Stuck guidewire in the right atrium: an emergent situation in central vein catheter placement / 中华肾脏病杂志

Objective:To investigate the emergency treatment and clinical effect when the guidewire stuck in the right atrium during central vein catheter placement for hemodialysis.Methods:Five cases with guidewire stuck in the right atrium during central vein catheter placement for hemodialysis from January 2011 to July 2018 admitted into the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University were retrospectively analyzed. In two cases, the guidewires were found completely stuck when the insert depth was about 20 cm. The guidewires were not able to move forward nor backward. In the other three cases, the guidewires could be moved forward but not backward with the insert depth at about 18 cm. All patients received emergent computed tomography angiography (CTA) or digital subtraction angiography (DSA) imaging. Images showed that the guidewires were stuck in the right atrium near the ventricular valve. The guidewire core drawing method, the multipurpose angiography(MPA) catheter capturing method and the manual guidewire adjusting method were used for emergent treatment.Results:One patient with completely stuck guidewire was successfully treated with guidewire core drawing method and the temporary central vein catheter catheterization through the internal jugular vein was performed under DSA. In a completely stuck case and a retrogradely stuck case, the J-shaped ends of the warped guidewires were captured into the MPA catheter, and the guidewires were then withdrawn from right atriums along with the contrast catheter. In the other 2 retrogradely stuck cases, under DSA, the guidewires were repeatedly pushed, the direction of J-shaped ends was manually adjusted, and then the guidewires were repeatedly pushed and pulled until catheters can be pulled out of the right atriums. The later 4 cases had permanent central vein catheter placement with the same guidewire after the stuck guidewires were withdrawn from the right atrium and readjusted.Conclusions:All three methods can successfully solve the emergent situation of the stuck guidewire in the right atrium. For patients with completely stuck guidewires, the MPA catheter capturing method can be simpler, safer, and more effective.

Thermodynamic analysis of air-ground and water-ground energy exchange process in urban space at micro scale.

With an acceleration of urbanization in China, a large number of natural underlying surface have been replaced by impervious surface, which seriously affect the urban thermal and water environment. In this study, we focus on four typical urban underlying surfaces, asphalt, cement, pervious brick, and lawn. Based on the theory of heat transfer and fluid mechanics, we establish a solar radiation model and a rainfall convection model to analyze the heat transfer process of thermal radiation, thermal conduction, and thermal convection of urban underlying surface under different meteorological conditions. The fitting effects of both models are good: For solar radiation model, 0.89 ≤ R2 ≤ 0.99, 1.93 °C ≤ RMSE≤2.45 °C, 1.87 °C ≤ MAE ≤ 2.17 °C. For rainfall convection model, 0.95 ≤ R2 ≤ 0.96, 0.17 °C ≤ RMSE≤0.21 °C, 0.15 °C ≤ MAE ≤ 0.2 °C. Results show that: 1) In the absence of rainfall, the land-surface temperature of asphalt, cement, and pervious brick underlying surface is higher than air temperature, which has a positive effect on urban near-surface air temperature. In addition, the lawn underlying surface with the lowest temperature and the lowest temperature difference has a negative impact on the urban surface temperature. 2) In the rainfall, the underlying surface transfers heat to the runoff in the form of convection, forcing the runoff temperature to rise. Asphalt has the most obvious heating effect on runoff and lawn has the least effect on runoff temperature. The study proposes that the land-surface temperature can be lowered by paving lawn in hot places, and the pervious underlying surface should be adopted in the areas adjacent to the water bodies to reduce the influence of the underlying surface on runoff temperature.

Impact of living donor nephrectomy on the early kidney function for donors / 中华肾脏病杂志

