1.Effect of High-voltage Electrostatic Therapy on Chronic Migraine: a Randomized Controlled Observation
Yun QU ; Ke LIU ; Shoujuan ZHU
Chinese Journal of Rehabilitation Theory and Practice 2012;18(3):273-275
Objective To investigate the effect of high-voltage electrostatic therapy on chronic migraine. Methods 86 cases who met inclusioncriteria were randomly divided into two groups: high-voltage group (n=43) was treated with high-voltage therapeutic device for 20d. Control group (n=43) was blank control. The recovered cases were followed up for 4 weeks after cessation of treatment. They were assessedwith McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ), and their results of laboratory tests were recorded before and after treatment. The data set analyzedincluded Intention-To-Treat, and per protocol. Results The differences between 2 groups were statistically significant in Pain RatingIndex, Visual Analog Score and Present Pain Intensity after treatment (P<0.05). 6 patients in the treatment group and 1 patient in the controlgroup recovered. During the 4-week follow-up, 1 case recured in each group, the intensity of pain was not statistically significant. There wasno difference in the laboratory indice of blood, urine, stool routine, liver and kidney function (ALT, BUN, Cr) and ECG in both groups beforeand after treatment. Conclusion The high-voltage electrostatic therapy is effective and safe on chronic migraine.
2.Exploration of ophthalmology practice teaching for foreign students majoring in clinical medicine
Ke ZHENG ; Xiaoying WANG ; Xiaomei QU ; Xingtao ZHOU
Chinese Journal of Medical Education Research 2014;(6):605-607
Ophthalmology belongs to microsurgical subject and anatomy is intricate. In clinical practice, students are required to skillfully use eye examination equipment. The foreign students from Medical School of Vienna University are eager to learn and know theoretical knowledge very well. Department of ophthalmology has developed specific and individualized teaching plans according to the characteristics and needs of foreign students. Through the configuration of high quality teachers, the practice teaching is ensured. Chinese and foreign students are encouraged to share their knowledge and form a study group. Opportunities for hands-on practice of ophthalmology are increased by using Wetlab condition. Problem-based heuristic teaching is used to stimulate students' learning initiative. Through these teaching measures, the students' quality of clinical practice has been enhanced, the teaching level of clinical ophthalmology has been improved and sustainable development has also been achieved.
3.Celluar Immunity in Patients with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA)
zheng-hai, QU ; pei-xuan, CHENG ; ke, SHI
Journal of Applied Clinical Pediatrics 1986;0(02):-
Objective To evaluate the change of cellular immunity and its clinical significance in JRA.Methods 7 lymphocyte swbpopulation was analyzed by immunofluorescein and interleukin 2 (IL-2) produced by peripheral blood mononuclear cells in vitro by MTT colorimetric assay. 29 times of various stage with JRA were examined, including 14 clinically active patients, 8 posttreatment or 7 clinically inactive ones. There are 19 healthy children of similar age in control group.Results In active patients, the number of OKT8, OKT4, the ratio of OKT4/OKT8 and the level of IL-2 decreased significantly compared with normal controls. These changes recovered matkedly in remission patients though they did alter affective treatment for (2~4) weeks.Conclusion Patients with active JRA are characterised by aberration of cellular immunity and the aberration reverses obviously slow in comparision with the clinical manifestetions and the routine laboratory investigation.
4.Status quo of Luzhou public hospital libraries and suggestions for their development
Minghua TANG ; Changhao YANG ; Song CHU ; Ke QU ; Lin ZHU
Chinese Journal of Medical Library and Information Science 2014;(3):42-44,48
The following were investigated, including the number of staff in Luzhou public hospital libraries, the administrative departments of Luzhou public hospitals, the education level and specialized subjects of administrative staff, the soft and hard ware and resource development in Luzhou public hospital libraries, followed by an analysis of the status quo in Luzhou public hospital libraries with suggestions put forward for their development .
