Articles: disease.
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Review Case Reports
Primary bladder mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma: A case report and literature review.
Primary bladder mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma is a rare tumor. To date, the PubMed database contains only 39 English articles covering 63 cases of primary bladder MALT lymphoma. Herein, we report a case of this disease and review the current literature. ⋯ Primary bladder MALT lymphoma is a rare disease and can be easily missed or misdiagnosed before achieving a histological confirmation. Surgery may be the best choice for both diagnosis and treatment.
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Observational Study
Association of bone mineral density with peripheral blood cell counts and hemoglobin in Chinese postmenopausal women: A retrospective study.
Osteoporosis (OP) is a metabolic bone disease that can cause structural changes in bone marrow cavity. Bone marrow is the hematopoietic organ of adults. Accumulating evidence has shown a close connection between bone marrow hematopoietic function and bone formation. ⋯ Spearman linear trend analysis and partial correlation analysis demonstrated that BMD was negatively correlated with WBC, RBC, PLT, and HGB in postmenopausal women. Due to the differences between different countries and races, and there are few studies on the association of BMD with peripheral blood cell counts and HGB in Chinese Postmenopausal Women. Therefore, more large sample studies are needed.
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Primary malignant melanoma of esophagus (PMME) is a rare malignant tumor of esophagus. This study aimed to investigate the clinic pathologic characteristics and analyze the factors that might affect the prognosis of PMME patients. A total of 20 PMME patients who underwent surgical treatment in our hospital from 1975 to 2017 were analyzed. ⋯ Multivariate analysis showed that tumor node metastasis (TNM) staging was the independent prognostic factor for survival of PMME patients (hazard ratio [95% confidence interval], 4.15 [1.36-12.67]; P = .012). For PMME patients, tumors with deeper invasion were more likely to have LNM, and TNM staging was an independent predictor of prognosis for survival. Early detection of the disease and radical resection of the tumor are critical for better survival of the PMME patients.
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Multicenter Study Observational Study
The prognostic and predictive value of the albumin-bilirubin score in advanced pancreatic cancer.
Albumin-bilirubin (ALBI) showed its prognostic and predictive value in hepatobiliary disease like hepatocellular carcinoma. However, little has been known about its role in pancreatic cancer. In this retrospective study, 149 patients with advanced pancreatic cancer (APC) treated in the Shanghai General Hospital from January 2009 to December 2014 were enrolled as the training cohort and 120 patients treated from January 2015 to December 2018 were taken as the validation cohort. ⋯ In addition, only in the group with ALBI <-2.6, patients receiving combination therapy showed better prognosis than those receiving monotherapy. In conclusion, ALBI was a promising prognostic biomarker in APC with liver metastasis. ALBI also showed predictive value in identifying combination therapy candidates for patients with APC.
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Observational Study
Associations between the psoas major muscle index and the presence and severity of coronary artery disease.
The associations between the presence and severity of coronary artery disease (CAD) and measurements of the psoas major muscle (PMM) as assessed by multidetector row coronary computed tomography angiography (MDCT) are not known. We enrolled 793 patients who were clinically suspected to have CAD or had at least one cardiac risk factor and had undergone MDCT. The number of significantly stenosed coronary vessels (VD) and measurements of the PMM index (PMMI) were determined using MDCT. ⋯ When male patients were divided into 2 groups according to median value of age, that is, relatively younger (53.4 ± 9.2 years) and older (72.6 ± 5.7 years) groups, the presence of CAD was independently associated with PMMI in the younger group by a multiple logistic regression analysis. The cut-off level of PMMI that gave the greatest sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of CAD in younger males was 8.3 cm/m (sensitivity 0.441, specificity 0.752). In conclusion, PMMI may be an imaging marker for evaluating the presence and/or severity of CAD in males, and particularly in the non-elderly.