慢快综合征患者植入起搏器后调整参数对预后的影响

为了观察慢快综合征患者植入起搏器后对心功能,心房高频事件的影响,将植入具有自动化功能双腔起搏器的39例患者分为2组,A组起搏心率55次/分,B组起搏心率65次/分,术后1年内程控获取心房起搏百分比(Ap)、心室起搏百分比(Vp)、高频心房事件发生率(AHRE)、左房内径(LAD)、左室舒张末内径(LVEDD)、左室射血分数(LVEF)、血脑钠肽(BNP).结果显示,A组相比B组Ap、Vp明显降低,LVEDD、LVEF明显改善,BNP明显降低,LAD、AHRE两组无差异.故对于慢快综合征患者,适当降低起搏频率可明显改善LVEDD、LVEF,使BNP明显降低.     

右心房双心室起搏治疗QRS时限≥130ms慢性心力衰竭的长期疗效

观察右心房双心室起搏治疗慢性心力衰竭的长期疗效。选择2010年8月~2015年12月住院治疗的NYHA心功能Ⅱ级~Ⅳ级、左室射血分数(LVEF)≤35%、窦性心律、QRS时限≥130ms伴完全性左束支传导阻滞的心力衰竭患者76例,成功植入三腔起搏器后,比较起搏器植入术前及术后2年的疗效评价指标变化。右心房双心室起搏治疗2年后,患者的6分钟步行距离、明尼苏达生活质量评分(MQOL)、LVEF、左室舒张末内径(LVEDD)、体表心电图QRS波时限、N末端脑钠肽(NT-proBNP)等各疗效评价指标均得到明显改善(P0.05)。右心房双心室起搏治疗窦性心律、QRS时限≥130ms伴完全性左束支传导阻滞的慢性心力衰竭患者的长期疗效确切。     

心房颤动的器械治疗评价

器械治疗虽然不能完全消除房颤,但起搏器在一定程度上能减少房颤的负荷、能够快速终止房颤发作,房室结消融+双心室起搏治疗既能缓解房颤快速心室率时的症状,也使得心室得以再同步化治疗.经皮左心耳堵闭术可以预防血栓栓塞并发症、并避免长期应用抗凝药物.在越来越多的房颤患者中,还是有一部分患者仍然有器械治疗的适应证的.     

心房颤动的器械治疗评价

器械治疗虽然不能完全消除房颤,但起搏器在一定程度上能减少房颤的负荷、能够快速终止房颤发作,房室结消融＋双心室起搏治疗既能缓解房颤快速心室率时的症状,也使得·心室得以再同步化治疗。经皮左心耳堵闭术可以预防血栓栓塞并发症、并避免长期应用抗凝药物。在越来越多的房颤患者中,还是有一部分患者仍然有器械治疗的适应讧的。     

心力衰竭的药物及非药物治疗

神经内分泌激活、心室重构是收缩性心力衰竭进展的关键机制,针对上述机制的生物学治疗包括血管紧张素转换酶抑制剂、β受体阻滞剂、盐皮质激素受体拮抗剂等可显著改善心力衰竭患者预后,利尿剂、洋地黄等常规药物治疗可改善心力衰竭症状、降低心力衰竭住院风险,为神经内分泌拮抗剂的应用奠定基础;近年来,从阻断心力衰竭发生机制方面研发了很多新药,但尚没有一种能对长期生存率有显著改善.器械治疗(植入型心脏复律除颤器、心室再同步和心室再同步心脏复律除颤器)可降低特定心力衰竭患者病死风险,预防猝死发生,显著改善预后;心室辅助装置及干细胞治疗则为心力衰竭治疗带来新的曙光.     

超声心动图技术在心衰患者心脏再同步化治疗中的应用

心力衰竭患者普遍存在不同程度的心室内或心室间的不同步化运动.超声心动图可准确评估心脏机械不同步运动的部位、范围及程度.超声心动图在心脏再同步化治疗(CRT)患者筛选、预测和评价CRT疗效,CRT术后随访观察以及房室和室间间期的优化等方面具有重要临床意义.     

