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Objective:To investigate the diagnostic accuracy of serological indicators and evaluate the diagnostic value of a new established combined serological model on identifying the minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE) in patients with compensated cirrhosis.Methods:This prospective multicenter study enrolled 263 compensated cirrhotic patients from 23 hospitals in 15 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities of China between October 2021 and August 2022. Clinical data and laboratory test results were collected, and the model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score was calculated. Ammonia level was corrected to the upper limit of normal (AMM-ULN) by the baseline blood ammonia measurements/upper limit of the normal reference value. MHE was diagnosed by combined abnormal number connection test-A and abnormal digit symbol test as suggested by Guidelines on the management of hepatic encephalopathy in cirrhosis. The patients were randomly divided (7∶3) into training set ( n=185) and validation set ( n=78) based on caret package of R language. Logistic regression was used to establish a combined model of MHE diagnosis. The diagnostic performance was evaluated by the area under the curve (AUC) of receiver operating characteristic curve, Hosmer-Lemeshow test and calibration curve. The internal verification was carried out by the Bootstrap method ( n=200). AUC comparisons were achieved using the Delong test. Results:In the training set, prevalence of MHE was 37.8% (70/185). There were statistically significant differences in AMM-ULN, albumin, platelet, alkaline phosphatase, international normalized ratio, MELD score and education between non-MHE group and MHE group (all P<0.05). Multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed that AMM-ULN [odds ratio ( OR)=1.78, 95% confidence interval ( CI) 1.05-3.14, P=0.038] and MELD score ( OR=1.11, 95% CI 1.04-1.20, P=0.002) were independent risk factors for MHE, and the AUC for predicting MHE were 0.663, 0.625, respectively. Compared with the use of blood AMM-ULN and MELD score alone, the AUC of the combined model of AMM-ULN, MELD score and education exhibited better predictive performance in determining the presence of MHE was 0.755, the specificity and sensitivity was 85.2% and 55.7%, respectively. Hosmer-Lemeshow test and calibration curve showed that the model had good calibration ( P=0.733). The AUC for internal validation of the combined model for diagnosing MHE was 0.752. In the validation set, the AUC of the combined model for diagnosing MHE was 0.794, and Hosmer-Lemeshow test showed good calibration ( P=0.841). Conclusion:Use of the combined model including AMM-ULN, MELD score and education could improve the predictive efficiency of MHE among patients with compensated cirrhosis.
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Objective@#To explore the risk factors for prognosis in patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF), and to establish a prognostic model.@*Methods@#A total of 193 patients diagnosed with HBV-ACLF who were admitted to the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University were collected from 1st January 2013 to 1st November 2018 as a derivation cohort. Thirty-five patients diagnosed with HBV-ACLF who were admitted to the Fifth Hospital of Shijiazhuang during the period from 1st July 2017 to 1st November 2018 were collected as a validation cohort. The survival condition of all patients at week 12 of admission was observed. The risk factors associated with short-term prognosis were analyzed by using multivariate logistic regression analysis, and a logistic regression equation prediction model was established and verified. The diagnostic performance of the prognostic model was evaluated using the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, and was compared with model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) scoring system, Child-Turcotte-Pugh (CTP) scoring system, sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) scoring system and chronic liver failure (CLIF)-SOFA scoring system.@*Results@#Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that age (odds ratio(OR)=2.133, 95% confidence interval(CI)1.033-4.405), total bilirubin (OR=3.371, 95%CI 1.610-7.060), serum creatinine (OR=4.448, 95%CI 1.697-11.661), hepatic encephalopathy (OR=5.313, 95%CI 2.463-11.461), and ascites (OR=2.959, 95%CI 1.410-6.210) were independent risk factors for predicting the short-term prognosis of patients with HBV-ACLF. The newly established logistic regression model (LRM)=-1.726+ 0.757×age+ 1.215×total bilirubin+ 1.049 2×serum creatinine+ 1.670×hepatic encephalopathy (with=1, without=0) + 1.085×ascites (with=1, without=0). The area under the ROC curve of the LRM for predicting the short-term prognosis of patients with HBV-ACLF was 0.82 (95%CI 0.76-0.88). Furthermore, the areas under the ROC curve of the models of MELD, CTP, SOFA, CLIF-SOFA were 0.67 (95%CI 0.60-0.75), 0.73 (95%CI 0.66-0.80), 0.77 (95%CI 0.70-0.83) and 0.72 (95%CI 0.65-0.80), respectively. The ROC-area under curve of the validation cohort was 0.81 (95%CI 0.65-0.97).@*Conclusions@#Age, total bilirubin, serum creatinine, hepatic encephalopathy, and ascites are independent risk factors for the prognosis of HBV-ACLF. The prognostic model established based on these factors can accurately predict the patients′ short-term prognosis, which is superior to MELD, CTP, SOFA and CLIF-SOFA.
