Objective To evaluate the operation and review the clinical effectiveness of arthroscopic tenodesis through double-needles positioning approach to treat proximal lesions of Biceps tendon.Methods From January 2010 to January 2013,55 patients (25 men,30 women) with the mean age of 52.4 (range,37-65) years old who underwent arthroscopic tenodesis through double-needles positioning portal to treat proximal lesions of Biceps tendon were retrospectively analyzed.Shoulder pain of all the patients occurred in pre-operation and aggravated at the time of abduction shoulder joint,which affected the normal life for reasons of weakness.Diagnosis of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was proximal lesions of Biceps tendon,which was failed to respond to conservative management of six months.All patients underwent biceps tenodesis under arthroscopy with fixation of two suture anchors through bone,and removed tendon stump finally.All the portals of operation and observation of tendon fixation used double-needles positioning portal.We recorded the general condition of shoulder as the level of pain,sphere of activity,active forward flexion and intensity of adduction in pre-operation,3 months,6 months,12 months and 18 months after operation with American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES),shoulder function score of Constant-Murley (Constant) and University of California,Los Angeles (UCLA).Then all data were analyzed statistically.Results All patients were operated successfully and got the mean follow-up of 20 months (range,18-24).The result of MRI showed well healing of tendon without rupture.The shoulder function had basically recovered.In pre-operation,ASES,constant and UCLA scores was 10.22±3.02,35.89±7.25,8.53±2.07 respectively.In 18 months after operation,the scores were 32.07± 1.26,89.75±4.07,31.87±2.07 respectively.The outcomes demonstrated that all scores in 18 months after operation had significantly improved,compared to pre-operation.Conclusion The technique of arthroscopic tenodesis through double-needles positioning approach to treat proximal lesions of Biceps tendon is reliable and simple,and can achieve satisfactory clinical outcomes.

Background and purpose:Although intermittent endocrine therapy is a treatment strategy for new patients with advanced prostate cancer, the use of hormonal therapy is still controversial. This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of intermittent hormonal therapy for the patients with advanced prostate cancer and determine the factors influencing efficacy of the treatment.Methods:From Jul. 2009 to May 2015, patients with advanced prostate cancer were treated with 6 months of hormonal therapy, and then efficacy was assessed. A hundred and twenty-eight hormone sensitive patients were randomly divided into intermittent and continuous treatment groups, and were observed with efficacy, side effects, quality of life scores and other indicators. The prognostic factors for intermittent group were analyzed.Results:A total of 128 patients with advanced prostate cancer were enrolled in the study. Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels were significantly decreased in 96 patients after endocrine therapy. Among those, 43 patients received intermittent endocrine therapy while 53 patients received continuous endocrine therapy. The score of KPS in the intermittent treatment group was 82.6±7.4, which was significantly higher than that of the continuous group (KPS score was 69.8±8.7). There was a sig-nificant difference between them (P<0.05). The incidence of treatment related side effects and the proportion of developing hormone independent tumor in the intermittent group were significantly lower than that in the continuous treatment group (P<0.05). The 5-year survival rate in intermittent group was 72.1%, higher than that in the continuous group (63%). How-ever, the difference was not statistically significant (P>0.5). PSA level in the early stage of endocrine therapy and G1eason score before treatment were important factors affecting the prognosis of patients. The patients in the intermittent group were followed up for 13-70 months, and received 1 to 4 cycles of treatment. The number of patients in the treatment was declined during the extension of the treatment, and the treatment interval was shorter.Conclusion:Intermittent endocrine therapy is an effective treatment for advanced prostate cancer. It is safe and reliable. It can improve the quality of life for patients and reduce the economic burden on them.

[ ABSTRACT] AIM:In this study, we aim to obtain the induced pluripotent stem cells ( iPSCs) from the patients with sporadic Alzheimer disease ( AD) .METHODS:Three typical Alzheimer’ s patients were chosen, and the epithelial cells were isolated from their urine.We reprogrammed these cells into induced pluripotent stem cells by transfection of 4 factors (Oct4, Sox2, Klf4 and SV40LT) with the technique of electro-transfection.After getting these iPSCs, we continue to differentiate them into neural cells by a specific method—dual inhibition of Smad signaling.RESULTS: The primary cells from 3 AD patients were successfully reprogrammed to iPSCs, and these patients-derived iPSCs were differentiated into neural cells.There was no significant difference, during iPSCs reprogramming and neural differentiation, between cells from AD patients and normal people.CONCLUSION: The urine cells from AD patients were able to transfer to iPSCs, functional neurons and neurogliocytes.

