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《医学前沿(英文)》 2022年 第16卷 第2期 页码 295-305 doi: 10.1007/s11684-021-0857-2
关键词: chronic heart failure trimethylamine-N-oxide flavin monooxygenase 3 single nucleotide polymorphism
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《医学前沿(英文)》 2016年 第10卷 第3期 页码 356-359 doi: 10.1007/s11684-016-0467-6
Classic constrictive pericarditis (CP) is characterized by fibrous scarring and adhesion of both the visceral pericardium and the parietal pericardium, which leads to restricted cardiac filling. However, diagnosing CP with normal thickness pericardium and without calcification is still a challenge. The predominant cause in the developed world is idiopathic or viral pericarditis, followed by post-cardiac surgery and post-radiation. Tuberculosis still remains a common cause of CP in developing countries. In this report, we describe a rare case of idiopathic localized constrictive visceral pericardium with normal thickness of the parietal pericardium in a middle-aged man. The patient presented with unexplained right heart failure and echocardiography showed moderate bi-atrial enlargement which should be?identified with the restrictive cardiomyopathy.?After 10 months of conservative treatment, the progression of right heart failure was remaining. A pericardiectomy was performed and the patient recovered. This case serves as a reminder to consider CP in patients with unexplained right heart failure, so that timely investigation and treatment can be initiated.
关键词: constrictive pericarditis heart failure pericardiectomy
Overview on acute-on-chronic liver failure
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《医学前沿(英文)》 2016年 第10卷 第1期 页码 1-17 doi: 10.1007/s11684-016-0439-x
Liver failure (LF) is defined as severe dysfunction in hepatic synthesis, detoxification, and metabolism induced by various etiologies. Clinical presentation of LF typically includes severe jaundice, coagulation disorder, hepatic encephalopathy, and ascites. LF can be classified into acute LF, acute-on-chronic LF (ACLF), and chronic LF. ACLF has been demonstrated as a distinct syndrome with unique clinical presentation and outcomes. The severity, curability, and reversibility of ACLF have attracted considerable attention. Remarkable developments in ACLF-related conception, diagnostic criteria, pathogenesis, and therapy have been achieved. However, this disease, especially its diagnostic criteria, remains controversial. In this paper, we systemically reviewed the current understanding of ACLF from its definition, etiology, pathophysiology, pathology, and clinical presentation to management by thoroughly comparing important findings between east and west countries, as well as those from other regions. We also discussed the controversies, challenges, and needs for future studies to promote the standardization and optimization of the diagnosis and treatment for ACLF.
关键词: liver failure chronic liver failure acute-on-chronic liver failure diagnosis prognosis treatment
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《医学前沿(英文)》 2014年 第8卷 第2期 页码 250-253 doi: 10.1007/s11684-014-0333-3
The clinical data of a patient with acute-on-chronic liver failure were analyzed retrospectively. The patient has suffered from hepatitis B for 30 years. His liver function deteriorated, yielding Child-Pugh grade C and reaching a model for end-stage liver disease score of 33 points within a short period; this condition was complicated with highly active variceal bleeding and coagulation system failure (PT > 100 s). The patient also presented hepatocellular carcinoma. Comprehensive treatments included effective inhibition of hepatitis B virus replication and intensive care support. Piggyback orthotopic liver transplantation was performed as the final treatment. The patient recovered uneventfully and was discharged after surgery.
关键词: acute-on-chronic liver failure submassive necrosis viral hepatitis B esophageal variceal bleeding liver transplantation
Hui Wang, Yang Zhang, Zhujun Shen, Ligang Fang, Zhenyu Liu, Shuyang Zhang
《医学前沿(英文)》 2021年 第15卷 第1期 页码 70-78 doi: 10.1007/s11684-020-0749-x
关键词: myocardial infarction percutaneous coronary intervention diabetes mellitus fasting glucose heart failure
《医学前沿(英文)》 2023年 第17卷 第3期 页码 527-533 doi: 10.1007/s11684-022-0967-5
关键词: orthotopic heart transplant tricuspid regurgitation clinical impact biatrial heart transplantation
New perspective on the natural course of chronic HBV infection
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《医学前沿(英文)》 2014年 第8卷 第2期 页码 129-134 doi: 10.1007/s11684-014-0339-x
Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a significant threat to public health and an enormous burden on society. Mechanisms responsible for chronic HBV infection remain poorly understood. A better understanding of the natural course of chronic HBV infection may shed new light on the mechanisms underlying this disease and help in designing new antiviral strategies. Natural course of chronic HBV infection is conventionally viewed as an uninterrupted process that is usually marked by HBV e antigen (HBeAg) seroconversion or characterized by different phases associated with assumed host responses to HBV infection. However, none of these descriptions captures or highlights the core events that determine the natural course of chronic HBV infection. In this review, we briefly present the current knowledge on this subject and explain the significance and implication of events that occur during infection. A pre-core mutant becomes predominant in the viral population following elimination of the wild-type virus in duck hepatitis B virus-chronically infected animals. The coupled events in which first there is viral clearance that clears wild-type virus and then there is the reinfection of wild-type virus cleared livers with mutant virus are highly relevant to understanding of the natural course of chronic HBV infection under both treated and untreated conditions. In our new perspective, a general natural course of chronic HBV infection comprises cycles of viral clearance and reinfection, and such cycles prolong the chronic HBV infection course. Reviewing published data on the natural course of chronic HBV infection can reduce the possibility of missing important points in the initial data interpretation.
