1.Clinical study on bacterial condition in amniotic cavity in the third trimester of pregnancy
Yinghua ZHAO ; Jieyun HE ; Yancai ZHENG ; Bing LIN ; Xiuqun ZHANG ; Zhuoshu ZHAO ; Yili TAN
Clinical Medicine of China 2011;27(1):100-103
Objective To study bacterial conditions in amniotic cavity of the third trimester and the delivery. Methods Patients underwent cesarean section due to various reasons were randomly enrolled in the study. Ten ml aqua amnii taken from using aspesis were cultured and the bacteria were identified and tested for drug sensitivity. All patients were not treated with antibiotics before and during operation,conventional antibiotics treatnent was used after operation. The patients were divided into 3 groups based on their status: 34 cases of premature rupture of membrane ( PROM ), thirty-four cases of labor without PROM, and 27 cases of pregnancy without PROM. The positive rate, species , distribution and drug sensitivity of bacteria in the 3 groups were analyzed. Results The positive rate was 61.8% (21/34) in PROM ,52. 9% ( 18/34 ) in labor without PROM,11.1% (3/27)in pregnancy without PROM. The positive rates were significantly different among the 3 groups (x2 = 17.29 ,P =0.000). However, there was no significant difference between the labor without PROM group and the pregnancy without PROM group ( x2 = 0.541 , P = 0.462 ). Staphylococcus epidermidis was the most common isolated bacteria, following by staphylococcus aureas, streptococcus, colon bacillus, and pseudomonas. There were no significant differences of bacterial species between labor without PROM and pregnancy without PROM( x2 = 11.9,P =0.535 ). The relative higher positive rate in the labor without PROM and PROM indicated that they were important inducement of bacteria infection. There were no significant difference on positive rate and bacteria species distribution between the PROM and labor without PROM group,which suggested that up-bound along vagina to amniotic cavity was the most common route of infection. Sensitive antibiotics should be given to the patients of PROM and labor without PROM targeted at staphylococcus,streptococcus, colon bacillus and monad. Antibiotics such as Cephems, Penicillins and Clindamycin were sensitive to various bacteria and safe to both mother and baby, thus were recommended. Quinupristin, Vancomycin,Furantoin, Fusidic ,Teicoplanin, Amikacin and Meropenem were also sensitive to various bacteria, but due to their side effects and the principle of ladder antibiotics using, they were recommended as second line antibiotics. Conclutions Up-bound along vagina to amniotic cavity is the most common route of infection. For rupture of membrane and labor without PROM patients, antibiotics should be given, and strict aseptic technique,washing cavity and incision, using antibiotics after operation are necessary to prevent infection.
2.Study on health status and community health care requirement of elderly people in urban Fuzhou
Lina JIA ; Feifei LIU ; Hailin ZHUANG ; Xiaoyan WANG ; Yujing LIN ; Yili DING
Chinese Journal of Geriatrics 2011;30(5):431-433
Objective To find out the health status and community health care requirement of the elderly in urban Fuzhou and to provide suggestions on how to develop and consummate the community health care for elderly. Methods With the method of stratified random sampling, 3285 elderly people aged 60 years and over were surveyed by a questionnaire. Results The average quality of life of elderly people in urban Fuzhou was above the moderate level. But education level of the elderly was low. And the prevalence rate of chronic diseases was high. There were 2134 elderly people (65.0%) who had more than one chronic disease. The older the people, the higher proportion the coincidence of multiple diseases (P<0.01). The first five chronic diseases in the elderly were hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart disease, arthropathy and stroke. The incidence rate of depression was high up to 60%. The requirement rate of community health care was 75.2%, and the older the people, the more items they needed(P<0.05). The requirement of community health care at the first 5 rank position were regular physical examination, health education, regular home visiting, health direction and diet direction. Conclusions Elderly people have many health problems and requirements of community health care.We should provide more and more community health care, in order to improve the quality of life of elderly people.
