AIM: To investigate the concentration of bufadienolides in Liushen Pill from two enterprises. METHODS: Four kinds of bufadienolides were simultaneously determined by using HPLC with DAD detector. RESULTS: Recoveries obtained from the four kinds of bufadienolides were higher than 96%,the linearity was in the range of 1 ?g/mL-100 ?g/mL.The concentration of bufadienolides in Liushen Pill was significantly higher than that in other related TCM compatibilities. CONCLUSION: The well-distributed compatibility in Liushen Pill has an influence on the solubilization of bufadienolides,may be in relation to eahancing to release.

FPGA is a kind of powerful programmable chip used in the development of digital system, and it has such advantages as large capacity, reliability and easy modification. The design of FPGA system is mainly through software method which is easy to grasp. Compared with legacy discrete circuit or ASIC, more and more FPGAs are adopted in digital systems for low cost and fast speed. On the other hand, digital system plays an important role in control system of medical equipments, so FPGA is expected to be widely used in almost all fields of medical equipment.

Kawasakd disease(KD) or incomplete KD(IKD) is a systemic vasculitis predominantly affecting young children.Clinical manifestations include fever with no obvious origin,skin damage,abnormalities of mucous membrane and lymph nodes.The disease is often accompanied by serious cardiovascular complications such as coronary artery aneurysm,therefore it attracts more and more attention.But arthritis or arthralgia complicates over one-third of KD or IKD patients.So early-onset arthritis is often indistinguishable from early juvenile idiopathic arthritis,especially systemic-onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis(SoJIA).KD and SoJIA are considered to be different diagnoses for children with long-term fever,rash,swollen lymph nodes,and more importantly,the treatment procedures are very different,but it is difficult to completely distinguish the two diseases,especially the IKD and early SoJIA.So in this paper,we will summarize the relationship between KD and arthritis in children,which aims to remind clinicians to pay attention for the diagnosis of KD and IKD.We suggest that physicians should be alert of the fact that they must individualize every patient's management,rather than merely care by the guidelines,which will delay the treatment.

Objective To evaluate the academic level and the popularity of Chinese Journal of Orthopaedics from the point view of citation. Methods According to the information of Chinese Medical Citation Index (CMCI), the amount and distribution of the original articles in Chinese Journal of Orthopaedics cited by the journals included by CMCI were statistically analyzed. The data analysis included the percentage of cited articles, the number of citation of a single article, authors of most cited articles, geological regions of cited articles, citing journals, the self citing rate and years of citation. Results The percentage of cited papers (663 articles, 3728 times) in all published 1 182 articles in Chinese Journal of Orthopaedics from 2005 to 2009 was an average of 56.09%. The average time of original articles cited by other researchers was 5.62. The highest one was citated by 104 times. 210 articles (31.68% of total papers) were cited 5 or more times, and the all cited times from them were 2835 (76.04% of total cited times). 663 cited articles were written by 485 authors from different countries. The most frequently cited author wrote 12 papers. The number of authors with one paper cited was 386 (79.58% of total authors). The cited authors are from the mainland, HongKong, and Taiwan in China, as well as USA, Canada, France. Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin are leading cities in orthopaedic research. Beijing was the first place (32.16% of total authors). There were 445 citing journals. There was 217 items self cited; the self- citing rate is 0.058. Conclusion Chinese Journal of Orthopaedics has provided high quality articles and has a strong influence in the field of medical research. It has been become an important resource for orthopaedic researchers and a vital medical journal in China.

Objective: To analyze and evaluate of the long-term follow-up data of 152 patients with inoperable malignant biliary obstruction who underwent percutaneous placement of metallic stents. Me-thods: From 2000 through 2006, 152 consecutive patients with malignant biliary obstruction were treated with PTCD or placement of metallic stents. The causes of obstruction were bile duct carcinoma (n=35),pancreatic carcinoma (n=32), hepatocellular carcinoma and metastatic (n=61), lymphadenopathy in the hepatoduodenal ligament (n=24). We used 86 stents: 31 Cook Zilver Stents,25 Sinus Superflex Stents,12 Wall Stents,3 Sinus-s Iliaca Stents,3 ZA-S Bliary Design Stents,5 Smart Stents and 7 other stents. Every three months we followed up all patients except those who died. Patient survival and stent patency rates were estimated by life-table analysis. The Kaplan-Meier method (log-rank test) was used to compare the patency and survival rates among different groups. And the COX regression model was established to compare the relative risks. Results: The overall median length of patency of all stents was 314 days. The median length of survival for the entire patient group was 215 days. The survival rate was 79.1%,51.7% and 26.8% after 3, 6, and 9 months, respectively. Six patients developed recurrent jaundice or cholangitis. The patients with hepatic hilar obstruction group indicated worse prognosis (P≤0.05). Conclusion: Metallic stents showed a favorable patency rate with regard to patient survival. In patients with hilar obstruction, the clinical prognosis was worse than that in patients with common bile duct (CBD) obstruction. We believe that the placement of metallic stents is the procedure of choice for palliation of malignant biliary obstruction.

