In recent years, with the development of economy, the improvement of people′s living standards, the change of lifestyle and the prevalence of obesity and diabetes, the incidence rate of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease(NAFLD) in the world is increasing year by year.NAFLD is a sort of liver disease spectrum associated with genetics-environment-metabolic stress and is a common multifactorial involvement of liver disease.Interleukin(IL)-17 is a pro-inflammatory factor mainly produced by T helper cell 17.Recently, it has been found that the expression of IL-17 is increased in various liver diseases, and relevant studies have confirmed that IL-17 can facilitate the occurrence and development of NAFLD, and the underlying mechanisms are related to insulin resistance, oxidative stress, lipid peroxidation, gut microbiota dysbiosis, immune inflammation and lipoapoptosis, etc.Now, the research advances of IL-17 in the pathogenesis of NAFLD are reviewed.

Objective To explore the effects of application of probiotics on intestinal flora and related cytokines in infants with cholestatic liver disease.Methods (1) Eighty-four infants with cholestatic liver disease had been hospitalized from October 2010 to June 2011 in the First Hospital of Guangxi Medical University.The infants with cholestatic liver disease were randomly divided into the probiotic intervention group and the non-probiotic intervention group.Quantification of intestinal bacteria was detected by SYBR Green Ⅰ real-time fluorescent quantitative polymerase chain reaction,then the number of 3 kinds of bacteria before and after the treatment was compared.(2) The indices of liver function,blood ammonia,cholesterol were detected.The levels of serum transforming growth factor-β1,tumor necrosis factor-α(TNF-α)and interleukin-6 (IL-6) were measured by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay.Results (1) The number of bifidobacterium,lactobacillus and bifidobacterium/escherichia coli (B/E) were significantly increased (all P ＜ 0.01),whereas the number of escherichia coli was significantly decreased in the probiotic intervention group(P ＜ 0.05),however,there were no differences in the non-probiotic intervention group(all P ＞ 0.05).(2)The indices of total billirubin,direct billirubin,γ-Glutamyltransferase,total bile acid,alanine aminotransferase,blood ammonia,alkaline phosphatase were significantly improved after therapy in 2 groups (all P ＜ 0.05).The levels of TNF-α and IL-6 were significantly decreased in the probiotic intervention group (t--7.31,P =0.00;t =-2.90,P =0.01),but there were no differences in the non-probiotic intervention group.The level of BA was significantly decreased in the probiotic intervention group than the non probiotic intervention group (t =-8.37,P =0.00).(3) The B/E value were significantly inverse correlated with level of serum IL-6 (r =-0.796,P =0.01).Conclusions It may help to restore the intestinal flora and balance the immune function in infants with cholestatic liver disease after application of probiotics.

Super-resolution image reconstruction techniques play an important role for improving image resolution of lung 4D-CT. We presents a super-resolution approach based on fast sub-pixel motion estimation to reconstruct lung 4D-CT images. A fast sub-pixel motion estimation method was used to estimate the deformation fields between "frames", and then iterative back projection (IBP) algorithm was employed to reconstruct high-resolution images. Experimental results showed that compared with traditional interpolation method and super-resolution reconstruction algorithm based on full search motion estimation, the proposed method produced clearer images with significantly enhanced image structure details and reduced time for computation.
Algorithms ; Four-Dimensional Computed Tomography ; Humans ; Image Enhancement ; Lung ; anatomy & histology ; Motion ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Objectives:To investigate clinical characteristics, outcomes and antimicrobial resistance of community-acquired Pseudomonas aeruginosa (CAPA) infections in Chinese pediatric patients. Methods:This retrospective study was conducted at 6 tertiary hospitals in China during January 2016 to December 2018. The clinical and microbiological data of CAPA infected hospitalized children in Hainan and in other regions were collected and compared, and the antimicrobial resistance patterns, clinical characteristics and antibiotic therapy were analyzed. Between different groups were compared using the Chi-square test and Mann-Whitney U test. Results:Among 91 patients, 63 cases were males, 28 cases were females, and 74 cases were from Hainan province, 17 cases were from other regians. The age of consultation was 22.5 (5.4, 44.0) months. Twenty-four cases (26%) had underlying diseases. Fever (79 cases (87%)) and cough (64 cases (70%)) were common initial symptoms. Other concomitant symptoms included wheezing 8 cases (9%), diarrhea 3 cases (3%) and vomiting 4 cases (4%). Twenty-eight cases (31%) had organ infections, including pneumonia 22 cases (24%), skin infection 5 cases (5%), meningitis, intra-abdominal infection and upper urinary tract infection each 1 case (1%). The resistance rate of CAPA isolates to cefepime (4% (4/90)), amikacin (1% (1/90)), ciprofloxacin (2% (2/90)) and levofloxacin (1% (1/89)) was low, and to ceftazidime, piperacillin, piperacillin-azobactam, carbapenem was 12% (11/90), 3/16, 18% (10/56) and 6% (5/90), respectively. Antimicrobial combination therapy accounted for 52% (47/91) of empirical therapy and 59% (52/88) of definite therapy. Two cases (2%) were hopeless discharged, and 3 cases (3%) died during hospitalization. The worse prognosis of CAPA infection is significantly different among children in other regions and in Hainan (4/17 vs. 1% (1/74), χ2=9.74, P<0.05). Conclusions:The invasive CAPA-infection has regional difference in incidence and prognosis in China. Clinical symptoms and signs are non-specific. CAPA strains isolated from pediatric patients display low level of resistance to most of the common antipseudomonal antibiotics. The proportion of poor prognostic outcome is lower in Hainan than in other regions.

