Objective To observe the clinical efficacy of acyclovir combined with prednisone in the treatment of herpes zoster.Methods 128 patients with herpes zoster were selected as study objects,and they were divided into the treatment group and the control group by using the method of complete random distribution,64 cases in each group.The patients in the treatment group were treated with oral acyclovir and prednisone,while those in the control group received oral acyclovir alone.The clinical efficacy of the two groups was observed.Results The blistering,crusting and healing time had no significant differences between the two groups(t=1.76,1.79,1.41,all P＞0.05).The analgesic time of the treatment group was (3.2±1.2)d,which was significantly shorter than (7.4±2.6)d of the control group (t=11.73,P＜0.01).The total effective rate of the treatment group was 95.3％,which was significantly higher than 73.4％ of the control group,the difference was significant(χ2=16.13,P＜0.01).In the treatment group,there were 2 cases of postherpetic neuralgia.In the control group,8 cases had postherpetic neuralgia.The incidence rate of adverse events in the treatment group was significantly lower than that in the control group(χ2=6.01,P＜0.05).Conclusion Acyclovir combined with prednisone in the treatment of herpes zoster has significant clinical efficacy,it can shorten the analgesic time,and is worthy of clinical application.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the inhibitory effect of HPSE AS-ODN on the invasiveness of human Hep-2 cell lines. METHODS HPSE AS- ODN which was complementary with initiation codon region of HPSE mRNA was designed and synthesized. After embedded by cation lipofectin, it was transfected into Hep-2 cells of human laryngocarcinoma. The expression of HPSE protein and HPSE mRNA in Hep-2 cell lines were detected by flow cytometry and RT- PCR. Meanwhile Matrigel invasive assay was used to measure the inhibitory effect of HPSE AS-ODN on the invasiveness of human Hep-2 cell lines. RESULTS The HPSE protein and HPSE mRNA expression and invasiveness of human Hep-2 cells treated with AS- ODN of different concentrations were significantly decreased as the AS-ODN concentration increasing. There was a significantly difference between control group and each group of AS-ODN respectively (P

To observe the D-dimer levels and the numbers of micro-embolic signals (MES) in atrial fibrillation patients with different thromboembolic risk scores. A total of 216 persistent atrial patients were classified according to their different scores with a range of 0 -6.They were also divided into two groups by ≥2 or ＜ 2 according to the CardiacFailure,Hypertension,Age,Diabetes,Stroke 2 (CHADS2) point system.D-dimer levels and the numbers of MES were detected in all patients.A rising trend of D-dimer level and the number of MES was observed with the increases of CHADS2 score. D-dimer level and the number of MES in group 0 or 1 score were significantly lower than those in other high score groups (P ＜ 0.05).And the number of MES in group 5 or 6 score was significantly higher than those in other low score groups (P ＜ 0.05).D-dimer level and the number of MES in the group of ≥ 2 score were significantly higher than those in group ＜ 2 score ( P ＜ 0.01 ).It suggests that D-dimer level and the nunber of MES may reflect the thromboembolic risks in atrial fibrillation patients.

Objective To evaluate the diagnosis and treatment of cystic renal cell carcinoma and to improve the preoperative diagnosis and curative rate of the disease. Methods Ten cases of cystic renal cell carcinoma were retrospectively analyzed in the aspects of imaging and pathologic characteristics. There were 7 males and 3 females with average age of 56 years old (ranging from 38--74 years old) in this study. There were 3 cases complained of sore waist, 7 cases were found renal masses in annual physical examination and 2 cases had the history of renal cysts. The cyst diameter was 3.5 8.2 cm. Six cases had been diagnosed with ultrasound and 7 cases had been diagnosed with CT scan pre-operatively. Eight eases were diagnosed with frozen section during operation. All the 10 cases accepted radical nephreetomies. Results The post-operative histological diagnosis showed that there were 9 cases of clear cell carcinoma and 1 case of granular cell carcinoma. The pathological character istics were tumor necrosis of renal cell carcinoma in 6 cases, multilocular cystic renal cell carcinoma in 2 cases and carcinoma in renal cyst in 2 cases. Eight patients followed up from 6 months to 5 years. Six patients were still alive (mean 28.5 months). Conclusion The keys to improve the diagnosis and curative rate of the cystic renal cell carcinoma are paying attention to the pre-operative imaging study, the intra-operative frozen section examination and histopathology results.

