Objective To evaluate therapeutic effects of portal azygous devascularization on patients with portal hypertension. Methods In this study, data of 212 patients with portal hypertension who underwent devascularization were analyzed retrospectively. Among them 52% patients had a history of variceal bleeding. Preoperative Child A accounted for 15% patients, B for 57% and C for 27%. Emergent operation and selective operation were performed in 11% and 89% cases, respectively. Hassab procedure was performed in 176 cases (83%), whereas modified Sugiura procedure in 36 cases (17%). Results Portal vein pressure decreased from (40?6) cm?H 2O to (36?7) cm?H 2O. The re-bleeding rate of 3, 5,10 years were 2%, 6%, 11%, and the survival rates of 3, 5, 10 years were 97%, 92% and 89%, respectively. Conclusions Devascularization is an effective procedure in controlling bleeding with low incidence of liver failure, operation mortality and encephalopathy. Emergent operation should be avoided as it causes high morbidity and mortality. The decreased portal pressure following devascularization may result in a reduced blood supply to the liver. Persistent exasperation of the liver function caused by chronic hepatitis and the development of hepatocellular carcinoma are the two major factors endangering long-term survival.

Objective　 To investigate the indication and timing of surgery for acute necrotizing pancreatitis.　 Methods　 82 cases of acute necrotizing pancreatitis were analyzed retrospectively. 10 cases were treated non-operatively. Early operation was performed on 44 cases, while 28 cases underwent surgery on late stage.　 Results　 The overall morbidity and mortality was 24% and 18%, respectively. All 10 patients in the non-operative group were cured with a morbidity of 10%. The morbidity and mortality in the early operation group was 14% and 11%, respectively, compared with 46% and 36% of those receiving surgery on late stage（P＜0.01, P＜0.05）. Among those in late surgery group, patients not complicating infection had significant lower morbidity and mortality rate than those suffering from severe infection or organ dysfunction（P＜0.01, P＜0.05）.　 Conclusions　 Early operation is necessary for some severe cases.In patients with severe pancreatic necrosis surgery should be performed before severe infection occurs.

AIM: To investigate the effects of ErbB2 overexpression on growth and invasiveness in cultured MCF-7 cell line. METHODS: Retrovirus containing ErbB2 gene was transfected into MCF-7 cells and ErbB2 expression was detected by Western blotting. Proliferation and invasive assays were carried out. Cells overexpressed ErbB2 and its control, AP2, were used in the experiment. RESULTS: ErbB2 was overexpressed in MCF-7 cells after transfection. In vitro, cells overexpressed ErbB2 showed highly proliferated and highly invasive characteristics compared to the control cells. CONCLUSION: Overexpression of ErbB2 promotes cell proliferation and enhances invasiveness in MCF-7 cells. Inhibition of signaling induced by ErbB2 might be a novel strategy for the therapeutics of cancer with ErbB2 overexpression.

The aim of surgical Chinese-English bilingual teaching is to improve medical students’ ability of foreign language and international intercommunication. Many methods are used to improve surgical Chinese-English bilingual teaching results,including understanding the importance,training persons qualified to teach,using and constructing English textbook,doing well examination,encouraging students to study and explore investigation of bilingual teaching.

AIM: To investigate the antitumor effects of tumor necrosis factor- ? (TNF - ?) and interferon -?(IFN -?) on hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) . METHODS: Cytotoxicity of the combination of TNF-? and IFN-? on HCC in vitro was measured by using a crystal violet (CV) staining method. Antitumor effects of the combination of TNF- ? and IFN - ? on HCC in vivo were observed by intra - hepatic injection of TNF-? and IFN-? to the tumor in a human HCC nude mice hepatic model. RESULTS: The growth of HCC cells was inhibited by TNF -? alone, which was dose - dependent. The cytotoxicity of TNF -? on HCC was enhanced by incubation with IFN -?. TNF at 107 U/L, or IFN -? at 106 U/L alone killed only 27.1 % or 7.9 of HCC cells, respectively, when combined with IFN -?, it killed 83.7% of HCC cells. A synergistic antitumor effect on HCC in vivo was observed in combination group, as tumor growth inhibition rate was 35.9% compared with 17.2% in TNF-? group and 5.6% in IFN -? group. The survival period of mice bearing tumor was significantly prolonged and serum AFP was significantly decreased in combination group (P

0.05). Conclusions One mechanism of SF pretreatment cardioprotective effect is mediated by bradykinin. The combined use of SF and CP doesn′t result in significant improvement, and thenefore is not advocated.

