Endovascular Repair of Blunt Popliteal Arterial Injuries

Shan Zhong,Xiquan Zhang,Zhong Chen,Peng Dong,Yequan Sun,Wei Zhu,Xiaolin Pan,Deming Qi 대한영상의학회 2016 Korean Journal of Radiology Vol.17 No.5

Objective: To evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of endovascular repair for blunt popliteal arterial injuries. Materials and Methods: A retrospective analysis of seven patients with clinical suspicion of popliteal arterial injuries that were confirmed by arteriography was performed from September 2009 to July 2014. Clinical data included demographics, mechanism of injury, type of injury, location of injury, concomitant injuries, time of endovascular procedures, time interval from trauma to blood flow restoration, instrument utilized, and follow-up. All patients were male (mean age of 35.9 ± 10.3 years). The type of lesion involved intimal injury (n = 1), partial transection (n = 2), complete transection (n = 2), arteriovenous fistula (n = 1), and pseudoaneurysm (n = 1). All patients underwent endovascular repair of blunt popliteal arterial injuries. Results: Technical success rate was 100%. Intimal injury was treated with a bare-metal stent. Pseudoaneurysm and popliteal artery transections were treated with bare-metal stents. Arteriovenous fistula was treated with bare-metal stent and coils. No perioperative death and procedure-related complication occurred. The average follow-up was 20.9 ± 2.3 months (range 18–24 months). One patient underwent intra-arterial thrombolysis due to stent thrombosis at 18 months after the procedure. All limbs were salvaged. Stent migration, deformation, or fracture was not found during the follow-up. Conclusion: Endovascular repair seems to be a viable approach for patients with blunt popliteal arterial injuries, especially on an emergency basis. Endovascular repair may be effective in the short-term. Further studies are required to evaluate the long-term efficacy of endovascular repair.

Experimental study of the influence of sodium salts as additive to NOxOUT process

Zhaoping Zhong,Xiujin Liang,Baosheng Jin,Xiaolin Chen,Weiling Li,Hongge Wei,Houkun Guo 한국화학공학회 2010 Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol.27 No.5

An experimental study of the SNCR process with urea as reducing agent and sodium salts as additive has been carried out, and detailed analysis of the reaction mechanism has been given here. In the temperature range of 800-975 oC, NO concentration decreases at first and then increases while the concentration of N2O increases at first and then decreases with the increasing of temperature, and the turning point is 900 oC. With increasing of normalized stoichiometric ratio of reduction nitrogen to NOx (NSR), NO removal efficiency increases, while the concentration of N2O also increases, which decreases overall NOx removal efficiency. With sodium salts as additive, the concentration of N2O decreases with increasing of sodium salts addition at all temperatures, while the concentration of NO decreases at first and then increases at low-temperature side of the temperature window and increases at high-temperature side with additional increasing, whose changing extent is smaller than N2O. Since sodium salts as additive can remove N2O effectively and have no large influence on the removal of NO, the effect of sodium salts as additive is the combined effect of the production of active radicals and the removal of HNCO produced by the decomposition of urea through neutralization reactions, which is more important. To achieve the same effect under each condition, the needed addition of NaOH and CH3COONa is less than that of Na2CO3 counting as Na atom. For the decomposition of CH3COONa can produce CH3COO, its addition can promote the reduction of NO more obviously at the lower temperature than Na2CO3 or NaOH. Overall NOx removal efficiency at 900 oC with NSR=1.5 had been improved from about 30% to 70.45% through the addition of sodium salts. Sodium salts as additive caused the flue gas to become alkaline gas, but it was not serious for sodium salts existing as NaNCO.