3.Correlation of the throid function and malnutrition in maintenance hemodialysis patients
Bin ZENG ; Wei CAI ; Aixia LI ; Zhen ZHOU ; Yili LIN ; Qiaoling WANG ; Shengkai WU
Clinical Medicine of China 2014;30(3):253-256
Objective To explore the correlation of the throid function and malnutrition in maintenance hemodialysis(MHD) patients.Methods Fifty-four MHD patients and 16 normal controls were enrolled as our subjects and named as MHD group and control group.Serum concentrations of total triiodothyronine (TT3),total thyroxine (TT4),free thyroine (FT4),free triiodothyronine (FT3),and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) were measured by enhanced chemiluminescence immunoassay.Their anthropometry,biochemical assays,malnutrition-inflammation score (MlS) and micro-inflammation parameters such as high sensitivity C-reactiveprotein(hs-CRP) were also measured.Results Serum T3,FT3,T4,FT4 concentration in MHD patients were (1.18 ±0.31) nmol/L,(2.61 ±0.62) pmol/L,(100.00 ± 19.96) nmol/L,(8.56 ±0.85) pmol/L respectively,lower than that of control group ((2.95 ± 0.27) nmol/L,(7.12 ± 0.94) pmol/L,(136.25 ± 19.68) nmol/L,(8.89 ± 0.56) pmol/L respectively,P < 0.01).while there was no significant change on TSH (P =0.058).According to albumin nutrient grading standard:the morbidity of malnutrition was 75% (39/54).The morbidity of malnutrition was 100% based on the criteria of MIS.Of which,mild malnutrition rate was 29.63% (16/54),moderate rate for 37.04% (20/54) and sever rate for 33% (18/54).The levels of serum creatinine,hemoglobin,serum iron,upper arm circumference,body mass index(BMI),deltoid skinfold,hs-CRP,T3,FT3,T4,FT4,TSH in MHD patients with mild,moderate and serve rate MIS were significant different(P < 0.01).Of 54 MHD patients,32 cases were with micro inflammatory state,accounting for 59.26% (32/54).There was a positive correlation between FT3 and albumin (P <0.01).T3 was related to serum creatinine(P < 0.05).Thyroid function parameters showed a negative correlation with hs-CRP,MIS(P < 0.01).And a negative correlation was seen between nutrition indices and hs-CRP and MIS (P < 0.01).Conclusion Thyroid function can reflect the nutrition status of MHD patients to some degree,and both relate with miro-inflammation.Furthermore,MIS is a useful index for the estimation of malnutrition inflammation status.
4.Acute leukemia complicated with streptococcus mitis bacteriaemia in 8 children
Danna LIN ; Lihua YU ; Jun LONG ; Xiaolan WANG ; Yili WU ; Lihua YANG ; Junfang FU
Chinese Journal of Applied Clinical Pediatrics 2017;32(10):747-751
Objective To investigate the risk factors for childhood acute leukemia complicated with streptococcus mitis bacteriaemia and to explore a better therapeutic regimen of antibiotics.Methods Seventy-eight cases of childhood acute leukemia complicated with bacteriaemia hospitalized in Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University from January 2012 to December 2016 were collected,among them there were 8 cases (10.26%) caused by streptococcus mitis.The susceptible factors,clinical manifestations,drug susceptibility,treatments and outcomes of 8 cases of streptococcus mitis bacteriaemia were summarized and analyzed.Results All of 8 cases were attacked during the agranulocytosis phase lasting for more than 1 week after chemotherapy for acute leukemia.Four cases of them had been exposed to the third-generation cephalosporins for more than 7 days,and 5 cases exposed to proton pump inhibitor (PPI) for more than 10 days.The incidence of remittent fever,shiver,stomatitis and pneumonia was 100.0% (8/8 cases),62.5% (5/8 cases),62.5% (5/8 cases) and 62.5% (5/8 cases),respectively.And severe pneumonia occurred at a rate of 37.5% (3/8 cases).The sensitivity to Linezolid,Vancomycin,Penicillin and Cefotaxime was 100.0%,100.0%,37.5% and 25.0%,respectively.Five of the 7 cases treated with Meropenem had a fever 3 days later and then they took Linezolid as a replacement according to the drug sensitivity.One case was treated with Cefoperazone-Sulbactam.The duration time of fever,positive blood culture,agranulocytosis and course of antibiotics therapy was 1-19 d(10.4 d on average),4-22 d(13.4 d on average),10-30 d (21.6 d on average),9-26 d (18.3 d on average),respectively.Among 3 patients with severe pneumonia,1 patient received the respirator assisted ventilation for 1 week.Conclusions Streptococcus mitis is one of the major causes of severe infection among children with acute leukemia.Agranulocytosis after chemotherapy,stomatitis,exposure to PPI and antibiotics may be the risk factors for streptococcus mitis infection.Fever,stomatitis,respiratory and digestive symptoms are the common clinical manifestations.Streptococcus mitis is resistant to Penicillin and Cefotaxime,but sensitive to Linezolid,which can shorten the course of infection and improve the outcomes.Thus,Linezolid may serve as an optional therapy for streptococcemia mitis bacteriaemia.
