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Objective To explore common risk factors of the first acute ischemic cerebral stroke patients′neurological deficits and build a short-term prognosis model. Methods 89 hospitalized patients with acute is-chemic cerebral stroke were chosen for study from September 2014 to December 2015 in the Fifth Affiliated Hos-pital of Zhengzhou University. Our study′s evaluation methods were using the unified questionnaires , the NIHSS score and the mRS scale. Results Traditional risk factors were no significant difference among the three groups (P > 0.05); 6 kinds of hematology indexes such as WBC count had significant difference in NIHSS score (P <0.05) and prognosis(P < 0.05); 6 kinds of hematology indexes such as D-D and the NIHSS score had a signifi-cant effect on prognosis (OR = 1.800, 0.976, 1.112, 1.327, 5.564, 6.456, 1.227); the area under ROC curve was 0.976, which proved the model had a good predictive value. Conclusion Traditional risk factors had no significant difference among the different neurological deficits groups; 6 kinds of hematology indexes such as D-D and NIHSS score on admission had a significant influence on prognosis; the model predicted the short-term prognosis of acute ischemic cerebral stroke more accurately.
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ObjectiveTo study the relationship between the plasma level of asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) and the damage degree of white matter and the changes of cognitive function in patients with cerebral small vessel disease.Methods120 patients with white matter lesions,induced by cerebral small vessel disease,were randomly selected.All patients were divided into group with or without cognitive dysfunction according to the results of MoCA scale.The plasma level of ADMA was detected with high-perfomance liquid chromatography method.Scheltens semi-quantitative evaluation was used to detect the damage degree of white matter.Correlation analysis was used to evaluate the relationship between the plasma level of ADMA and white matter lesions and cognitive dysfunction.ResultsThere were 42 patients with cognitive dysfunction and 78 patients without cognitive dysfunction.The plasma level of ADMA in patients with cognitive dysfunction ( ( 1.57 ±0.56) μg/ml) was significantly higher than patients without cognitive dysfunction ( (0.89 ±0.23 ) μg/ml) (P ＜ 0.01 ).Scheltens semi-quantitative evaluationfor patients with cognitive dysfunction and patients without cognitive dysfunction was 8.01 ± 2.50and 2.49 ± 0.59,respectively.There was significant difference between this two groups (P ＜ 0.01 ).The plasma level of ADMA positively correlated with the damage degree of white matter lesions and the changes of cognitive function.The correlation coefficients were 0.913 and 0.837,respectively ( All P ＜ 0.01 ).ConclusionADMA may be involved in the process of white matter damage caused by cerebral small vessel disease.The detection for plasma levels of ADMA may contribute to the prevention and early diagnosis of patients with cognitive dysfunction caused by cerebral small vessel disease.
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Objective To study the influence of progesterone (PROG) on infarct volume and functional outcome and to evaluate the therapeutic value of PROG on cerebral infarction in rats.Methods Health adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into sham-operated (control) group,ischemic group,vehicle-treated group and PROG-treated group.Permanent cerebral ischemia was induced by occlusion of the left middle cerebral artery (MCA) using an intraluminal filament technique.Sham-operated rats were subjected to the same surgical procedure,except that the filament was not advanced to occlude the MCA.Progesterone or 2-hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin was injected intraperitoneally following permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion (PMCAO) of rats.Zea Longa test was used to evaluate their functional outcome at 1d,2d,3d after stroke.TTC staining was used to detect the infarct volume at 3d after stroke.Results The results of Zea Longa test showed that there were no functional deficits in all animals prior to ischemia.There were no significant changes in motor function in sham-operated animals across the 3 days assessment period.Both PROG and vehicle-treated rats experienced significant decline in scores following occlusion.However,PROG-treated rats (3.00 ± 0.63,2.83 ± 0.75,2.00 ± 0.89 )demonstrated a gradual improvement in scores compared with ischemic (4.00 ± 0.89,3.83 ± 0.75,3.16 ± 0.75 )and vehicle-treated rats ( 3.67 ± 1.21,3.50 ± 1.05,2.83 ± 0.76) at different times (P ＜ 0.05 ).TTC staining revealed that PROG administration significantly reduced the total infarct volume in the PROG-treated rats ( ( 15.03± 3.75) ％ ) compared with ischemic ( (23.74 ± 4.48 ) ％ ) and vehicle-treated rats ( ( 24.42 ± 7.07 ) ％,P ＜0.05).Conclusions PROG significantly reduces infarct volume and promotes the recovery of neurological functions after pMCAO,which has good therapeutic value for the rat model of cerebral infarction.
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0.05).A total of 121 patients were involved in present study.Ninety days after treatment the BI scores of group Ⅰ,Ⅱ and Ⅲ were 63.7?12.7,62.3?13.5 and 42.6?13.1,respectively,and the significant differences existed between group I and group Ⅲ(P0.05).Compared with the baseline data,the fibrinogen of group Ⅰ and Ⅱ decreased at day 3,5 and 7(P