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Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a kind of cardiovascular diseases originated from atherosclerosis (AS), and chronic inflammation is one of the pathological characteristics. The peripheral blood leukocytes, especially mononuclear cells, play an important role in the AS processes. Recently, in a series of Epigenome-Wide Association Studies (EWAS), multiple DNA differential methylation sites in peripheral blood cells were found to be statistically associated with CHD, which suggested that these DNA differential methylation sites might serve as new risk factors for CHD. The recognition of the variant of DNA methylation as a common epigenetic nucleic acid modification in the occurrence and development of CHD, is ongoing. DNA methylation has the potential to become warning biomarkers, which might provide new ideas and evidences for mechanistic studies of CHD.
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Objective: To compare short-term efficacy of enhanced phase-I cardiac rehabilitation and ordinary phase-Ⅰ cardiac rehabilitation in patients after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Methods: A total of 254 patients received CABG in our hospital from 2015-07 to 2015-10 were enrolled including 196 male and 58 female at the mean age of (59.92±7.80) years. Relevant health education was conducted and echocardiography, emotion, grip strength were assessed before operation. Based on personal aspiration, the patients were assigned to 2 groups at the 1st day after CABG: Enhanced phase-I cardiac rehabilitation (Enhanced) group, the patients received every day one to one training by physical therapist for 7 days and Ordinary phase-I cardiac rehabilitation (Ordinary) group, the patients received unified instruction by physical therapist prior operation. Relevant parameters were compared between 2 groups at 1 week post-operation which were mainly focused on left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), emotional assessment as health questionnaire 9-items (PHQ-9), generalized anxiety disorder 7-items (GAD-7) and grip strength. Results: Before operation: LVEF, PHQ-9 scores, GAD-7 scores and grip strength were similar between 2 groups.1 week post-operation: compared with Ordinary group, Enhanced group had the higher LVEF (62.88±5.21) % vs (59.00±9.83) %, P<0.05; Enhanced group showed slightly lower PHQ-9, GAD-7 scores and slightly higher grip strength without statistic meaning. Conclusion: Enhanced phase-I cardiac rehabilitation presented slight superiority as improved LVEF which implied that even 1 week specific training may benefit CABG patients.
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Objective To design a portable respirator that can facilitate both cardiopulmonary resuscitation and auxiliary oxygen inhalation.Methods Positive pressure design as well as pneumatically powered and controlled design were adopted for this respirator.Theoretical calculation of key components was carried out.The virtual prototype was established and the structure checked using the three dimensional design software Solidedge.Finally,the prototype was processed,assembled and tested.Results Experimental tests proved that the designed respirator was capable of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and auxiliary oxygen inhalation when oxygen supply pressure reached 3 -5.5 bar.It could achieve the expected technical indicators,such as the oxygen flow rate that was between 10 and 12 L/min.Conclusion The portable oxygen supply respirator has the advantages of a small size,light weight,simple operation,and automatic power supply.It has broad prospects of application.
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Objective To investigate the clinical value of the bedside color Doppler in the assessment infants with periventricular-intraventricular hemorrhages (PIVH).Methods Sixty-eight cases of PIVH newborns and 156 healthy newborns were involved in the study,dynamic monitoring were undergone within a week after birth.The middle cerebral artery(MCA) hemodynamic parameters of velocity systolic (Vs),velocity diastolic(Vd) and resistance index (RI) were recorded,and the differences of the parameters were compared between different grades as well as those of the normal newborns at 1 d,4 d and 7 d after born.Results Total 68 PIVH infants were diagnosed by bedside color Doppler accurately.Prevalences of premature and low birth weight infants were higher than term infants and normal birth weight children,respectively (P ＜0.05).Vs and Vd of 4 groups of children with PIVH showed an increasing trend in a week after born.The differences of Vs between grade Ⅰ and normal newborns in 4 d and 7 d were not statistically significant (P＞ 0.05),the differences of the other three groups compared with normal newborn group in1 d,4 d and 7 d were statistically significant (P ＜0.05).Vd of grade Ⅱ newborns within 7 d were greater than those of other 4 groups (P ＜0.05),grade Ⅲ and grade Ⅳ within 7 d were less than healthy newborns (P ＜0.05).The difference of RI between all groups were not statistically significant (P ＞ 0.05).Conclusions The diagnostic accuracy rate of PIVH by bedside Doppler is high and the dynamic monitoring of neonatal hemodynamics could provide an important basis for assessing the occurrence and development of PIVH.
