Objective To study the methods,therapeutic effect and complications of transcatheter uterine artery embolization(TUAE)for hysteromyoma.Methods There were 82 patients with hysteromyoma confirmed by clinical,color Doppler ultrasound and CT in this study.Among them,5 hysteromyoma located under mucous membrane,72 in the myometrium,5 under serous membrane.15 cases were single hysteromyoma,67 were multiple hysteromyoma.Bilateral uterine arteries were embolized with lipiodol-pingyangmycin emulsion(LPE)and Gelfoam particles using Seldinger technique.All patients were followed up for 3 to 6 months.Results The successful rate of catheterization almost reached 100%.B-mode ultrasound examination 3 months after the procedure showed averagely 51% of decrease in volume of the masses and decrease of blood flow of tumors in all cases,the volume of tumors decreased 43% and 19 hysteromyoma disappeared for 6 months later.Menses returned to regular cycle.In the patients with anemia,the hemoglobin concentration recovered to normal level.The rate of complication was 6%(5/82),and recovered to normal after special treatment.Conclusion TUAE is an effective and less invasive way to treat hysteromyoma,the complications of TUAE are preventable and curable.

Objective To explore the applicability of the childhood autism spectrum test (CAST) of children in Mainland China according to autism screening,in order to provide the effective reference for the identification and diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders of children.Methods Two hundreds and fifty-two typical developing children,and 61 autistic children who were confirmed by psychological clinic of Child Healthcare Clinic,Shenzhen Luohu District Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital who were conformed with diagnosis standards of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition(DSM-5) by using CAST Chinese version were assessed,and the reliability and validity analysis were made on the CAST scale.The receiver operating characteristic curve was drew to determine the optimal threshold value,and the sensitivity,specificity and positive predictive value were calculated.Results CAST Chinese version had good reliability,Cronbach's α was 0.880.Split-half reliability coefficient r was 0.821,and the whole scale calibration reliability coefficient was 0.902.There was statistically significant difference between items and the total score(P＜0.05).The consistency between the CAST ≥4 years old children and diagnosis standards of DSM-5 reached 0.884(P=0.000).The consistency 3-＜4 years old children and diagnosis standards of DSM-5 reached 0.867 (P=0.000).Among the screening of the children who were ≥4 years old,the cut off was 15 scores that the sensitivity and specificity were best.With the children of 3-＜4 years old,a designated cut-point should be 17 scores.Conclusions There are good reliability and validity of CAST,which can be used to mainland China,as well as to screen autistic children more than 3 years old.

OBJECTIVE:To establish a method for simultaneous determination of the content of 14 common metal elements (Mg,Ca,Cr,Mn,Fe,Ni,Cu,Zn,As,Se,Cd,Sb,Ba and Pb)in Ganmao qingre granules. METHODS:Microwave diges-tion-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry(ICP-MS)method was conducted. The samples were digested with concentrated nitric acid-hydrogen peroxide(2∶1,V/V),and then ICP-MS was used to determine the mass concentration of 14 metal elements. Li, Sc,Ge,Y,In,Bi and Tb were used as internal standards,and branches and leaves of bush were used as standard substances. RE-SULTS:The correlation coefficient of the standard curves of 14 elements was larger than 0.999 6,detection limits were in the range of 0.002-0.035 μg/L,recoveries were in the range of 80.57%-104.2% and RSDs were in the range of 0.34%-2.71%. CON-CLUSIONS:The method is specific,accurate and sensitive,and suitable for the content determination of 14 common metal ele-ments in Ganmao qingre granules. The total mass concentrations of 6 batches of heavy metals are all meet the requirements of Green Trade Standards of Importing&Exporting Medicinal Plants&Preparations.

