Atrioventricular Coupling Index: A Novel Approach to Risk-Stratification for Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients With ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction.

Background: Left atrioventricular coupling index (LACI) has prognostic value in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients, while the role of right atrioventricular coupling index (RACI) remains unclear.

Purpose: To explore the prognostic value of LACI and RACI in AMI patients.

Study Type: Retrospective.

Right ventricular myocardial infarction: cardiac magnetic resonance characteristics and prognostic implications.

Objectives: Right ventricular myocardial infarction (RVMI) is a critical yet often underrecognized aspect of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) that significantly influences clinical outcomes. Previous studies reached contradictory conclusions about the cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) characteristics and prognostic data with RVMI. This study sought to investigate the CMR characteristics and prognostic implications of RVMI in a large cohort.

[Value of Elastography Strain Ratio Combined with Breast Ultrasound Imaging Reporting and Data System in the Diagnosis of Breast Nodules].

Objective To explore the value of elastography strain ratio(SR)combined with breast ultrasound imaging reporting and data system(BI-RADS-US)in the differential diagnosis of breast nodules.Methods A total of 471 breast nodules(from 471 patients)were reclassified by SR combined with BI-RADS-US.With the pathology results as gold standard,the area under the receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curve(AUC)was employed to evaluate the diagnostic performance,and the sensitivity,specificity,and accuracy were compared between the combined method and BI-RADS-US.

Isoflurane promotes glucose metabolism through up-regulation of and suppresses mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation in ovarian cancer cells.

Ovarian cancer is one of the most lethal gynecologic malignancies in women. Isoflurane is one of the volatile anesthetics used extensively for inhalational anesthesia and gynecological surgery. However, the effects of isoflurane on ovarian cancer have not been fully elucidated.

Comparison of contrast-enhanced ultrasonography with virtual touch tissue quantification in the evaluation of focal liver lesions.

Purpose: To evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of virtual touch tissue quantification (VTQ) and contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS), separately and in combination, in diagnosing malignant focal liver lesions (FLLs).

Methods: Forty-six patients with 55 FLLs (28 benign and 27 malignant) underwent both VTQ and CEUS. The diagnostic values of VTQ and CEUS, alone and in combination, were compared.

Complement C4 induces regulatory T cells differentiation through dendritic cell in systemic lupus erythematosus.

Background: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a prototypic systemic autoimmune disease. Complement component 4 (C4) has be proved to play a role in pathogenesis of SLE. In the present study, we investigated the effect of C4 on T cells differentiation.

Treatment of stiff thoracic scoliosis by thoracoscopic anterior release combined with posterior instrumentation and fusion.

Background: Thoracoscopic anterior release has been shown that it can effectively improve spinal flexibility in animal and human cadaveric studies, and has been advocated for use in patients with scoliosis. This prospective case series aims to investigate the improvement of the spinal flexibility and the effectiveness in deformity correction by anterior thoracoscopic release and posterior spinal fusion.

Methods: Eleven patients with stiff idiopathic thoracic scoliosis underwent anterior thoracoscopic release followed by posterior instrumentation.