Quantum dots (QD),a kind of nanocrystal,are made from Ⅱ-Ⅵ or Ⅲ-Ⅴ group elements.It has been reported that compared with current conventional fluorescent markers,QD have excellent optical properties such as strong fluorescence,photochemical stability and can be used for simultaneous multi-channel imaging.Meanwhile,as nanoparticle,QD can be easily surface modified with a variety of biological molecular and can reach cancer cells easily by penetrating the tumor angiogenesis.Therefore,QD have unique advantages in targeted real-time visual imaging of in vivo tumor and have great prospects in the individual diagnosis and treatment of tumor.However,the long-term biosafety after QD into the body still needs further study.

Objective:To search for a method for analyzing medical service quality of different disease entities using the first page data of medical records.Methods: Based on documents review and real data analysis,the basic principles,methods and steps of disease entity dividing and selecting,evaluation index selecting,and calculating were introduced.Special attention was paid to certain problems in the discussion.Results: When the inpatients of selected disease entities covered 60% of total hospitalized patients,the medical quality information included exceeded 80% of the total information.For 97.66% disease entities,their inpatient cost and length of hospital stay were logarithmic-normally distributed.Conclusion: Dividing disease entities by fixed digits of ICD-9 code is easily performable.This method should be used when the disease entities include about 60% of total inpatients,and geometric mean should be used in calculating average length of hospital stay and average cost.

BACKGROUND: Chinese character is the only non-alphabetic system of writing, the patterns of semantic symbol, phonetic symbol and sign in the cognition of Chinese characters, it is the combination of form, sound and meaning, and its cognitive pattern, pathway, analytical judgement of semantic and storage are different from those of western alphabetic system of writing, and the processing of Chinese characters maydifferent from that of alphabetic system of writing.OBJECTIVE: To localize the motor language center of the healthy volunteers whose native language is Chinese by means of the equivalent current dipole (ECD) and synthetic aperture magnetometry (SAM) of magnetoen cephalography (MEG).DESIGN: A single-sample univariate analysis.SETTING: Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital affiliated to Capital University of Medical Sciences.PARTICIPANTS: Ten healthy volunteers whose native language is Chinese were selected from the postgraduates and training participants in the Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital affiliated to Capital University of Medical Sciences between July 2003 and April 2005, they were all right handedness and had no speech disorders and cognitive impairments, and all accepted training of language task.METHODS: All the healthy subjects were given the language task stimulation of reading words and pseudowords silently, the number of the silently read nouns, appearing time for each noun and the interval between two tasks were strictly matched, ① Words were the common high-frequency characters, accorded to the law of Chinese characters components, and had 4-13 strokes. ② Pseudowords, composed by Chinese characters made-up software, accorded to the made-up law of Chinese character, but could not compose the stroke assemble of the character, and had 4-13 strokes. The evoked magnetic field produced after the stimulation was recorded with MEG, the collected data were overlapped with MRI to obtain the localization of language functional areas.RESULTS: All the 10 volunteers finished the test and entered the analysis of results. Both words and pseudowords evoked obvious late magnetic reaction waves in bilateral cerebral hemispheres, the motor language centers both located at posterior inferior frontal gyrus.CONCLUSION: The motor and classic motor language centers are general concordant in the normal people whose native language is Chinese, that was to say, the motor language center localizes at posterior inferior frontal gyrus of normal people whose native language is Chinese.

Objective: To further optimize the hospital inspection process, shorten the patient waiting time of examination and improve the overall utilization of medical equipment. Methods:HIS and PACS to realize the information system integration by using hospital information platform, and then develop a set of medical equipment reservation system. The doctor workstation through the system could real-time help patient appoint check items, and eliminate patients to check the front desk or reservation center reservation registration steps. Results:The successful application of medical equipment reservation system not only optimize hospital inspection process, shorten the patient waiting in line inspection time, but also increase the utilization rate of MR equipment by 35%. Conclusion: The use of medical equipment reservation system saves the patient queuing registration, waiting for the examination of the time, and improve the utilization rate of hospital medical equipment, create economic benefits for the hospital and brought widespread popularity and reputation for the hospital.

OBJECTIVE:To establish the evaluation index system that is suitable for biological pharmaceutical industry cluster competitiveness,and provide reference for the evaluation of biological pharmaceutical industry cluster competitiveness in Jiangsu province. METHODS:Biological pharmaceutical industry cluster enterprises in Jiangsu province were selected as research samples. Through the questionnaires,the grey multi-index evaluation method was used to determine weight set,establish evaluation sample matrix,and evaluate and analyze 3 first-level indexes(8 second-level indexes,and 23 tertiary-level indexes),such as the innova-tion knowledge spillover,innovation network and social capital,etc. RESULTS & CONCLUSIONS:The financial indicators such as investment intensity of biological pharmaceutical industry cluster in Jiangsu province were low,and there was a shortage of funds problem;new drug patents of independent intellectual property rights were insufficient,and lacked of protection of intellectu-al property rights,there was an independent innovation motivation problem;profitability indexes such as the rate of product sales were low,there was a problem of low industrialization of scientific research;social culture score in social capital level was not high,there was a problem of strengthening soft environment such as the binding biological innovation public service platform. It is suggested to strengthen the cooperation among cluster enterprises and scientific research institutions,and improve enterprise innova-tion power;improve the mechanism of biological innovation and the level of industrialization of scientific research achievements;and actively guide the various types of biological innovation public service platform to participate in the construction of the soft en-vironment of the cluster.