ObjectiveTo investigate the interventive effect of xuebijing for injection combined with nalmefene hydrochloride injection in treatment of acute hepatocyte functional injury after severe thoracoabdominal injuries. MethodsClinal data of 169 patients with severe thoracoabdominal injuries who treated in The 253th Hospital of PLA between January 2009 and June 2013 were collected retrospectively. The trauma indexes of the 169 patients were all higher than 17 scores. Patients were divided into the intervention group (n=112) and the control group (n=57) according to their receptive treatment:patients of control group underwent traditional treatments such as antishock, hemostasis, and so on; but patients of intervention group received xuebijing for injection combined with nalmefene hydrochloride injection (intravenous infusion). Patients of intervention group were tested at the time of arriving at and leaving the emergency department to the inpatient department with alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), lipopolysaccharide (LPS), and interleukin-6 (IL-6); the patients of control group were just tested at the time of leaving the emergency department to the inpatient department, then comparison of the indexes between the 2 groups was performed. ResultsIn intervention group, the levels of ALT, AST, TNF-α, LPS, and IL-6 after the interventive treatment were all lower than those of before interventive treatment (P<0.05). Compared with control group, there was no significant difference in the levels of ALT, AST, TNF-α, LPS, and IL-6 before the interventive treatment of intervention group (P>0.05); but the levels ALT, AST, TNF-α, LPS, and IL-6 were all lower after the interven-tive treatment (P<0.05). ConclusionsXuebijing for injection combined with nalmefene hydrochloride injection can evidently improve the acute hepatocyte functional injury after severe thoracoabdominal injuries, and improve the prognosis.
ObjectiveTo investigate the correlations between tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) with acute myocardial dysfunction after severe thoraco-abdominal injuries and possible mechanisms. MethodsClinical data of 82 patients with severe thoraco-abdominal injuries who were admitted to the 253rd Hospital of People's Liberation Army from January 2009 to June 2012 were retrospectively analyzed,whose trauma index (TI) were all above or equal to 17 points. Patients with concomitant brain injuries and patients who were brought in dead were excluded from this study. There were 58 male and 24 female patients with their age of 16-76 (43.59±16.33) years. There were 17 patients with open injuries and 65 patients with closed injuries. There were 23 patients with fall injuries,47 patients with traffic injuries,8 patients with blunt injuries,and 4 patients with penetrating injuries. The time from injury to admission was 1.51±0.52 hours. Blood creatine kinase-MB (CK-MB) cardiac troponin T (cTnT) TNF-α and LPS were examined during emergency treatment,and the correlations between the results were analyzed. ResultsMyocardial dysfunction was shown by CK-MB of 158.74±31.59 U/L and cTnT of 496.25±58.46 pg/ml. Injury factors were TNF-α of 36.41±18.09 ng/ml and LPS of 343.66±106.02 U/L. CK-MB was positively correlated with TNF-α and LPS with the correlation coefficient (r) of 0.923 1and 0.883 2 respectively. cTnT was also positively correlated with TNF-α and LPS with r of 0.955 6 and 0.889 1 respectively. ConclusionBoth TNF-α and LPS participate in the pathogenesis and development of acute myocardial dysfunction after severe thoraco-abdominal injuries. Early intervention against TNF-α and LPS may alleviate acute myocardial dysfunction and improve patients' survival rate after severe thoraco-abdominal injuries.