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Objective To evaluate the effect of percutaneous stenting for renal artery stenosis. Methods Stent implantation was conducted in 27 patients(Interventional Group) with renal artery stenosis from January 1997 to December 2004 in this hospital.Patients' blood pressure,renal functions,and quality of life were recorded and compared with another group of 27 patients receiving medical treatment(Medical Group) during this time. Results The procedure of renal artery stenting was superior to the medical treatment in antihypertensive effect,renal function improvement,raise of life quality,and increase of survival rate.The procedure offered a high success rate(88.9%,24/27) and low re-stenosis rate(12.5%,3/24) and an incidence of complications(18.5%,5/27).The Interventional Group was remarkably superior to the Medical Group with respect to the decrease of blood pressure and creatinine and the increase of glomerular filtration rate,with significant differences.Follow-ups for 6 months ~ 8 years and 6 months(median,1 year and 9 months) revealed that normal daily activities and works were achieved in 19 patients in the Interventional Group and in 12 patients in the Medical Group. Conclusions Percutaneous renal artery stenting in the treatment of renal artery stenosis is effective.
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Objective:To study the mechnism of mild hypothermia during cerebral resuscitation. Method:Fourteen dogs were anaesthetized with ketamine and fentanyl and were divided randomly into three groups. Four dogs as nonischemic control(group A).recived general care for 24 hours after operation without cardiac arrest. The other ten dogs underwant a 18-minute cardiac arrest.were resuscitated with standard CPR.and supported by intensive care for 24 hours,then divided into two groups. Five dogs were treated with routine cerebral resuscitation measures (RCRM) (group B):five dogs were treated with RCRM and mild hypothermia started 10 min after CPR and mantained at 34 C?0.5 C for 12 hours (group C). At the end of experiment,the parietal cerebral cortex was obtained to detect the expression of heat shock proteins with immunohistochemical technique and to observe the change of histomorphology. Result: The pathologic change in group C was more obviously mitigated than that in group B. The HSP70-LI positive neuronal density and grey values in group B and C were more significantly increased than those in group A (P
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Objective To investigate the relation between the expression of Bcl-2 protein and protection against ischemic neuronal damage by preconditioning with sublethal ischemia .Methods The cerebral ischemia was induced by occlusion of bilateral common carotid arteries .Sixty-three gerbils were divided randomly into four groups:sham operative control group (group A,n=5),ischemic preconditioning control group (group B ;n=6) with a single 2-min cerebral ischemia; ischemia preconditioning group (group PC,n=26) and ischemic control group (group IR,n=26) with 5-min ischemia being induced following 3 days of reperfusion with or without 2-min ischemic preconditioning,then with reperfusion lasting 4 hours (group PC1,n=5;group IR1,n=5),24 hours (group PC2,n=7;group IR2,n=7),72 hours (group PC3,n=7;group IR3,n=7)or 7 days (group PC4,n=7;group IR4 ,n=7) respectively.Paraffin sections of hippocampus were used for Bcl-2 protein immunohistochemical staining.Results In group B,Bcl-2 protein immunoreactivity (the intensity of staining) significantly increased as compared with that in group A(P