Objective:To investigate the serum Vitamin A(sVit A) levels in Behcet′s disease(BD)and other rheumatological diseases.Methods: sVit A concentration was measured in BD(including 3 subtypes of eye BD,intestinal BD,and vascular BD),rheumatoid arthritis(RA),systemic lupus erythematosus(SLE),ankylosing spondylitis(AS),primary Sjogren′s syndrome(pSS) and adult onset Still disease(AOSD)and compared with healthy controls(HC).Results: The patients enrolled in this study was according with the epidemiological features;BD patients including its subtypes of eye BD,intestinal BD,and vascular BD patients all had a lower concentration of sVit A than HC(P<0.05),no statistical differences between the subtypes;RA,SLE,AS,pSS and AOSD had a lower concentration of sVit A than HC(P<0.05).Conclusion: Decreased serum Vit A levels might account for a common pathogenesis of various rheumatic diseases.

In order to fit new plot proposed by medical education reform,by integrating interrelated resources,the author introduced peer education into the whole process of nutrition propa-ganda and education to promote the development of the whole social health education.

Objective To investigate the operative outcomes of anatomic and functional reconstruction of the spinal posterior column after resection of intraspinal neoplasms.Methods From January 2010 through October 2014,we treated 32 patients with intraspinal neoplasm in the spine.They were 18 men and 14 women,13 to 62 years of age (average,38 years).The neoplasm was detected in the cervical spine in 10 cases,in the thoracic spine in 14 and in the lumbar spine in 8.All cases received expansive open door laminoplasty via the posterior approach for resection of the intraspinal neoplasm,followed by replantation and titanium plate fixation for anatomic and functional reconstruction of the spinal posterior column.The neural functional recovery,spinal motion and sagittal diameter of the spinal canal before and after operation,spinal stability and graft fusion were observed.Results The patients were followed up for 3 to 23 months (average,13 months).All the intraspinal neoplasms were completely resected.The Frankel grading of neural functional recovery was improved differently in all the cases.By the final follow-ups,the spinal motion was normal in all the cases,without any significant limitation.Graft fusion and rigid internal fixation were achieved in all the cases.Short-term follow-ups revealed no signs of spondylolisthesis or spinal instability.At the final follow-ups,the 3-D CT reconstruction showed no significant shortening in the sagittal diameter of the same spinal canal before and after operation (P ＞0.05).Conclusions For intraspinal neoplasm in the spine,the whole vertebral lamina is opened or removed via the posterior approach to resect the neoplasm,followed by reduction of the vertebral lamina and mini titanium plate fixation to reconstruct the anatomy and function of the original spine.This is an ideal way to treat intraspinal neoplasms in the spine.

Normal cells have limited proliferation ability.After certain cycles of proliferation,they will lose the response ability to growth factors and finally cease division and start the course of aging. In current opinion,lacking of the terminal end of a chromosome(telomere)is the cause for cells to loss the proliferation ability and leads cells to aging and death.The human telomerase catalytic subunit 1(hTERT)can activate telomemse which prolong DNAs of the terminal end of chmmosome and help cells gain genomic stabilization.The discoveries of telomere,telomerase and hTERT provide new idea for studying of cell aging and the findings are also applied in the establishment of immortal cell line. Also they may play an important role in the studv of biological feature of seed cell in tissue engineering and the establishment of cell bank.

Adolescent ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Female ; Humans ; Hypertension, Renal ; Infant ; Male ; Retrospective Studies

Adolescent ; Adult ; CD36 Antigens ; blood ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; Middle Aged ; Platelet Activation ; Psoriasis ; blood ; diagnosis ; Thrombin ; metabolism ; Thrombospondins ; blood

Autoantibodies ; Child ; Complement Factor H ; immunology ; Female ; Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome ; immunology ; Humans

Child ; China ; Chronic Disease ; Congresses as Topic ; Humans ; Kidney Diseases ; prevention & control ; Kidney Failure, Chronic ; prevention & control ; Renal Insufficiency, Chronic ; prevention & control

Child ; Congresses as Topic ; Humans ; Nephrology ; Pediatrics

Objective To compare elasticity imaging and conventional ultrasound when applied to the diagnosis of benign and malignant breast tumors.Methods Totally 124 breast tumor patients (140 lesions) from some hospital were analyzed retrospectively,who were divided into a control group and an observation group according to ultrasound examination ways.The control group involved in 60 patients with 66 lesions undergoing conventional ultrasound examination,and the observation group had 64 patients with 74 lesions undergoing elasticity imaging.Pathological findings were considered as gold standard,and the two groups were compared on accuracy,specificity and sensitivity.Results Pathological detection found the accuracy,specificity and sensitivity of the malignant tumor in the control group were 85.00％,84.78％ and 84.85％ respectively,and the ones of the malignant tumor in the observation group were 95.83％,96.00％ and 95.95％ respectively.The two groups had significant differences between the accuracies,specificities and sensitivities (P＜0.05).Conclusion Elasticity imaging describes the size,shape,number,margin and etc of the breast tumor,and thus can enhance the accuracy,specificity and sensitivity for diagnosing breast tumors.