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Anti-synthetase syndrome (ASyS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by the presence of autoantibodies to aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases accompanied with various organ involvements, including the lung, joints, and skin. The ASyS-related interstitial lung disease (ILD) can be seen in the vast majority of patients. The extent of lung involvement has a significant impact on patient prognosis; the occurrence of rapid-progressive ILD could prominently increase mortality. The mainstay of treatment is prednisone in combination with conventional synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs or some biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs). Tocilizumab (TCZ), a recombinant humanized anti-interleukin (IL)-6 receptor monoclonal antibody, has also been used to treat some systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases associated with ILD. Although the most recent American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Guideline for the Treatment of Interstitial Lung Disease conditionally recommends against the use of TCZ as a treatment option for people with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM)-ILD progression despite initial ILD treatment, the treatment effect of TCZ in ASyS patients remains obscure, particularly for refractory cases with anti-non-Jo1 antibodies. This report describes a case of Chinese ASyS patients with anti-EJ-positive antibodies who presented with typical proximal muscle weakness, elevated creatine kinase, and ILD with non-specific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP) pattern, along with typical skin involvement such as mechanic's hand. The patients were resistant to various treatments, including rituximab (RTX), but benefited from TCZ. In this case, TCZ shows good therapeutic efficacy in a fatal acute exacerbation of ILD with a hyperinflammatory status, resulting in a relative remission of the disease flare and full preservation of lung function with a positive long-term treatment outcome.
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Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized , Lung Diseases, Interstitial , Humans , Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized/therapeutic use , Lung Diseases, Interstitial/drug therapy , Myositis/drug therapy , Middle Aged , Autoantibodies/blood , Female , MaleABSTRACT
Objective@#To explore the associations between sleep duration and negative emotions among junior college students,and to provide reference for mental health promotion among college students.@*Methods@#Cluster sampling method were used to select 2 524 freshmen from a college in Huainan, Anhui Province. Questionnaires were used to investigate general demographic characteristics, sleep timing, negative emotions and other information. The restricted cubic spline and multivariate Logistic regression were used to analyze the relationship between sleep duration and negative emotion among junior college students.@*Results@#The prevalence of depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, stress associated symptoms were 19.41%(490), 28.2%(713), 9.9%(250) respectively．The prevalence of negative emotions was higher among boys(24.3%,34.0%,19.1%) than girls(18.7%,27.4%,8.5%). The differences between groups were statistically significant( P <0.01). After adjusting for confounding factors, sleep duration and negative emotions showed a non linear dose response relationship. Compared with the reference group(8-<9 h), sleep duration <7 h was significantly associated with an increased risk of depressive symptoms and stress symptoms, and <8 h was associated with an increased risk of anxiety symptoms. The additional sleep time on weekends ≥5 h was associated with negative emotions compared with the reference group(<1 h)( P <0.01).@*Conclusion@#Short sleep duration and extra weekend sleep are associated with negative emotions. Reasonable sleep schedule among junior college students might be helpful for the prevention and control of negative emotions.
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Objective To explore the correlation between polymorphisms (SNPs) of locus rs2269272 of glial high-affinity glutamate transporter (SLC1A3) gene and suicide attempt among Chinese adolescents.Methods iMLDRTM genotyping technology was used to detect the polymorphism of rs2269272 SLC1A3 gene loci in 55 suicide attempters and 112 healthy controls,and survival analysis was applied to analyze the relationship between allele (T) and the age of suicide attempt.Results The differences of rs2269272 locus allele distribution between two groups were statistically significant(x2=4.208,P=0.040),but genotype distribution of two groups had no significantly differences(x2 =4.011,P=0.135).Non-suicidal self-injury adolescents with locus rs2269272 (15.6 ± 0.4) were younger than adolescents without locus rs2269272(16.4±0.7),but the difference was not statistically significant.Conclusion Preliminary findings suggest that rs2269272 SLC1 A3 may be relevant to non-suicidal self-injury acts,and rs2269272 locus allele is not related to earlier suicide attempt.
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Objective:To explore the correlation of nurses ’ organizational commitment and their professional identity status.Methods:Using Chinese employee organizational commitment scale and nurses professional identity evaluation scale questionnaire survey was conducted in 400 cases of clinical nurses , nurse compare different characteristics of organi-zational commitment and professional identity level , and USES the Pearson correlation analysis to investigate the correla-tion of both.ResultsNurses organizational commitment and professional identity total score , respectively (2.16-0.45) and (3.49 +0.84);Different cultural degree , job title, working years and the way of hiring nurses ’ professional identi-ty score comparison, the difference was statistically significant (P <0.05);Different ways of title, working years, and hire nurses’ organizational commitment score comparison , the difference was statistically significant (P <0.05);Pear-son correlation analysis showed that organizational commitment and the scores of each dimension career cognitive apprais -al, professional social skills , professional setback coping , social support and total scores of professional identity were sig -nificantly positive correlation (P <0.05).Conclusions:The nurse was significantly positively related to organizational commitment and their professional identity , and both have big room to improve .