5. A study on the effects of exposure to benzene on the activity of immunoglobulin E
Yili ZHANG ; Weiwei LIU ; Wanyun ZENG ; Qiuhong LIN ; Yimin LIU
Chinese Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Diseases 2017;35(5):380-382
Objective:
To analyze the level of immunoglobulin E (IgE) changes with benzene exposure workers.
Methods:
Firstly, through occupational health monitoring, 68 hospitalized cases were discovered who were suspected chronic benzene poisoning. Secondly, according to the GBZ68-2013《The diagnosis of occupational benzene poisoning》standard diagnosis and indexing, 68 cases were divided into the benzene poisoning group (
6.Expression of serum Th1/Th2 cytokines in different stages of hepatitis B and its clinical significance
Yili SHEN ; Xiayun YU ; Bin FENG ; Zuxing HUANG ; Lin WANG
International Journal of Laboratory Medicine 2019;40(3):325-328,333
Objective To investigate the expression levels of IFN-γ, IL-4, IL-6 in the plasma of HBV chronic patients.To acknowledge the correlation between the immune function of T-cell with chronic hepatitis B virus.Methods The expression levels of IFN-γ, IL-4, IL-6 in the plasma were determined by ELISA in 42 cases of chronic hepatitis B (CHB group), 30 cases of cirrhosis (LC group), 30 cases of primary liver cancer (HCC group) and 30 cases of health control (NC group).Combine with the load of HBV DNA, HBeAg and ALT, the expression levels of IFN-γ, IL-4, IL-6 were re-analysed.Results The expression levels of IFN-γ, IL-4 and IL-6 in the researched groups were statistically significantly different.The expression levels of IFN-γ, IL-4, IL-6 in CHB, LC and HCC groups were higher than NC group with significance.The expression level of IL-4 in the CHB group was higher than LC and HCC groups with significance.The expression level of IL-6 in the HCC group was higher than CHB and LC groups with significance.Compared with the control group, the ratio of IFN-γ/IL-4 in CHB, LC and HCC groups were decreased with significance.There was significantly positive correlation between the expression level of IL-4 with the load of HBV DNA (r=0.757, P<0.001).The expression level of IFN-γhad negative correlation between the load of HBV DNA (r=-0.786, P<0.001) with the level of ALT (r=-0.713, P<0.001) with significance.There was no significant correlation between HBeAg with the cytokines in the serum of patients with chronic HBV.Conclusion The results showed the immune function of T-cell play important role in chronic HBV patients.That would provide a good basis on CHB treatment.The expression levels of IL-6 were higher in HCC group with significance, which provided the direction for the deep study of liver cancer.
7.Cerebral posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome in 9 children with hematological diseases
Weixi WEN ; Lihua YU ; Danna LIN ; Xiaolan WANG ; Yili WU ; Lihua YANG
Chinese Journal of Neuromedicine 2018;17(1):73-77
Objective To investigate the precipitating factors,clinical manifestations,magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features and prognoses of children with posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) during the treatment of hematological diseases,and to improve the understanding of the diseases.Methods A total of 9 children with PRES,admitted to our hospital from January 2012 to December 2016,were chosen.The clinical data,including precipitating factors,clinical manifestations,MRI features and prognoses,were retrospectively analyzed.Results (1) Precipitating factors:6 patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia occurred PRES during remission induction therapy (6/9,66.7%) and 3 occurred PRES during oral cyclosporine A after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation or autoimmune diseases (3/9,33.3%).(2) Clinical manifestations:all of them were acute onset,and the main symptoms were seizures (8/9,88.9%) and hypertension (7/9,77.8%);some patients suffered from headache,vomiting,visual disturbances,disturbance of consciousness and poor mental symptoms.(3) Features of head MR imaging:the lesions were mainly located in the parietal-occipital lobe,showing patchy long T1 and long T2 signals,and bilateral imperfect symmetry;FLAIR imaging showed high signal distinctly,and other parts of brain could also been involved in.(4) Prognoses:7 children (77.8%) recovered well,one (11.1%) left frequent seizures during 2 years of follow up,one (11.1%) left mental retardation.Conclusion Methotrexate,cyclosporine A and other agents are important incentives in children with PRES during the treatment of hematological diseases;seizures and hypertension are the main clinical manifestations;MR imaging is important in diagnosing the disease;and PRES is not completely reversible.