Predicting the splitting tensile strength of concrete using an equilibrium optimization model

Yinghao Zhao,Xiaolin Zhong,Loke Kok Foong 국제구조공학회 2021 Steel and Composite Structures, An International J Vol.39 No.1

Splitting tensile strength (STS) is an important mechanical parameter of concrete. This study offers novel methodologies for the early prediction of this parameter. Artificial neural network (ANN), which is a leading predictive method, is synthesized with two metaheuristic algorithms, namely atom search optimization (ASO) and equilibrium optimizer (EO) to achieve an optimal tuning of the weights and biases. The models are applied to data collected from the published literature. The sensitivity of the ASO and EO to the population size is first investigated, and then, proper configurations of the ASO-NN and EO-NN are compared to the conventional ANN. Evaluating the prediction results revealed the excellent efficiency of EO in optimizing the ANN. Accuracy improvements attained by this algorithm were 13.26 and 11.41% in terms of root mean square error and mean absolute error, respectively. Moreover, it raised the correlation from 0.89958 to 0.92722. This is while the results of the conventional ANN were slightly better than ASO-NN. The EO was also a faster optimizer than ASO. Based on these findings, the combination of the ANN and EO can be an efficient non-destructive tool for predicting the STS.

The Behavior of Phobic and Philip Oil Mist Filters Under High Pressure

Wang Yuewen,Wu Xiaolin,Chen Yuncong,Ji Zhongli 한국화학공학회 2024 Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol.41 No.5

The aim of this paper is to study the changing law of fi lter media properties under high-pressure conditions, and for this purpose, an experimental setup was established to measure the properties of fi lter materials at a maximum pressure of 5 MPa. By observing the experimental phenomena produced under diff erent pressures, combining the experimental data and experimental phenomena for qualitative and quantitative analyses, the fi lter media performance change pattern under diff erent pressures was obtained. The experiments were carried out at a pressure of 1–5 MPa, and the detailed experiments were conducted on the pressure drop, saturation and the liquid distribution pattern of the fi rst and last layers of the fi lter material. The experimental results show that the liquid fi lm on the surface of the fi lter media becomes progressively thinner with increasing pressure, and the jump pressure drop becomes smaller while the saturation increases. The saturation of the fi rst layer of the oleophilic fi lter media increased by 30% and the saturation of the last layer of the oleophobic fi lter media increased by 80% when the pressure was increased from 1 to 5 MPa. In addition, the results show that with increasing pressure, the surface tension of the droplets decreases and the surface tension of the DEHS decreases from 28.72 to 25.26 mN/m. The capillary force of fi lter media B was reduced from 0.20 to 0.13 mN, a 35% reduction in capillary force which changed the distribution of droplets on the fi bres and enhanced the wettability of the fi lter material. This discovery is of great signifi cance for understand ding the variation pattern of fi lter media performance under high-pressure conditions, and provides a basis for the design and manufacture of fi lter elements for high-pressure occasions.

Differential expression profile of microRNA in yak skeletal muscle and adipose tissue during development

Hui Ji,Hui Wang,Qiumei Ji,Winbo Ji,Xiaolin Luo,Jiabo Wang,Zhixin Chai,Jinwei Xin,Xin Cai,Zhijuan Wu,Jikun Wang,Jincheng Zhong 한국유전학회 2020 Genes & Genomics Vol.42 No.11

Background miRNAs play an important role in regulating normal animal development. Muscle tissue and fat metabolismare important for maintaining energy balance in animals. Yak has important agricultural and economic importance as itprovides milk, meat, and hair. It is used for transportation as well. However, the miRNA expression profiles of their muscleand adipose tissue are currently unknown. Objective To explore the regulatory roles of miRNAs in the skeletal muscle and adipose tissues of yak. Methods A total of 12 small RNA libraries were constructed from the skeletal muscle and adipose samples from yak aged 0.5,2.5, 4.5, and 7.5 years. High-throughput sequencing and bioinformatics analysis were used to determine the dynamic expressionprofile of miRNA, and a miRNA regulatory network related to muscle and adipose tissue development was established. Results miR-1-3p and miR-143-3p showed the highest expression during yak skeletal muscle and fat development, respectively. The MAPK and Ras signaling pathways were the pivotal pathways. miR-181-5p, miR-542-3p, and miR-424-5p mayhave key roles in skeletal muscle development, and CREBRF, GRB10, CDK1, RFX3, and EPC2 were the core target genes. While miR-127-5p, miR-379-3p, and miR-494-3p may play important regulatory roles in adipose deposition, and ETV1,XPO7, and C5AR2 were the core target genes. Conclusion This study provides valuable resources for further study of the molecular mechanisms underlying yak skeletalmuscle and adipose tissue development, and also a basis for studying the interactions between genes and miRNAs.