Objective To investigate the vaginal flora characteristics,clinical symptoms and signs of lactating women 6-8 weeks after delivery and the influence factors.Methods Two hundred and twenty-three puerpera 6-8 weeks after delivery who went to outpatient department of Peking University First Hospital for postpartum review (study group) and 200 normal non-pregnant women (control group) from April to May,2010 were enrolled into this study.All in study group were evaluated by a questionnaire regarding their symptoms,sexual behavior,breast-feeding situation and delivery mode.Vaginal secretions from upper 1/3 of vagina were collected and evaluated by vaginal microbial evaluation system.Bacterial vaginosis (BV) was diagnosed if Nugent score ≥ 7.Enumeration data between groups was compared by t test,and quantitative data by Chi-square test.Results The density of vaginal flora in study group was different from that of control group (x2 =96.302,P＜0.001) ; so did the flora diversity of two groups (x2 =69.871,P＜0.001).There was no difference between mean age of study group [(30.5 ± 3.9) years] and control group [(30.9 ± 2.4)years],P＞0.05.The cesarean section rate was 52.7％ (89/169),13 women (7.7％) had began their sexual behavior before interview,116 women (70.3％) took breast-feeding.Dominant bacteria in the vagina of lactating women were Gram-positive cocci (69/175,39.4％) and Gram-positive bacillus (54/175, 30.9％), which was different from control group (Gram-positive bacillus,180/189,95.2％),P＜0.001.The vaginal pH of study group was 5.0±0.5,which was higher than that (＜4.5) of control group.In study group,incidence of lower hydrogen peroxide level of vagina was 84.3 ％ (177/210) ; positive rate of sialidase was 6.7 ％ (14/210) ; positive rate of leukocyte esterase was 91.0％ (191/210).A large number of postpartum women had an abnormal Nugent score,most of them showed a state of intermediate BV (132/195,67.7％) or BV (8/195,4.1％),while a few patients had symptoms of BV (23.5％,33/140).Sexual behavior had no significant effect on postpartum vaginal flora.The proportion of abnormal vaginal flora in breast feeding mothers (74.1 ％,86/116) was significantly higher than that (57.1％,28/49) in artificial feeding mothers,P=0.034.Delivery mode also affected postpartum vaginal flora.Women underwent cesarean section were more susceptible to abnormal vaginal flora (77.5％,69/89) than those underwent vaginal delivery (57.5％,46/80),x2 =7.726,P=0.005.Conclusions Vaginal flora of postpartum women 6-8 weeks after delivery had significant difference from that of nonpregnant women.The incidence of asymptomatic abnormal vaginal flora was high.Breastfeeding and delivery mode are influence factors of abnormal vaginal flora.

Objective To explorer the clinical therapeutic effects of applying hyperbaric oxygen drenching(HOD) combined with microsurgical technique on peripheral nerve injuries induced in plateau military training.Methods Forty-one hospitalized patients(52 nerves) with peripheral nerve injuries induced in plateau military training from Jan.2000 to Dec.2007 were randomly divided into treatment group(21 patients,27 nerves injured) and control group(20 patients,25 nerves injured).Microsurgery and postoperative HOD treatment were performed to the patients in treatment group,only microsurgery was performed to the patients in the control group.The restorative procedures for injured nerves were adopted with direct end-to-end suture or sural nerve autograft according to the degree of injury.The recovery of nerve function was assessed and compared between the two groups.Results All patients were followed up for a mean period of 18 months(ranged 6-30 months) after operations.The recovery of nerve function was assessed according to the single nerve functional evaluation criteria.In treatment group,the excellent and fine results were obtained in 7 and 16 nerves,the fineness rate was 85.2%;while in control group,the excellent and fine results were obtained in 2 and 11 nerves,the fineness rate was 52.0%,a significant difference existed on the fineness rate between the two groups(?2=6.71,P