8.Comparative Study on the Mechanism of Formation of Pulse Manifestations in Patients of Coronary Heart Disease and Hematopathy
Suyun CHEN ; Yuanchang LIN ; Wenlan XUAN ; Zhibin XIE ; Junjie XU ; Chi LIU ; Yili LIU ; Qingli MENG ; Yuxiao CHEN ; Zhiying CUI ; Zhiping LV ; Yunxiang WANG ; Qili SUN ; Youyang LI ; Shengbo WANG
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 1992;0(12):-
Most of the CHD patients reveal string pulse, mainly due to damage of heart function, lowering of arterial compliance and increase of total peripheral resistance. The common pulse in patients of blood diseases reveal frequent, tiny, string and slippery characteristic, mostly due to the increase of compensatory pumping action of the heart, shortening of ejection time of the left heart, with better vessel compliance and hemorheology, low total peripheral resistance.
9.Protein phosphatase 4 catalytic subunit (PP4C) increases hepatitis B virus X protein levels and promotes its biological functions
Qiuran WANG ; Yili ZHENG ; Tianmin WU ; Yuanyuan CHEN ; Wenjun LIAO ; Lu ZHANG ; Xu LIN ; Qiong WU ; Wannan CHEN
Chinese Journal of Microbiology and Immunology 2023;43(7):509-516
Objective:To investigate the role of protein phosphatase 4 catalytic subunit (PP4C) in regulating hepatitis B virus X protein (HBx) levels and its effects on the biological functions of HBx, thus to provide a potential therapeutic targets for hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related hepatocellular carcinoma.Methods:In vivo and in vitro interactions between HBx and PP4C were analyzed by co-immunoprecipitation (Co-IP) and GST pull-down assay. Recombinant plasmids of PP4C and HBx were co-transfected with Lipofectamine 3000 reagents into hepatoma cells to detect the protein levels of HBx by Western blot. The half-life of HBx in the transfected cells treated with cycloheximide (CHX) were detected. The phosphorylation assay was used to evaluate the effects of PP4C on HBx phosphorylation. CCK8 assay, wound healing assay and Matrigel invasion chamber assay were used to analyze the effects of PP4C on the biological functions of HBx. Results:PP4C interacted with HBx in vivo and in vitro. PP4C overexpression significantly increased the protein level and stability of HBx and the phosphorylation assay confirmed that PP4C overexpression decreased the serine phosphorylation of HBx in hepatoma cells. PP4C overexpression enhanced the migration and invasion of hepatoma cells, but had no significant effects on the proliferation. Conclusions:The interactions between HBx and PP4C promoted the stability of HBx and ultimately enhanced the migration and invasion of hepatoma cells, and the mechanisms might be related to the decrease of HBx serine phosphorylation by PP4C. This study provided a theoretical basis for further investigation of the pathogenic mechanisms of HBx, and targeting PP4C and HBx interaction might provide insights for developing novel treatment for HBV-related hepatocellular carcinoma.
10. Analysis of 18 cases of toxic encephalopathy caused by occupational acute 1, 2-dichloroethane poisoning
Yuquan CHEN ; Yuqiang LIN ; Yili ZHANG ; Wenzhong JIANG ; Zhiqian YANG ; Yimin LIU
Chinese Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Diseases 2019;37(10):778-780
Retrospective analysis of 18 cases of occupational acute 1, 2-dichloroethane (1, 2-DCE) poisoning. The results showed that all patients have the main manifestations such as dizziness, headache, unresponsiveness and other symptoms of nervous system damage; Brain CT showed varying degrees of diffuse white matter lesions. Brain MRI showed extensive involvement of white matter in both cerebral hemispheres. Affected white matter area presented low intensity on T1WI, hyperintensity on T2WI and T2-Flair; Lumbar puncture examination of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure (262.5±48.39) mm H2O; After treatment, the required time for CSF pressure to restore was (161.56±75.27) days (50-280) days. Summary, Occupational acute 1, 2-DCE poisoning caused by toxic encephalopathy can be manifested as persistent abnormalities in CSF pressure, and the CSF pressure drops slowly during treatment; Early head CT and lumbar puncture examination will be helpful for early detection of intracranial pressure in toxic encephalopathy caused by acute 1, 2-DCE poisoning. Dynamic monitoring of CSF provides guidance for acute 1, 2-DCE poisoning with a long time of treatment and various types of dehydrating agents.