慢性心力衰竭患者临床管理与评估

尽管近年来在慢性心力衰竭(CHF)的治疗方面取得了较大的进展,但CHF患者仍有较高的住院率及病死率.CHF临床实践指南的发布促进了规范化治疗.为了取得良好的医疗效果,临床医生必须对心力衰竭患者提供一系列复杂的药物治疗及严格的自我控制措施.随着医学的不断发展,出现了包括心脏再同步化起搏、左心室辅助装置或心脏移植等治疗,而这些手段常需要在对患者进行危险性评估的基础上进行.严格遵循指南并使CHF患者出院后的教育与各种支持项目相结合才能够在一定程度上减低患者的再住院率及病死率.     

心房颤动的起搏器治疗

心房颤动(房颤)机制与治疗的研究取得了巨大进展,起搏器预防房颤的疗效已经被否定.由于导管消融已经取得比较满意的效果,在一定程度上改变了对房颤合并缓慢心律失常植入起搏器时起搏器类型的选择.对阵发性房颤终止后长间歇的认识与治疗是近年来房颤与起搏器相关的最大进展.进而也改变了对病态窦房结综合征的传统认识.     

三个血浆生物标志物对急性冠脉综合征预后作用的研究进展

急性冠脉综合征(ACS)会导致心律失常、左心室室壁血栓、心脏纤维化、心力衰竭、心源性休克、动脉瘤,甚至引发心脏破裂,是造成心脏疾病患者死亡的主要原因之一。多年来,人们一直在寻找具有可靠预测性的心脏病恶化生物标志物,其中半乳糖凝集素-3(GAL-3)、可溶性基质溶素-2(s ST2)和生长分化因子-15(GDF-15)作为新近发现的能够预测ACS患者预后的重要标志物得到广泛关注,本文将对这三个新型ACS预后的生物标志物目前的研究进展进行综述。     

高血压左室肥厚的QT离散度及左室Tei指数的关系探讨

心脏是最常见的高血压损伤靶器官,首先引起左心室肥厚,然后导致心功能下降,并可导致心律失常.高血压患者中约有1/3会出现左室肥厚(LVH),可致心血管病事件发病率增加,病死率升高,是猝死、冠心痛和充血性心力衰竭的独立的、主要的危险因素和预后信号.QT间期离散度(QTd)是反映心室肌复极的不均匀性和电不稳定性预测恶性室性心律失常及猝死的重要指标;Tei指数是一种简单可靠的定量综合评价心脏收缩和舒张功能的多普勒指标,具有较好的可靠性和重复性.本研究通过观察高血压病患者的QTd、左室Tei指数及左心功能,探讨其内在的相互关系.     

Together – apart: in touch in a time of separation

This paper explores the experience of working as a Jungian analyst through the various phases of the global COVID-19 pandemic, examining the importance of the physical containing space alongside the analyst’s internal mind and how technology can both help and hinder understanding. A number of clinical vignettes illustrate the challenge of communicating over a distance, paying particular attention to the way countertransference phenomena can become re-attuned. Reference is made to mythology and symbols of hope, and consideration given to the meaning and purpose of the pandemic.     

The Possibility of Meaning in Human Evolution

Science undermines the certitude of non-naturalistic answers to the question of whether human life has meaning. I explore whether evolution can provide a naturalistic basis for existential meaning. Using the work of philosopher Daniel Dennett and scientist Ursula Goodenough, I argue that evolution is the locus of the possibility of meaning because it has produced intentionality, the matrix of consciousness. I conclude that the question of the meaning of human life is an existentialist one: existential meaning is a product of the individual and collective tasks human beings undertake.     

