Journal of Acute Disease

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Authors: Syed Shoeb Ahmad

Lens-induced factors are important and common mechanisms causing acute elevation of intraocular pressure. While in most cases, the diagnosis and management are straight-forward, in others it is difficult and can lead to improper procedures, complications and poor visual outcomes. This review was done with the aim of studying the various types of lens-induced glaucomas, classifying them in an easy way to understand manner, their clinical features, current management and future possibilities.

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Authors: Yi-Jun Shi

Objective: To investigate the postoperative inflammatory reaction, stress reaction and immune response of laparoscopic surgery and laparotomy for acute gastric perforation. Methods: Forty-four patients with acute gastric perforation receiving emergency surgery in our hospital from May 2012 to December 2015 were selected and retrospectively analyzed. Among these patients, there were 19 patients treated with laparoscopic surgery (LS group) and 25 patients treated with laparotomy (laparotomy group). At the first day after surgery, their serums were collected and the indexes of inflammatory reaction and stress reaction were detected. Mononuclear cells and red blood cells in peripheral blood were collected and detected for the immune function indexes. Results: At day 1 after surgery, the contents of serum interleukin-1β (IL-1β), IL-2, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, cortisol, norepinephrine, epinephrine, renin and angiotensin-II of patients in the LS group were all significantly lower than those of the laparotomy group; fluorescence intensities of CD3, CD4, CD16 and CD56 of mononuclear cells in peripheral blood were all obviously higher than those of the laparotomy group; and the numbers of red blood cell C3bR and immune complex resette and the fluorescence intensities of complement receptor type 3, CD58 and CD59 were obviously higher than those of the laparotomy group. Conclusions: Emergency laparoscopic surgery used to treat acute gastric perforation shows slight postoperative inflammatory reaction and stress reaction and presents weak nonspecific immune response, specific immune response and erythrocyte immune response, which makes less trauma than laparotomy.

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Authors: Zhi-Yong Lu

Objective: To investigate the effect of adjuvant therapy with ginkgo-damole on apoptosis, nerve injury and platelet aggregation of patients with acute cerebral infarction. Methods: A total of 74 patients with acute cerebral infarction treated in our hospital from March 2014 to December 2015 were retrospectively analyzed, and they were divided into ginkgo-damole group and conventional treatment group according to a therapeutic schedule that whether ginkgo-diyidamolum were included. At Week 2 and Week 4 after treatment, contents of apoptosis molecule, nerve injury molecule and index of platelet aggregation in serum were detected. Results: At Week 2 after treatment, contents of soluble Fas, soluble Fas ligand, soluble tumor necrosis factor related apoptosis inducing ligand, S100β, neuron specific enolase, glial fibrillary acidic protein, myelin basic protein, malonaldehyde, endothelin-1, fibrinogen and D-dimer in patients’ sera of ginkgo-damole group were significantly lower than those of conventional treatment group. Contents of nitric oxide in sera were obviously higher than that of conventional treatment group. At Week 4 after treatment, contents of soluble Fas, soluble Fas ligand, soluble tumor necrosis factor related apoptosis inducing ligand, S100β, neuron specific enolase, glial fibrillary acidic protein, myelin basic protein, malonaldehyde, endothelin-1, fibrinogen and D-dimer in patients’ sera of ginkgo-damole group were significantly lower than those of conventional treatment group. Contents of nitric oxide in sera were obviously higher than that of conventional treatment group. Conclusions: Adjuvant therapy with ginkgo-damole can inhibit the apoptosis of neuron cells and neurogliocyte and reduce the neural function injury and the situation of platelet aggregation.