The animal models for pharmacologic assessment of drugs against premature delivery arereviewed, which include the measure of spontaneous delivery time between the first and the second pups in term pregnancy rats, the delay in the onset of labor in rats and premature delivery artificially induced by lipopolysaccharide, interleukin 1 ? and prostaglandin F 2? in mice.

Reuse of waste oil in cooking has been the social concern for long time, but until now there is no reliable method to identify the gutter oil.In this work, based on the generation of long-chain aliphatic aldehydes in the refinement of gutter oil, gutter oil and adulterate cooking oil were identified by determining hexanal, heptanal, octanal, nonanal and decanal in oil sample with high perfomance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method using O-(3-(9H-carbazol-9-yl)propyl)hydroxylamine as the fluorescent derivative reagent.At first, 10 μL of oil sample was dissolved in 200 μL of isopropanol, then reacted with O-(3-(9H-carbazol-9-yl)propyl)hydroxylamine to form the stable derivatives, extracted with acetonitrile and injected into HPLC for analysis.The derivatives were separated on a C18 column within 15 min with ACN-H2O (90∶10, V/V) as mobile phase.The fluorescence detector was set at λex/λem=292 nm/348 nm.The linear range of 5 kinds of long-chain aliphatic aldehydes was 0.01-1.00 μmol/L with limit of detection (LOD, S/N=3) of 0.05-0.10 nmol/L, and the spiked recoveries were 95.6%-101.4%.The results showed that the edible oils obtained from supermarket almost had no hexanal, heptanal, octanal, nonanal, decanal, but these aldehydes increased significantly in gutter oil.Thus the 5 kinds of long-chain aldehydes could be used as the indictor of gutter oil.Taking the advantage of good specificity, higher sensitivity, good accuracy and simplicity, the method was suitable for the rapid identification of gutter oil.

Objective To investigate the safety and feasibility of modified hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery (MHALS) in the abdominal surgery.Methods The clinical data of 8 patients who underwent long-sleeved MHALS at the First People's Hospital of Foshan between September 2014 and January 2015 were retrospectively analyzed.Among the 8 patients,right liver cancer with intrahepatic metastasis was found in 2 patients,left liver cancer in 1 patient,hepatic peripheral nerve sheath tumor in 1 patient,left retroperitoneal leiomyosarcoma in 1 patient,extra-and intra-hepatic cholangiolithiasis in 1 patient,choledochocyst in 1 patient and ampulla cancer in 1 patient.Laparoscopic protection sleeve went through the middle of incision-retractor,and then wrapped around it about 10 cm.Incision-retractor was fixed at the abdominal incision firstly,laparoscopic procedures were performed when the wrist of assisted hand was bound and fixed by the distal of sleeve.The patients were followed up by outpatient examination and telephone interview till March 2015.Results All the 8 patients underwent successful MHALS,including 1 of right hemihepatectomy in situ,1 of ligation of right portal vein + left liver split (the patient gave up two-stage operation due to intractable ascites and elevated bilirubin),1 of hepatic left lateral lobectomy (the patient underwent hemostatic sutures in open surgery due to hemorrhage of liver's cutting surface),1 of hepatic peripheral nerve sheath tumor resection,1 of left retroperitoneal leiomyosarcoma resection,1 of choledocholithotomy + left hepatectomy + cholecystectomy + T tube drainage,1 of choledochocyst + biliary enteric drainage and 1 of pancreaticoduodenectomy.Four patients had assisted incision of 4 cm,and another 4 patients of 7 cm.Eight patients were followed up for a median time of 3 months (range,2-7 months).The patient who received ligation of right portal vein + left liver split died at postoperative month 3,and the others didn't have recurrence of tumor or lithiasis.Conclusion The MHALS is safe and feasible in the abdominal surgery.