关键词: hepatitis B virus chronic HBV infection natural course hepatitis B seroconversion
Effect of renal function and hemodialysis on the serum tumor markers in patients with chronic kidney
YU Xiaofang, XU Xialian, YE Zhibin
《医学前沿(英文)》 2007年 第1卷 第3期 页码 308-311 doi: 10.1007/s11684-007-0059-6
Acupuncture is ineffective for chronic low back pain? A critical analysis and rethinking
Xuqiang Wei, Baoyan Liu
《医学前沿(英文)》 2021年 第15卷 第5期 页码 767-775 doi: 10.1007/s11684-020-0785-6
关键词: chronic low back pain sham acupuncture acupuncture methodology therapeutic evaluation
Vaccine therapies for chronic hepatitis B: can we go further?
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《医学前沿(英文)》 2014年 第8卷 第1期 页码 17-23 doi: 10.1007/s11684-014-0313-7
Chronic hepatitis B is a major health burden worldwide. In addition to the recent progress in antiviral treatment, therapeutic vaccination is a promising new strategy for the control of chronic hepatitis B. On the basis of the major specific and non-specific immune dysregulations and defects in chronic hepatitis B patients, this paper presents the peptide and protein-based, DNA-based, cell-based, and antigen-antibody-based therapeutic vaccines, which have undergone clinical trials. The advantages, disadvantages, and future perspectives for these therapeutic vaccines are discussed.
关键词: chronic hepatitis B therapeutic antigen-antibody complexes DNA vaccine
Perceived resource support for chronic illnesses among diabetics in north-western China
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《医学前沿(英文)》 2016年 第10卷 第2期 页码 219-227 doi: 10.1007/s11684-016-0441-3
A high level of social support can improve long-term diabetes self-management. Support from a single source has been evaluated. This study aims to analyze support from multiple and multilevel sources for diabetic patients by using the Chronic Illness Resources Survey (CIRS). Factors influencing the utilization of the CIRS were also evaluated. A total of 297 patients with diabetes were investigated using the CIRS and Perceived Diabetes Self-management Scale in Shihezi City, China. Descriptive statistics were used to explain demographic variables and scores of the scales. Factors affecting the utilization of chronic illness resources were determined through univariate analysis and then examined by multivariate logistic regression analysis. Of the 297 diabetic patients surveyed, 67% failed to reach the standard (more than 3 points) of utilizing chronic illness resources. Moreover, utilization of chronic illness resources was positively moderately correlated with self-management of diabetes (r = 0.75, P <0.05). According to the multivariate logistic regression analysis, age (OR, 3.42; 95%CI, 1.19–9.84) and monthly income (OR, 5.27; 95%CI, 1.86–14.90) were significantly positively associated with the CIRS score. Individuals with high school (OR, 2.61; 95%CI, 1.13–6.05) and college (OR, 3.02; 95%CI, 1.13–8.04) degrees obtained higher scores in the survey than those with elementary school education. Results indicated that utilization of resources and support for chronic illness self-management, particularly personal adjustment and organization, were not ideal among diabetics in the communities of north-western China. Improved utilization of chronic illness resources was conducive for proper diabetes self-management. Furthermore, the level of utilization of chronic illness resources increased with age, literacy level, and monthly income.
