Objective: To observe the therapeutic effect of combined cervical traction and electroacupuncture (EA) on Cervical Spondylopathy of Nerve Root Type (CSNRT). Methods: 145 patients diagnosed as CSNRT were randomized int...Objective: To observe the therapeutic effect of combined cervical traction and electroacupuncture (EA) on Cervical Spondylopathy of Nerve Root Type (CSNRT). Methods: 145 patients diagnosed as CSNRT were randomized into 3 groups: combined treatment group, EA group, and cervical traction (CT) group. The combined group was treated with traction followed by EA of Dazhui (大椎 GV 14), Fengchi (风池 GB 20), cervical Jiaji (夹脊 EX-B 2), etc.. Patients of two control groups were only treated by either CT or EA. Results: The markedly-effective rate and total effective rate were 76.0% and 94.0% respectively in the combined treatment group, 62.5% and 81.25% respectively in CT group, and 63.82% and 82.97% respectively in EA group. The therapeutic effect of the combined treatment group was significantly superior to that of two control groups (P<0.05). At 6-month follow-up, the above two markedly-effective and total effective rates in the combined treatment group remained 74.0% and 92.0%, still significantly higher than that in two control groups. Conclusion: Combining cervicle traction with EA treatment can effectively eliminate or relieve the symptoms and signs in patients with nerve root type cervical spondylopathy.展开更多
Objective To evaluate the effect of carotid artery stenting combined with nimodipine on cerebral hemodynamics by comparing and analyzing the change of anterior cerebral blood flow before and after treatment through tr...Objective To evaluate the effect of carotid artery stenting combined with nimodipine on cerebral hemodynamics by comparing and analyzing the change of anterior cerebral blood flow before and after treatment through transcrania Doppler （TCD）. Methods Twenty patients with ischemic cerebrovascnlar disease were detected in blood flow velocity of bilateral middle cerebral arteries （MCA） and anterior cerebral arteries （ACA） and artery pulsatility index with TCD before and two weeks after treatment. Results After treatment, TCD examination showed dynamic changes in blood flow significantly, lpsilateral MCA flow velocity significantly increased; ipsilateral ACA flow velocity did not change significantly; there was no significant increase in the contralateral MCA flow velocity; flow rate decreased significantly in contralateral ACA. Conclusion Carotid artery stenting combined with nimodipine treatment can cause anterior cerebral hemodynamic changes in ipsilateral hemisphere and significantly improve blood flow展开更多
Objective To assess the efficacy and safety of percutaneous transluminal stenting for patients with carotid artery stenosis.Methods Selective percutaneous transluminal stenting was performed for patients with symptoma...Objective To assess the efficacy and safety of percutaneous transluminal stenting for patients with carotid artery stenosis.Methods Selective percutaneous transluminal stenting was performed for patients with symptomatic carotid artery stenosis(luminal narrowing ≥ 70%).Success rates and complications associated with the procedures were observed.During six months of follow-up,both recurrent symptom and restenosis rates were recorded.Results There were 17 bifurcating lesions among 27 stenoses in 26 patients,of whom 18 had concomitant coronary artery diseases.The acute procedural success rate was 96.3%(26/27),and the degree of stenosis was reduced from 88.6% ± 8.9%(range 70 - 100)to 0.4% ± 2.0%(range 0 - 10).Six patients developed severe bradycardia and hypotension,and 3 experienced transient loss of consciousness during balloon dilatation.During hospitalization,2 patients experienced loss of consciousness and convulsion,respectively,due to hyperperfusion,and both recovered 12 hours later.There were 2 minor stroke cases (7.4%)but no cases of major stroke or death.At the 6-month follow-up,there were no cases of TIA or new onset of stroke.There was no restenosis detected in 16 cases using angiography and in 10 cases using MRI in 6 to 16 months of follow-up.Conclusions Percutaneous transluminal stenting for patients with carotid artery stenosis has a high procedural success rate with few and acceptable complications.Few patients suffered from recurrent symptoms or showed restenosis in long-term follow-up.展开更多
The computational capability of a coarse-grained reconfigurable array(CGRA)can be significantly restrained due to data and context memory bandwidth bottlenecks.Traditionally,two methods have been used to resolve this ...The computational capability of a coarse-grained reconfigurable array(CGRA)can be significantly restrained due to data and context memory bandwidth bottlenecks.Traditionally,two methods have been used to resolve this problem.One method loads the context into the CGRA at run time.This method occupies very small on-chip memory but induces very large latency,which leads to low computational efficiency.The other method adopts a multi-context structure.This method loads the context into the on-chip context memory at the boot phase.Broadcasting the pointer of a set of contexts changes the hardware configuration on a cycle-by-cycle basis.The size of the context memory induces a large area overhead in multi-context structures,which results in major restrictions on application complexity.This paper proposes a Predictable Context Cache(PCC)architecture to address the above context issues by buffering the context inside a CGRA.In this architecture,context is dynamically transferred into the CGRA.Utilizing a PCC significantly reduces the on-chip context memory and the complexity of the applications running on the CGRA is no longer restricted by the size of the on-chip context memory.Data preloading is the most frequently used approach to hide input data latency and speed up the data transmission process for the data bandwidth issue.Rather than fundamentally reducing the amount of input data,the transferred data and computations are processed in parallel.However,the data preloading method cannot work efficiently because data transmission becomes the critical path as the reconfigurable array scale increases.This paper also presents a Hierarchical Data Memory(HDM)architecture as a solution to the efficiency problem.In this architecture,high internal bandwidth is provided to buffer both reused input data and intermediate data.The HDM architecture relieves the external memory from the data transfer burden so that the performance is significantly improved.As a result of using PCC and HDM,experiments running mainstream video decoding programs achieved performance improvements of 13.57%–19.48%when there was a reasonable memory size.Therefore,1080p@35.7fps for H.264high profile video decoding can be achieved on PCC and HDM architecture when utilizing a 200 MHz working frequency.Further,the size of the on-chip context memory no longer restricted complex applications,which were efficiently executed on the PCC and HDM architecture.展开更多
文摘Objective: To observe the therapeutic effect of combined cervical traction and electroacupuncture (EA) on Cervical Spondylopathy of Nerve Root Type (CSNRT). Methods: 145 patients diagnosed as CSNRT were randomized into 3 groups: combined treatment group, EA group, and cervical traction (CT) group. The combined group was treated with traction followed by EA of Dazhui (大椎 GV 14), Fengchi (风池 GB 20), cervical Jiaji (夹脊 EX-B 2), etc.. Patients of two control groups were only treated by either CT or EA. Results: The markedly-effective rate and total effective rate were 76.0% and 94.0% respectively in the combined treatment group, 62.5% and 81.25% respectively in CT group, and 63.82% and 82.97% respectively in EA group. The therapeutic effect of the combined treatment group was significantly superior to that of two control groups (P<0.05). At 6-month follow-up, the above two markedly-effective and total effective rates in the combined treatment group remained 74.0% and 92.0%, still significantly higher than that in two control groups. Conclusion: Combining cervicle traction with EA treatment can effectively eliminate or relieve the symptoms and signs in patients with nerve root type cervical spondylopathy.
