE-MRCP MIP. Methods All 95 patients were examined by HASTE-MRCP and 3D-TSE-MRCP with respiratory-triggering (Philips 0.5 T T5-NT). The results, including anatomies and diseases, were evaluated after operation. Results By HASTE-MRCP, common bile ducts, 1-3 branches of hepatic ducts, gallbladder, and pancreatic ducts were demonstrated in 100.0%, 94.7%, 74.1%, and 63.2% of the cases. Stones, malignant diseases, and postoperative stenosis were revealed in 100.0% of the cases. Compared with 3D-TSE-MRCP, the demonstrating rates of 4-5 hepatic ducts,neck of the gallbladders,and calculi,especially mud calculi, were higher in HASTE-MRCP, and there was significant difference between the two ways. Stones displayed as low signal in the bile ducts. Block obstruction and mass contour were revealed in malignant diseases. Conclusion Comparing with 3D TSE-MRCP, HASTE-MRCP was better and faster, especially in serious patients or in cases with small and mud calculus.