OBJECTIVETo establish a method for rapid determination of organic fluorides in the air of a fluorine chemical plant using portable gas chromatography-mass spectrometer (GC-MS).

METHODSStandard samples of monochlorodifluoromethane, tetrafluoroethylene, and hexafluoropropylene of different concentrations were prepared by static volumetric method with high-purity nitrogen as the diluent gas. The samples were injected into the GC-MS by a hand-held probe. Retention time and characteristic ion were used for qualitative analysis, and the area of selected ion peak was used for quantitative analysis. The standard curves were then created for quantitative determination of the three organic fluorides.

RESULTSThe linear ranges for monochlorodifluoromethane, tetrafluoroethylene, and hexafluoropropylene by the method were 0.39-7.72, 0.45-8.84, and 0.61-12.20 mg/m3, respectively, the average recovery rates for the three concentrations were 102.8%, 96.0%, and 106.5%, respectively, and the average deviations were 2.1%, 5.1%, and 2.4%, respectively.

CONCLUSIONThe portable GC-MS can be used for the simultaneous qualitative and quantitative analysis of monochlorodifluoromethane, tetrafluoroethylene, and hexafluoropropylene in the workplace air, and the method is simple, fast, and accurate.

Air Pollutants, Occupational ; analysis ; Chlorofluorocarbons, Methane ; analysis ; Fluorides ; analysis ; Fluorocarbons ; analysis ; Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry ; Workplace

Objective To understand the epidemiological feature of rotavirus and humancaliciviruses in Miyun county of Bei-jing and provide theoretical basis for prevention and control.Methods Stool specimens were collected from 240 diarrhea pa-tients in 3 hospitals from April 2011 to March 2012.Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)and reverse transcrip-tion-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)were used to detect rotavirus and humancaliciviruses respectively.Data was statis-tically analyzed.Results The positive rate of rotavirus was present in 10.3%.Positive cases mainly fell in age group 0~5. More male diarrhea patients than female were infected by humancaliciviruses (P<0.05).The positive rate of humancalicivir-uses was present 8.8%.Positive cases mainly fell in age group 19~40.Conclusion The humancaliciviruses susceptible pop-ulations were middle-aged youth and male in Miyun,the infection peak of humancaliciviruses is in autumn.The main infection of rotavirus population was babies.

BACKGROUND:Although thoracoscopy with pleurodesis is regarded as a positive and effective way for the treatment of malignant pleural effusion, the merit and demerit of sclerosants are directly related to postoperative recovery and the success of pleurodesis. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the therapeutic effect of talc pleurodesisvia thoracoscopy in the treatment of refractory malignant pleural effusions METHODS:There were 14 male and 15 female patients in this study, age ranging from 38 to 79 years. Al patients with refractory malignant pleural effusion underwent talc pleurodesis under thoracoscopy. The postoperative adverse reactions, chest CT scan 1 month after operation and the fluid drainage were observed. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Twenty-nine patients with chest pain were observed in this study. Eighteen patients could relieve the pain itself without medications, eight patients required oral Tramadol and three patients took Demerol or morphine oraly to ease the pain. Fever occurred in three cases at 3 days after operation. Neither pneumonedema, acute respiratory failure, nor death ocurred postoperatively. One month later, complete successful pleurodesis was achieved in 24 cases, and partial successful in 3 cases, and unsuccessful in 2 cases. The results indicate that thoracoscopy with talc pleurodesis can be regarded as a positive and effective way for the treatment of malignant pleural effusion.

BACKGROUND:Some scholars believe that for primary spontaneous pneumothorax thoracoscopic surgery and intraoperative pleurodesis can effectively reduce the recurrence rate. ＜br> OBJECTIVE:To study the reliability and validity of video-assisted thoracoscopic entoiodine pleurodesis for treatment of primary spontaneous pneumothorax. ＜br> METHODS:Videothoracoscopy procedures were performed on 64 patients with primary spontaneous pneumothorax, including 46 males and 18 females, with an age ranging from 15 to 30 years. According to the use of pleurodesis, the patients were randomly divided into two groups:experimental group and control group. In the control group, no entoiodine was used;while in the experimental group, entoiodine dipped gauze was used on the visceral pleura. The operation time, intraoperative bleeding, postoperative drainage, postoperative leakage time, postoperative extubation time, postoperative complications and the recurrence rate of pneumothorax within 1 year after operation were compared between two groups. ＜br> RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:No significance was found in the operation time, intraoperative bleeding, postoperative leakage time, postoperative extubation time and postoperative complications between the two groups (P>0.05). Although the experimental group had significantly more postoperative drainage volume than the control group (P＜0.05), there were no consequences of medical intervention. Video-assisted thoracoscopic entoiodine pleurodesis could significantly reduce the recurrence rate of pneumothorax in 1 year after operation (P＜0.05). The results show that video-assisted thoracoscopic operation with entoiodine is a reliable and effective method to reduce the recurrence of pneumothorax after operation in patients with primary spontaneous pneumothorax.

