Zhonghua wai ke za zhi [Chinese journal of surgery]
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Zhonghua Wai Ke Za Zhi · Oct 2018
Randomized Controlled Trial[Clinical efficacy of ultrasound-guided subacromial drug injection in the treatment of subacromial impingement syndrome].
Objective: To evaluate the clinical effects of ultrasound-guided subacromial injection of two drugs in treatment of subacromial impingement syndrome. Methods: This was a randomized controlled trial study, prospective collection of patients' data who were diagnosed as subacromial impingement syndrome at Orthopedic of Tianjin Fifth Central Hospital from January 2015 to August 2017. To ensure the randomness of the study, patients were randomized into two groups using a random number table. ⋯ NSAID group had better improvement of shoulder abduction degree than corticosteroid group at the 6 weeks after the injection(MD=-11.986, t=-3.238, P=0.002). Conclusions: Ultrasound-guided subacromial injection can reduce pain in patients with subacromial impingement syndrome. The effect of injection of NSAID drugs is the same as corticosteroid drugs, it can avoid hormone-induced complications and reduce the repeat of the punctures.
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Zhonghua Wai Ke Za Zhi · Oct 2018
[Optimal timing of endovascular treatment for uncomplicated Stanford type B aortic dissection].
Stanford type B aortic dissection (TBAD) is an acute and life-threatening disease. The treatment of TBAD used to be depended on whether it is complicated. The therapeutic guidelines recommend thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) as first-line treatment for patients with acute complicated TBAD, while recommend best medical therapy for patients with acute uncomplicated TBAD (UTBAD). ⋯ The other main issue is identifying which patients with UTBAD should undergo pre-emptive TEVAR. Several risk factors including imaging, clinical and laboratory parameters have been shown to be associated with aortic-related events in patients with UTBAD. Among imaging finding, the diameters of aortic or false lumen, the status of true or false lumen, the size or number of entry tears have identified to be as predictors of adverse aortic events in patients with UTBAD.