Objective To improve EP9-A2 for Bias estimation among multiple quantitative detection systems within full range of AMR.Methods 40 patients specimens were determined twice for serum total cholesterol by four detection systems(A,B,C and D).With system A served as comparative method,Bias between A and the other three was evaluated according to CLSI EP9-A2 separately.Furthermore,DD(distance from deviation to tolerable error)and its average confidence intervals between every two sys-tem were calculated and compared with zero.The confidence interval of greater than zero was served as criteria for accepting bias between every two system.Results Bias between A and the other three meet the analytical quality specification according to EP9-A2,although that of D system was positive,and those of B and C system were negative.DD between every two system obeyed nor-mality distribution.All biases between every two system wes acceptable except that between B and D,causing of their interval con-taining zero.After correcting of results from system D,Biases between every two system were all acceptable.Plots of confidence in-terval could provide a full range bias assessment within AMR.Conclusion Comparability and Bias estimation in full range of AMR for results between every two system among 3 or more systems could be evaluated by confidence intervals.

BACKGROUND: Recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) is a glycoprotein. Recent studies have demonstrated that rhEPO regulates many functional activities of neural cells. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of different concentrations of rhEPO on proliferation of neural stem cells (NSCs) cultured in vitro. METHODS: Newborn Sprague-Dawley rat NSCs were harvested and cultured with serum-free culture medium containing different concentrations (5, 50, 500 U/mL) of rhEPO and 20 μg/L basic fibroblast growth factors (5, 50, and 500 U/mL rhEPO groups) and serum-free culture medium only containing 20 μg/L basic fibroblast growth factors (control group). After 7 days of culture, the cloning efficiency of NSCs was calculated. After 10 days of culture, neuron specific enolase (NSE)-and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP)-immunoreactive cells were quantified. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: In the rhEPO groups, cells proliferated rapidly, and the number of NSC microspheres was greater, in particular in the 50 U/mL rhEPO group, compared with the control group. NSCs grew faster in the 50 U/mL rhEPO group than in the control group. The number of NSE-and GFAP-immunoreactive cells was greater in the 50 U/mL rhEPO group than in the control group (P<0.01). These findings suggest that rhEPO promotes the in vitro culture and proliferation of NSCs, in particular 50 U/mL rhEPO.

Objective To observe the effect of abdominal obesity on lung function in the perioperative period of complete video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy.Methods Collected 36 cases of peripheral lung cancer and could complete video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy by access conditions,18 cases in abdominal obesity group who had body mass index (BMI) ＞ 35 kg/m2 and the waist circumference ＞ 95 cm on men the waist circumference ＞ 90 cm on women,18 cases in normal weight group who had BMI ＜ 25 kg/m2 and the waist circumference ＜ 85 cm on men the waist circumference ＜ 80 cm on women.All cases had complete video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy and lymph node dissection with 4 holes,and recorded the operation time,before and after operation had blood gas analysis and lung function,at the same time recorded the cases of complication after operation,compared the parameters in two groups.Results The blood gas analysis had no difference before operation,but after 12 h of operation,the arterial blood oxygen partial pressure (PaO2) declined and alveolar-arterial blood oxygen partial pressure difference(PA-aO2) increased in abdominal obesity group,while the PaO2 declined and arterial blood CO2 partial pressure (PaCO2),PA-aO2 increased compared with normal weight group(P ＜ 0.05).The forced vital capacity (FVC),forced expiratory volume in 1 second(FEV1) had statistical significance in two groups before operation(P ＜ 0.05),on the third day after operation,the abdominal obesity group to himself the FVC,FEV1,maximal voluntary rentilation (MVV),functional residual capacity (FRC),carbon monoxide diffusion amount (DLCO) declined obviously except FEV1/FVC (P ＜ 0.05),compared with normal weight group,the FVC,FEV1,FRC,DLCO declined obviously (P ＜ 0.05).After operation,the lung function in abdominal obesity group,the FVC,FEV1,MVV,FRC,DLCO declined 25.8％,27.8％,20.4％,32.1％,39.1％,compared with normal weight group the FVC,FEV1,FRC,DLCO declined 31.8％,37.2％,30.2％,30.6％.The abdominal obesity group had more complication.Conclusion In the perioperative period of complete video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy,the abdominal obesity has more effect to lung function and must have more attentions on it,and effective weight control has important significance to operation patients.