基金Supported by the Shaanxi Scientific and Technical Plan(2009K18-02)
文摘Objective To evaluate the effect of carotid artery stenting combined with nimodipine on cerebral hemodynamics by comparing and analyzing the change of anterior cerebral blood flow before and after treatment through transcrania Doppler （TCD）. Methods Twenty patients with ischemic cerebrovascnlar disease were detected in blood flow velocity of bilateral middle cerebral arteries （MCA） and anterior cerebral arteries （ACA） and artery pulsatility index with TCD before and two weeks after treatment. Results After treatment, TCD examination showed dynamic changes in blood flow significantly, lpsilateral MCA flow velocity significantly increased; ipsilateral ACA flow velocity did not change significantly; there was no significant increase in the contralateral MCA flow velocity; flow rate decreased significantly in contralateral ACA. Conclusion Carotid artery stenting combined with nimodipine treatment can cause anterior cerebral hemodynamic changes in ipsilateral hemisphere and significantly improve blood flow
文摘Objective To assess the efficacy and safety of percutaneous transluminal stenting for patients with carotid artery stenosis.Methods Selective percutaneous transluminal stenting was performed for patients with symptomatic carotid artery stenosis(luminal narrowing ≥ 70%).Success rates and complications associated with the procedures were observed.During six months of follow-up,both recurrent symptom and restenosis rates were recorded.Results There were 17 bifurcating lesions among 27 stenoses in 26 patients,of whom 18 had concomitant coronary artery diseases.The acute procedural success rate was 96.3%(26/27),and the degree of stenosis was reduced from 88.6% ± 8.9%(range 70 - 100)to 0.4% ± 2.0%(range 0 - 10).Six patients developed severe bradycardia and hypotension,and 3 experienced transient loss of consciousness during balloon dilatation.During hospitalization,2 patients experienced loss of consciousness and convulsion,respectively,due to hyperperfusion,and both recovered 12 hours later.There were 2 minor stroke cases (7.4%)but no cases of major stroke or death.At the 6-month follow-up,there were no cases of TIA or new onset of stroke.There was no restenosis detected in 16 cases using angiography and in 10 cases using MRI in 6 to 16 months of follow-up.Conclusions Percutaneous transluminal stenting for patients with carotid artery stenosis has a high procedural success rate with few and acceptable complications.Few patients suffered from recurrent symptoms or showed restenosis in long-term follow-up.
基金supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2012AA012701)
文摘The computational capability of a coarse-grained reconfigurable array(CGRA)can be significantly restrained due to data and context memory bandwidth bottlenecks.Traditionally,two methods have been used to resolve this problem.One method loads the context into the CGRA at run time.This method occupies very small on-chip memory but induces very large latency,which leads to low computational efficiency.The other method adopts a multi-context structure.This method loads the context into the on-chip context memory at the boot phase.Broadcasting the pointer of a set of contexts changes the hardware configuration on a cycle-by-cycle basis.The size of the context memory induces a large area overhead in multi-context structures,which results in major restrictions on application complexity.This paper proposes a Predictable Context Cache(PCC)architecture to address the above context issues by buffering the context inside a CGRA.In this architecture,context is dynamically transferred into the CGRA.Utilizing a PCC significantly reduces the on-chip context memory and the complexity of the applications running on the CGRA is no longer restricted by the size of the on-chip context memory.Data preloading is the most frequently used approach to hide input data latency and speed up the data transmission process for the data bandwidth issue.Rather than fundamentally reducing the amount of input data,the transferred data and computations are processed in parallel.However,the data preloading method cannot work efficiently because data transmission becomes the critical path as the reconfigurable array scale increases.This paper also presents a Hierarchical Data Memory(HDM)architecture as a solution to the efficiency problem.In this architecture,high internal bandwidth is provided to buffer both reused input data and intermediate data.The HDM architecture relieves the external memory from the data transfer burden so that the performance is significantly improved.As a result of using PCC and HDM,experiments running mainstream video decoding programs achieved performance improvements of 13.57%–19.48%when there was a reasonable memory size.Therefore,1080p@35.7fps for H.264high profile video decoding can be achieved on PCC and HDM architecture when utilizing a 200 MHz working frequency.Further,the size of the on-chip context memory no longer restricted complex applications,which were efficiently executed on the PCC and HDM architecture.