OBJECTIVE:To establish the ion chromatography for the mass fractions of 9 inorganic anions (fluoride ion,for-mate radical,chloride ion,nitrite radical,bromide ion,nitrate radical,sulfate radical,oxalate radical and phosphate radical) in Ganmao qingre granules. METHODS:Ion chromatograph was used. The column was Ion Pac AS11-HC with the mobile phase of po-tassium hydroxide solution by gradient elution(concentration:30 mmol/L,time:15 min),the column temperature was room tem-perature,the volume was 25 μl. RESULTS:The 9 inorganic anions were basically achieved separation and had good linear relation-ship with r of 0.999 2-0.999 9,respectively;RSDs of precision,stability and reproducibility tests were less than 3.50%. Average re-covery was 92.47%-103.51%(RSD=0.42%-3.41%,n=6),respectively. CONCLUSIONS:The established method is fast,accu-rate,sensitive and repeatable and can be used for the determination of 9 inorganic anions in Ganmao qingre granules.

BACKGROUND:Pathological change and compression of multiple vertebra often occur following senile osteoporosis,myeloma and metastatic tumor.However,there are few studies concerning treatment of multiple vertebral lesion shaping.OBJECTIVE:To explore therapeutic efficacy,announcements of multiple pathological thorax-lumbar vertebrae treated with once only percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP).DESIGN,TIME AND SETTING:The observational experiment.Patients were selected from the Department of Spinal Surgery,Department of Rehabilitation,and Department of Tumor,Taihe Hospital from November 2004 to October 2008.PARTICIPANTS:A total of 31 patients from the Department of Spinal Surgery,Department of Rehabilitation,and Department of Tumor,Taihe Hospital with senile osteoporosis combined with compression fracture,general lymphadenomatosis of bones and osteolytic metastatic tumor,14 males,17 females,with an age of 56-82 years old.METHODS:Thirty-one cases of multiple pathological thorax-lumbar vertebrae were treated with PVP.Following local anesthesia,affected vertebral body underwent vertebrae root puncturation.Under strict monitoring,bone cement was injected into the vertebral body in order.Following surgery,vertebral body condition and patients' reaction were observed.Therapeutic efficacy was evaluated 1 week following surgery.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:The following parameters were measured:centrum puncture success ratio,disposable centrum forming number,bone cement injection quantity,centrum bone cement distribution situation,leakage of bone cement to soft tissue and vein surrounding the vertebra,ache alleviation,and complications.RESULTS:A total of 75 vertebroplasy was used 33 times,2 vertebral bodies at least once only,and 5 vertebral bodies at most once only,with an average of 2.27 vertebral bodies once only.4-12 mL of bone cement was injected in each vertebral body,averagely 7.5 mL.Uniformity injection was done in 49 cases,and partial injection in 26 cases.Without serious complications,all the patients relieved in local pain parts following surgery.Significant remission or disappearance was determined in 20 cases,and partial remission in 11 cases.CONCLUSION:PVP is a safe and effective method in treatment of multiple pathological thorax-lumbar vertebrae.The key of operation is reasonable injection and thorough monitoring.

Objective To explore the embolization technique,embolus choice and preventing complications of transcatheter internal iliac artery embolization in treating pelvis massive hemorrhage.Methods Bilateral selective internal iliac artery embolization utilizing gelfoam was done in 11 patients of pelvis massive hemorrhage (including 3 cases of bladder carcinoma,5 cases of cervix carcinoma,one case of choriocarcinoma and 2 cases of puerperal hemorrhage.Results Prompt hemostasis was obtained immediately after first embolization in all 11 patients,one of them showed recurrent bleeding after 24 hours and underwent treatment again.Patients were followed up for 10~90 days,no hemorrhage or any kind of complication noted in all patients.Conclusion Transcatheter internal iliac artery embolization is a simple,less invasive,safe and effective therapy for pelvis massive hemorrhage,should be taken as the first choice.

The outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in West Africa in February 2014 is the worst one in the history of the disease.Medicines and vaccines for Ebola have attracted special attention .This study utilizes Cortellis database of Thom-son Reuters and knowledge about Ebola virus to analyze current R&D of medicines and vaccines for Ebola in order to offer references for research and development .Study findings shows that there are mainly 5 important categories:vaccines, neu-tralizing antibodies , small-molecule anti-Ebola drugs , RNAi drugs and nucleotide drugs .In each category , there are prom-ising products under development that are worthy of attention .