Objective To compare the activities of daily living(ADL) of the elderly in different styles of providing.Methods 662 subjects were in range of 60～100 years old living in the organization for the aged and 620 subjects were in the range of 60～98 years old living at home from Beijing urban. They were evaluated with the ADL rating scales and a self-designed health status questionnaire.Results The total scores of ADL were not significantly difference between the elderly living at home and living in the organization(t=-0.299, P＞0.05). But age (OR=3.05, 95%CI: 1.805～2.935), educational level (OR=2.01, 95%CI: 1.512～2.544), and physical health (OR=1.25, 95%CI: 1.524～2.012) were related to ADL. Conclusion Age is the important factor affecting ADL (OR=3.05, 95%CI: 1.805～2.935), but ADL of the elderly in different styles of providing is not significantly difference.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the incidence and pathogens of infection in 1659 consecutive cases in single center hematological unit.METHODS The incidence,pathogen,and outcome of infection in 1659 hospitalized patients with hematological disorders from 1999 to 2006 were retrospectively analyzed.RESULTS The overall incidence of infection was 24.4% according to the person-times of hospitalization,which included 22.1% of nosocomial infection and 2.3% of community acquired infection.Most of the pathogenic bacteria of the nosocomial infection were Gram-negative.The most common bacteria in the sputum samples included Enterobacter cloacae(19.3%) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa(14.8%).The most common bacteria in the blood samples were coagulase negative Staphylococcus(CNS,39.3%),the next was Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli.There were 4.21% bacteria resistant to most of antibiotics in nosocomial infection.There were 114 fungi isolated.Candida albicans was accounted for 35.1%.The mortality due to nosocomial infection was 7.4%.CONCLUSIONS The patients in hematology ward are susceptible to infection.The pathogens of nosocomial infection are most likely G-bacteria.Some bacteria are resistant to almost all antibiotics.The incidence of fungal infection is increasing in the near 8 years.

Objectives To detect genetic causes of dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB). Methods Next-generation sequencing was used to detect a neonate with DEB. Sanger sequencing was used to confirm the results and detect his parents and grandmother on his mother side from the family. Results The neonate was found to have heterozygous mutation c.6781C>T of exon 86 in COL7A1 gene.This mutation results in R2261X nonsense mutation in typeⅦcollagen. His mother and grand-mother on his mother side have the same mutation. Conclusion Next-generation sequencing technology is a useful tool for the detection of mutations of COL7A1 gene, which is valuable for clinical application.

Objective To compare short-term clinical effect according to the extent of lymphadenectomy.To identify the rational lymph node dissection in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma(ESCC).Methods Between January 2010 and December 2013,160 patients with ESCC received video-assisted laparothoracoscopy esophagectomy plus three-field lymphadenectomy(3FL) (86 cases)or two-field lymphadenectomy(2FL) (74 cases).Retrospectively analyzed the lymph node metastasis, postoperative complications and short-term survival rates between 3FL and 2FL.Results There was significantly differences in the number of lymph node between 3 FL(28.60 ± 3.30) and 2 FL(14.54 ± 5.59) (P ＜ 0.05) , but no significantly differences in postoperative complications between 3FL(22.09％) and 2FL(14.86％) (P ＞ 0.05).There was significantly differences in half-year survival rates between 3FL(93.02％) and 2FL(83.78％) (P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion Three field lymph oode dissection can reduce local recurrence, improve survival rate of some patients with ESCC.We suggest that esophagectomy plus three-field lymphadenectomy should be conventional.

Gene knockout by ZFNs (zinc-finger nucleases) is efficient and specific, and successfully applied in more than 10 organisms. Currently, it is unclear whether this technology can be used for knocking-out enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) gene in transgenic goats. Here we constructed and used ZFN-coding plasmids to produce genetic knockouts in the cells of cloned fetus produced from donor cells by microinjection of EGFP gene. Following introduced plasmids into caprine primary cultured fetus fibroblasts by electroporation, targeting of a transgene resulted in sequence mutation. Using the flow cytometric analysis, we confirmed the disappearance of EGFP expression in treated cells. Sequence from PCR products corresponding to targeted site showed that insertion of a G into the exon of EGFP resulted in frame shift mutation. These results suggest that ZFN-mediated gene targeting can apply to caprine fetus fibroblasts, which may open a unique avenue toward the creation of gene knockout goats combining with somatic cell nuclear transfer.
Animals ; Base Sequence ; Cloning, Organism ; Electrophoresis ; Endonucleases ; genetics ; metabolism ; Fetus ; Fibroblasts ; metabolism ; Gene Knockout Techniques ; Gene Targeting ; methods ; Goats ; Green Fluorescent Proteins ; genetics ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Zinc Fingers

Objective:To evaluate the clinical efficiency and prognostic factors of autologous peripheral blood stem cell trans-plantation (APBSCT) in 30 cases of multiple myeloma (MM). Methods:Two of the 30 patients received the second treatment of APB-SCT because of relapse after the first treatment. Thus, a total of 32 case-times of APBSCT were studied. Combination chemotherapy was inducted regularly before APBSCT (11 patients used bortezomib as an induction drug), and chemotherapy combined with the G-CSF regimen was used to mobilize peripheral blood stem cells. Preconditioning was based on melphalan. Results:Mononuclear cells in harvest were 6.41 × 108/kg, and CD34+cells in harvest were 4.75 × 106/kg. The median times of neutrophil and platelet engraftment were 9.5 and 11 d, respectively. The complete remission (CR) and very good partial remission (VGPR) rates were 37.5%and 34.4%af-ter APBSCT, respectively. The median overall survival (OS) was 67.27 months in all patients, and the median progression-free survival (PFS) was 29.77 months. The median PFS rates were 29 and 20 months in the patients who achieved CR and PR, respectively, and the median PFS was not observed in the patients who achieved VGPR. Statistical differences in PFS were detected between the CR+VGPR and PR groups (P=0.025). The CR rates were 63.6%and 23.8%in the bortezomib (bortezomib-based chemotherapy) and non-bortezo-mib groups (P=0.034), respectively. The median OS and PFS were not obtained in the bortezomib group, whereas the median PFS was 22 months in the non-bortezomib group (P=0.045). Conclusion: MM patients treated with bortezomib-based chemotherapy followed by APBSCT had prolonged PFS. APBSCT can improve the response and survival of MM patients.