Objective To study the induction of nitrous oxide(N2 O)and to compare safety and effec-tiveness of conscious sedation by nitrous oxide inhalation and intravenous sedation with propofol for upper gas-trointestinal(UGI)endoscopy.Methods A total of 400 patients undergoing UGI endoscopy in our hospital from April 2013 to October 2013 were randomly assigned to two groups,N2 O inhalation group(n=200)and in-travenous propofol group(n=200).The systolic pressures,diastolic pressures,heart rates and oxygen satura-tion,onset time,procedure duration,degree of sedation,recovery time,length of hospital stay,complica-tions,satisfaction ratings of doctors and patients,and the number of patients willing to accept the examination again were analyzed.Results The mean time of ideal anesthesia state for N2 O was (3. 16 ±0. 65 )min and there was no difference between the male and female(3. 16 ±0. 71)min vs.(3. 16 ±0. 58)min,t=0. 006,P>0. 05).The mean concentration was (43. 68 ±5. 05 )%,which was higher in male than that in female [(45. 3 ±4. 99)% vs.(41. 46 ±4. 30)%,t=3. 042,P<0. 05].Compared with before,the systolic pres-
sures,diastolic pressures,heart rates and oxygen saturation of patients in the propofol group significantly re-duced during the procedure(P<0. 05),while the same measurements excluding oxygen saturation for those in the N2 O group significantly increased(P<0. 05 ).Compared with the propofol group,patients inhaling N2 O had significantly shorter recovery and hospital stay time,but a longer onset time and procedure duration(P<0. 05 ).Complications that occurred in some patients of propofol group included hyoxemia,hypotension,brady-cardia,while the major complication in the N2 O group was nausea.The satisfaction ratings of doctors or pa-tients and the number of patients willing to accept the examination again in N2 O group were smaller than those in propofol group(86 ±3. 7 vs.96 ±2. 6,87 ±2. 8 vs.98 ±1. 2,87%vs.99%,P<0. 05).Conclusion Both conscious sedation by N2 O inhalation and intravenous sedation with propofol are effective for diagnostic UGI en-doscopy,but the safety of the former is superior to the latter.The key to complete the conscious sedation by ni-trous oxide inhalation is to accurately identify the ideal anesthesia state of N2 O.It is significant to pay attention to the nine factors concerning safe and effective sedation during operation.

Objective To study the diagnostic value of common inflammatory markers in patients with infectious diseases. Methods One hundred sepsis patients, 100 viral infection patients,100 pulmonary tuberculosis patients and 100 gonorrhea patients were analyzed retrospectively. The contents of procalcitonin (PCT), C-reactive protein (CRP), haptoglobin (HP), ceruloplasmin (CER), α1-acid glycoprotein (α1-AAG), α1-antitrypsin (α1-AAT), white blood cell count (WBC) and erythrocyte sedimetation rate (ESR) were measured. The receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC curve), sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, Youden's index,positive and negative likelihood ratios and total coincidence rate were calculated respectively. Results The area under the ROC curve, sensitivity, specificity, Youden's index and positive likelihood ratios,positive predictive value and total coincidence rate of PCT in sepsis patients were 0. 895, 0.84, 0.92,0.76, 10.50, 0.91 and 0.88, respectively, which were superior to CRP, HP, CER, α1-AAG, α1-AAT, WBC and ESR. Conclusions PCT is a better inflammatory reactive parameter than other parameters currently applied in practice and may serve as a rapid and sensitive test in the early stage of severe bacterial infections.

Objective To establish a scientific and sensitive evaluation index system of nursing quality for cancer hospital. Methods The evaluation index system of nursing quality for cancer hospital was formulated based on literature,semi- structured interviews and expert group discussion. Then, developing the evaluation index system of nursing quality for cancer hospital by two rounds of Delphi consultation. Results The experts′ authority coefficient was 0.862. The nursing quality indicators included 5 first-level indicators,9 second-level indicators and 73 third-level indicators. The Kendall coordination coefficients of the importance of the three level indicators were 0.354,0.217,and 0.243, The Kendall coordination coefficients of the feasibility of the three level indicators were 0.234,0.313,and 0.339. Conclusions Scientific nature and concentration indicator system of nursing quality for cancer hospital was developed. It will be used to provide quantitative basis for the control of nursing quality in cancer hospital.

Moxibustion,which is simple for manipulation and effective,has always been a very important way for external treatment.Acupuncture and moxibustion were complementary to each other sincc ancient times.but modem people usually only pay attention to acupuncture and neglect the usage of moxibustion.In this paper the importance of moxibustion is expounded briefly.