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An Atypical Case of Hepatitis B-Associated Vasculitis 乙型肝炎相关血管炎1例
Pub Date : 2023-10-16 DOI: 10.33590/emj/10300609
One of the many extra-hepatic manifestations of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections is vasculitis. While the classic HBV-associated vasculitis is polyarteritis nodosa, other vasculitides have been reported. The authors present an atypical case of acute HBV-associated vasculitis in a 57-year-old male with tobacco use disorder, characterised by extremity ischaemia, gangrene, splenic infarction, and positive proteinase-3 antibodies without sinopulmonary, gastrointestinal, or renal disease. The aggressiveness of the patient’s disease necessitated pulse-dose corticosteroids, cyclophosphamide, and two courses of plasmapheresis, and ultimately required multiple amputations of fingers and toes.
乙型肝炎病毒(HBV)感染的许多肝外表现之一是血管炎。虽然典型的hbv相关血管炎是结节性多动脉炎,但也有其他血管炎的报道。作者报告了一例非典型急性hbv相关血管炎病例,患者为57岁男性,伴有烟草使用障碍,其特征为四肢缺血、坏疽、脾梗死和蛋白酶-3抗体阳性,无肺、胃肠道或肾脏疾病。患者疾病的侵袭性需要脉冲剂量的皮质类固醇、环磷酰胺和两个疗程的血浆置换,最终需要截肢手指和脚趾。
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Ambiguous Effects of Obesity on Cancer Prognosis and Treatment Response: A Narrative Review 肥胖对癌症预后和治疗反应的模糊影响:一项叙述性综述
Pub Date : 2023-10-12 DOI: 10.33590/emj/10302656
Obesity is a lifestyle disease that is a proven predisposing factor for many illnesses and is often associated with a poor prognosis. Here, the author tries to associate the relationship between the incidence of obesity in patients with cancer and the prognosis of the same. The present medical literature suggests an ambiguous and conflicting relationship. This study presents an extensive literature review of the mechanisms that may govern the survival outcomes of patients with cancer presenting with obesity. Medical literature databases, namely PubMed, Google Scholar, and BioMed Central databases, were searched. Out of 335 relevant results, 75 met the inclusion criteria. The results were varying in nature, with some papers showing poor prognosis due to the association of obesity with metabolic and endocrine abnormalities, which promote tumour growth, while others suggest that excess adiposity may promote a greater expression of programmed cell death protein-1 in effector CD8+ T lymphocytes, promoting a better response to immune checkpoint blockade therapies. Some even argue against the existence of the so-called ‘obesity paradox’, considering it a by-product of statistical misinterpretation and biases. In conclusion, the phenomenon is definitely intriguing but needs further investigation and research regarding other processes that may all in all affect cancer prognosis.
