Objective To compare the efficacy of acrossing the injured vertebra percutaneous pedicle screw fixation and traditional open surgery for Magerl A thoracolumbar fractures.Methods Retrospective analysis 56 patients with single segmental Magerl A thoracolumbar fractures without neurological symptoms were stabilized,including percutaneous fixation in 26 cases and open fixation in 30 cases.The operation time,intraoperative,blood loss,incision length,sagittal Cobb angle,height of injured vertebral,VAS,ODI,were compared between 2 groups.Results The precutaneous group less surgical blood loss,incision length and postoperative go to the fields time than the open group (P ＜ 0.05).There were improvements in Cobb angle and anterior height in two groups (P ＜ 0.05).The precutaneous group had lower VAS and ODI scores postoperation (P ＜ 0.05).The fracture vertebral front height and Cobb angle had significantly loss at final follow up than on the third day postoperation (P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions The percutaneous pedicle screw fixation can achieve similar effect in the treatment of Magerl A thoracolumbar fractures without neurological symptoms than open surgery,with less iatrogenic injury,less intraoperative blood loss and quick recovery for patients.

Tinnitus is a subjective sensation of sound without external stimulation. It has become ubiquitous and has therefore aroused much attention in recent years. According to the survey, ameliorating tinnitus based on special music and reducing pressure have good effects on the treatment of it. Meantime, vicious cycle chains between tinnitus and bad feelings have been broken. However, tinnitus therapy has been restricted by using looping music. Therefore, a method of generating fractal tones based on musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) technology and pink noise has been proposed in this paper. The experimental results showed that the fractal fragments were self-similar, incompletely reduplicate, and no sudden changes in pitches and would have a referential significance for tinnitus therapy.
Acoustic Stimulation ; Fractals ; Humans ; Music ; Noise ; Tinnitus ; rehabilitation

Objective To study the clinical effect of low molecular weight heparin on fetal growth restriction (FGR) prevention in early pregnancy.Methods 100 pregnant women had been employed in our study,they were divided into two groups,observation( n =60) and control( n =40) group.Both groups were given the natural vitamin E 0.1g,and folie acid 0.4mg daily oral administration,continuing to 12 weeks of gestation.5000 u of subcutaneous dalteparin sodium was added to pregnant women with notmal level of D-dimer in the observation group until 12 weeks of pregnancy,while the dose of Fragmin was adjusted in pregnant women with abnormal level of D-dimer until retuned to normal level.The pregnacy outcome of two groups were compared.Results The gestational age,birth weight,placental weight of the obseruation group was signiticantly higher than thal of the control group ( t =4.55,2.79,11.91,all P ＜ 0.05 ),while FGR,oligohydramnies,fetal distress and the incidence of hypertensive disorters of the obseruation group were significantly lower than that of control group ( x2 =6.50,20.55,7.87,3.76,all P ＜ 0.05 ) ; Compared to the control group,the observation group didn't have higher incidence of intrauterine fetal death,neonatal asphyxia and perinatal death ( P ＞ 0.05).Conclusion Low molecular weight heparin using in early pregnancy was effective in preventing FGR in pregnant women with FGR risk factors.

Tinnitus is a common clinical symptom and its occurrence rate is high. It seriously affects life quality of the patients. Scientific researches show that listening some similar and none-repetitive music can relieve tinnitus to some extent. The overall music accorded with self-similarity character by the direct mapping method based on chaos. However, there were often the same tones continuous repeating a few times and tone mutations. To solve the problem, this paper proposes a new method for tinnitus rehabilitation sound synthesis based on pentatonic scale, chaos and musical instrument digital interface (MIDI). Experimental results showed that the tinnitus rehabilitation sounds were not only self-similar and incompletely reduplicate, but also no sudden changes. Thus, it has a referential significance for tinnitus treatment.
Acoustic Stimulation ; Humans ; Music ; Sound ; Tinnitus ; rehabilitation

Objective To explore the difference of serum oxytocin levels between autistic children and healthy children at the age of 3-5,and the relationship between serum oxytocin levels and social competence in children with autism.Methods Twenty-five autistic children and twenty healthy children were tested by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to evaluate the oxytocin levels;the SRS was used to evaluate social competence of children with autism.Results Mann-Whitney test showed there were significantly differences in oxytocin level between autistic children and healthy children(P<0.05).The social competence of autistic children was negatively correlated to oxytocin levels(r=-0.735,P<0.01).Multiple liner regression analyses showed that oxytocin level was an impact factor of the social competence of autistic children(F=11.931,P<0.01).Conclusion This study indicates that the serum oxytocin level maybe a factor which influence the social competence of autistic children.

Objective To explore the correlation between hyperuricaemia and blood pressure, and blood lipid and glucose. Methods By using simple cluster sampling, 2 branch units from PetroChina Changqing Oilfield Company were selected, and all the 720 subjects with hyperuricaemia (HUA) were assigned to the HUA group; another 620 participants with normal uric acid (UA) level into the normal group. The correlation between blood uric acid and blood pressure,and blood lipid and glucose was assessed by Logistic regression. Results The odds ratio (OR) of those who had 1,2 or 3 abnormal status of hypertension,hyperlipidemia and impaired fasting glucose in the HUA group were much higher than the normal group (OR values were 4. 036,2. 562, and 4. 174, respectively). Logistic regression showed that male, systolic blood pressure ( SBP), GLU, total cholesterol ( TC), triglyceride ( TG), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) were risk factors of H UA ( OR values were 7. 736,2. 309,1.721,2. 761 and 1. 411,respectively) ,while high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C, OR = 0. 211 ) was a protective factor of HUA. Conclusions Gender,blood pressure and blood lipid may have correlation with blood UA. Multiple risk factors should be considered to improve the effectiveness of health education and health promotion.

