ObjectiveTo evaluate the effect of the timing of surgery on treating refractory epilepsy caused by cavernomas. Method63 patients with refractory epilepsy caused by intracranial supratentorial cavernomas were retrospectively analyzed on the duration of epilepsy, epileptogenesis sitations, and epileptic seizure types. After resection surgeries of cavernomas, the surgical outcomes were compared between the patients with shorter duration of seizures and the longer ones. ResultThe durations of epilepsy were beteen 3 months and 25 years, median 4.5 years. The temporal epilepsies were 43, frontal 12, parietal 3, occipital 1, cingulate gyrus 1, and multiple lobe 3. The overall ILAE class 1 outcome was 71.4% in 63 patients at 2-year-followup, and ILAE class 1 and 2 outcome was 81.6%. The seizure free rate in the group with epilepsy duration shorter than 5 years was 92.1%, better than the 56.0% in the group with epilepsy duration longer than 5 years. ConclusionOnce the diagnosis of medical refractory epilepsy caused by cavernoma was confirmed, the early surgical operation should be considered seriously.
Objective To review the clinical operation methods of abdominal incisional hernia. Methods Classification, operation method and fellow-up of 78 patients with abdominal incisional hernia were retrospectively analyzed. Results The average time of fellow-up was 26 months. Nineteen cases were repaired with simple suture with 3 cases (15.8%) recurrence, 57 cases were repaired with man-made material with 2 case (3.4%) recurrence. Conclusions Individual operation method should be chosen according to body condition, classification of the size of abdominal loss and abdominal hypertension. It is an effective method to repair the hernia of abdominal incision with man-made material.
Objective To discuss the treatment of craniocerebral injuries caused by earthquake. Methods Retrospective analysis of clinical information for 256 patients with craniocerebral injury caused by an earthquake. Results The ‘Classification and Treatment’ was applied to the patients, whether or not they were operated on. A total of 146 patients were cured, 68 improved, 24 remained dependent on the care of others, and 8 died. The mortality rate was 3.13%. Conclusion Applying the ‘Classification and Treatment’ to patients with craniocerebral injury following an earthquake supported the use of medical resources and was associated with a low rate of death and disability.
Objective To study the anatomy and variations of hepatic veins draining into inferior vena cava (IVC), and to classify the surgical techniques of piggyback liver transplantation (PBLT) based on the view of hepatic veins anatomy with IQQA liver image analysis system so as to provide the important basis for the perioperative clinical decision making. Methods Two hundred and forty-eight cases of PBLT were preformed in the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University and the 3rd Xiangya Hospital of Central South University from May 2000 to August 2007, the types of hepatic veins were summarized according to the anatomy of hepatic veins and short hepatic veins draining into IVC at the second and third hepatic hilars. Forty cases of PBLT were preformed in the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University from March 2010 to April 2013, and the anatomy of hepatic veins was reviewed with IQQA liver image analysis system. The anatomy of hepatic veins and technological type of liver transplantation were recorded respectively. Results Of these 248 livers studied in our center, type Ⅰ(the left and middle hepatic vein joined as one trunk ) was found in 142 cases (57.25%), type Ⅱ (the right and middle hepatic vein joined as one trunk) was 54 cases (21.77%), type Ⅲ (three hepatic veins joined as one trunk) in 14 cases (5.64%), type Ⅳ (the left, middle, and right hepatic veins were all unique)in 34 cases (13.71%), and type Ⅴ (no hepatic veins but short hepatic veins) in 4 cases (1.61%). The data of 40 cases of PBLT from IQQA liver image analysis system showed that type Ⅰwere found in 24 cases (60.00%), type Ⅱin 9 cases(22.50%), type Ⅲ in 2 cases (5.00%), type Ⅳ in 4 cases (10.00%), and type Ⅴ in 1 case (2.50%), which were matched with hepatic vein classification standard of the author. Conclusions Studying the anatomy and variations of hepatic veins draining into IVC with IQQA liver image analysis system and classifying the surgical techniques of PBLT (type Ⅰ,Ⅱ,Ⅲ,andⅣA patients can be performed classical PBLT;Type ⅣB and Ⅴ patients can only be performed ameliorative PBLT) could provide an important basis for clinical preoperative decision.
It's common that general rules exist in a certain classification. The general rules of expense classification enable us to judge the category of a patient as soon as possible and to curb the expense. Theory of rough set helps us reach the best reduction of attributes. Based on the core attributes, classification rules are put forward by value reduction. The results show that 10 core attributes remain in 21 attributes of 1527 inpatients' information and 76 classification rules are founded. All of 76 rules guide classification of the patients. 44 of the 76 rules define the only category of a patient, the other 32 rules defines the potential catagories of a patient. Meanwhile, equal attributes of the same category are summerized to guide the cost control of patients. The results indicate that the theory of rough set is effective in attributes reduction and rule generalization of patient expense classification, and it has important significance on medical practice.
