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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is known for development of severe cardiovascular co-morbidities. Systemic inflammation during acute exacerbations of COPD (AE-COPD) is thought to play a role in development of cardiovascular disease. Platelets contribute to acute cardiovascular events and atherosclerosis. When platelets are activated, they form complexes with monocytes. These platelet-monocyte complexes (PMCs) are an early process in atherothrombosis and promote inflammation. In COPD, platelet function in AE-COPD is scarcely studied. This study aims to address this gap by investigating platelet function and coagulation in patients with AE-COPD and after convalescence.

The proposed study will be a multi-centre, prospective, observational cohort to determine if psychological well-being has an impact on the outcome of surgical repair for rotator cuff tears.

Monogenic hypertension, which follows the rules of Mendel's genetic law, is one of the most important causes of hypertension. Generally, patients occur hypertension in early age, have family history, and often manifest severe hypertension or refractory hypertension. At present, only a few hypertension centers of hospitals in China will help clinically difficult diagnosis hypertensive patients to test some selective genes, while most of other hospitals still perform diagnosis based on biochemical examination and clinical symptoms. Therefore, in order to provide better guidance for the diagnosis and treatment for hypertensive patients, this project aims to develop a single gene detection panel for genetic hypertension, so as to provide new diagnostic technology for early intervention, prevention and treatment of hypertension in clinics.

Since the pulmonary artery hypertension is defined based on MPAP and the two previous formulae relating MPAP and PAT were derived in western population, the investigator planned to conduct a prospective study to derive a new formula for measuring MPAP from PAT in Indian population and compare the accuracy of all the three formulae

The purpose of this study is to clarify the relationship between n-3 PUFA and irisin in regulating the glucose metabolism in GDM patients.

Postoperative pain is a significant postoperative problem and it could be persistent if proper management is not provided. However, each patient shows different intensity of pain and different sensitivity to analgesics even if they underwent same procedures. Therefore, it would be useful to find the way to predict the postoperative pain sensitivity. Propofol, a popular anesthetic agent, induces pain during injection, which can not completely prevented by opioid or lidocaine in some patients. This is considered to be related to patient's pain sensitivity and it might be associated with postoperative pain sensitivity. Therefore, the relation of propofol injection pain and postoperative pain intensity will be explored.

This study aims to better characterise B cell phenotype and functional abnormalities in kidney transplant patients producing donor specific antibody (DSA) and in those with chronic antibody mediated rejection (cAMR) and to search for a predictive tool (biomarker). The functional analysis will help to better understand B cell-dependant mechanisms implied in T cell proliferation and better target future treatments.

The study plans to investigate whether recovery of the heart function after acute anterior myocardial infarction is dependent upon improvement in thyroid gland functioning.

Despite the growing public awareness and recent progress in multimodality therapy to the colorectal cancer (CRC), CRC still ranks high on the list of the most common and deadly cancers in Taiwan. The cause of CRC mortality is due mainly to the occurrence of distant metastasis. Several reports suggested that circulating tumor cells (CTCs) highly associated with metastasis suggesting that targeting CTCs may offer an unprecedented opportunity to prevent the development of metastasis. Early detection and characterization of CTCs is therefore important as a potential strategy to monitor the progression of CRC. The current proposal is focused on detecting CTCs from peripheral blood of CRC patients using Miselect R system. We will monitor the amount of CTCs and correlate with CRC progression and prognosis.

Shoulder disorders are frequent, often associated with pain and occur in 7-34% of the general population and in 21% of the elderly population. Of particular interest is prediction of postoperative pain after outpatient arthroscopic shoulder surgery since the clinical experience is that surgery does not always provides pain relief and the interindividual variation in acute postoperative pain intensity is significant. In addition, a Swedish study has shown that shoulder operations are associated with longer convalescence than other orthopaedic outpatient surgeries.