Objective To evaluate the efficacy of PAD regimen (bortezomib, doxorubicin, dexamethasone) and VAD-like T regimen (vincristine, doxorubicin/doxorubicin derivatives, dexamethasone combined with thalidomide) in the treatment of patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (MM). Methods The efficacy of 54 patients with MM who received VAD like-T regimen and 72 patients with MM who were treated with PAD regimen, including complete remission (CR) rate, very good partial remission (VGPR) rate, overall response rate (ORR), overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS) and adverse events, were retrospectively analyzed. Results The CR rate of PAD group was higher than that of VAD-like T group [31.5 % (23/72) vs. 9.3 % (5/54), χ2=0.30, P=0.002]. The VGPR rate and ORR of PAD group were not statistically higher than those of VAD-like T group [16.7 % (12/72) vs. 16.6 % (9/54), P=0.180; 82.2 %(65/72) vs. 81.5 % (44/54), P=0.190, respectively]. Median PFS of PAD group was significant longer than that of VAD-like T group [(38.2±2.2) months vs. (28.0±7.6) months, P=0.017]. The 3- and 5-year OS rates of PAD group were higher than those of VAD-like T group, but there were no significant differences between two groups (P>0.05). In terms of the adverse events, the incidence of peripheral neuropathy in PAD group was significantly higher than that of VAD-like T group [31.5 % (23/72) vs. 14.5 % (8/54), P=0.03]. Conclusions Compared with PAD protocol, the CR and median PFS of VAD-like T regimen are poor, however, VGPR,ORR, PFS and 5-year OS are similar between the two groups, and VAD-like T regimen is safer with low incidence of peripheral neuropathy. VAD-like T regimen as the first-line treatment is effective and well-tolerated, especially for newly diagnosed MM patients not suitable for transplantation and bortezomib.

Background It is well known that tissue factor (TF) is expressed in tumor cells and neovascular endothelial cells of tumor.It plays an important role in the formation of new blood vessels as well as the growth and metastasis of tumor.However,whether TF is expressed or not in choroidal melanoma(CM)is unclear.Objective This study is to investigate the expression of TF in a choroidal melanoma cell line and human choroidal melanoma.Methods The expression of TF was studied in the optimal choroidal melanoma-1 (OCM-1) cell line and ten specimens from CM patients using immunhistochemistry.Ten normal eye specimens from donators were used as controls.Results The TF protein was mainly expressed in the cytoplasm.It is over-expressed in OCM-1 cells with positive rate of 85.33±5.47%.Hyper-expression of TF also was found in human choroidal melanoma with a positive rate of 41.60±14.17%.The integrated optical density (IOD) of positive cells in CM was 33853.67±16445.30,and only 5.65±4.26% of positive cells was found in normal human choroidal tissue.The IOD of TF expression in normal human choroidal tissue was 426.43±316.62.Conclusion The overexpression of TF in CM cells may be a new immunotherapy target for CM treatment.