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Authors: Xiao-Yan Zhu, Rong-Yao Hou, Shun-Chang Sun, Xi-Yan Zhou

Objective: To study the expression quantity of serum miR-146a and miR-146b in patients with acute cerebral infarction before and after the intervention of rosuvastatin and its correlation with toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) and TLR4 signaling pathways. Methods: A total of 65 patients with acute cerebral infarction treated in our hospital from December 2015 to August 2016 were selected for prospective study. They were treated with lipid-lowering rosuvastatin, and peripheral blood samples were collected at 8th week before and after treatment, respectively. Serum was separated and expression quantity of miR-146a and miR-146b and contents of TNF-α, interleukin (IL)-1β, IL-6 and IL-17 were determined. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells were isolated and fluorescence intensities of TLR2, TLR4, myeloid differentiation primary response gene 88 (MyD88), interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase 1 (IRAK-1) and nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells (NF-kB) were measured. Results: At 8th week of intervention of rosuvastatin, expression quantity of serum miR-146a [(0.762 ± 0.092) vs. (0.346 ± 0.053)] and miR-146b [(0.714 ± 0.088) vs. (0.317 ± 0.047)] in patients with acute cerebral infarction was significantly higher than those before the intervention. Fluorescence intensities of peripheral blood mononuclear cells such as TLR2 [(10.34 ± 1.27) vs. (16.94 ± 1.94)], TLR4 [(11.37 ± 1.54) vs. (24.35 ± 3.26)], IRAK [(9.34 ± 0.92) vs. (15.32 ± 1.82)], MyD88 [(4.42 ± 0.56) vs. (9.41 ± 1.03)] and NF-kB [(6.65 ± 0.78) vs. (13.49 ± 1.76)] and contents of inflammatory factors such as TNF-α [(64.26 ± 8.29) μg/L vs. (106.39 ± 13.84) μg/L], IL-1β [(37.91 ± 5.24) μg/L vs. (64.23 ± 8.33) μg/L], IL-6 [(34.28 ± 4.85) ng/L vs. (82.46 ± 11.97) ng/L] and IL-17 [(56.75 ± 7.49) ng/L vs. (98.31 ± 11.36) ng/ L] of serum were all significantly lower than those before the intervention. Expression quantity of serum miR-146a and miR-146b had a negative correlation with fluorescence intensities of TLR2, TLR4, IRAK, MyD88 and NF-kB. Fluorescence intensities of TLR2 and TLR4 in peripheral blood mononuclear cells had a positive correlation with contents of TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6 and IL-17 in serum. Conclusions: Treatment with rosuvastatin can up-regulate the expression quantity of serum miR-146a and miR-146b in patients with acute cerebral infarction and further inhibit the secretion of IRAK, MyD88, NF-kB, TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6 and IL-17 mediated by TLR2 and TLR4.

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Authors: Joseph Yorke1,2, Pius Agbenorku1,3*, Ronald Awoonor-Williams2, Kofi Baah Nyamekye4, George Amoah4, Offoe Michael Adinku2, Charles Appiah2, Amoah Edward Boateng2, Esinam Anita Agbeko2, Papa Kwesi Sonsomir Fiifi-Yankson2, Dorcas Ahulu5, Daniel Anning Gyawu2, Dennis Afful Yorke6

We reported a case of a 30-year-old man who reportedly sustained electrical burns and fell from a high voltage electric pole about 50 meter high onto a metal that caused impalement injury. In addition, he sustained full-thickness burns of the right upper limb (7%), the right hemithorax, the perineum (sparing the penis), the anterior abdominal wall and the lateral aspect of both thighs. There was 43% burned surface area in total. Radiographic examination revealed a slender curved object extending from his perineum into the pelvis. The management of this case was a challenging one which was described in this article.

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Authors: Mehmet Tatli, Gökhan Eyüpoğlu, Hilal Hocagil

Cyanide is a toxin and one of the most rapidly acting fatal poisons that human being is aware. If it is not treated promptly, encountering to cyanide poison will lead to die in minutes. Cyanide avoids cellular oxygen usage by inactivating mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase thus inhibits cellular respiration. In this case, we represent a case report describing uncommon cyanide intoxication owing to consumption of a few portion of apricot kernels and its rapid treatment with dicobalt edetate after suspection of cyanide poisoning.

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Authors: Hasan Tahsin Gozdas

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