Objective To introduce a new method of septal cartilage augmentation for hump nose plasty. Methods The section of septal cartilage was collected and divided into two or three parts. The grafts were sutured by means of a mattress suture, and placed over the dorsum of superior and inferior hump. The dorsum became flat and straight immediately afterward. Results After a short term and long term follow up, 30 patients who underwent this operation were satisfied the operative results. Conclusion Septal cartilage augmentation for hump nose plasty is an efficient new method.

Objective To measure plasma microRNAs dysregulated in patients with pancreatic cancer and to assess the potential of these miRNAs as biomarkers for pancreatic cancer.Methods Thirty-seven patients with pancreatic cancer who underwent pancreatic resection between June 2010 to July 2011 were enrolled in the Lihuili Hospital,and ten healthy volunteers were used as control in this study.The expression levels of miR-190,miR-196a,miR-221 and miR-222 were analyzed using quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR).U6 was used as an internal control.The relationships between clinicopathoiogic characteristics of pancreatic cancer and microRNA expression levels were analyzed.Results The relative abundances of plasma microRNAs were significantly higher in pancreatic cancer patients than in the control group.The highly expressed plasma miR-190,miR-196a,miR-221,miR-222 levels did not correlate with clinicopathologic characteristics of patients such as sex,age,tumor maximal diameter,and level of serum CA199.The plasma miR-196a levels showed a positive correlation with TNM stage in pancreatic cancer patients.Conclusions The plasma levels ofmiR-190,miR-196a,miR-221 and miR-222 were highly upregulated in pancreatic cancer patients.These microRNAs in plasma may provide a new method in the early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.

BACKGROUND:There is a high morbidity after spinal cord injury, and the therapeutic strategy is limited to early surgical intervention, medication and post-treatment exercise that only can improve the motor function slightly. However, there is no effective cure method. OBJECTIVE:To study the effect of partition-type spinal cord catheter combined with bone marrow stromal stem cels on T8 spinal cord transection damage in rats. METHODS:Fifty rats were randomized into five groups (n=10 per group): group I, T8 spinal cord transection (5 mm) was made in rats with no treatment; group II, the partition-type tube was inserted into the injured site after modeling; group III, partition-type tube combined with bone marrow stromal stem cels was implanted into the injured site after modeling; group IV, partition-type tube combined with polyglycolic acid fibers was implanted into the injured site after modeling; group V, partition-type tube combined with bone marrow stromal stem cels and polyglycolic acid fibers was implanted into the injured site after modeling. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:At 2 and 12 weeks postoperatively, Basso, Beattie and Bresnahan scores were significantly higher in the groups III and IV than the groups I, II, IV (P < 0.05). At 12 weeks postoperatively, the latency of motor evoked potential below the injury plane was significantly decreased in group V compared with groups I, II, III, IV (P < 0.05). Immunohistochemical results displayed that in the groups III and V, regenerated nerve fibers grew positively and arranged orderly among the tubes, and there was no obvious winding phenomenon. Under transmission electron microscopy, a certain number of myelinated nerve fibers were found as bridges among groups. These findings indicate that the partition-type chitosan tube combined with bone marrow stromal stem cels has a good connection with the injured spinal cord a good connection to restore part of electrophysiological properties, accelerate the axon regeneration, recover the motor function, thereby providing a new direction for the treatment of spinal cord injury. Cite this article:Zhao XW, Liu X, Yu DP, Rong H, Yu XS, Yang CS, Liu T, Zhao TB. Partition-type spinal cord catheter combined with bone marrow stromal stem cels in the repair of spinal cord transection injury in rats. Zhongguo Zuzhi Gongcheng Yanjiu. 2016;20(1):42-48.

Objective:To investigate the efficacy of a combined model constructed by the radiomics features based on non-contrast CT (NCCT) combined with clinical risk factors in predicting the occurrence of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhagic transformation (sICH) after intravenous thrombolysis with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) in patients with anterior circulation acute ischemic stroke (AIS).Methods:In this cross-sectional study, clinical and imaging data of 316 patients with anterior circulation AIS who received intravenous thrombolysis with rt-PA at Nantong First People′s Hospital from October 2018 to September 2022 were retrospectively analyzed. The cases were divided into a training set of 210 cases and a validation set of 106 cases by stratified random sampling at a ratio of 7∶3. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed to select the independent clinical risk factors for predicting sICH. The infarct area was delineated on the NCCT images and radiomics features were extracted. The extracted radiomics features were dimensionally reduced and selected using the inter-and intra-group correlation coefficients, maximum correlation and minimum redundancy, and the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator, and then the radiomics score was calculated. Finally, multivariate logistic analysis was performed and the clinical risk factors and radiomics scores were used to establish the clinical model, the radiomics model and the radiomics-clinical combined model. The predictive efficacy of each model was evaluated by the receiver operating characteristic curve and the area under the curve, and decision curve analysis (DCA) was used to calculate and quantify the net benefits of each predictive model.Results:In total eight radiomics features were selected to construct the radiomics model. Multivariate logistic analysis showed that hypertension ( OR=2.703, 95% CI 1.153-6.334, P=0.022), atrial fibrillation ( OR=3.023, 95% CI 1.290-7.085, P=0.011), and the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score at admission ( OR=1.078, 95% CI 1.017-1.143, P=0.012) were independent risk factors for sICH after rt-PA intravenous thrombolysis in patients with anterior circulation AIS. In the validation set, the area under the curve of the combined model for predicting sICH was 0.763 (95% CI 0.618-0.909), which was higher than that of the clinical model 0.710 (95% CI 0.552-0.868) and the radiomics model 0.708 (95% CI 0.568-0.848). DCA showed that the combined model could allow patients to obtain higher net benefits. Conclusion:The combined model constructed based on the radiomics of NCCT and clinical risk factors has a high diagnostic efficacy in predicting sICH after rt-PA intravenous thrombolysis in patients with anterior circulation AIS.