Objective: To investigate the clinical value of a micro-array for multi-tumor marker detection (abbreviate C-12 system in the following) in four kinds of tumors (lung, liver, pancreas/colon and stomach cancers). Methods:30 lung cancer?19 liver cancer?24 pancreas/colon?22 stomach cancer and 173 non-tumor patients' serum were detected by C-12 system, and the results were analyzed by ROC curve.Results:There is no difference in the positive rate of single TM between C-12 system and the previously reports; The positive rate and the mean positive value of tumor patients were both obviously higher than that of non-tumor patients (P

Objective To compare the clinical effect of non-operative and operative treatment for flail chest.Methods A retrospective case control study was made on 60 cases of flail chest treated from March 2013 to April 2016.There were 42 males and 18 females,at the age range of 36-62 years [(49.8 ± 10.3)years].According to the treatment methods,the patients were divided into non-operation group (28 cases) and operation group (32 cases).Chest CT,pulmonary function and 36-item short-form health survey(SF-36) were measured in all patients 3 months and 6 months after injury.Differences in atelectasis,chest wall deformity,delayed fracture healing,pulmonary function and life quality were analyzed between the two groups.Results Compared to non-operative group at postoperative 3 months,rates of atelectasis,chest wall deformity and delayed fracture healing in operation group were obviously lower,while indices of pulmonary function pulmonary function including forced vital capacity (FVC),forced expiratory volume in one second(FEV1),one second rate (FEV1/FVC) and maximal voluntary ventilation measured value (MVV) in operation group wcre higher,and SF-36 parameters including physical functioning (PF),role-physical (RP),bodily pain (BP),general health (GH),vitality (VT),social functioning (SF) and mental health (MH) in operation group were better (all P ＜ 0.05).As to the data measured 6 months after injury,there were no significant differences between the two groups,except that the rate of chest wall deformity in non-operative group (6 cases,39％) was higher than that in operation group (11 cases,19％) (P ＜ 0.05).As to c hest CT,indices of pulmonary function and SF-36 parameters (P ＜ 0.05),there were no significant differences within operation group at postoperative 3 months and 6 months (P ＞ 0.05).Non-operation group showed better results in rate of atelectasis,rate of delayed fracture healing,indices of pulmonary function and SF-36 parameters measured 6 months after injury than the detections at postoperative 3 months (P ＜ 0.05),without difference in rate of chest wall deformity (P ＞ 0.05).Conclusions Surgical treatment of flail chest can accelerate fracture healing,reduce rate of chest wall deformity and improve life quality of patients early compared to non-operative treatment.Although there is no obvious difference in life quality of patients between operative and non-operative treatment 6 months after injury,but the chest wall deformity remains significantly different.

Objective To observe the distribution of sentinel nodes(SN) in gastric cancer,and investigate their clinical significance.Methods The extent and features of intraoperatively stained sentinel nodes in 288 cases of gastric cancer were analyzed retrospectively.Methylene blue was injected intraoperatively into the(subseral) muscle and submucosa of the normal gastric wall adjacent to the neoplasms,then lymphadenography was performed,and the nodes were resected for histopathological examination.Results The pathological(diagnosis) of the 288 cases with gastric cancer was T_1 in 102 cases,T_2 106 cases and T_3 60 cases.Stained nodes were detectable in 270 cases(success rate: 93.8%).One hundred and two cases were found to have lymph node metastasis;66 cases had metastasis in both SNs and non-SNs;18 cases in SNs alone;and 18 cases in non-SNs alone.Conclusions Sentinel lymph nodes can accurately predict the lymph node metastatic status of gastric cancer patients during operation.Intraoperative sentinal lymph node mapping can avoid routine lymph node dissection in patients with gastric cancer with negative lymph node metastasis.