We presented a new method for vessel segmentation and vascular structure recognition for coronary angiographic images. During vessel segmentation, a new vessel function was proposed to attain vessel feature map. Then the region growing algorithm was implemented with an automatic selection of seed point, extraction of main vessel branch, and vessel detail repairing. In the algorithm of vascular structure recognition, a fuzzy operator was used, which can detect the structures of vascular segments, bifurcations, crosses, and tips. The experimental results indicated that there was about 5 percent larger vessel region which was extracted by the proposed segmentation method than that by the simple region growing algorithm, and several thinner vessels were resumed from the lower gray region. The results also indicated that the fuzzy operator could correctly infer the simulative and real vessel structure with 100% and 90.59% correctness rate on the average, respectively.
Algorithms ; Coronary Angiography ; Humans ; Radiographic Image Enhancement ; methods ; X-Rays

Objective To analyze the clinical features and the effect of therapy on cutaneous emphysema of chest wall and/or pneumomediastinum complicated in severe acute triphosgene poisoning patients.Methods Among 81 triphosgene poisoning patients,5 complicated with cutaneousemphysema of chest wall and/or pneumomediastinum were analyzed in respect of the clinical data including age,gender,arterial blood gas (ABG),modes of mechanical ventilation support and so on.Results Five patients consisting of 3 males and 2 females,aged (23.20 ± 5.17) years,were complicated with cutaneous emphysema of chest wall and/or pneumomediastium with a prevalence rate of 0.06％.Of them,4 were alleviated completely and 1 died of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).There was no significant difference in arterial blood gas analysis (ABG) between patients with cutaneousemphysema and/or pneumomediastinum and patients without ( P ＞ 0.05 ).Conclusions Triphosgene-induced acute lung injury treated with mechanical ventilation support with high PEEP is highly suggested as high risk factor for the formation of cutaneous emphysema of chest wall and/or pneumomediastinum in severe acute Triphosgene poisoning patients.It is very important to set the PEEP level of mechanical ventilation support as low as possible for avoidance of alveolar rupture.

Objective To investigate the expression and distribution of Cdc42-interacting protein 4 (CIP4) in renal fibrotic tissue,and the interaction between CIP4 and β-catenin in transforming growth factor β1 (TGF-β1)-induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) model of HK-2 cell line.Methods In vivo,the model of renal fibrosis was induced by 5/6 subtotal nephrectomy in rat.Masson staining was used to evaluate the level of renal tissue fibrosis.The expression and distribution of CIP4 was detected by immunohistochemistry.In vitro,the EMT model of HK-2 cell line was induced by TGF-β1 (10 μg/L) for 72 h.Western blotting was used to observe the expression of E-cadherin,β-catenin,CIP4 and α-SMA.Colocalization and interaction of CIP4 and β-catenin were detected by immunofluorescence and immunoprecipitation respectively.Results Compared to sham group,CIP4 expression was increased in group of 5/6 subtotal nephrectomy,CIP4 was mainly distributed in basolateral side of renal tubular epithelia.In vitro,expressions of α-SMA and CIP4 were increased in HK-2 cells stimulated by TGF-β1 for 72 h (2.5and 1.8 folds,respectively) (all P＜0.05),expression of E-cadherin was decreased(P＜0.05).Partial colocalization between CIP4 and β-catenin was detected by immunofluorescence.In control group,CIP4 and β-catenin partially colocalized at the cell membrane.Mter the stimulation of TGF-β1,translocation to nucleus of CIP4 and β-catenin were increased,and partially colocalized in nucleus.The interaction between CIP4 and β-catenin was observed by immunoprecipitation in both control and TGF-β1 stimulated groups.Conclusions Expression of CIP4 in renal fibrotic tissue is increased,which is mainly distributed in basolateral side of renal tubular epithelia.CIP4 and βcatenin partially colocalize and interact with each other.CIP4 may play a role in EMT process through the interaction with β-catenin.