Adjuvant transarterial chemoembolization plus lenvatinib for patients with HCC with MVI after resection: a multicenter retrospective study.

Background: Microvascular invasion (MVI) is a critical prognostic factor affecting long-term survival in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Despite its clinical significance, the optimal postoperative adjuvant therapy for HCC patients with MVI remains undefined. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of postoperative adjuvant transarterial chemoembolization (PA-TACE) combined with lenvatinib vs PA-TACE alone in HCC patients with MVI.

Effect of the combination of sea and front- points on enteral nutrition feeding intolerance in critical illness patients.

Objectives: To explore the effects of the combination of -sea and front- points on the feeding compliance rate, the intra-abdominal pressure, the enteral nutrition tolerance score, the score of acute physiological and chronic health evaluation (APACHE)-Ⅱ and gastrointestinal function impairment grade in the patients with enteral nutrition feeding intolerance (ENFI) of critical illness and evaluate clinical effect on ENFI after acupuncture at the sea and front- points.

Methods: Seventy patients of ENFI were randomized into a control group and an observation group, 35 cases in each one. In the control group, the patients were treated with routine regimen combined with intestinal nutrition support.

Transcutaneous Electrical Acupoint Stimulation for Moderate to Severe Pain in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Cancer-related pain is one of the primary symptoms of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Previous studies have shown that transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation (TEAS) is effective in treating patients with acute or chronic pain. In China, it is indispensable to evaluate the efficacy of TEAS in combination with opioids for the treatment of moderate to severe HCC-related pain.

[Progress on acupuncture intervention for perioperative stress response].

To summarize the application value of acupuncture in perioperative stress response. Perioperative acupuncture can not only effectively relieve pain and stress response during operation, but also relieve psychological stress response represented by preoperative anxiety before operation, and regulate adaptive immune response after operation. Acupuncture, as a safe non-drug therapy, shows its core advantage of participating in the multidisciplinary intervention of enhance recovery after surgery (ERAS).

[Research advances of studies on involvement of the anterior cingulate cortex involved in acupuncture-induced amelioration treatment of affective pain].

As an unpleasant subjective feeling and emotional experience, pain has a negative impact on the physical and mental health of patients. In the early years, the research concerning pain mostly focused on the sensory-discriminative component. With the development of modern medicine, people found that the generation of affective-emotional component of pain has its unique physiological mechanism, and thus carried out a lot of in-depth research.

[Research strategy thoughts about acupuncture-moxibustion treatment of chronic atrophic gastritis by suppressing apoptosis via circular RNA].

Chronic atrophic gastritis (CAG) is a common digestive disease in clinic. Previous experimental and clinical studies have shown that acupuncture has a positive effect for CAG. Apoptosis of gastric mucosal tissue has been shown to play an important role in the process of gastric atrophy and possibly further carcinogenesis in CAG, and the circular RNA (circRNA), a novel class of non-coding RNA, has been confirmed to play a regulatory role in the downstream pathway of apoptosis by many stu-dies.