Objective To investigate the risk of myocardial damage induced by obstructive sleep apneahypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) in children. Methods Twenty-three children who were in-hospital patients and diagnosed as adenoidal hypertrophy or palatine tonsil hypertrophy enrolled in the study as cases,among whom 15cases were affected by OSAHS (OSAHS group) ,and 8 cases were not affected by OSAHS( no-OSAHS group).Twenty-seven healthy children from health physical examination were enrolled as controls (control group).Chemiluminescence was used to detect the value of Troponin Ⅰ (TnⅠ) in all children, and the values of the three groups were compared. Results In the OSAHS group, TnⅠ was (0. 022 ± 0. 009) μg/L;in the non-OSAHS group, TnⅠ was (0.035 ± 0.012) μg/L;in the control group,TnⅠ was (0.017 ± 0.015) μg/L. There were significant difference among the three groups ( F = 8. 369, P = 0. 001 ). Furthermore, compared with the control group,TnI in the OSAHS was significantly higher( P ＜ 0. 001 ). Conclusion Children with adenoid or tonsil hypertrophy associated with OSAHS in children were found to have myocardial damage compared to healthy children, whereas similar on myocardial damage to children with adenoid and tonsil hypertrophy but not OSAHS.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the time of aerosol inhalation using Budesonide Suspension and Mucosolvan drived by oxygen on prevention of pharyngeal and oral mucosa damage induced by radiotherapy in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). METHODS All 108 cases with NPC were divided into 4 groups, each group 27 cases. In 3 treatment groups,aerosol inhalation using Budesonide Suspension and Mucosolvan drived by oxygen were began at the initial , after 5 times, after 10 times radiotherapy respectively. In control group, aerosol inhalation was not used. The rates of third degree of pharyngeal and oral mucosa injury during different dose of radiotherapy were compared among the 4 groups. RESULTS At the dose below 30 Gy, there were no case of third degree of pharyngeal and oral mucosa injury occurred in 3 treatment groups, one case in control group. At the dose of 30 to 40 Gy, third degree injury occurred in all groups, there was no statistical difference among the 4 groups. At the dose over 40 Gy, the patients of third degree injury in group 1 and 2 were less than that in control group. There was no difference between group 3 and control group. CONCLUSION The right time of aerosol inhalation using Budesonide Suspension and Mucosolvan drived by oxygen for prevention of pharyngeal and oral mucosa complication induced by radiotherapy in NPC is at 5 to 10 times after radiotherapy.

Objective To establish the reference intervals of serum iron and total iron binding capacity (TIBC) among 60+ years people in Beijing.Methods Collected Beijing TongRen Hospital,Capital Medical University from 60 to 79 year-old male 167 cases,173 cases of female serum samples of healthy subjects using Beckman's DXC-800 serum iron,total iron binding capacity,and comparative analysis of two kinds of indicators.Results The normal reference range of serum iron in Beijing (60 to 79 years) was 7.9～23.1 μmol/L.The values were 17.45±5.67 μmol/L in male,and 17.52±6.2 μmol/L in female (t=1.32,P ＞0.05).The normal reference range of total iron binding capacity was 37.8～ 62.2 μmol/L.The values were 50.78±9.17 μmol/L in male,and 52.17±9.75 μmol/L in female (t=1.75,P＞0.05).Conclusion There was no significant difference between serum iron and total iron binding capacity in elderly men and women.The investigation gave the reference intervals of serum iron and total iron binding capacity in Beijing Han elderly (60 to 79 years),which can provide useful reference to clinical.

Objective To evaluate the specificity of Architect chemiluminescence immunoassay ( CLIA) for diagnosis of syphilis in the clinical screening test.Methods 65 774 syphilis specific antibody results in the Beijing Tongren Hospital were retrospectively analyzed.In this study, Architect CLIA for diagnosis of syphilis was used as a screening test for the pre-operative patients from August 2011 to July 2012.All the repeatedly reactive samples were tested by the tolulized red unheated serum test ( TRUST) and Treponema pallidum particle agglutination ( TPPA) assay.Samples with with discordant results were verified by western blot ( WB) Finally, all the results were statistically analyzed by software SPSS 17.0.Results Among 65 774 samples, 940 (1.43%) were found to be repeatedly reactive using the Architect CLIA.Of these sera, 330 ( 35.11%) were reactive and 610 ( 64.89%) were nonreactive by TRUST.Because a TRUST titer of 1:1was not always sufficient to confirm a TPPA reactive result, all the samples with CLIA reactive results were finally performed by TPPA assays.The results showed that 843 ( 89.68%) were positive and 97 (10.32%) were negative.After arbitrated by the WB, out of 97 TPPA negative sera, 18 (18.56%) were positive;7(7.22%) were indeterminate and 72(74.23%) were negative.Conclusions The specificity of Architect CLIA for diagnosis of syphilis was 99.89%.The results showed that confirmation by TPPA on sera with screening test for syphilis by Architect CLIA effectively decreased the false-positive results and could be suitable for a routine supplementary for syphilis.However, if necessary, the WB should be further utilized.