Background Traction of epiretinal membrane results in macular morphologic change and visual functional impairment in eye with idiopathic epiretinal membrane (IERM),therefore figuring out their relationship is helpful for evaluation of disease prognosis.Objective This study was to observe the morphological change of macula and microstructure,and analyze the relationship between retina thickness,integrity of cone outer segment tips (COST) line in fovea and visual acuity.Methods This was a retrospective case-observational study.Fifty-six consecutive cases diagnosed as IERM in Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center from March 2011 to December 2011 were enrolled in this study,and all the patients showed unilateral IERM with the normal fellow eyes.Sixteen patients were males and 40 were females,with a mean age of (61.05 ± 6.58) years old.Spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) examination was performed on the eyes,and Macular Cube (512×128) and HD 5 Line program were selected.Mean retinal thickness of central area (＜1 mm diameter),inner ring area (1-3 mm diameter) and outer ring area (＞3-6 mm diameter) of macula and the status of COST line (intact or fractured) was recorded.Mean thickness of whole macular areas and the difference of foveal microstructure were compared,and the correlation between retinal thickness and visual acuity was analyzed using Pearson linear correlation analysis.Related parameters including age,visual acuity,retinal thickness were also compared between the continuous COST lines group and the fractured COST lines group by independent sample t test.Results The flatted or disappeared fovea was seen in IERM eyes on the SD-OCT image.Retinal thicknesses were (446±89)μm,(418±64)μm and (328±34)ttm in the central area,inner ring area and outer ring area of macula in the IERM eyes,exhibiting significant increasing in comparison with (250±22) μm,(319±17) μm and (279±17) μm in the normal fellow eyes (t=13.370,9.523,7.769,all P =0.000).Significantly negative correlations were found between the visual acuity and the central macular thickness,inner ring thickness or outer ring thickness (r=-0.686,-0.653,-0.417,P＜0.05).In the IERM eyes,COST band was intact in 20 eyes and lack in 36 eyes.Compared with COST band intact group,aging,worse vision and increased retinal thickness were seen in the COST band absent group (t =2.109,P =0.039 ; t =-4.093,P =0.000 ; t =6.669,P=0.000;t=5.376,P=0.000;t=4.247,P=0.000).COST band was clear in all the normal fellow eyes on the SD-OCT image.Conclusions Increase of macular thickness and disruption of COST band reflect the visual function damage in IERM eye.Deficiency of COST band on OCT image seems to be an early indication of photoreceptor damage.Incomplete fovea COST band is often seen in older patients.

Objective To investigate the role of electromyography(EMG) in diagnosis of nervous system diseases in children.(Met)-hods EMG tests were carried out in 354 patients with nervous system diseases,and the data and results of EMG tests were analyzed.Results One hundred and sixty-six patients′ results of EMG were abnormal.Among these abnormalities,36 cases were myogenic,47 cases were neurogenic,abnormalities of 69 cases were located in peripheral nerves,3 cases got positive in repetitive nerve stimulation(RNS),and 11 cases were on the borderline.In 36 myogenic patients,clinical diagnosis were as follow: progressive muscular dystrophy(PMD,18 cases),polymyositis(2 cases),mitochondrial encephalomyopathy(1 case), and the other 15 cases had no definite diagnosis.In 47 neurogenic patients,the diagnosis were spinal muscular atrophy(SMA,29 cases),sequela of poliomyelitis(2 cases),acute transverse myelitis(ATM,4 cases),and the other 12 patients had no definite diagnosis.In 69 cases of peripheral nerve abnormality,diagnosis were injury of brachial nerve(23 cases),hereditary motor sensory neuropathy(HMSN,2 cases),Guillain-Barre syndrome(GBS,9(ca)-ses),chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy(CIDP,1 case),injury of facial nerve(4 cases),injury of common(pe)-roneal nerve(6 cases),metachromatic leukodystrophy(MLD,1 case),and the other 23 patients had no definite diagnosis.Three patients who got RNS positive were all diagnosed myasthenia gravis(MG),and ocular type(1 case),general type(2 cases).Eleven patients whose EMG results were borderline were all diagnosed indefinitely.One hundred and eighty-eight patients had normal results of EMG test.The diagnosis of these patients were included ocular MG(21 cases),cerebral palsy(CP,5 cases),ATM(2 cases),polymyositis((1 case)),and some other nervous system diseases(21 cases),and the other 138 were diagnosed indefinitely.Conclusions 1.EMG plays an important role in definite diagnosis of PMD,SMA,poliomyelitis and nerve injury;2.EMG can provide clue or basis in the differential(dia)gnosis of nervous system diseases which involved lower motor unit;3.EMG test has very low positive results in children with MG;(4.EMG) has little help in diagnosis of diseases involved upper motor unit only.