Objective:To analyze the distribution and antimicrobial resistance pattern of bacteria isolated from alveolar lavage fluid in pediatric patients with lower respiratory tract infection from 2016 to 2018.Methods:The alveolar lavage fluid of pediatric patients aged <18 years old with lower respiratory tract infection in ten hospitals from January 2016 to December 2018 were collected, and the pathogenic bacteria were cultured and isolated. The paper diffusion method or minimum inhibitory concentration method was used to conduct drug susceptibility tests for the isolated strains.The distribution of pathogenic bacteria and the source department of the strains were analyzed.Chi-sqare test was used for statistical analysis.Results:Of 1 271 isolates, 606 strains (47.7%) were gram-negative bacteria, 628 strains (49.4%) were gram-positive bacteria, and 37 strains (2.9%) were fungi. The common pathogens were Streptococcus pneumoniae (36.7%, 466/1 271), Acinetobacter baumannii (16.8%, 214/1 271), Staphylococcus aureus (12.7%, 162/1 271), Klebsiella pneumoniae (8.3%, 105/1 271), Haemophilus influenzae (7.4%, 94/1 271), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (6.2%, 79/1 271), Burkholderia cepacia (5.3%, 67/1 271) and Escherichia coli (3.7%, 47/1 271). The main pathogens in the intensive care unit (ICU) were gram-negative bacteria (80.1%, 428/534), among which Acinetobacter baumannii was the most common (3.7%, 199/534). The main pathogens in the non-ICU were gram-positive bacteria (70.8%, 522/737). The detection rates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) were 45.1%(23/51) in the ICU and 43.2% (48/111) in the non-ICU, respectively. The detection rates of penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae (PRSP) were 10.9%(6/55) in the ICU and 18.5% (76/411) in the non-ICU, respectively. The detection rates of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) were 57.3%(43/75) in the ICU and 33.3%(10/30) in the non-ICU, respectively. The detection rate of carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (CRPA) in the ICU was higher than that in the non-ICU (49.1%(27/55) vs 25.0%(6/24)), and the difference was statistically significant ( χ2=3.98, P=0.046). Eight strains (17.0%) of carbapenem-resistant Escherichia coli were detected, and 164 strains(76.6%) of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii were detected. Seventy-eight Haemophilus influenzae isolates were isolated from non-ICU, and the resistance rate to ampicillin was 57.4%(54/94). Burkholderia cepacia isolates were all isolated from ICU, and the resistance rates to piperacillin-tazobactam, levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin and compound sulfamethoxazole were 13.4%(9/67), 3.0%(2/67), 0(0/67) and 9.0%(6/67), respectively. Conclusions:Streptococcus pneumoniae is still the most common pathogen in pediatric patients with lower respiratory tract infection. Gram-negative bacilli are the main pathogens in pediatric patients with lower respiratory tract infection in the ICU. The dection rates of MRSA, PRSP and carbopenem-resistant gram-negative bacilli are high. And the resistance rate of Haemophilus influenzae to ampicillin is also high. The clinical empirical treatment should be determined according to different clinical background.