To investigate the clinical features and principles of diagnosis and treatment of early postoperative inflammatory ileus (EPII). The clinical data of 69 patients with EPII treated in this hospital were retrospectively reviewed. EPII mostly occurred in 3-11d after abdominal surgery, and the average time was 5d. Sixty two cases were cured in a mean period of (22±13)d through combination therapy including gastroenteral decompression, somatostatin, dexamethasone and total parenteral nutrition (TPN). Seven cases were cured by operation. EPII is a special type of early intestinal obstruction which often occurs in two weeks after abdominal operation. Its typical symptoms are abdominal distension; conservative therapy is effective for most cases and reoperation is usually contradicted.

BACKGROUND: There are fewer reports about estrogen effects on bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs). OBJECTIVE: To study the effect of diethylstilbestrol on the osteogenic differentiation of rabbit BMSCs. METHODS: Rabbit BMSCs cultured in vitro were intervened with 0, 10-7, 10-6, 10-5 mol/L diethylstilbestrol, and BMSCs cultured with dexamethasone 10-8 mol/L, β-sodium glycerophosphate 10 mmol/L, and vitamin C 50 mg/L were used as positive controls. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: 10-6 mol/L diethylstilbestrol significantly improved the proliferative ability of BMSCs at 24, 48, and 72 hours after intervention (P < 0.01). 10-5 mol/L diethylstilbestrol significantly inhibited the proliferation of BMSCs at 48 hours after intervention as well as 10-7 mol/L diethylstilbestrol at 72 hours (P < 0.01). Mineralized nodular structures formed at 25 days after intervention with 10-7 mol/L diethylstilbestrol. Alkaline phosphatase activities were remarkably increased at 14 and 21 days after intervention with 10-7, 10-6 mol/L diethylstilbestrol. It has been proved that diethylstilbestrol has an enhancing effect on the osteogenic differentiation of rabbit BMSCs.

The paper issues questionnaires to investigate the current status of informatization construction and application in 32 provincial disease prevention and control institutions of China,summarizes the current status of informatization organization and management,standard planning,capital input and allocation,analyzes the problems existing in the process of disease control informatization construction,focuses on the discussion of imbalanced regional development,insufficient capital input,lack of informatization personnel,and lack of informatization security awareness,and proposes corresponding suggestions and countermeasures.

BACKGROUND:Surgical accuracy is a key to surgical success.The traditional positioning method mainly depends on surgeons' experience,which is too subjective to cause screw misplacement.Three-dimensional (3D) printing technology-assisted pedicle screw placement can make individualized surgical scheme,most importantly,it is accurate and simple showing promising application prospect.OBJECTIVE:To design an individualized pedicle guide plate with 3D printing and to simulate screw placement in vitro,and to explore its feasibility in vertebral pedicle screw placement.METHODS:Lumbar spine CT data of 11 patients with degenerative lumbar spine were selected from April 2016 to July 2016 at Hebei General Hospital,and 3D reconstruction of L1,L3 and L5 vertebrae of each case was performed.Pre-experiment was conducted based on one patient's lumbar CT data:according to the principle of screw placement,the screw position and orientation were designed to prepare the best pedicle guide plate model.Afterwards,the screw placement in vitro was simulated,and was then cut by chainsaw to verify the accuracy of screw placement.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:(1) A total of 30 pedicle guide plates were used,and 60 screws were inserted in the patients,and the placement process was successful.The guide plates adhered well,none appeared with screw perforating the pedicle cortex,and the screw position was accurate and reliable.(2) There were no significant changes in the transverse section and sagtial section angles of the left and right pedicle screws before and after placement (P ＞ 0.05).(3) These results suggest that the 3D-printed individualized pedicle guide plate holds a good accuracy of placement,which can be applied in the vertebral pedicle screw placement,but further clinical trials are needed.