肥胖是一种生活方式疾病,被证明是许多疾病的诱发因素,通常与预后不良有关。在此,笔者试图将癌症患者肥胖发生率与预后之间的关系联系起来。目前的医学文献表明了一种模棱两可和相互矛盾的关系。本研究对可能影响癌症合并肥胖患者生存结果的机制进行了广泛的文献综述。检索医学文献数据库,即PubMed、Google Scholar和BioMed Central数据库。在335个相关结果中,75个符合纳入标准。结果各不相同,一些论文显示,由于肥胖与促进肿瘤生长的代谢和内分泌异常相关,预后较差,而另一些论文则表明,过度肥胖可能会促进CD8+ T淋巴细胞中程序性细胞死亡蛋白-1的更高表达,从而促进对免疫检查点阻断疗法的更好反应。一些人甚至反对所谓的“肥胖悖论”的存在,认为这是统计误解和偏见的副产品。总之,这种现象确实很有趣,但还需要进一步调查和研究其他可能影响癌症预后的过程。
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Interview: Dame Clare Gerada DBE 采访:克莱尔·杰拉达爵士
Pub Date : 2023-10-09 DOI: 10.33590/emj/10303143
Clare Gerada DBE
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Insights From an Expert Roundtable Discussion: Navigating Intermittent Catheterisation-Associated Complications 专家圆桌讨论的见解:导航间歇性导管相关并发症
Pub Date : 2023-09-14 DOI: 10.33590/emj/10306793
With a pre-specified aim of improving the standard of care of those living with intermittent catheter use, a roundtable discussion led by a panel of esteemed international experts convened in early 2023. The discussion provided valuable insights and recommendations regarding understanding the challenges associated with intermittent catheter use and catheter-associated complications (CAC). Key issues centred on the myriad of complications associated with intermittent catheterisation (IC), including urinary tract infections (UTI), discomfort, urethral trauma, haematuria, and their impact on patient-reported outcomes. The heterogeneity of patient groups included in IC research evidence, and discrepancies in current guidelines emerged as key concerns. The panel acknowledged the lack of consensus and clarity surrounding definitions and classification of several complications related to IC and the heterogenous range of reported outcome measures, highlighting the critical need for establishing unified definitions of IC-associated complications (ICAC), and better-defined patient groups in future research, in order to avoid these issues, and produce more definitive research conclusions. To promote clarity and consistency in terminology and clinical practice, the roundtable discussion proposed an overarching consensus definition for catheter-related complications of IC and associated endpoints, referring to these as “events that disrupt catheterisation.” The panel also considered the potential of education and innovative catheter technology as an effective means to address these common issues. Recognising the importance of education, the experts highlighted the need for new definitions and descriptions to improve clarity and consistency in clinical practice, and more research involving the array of complications associated with intermittent catheter use. Furthermore, the discussion shed light on advancements in catheter technology, exploring the potential contributions of emerging innovations, such as next-generation catheter technology like FeelClean™ Technology (Convatec, Paddington, London, UK), in minimising complications and enhancing patient outcomes.
2023年初,由一组受人尊敬的国际专家领导的圆桌会议召开了一次会议,目的是提高间歇性导管使用患者的护理标准。讨论提供了有价值的见解和建议,以了解与间歇导管使用和导管相关并发症(CAC)相关的挑战。关键问题集中在与间歇导尿(IC)相关的无数并发症,包括尿路感染(UTI)、不适、尿道创伤、血尿及其对患者报告结果的影响。IC研究证据中包含的患者组的异质性以及当前指南中的差异成为关键问题。专家组承认,围绕与IC相关的几种并发症的定义和分类缺乏共识和清晰度,报告的结果测量范围也存在差异,强调在未来的研究中建立IC相关并发症的统一定义(ICAC)和更好地定义患者群体的关键需要,以避免这些问题,并得出更明确的研究结论。为了促进术语和临床实践的清晰度和一致性,圆桌讨论提出了IC导管相关并发症和相关终点的总体共识定义,将其称为“中断导管的事件”。该小组还考虑了教育和创新导管技术作为解决这些共同问题的有效手段的潜力。认识到教育的重要性,专家们强调需要新的定义和描述,以提高临床实践的清晰度和一致性,以及更多涉及间歇性导管使用相关并发症的研究。此外,讨论还揭示了导管技术的进步,探讨了新兴创新的潜在贡献,例如下一代导管技术,如FeelClean™技术(Convatec, Paddington, London, UK),在最大限度地减少并发症和提高患者预后方面。
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Collaborating to Overcome the Barriers to Implementing Planetary Health Education for Medical Students: The International Medical Education Collaboration on Climate and Sustainability (IMECCS) 合作克服对医科学生实施地球健康教育的障碍:气候和可持续性国际医学教育合作(IMECCS)
Pub Date : 2023-09-14 DOI: 10.33590/emj/10305307
Medical education is lagging behind advances in planetary health knowledge due to the considerable barriers to introducing new topics into medical curricula. This potentially leaves doctors of the future ill-equipped to deal with the health challenges associated with environmental degradation. The recently conceived ‘infusion’ approach by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA, represents a promising method for integrating planetary health topics into medical education. Adopting this approach, the International Medical Education Collaboration on Climate and Sustainability (IMECCS) was founded, with the goal of empowering healthcare students and faculty members worldwide to integrate planetary health education into their curricula. IMECCS consists of medical students and faculty members at universities in the USA, UK, and Honduras with experience in introducing planetary health topics into medical curricula. Based on discussions of challenges and successes, the group created an online open-access resource bank designed to enable a medical student or faculty member, without prior experience, to implement a planetary health curriculum and infuse these topics into existing teaching sessions at their institution.