Phenotypic plasticity and archetype: a response to common objections to the biological theory of archetype and instinct

Since Jung’s death in 1961, scholars have attempted to integrate growing biological science data into Jungian concepts such as the collective unconscious, instincts and the archetypes. This enterprise has been challenging due to persistent false dichotomies of gene and environment occasionally arising. Recent works by Roesler (2022a, 2022b) for example, have raised objections to the biological theory of archetypes, but the objections are plagued by such dichotomies. The concept of phenotypic plasticity, however, helps to both avoid this problem as well as bridge the gap between competing theories into a more integrated model with solid biological foundations.     

When is it time to stop? When good enough becomes bad enough

This article draws on Winnicott’s concept of the good enough mother to discuss how to know whether a therapeutic situation is good enough to continue or bad enough to end. This dilemma is explored in terms of clinical syndromes, such as anorexia and pathological gambling, but focuses mainly on analyst-initiated endings, which are termed the ‘Casablanca dilemma’, based on an amplification of the ending of the film Casablanca. The author goes on to discuss such one-sided endings, drawing on interviews with 40 analysts and therapists about their clinical experience. A typology of bad enough endings is presented. The psychological differences between a good enough analysis as opposed to a bad enough one are explored through the ideas of Winnicott and Neumann.     

Kann Es Ein Argument Für Den Skeptizismus Geben? Das Epistemische Problem Der Irrtumsmöglichkeit

Summary  Is there any argument for scepticism? The epistemic problem of the possibility of error. Arguments for scepticism rest on the assumption that knowledge claims are fallible. For this reason the concept of knowledge appears to be questionable. Since it is necessary to distinguish doubts from possible doubts, the arguments for scepticism appear to be unconvincing. If we take it into account that we know something that is immune to doubt, we should draw the conclusion that, contrary to scepticism, knowledge claims have to be compatible with being fallible. Thus any knowledge claim is capable of being doubted.     

The transcendent function in Spitteler’s Prometheus and Epimetheus

In August 2020, John Beebe and Steve Myers met via Zoom to discuss their differing interpretations of psychological typology and the different sources within Jung’s writings that influenced their books: Integrity in Depth: Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type (Beebe), and Myers-Briggs Typology vs Jungian Individuation (Myers). The discussion centred on Spitteler’s epic poem Prometheus und Epimetheus, which forms the basis of chapter V of Psychological Types. This is both the largest chapter and one of two chapters that Jung highlighted in the Argentine foreword as containing the essence of the book. Jung’s book is primarily about the transformation of personality rather than the categorization of people. Although it contains a critical psychology that deconstructs the nature of consciousness, that is only one half of the book and a stepping-stone to the other half, which is the reconciliation of opposites with particular emphasis on the relation of consciousness and the unconscious. Jung assumed that readers were already familiar with Prometheus und Epimetheus, an understanding of which sheds light on the nature of the transformation that Jung described – the development of a new attitude towards attitude itself.     

Chapter 6: Biblical Foundations for a Practical Theology of Aging

SUMMARY

This article reviews Biblical sources pertaining to the elderly, particularly the frail elderly. Founded on these sources, implications for elderly with Alzheimer's Disease and other forms of dementia are addressed through a personal perspective informed by writings of Christian mystics.     

Seeing in the Dark: A View into Dissociation and Healing

In this paper, I will explore the role of art-making, the experience of trauma and dissociation, and the process of working with self-states from an analytic and creative frame. Relevant literature on dissociation, trauma, and the use of art will be discussed. A case involving my work with an adolescent girl who had experienced sexual abuse from a family member will be shared, with an emphasis on the meaningful role images played during the therapeutic process. Both Jungian and psychoanalytic models of conceptualizing and working with dissociation are included, following Donald Kalsched’s (2013) recommendation for a “binocular stance” to treatment, including both a focus on the inner, intrapsychic world and the interpersonal, relational realm, and how art images both illuminated and expressed these realms. Within the therapeutic process, art images allowed the therapist a view into the client’s unconscious process, and created a meeting ground for dissociative barriers to be gradually seen, felt and known, by both therapist and client. The experience of dissociation, in images and in session, provided a reference point for myself and my client, Taylor, to develop a shared understanding and a framework for growth.