Glioma is the most common form of brain cancer. Despite recent advances in the treatment of solid tumors, there are few effective treatments for malignant gliomas due to its infiltrative nature. It has important significance to improve the treatment of glioma through in-depth understanding the intracerebral metabolic characteristics and pharmacokinetics of chemotherapeutics. Brain microdialysis (B-MD), an effective method to monitor central nervous system anticancer drug disposition, conditions of drugs through the blood-brain barrier, basic pathophysiologic metabolism, bioactive compounds and the changes of neurotransmitter in brain, provides the unique opportunity to allow the simultaneous determination of unbound concentrations of drugs in several tissues, and directly measure gliomas biochemistry continuously. B-MD has been able to monitor the change of brain drugs, metabolites and neurotransmitters, dynamic analysis of the drug concentration and pharmacological effect after administration, pharmacodynamic interaction between drugs, receptor mechanism of drug transport, as well as feedback information of internal environment. B-MD is expected to provide reference for clinical individual chemotherapy of glioma, but also provide powerful tools for the evaluation of new anticancer drugs in vivo. In this review, a comprehensive overview of B-MD for studies on glioma is elucidated with special emphasis on its application to neurochemistry and pharmacokinetic studies.

Objective To detect the serum IgG4 and autoantibodies levels in patients with orbital disease of unknown reasons,and to investigate their values in patients with orbital disease.Methods A total of 366 patients with orbital disease of unknown reasons recruited in the Department of Ophthalmology,Beijing Tongren Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University from October 2013 to October 2016 were retrospectively enrolled as orbital disease group,and 266 patients with autoimmune disease in the same period from the Department of Rheumatology of the hospital were selected as controls.The serum IgG4 was detected by rate scattering method,antinuclear antibody(ANA),anti-double-stranded DNA(dsDNA)antibody as well as anti-extractable nuclear antigen(ENA)antibody were measured by indirect immunofluorescence assay,and anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody(ANCA)was detected by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay,all of which were compared between the orbital disease patients and the controls using chi-square test.Results The positive rate of the serum IgG4 in the patients with orbital disease was 36.1％(132/366),obviously higher than that in the controls(27.1％,72/266),the difference being statistically significant(x2 =5.705,P=0.017).And the positive rate of serum IgG4≥1 350 mg/L(29.0％,106/366)in the patients with orbital disease was higher than that in the controls(21.8％,58/266; x2 =4.107,P=0.043).The positive rate of ANA in the patients with orbital disease was 17.8％(65/366),obviously lower than that in the controls(28.6％,76/266),the difference also being statistically significant(x2 =10.389,P=0.001).The positive rate of anti-ENA antibody in the patients with orbital disease was 4.6％(17/366),also obviously lower that that in the controls(9.0％,24/266),with statistically significant difference as well(x2 =4.866,P=0.027).No anti-dsDNA antibody was detected in the patients with orbital disease.Only three patients with orbital disease(0.8％,3/366)were found ANCA positive,and no statistically significant difference was found in comparison with the controls(3.0％,8/266; x2 =3.127,P=0.077).Conclusions Elevated IgG4 level was commonly seen in the patients with orbital disease,where as autoantibodies were negative in the most of the patients,indicating that IgG4 might correlate with orbital disease,and part of orbital disease may belong to the IgG4-related orbital disease.

Objective To evaluate serum level of pepsinogenⅠ( PGⅠ) ,PGⅡ, and PGⅠ/PGⅡ-ratio ( PGR ) using latex enhanced turbidimetric immunoassay in patients with different gastric mucosal lesions, and to investigate their changes and clinical significance.Methods Case-control study.Two hundred and seventy-five patients who had enteroscopy and pathological examination from the department of gastroenterology and surgery from Beijing Tongren Hospital between January 2015 and January 2016 were enrolled.Endoscopic and histopathological examination confirmed the normal control group (n=20), chronic non-atrophic gastritis group ( n=68 ) , chronic atrophic gastritis group ( n=76 ) , including antral atrophic gastritis ( n=30 ) , gastric body atrophic gastritis ( n=26 ) , and multifocal atrophic gastritis ( n=20 );intestinal metaplasia group ( n=28 ) , intraepithelial neoplasia group ( n=9 ) , benign gastric ulcer group ( n=46) and intestinal gastric cancer group ( n=28).Latex-enhanced immune turbidity method were used to detect the patients fasting serum PGⅠand PGⅡ.Then the PGR was calculated.The normally distributed data of each group were statistically analyzed by ANOVA, the data between groups were nalyzed using the Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis test.Results Serum PGⅠ[ ( 74.23 ±22.36 ) ] ng/ml and PGR (6.92 ±2.16) in chronic atrophic gastritis group were lower than those in normal controls[PGⅠ(98.94 ± 21.00) ng/ml, PGR 8.13 ±2.47],(FPGⅠ =18.297,PPGⅠ <0.01,FPGR =4.713,PPGR <0.01).The serum PGⅠ[(44.46 ±26.72) ng/ml] and PGR (3.09 ±0.83) in the intestinal type of gastric cancer group were lower than those in the chronic atrophic gastritis group[PGⅠ(74.23 ±22.36)ng/ml, PGR 6.92 ±2.16], (ZPGⅠ =-3.921,PPGⅠ <0.01,ZPGR =-6.662,PPGR <0.01).PGⅠ[(129.95 ±43.39) ng/ml].PGⅡ[(21.09 ±6.78) ng/ml]in the gastric benign ulcer group were higher than those in the normal controls[PGⅠ (98.94 ±21.00) ng/ml, PGⅡ(12.64 ±1.84) ng/ml], FPGⅠ =10.803,PPGⅠ <0.01;FPGⅡ =39.130,PPGⅡ <0.01. PGⅠ[(52.44 ±10.37) ng/ml and PGR (5.47 ±1.59) in the multifocal atrophic gastritis group were lower than those in the antral atrophic gastritis[PGⅠ(94.95 ±14.45)ng/ml, PGR 8.39 ±1.48],ZPGⅠ =-5.941,PPGⅠ <0.01,ZPGR =-4.911,PPGR <0.01.The AUC of PGⅠand PGR for diagnosis of chronic atrophic gastritis were 0.752 and 0.683 respectively.The sequence combined detection sensitivity was 72.37%(55/76), and the specificity was 70.85%(141/199).The AUC of PG I and PGR for diagnosis of intestinal type of gastric cancer were 0.852 and 0.895 respectively.The sequence combined detection sensitivity was 71.42% ( 20/28 ) and the specificity was 81.78% ( 202/247 ) . Conclusion The Latex-enhanced immune turbidity method of combined detection of serum PGⅠ, PGⅡlevels and PGR can be used in the clinic to monitor the status and function of gastric mucosa and are informative for gastric cancer and precancerous lesions of gastric mucosa.

ObjectiveTo establish the reference intervals of serum triiodothyronine (TT3),the thyroxine ( TT4 ),free triiodothyronine ( FT3 ),free thyroxine ( FT4 ) and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)in the apparently healthy individuals of Beijing and Shanghai.Methods According to the requirement for laboratory support for the diagnosis and monitoring of thyroid diseases in the National Academy ofClinicalBiochemistry(NACB)laboratorymedicinepracticeguidelines, therewere 390 apparently healthy individuals tested (221 male,169 female,18 -65 years old) from Beijing and Shanghai for serum TT3,TT4,FT3,FT4 and TSH on American Beckman UniCel DXI 800 Automatic Chemiluminescent Analyzer.All markers were analyzed between gender,region,age group using t test and ANOVA.The reference intervals of all markers were determined by P2.5 - P97.5.ResultsTT3,TT4,FT3,FT4,TSH levels in the male group were ( 1.90 ± 0.32) nmol/L,( 116.77 ± 18.02) nmol/L,( 5.28 ±0.67) pmol/L,( 11.54 ± 1.97) pmol/L,( 1.92 ± 1.12 ) mIU/L,respectively,while the above indicators in the female group were ( 1.82 ± 0.32) nmol/L,( 115.73 ± 14.39 ) nmol/L,(5.04 ± 0.59 ) pmol/L,( 10.94 ± 1.45) pmol/L,( 2.37 ± 1.86 ) mIU/L,respectively.When comparing the results in genders,statistical significance was shown in TF3,FT3,FT4 and TSH of two gender groups( t =2.377,3.642,3.471,2.520,all P ＜ 0.05 ).When comparing different regions,statistical significance was only shown in FT3 ( t =6.410,P ＜ 0.05 ),in which Beijing group was (5.01 ± 0.63) pmol/L,and Shanghai group was (5.41 ±0.61 ) pmol/L,and no significant difference were shown in other four markers.Correlation analysis showed that TT4 was positively correlated with age (r =0.22,P ＜ 0.001 ) while TSH was negatively correlated with age ( r =- 0.12,P ＜ 0.05 ).TT3,TT4,FT3,FT4,TSH reference intervals were ( 1.22 - 2.50 ) nmol/L,(83.37 - 149.37 ) nmol/L,( 3.88 - 6.48 ) pmol/L,( 7.70 - 14.86) pmol/L,( 0.38 - 5.58 ) mIU/L,respectively.ConclusionDifferences of serum thyroid hormones were observed in different areas of China,It is important to establish reference intervals of the serum thyroid hormones in Chinese population.