Objective To investigate the self-made classification criterion for mucous cysts of distal interphalangeal joint and the effectiveness of the surgical treatment. Methods Between July 2008 and August 2015, 33 patients with mucous cysts of distal interphalangeal joint were treated, and the clinical data were retrospectively analyzed. Among 33 cases, 15 were male and 18 were female, aged from 45 to 74 years (mean, 58 years). The disease duration ranged from 3 weeks to 1 year (mean, 5 months). The cyst located at thumb in 18 cases, index finger in 4 cases, middle finger in 6 cases, ring finger in 4 cases, and little finger in 1 case. According to location, mucous cysts were typed: proximity to one side of the finger extensor tendon and deviation from the midline of the finger named lateral type (22 cases); and at both sides of the finger extensor tendon named intermediate type (11 cases). The bilateral digital dorsal incision was made in the intermediate type patients, and the reverse L-shaped incision was made in the lateral type patients, then the degenerative tissue was resected, the osteophyte was removed, and the capsule was repaired; finally, mucous cysts were resected. Results All the patients were followed up 4 months to 2 years (mean, 14.5 months). The incision healed by first intention without infection after operation. Clinical symptoms obtained improvement and no recurrence was observed in 29 patients except 4 patients who died of other diseases during follow-up. Conclusion A surgical treatment for mucous cysts of distal interphalangeal joint is feasible according to the self-made classification criterion and it has the advantage of simple operation and definite effectiveness.
Objective To review the latest progress in classification system of thoracolumbar fractures and its surgical treatment with posterior approaches. Methods Recent l iterature about classification system of thoracolumbar fractures and its surgical treatment was reviewed. Results For the treatment of thoracolumbar fracture, the surgeon first should decide whether the surgical treatment was necessary. Recently, a new classification system had been developed to help the surgeon make the right decision. The surgical methods included short segment internal fixation and long segment internalfixation with or without fusion, and minimally invasive internal fixation. Conclusion The progress in the surgical treatmentof thoracolumbar fracture will help spinal surgeon decide the necessary surgery beneficial for the patients. The most appropriate and effective surgical method with the minimum damage should be used to treat the fracture. The advantages of non-fusion surgical treatment still need a further study.
Purpose To analyse the maculopathy in 597 eyes of 317 cases with diabetic retinopathy,and to explore the classification and visual prognosis. Methods Using fluorescein angiography to examine the extend of capillary leakage and foveal avascular zone as well as the extent of the capillary closure in macular area. Results ①Diabetic maculopathy was divided into 5 types,among 597 eyes,no leakage type 154 eyes (25.8%),focal edema type 188 eyes(31.5%),diffuse edema type (including cystoid edema)231 eyes(40.0%),ischemic type 12 eyes(2.0%) and proli ferative type was 4 eyes(0.7%).② There is close relationship between the classification and visual prognosis.such as when visual acuity was ge;0.5,no leakage type was 99.4%, focal edema type was 83.0%,diffuse edema type was 28.4%,ischemic type was 8.4%,and proliferative type was 0.5%.the visual acuity of cystoid edema was worse than diffuse edema only 20.3%.③The stage and visual prognosis:The higher the stage the worse the visual prognosis.if visual acuityge;0.5, 1 stage in 96.2% eyes,2 stage in 84.8%,3 stage in 53.2%,4 stage in 37.2%,5 stage in 12.5%. Conclusion Diabetic maculopathy is the main cause of visual impairment in diabetic retinopathy. Different type has different visual prognosis.macular edema and cystoid edema are the main factors to decrease visual acuity and could be treated by focal and grid laser photocoagulation to prevent visual loss. (Chin J Ocul Fundus Dis,2000,16:144-146)
Objective To recognize the different phases of Korotkoff sounds through deep learning technology, so as to improve the accuracy of blood pressure measurement in different populations. Methods A classification model of the Korotkoff sounds phases was designed, which fused attention mechanism (Attention), residual network (ResNet) and bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM). First, a single Korotkoff sound signal was extracted from the whole Korotkoff sounds signals beat by beat, and each Korotkoff sound signal was converted into a Mel spectrogram. Then, the local feature extraction of Mel spectrogram was processed by using the Attention mechanism and ResNet network, and BiLSTM network was used to deal with the temporal relations between features, and full-connection layer network was applied in reducing the dimension of features. Finally, the classification was completed by SoftMax function. The dataset used in this study was collected from 44 volunteers (24 females, 20 males with an average age of 36 years), and the model performance was verified using 10-fold cross-validation. Results The classification accuracy of the established model for the 5 types of Korotkoff sounds phases was 93.4%, which was higher than that of other models. Conclusion This study proves that the deep learning method can accurately classify Korotkoff sounds phases, which lays a strong technical foundation for the subsequent design of automatic blood pressure measurement methods based on the classification of the Korotkoff sounds phases.
According to system reform of the current medical insurance diagnosis related groups, quality control of rehabilitation medicine and requirements of information management, this paper constructs a rehabilitation information system by using the theoretical framework and core sets of International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). Then, the constructed system is embedded into the work of rehabilitation medicine team. By the four processes of ICF items evaluation, rehabilitation goal setting, team cooperation scheme formulation and reevaluation, the operation process of rehabilitation information management based on ICF is formed, which strengthens comprehensively the rehabilitation diagnosis and treatment standards and improves the efficiency of quality control management. The big data mining and multi-dimensional analysis in this platform can provide support of medical insurance payment, achieve exchanging and sharing rehabilitation medical quality control data among hospitals at different levels in different regions, assist tertiary referral and remote rehabilitation, improve the rehabilitation medical service system, and enhance the level of rehabilitation medical care. This paper will summarize the application experience of constructing ICF rehabilitation information management system.