医学教育落后于地球健康知识的进展,因为在医学课程中引入新主题方面存在相当大的障碍。这可能会使未来的医生在应对与环境退化相关的健康挑战方面装备不足。美国纽约西奈山伊坎医学院最近设想的“输液”方法代表了一种将地球健康主题纳入医学教育的有希望的方法。采用这种方法,建立了气候与可持续发展国际医学教育合作组织(IMECCS),其目标是使全世界保健专业的学生和教师能够将地球健康教育纳入他们的课程。IMECCS由美国、英国和洪都拉斯大学的医学生和教师组成,他们在将地球健康主题引入医学课程方面具有经验。在讨论挑战和成功的基础上,该小组创建了一个在线开放获取资源库,旨在使没有先前经验的医科学生或教员能够实施行星健康课程,并将这些主题融入其所在机构的现有教学课程中。
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Assessment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Patients Who Recovered from COVID-19 COVID-19康复患者创伤后应激障碍的评估
Pub Date : 2023-09-14 DOI: 10.33590/emj/10300241
Background: It is essential to address psychological health, particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), among patients who have recovered from COVID-19. The negative impacts on the psychological health of an individual have negative impacts on health-related quality of life. The authors aimed to assess PTSD in patients recovered from COVID-19, and COVID-19-related comorbidities. Methodology: The present study was conducted as an observational cross-sectional study on patients diagnosed with COVID-19 who were discharged from Gandhi Medical College and Hamidia Hospital, both in Bhopal, India, and returning to follow-up at the medicine/psychiatry outpatient department within 6 months after discharge, during the study period of 20 months. Detailed history regarding sociodemographic variables, previous medical history, comorbidities associated with COVID-19 (e.g., mucormycosis, etc.) were noted. PTSD was assessed using the PTSD Symptom Scale (PSS). Results: A total of 120 cases, who recovered from COVID-19 infection and sought care at the authors’ centre, were included in this study, with mean age of 37.520±12.756 years. Mean PTSD score was 3.350±1.528, and PTSD was noted in 85% cases. Of these, 83.3% cases had mild, and 1.7% cases had moderate PTSD. The authors observed no significant association of sociodemographic variables with PTSD on univariate as well as multivariate analysis (p>0.05). Conclusions: Though the wave of COVID-19 pandemic has subsided, the long-term morbidities, particularly due to the impact on psychological health, are still persistent. PTSD is a common consequence following recovery from COVID-19 infection. Thus, mental health services must be provided to patients recovered from COVID-19 infection, mainly targeted at prevention of PTSD.