Objective To compare the effect of retroperitoneoscopic ureterolithotomy (RPUL) and ureteroscopic lithotripsy (URL) for upper ureteral calculi.Methods One hundred and twenty cases treated by RPUL and 108 cases by URL from January 2002 to October 2012 were reviewed.In RPUL and URL group,the diameter of stone was (1.56 ± 0.52) cm vs (1.44 ± 0.46) cm,ipsilateral hydronephrosis was (2.85 ± 0.86) cm vs (2.76 ± 0.82) cm,body mass index was (23.65 ± 2.80) kg/m2 vs (22.54 ± 2.68) kg/m2.There were no signficant differences.Data on the operation time,the hospital stay after operation,the operation,successsful rate,complication incidence and stone-free rate were compared between the 2 groups.Results Comparisons between RPUL group and URL group included the following:the operation time was (75.5 ± 25.8) min vs (62.5 ± 15.3) min,the hospital stay after operation was (6.2 ± 1.2) d vs (4.0 ± 0.8) d.There were significant differences.The operation successful rate was 95.0％ (114/120) in RPUL group and 85.2％ (92/108) in URL group.The complications incidence rate was 3.5％ (4/114) in RPUL group and 17.4％ (16/92) in URL group.The stone-free rate was 100.0％ (114/114) in RPUL group and 89.1％ (82/92) in URL group.The differences were significant (P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions RPUL and URL had the advantages of less trauma and blood loss and rapid recovery.RPUL had fewer complication and higher success rate than URL,and could be a minimally invasive option for the treatment of ureteral calculi.

Objective To compare the changes in myocardial fibrosis degree and left ventricular function before versus after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in elderly patients with coronary heart disease (CHD).Methods 121 elderly patients diagnosed as CHD with a single vessel by coronary angiography were enrolled.All patients were treated with PCI guided by thrombolysis in myocardial ischemia (TIMI) grade,symptoms and fractional flow reserve (FFR) comprehensively,and reviewed by coronary angiography after 12 months.The changes in serum concentration of procollagen type Ⅰ (PC I),procollagen type Ⅲ (PC Ⅲ),laminin (LN),hyaluronic acid (HA) and aldosterone (ALD) before versus 3,12 months after PCI were detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF),left ventricular enddiastolic diameter (LVEDD),plasma N-terminal pro-B-type brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) level and 6-minute walk test (6MWD) were assessed before and 3,12 months after PCI.The correlations were analyzed between FFR and serum procollagen type Ⅲ level,between serum PC Ⅲ level and plasma NT-proBNP level,and between serum ALD level and serum levels of PC Ⅰ,PC Ⅲ,LN,HA.Results All patients were treated with PCI successfully.At 12 months after PCI,stenosis with different degree were found in implanted stents or some large vessels in 6 cases by coronary angiography FFR=0.56-0.82).The serum levels of PC Ⅰ,PC Ⅲ,LN,HA,ALD,LVEDD and the plasma levels of NT-pro BNP were lower at 3 months after PCI than at preoperative follow-up (all P＜0.05),but LVEF was higher at 3 months after PCI than at preoperative fellow-up (P＜0.05),and the change trends in above observations were more significantly at 12 months after PCI.Linear correlation analysis showed that there was negative correlation between FFR and PC Ⅲ (r=-0.67,P＜0.01).There were positive correlations between PC Ⅲ and NT-proBNP,between ALD and PCⅠ,PC Ⅲ,LN,HA respectively (r=0.67,0.52,0.55,0.46,0.51,all P＜0.01).Conclusions PCI comprehensively guided by TIMI grade,symptoms and FFR can reduce myocardial fibrosis,improve cardiac function and quality of life in elderly patients with single coronary heart disease.

Objective To investigate the dose response of S100A4 gene expression in the irradiated lymphoblastoid cells AHH-1 at different time points post irradiation.Methods AHH-1 cells was exposed to different doses(0,1,3,5,8,10,15 and 18 Gy)of 60Co γ-rays,and its mRNA levels of S100A4 was detected by reverse transcription PCR and real-time PCR at 4,8,12,24,48 and 72 h after irradiation.Results Within the range of applied doses,the level of S100A4 gene expression was upregulated with a good dose-response (R2 =0.79-0.93,P ＜ 0.05) and had obvious difference at different time points (F =8.91,P ＜ 0.01).Conclusion S100A4 gene expression at transcriptional level could be detected easily and had optimum dose-responses at certain time points after irradiation,and hence is applicable as a dosimeter.

