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This study aimed to explorie the biological basis of phlegm-dampness syndrome in patients with ischemic stroke using proteomics research techniques of urine and saliva.
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a frequent complication after cardiac surgery. AKI has been reported as 7-40% depending on the type of surgery, and is known to increase to about 50% when there are risk factors. Cardiac surgery-associated AKI (CSA-AKI) requires cardiac replacement therapy in 1-5% of patients and increases mortality to 1,4%, but the treatment is still unknown. Therefore prevention of occurrence is very important. Known factors related to the development of CSA-AKI include hemodynamic, inflammatory, metabolic, and nephrotoxic factors, and since there is a close connection between hypotension due to deterioration of cardiac function, preventive measures to prevent hypotension in juicing It is only possible. To date, strategies to protect kidneys with drugs are very limited. Urinary trypsin inhibitor, ulistine, has anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects, so it has been reported to protect against renal ischemia/reperfusion injury. Various studies have been attempted to prevent CSA-AKI, but most of them are inflammatory reactions during surgery. It was performed only for surgery with extracorporeal circulation that causes severely. Therefore, this study would like to verify the effectiveness of ulistine's medicine in the prevention of CSA-AKI in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery without extracorporeal circulation.
This is a prospective, open label, single arm study. A total of 300 patients with primary non-small cell lung cancer treated with PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibitors(ICIs) are expected to included . All patients will follow up for at least 1 year. Patients with cardiac adverse reactions after PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment at admission or during the subsequently follow-up period will randomly assigned a random number to each patient by computer random sequence. Patients with odd random number will treat with RASI（renin-angiotensin system inhibitors）, and those with even random number will treat with ARNI（angiotensin-receptor-neprilysin inhibitor）.
In clinical practice discrepancies between overnight SpO2 recordings performed by 2 devices used simultaneously are regularly observed. However, this has not been systematically studied or quantified. It is therefore important to determine if these discrepancies are anecdotic, or frequent, and to what extent this may affect decisions in clinical practice such as implementing (or withdrawing) oxygen in subjects under noninvasive ventilation (NIV) or continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), or adjusting NIV settings.
Pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy (PIPAC) is a novel drug-delivery system developed to deliver, effectively and safely, small doses of cytotoxic agents into peritoneal tumor deposits. It is currently used for palliation and for down-staging of patients who are non-eligible for cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and hyperthermic intra-peritoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC). The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of PIPAC used in neoadjuvant setting to enhance the response of patients with colorectal peritoneal metastasis when combined with neoadjuvant systemic therapy for patients eligible to CRS/HIPEC prior to planned surgery.
Animal-assisted therapy (AAT) can be helpful to improve the psychiatric, emotional, physical,and social status in patients with physical and mental illness and the elderly. The study aims to investigate the effects of AAT program in middle-aged and older patients with schizophrenia. The investigators will recruit 40 patients with schizophrenia in psychiatric ward randomised into AAT group and control group. AAT group will complete the 12-week program. This study contains two assessment sessions before and after intervention, including PANSS, ACIS, MoCA-T, CHI, DASS‐21, CST, TUG and 5MWT.
The study aim is to collect and analyze data of potential Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) that could be used for discriminating between patients with and without COVID-19 or with high-risk for COVID-19 by DiaNose breath test. up to 300 subjects will be enrolled to the study ( 200 COVID-19 suspected and 100 healthy volunteers in two clinical sites (1 in Israel and 1 in US). DiaNose system is an electronic nose device that can "smell" diseases in the exhaled breath of patients in real time. This approach is non-invasive, simple and save. The DiaNose prototype system consists the following elements: A Soft Tube connected to a Sensors Chamber - The soft tube is made of medical grade silicon. The subject blows air into the tube for a few seconds and the exhaled air is directed through the sensors chamber. This unit is for single use. • Sensors Reading Unit- a multi used unit for sensors signals measurement. The Sensor Reading Unit is connected to a Laptop that is used to activate and save the test measurements.