5.Application of dual-source CT in the evaluation of hepatocellular carcinoma after transarterial chemoembolization treatment
Ruimei CHAI ; Ke REN ; Sheng QU ; Qiang FU ; Qiang WANG ; Wenheng ZHENG ; Ke XU
Chinese Journal of Radiology 2011;45(10):980-984
ObjectiveTo assess the diagnostic value of dual-energy dual-source CT in detecting the enhancement ofhepatocellularcancer( HCC )aftertransarterialchemoembolization( TACE )treatment.Methods Twenty-seven patients with HCC underwent dual-energy dual-source CT including nonenhanced,arterial,portal,and delayed phases scanning after TACE treatment.Arterial phases were acquired with the dual-energy mode for reconstruction of virtual nonenhanced images and color overlay images.DSAs were performed in all these patients.Two blinded and independent readers evaluated the data in 2 reading sessions:standard nonenhanced,arterial phase,portal phase,and delayed phase images were read in session A,and virtual nonenhanced,arterial phase,portal phase,and delayed phase images in session B.Sensitivity and specificity were calculated,with the DSA data set as the reference standard.The sensitivity and specificity were compared with Chi-square test.Results DSA revealed 63 lesions in 27 patients,and 39 of them had blood supply.Overall sensitivity and specificity were 74.4% (29/39) and 83.3% (20/24) for session A,and 94.9% (37/39),95.8% (23/24) for session B,respectively.The sensitivity of the two reading sessions was significantly different (x2 =6.303,P < 0.05 ),while the specificity was insignificantly different ( x2 =2.009,P > 0.05 ).Conclusion Compared with standard dynamic protocols,an arterial dual-energy dual-source CT scan with reconstruction of virtual nonenhanced and color overlay images enables detection of relapse and intrahepatic metastasis of HCC after TACE treatment with higher accuracy.
6.Study on the reliability and validity of international physical activity questionnaire (Chinese Vision, IPAQ).
Chinese Journal of Epidemiology 2004;25(3):265-268
OBJECTIVETo study the reliability and validity of Chinese version of International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) and to provide an instrument for physical activity measurement in Chinese-spoken population.
METHODSTest-retest reliability was systemically assessed in 94 participants sampled from college students. Questionnaires were completed twice with a three-day interval. The validity was established in 39 volunteers by Caltrac accelerometer monitoring and 24-hour activity recording for seven consecutive days.
RESULTSBoth long vision (LV) and short vision (SV) had intraclass correlation coefficients above 0.7 for physical activity. The total energy expenditure measured by LV, SV and PA records were 264.5 +/- 260.9, 185.4 +/- 128.9 (compared with activity records, P < 0.05) and 250.5 +/- 141.2 MET-min/d respectively. Energy expenditure of moderate physical activity were 81.7 +/- 165.4, 32.0 +/- 42.5 (compared with activity record, P < 0.05) and 61.3 +/- 72.0 MET-min/d. Caltrac accelerometer was moderately correlated with LV (r = 0.50) and SV (r = 0.63) while SV measured total daily energy expenditure was lower than activity records. When participants were categorized into two groups according to their time spent in physical activity above or below the target level, proportions of agreement of questionnaires and 24-hour activity records were high, including vigorous physical activity above 90% and moderate physical activity above 70%. LV, SV and activity records were measured during sedentary condition at an approximate level.
CONCLUSIONSBoth LV and SV of IPAQ appeared to have acceptable reliability and validity, compared to other physical activity instruments that were used in various large epidemiological studies. The total or physical energy expenditures were similar between LV and activity records. For activity levels, the proportion of agreement were similar between activity records and LV or SV. However, SV underestimated the energy expenditure of total and moderate physical activity.
Adult ; China ; Exercise ; Female ; Humans ; Internationality ; Language ; Male ; Reproducibility of Results ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; standards
7.Fabrication and imaging study of ultrasound/fluorescence bi-modal contrast agent based on polymeric microbubbles
Zhanwen XING ; Hengte KE ; Jinrui WANG ; Bo ZHAO ; Enze QU ; Xiuli YUE ; Zhifei DAI
Chinese Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2013;(1):14-18
Objective To fabricate an ultrasound/fluorescence bi-modal contrast agent by encapsulating fluorescent quantum dots into polymeric ultrasound contrast agent microbubbles.Methods Polylactic acid (PLA,500 mg),(1R)-(+)-camphor (50 mg) and CdSe/ZnS quantum dots (0.5 ml,2.3 μmol/L)were dissolved or dispersed in dichloromethane (10 ml) to form in an organic phase.Ammonium carbonate solution and poly (vinyl alcohol) solution were employed as the internal and external water phase,respectively.The fluorescent microbubbles were generated using double emulsion solvent evaporation and lyophilization methods.The morphology and illumination were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and fluorescence spectrophotometry.Synchronized contrast-enhanced ultrasound and fluorescence imaging was acquired by injecting fluorescent microbubbles into the silicone tube coupled to a self-made ultrasound/fluorescence imaging device.Ultrasound/fluorescence bi-modal in vivo imaging was acquired on the kidney of New Zealand rabbits and suckling mice.Results The fluorescent microbubbles were hollow spheres with an averaged diameter of (1.62 ± 1.47) μm.More than 99% of these microbubbles were less than 8 μm in diameter,which meeted the size criteria for ultrasound contrast agents.The fluorescence emission peak of the microbubbles appeared at 632 nm,indicating that good luminescence properties of quantum dots were maintained.In vitro ultrasound/fluorescence imaging showed no echoic signal when the silicone tube was filled with saline,but there was a strong echo when filled with fluorescent microbubbles.The liquid column with fluorescent microbubbles emitted red luminescence under ultraviolet irradiation.The kidney of the rabbit was remarkably enhanced after the administration of fluorescent microbubbles.Bright fluorescence could be observed at the injection site of the suckling mice via subcutaneous injection.Conclusions A bi-modal but single contrast agent based on polymeric microbubbles has been successfully fabricated for the use of ultrasound and fluorescence imaging.It retains the good characteristics of both echogenicity and fluorescence,which complement each other in case of limitations imposed by uni-modal,single agents.