背景:解决COVID-19康复患者的心理健康问题,特别是创伤后应激障碍(PTSD)问题至关重要。对个人心理健康的负面影响会对与健康有关的生活质量产生负面影响。作者旨在评估从COVID-19和COVID-19相关合并症中康复的患者的PTSD。方法:本研究是一项观察性横断面研究,研究对象是在20个月的研究期间,从印度博帕尔的甘地医学院和哈米迪亚医院出院并在出院后6个月内返回医学/精神病学门诊随访的COVID-19患者。详细记录了社会人口统计学变量、既往病史、与COVID-19相关的合并症(如毛霉菌病等)。使用PTSD症状量表(PSS)评估PTSD。结果:本研究共纳入120例在作者中心就诊的COVID-19感染康复患者,平均年龄37.520±12.756岁。平均PTSD评分为3.350±1.528,85%的患者存在PTSD。其中,83.3%为轻度PTSD, 1.7%为中度PTSD。作者在单变量和多变量分析中观察到社会人口学变量与PTSD无显著关联(p>0.05)。结论:虽然新冠肺炎大流行浪潮已经消退,但长期发病率,特别是对心理健康的影响仍然存在。创伤后应激障碍是COVID-19感染恢复后的常见后果。因此,必须为COVID-19感染后康复的患者提供心理卫生服务,主要针对预防PTSD。
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Improving the Effectiveness of Anticoagulant Therapy: The Promise of Factor XI Inhibition
Pub Date : 2023-09-14 DOI: 10.33590/emj/10308910
This continuing medical education-accredited symposium, held at the 2023 International Society for Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) congress in Montréal, Canada, focused on current unmet needs in anticoagulation, especially in the atrial fibrillation (AF) population, and reflected on the promise of the emerging class of Factor XI inhibitors for stroke prevention (SPAF) in susceptible patients. The faculty agreed that, although direct oral anticoagulants (DOAC) have represented a major advance compared with vitamin K antagonists, their utilisation remains suboptimal, often due to the prevailing fear of bleeding in many types of patients. Older age alone can be a reason for withholding anticoagulation, due to the risk and implications of bleeding. Frailty and comorbidities, such as chronic kidney disease (CKD), which can adversely affect the bioavailability of DOACs, are also deterrents to optimal anticoagulant use. Clinicians may try to avoid or mitigate bleeding by inappropriately prescribing low doses of DOACs, an off-label practice that has been found to fail to protect patients from thrombotic risk, without attenuating the risk of bleeding. In addition, the potential for drug-drug interactions and poor adherence also limit the optimal use of DOACs in real-world clinical practice. A recent patient survey focusing on the topic of ‘minor bleeding’, often referred to by clinicians as ‘nuisance bleeding’, and typically not well captured in clinical trials, revealed the far-reaching impact of ongoing problems with bleeding on quality of life, and the possibility that these experiences may deter patients from adherence to their prescribed anticoagulant regimen. Factor XI represents a promising new target for anticoagulation, which may minimise the risk of bleeding by pharmacologically ‘uncoupling’ the clotting pathway, leading to pathological thrombosis from the cascade largely responsible for physiological haemostasis. Phase II research with investigational Factor XI inhibitors has established their antithrombotic and safety potential, and some of these agents may also avoid other practical drawbacks of DOACs. Phase III evaluation of Factor XI inhibition is ongoing in a number of clinical settings.
教师们一致认为,尽管直接口服抗凝剂(DOAC)与维生素K拮抗剂相比已经取得了重大进展,但它们的利用仍然不够理想,这通常是由于许多类型的患者普遍担心出血。由于出血的风险和影响,老年本身可能是停止抗凝治疗的一个原因。虚弱和合并症,如慢性肾脏疾病(CKD),会对doac的生物利用度产生不利影响,也会阻碍最佳抗凝剂的使用。临床医生可能会试图通过不适当地开低剂量的DOACs来避免或减轻出血,这是一种已被发现不能保护患者免受血栓形成风险的标签外做法,也不能降低出血风险。此外,潜在的药物-药物相互作用和较差的依从性也限制了doac在现实世界临床实践中的最佳使用。最近的一项关于“轻微出血”的患者调查,通常被临床医生称为“讨厌的出血”,通常在临床试验中没有很好地抓住,揭示了持续出血问题对生活质量的深远影响,这些经历可能会阻止患者坚持他们的抗凝治疗方案。
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The Unspeakable Disease: A Tale of Two Siblings 《无法形容的疾病:两个兄弟姐妹的故事
