Humans ; Myelodysplastic Syndromes ; diagnosis ; therapy

Anemia, Aplastic ; prevention & control ; therapy ; Humans

OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effects of clopidogrel plus atorvastatin on ischemic cardiovascular diseases and to explore the clinical significance of drug interactions.METHODS:Literatures were retreived from EMBase,PubMed,Cochrane Library and CNKI with clopidogrel,atorvastatin,clinical trial as

Autophagy is a classical regulatory mechanism of energy metabolism and self-update system in the maintenance of the intracellular homeostasis and cell development. Autophagy has been recently found to play a role in tumor development. Autophagy regulates tumor formation, proliferation, metastasis, and metabolism. At the same time, the anticancer drugs formed with autophagic mediators have been used in the treatment, which suggested that improving autophagy activity to inhibit tumor has become a new way for cancer treatment of cancer patients. This article gives an overview of the regulatory mechanism of autophagy, the relationship between autophagy and tumor, and tumor therapy by targeting autophagy.
Antineoplastic Agents ; Autophagy ; Humans ; Neoplasms ; physiopathology

Objective To search for a scientific and feasible system for performance appraisal of hospital management staff, and enhance the level of hospital management. Methods The 360-degree evaluation and improved performance report evaluation are called into play to examine such staff. Examiners include the superiors, peers (heads of clinical and technical departments and those of administrative departments), inferiors and others (representatives of the faculty congress and staff congress). Results Outcomes of the two evaluation methods found 8 of the top ten as overlapping, and 8 of the bottom ten as overlapping as well. 80% overlapping between the two prove the results as highly similar, and a relativity analysis found the general results of the two methods as highly consistent. Conclusion United applic of the two methods can effectively examine the management staff and improve their management capabilities.

Objective: Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is characterized by severe hypotonia and feeding difficulties in early infancy, followed by excessive eating and gradual development of morbid obesity in later infancy or early childhood. Patients with PWS are often too young to manifest sufficient features or have atypical findings, making genetic testing important to confirm the diagnosis of PWS. Approximately 99% of patients with PWS have a diagnostic abnormality in the parent-specific methylation imprint within the Prader-Willi critical region (PWCR) at chromosome 15q11.2-q12. Of them, 70% have a paternal deletion; 25% have a maternal uniparental disomy (UPD); and <5% have a mutation in the imprinting center. Methods: Current techniques can identify a diagnostic abnormality, such as paternal deletion or maternal UPD for most of patients with PWS, but they are labor-intensive and cost-expensive. Multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) is a novel, simple, and cost-effective technique for analysis of relative quantification in a single assay, which has recently been applied for the detection of genomic deletions, duplications, and amplifications in a variety of genes. Results: Six out of 20 patients referred for genetic diagnosis of PWS were found to have a deletion by MLPA, confirmed by FISH and DNA methylation analysis with 100% concordance. Conclusion: MLPA's high sensitivity and specificity for deletion detection is the same as FISH or Southern blot based analysis. Additional collaborative effort for developing and validating the complete MLPA-PWS assay, for not only detecting deletion but also identifying methylation abnormality, is on going.

Objective To investigate the influence of evidence-based nursing intervention on treatment effect and quality of life in nephrotic syndrome children. Methods 98 cases were randomly divided into the intervention group and the control group. The control group received routine nursing and the intervention group additionally received evidence-based nursing intervention. We compared the average hospital stay, treatment effect and quality of life in two groups. Results The average hospital stay in the intervention group was shorter than that of the control group. The treatment effect in the intervention group was ameliorated than that of the control group. The quality of life in the intervention group was ameliorated than that of the control group. Conclusions Evidence-based nursing intervention could obviously improve the treatment effect and quality of life in children with nephrotic syndrome.

Objective To observe the effect of the Chinese medicine on the patients’ thyroid autoantibodies TPOAb and TGAb of Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Methods 100 cases of Hashimoto's thyroiditis were randomly divided into group A and group B, with 50 cases in each group. Group A was given levothyroxine sodium(L-T4) to maintain thyroid function(FT3,FT4,TSH)in the normal range, at the same time Chinese medicines of soothing liver and strengthening spleen, nourishing the liver and kidney, activating blood and removing blood stasis were additionally added;while group B was taken L-T4 to maintain the thyroid function in the normal range. The levels of TPOAb, TGAb were determined before and after treatment in both groups. Results After the treatment, the level of TGAb and TPOAb[respectively(106.3±29.5)IU/ml,(871.5± 209.3)IU/ml] in group A were decreased compared with their previous level [respectively(385.5±76.6)IU/ml, (1621.5±399.2)IU/ml], the difference was statistically significant(t were 48.2、10.6,P<0.01). The level of TGAb and TPOAb [respectively(437.6±135.4)IU/ml,(1798.6±434.6)IU/ml] in group B were slightly increase than their previous level[respectively(383.9±105.8)IU/ml,(1633.2±396.5)IU/ml], with no significant difference. The levels of TPOAb and TGAb in group A had significant difference than those in group B after the treatment(t were 22.3、19.6,P<0.01). Conclusion TCM combined with L-T4 can reduce the level of thyroid autoantibodies of TPOAb and TGAb-in patients.

Objective To observe the effect of nursing intervention on voiding effect in patients after percutaneous renal biopsy. Methods 80 cases of patients after percutaneous renal biopsy were randomly divided into the control group and the observation group with 40 patients in each group. The control group only received general health education, while the observation group was given specialist care measures pre, during and post operation. The complication after operation was compared between the two groups. Results Postoperative complication of the observation group was lower than that of the control group. Conclusions The whole process nursing intervention can alleviate voiding effect, reduce postoperative complications, and is worthy of clinical application.

Dyslipidemia is a well-established risk factor for atherosclerosis. Treating dyslipidemia in elderly patients requires specific knowledge and understanding of common dyslipidemias and the relative safety of various pharmacologic agents in the presence of possible multiple comorbidities. Lifestyle modification remains the first step in the treatment of dyslipidemia; however, it can be difficult to sustain and achieve acceptable compliance in the elderly and it is best used in combination with drug therapy. Statins are widely accepted as the first-line therapy. Several recent studies have demonstrated that statins are safe and effective in the elderly. However, it is important to note that there is very limited data regarding the effects of dyslipidemia treatment on morbidity and mortality in patients over 85 years of age. In summary, the clinicians must recognize that the presence of dyslipidemia in the elderly poses substantial risk of coronary events and stroke. The available evidence has demonstrated that in most elderly patients who are at increased risk for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, treatment of dyslipidemia with appropriate therapy reduces the risk, and when used carefully with close monitoring for safety, the treatment is generally well tolerated. With increasing life expectancy, it is critical for physicians to recognize the importance of detection and treatment of dyslipidemia in the elderly.