8.Construction and identification of an asdA mutant attenuated Salmonella ty phimurium
Bin YU ; Yusi LUO ; Xiao PENG ; Shuofeng YUAN ; Hanben NIU ; Junle QU ; Ke ZHANG
Chinese Journal of Zoonoses 2014;(7):663-668
In this study ,a wild type Salmonella typhimurium (S .typhimurium) strain was isolated and identified in Hong Kong (S129) ,then the asdA gene was knocked out and replaced with kanamycin resistant gene in a Salmonella typhi-murium strain S129 using the λ RED-mediated recombination method .The constructed mutant asdAΔS129 was validated by culturing in the presence or absence of 2 ,6-diaminopimelic acid (DAP) growth in vitro and evaluating its virulence in BALB/c mice challenge assay .Therefore ,this study has demonstrated that an asdA mutant Salmonella typhimurium has been success-fully constructed .
9.Comparative analysis of implementation LIANG of clinical pathways of Chinese hospitals in different areas
Hongbing TAO ; Jing LIANG ; Minghui LIANG ; Pengzhen LIU ; Shuyan GUO ; Hao QU ; Xiaohua KE
Chinese Journal of Hospital Administration 2009;25(12):804-808
Objective To find out present condition and differences in implementation of clinical pathways in hospitals of in China.Methods "Clinical pathway" was entered as a keyword to search in PubMed NCBI Chinese Science and Technology Periodical Database for related literatures in China from 1999 to 2009,analyzing the general implementations of clinical pathways in hospitals in different areas using the SPSS12.0 software.Results A total of 1051 relevant literatures were found.Through data analysis of these literature,differences of implementation of clinical pathways were found for 162 hospitals of different areas.It was found that the differences of total diseases among China's East,West and Central areas are significant statically.Diseases of implementation per hospital in the Central average 16.8,those in the East 8 types,while those for the West 4.4.Tertiary hospitals account for 70% as the main force of clinical pathway implementation,with diseases of implementation up to 13.7,while that under tertiary level down to 2.8.Conclusions Implementation of clinical pathways varies significantly among hospitals in different areas in China.In the process of implementing clinical pathway,appropriate management strategies should be developed according to actual situation in different hospitals in light of policies,hospital management and patient considerations.
10.Chronic pain and emotional disorders as well as the effect of interventional treatment
Kezhen BAI ; Huquan YANG ; Zufang HUANG ; Ke GONG ; Bo QU ; Shitao WU
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research 2006;10(6):190-192
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the relationship between chronic pain and painprone meutal disorders and investigate the effect of psychological intervention and medication.DATA SOURCES: Related literatures about the relationship between chronic pain and pain-prone mental disorders were searched on computer in Medline and Embase from January 1989 to May 2004 with the retrieval word of "Chronic pain, emotional disorder, treatment", the language was limited to English. The subjects were patients who suffered from chronic pain for above 6 months.STUDY SELECTION: Related literatures about the relationship between chronic pain and pain-prone mental disorders and its therapeutic interventions were carried on primary trial to delete those obsolete and repetitive literatures, and the others were used to search in the full text. The quality was appraised mainly on the basis of the data authenticity, preciseness of the designation, strictness of the implementation and reasonability of the statistical analysis.DATA EXTRACTION: Altogether 20 literatures were obtained and 11literatures were proved accordant with the inclusion standard. 9 literatures were excluded because 7 were repetitive experiments and two were Meta analyses.DATA SYNTHESIS: 11 literatures include experimental group and control group, patients in the experimental group were treated with analgetic combined with psychological intervention and antidepressant while those in the control group were only given analgetic; the outcomes of the two groups were compared.CONCLUSION: Chronic pain may co-exist with emotional disorders. It can be remarkably alleviated by the administration of analgetic combined with psychological intervention and antidepressant, which proves better than single analgetic medication.