Objective: To investigate the mid-and long-term clinical effects of tricuspid valvuloplasty with the implantation of an artificial plastic ring.Methods: Data of 677 patients who had functional tricuspid regurgitation ...Objective: To investigate the mid-and long-term clinical effects of tricuspid valvuloplasty with the implantation of an artificial plastic ring.Methods: Data of 677 patients who had functional tricuspid regurgitation and left cardiac valve disease and underwent tricuspid valvuloplasty and left cardiac valve surgery were retrospectively.Among these patients, 353 underwent simple suture annuloplasty(group A) while the rest 324 patients underwent artificial plastic ring annuloplasty(group B).The two-year and more-than-two-year clinical and ultrasonocardiograph(UCG) follow-up data of the two groups were obtained and compared.Results: A total of 600 patients(88.6%) completed the long-term follow-up(more than two years).The two-year follow-up showed no significant difference in the incidence of mild tricuspid regurgitation between the two groups(82.2% vs.92.7%, P=0.37).However, there were significantly more cases that developed into moderate to severe tricuspid regurgitation in group A than in group B(17.8% vs.7.3%, P=0.031).The long-term follow-up revealed that the recurrence rate of tricuspid regurgitation in group B was significantly lower than that in group A(11.0% vs.25.0%, P=0.029), and the ratio of cases developing into moderate to severe tricuspid regurgitation in group A was significantly higher than that in group B(28.9% vs.9.9%, P=0.007).The comparison between the two intra-group time segments showed that the development of tricuspid regurgitation in group A was significantly increased(28.9% vs.17.8%, P=0.022), but in group B it was relatively stable(9.9% vs.7.3%, P=0.52).Conclusions: Artificial ring annuloplasty is associated with significantly less tricuspid regurgitation than simple suture annuloplasty.展开更多
This paper is devoted to the study of traveling wavefronts for a three-component Lotka-Volterra system with nonlocal dispersal.This system arises in the study of three-species competition model in which there is no co...This paper is devoted to the study of traveling wavefronts for a three-component Lotka-Volterra system with nonlocal dispersal.This system arises in the study of three-species competition model in which there is no competition between two of these three species.It has been shown that this system admits a bistable traveling wavefront.In this paper,we further investigate the stability of bistable traveling wavefronts.By constructing suitable super-and sub-solutions and using a dynamical system approach,we obtain the globally asymptotic stability of the bistable traveling wavefronts.展开更多
In this paper,we study the linear determinacy of the minimal speed of traveling wave-fronts for a three-component competition system with nonlocal dispersal.We first trans-form this system into a cooperative system.Th...In this paper,we study the linear determinacy of the minimal speed of traveling wave-fronts for a three-component competition system with nonlocal dispersal.We first trans-form this system into a cooperative system.Then,by constructing suitable upper solu-tions,we give some general conditions to ensure the linear determinacy of the minimalspeed.Finally,we provide some more precise conditions that only rely on the parametersof the system such that the linear determinacy of the minimal speed is assured.展开更多
文摘Objective: To investigate the mid-and long-term clinical effects of tricuspid valvuloplasty with the implantation of an artificial plastic ring.Methods: Data of 677 patients who had functional tricuspid regurgitation and left cardiac valve disease and underwent tricuspid valvuloplasty and left cardiac valve surgery were retrospectively.Among these patients, 353 underwent simple suture annuloplasty(group A) while the rest 324 patients underwent artificial plastic ring annuloplasty(group B).The two-year and more-than-two-year clinical and ultrasonocardiograph(UCG) follow-up data of the two groups were obtained and compared.Results: A total of 600 patients(88.6%) completed the long-term follow-up(more than two years).The two-year follow-up showed no significant difference in the incidence of mild tricuspid regurgitation between the two groups(82.2% vs.92.7%, P=0.37).However, there were significantly more cases that developed into moderate to severe tricuspid regurgitation in group A than in group B(17.8% vs.7.3%, P=0.031).The long-term follow-up revealed that the recurrence rate of tricuspid regurgitation in group B was significantly lower than that in group A(11.0% vs.25.0%, P=0.029), and the ratio of cases developing into moderate to severe tricuspid regurgitation in group A was significantly higher than that in group B(28.9% vs.9.9%, P=0.007).The comparison between the two intra-group time segments showed that the development of tricuspid regurgitation in group A was significantly increased(28.9% vs.17.8%, P=0.022), but in group B it was relatively stable(9.9% vs.7.3%, P=0.52).Conclusions: Artificial ring annuloplasty is associated with significantly less tricuspid regurgitation than simple suture annuloplasty.
基金supported by NSF of China (11861056)NSF of Gansu Province (21JR7RA121)Department of Education of Gansu Province:Youth Doctoral Fund Project (2021QB-018).
文摘This paper is devoted to the study of traveling wavefronts for a three-component Lotka-Volterra system with nonlocal dispersal.This system arises in the study of three-species competition model in which there is no competition between two of these three species.It has been shown that this system admits a bistable traveling wavefront.In this paper,we further investigate the stability of bistable traveling wavefronts.By constructing suitable super-and sub-solutions and using a dynamical system approach,we obtain the globally asymptotic stability of the bistable traveling wavefronts.
基金The second author is supported by NSF of China(11861056).
文摘In this paper,we study the linear determinacy of the minimal speed of traveling wave-fronts for a three-component competition system with nonlocal dispersal.We first trans-form this system into a cooperative system.Then,by constructing suitable upper solu-tions,we give some general conditions to ensure the linear determinacy of the minimalspeed.Finally,we provide some more precise conditions that only rely on the parametersof the system such that the linear determinacy of the minimal speed is assured.