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Objective To evaluate hepatectomy for liver metastasis in patients of gastric carcinoma.Methods Clinical data of 32 gastric cancer cases undergoing hepatectomy for hepatic metastatic tumor were reviewed retrospectively from 2006 to 2012.16 cases underwent radical gastrectomy and synchronous hepatectomy for liver metastasis,the remaining 16 cases underwent radical resection of gastric cancer and liver resection heterochronously.The relationship between prognosis and clinicopathology was analyzed.Results The overall survival rates were 84％,50％ and 37％ in 1 year,3 years and 5 years.The median survival time was 32 months.Gastric cancer invasion depth,intravascular tumor thrombi,lymphatic metastasis and intraoperative blood transfusion was related to poor prognosis by single factor analysis,while gastric serosal invasion,tumor thrombus and liver metastasis tumor ＞ 5 cm related to poor prognosis by multiple factors analysis.Conclusions Gastric cancer patients with liver metastasis who underwent hepatic resection can achieve good prognosis if hepatic metastatic tumor ＜ 5cm or the primary gastric cancer does not invade the serosa and without tumor thrombus.
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Cytochrome P450 is a superfamily of metabolic enzymes and many of its members show tight correlation to the development of a variety of tumors.Cytochrome P450s are becoming novel research targets for personalized diagnosis and treatment because of its specialized enzymatic activity.This paper reviews the research progress and development of the cytochrome P 450 family in cancer field ,introduces the applications of cytochrome P 450 in clinical diagnosis and personalized medicine , looks into prospect research and application trend.
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Objective To investigate the relationship between RKIP expression and the efficiency of radiotherapy in NPC patients and evaluate the possibility of using RKIP as a predictor of radiosensitivity.Methods A total of 180 patients with NPC in Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center without evidence of distant metastasis at initial diagnosis were enrolled in this study,who had received intensity-modulated radiotherapy alone.Patients were classified into 2 groups according to criteria below:patients with biopsy proven recurrent diseases occurring at nasopharynx and/or neck within 5 years after radiotherapy were classified as the radioresistant group.The pathological type at relapse was the same as the previous one before treatment.Patients with a minimum follow-up of 5 years after radiotherapy without evidence of recurrence at the original site of the tumor were classified as the radiosensitive group.Patients in the 2 groups were matched according to the factors related with radiosensitivity.RKIP was examined by immunohistochemical staining before radiotherapy.The relationship between RKIP expression and the effect of radiotherapy were analyzed.Results The positive rate of the RKIP expression in the radiosensitive group versus the radioresistant group was 80.0％ versus 26.7％.The positive rate (x2 =12.498,P ＜0.01) and the intensity of the RKIP expression (x2 =51.429,P ＜ 0.01) were significantly different between 2 groups with a negative correlation with radio-resistance to NPC (r =-0.344,-0.535,respectively,P ＜ 0.01).Based on the RKIP expression,the radiosensitivity,specificity,accuracy,positive predictive value,negative predictive value,false positive and false negative were predicted as follows:80.0％,73.3％,77.2％,75.0％,78.6％,26.7％,and 20.0％,respectively.Conclusions RKIP protein shows negative correlation with radioresistance to NPC and could serve as a biomarker in preliminarily screening the intrinsic radiosensitivity of NPC.
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Objective To detect the expression of COX-2 and p53 in breast carcinoma tissue and investigate their associations with clinical prognosis.Methods The expression of COX-2 and p53 was carried out in 16 cases of normal epithelial tissue and 152 cases of breast carcinoma tissue using immunohistochemistry SP method.The correlation of their expression with clinical characteristics was analyzed using SPSS software 16.0.Survival analysis was used to investigate their effects on tumor prognosis.Results No positive COX-2and p53 expressions were observed in normal epithelial tissue.Among 152 patients,89 (58.6 ％) were positive staining rete for COX-2 and 93 (61.18 ％)were shown p53 expression, with a statistically significant associations between expressions of COX-2 and p53 and breast cancer (r =0.426,P ＜ 0.01).The COX-2 and p53 expressions were significantly correlated with pathological grade, clinical stage, lymph node or distant organ metastasis.There was a statistically significant correlation between COX-2 and p53 expression and pathological grade Ⅰ / Ⅱ.The 5-year progress-free survival (PFS) rate in patients with COX-2 over-expression was 61.3 ％, which was remarkably lower than that in those with low COX-2 expression.There was no statistically significant difference of 5-year PFS between positive and negative p53 expression.A shorter 5-year PFS was seen in patients with co-expression of COX-2 and p53 than in those with either COX-2 or p53positive expression alone and also than in those with both COX-2 and p53 negative expression.Conclusion Detection of the expressions of COX-2 and p53 can be used to predict the prognosis of breast cancer.