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Objective:To summarize the clinical characteristics and therapeutic efficacy of central nervous system (CNS) aspergillosis.Methods:The clinical manifestations, laboratory examination, neuroimaging features, treatment and prognosis of 37 cases of CNS aspergillosis diagnosed and treated in the First Medical Center of People′s Liberation Army General Hospital from January 2000 to January 2021 were retrospectively analyzed. According to the correlation between intracranial lesions and paranasal sinus lesions, they were divided into two groups: rhino-cerebral aspergillosis (RA, n=21) group and cerebral aspergillosis (CA, n=16) group. Results:Only 16.2% (6/37) of CNS aspergillosis patients had a clear background of immunosuppression, but 35.1% (13/37) were complicated with diabetes. The most common clinical manifestations were headache (73.0%, 27/37), cranial nerve involvement (59.5%, 22/37) and fever (37.8%, 14/37). Cerebrospinal fluid characteristics included increased pressure (53.8%, 14/26), increased white blood cell count (46.7%, 14/30), decreased glucose (30.0%, 9/30), increased protein (70.0%, 21/30), and high positive results of the metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) of pathogenic microorganism (7/10). Cranial magnetic resonance imaging showed that commonly involved sites were sinus, orbital apex, posterior orbit, cavernous sinus (43.2%, 16/37) and cerebral lobes (27.0%, 10/37). Treatment options included antifungal drugs alone (64.9%, 24/37), combination of drugs and surgery (27.0%, 10/37) and surgery alone (8.1%, 3/37). Compared with the CA group, RA group had fewer males [47.6% (10/21) vs 14/16, χ2=6.34, P=0.012] and older age [(54.2±19.4) years vs (38.4±18.4) years, t=2.50, P=0.017], and was more prone to headache [85.7% (18/21) vs 9/16, χ2=4.00, P=0.046) and cranial nerve involvement [81.0% (17/21) vs 5/16, χ 2=9.31, P=0.006]. The misdiagnosis rate of these patients in the early stage was 73.0% (27/37). A total of 29 patients (85.3%, 29/34) were treated with voriconazole successively, and the course of treatment was 3.0 (0.5, 10.4) months. Compared with salvage therapy, the mortality of primary therapy was lower (4/17 vs 9/12, χ2=7.54, P=0.006). All patients were followed up to December 2021, and 17 patients died, with a mortality rate of 45.9% (17/37). Conclusions:CNS aspergillosis may have no definite immunosuppressive background. Some of CNS aspergillosis patients are complicated with diabetes, and the clinical manifestations of the disease lack specificity, with high misdiagnosis rate in the early stage, no inflammatory changes in cerebrospinal fluid, and high positive rate of mNGS for pathogenic microorganism. Early and long-term application of voriconazole can significantly reduce the mortality rate.
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Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a rare condition with a rapid disease course and a mortality rate of 100%. In clinical practice, it is difficult to diagnose, even if consistent conventional laboratory methodologies are used. This article will give a summary on the epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, auxiliary examination, diagnosis and differential diagnosis, management, and prognosis of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
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Objective To observe the expression of neuropilin-1 (NRP-1) in glioma cells of different grades,and evaluate the application value of a novel molecular probe(USPIO-PEG-tLyP-1)in the grading diagnosis of heterotopic glioma in nude mice by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).Methods Expression levels of NRP-1 in glioma cell lines of different grades were detected by Western-Blot.USPIO-PEG-tLyP-1 was synthesized by carbon diimine method.The U87-MG tumor-bearing mice model (U87-MG group) and CHG-5 tumor-bearing mice model(CHG-5 group) were established with 10 mice in each group.Six tumorbearing mice with a tumor volume about 0.6 cm3 were selected from each group,and they were given with 2mg/kg molecular probes via tail vein respectively and was detected by MRI at 0 h,6 h,12 h and 24 h,then R2 values were calculated.After the imaging,tumor-bearing mice were