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Objective To explore the risk factors for prognosis in patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF),and to establish a prognostic model.Methods A total of 193 patients diagnosed with HBV-ACLF who were admitted to the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University were collected from 1st January 2013 to 1st November 2018 as a derivation cohort.Thirty-five patients diagnosed with HBV-ACLF who were admitted to the Fifth Hospital of Shijiazhuang during the period from 1st July 2017 to 1st November 2018 were collected as a validation cohort.The survival condition of all patients at week 12 of admission was observed.The risk factors associated with short-term prognosis were analyzed by using multivariate logistic regression analysis,and a logistic regression equation prediction model was established and verified.The diagnostic performance of the prognostic model was evaluated using the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve,and was compared with model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) scoring system,Child-Turcotte-Pugh (CTP) scoring system,sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) scoring system and chronic liver failure (CLIF)-SOFA scoring system.Results Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that age (odds ratio (OR) =2.133,95％ confidence interval (CI) 1.033-4.405),total bilirubin (OR =3.37 1,95％CI 1.610-7.060),serum creatinine (OR =4.448,95％C1 1.697-11.661),hepatic encephalopathy (OR =5.313,95％CI2.463-11.461),and ascites (OR =2.959,95％CI 1.410-6.210) were independent risk factors for predicting the short-term prognosis of patients with HBV-ACLF.The newly established logistic regression model (LRM) =-1.726 + 0.757 × age + 1.215 × total bilirubin + 1.049 2 × serum creatinine + 1.670 × hepatic encephalopathy (with =1,without =0) + 1.085 × ascites (with =1,without =0).The area under the ROC curve of the LRM for predicting the short-term prognosis of patients with HBV-ACLF was 0.82 (95％CI0.76-0.88).Furthermore,the areas under the ROC curve of the models of MELD,CTP,SOFA,CLIF-SOFA were 0.67 (95％CI 0.60-0.75),0.73 (95％CI 0.66-0.80),0.77 (95％CI 0.70-0.83) and 0.72 (95％CI 0.65-0.80),respectively.The ROC-area under curve of the validation cohort was 0.81 (95％CI0.65-0.97).Conclusions Age,total bilirubin,serum creatinine,hepatic encephalopathy,and ascites are independent risk factors for the prognosis of HBV-ACLF.The prognostic model established based on these factors can accurately predict the patients' short-term prognosis,which is superior to M ELD,CTP,SOFA and C LIF-SOFA.
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A lack of effective drugs and technical means to eradicate hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a bottleneck that limits the ability to fully cure HBV infection. Recently, genome-editing technology based on clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats -associated protein 9 is an emerging technique for editing specific gene loci, which can specifically target HBV covalently closed circular DNA, effectively inhibits HBV DNA replication and regulates HBV functional protein expression, and is expected to become a powerful gene therapy tool for the complete eradication of HBV. Considering this, it has become the focus of attention for scholars at home and abroad that how to use clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats -associated protein 9 to accomplish modification of HBV genomes for complete eradication of HBV. This paper summarizes the latest progress based on the latest research results at home and abroad in the application of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats -associated protein 9 gene editing technology in anti-HBV infection treatment, and expounds its potential and challenges as a radical cure for HBV infection.
