Objective To summarize key points of nursing the patients with hot-press injury in hands treated with artificial dermis.Method The nursing measures by summary included preoperative psychological counseling,raising the affected limbs in case of edema,keeping wounds clean,keeping the affected limbs immobilized,instructing them in functional exercise.Results All 10 cases were cured.Excellent results were obtained in hand function and shape.Conclusions Preoperative mental care can improve the patients’confidence and make them cooperative positively in treatment and postoperative rehabilitative exercises. Postoperative close observation of the disease conditions and good care to the wounds together with right instruction in hand function exercises are critical for the recovery of hand function.

Objective: To observe blood-activating and stasis-resolving therapy (活血化瘀法)for patients with acute hypertensive cerebral hemorrhage small and moderate in amount and its influence on patients daily ability. Methods: One hundred and twenty-four cases were randomly divided into 3 groups: A group (n=52 cases), B group (n=34) and C group (n=38). Besides conventional therapies, A and B groups were treated additionally with 20 ml of Danshen injection (丹参注射液) in 5% glucose solution 250 ml for intravenous drip (once a day), 28 days constituting one therapeutic course, the beginning of the injection in A group was 24-48 hours after the attack and that of B group, 1 week after the attack. All the cases were evaluated by effective rate, neural defect score (NDS), ability of daily life (ADL), modified Barthel index (MBI), the duration for the absorption of intracranial hematoma, mortality, etc. The therapeutic effects of the 3 groups were compared after the treatment for 28 days, 3 months and 6 months. Results: The total significant effective rates in A group and B group were significantly better than that of C group (all P0.05). Conclusion: The early use of blood-activating and stasis-resolving therapy is effective for patients with acute hypertensive cerebral hemorrhage small and moderate in amount, it may promote the absorption of the intracranial hematoma, and improve the patients′ remote prognosis.

This study sought to probe the feasibility of instituting a radioiodide treatment for androgen-independent prostate cancer by adenovirus transfer of the hNIS gene. A recombinant adenovirus, Ad-CMV-NIS, that expressed the NIS gene under the control of cytomegalovirus (CMV) promoter was constructed. In vitro, after infection with Ad-CMV-NIS,PC-3 prostate cancer cells exhibited an uptake of perchlorate-sensitive iodide, approximately 120 times higher than that exhibited by negative control Ad-CMV-GFP-infected cells. The half-time of efflux was 26.6 min. Clonogenic assays demonstrated that Ad-CMV-NIS-infected cancer cells were selectively killed by exposure to 131I. In vivo, Ad-CMV-NIS infected tumors showed significant radioiodine accumulation (16.30 +/- 8.72)% ID/g at 2h postinjection) with an effective half-life of 5.4h. The tumor could be clearly visualized by 131I scintigraphy. These data indicate that infection with Ad-CMV-NIS is an efficient way to induce radioiodide uptake in vitro and in vivo, thus suggesting that NIS-based gene therapy has the potential for use in androgen-independent prostate cancer.
Adenoviridae ; genetics ; metabolism ; Genetic Therapy ; methods ; Humans ; Iodine Radioisotopes ; therapeutic use ; Male ; Prostatic Neoplasms ; genetics ; metabolism ; radiotherapy ; Symporters ; genetics ; Transfection ; methods