Introduction: Walled off necrosis (WON) is defined as a well circumscribed pancreatic and/or peri pancreatic necrosis containing a variable amount of necrotic tissue. WON usually occurs >4 weeks after onset of necrotizing pancreatitis. It is associated with significant morbidity and mortality especially if infected. Symptomatic WON should be drained either percutaneously, endoscopically or surgically. Minimal invasive approaches are being increasingly used for effective management of WON as it is associated with less adverse events. Various recent studies have shown that endoscopic approach have improved clinical outcome, less hospital stay and lower cost compared to surgical approach. Endoscopic ultrasound guided drainage of WON with either plastic stents or lumen apposing metal stents (LAMS) is mainstay of WON management. A systemic review based on retrospective comparative studies showed no difference regarding treatment success for WON by plastic or metal stents6. However, metal stent had shorter procedure time. A Single center RCT from USA comparing LAMS vs multiple plastic stents for WON has shown that except shorter procedure duration, there was no significant difference in treatment outcomes. To minimize LAMS related adverse events, it should be removed within 3 weeks. However, in the same study 25.8% patients of LAMS group and 55.2% patients of plastic stent group underwent additional intervention within 72 hours for persistent symptoms. Larger diameter, specific stent designs to reduce adverse events should have better outcome with LAMS as compared to plastic stents. Primary outcome of this single center randomized controlled trial is to examine whether dedicated NAGI bi-flanged metal stents (BFMS) are superior to plastic stent in terms of short term and long term success. Aims and Hypothesis: The aim of the current study is to study whether NAGI BFMS are superior to plastic stent in terms of short term and long term success in the EUS guided drainage of WON. The investigators hypothesize that the clinical success with NAGI BFMS would be better than plastic stents in the EUS guided drainage of WON.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in our country, individuals over 65 are prohibited from leaving their homes by T.C. The Ministry of Internal Affairs on March 21, 2020. While social isolation provides protection from COVID-19, it also brings some side effects that pose health risks. Studies investigating the relationship between social isolation and health behavior report that individuals with smaller social networks report less healthy diets, excessive alcohol consumption, and less physical activity. The effects of social isolation are related to physical inactivity, smoking. Physical activity is any body movement produced by the contraction of skeletal muscles that increases energy consumption. 150 minutes of moderate PA, 75 minutes of severe PA per week, or combined moderate and severe intensity PA plus twice a week strength training is recommended for elderly. The prevalence of physical inactivity increases significantly with increasing age. At the global level, approximately 45% of people over the age of 60 do not meet the recommended level of PA. The decrease in physical performance is associated with the risk of falling, sarcopenia, fragility, decreased quality of life, emotionalization, comorbidity, early death, and increased health care costs. The purpose of this study; to evaluate the physical activity level, functional capacity and quality of life of individuals over the age of 65 who socially isolated due to the precautions COVID-19 pandemic, and to investigate the effectiveness of video based home exercise program.
Introduction: The SARS-CoV-2 outbreak has left more than two million infected worldwide in the first four months of COVID-19 epidemic. To date, there is no specific treatment for the disease and in critically ill patients there is an additional challenge in controlling the systemic inflammatory response, which is characterized by cytokine storm, alteration in coagulation and endothelial activation in addition to infection. Strategies used in previous viral epidemics, such as convalescent plasma, are therapeutic options to rescue, especially in individuals with a critical presentation of the disease. Aim: To establish clinical response of critically ill patients with COVID-19 who received convalescent plasma from subjects recovered from SARS-CoV-2 during their stay in Intensive Care Unit at Fundación Cardiovascular de Colombia (Hospital Internacional de Colombia). Methodology: Quasi-experimental study (no randomization will be performed). Adult patients who meet selection criteria will receive 500 ml of ABO compatible convalescent plasma, obtained by apheresis from patients recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infection. The main outcome will be in-hospital mortality at 30 days, while indication for ventilatory support (intubation) and adverse events at thirty days will be evaluated as secondary outcomes, compared to subjects receiving usual treatment for clinical sign and symptoms given the absence of ABO compatible plasma units. A survival analysis will be performed using Kaplan-Meier method and association strength will be reported using HR and 95% CI crude and adjusted for confounding variables. Expected results: It is expected to know the clinical and paraclinical response of patients receiving convalescent plasma in our institution, as well as to establish their probability of survival and its associated factors.