Purpose The incidence of cesarean scar pregnancy (CSP) shows a rising trend in recent years, and misdiagnosis or improper treatment of it can cause serious consequences. In this paper, we analyzed the characteristics of MRI and ultrasonography of CSP to provide a basis for choice of clinical imaging techniques. Materials and Methods Fifty-eight patients with cesarean scar pregnancy were studied retrospectively, all the cases underwent preoperative color Doppler ultrasound (trans-vaginal or together with trans-abdominal), and 31 cases were examined with MRI, the accurate imaging features and diagnosis rate of each was analyzed.Results 48 patients (82.8%) were diagnosed accurately by color Doppler ultrasound, including 20 cases of out-growth type (95.2%, 20/21), 18 cases of inner-growth type (90.0%, 18/20) and 10 cases of mass type (58.8%, 10/17); 27 cases (87.1%) were diagnosed accurately by MRI, including 8 cases of out-growth type (100.0%, 8/8), 4 cases of inner-growth type (66.7%, 4/6), and 15 cases of mass type (88.5%, 15/17).Conclusion The diagnostic accuracy of sonography for CSP is close to that of MRI, thus can act as the first choice; MRI can be chosen for combine examination to improve the accurate diagnostic rate when the CSP case is mass type detected by ultrasonic findings which is difficult to be diagnosed.

Objective To investigate the feasibility of pulse Doppler combined with electrocardiographic thinking for diagnosis of fetal arrhythmia. Methods Sixty-five fetuses with arrhythmia were examined with prenatal ultrasound. Pulse Doppler spectrum of pulmonary arteries and pulmonary veins were ontained and anlyzed with electrocardiographic thinking, and different kinds of fetal arrhythmia were diagnosed and classified. Results Among the 65 fetuses, 12 were found with sinus bradycardia, 8 with sinus tachycardia, 5 with supraventricular tachycardia, 28 with atrial premature beat, 7 with premature ventricular and 5 with atrioventricular block. Conclusion Pulse Doppler combined with electrocardiographic thinking plays an important role in the diagnosis and classification of fetal arrhythmia.

Objective To investigate the clinical and head CT imageological features features in 276 cases of intracranial tubercu‐losis .Methods The clinical and CT features in 276 inpatients with confirmed intracranial tuberculosis were analyzed .Results These 276 cases of intracranial tuberculosis all were complicated by pulmonary tuberculosis ,among them blood‐borne type accoun‐ted for 49 .6% ; young and middle‐aged cases were predominant (72 .5% ) ; the majority manifested by the symptoms of fever (70 .0% ) and headache(66 .2% ) ;the summer and autumn had the higher incidence rate ,which were 167 cases(80 .7% ) .The posi‐tive detection rate of head CT plain scanning was 63 .4% ,which of enhanced scanning was 98 .6% .Among them ,236(85 .5% ) cases were tuberculous meningitis lesions ,158 cases(57 .2% ) were tuberculous encephalitis ,144 cases (52 .2% ) were tuberculoma and 133 cases (48 .2% ) were tuberculous vasculitis .Conclusion The clinical menifestations of intracranial tuberculosis are atypical ,but the head CT plain scannig displays multiple abnormalities .Moreover ,the enhanced scanning increases the positive detection rate . The lesions of meninges ,brain vessels and brain parenchyma often occur together .Therefore ,the diagnosis basis should be combined with clinic ,laboratory tests and head CT ,especially the clinical application of head CT enhanced scanning should be paid attention to .

Objective To investigate the diagnostic value of prenatal ultrasonography and magnatic resonance imaging in the fetal intracranial hemorrhage. Methods The 20 antenatal diagnosed ICH cases was collected from 31 200 prenatal diagnosis units in Guangzhou Women and Children′s Medical Center from July 2012 to June 2014. Maternal characteristics, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging findings, clinical course, and postnatal outcome were reviewed. Results Twenty consecutive cases of fetal ICH were evaluated. All cases were diagnosed at mid or third trimester. Transabdominal ultrasound showed 9 cases of hyper echoic lesions in the lateral ventricle, 2 cases of hypoechonic lesions, 2 cases of irregular mixed echo in the parenchyma, 1 case of hyperechoic cerebellar hemisphere with infarction, and 1 case of abnormal choroid plexus. Seventeen cases were associated with ventriculomegaly, brain compression or brain midline displacement. MRI showed the nodular, patchy or linear low signal on T2WI and high signal on T1WI. Some cases were combined with cortex lesions or abnormal parenchyma. ICH was complicated with other structural abnormalities:1 case of cleft palate, 2 cases of spinal deformity and 3 cases of other cerebral cortical malformations. Prenatal diagnosis results were:2 cases diagnosed as positive cytomegalovirus infection and no chromosome abnormalities found in all cases. The follow up results were:1 case was lost, 16 cases were terminated after prenatal diagnosis. Among the 3 survival cases, 1 case has the neurological complication and the other two were normal till now. Conclusions Fetal intracranial hemorrhage has some image features on ultrasound and magnetic resonance. Ultrasound showed hyper echoic lesions with ventriculomegaly. MRI showed the nodular, patchy or linear low signal on T2WI and high signal on T1WI. MRI may contribute to the accuracy of diagnosis, particularly in bleeding site. The regular ultrasonic monitoring is helpful to improve the detection rate.

OBJECTIVEDuring 2003-2005, an outbreak of meningitis due to Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C occurred in China. With the aim to find strain clues result in the final epidemics, the ancestral strain 053442, a clinical isolate, and a carrier strain 053426 with different gene type were analyzed.

METHODSClinical strain 053442 and carrier strain 053426 were cultured on GC agar plates under the same condition. Two-dimensional electrophoresis was performed using the pH 3-10 nonlinear IPG strips of 24 cm length, and all the protein spots were identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight spectrometry.

RESULTS502 and 380 protein spots were identified in 053426 and 053442 respectively, relating to 266 and 202 different genes covering a wide range of cellular functions. The express volume and number of proteins involved in energy metabolism, protein synthesis and amino acid biosynthesis in 053426 were higher than in 053442. Virulence factor Opa, Opc and a series of proteins involved in pilus assembly and retraction were identified in 053442, which appear to be of primary importance in colonization and invasion of human cells. Compared to 053442, virulence protein species were less in 053426, with lower express volumes too. No Opa and Opc were detected in 053426.

CONCLUSIONSThe different protein expression profiles of the clinical strain 053442 and carrier strain 053426 in the present study provide some clues of the different pathogenicity of the two strains, which may account for result in the final epidemics.

Bacterial Proteins ; analysis ; Bacterial Typing Techniques ; China ; epidemiology ; Disease Outbreaks ; Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional ; Humans ; Meningitis, Meningococcal ; cerebrospinal fluid ; epidemiology ; microbiology ; Neisseria meningitidis, Serogroup C ; classification ; isolation & purification ; Proteome ; analysis ; Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization