Adult ; Aged ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Nasal Septum ; pathology ; Nose Neoplasms

Adult ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Parathyroid Neoplasms ; diagnostic imaging ; surgery ; Retrospective Studies ; Ultrasonography

Accidents, Occupational ; Acute Disease ; Adult ; Humans ; Male ; Sulfuric Acid Esters ; poisoning

Biomarkers ; blood ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Critical Illness ; Early Diagnosis ; Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay ; Female ; Gastrointestinal Diseases ; blood ; diagnosis ; etiology ; Humans ; Infant ; Male ; Peptides ; blood ; Severity of Illness Index ; Trefoil Factor-2

Humans ; Monitoring, Intraoperative ; methods ; Perioperative Care ; Sleep Apnea, Obstructive ; nursing ; therapy

Adenoids ; diagnostic imaging ; pathology ; surgery ; Adolescent ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Endoscopy ; Female ; Humans ; Hypertrophy ; diagnostic imaging ; pathology ; surgery ; Male ; Nasopharyngeal Diseases ; diagnostic imaging ; pathology ; surgery ; Nose ; surgery ; Radiography

Adenoma, Pleomorphic ; surgery ; Humans ; Trachea ; Tracheal Neoplasms ; surgery ; Tracheotomy

20?g/L) after surgery in one month.The survival rate for 1,3,5yr were 100%(n=17),91.5%(n=16) and 84.7% (n=14) respectively in the therapy group,and in the control group 95.45% (n=21),72.7% (n=16),40.91%(n=9) respectively.Sur- vival rate between two groups showed significant difference (P

Objective To investigate the expression changes of nuclear factor-kappa B(NF-kB) and intercellular adhesion molecule-1(ICAM-1)in rats with severe acute pancreatitis(SAP)and the effect of pretreatment of pioglitazone,a specific peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor?(PPAR?),)ligand, on the development of SAP.Methods Fifty-four SD rats were divided into sham operation group(C), SAP group(A)and pioglitazone pretreatment group(Ⅰ).The SAP was induced by retrograde infusion of 5% sodium taurocholate(0.1 ml/100 g)into the biliopancreatic duct.The rats inⅠgroup were intraperi- toneally injected with pioglitazone(2 mg/100 g)two hours before operation.The rats were sacrificed at 3,6 and 12 hrs,the blood,ascites and pancreatic tissues were collected(6 rats once for each group). The expressions of NF-kB and ICAM-1 in pancreatic tissues were measured by immunochemistry,mean- while the serum amylase,the amount of ascitic,pancreatic wet/dry ratio were measured.The pathologi- cal changes of pancreatic tissues were observed by immunochemistry staining with hematoxylin and eosin and the score of the tissues were evaluated.Results Pretreatment with pioglitazone could significantly attenuated the severity of SAP,including reduction of amylase and ascites,and the mass and pathological scores of the pancreatic tissue were decreased after 6 hrs of medication.The expression of ICAM-1 and NF-kB activity were inhibited.Conclusions Above findings demonstrate that pioglitazone can attenuate the severity of SAP by inhibition of ICAM-1 expression and NF-kB activation.The beneficial effects of pioglitazone might be due to its anti-inflammatory activities.The pioglitazone can be used as a new drug in treatment of SAP.

Adult ; Cholesteatoma ; congenital ; Female ; Humans ; Temporal Bone