To discuss clinical diagnosis and treatment of cow’s milk protein allergy and cow’s milk protein-induced FPIES (food protein induced enterocolitis syndrome). Methods We retrospectively analyzed clinical data of one infant with milk protein allergy-induced FPIES. Results A 67 days old female on mixed breast and formula feeding developed recurrent diarrhea, abdominal distension, vomiting, mucousy and bloody stools, feeding dififculty, anemia, and failure to thrive since 2 weeks after birth. Laboratory studies showed anemia, increased CRP level and elevation of peripheral white blood count and eosinophil proportion. Milk-speciifc IgE was negative. She was previously hospitalized 4 times, all with admitting diagnosis of“necrotizing enterocolitis”. We treated her with milk protein elimination for 4 weeks and all symptoms were resolved. Milk protein re-challenge test was positive, consistent with clinical features of cow’s milk protein allergy-induced infant FPIES. Conclusions Cow’s milk protein allergy and cow’s milk protein-induced FPIES can present with non-speciifc and variable clinical symptoms and signs, and should be considered in the differential diagnosis.

Objective:To analyze associations of sedentary behavior and physical activity with dyslipidemia among residents in Wuhai city.Methods: Data about social demographic characteristics, life style, health status and other covariate required for analysis in this study was obtained from a cross-sectional study on a total of 11 497 18-79 years old residents in Wuhai City by questionnaire, body mea-surement and laboratory examination.In this study, sedentary behavior and physical activity were evaluated using international physical activity questionnaire long version (IPAQ).IPAQ is widely used all over the world, and its reliability and validity have been tested in Chinese population.2016 Chinese Guideline for the Management of Dyslipidemia in Adults was used to define dyslipidemia in this study.Results: According to IPAQ scoring protocol, 124 participants were excluded as a result of reporting more than 960 min of physical activity per day.50.58% of 11 373 participants included in the analysis reported more than 4 hours of sedentary behavior per day in this study, thus 49.42% participants reported no more than 4 hours of sedentary behavior per day;the proportions of these 11 373 participants who reached Low level physical activity, Moderate level physical activity and high level physical activity were 23.43%, 37.29% and 39.28% respectively;and the detection ratios of new cases and prevalent cases of dyslipidemia in Wuhai City were 20.46% and 16.13% respectively.After controlling for confounders in this study, we found out that sedentary behavior increased the risk of new cases of dyslipidemia in women (OR=1.17, 95% CI: 1.00-1.36), and increased the risk of prevalent cases of dyslipidemia in both men (OR=1.21, 95% CI: 1.02-1.44) and women (OR=1.24, 95% CI: 1.04-1.48);as for association of physical activity with dyslipidemia, association was found between high level physical activity and prevalent cases of dyslipidemia in men in this study (OR=0.78, 95% CI: 0.62-0.98), suggested that high level physical activity may help to reduce the risk of prevalent cases of dyslipidemia in men.Conclusion: Our results from this cross-sectional study in Wuhai City suggested that sedentary behavior increased the risk of dyslipidemia;by contrast, physical activity may help to reduce the risk of dyslipidemia.

Masking therapy can make patients accustom to tinnitus. This therapy is safe and easy to implement, so that it has become a widely used treatment of curing tinnitus. According to surveys of tinnitus sounds, cicada sound is one of the most usual tinnituses. Meanwhile, we have not hitherto found published papers concerning how to synthesize cicada sound and to use it to ameliorate tinnitus. Inspired by the human acoustics theory, we proposed a method to synthesize medical masking sound and to realize the diversity by illustrating the process of synthesizing various cicada sounds. In addition, energy attenuation problem in spectrum shifting process has been successfully solved. Simulation results indicated that the proposed method achieved decent results and would have practical value for the future applications.
Acoustic Stimulation ; Animals ; Computer Simulation ; Hemiptera ; Humans ; Perceptual Masking ; physiology ; Sound ; Tinnitus ; therapy ; Vocalization, Animal

Tinnitus is a common clinical symptom. Researches have shown that fractal sound can effectively treat tinnitus. But current fractal sound is usually synthesized based on constant notes via fractal algorithm, which lead to monotony of synthesized fractal sound. So it is difficult to achieve personalized match. Clinical datas have confirmed that it is common to match tinnitus sound with nature sound and it has a good effect on regulating negative emotion and relieving tinnitus via some natural sound. Therefore, a new method of personalized synthesizing tinnitus rehabilitation sound based on iterative function system (IFS) fractal algorithm is proposed in this paper. This method firstly generates personalized audio library based on natural sound, then tinnitus rehabilitation sound is synthesized via IFS fractal algorithm. Simulation results show that rehabilitation sound in this paper can meet the basic requirements of tinnitus therapy sound and can match tinnitus sound by controlling personalized audio library. So it has reference significance to the treatment of tinnitus sound therapy.