OBJECTIVE: To explore the management of the laryngeal injury. METHOD: The forty five patients of laryngeal injury had been rescued. Twenty eight patients were treated with the tracheotomy and twenty four patients of them were treated with the laryngoplasty. RESULT: All the patients were survived. Tracheostomy tube of twenty eight patients was taken away without the cicatricial structure of larynx. CONCLUSION With the reasonable management after the laryngeal injury, the injury could be cured in time without complications.
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Objective To investigate the predictive value of thromboelastography (TEG) parameters for hematoma enlargement after intracerebral hemorrhage.Methods Patients with primary intracerebral hemorrhage within 6 h after onset admitted to the Second People's Hospital of Changshu between March 2016 and March 2018 were enrolled prospectively.Hematoma enlargement was defined as the volume of hematoma detected by CT within 48 h after onset increased by ＞ 12.5 cm3 or ＞ 33％ compared with that at admission.The baseline data in the hematoma enlargement group and the non-hematoma enlargement group were compared.Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to determine the independent correlation between TEG parameters and hematoma enlargement.The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was used to analyze the predictive value of TEG parameters for hematoma enlargement.Results A total of 141 patients with intracerebral hemorrhage were enrolled,of which 38 (27.0％) had hematoma enlargement.Compared with the non-hematoma enlargement group,the baseline National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score (P =0.001),thrombin time (P =0.022),fasting blood glucose (P =0.007),hematoma ruptured into the ventricle (P =0.001),baseline hematoma volume (P =0.001),and coagulation reaction time measured by TEG (P=0.002) were significantly increased in the hematoma enlargement group,while the baseline Glasgow Coma Scale score (P =0.001) and α angle measured by TEG (P =0.021) were significantly decreased.Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that after adjusting confounding factors,the prolonged coagulation reaction time (odds ratio [OR] 3.436,95％ confidence interval [CI] 1.083-9.905;P =0.036) and decreased α angle (OR 0.777,95％ CI0.656-0.921;P =0.004) were the independent predictors of hematoma enlargement after intracerebral hemorrhage.The area under the curve of coagulation reaction time predicting hematoma enlargement was 0.680 (95％ CI 0.588-0.772;P =0.004),and the sensitivity and specificity were 84.2％ and 52.4％ when 4.0 min was the cut-off value.The area under the curve of α angle predicting hematoma enlargement was 0.636 (95％ CI 0.534-0.738;P =0.007).The sensitivity and specificity were 73.7％ and 57.3％ when the cut-off value was 65.1 °.Conclusion The prolonged coagulation reaction time and the decrease of α angle detected by TEG had certain predictive value for hematoma enlargement after cerebral hemorrhage.

Objective To investigate the efficacy of real-time visual feedback on improving the quality of manual chest compression in ambulance.Methods Ten pre-hospital doctors with cardiopulmonary resuscitation experience,aged under 40 years,were recruited to this randomized,crossover,manikin research and randomly assigned into control group (n=5) and feedback group (n=5) by the sealed envelope method.The setting place was a moving ambulance with the velocity of 25～50 km/ h.The whole process consisted of two sessions.In control group,which received feedback in the second session,chest compressions were performed without interruption during each of the three 2 min phases per session,resting for 2 min between phases and for 5 min between sessions.In feedback group,which received feedback in the first session,chest compressions were performed without interruption during each of the three 2 min phases per session,resting for 2 min between phases and for 5 min between sessions.Data of compression rate,compression depth,compression detention and compression accuracy rate were collected.Results In control group,the compressions rate was lower and compression detention was shorter during the second session compared with those during the first session [(109.8±±4.7) r/min vs.(121.2± 10.1) r/min,(6.5±2.1) r/min vs.(10.4±2.8) r/min,all P＜0.05],while the compression accuracy rate during the second session was higher than that during the first session [(28.2±±14.3) ％ vs.(16.8±9.9) ％,P＜0.05].There was no significant difference in compression rate between the two sessions in control group;Compression frequency,compression depth,compression detention and compression accuracy rate did not significantly change between the two sessions in feedback group (all P＞0.05).In the whole process,the compression rate was lower and compression detention was shorter in the feedback group compared with the control group [(111.1±5.1) r/min vs.(115.5±9.7) r/min,(6.5±1.8) vs.(8.4±4.6) r/min,all P＜0.05],and the compression accuracy rate in the feedback group was higher than that in the control group[(22.5±13.4) ％ vs.(26.7±16) ％,P＜0.05].There was no significant difference in compression rate between the two groups during whole process (P＞0.05).Conclusions Although real-time visual feed back improved the quality of manual chest compression in ambulances,which demonstrated more reasonable compression rate,less compression detention and higher compression accuracy,the overall quality of reuscitation was still not enough to achieve effective treatment.This implies that more optimal methods are required to transfer the patients suffering cardiac arrest.