关键词: chronic illness resources survey diabetes community north-western China
Integrated management of cardiac failure: the cardiac failure clinic
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《医学前沿(英文)》 2011年 第5卷 第1期 页码 20-25 doi: 10.1007/s11684-011-0106-1
The prevalence of the risk factors and the risk of cardiac failure are both increasing in China. This might be the consequence of the changes of the life conditions (emigration to the urban areas, changes in the diet and life style, lack of physical exercise, etc.). The wide range of clinical presentations of cardiac failure (acute or chronic) and of therapeutic approaches (medical or surgical) makes necessary the integration within the same structure of the various experts involved in the diagnosis and the treatment of cardiac diseases. Technologic and human resources required to offer all the options represent a multifaceted commitment which should be focused optimally in dedicated centers. In these centers, collaboration should replace competition between the medical and the surgical cardiac specialists. Development of team work should permit to optimize the cost efficacy of the treatments. Most of all, such a structure will facilitate the translation of innovative therapies between the research centers and clinical facilities.
关键词: cardiac failure cardiac transplantation mechanical circulatory support
Correlation between viral load and liver cirrhosis in chronic hepatitis B patients
Lili LIU MM , Jiyao WANG MD , Weimin SHE MM ,
《医学前沿(英文)》 2009年 第3卷 第3期 页码 271-276 doi: 10.1007/s11684-009-0054-1
Advances in some common chronic liver diseases
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《医学前沿(英文)》 2014年 第8卷 第2期 页码 127-128 doi: 10.1007/s11684-014-0341-3
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《医学前沿(英文)》 2015年 第9卷 第3期 页码 304-311 doi: 10.1007/s11684-015-0400-4
In the tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) era, imatinib is the first-line therapy for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in chronic or accelerated phase. Although second-generation TKIs (TKI2), including dasatinib and nilotinib, are appropriate treatment regimens for patients with disease that progressed to accelerated phase following imatinib therapy, allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) is the only curative therapy. This study retrospectively analyzed the efficacy of TKI2 and HSCT for treatment of CML in accelerated phase. Ninety-three patients with CML registered in the Chinese CML alliance database from February 2001 to February 2014 were enrolled and divided into the TKI2 (n?=?33) and allo-HSCT (n?=?60) groups. In the TKI2 group, 26 and 7 patients received nilotinib and dasatinib, respectively, as initial TKI2 and 11 patients transferred to the alternative TKI2 after failure to one TKI2. In the allo-HSCT group, 22 (36.7%), 35 (58.3%), and 3 (10%) patients underwent allo-HSCT from an HLA-matched sibling donor, HLA mismatched/haploidentical donor, and unrelated donor, respectively. All patients in the HSCT group were engrafted. Overall, 69.7%, 48.5%, and 45.5% of patients presented hematological, cytogenetic, and major molecular responses, respectively, to at least one of TKI2. All 60 patients (100%) achieved CHR and cytogenetic response in the HSCT group. Patients in the TKI2 group exhibited lower 5-year overall survival rate (42.9% vs. 86.4%, P = 0.002), 5-year event-free survival rate (14.3% vs. 76.1%, P<0.001), and 5-year progression-free survival (28.6% vs. 78.1%, P<0.001) than those in the allo-HSCT group. Multivariate analysis showed that male sex and TKI2therapy were predictors of poor overall survival, whereas hemoglobin<100 g/L and TKI2 therapy were predictors of poor event-free survival and progression-free survival. These results indicated that allo-HSCT may be superior to nilotinib and dasatinib for adult patients with CML in accelerated phase.
关键词: chronic myeloid leukemia imatinib dasatinib nilotinib allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
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FMO3--TMAO axis modulates the clinical outcome in chronic heart-failure patients with reduced ejection
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A rare chronic constrictive pericarditis with localized adherent visceral pericardium and normal parietal
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Comprehensive treatment of acute-on-chronic liver failure in a patient with hepatitis B: a case report
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Prognostic value of fasting glucose on the risk of heart failure and left ventricular systolic dysfunction
Hui Wang, Yang Zhang, Zhujun Shen, Ligang Fang, Zhenyu Liu, Shuyang Zhang
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The clinical impact of tricuspid regurgitation in patients with a biatrial orthotopic heart transplant
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Effect of renal function and hemodialysis on the serum tumor markers in patients with chronic kidney
YU Xiaofang, XU Xialian, YE Zhibin
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Acupuncture is ineffective for chronic low back pain? A critical analysis and rethinking
Xuqiang Wei, Baoyan Liu
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Correlation between viral load and liver cirrhosis in chronic hepatitis B patients
Lili LIU MM , Jiyao WANG MD , Weimin SHE MM ,
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