Aim To study the protective effects of pharmacological preconditioning induced by sodiumferulate(SF)on isolated rat heart and its machanisms.Methods Isolated SD rat hearts were divided randomly into 5 groups : Control group (hearts were perfused by oxygenated perfusate for 100 minutes); Ischemia/Reperfusion(I/R) group (hearts suffered from 40 min global ischemia/30 min reperfusion after oxygenated perfusate for 30 minutes); Ischemia preconditioning group(hearts were preconditioned by 3 periods of 5-minute global ischemia/5-minute reperfusion before it suffered from I/R); SF group (previously hearts were perfused with oxygenated perfusate administered with 1.69 mmol?L-1 SF then subjected to I/R); Glibenclamide group (previously hearts were perfused with oxygenated perfusate administered with 1.69 mmol?L-1SF and 30 ?mol?L-1 Glibenclamide before it suffered from I/R). Results Compared with I/R group, 1.69 mmol?L-1 SF precondition improved significantly heart function, reduced the incidence and severity of ventricular arrhythmias, alleviated calcium overload in myocardial cell; furthered activities of Na+,K-ATPase and Ca2+-ATPase in myocardium. These effects were attenuated by 30 ?mol?L-1 Glibenclamide.Conclusions SF precondition can improve heart function and resist arrhythmia and Ca2+-overload. The cardioprotective effects of SF precondition maybe related with the opening of ATP-sensitive potassium (KATP) channels.

Objective To evaluate risk factors of hepatectomy for patients with large hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Methods Clinical data of 310 large HCC cases receiving hepatctomy were analyzed retrospectively. Results Hepatitis B infection rate was 60.7% in this group with cirrhosis rate of 66.8%. Tumor size averaged at (9.4?3.8) cm in diameter. Child A grade was found in 51.0% of cases, Child B in 36.8% and Child C in 12.3%. Pringle′s procedure, semi-liver blood occlusion and modified Heaney procedure were used in 31.6%, 11.0% and 2.3% of cases respectively, with occlusion time of ( 17?8) min, (25?9) min and (20?10) min, respectively. Left lateral lobectomy, left hemihepatectomy, right hemihepatectomy and segmentectomy were performed in 17.1%, 11.6%, 9.0%, and 62.3% cases, respectively. Blood loss, blood transfusion and operation duration were (820?1 151) ml, (966?945) ml and (182?74) min, respectively. The overall morbidity and liver failure were 22.3%, and 5.8%, respectively, with an operative mortality of 2.6%. The univariate analysis for liver failure revealed its risk factors being preoperative AST value(P

Objective To study biliary excretion of ceftriaxone sodium in humans. Methods Twelve biliary calculi patients were infused with a single dose of 2.0g ceftriaxone half an hour before operation and the common bile duct bile and gallbladder bile samples were coUected in the operations. The bile drug concentrations were assayed by HPLC. Results The results of clinical study on the bile drug showed that the concentrations (C) of ceftriaxone in common bile duct and gallbladder were (264.43±166.46) μg/ml and (85.39 ±48.16) μg/ml, respectively. Conclusion Ceftriaxone reaches high concentrations in humans' bile, and it could be chosen as a good antibiotics for the treament of biliary infection.

Objective Investigating the CT features and related prognostic factors of high-grade renal clear cell carcinoma.Methods The data of 141 patients with renal clear cell carcinoma treated by radical nephrectomy in our hospital from November 2012 to April 2017 were analyzed retrospectively.There were 102 males and 39 females.Age from 30 to 86 years old.The tumors were located in the left side in 73 cases and 68 in the right.The tumor size ranged from 1.6 cm to 12.7 cm.50 cases of clinical stage T1a,stage T1b 67 cases,24 cases above T2.All patients had CT examination before operation.According to the postoperative pathological nuclear grade,patients were divided into high grade group (Ⅲ-Ⅳ) and low grade group (grade Ⅰ-Ⅱ),clinical data and CT findings were compared between the two groups (tumor size,capsule,CT,with or without leafs,with or without hemorrhagic necrosis),survival situation after the operation.Result The results of CT examination of 141 cases of this study indicated there were 109 cases of complete capsule,85 cases of tumor showed lobulation,102 cases of tumor showed hemorrhagic necrosis,the average CT value is 10-72 HU,35.4 HU in average;enhanced CT value is 32-308 HU,102.1 HU in average.After pathological examination,the nuclear classification was 66 cases in high grade group and 75 cases in low grade group.The CT examination in thc high grade group and the low grade group showed the number of cases with complete capsule [44 cases (33.3％) vs.65 cases (13.3％)] and plain CT scan value [(38.9 ± 1.1) HU) vs.(32.3 ± 1.1) HU],the difference was statistically of significance (P ＜0.01).The high level of patients in group T1 and group above T2 stage were 46 cases and 20 cases.And the cases of low grade group were 71 cases and 4 cases,there was significant difference between two groups (P ＜ 0.01).The 141 cases were followed up for 2-58 months,with an average of 26.4 months.There was statistical significance difference between the two groups of T1 patients and patients above T2 (P ＜ 0.01).The results of CT examination were compared.There were significant differences in the case of intact capsule and the value of CT scan (P ＜ 0.01).The overall survival rate between the two groups was statistically significant (P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions The CT examination of high-grade renal cell carcinoma shows that most of the capsule is not complete and the CT value of the scan is much higher.The pathological grading of renal cell careinoma indicates the malignancy of tumor cells,which is closely related to prognosis.