Objective To evaluate the value of SPECT/CT in differentiating malignancy from benign spinal disease. Methods Fifty-three patients with foci of abnormally increased uptake in the spine detected by 99Tcm-MDP planar whole body bone scan subsequently underwent bone SPECT/CT. The final diagnosis was determined by pathological examination or clinical follow-up ( ≥6 months), which was applied to calculate the diagnostic efficacy of bone SPECT/CT. Results A total of 25 patients were confirmed to have bone malignancy. The diagnostic sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, false positive rate, false negative rate, positive predictive value and negative predictive value for 99Tcm-MDP bone SPECT/CT were 96.00% (24/25), 96.43% (27/28), 96.23% (51/53), 3.57% ( 1/28), 4.00% ( 1/25), 96.00% (24/25) and 96.43% (27/28), respectively. Conclusion 99Tcm-MDP bone SPECT/CT imaging provides good clinical value for the differential diagnosis of spinal diseases.

OBJECTIVE To investigate ?-lactamases genes in multi-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Guangzhou. METHODS We collected 22 P.aeruginosa strains from hospitalized patients,and detected eleven types of ?-lactamases associated genes by PCR. RESULTS CARB,IMP,TEM,VEB and VIM showed positive amplifications with positive proportions were 100.0%,95.5%,77.3%,13.6% and 4.5%,respectively.Other genes such as GIM,SPM,GES,PER,DHA,OXA-10 and SHV showed negative results. CONCLUSIONS The genes CARB and IMP have high positive rate.Different types of ?-lactamases associated genes in P.aeruginosa aften lead to multi-resistance to antibiotics,which bring great difficulties to clinical therapy and hospital infection monitoring.

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OBJECTIVETo study the role of integrin-linked kinase (ILK) on the proliferation and differentiation of human fibroblast in hypertrophic scar and its effect on the scar formation.

METHODSThe human scar fibroblasts were isolated and cultured in vitro. The cells were divided into 4 groups. (1) control group: only contains DMEM; (2) jetPRIME group: DMEM with 200 microl jetPRIME buffer and 4 microl jetPRIME; (3) ILK siRNA group: DMEM and ILK siRNA; (4) ILK cDNA group: DMEM and ILK cDNA. The cell proliferation was detected by XTT assay and the mRNA and protein expressions of ILK and alpha-SMA were detected by Real-time qPCR and Western blot.

RESULTS(1) XTT results showed that the cellular proliferation level after 48 h in four groups were 0.820 +/- 0.065, 0.873 +/- 0.041, 0.554 +/- 0.013 and 1.296 +/- 0.094, respectively. The cellular proliferation curve showed that the cellular proliferation level was very flat in ILK siRNA group while the cellular proliferation level gradually increased from 12 h. 48 h after transfection, the cellular proliferation level in ILK siRNA group was significant lower than those in other groups (P value were 0.021, 0.034, 0), while the cellular proliferation level in ILK cDNA group was the highest among all 4 groups (P value were 0.017, 0.009, 0). (2) The Real-time qPCR showed that the expressions of ILK mRNA and alpha-SMA mRNA were 0.693 +/- 0.412 and 0.422 +/- 0.037 in control group, were 0.621 +/- 0.183 and 0.388 +/- 0.005 in jetPRIME group, were 0.052 +/- 0.019 and 0.073 +/- 0.023 in ILK siRNA group, were 240.193 +/- 35.170 and 138.056 +/- 24.060 in ILK cDNA group. The expressions of ILK mRNA and alpha-SMA mRNA in ILK siRNA group were significantly lower than those in other three groups (P < 0.05). And the expressions of ILK mRNA and alpha-SMA mRNA in ILK cDNA group were significantly higher than those in other three groups (P < 0.05). (3) The Western blot also showed that the expression of ILK and alpha-SMA proteins were decreased in ILK siRNA group and increased in ILK cDNA group.

CONCLUSIONILK may promote the proliferation and differentiation of human scar fibroblast. It may play an important role in scar formation and contracture.

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