sacrificed,and tumor tissue sections were made.The iron particles in the sections was detected by Prussian blue staining.The binding ability of molecular probes and tumor tissues in the two groups was compared.Results The expression of NRP-1 in U87-MG and CHG-5 cell lines was significantly higher than that in HA.In addition,the expression of NRP-1 in U87-MG was higher than that in CHG-5 cell(P＜0.01).MRI results showed that R2 values of tumor tissues in the two groups were compared,and the difference was not statistically significant before the injection of molecular probe(U87-MG group(10.35±0.52)vs CHG-5 group(9.86±0.43),t=1.779,P=0.106).The R2 value of tumor tissue in the U87-MG group was higher than that in the CHG-5 group after the injection of molecular probe (6 h:U87-MG group (11.63±0.85)vs CHG-5 group (10.51 ±0.49),t=2.796,P=0.019;12h:U87-MG group(14.23±0.68)vs CHG-5 group(12.29±0.28),t=6.462,P=0.000;24 h:U87-MG group (13.36±0.92) vs CHG-5 group(11.32±0.64),t=4.459,P=0.001).The results of Prussian blue staining showed that there were significantly more blue staining particles in tumor tissues of the U87-MG group than that of the CHG-5 group,and the difference was statistically significant(P＜0.01).Conclusion The NRP-1 targeted molecular probe can be used for grading diagnosis of high and low grade heterotopic brain glioma in nude mice.
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Objective To detect the binding ability of the molecular probe of neuropilin-1( NRP-1) to mouse ectopic glioma by magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI) . Methods Glioma model mice were pre-pared by glioma tissue transplantation.Thirty tumor bearing mice were randomly selected for tissue anatomy(n=12) and other 18 mice were randomly divided into 3 groups:the control group ( group A) ,the probe con-trol group (group B) and the probe group (group C),which were given 20 μl saline,20 μl USPIO-PEG, 20μl USPIO-PEG-tLyP-1 through the tail vein of the mice respectively.And at 0h,6h,12h,24h after admin-istration,T2WI and T2MAPPING sequences were detected by MRI. Then the tumor bearing mice were killed immediately and the glioma tissue was used to detect the iron content by Prussian blue staining to detect the binding ability of the glioma tissue with the new molecular probe. The biological toxicity of the new molecular probe was detected by pathological staining. Results The expression of NRP-1 in glioma tissues was signifi-cantly higher than that in the liver,kidney and brain(P<0.05).The 24h relaxation time ((14.19±0.87)ms) of the glioma tissue in the C group was significantly lower than that in the B group ((25.94±0.77)ms) (P<0.05) ,and the blue staining particles in the C group were more than those in the B group(P<0.05) . Conclu-sion In the animal experiment,the molecular probe with NRP-1 as the target has obvious targeting effect and good biocompatibility,which provides a clinical basis of glioma for further clinical diagnosis.
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Objective To synthetize a novel MR molecular imaging probe named USPIO?PEG?tLyP?1,and to evaluate its value in detecting U87 cells by MR imaging. Methods USPIO?PEG?tLyP?1 was synthetized by conjugating USPIO?PEG with tLyP?1. Neuropilin?1 expression levels of glioma cell lines were detected by Western blot. The cytotoxicity of USPIO?PEG and USPIO?PEG?tLyP?1 were assessed by MTT colorimetric assay. The uptake efficiency of USPIO?PEG?tLyP?1 was measured by Prussian blue staining, transmission electron microscope and MR imaging in vitro. Results The novel MR molecular imaging probe was synthetized with an average diameter of 43.84 nm. U87 glioma cell line was screened as test subject for the highly expression of NRP?1(P<0.05). USPIO?PEG?tLyP?1 group showed much more intracellular blue particles than USPIO?PEG group after Prussian blue staining. After incubation,USPIO?PEG?tLyP?1 mainly existed in lysosme,endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria. In vitro MRI showed that USPIO?PEG?tLyP?1 significantly enhanced the negative contrast effect compared with USPIO?PEG(P<0.01). Conclusion The decoration of tLyP?1 enhanced targeting ability of USPIO?PEG to glioma cells and MR molecular imaging can be a promising method for early diagnosis of gliomas.