Objective To analyze the early renal function of donors after nephrectomy.Methods Clinical data of 467 cases of living kidney donors during the period from April,2010 and November,2014 in our center were retrospectively analyzed.Data on serum creatinine (Scr),glomerular filtration rate (GFR),serum uric acid (UA),and urine microproteins before operation and three days,seven days,one month and three months after operation were collected to evaluate the impact of nephrectomy on early renal function after operation for donators.Results Before operation and three days,seven days,one month,three months after operation,the average serum creatinine (Scr) level was (59.9±12.8),(85.8±21.0),(91.2±21.3),(92.8±21.6),(91.0±21.3) μmol/L,respectively; The GFR were (113.5±25.3),(75.1± 17.9),(70.3± 15.2),(68.5± 16.0),(69.5± 15.1) ml/min,respectively; The levels of uric acid were (292.60±79.58),(142.18±55.28),(228.41±66.39),(321.31± 83.72),(346.61±87.21) μmol/L,respectively; All these data above-mentioned after operation reached statistical significance compared with that before operation (P ＜ 0.05).Parameters including urine IgG,urine albumin,urine retinol-binding protein and urine β2-microglobulin post-operation time point were significantly different when compared with relative parameters pre-operation (P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions Nephrectomy has significant influence on GFR,uric acid,and urine microprotein for donors in the early stage after operation.It's worth to evaluate nephrectomy's long-term effect on the renal function of donors in clinical practice.

Pure red cell apalsia caused by infection of human parvovirus B19 post-renal transplantation: 8 cases report and review / 中华器官移植杂志

Objective To investigate the clinical features,diagnosis and treatment of pure redcell aplasia cased by human parvovirus B19 infection after renal transplantation.Method The clinical data including clinical symptoms and physical signs,laboratory and pathological examinations and outcomes of treatment in 8 cases at our hospital from Aug.2011 to Mar.2012 were analyzed retrospective,and relative literatures were reviewd.Result Pure red-cell aplasia occurred in all 8 cases 1 to 3 months after kidney transplantation,and one case had recurremt pure red-cell aplasia.The manifestations including recurrent reduction of hemoglobin,and pure red-cell aplasia was definitely diagnosed by bone marrow morphology,pathology,and polymerase chain reaction assay PVB19 DNA.Treatment of intravenous immunoglobulin and conversion of tacrolimus into ciclosporin was effective.Conclusion PVB19 is a rare but clinically significant infection that manifests as pure red cell aplasia during the early post-transplantation.Treatment of intravenous immunoglobulin and conversion of tacrolimus into ciclosporin in most cases was effective.

C4d as a significant predictor for humoral rejection in renal allografts.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the diagnostic and clinical significance of C4d accumulation in renal allografts followed by acute rejection. METHODS: A total of 158 graft biopsies performed from December 1997 to December 2002 were classified, according to the Banff-97 criteria, into hyperacute rejection (HAR, three cases), acute vascular rejection (AVR, 27), acute cellular rejection (ACR, 24), borderline rejection (BR, 38), acute tubular necrosis (ATN, five), stable graft function (SGF, 30) and baseline kidney (31). Immunohistochemical technique was used to determine the C4d deposition level. RESULTS: The percentages of C4d positive in HAR, AVR, ACR, BR, ATN, SGF and baseline kidney groups were 100% (3/3), 77.8% (21/27), 37.5% (9/24), 23.7% (9/38), 0% (0/5), 3.3% (1/30), 0% (0/31), respectively. In acute rejection patients, the peak serum creatinine (sCr) level in C4d(ptc)-positive group (41 cases) was 334.82 +/- 238.37 micromol/L, with that of C4d(ptc)-negative group (47 cases) being 220.20 +/- 176.94 micromol/L (p < 0.01). After treatment, the trough sCr level in C4d(ptc)-positive group and C4d(ptc)-negative group were 176.87 +/- 111.80 and 121.75 +/- 34.59 micromol/L (p < 0.01), respectively. In each AVR, ACR and BR subgroups, the peak sCr level, the trough sCr level, after 3 or 6 months of AR, the sCr level in C4d(ptc)-positive subgroup was higher than that of C4d(ptc)-negative subgroup. There were more resistance against steroid therapy [65.9% (27/41) vs. 36.2% (17/47), p = 0.005] and a higher rate of graft loss [29.3% (12/41) vs. 6.4% (3/47), p = 0.001] in C4d(ptc)-positive group than those of C4d(ptc)-negative group. In each C4d(ptc)-positive subgroup of AVR, ACR and BR the complete reversion was 57.1, 56 and 66.7%, respectively, it is almost same. CONCLUSION: The C4d deposition level is of great value in diagnosis of acute rejection caused by humoral immune components. It is a significant predictor of graft survival and will be of great help when treating acute rejection.