Pub Date : 2023-09-14 DOI: 10.33590/emj/10304055
The deficiency of arylsulfatase A due to the mutations in the ARSA gene is the cause of a rare inherited lysosomal storage disease, resulting in the accumulation of sulfatides in the central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral nervous system (PNS). This, in turn, leads to progressive demyelination, neuro-inflammation, and neurodegeneration, and the accumulation in visceral organs. Affected young children gradually lose the ability to walk, stand, talk, and swallow; they lose their independence and show a steady physical and cognitive regression resulting, ultimately, in their premature death at a younger age. This condition not only devastates young patients, but it also deeply affects their families and carers, both psychologically and economically. In this interview, Simon Jones, Consultant in Paediatric Inherited Metabolic Disease at St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester, Honorary Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (MAHSC), and Professor in Paediatrics and Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK; Dipak Ram, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) and British Paediatric Neurology Association (BPNA) National Training Advisor for Paediatric Neurology, and Consultant Paediatric Neurologist at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, UK; and Ally Shaw, primary caregiver of the patients mentioned in this article, explore how the disease impacts the normal development of predominantly young patients; consider its subtle evolution; and witness the stressful diagnostic odyssey families are experiencing, often leading to the wrong diagnosis, which is compounded by the lack of a national newborn screening. Jones and Ram speak directly about the diagnosis and management of these patients. This article also includes the experience of a mother of two affected children, one of whom was diagnosed thanks to their affected older sister, who gave the younger child the chance of receiving a timely treatment. In this disease, time is of the essence; often, patients are sadly diagnosed too late, and are destined to palliative care and premature death. It is hoped that this interview and testimony will help raise awareness on this disease, and give a chance to future patients and their families.
ARSA基因突变导致芳基硫酸酯酶A缺乏是一种罕见的遗传性溶酶体贮积病的病因,导致中枢神经系统(CNS)和周围神经系统(PNS)中硫脂质的积累。这反过来又导致进行性脱髓鞘、神经炎症和神经退行性变,以及在内脏器官的积累。受影响的幼儿逐渐丧失行走、站立、说话和吞咽的能力;他们失去了独立性,表现出身体和认知能力的稳步衰退,最终导致他们在更年轻的时候过早死亡。这种情况不仅摧毁了年轻患者,而且在心理和经济上也深深地影响了他们的家庭和照顾者。在这次采访中,Simon Jones,曼彻斯特圣玛丽医院儿科遗传代谢性疾病顾问,曼彻斯特名誉学术健康科学中心(MAHSC),英国曼彻斯特大学儿科教授和高级讲师;Dipak Ram,皇家儿科和儿童健康学院(RCPCH)和英国儿科神经病学协会(BPNA)国家儿科神经病学培训顾问,英国皇家曼彻斯特儿童医院儿科神经病学顾问;和Ally Shaw,这篇文章中提到的病人的主要照顾者,探讨了这种疾病如何影响主要是年轻病人的正常发育;想想它微妙的演变;看看奥德赛家庭正在经历的压力诊断,往往导致错误的诊断,而缺乏全国性的新生儿筛查又加剧了这种情况。琼斯和拉姆直接谈到了这些患者的诊断和管理。这篇文章还包括一位母亲的经历,她有两个患病的孩子,其中一个孩子的诊断要归功于他们患病的姐姐,她给了年幼的孩子及时接受治疗的机会。在这种疾病中,时间是至关重要的;不幸的是,患者往往诊断得太晚,注定要接受姑息治疗和过早死亡。希望这次采访和证词将有助于提高对这种疾病的认识,并为未来的患者及其家属提供机会。
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Immune Benefits of HMO Supplementation in Infants with CMPA CMPA患儿补充HMO的免疫益处
Pub Date : 2023-09-14 DOI: 10.33590/emj/10304719
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Interview: Aurore Girard 采访:欧罗·吉拉德
Pub Date : 2023-09-12 DOI: 10.33590/emj/10302075
Aurore Girard
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