[Predictive Value of POSSUM and P-POSSUM Scoring System for Risk Assessment in Laparoscopic Pancreatoduodenectomy].

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical predictive ability of POSSUM and P-POSSUM scoring system in laparoscopic pancreatoduodenectomy (LPD). METHODS: There were 132 consecutive LPD performed in West China Hospital of Sichuan University from February 2014 to July 2017. The clinical data were retrospective collected, including 12 preoperative physiological variables, 6 operative severity variables, and complications and mortality The postoperative expected mortality and morbidity were calculated by POSSUM and P-POSSUM score, and compared with measured morbidity and mortality. The clinical predictive ability of POSSUM and P-POSSUM system was evaluated by the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve and hierarchical analysis. RESULTS: The area under ROC curve ( AUC) was 0.83. The preoperative physiological score (PS) and POSSUM score of the patients with complications were higher, and the difference was statistically significant ( P<0.01). For the prediction of complications after LPD, the expected value was the most accurate to the measured value when POSSUM score was >0.4-0.6. POSSUM scoring system had no significant difference in predicting the incidence of complications for benign and malignant lesions ( P>0.05), with a higher predictive value for malignant tumors. It was valuable in predicting the incidence of complications in male and female, and there was no significant difference in expected value between the sexes. Expected morbidity rate by POSSUM scoring system was 36.6% and measured morbidity rate was 33.3%. The expected and measured morbidities had no significantly differences. The expected mortality was 7.0% and measured mortality rate was 1.5%. The expected and measured mortality had no significantly differences. Expected mortality by P-POSSUM system was 1.6%, the expected and measured mortality had no significantly differences. CONCLUSION: POSSUM and P-POSSUM scoring system had high value for predicting LPD postoperative morbidity and mortality of LPD patients.

Longitudinal behavioral and fMRI-based assessment of inhibitory control in heroin addicts on methadone maintenance treatment.

The objective of the present study was to determine whether methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) in heroin-dependent patients affects inhibitory control, whether any MMT-induced changes correlate with methadone dose and MMT duration, and whether these changes depend on the psychological characteristics of patients, such as depression, anxiety and impulsivity. Response inhibition in the GO/NO-GO test was combined with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning data to examine whether MMT affects inhibitory control in 21 heroin-addicted patients who had already undergone at least three months of MMT. Patients were evaluated one year prior to and after the MMT period. Participants exhibited no difference in their GO/NO-GO reaction time and accuracy rate, or in their false alarm rate under NO-GO conditions. However, increased activation was detected in numerous brain regions in their 12-month fMRI scans, although these were not in the frontal-striatal loop. Increased fMRI activation in the left precentral gyrus and superior temporal gyrus were negatively correlated with the daily methadone dose and total methadone dose during the one-year study period. In conclusion, these results suggested that MMT over one year does not significantly change the behavioral indicators of inhibitory control function in heroin-dependent patients. The increase in activation leads to the hypothesis that MMT over one year may increase cognitive inhibitory control, which may be the result of the combined negative effect of methadone and the positive effect of functional recovery after withdrawal of heroin.