ObjectiveTo evaluate the suitability of Nordtest guideline in estimating measurement uncertainty of routine tests in clinical laboratory.MethodsData of clinical laboratory of Beijing Tongren Hospital were collected,which came from 176 days of Internal Quality Control ( IQC ) from July 2010 to December 2010 and 6 times of External Quality Assesment ( EQA ) of NCCL from 2009 to 2010.The combined and expanded uncertainties of 21meaurements (sodium, potassium, chlorine,calcium,phosphrous,glucose,urea nitrogen,creatinine,uric acid,total protein,albumin,total bilirubin,direct bilirubin, alanineaminotransferase, aspartateaminotransferase, alkalinephosphatase, lactate dehydrogenase,glutamyl transpeptidase,creatine kinase,triglyceride and total cholesterol) were evaluated according to Nordtest guideline.ResultsOf all the measurements,expanded uncertainty of direct bilirubin ( 17.69％ ) was the highest.For some enzymes such as ALT,AST,ALP and LDH,expanded uncertainties were all over 10％ markedly influenced by the calibrator uncertainty.Expanded uncertainty of triglyceride was 12.7％,also largely influenced by calibrator uncertainty,while that of total cholesterol was 6.96％.ConclusionsNordtest guideline is suitable to evaluate the measurement uncertainty of routine assays in clinical laboratory.However,calibrator uncertainty should be taken into account in the process of evaluation.

Objective:To explore the influencing factors of false-positive serological reaction of syphilis.Methods:A total of 166 patients with false-positive serological reaction of syphilis (false-positive group), 145 patients diagnosed with early syphilis without treatment (positive control group) and 124 persons undergoing entry physical examination (negative control group) were included from January 2017 to February 2020 in Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University. The gender, age and underlying diseases of the three groups were compared. Logistic regression was used to analyze the influencing factors of false-positive serological reaction of syphilis. The efficacies of chemiluminescence immunoassay (CLIA) and toluidine red unheated serum test (TRUST) were compared. Paired t test or chi-square test was used for statistical analysis. Results:In the false-positive group (166 cases), the age of 117 cases were more than 50 years old and 49 cases <50 years old. There were significant differences in age ((53.1±13.8) vs (24.7±2.8), t=22.56, P<0.01), autoimmune disease (36.7%(61/166) vs 6.5%(8/124), χ2=35.93, P<0.01), hepatitis (9.6%(16/166) vs 3.2%(4/124), χ2=4.92, P=0.026) and tumor (6.6%(11/166) vs 0.8%(1/124), χ2=4.68, P=0.030) between the false-positive group and the negative control group. There were significant differences in gender (there were 91(54.8%) males and 75(45.2%) females in the false-positive group, and 103(71.0%) males and 42(29.0%) females in the positive control group, χ2=8.67, P=0.003), age ((53.1±13.8) vs (34.4±12.9), t=20.13, P<0.01) and autoimmune disease (36.7%(61/166) vs 6.9%(10/145), χ2=39.14, P<0.01) between the false-positive group and the positive control group. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that gender (odds ratio ( OR)=2.692, 95% confidence interval ( CI) 1.504-4.816, P=0.001), age ≥50 years old ( OR=30.512, 95% CI 15.959-58.335, P<0.01), autoimmune disease ( OR=2.677, 95% CI 1.258-5.695, P=0.011) and hepatitis ( OR=4.408, 95% CI 1.799-10.799, P=0.001) were the influencing factors of false-positive serological reaction of syphilis. In the false-positive group, the positive rate of TRUST was 84.9% (141/166), which was higher than that of CLIA (23.5%(39/166)). The difference was statistically significant ( χ2=126.25, P<0.01). CLIA was 1.0-10.0 cut off index (COI) in 36 patients, and >10.0 COI in three patients.The difference was statistically significant ( χ2=52.51, P<0.01). The titers were ≤1∶4 in 139 patients and≥1∶8 in two patients with TRUST positive.The difference was statistically significant ( χ2=262.35, P<0.01). The sensitivity and specificity of CLIA were 95.2% and 96.0%, respectively, and those of TRUST were 77.2% and 91.1%, respectively. Conclusions:The influencing factors of false-positive serological reaction of syphilis include patients age ≥50 years and with autoimmune disease or hepatitis. The false-positive rate of TRUST is significantly higher than CLIA.