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Subthalamic nucleus (STN) deep brain stimulation (DBS) has become an important surgical treatment of Parkinson disease, but its exact mechanism is still unclear.In this study, a 16-channel implantable microelectrode array (MEA) was prepared by micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) technique and later modified with platinum black/reduced Graphene Oxide/Nafion (Pt/RGO/Nafion) nanocomposites.Extracellular dopamine (DA) content and spike of dorsal striatum neurons were synchronously recorded before and after STN stimulation.The results showed that the dopamine content began to increase within 20 s after electrical stimulation and dropped to normal level after about 50 s, with the highest rising concentration of 1.72 μmol/L.At the same time, there was an increased spike activity of interneurons in the dopamine ascending phase, and the spike firing rate of medium spiny projection neurons (MSNs) was high when the concentration of DA was higher than the normal level.The MEA sensor can simultaneously record dopamine flux and physiological signals in situ, thus providing an ideal tool for neural information detection.
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Objective Discuss the interference of injection cefotiam on vanadate oxidation method and dry chemical method assay total bilirubin .Methods Collected 60 examples ,include total bilirubin concentration 20 examples less than 20 μmol/L ,20 examples between 150-220 μmol/L and 20 examples between 350-410 μmol/L ,add an equal volume of various concentrations of cefotiam in each case ,formulated into cefotiam final concentrations of 300 ,150 ,75 mg/L of serum samples as the test group ,add an equal volume of water in each serum samples as the control group ,determine all the samples total bilirubin concentration respectively by vanadate oxidation method and dry chemical method ,compared the interference of cefotiam on determined total bilirubin by two method ,analyze the data by SPSS13 .0 .Results Determined total bilirubin by dry chemical method ,the test group higher than the control group ,the difference was statistically significant(P<0 .05) ,at the same total bilirubin levels ,with cefotiam concentrations decreased ,increased rate of total bilirubin concentration were decreased in the experimental group .Determined total bilirubin by vanadate oxidation method ,when the total bilirubin concentration between 150 -220 μmol/L ,the test group was higher than the control group ,the difference was statistically significant(P<0 .05) .Conclusion Interference of injection cefotiam on determined to‐tal bilirubin by dry chemical method is strong ,and with the drug concentration increased ,effect is more obvious ,but determination of total bilirubin by vanadate oxidation method has almost no effect .
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Objective To explore the diagnostic significance of C reactive protein(CRP)in diagnosing haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome(HFRS).Methods 96 cases of patients with HFRS of different stages were enrolled in this study,and serum speci-men were collected.30 cases of patients with fever of unknown origin(fever of unknown origin group)and and 30 healthy individu-als(healthy control)were selected as control.Serum levels of CRP,alanine aminotransferase(ALT),aspartate amino-transferase (AST),creatine phosphokinase(CK),lactate dehydrogenase(LDH)and creatinine(Cr)were detected.Results Serum levels of CRP in patients with HFRS of different stages were lower than that in the fever of unknown origin group,had statistically significant differences(P <0.05).The variation trend of CRP in each stage of HFRS was consistent with the trend of AST,CK,LDH and Cr. Conclusion CRP has clinical significance in differentiating HFRS from fever of unknown origin.
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Objective To study the changes condition and clinical significance of serum cystatin C(Cys‐C) ,β2 microglobulin(β2‐MG) and retinol binding protein (RBP) detection in different stages of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome(HFRS) .Methods The levels of serum Cys‐C ,β2‐MG and RBP were detected in 22 patients with HFRS and 30 cases of healthy physical examination and the detection results were statistically analyzed by the SPSS13 .0 software .Results The serum Cys C and β2‐MG levels in every stage of HFRS were increased compared with the healthy control group(P0 .05) ,while RBP was significantly increased in the oliguria stage ,polyuria stage and convalescence stage(P 0 .05) .Conclusion β2‐MG is more sensitive than Cys‐C in the early stage of HFRS ;RBP has the clinical guidance significance in the progression of HFRS .