Objective To explore the effective approaches in information recognition rate improving for picture archiving and communication system (PACS) centralized printing system.Methods Possible factors that impact information recognition rate wereanalyzed,and then proposed the relevant optimizing solutions respectively by configuring the modality printing parameters and adjusting the radiology information system accession number (RIS ACCESSION NUMBER) matching rules.Results Effectiveness and accuracy were enhanced significantly through testing at Central Printing System by using these approaches.Conclusion These methods improve effectively the film information recognition rate and provide important technical support for digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) centralized printing system.

To improve and optimize marine antimicrobial peptide R-1 production by a newly isolated Brevibacillus laterosporus Lh-1, Plackett-Burman (PB) design and response surface methodology (RSM) using central composite design was adopted in culture conditions. MINITAB 15.0 was used for planning the experiments, data analysis, contour diagrams and response optimizations. In this study, PB design was undertaken to evaluate the effects of the fifteen factors. By the statistical regression analysis, the significant factors affecting the novel antimicrobial peptide R-1 in submerged fermentation by Br. laterosporus Lh-1 were determined as follows: glucose, peptone and CaCl2. Then a RSM was used to optimize the above critical internal factors, and the optical concentration of the variables were deter-mined as: 15.72 g/L glucose, 6.01 g/L peptone and 3.29 g/L CaCl2. The content of R-1 was increased from 82.15 kU/mL to 116.27 kU/mL.

Objective To explore the diagnostic value of ADC values in fetus with mild ventriculomegaly.Methods Fifteen fetuses with mild ventriculomegaly (mild ventriculomegaly group) and fifteen healthy controls (control group) were scanned with DWI.The ADC values in bilateral frontal lobes,parietal lobes,temporal lobes,occipital lobes,basal ganglia,thalamus and cerebella were measured.The ADC values of mild ventriculomegaly group were compared with those of control group.And the ADC values in left regions were compared with those in right regions of fetuses with mild ventriculomegaly.The correlation between ADC values of all fetuses and gestational age,as well as the correlation between the diameters of ventriculomegaly in feutes with mild ventriculomegaly and gestational age were analyzed.Results Compared with control group,ADC values were lower in bilateral frontal lobes and parictal lobes in mild ventriculomegaly group (all P＜ 0.05).There were no significant differences of ADC values between left regions and right regions (all P＞0.05).Correlation analysis showed that ADC values of all fetuses in bilateral occipital lobes,basal ganglia,thalamus,cerebella and left temporal lobe were negatively correlated with gestational age.The diameters of ventriculomegaly were positively correlated with gestational age (r=0.635,P=0.011).Conclusion The ADC values decrease in frontal lobes and parietal lobes in fetuses with mild ventriculomegaly.The ADC value may be more sensitive for detecting potential damage of brain,which is helpful for the diagnosis of fetus ventriculomegaly.

Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is the second most common primary hepatobiliary cancer after hepatocellular carci-noma (HCC). Surgical resection is the main curative treatment for ICC. Patients with ICC exhibit poorer prognosis compared with those with HCC. A comprehensive individualized prognostic system must be developed based on specific factors of patients. Several distinct prognostic staging systems have been proposed for patients with ICC treated by surgery. These systems include six staging systems, two scoring systems, and three prognostic nomograms. However, all of these prognostic systems are based on data from patients un-dergoing surgery resection and have not been validated in patients receiving other therapies. In this review, we will discuss the prog-nostic accuracy and applicability of current available prognostic systems and provide directions for future investigations.

Objective To detect the application value of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values using diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) in detection of fetus with enlargement of cisterna magna.Methods Sixteen fetuses with enlargement of cisterna magna (group 1) and other sixteen healthy controls (group 2) were scanned by DWI.The ADC values were measured and compared between two groups at the same regions, and between left and right brain in group 1.The correlations between ADC values,the enlarged degree of cisterna magna and gestational age were calculated respectively.Results The ADC values were lower in the white matters of bilateral frontal lobes and parietal lobes, bilateral thalami and cerebellum in group 1 than those in group 2.There were no significant differences in ADC values between left areas and right areas in group 1 (P>0.05).The ADC values in bilateral basal ganglia and thalami were negatively correlated with the gestational age (P<0.05).There was no correlation between the enlarged degree of cisterna magna and gestational age (P>0.05).Conclusion The ADC values were decreased in certain regions in fetuses with enlargement of cisterna magna, which suggested that ADC value might be more sensitive for detecting potential damage of brain.Combined with conventional MRI, DWI and ADC values could be regarded as accurate protocols for the detection of fetus abnormalities.

This study was aimed to analyze the clinical features of paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia (PKD) and extend the understanding of this disease. From August, 2008 to October, 2010, 9 patients were diagnosed with PKD in the Department of Neurology of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, China. The data involving clinical demographic characteristics, somatosensory evoked potentials, results of electromyography, video electroencephalography (EEG), brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computerized tomography (CT) were collected. All PKD patients exhibited unilateral or bilateral recurrent episodic dyskinetic attacks triggered by sudden voluntary movements. The duration of the attacks ranged from several seconds to one minute. The attack frequency ranged from approximately once in several months to more than 10 times in a day. Patients suffered from no conscious disorders during the attack, and no neurological signs were found during the period between attacks. No abnormal somatosensory evoked potentials were found. Routine EEG, video EEG monitoring or brain imaging showed normal findings. Classical treatment for anti-epilepsy, including carbamazepine and topiramate, was administered to the patients and proved to be effective. It was concluded that PKD is characteristically triggered by sudden voluntary movement; no abnormal electroneurophysiological findings are observed in PKD, and antiepileptic drugs are effective in treating the disorder.

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Objective To investigate the effects of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in severe cardiopaths with crisis. Methods Fourteen cases of severe eardiopaths with crisis were treated by ECMO with V A- ECMO technique, whose pump was centrifugal pump and whose tubes was spread byheparin. The cases included 8 fulminating myocarditis (FM) cases with ventricular arrhythmias or/and acute heart failure or/and cardiac shock and 6 acute myocardial infarction cases with pump failure or cardiac shock,in whom 10 cases with cardiorespiratory resuscitation. Haemodynamics and blood gas analysis, and so on were measured before and after treatment. Results The support time of ECMO was 3-106 h, mean (32.4±27.6) h. After ECMO mean arterial blood pressure (MAP), left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), left ventricular end-diastolic dimension (LVEDd), partial pressure of arterial oxygen, saturation of blood oxygen improved (P < 0.05 or < 0.01 ), negative value of base excess decreased significantly( P < 0.01 ). MAP had notchanged before and after stopping ECMO [ (80.02±10.20) wan Hg (1 mm Hg = 0.133 kPa) vs (76.34±9.15) mm Hg] (P > 0.05), however, LVEF and LVEDd improved continually (P <0.05). Conclusion ECMO can provide oxygen supply and stable circulation volume for severe cardiopaths with crisis to recover cardiorespiratory function or save valuable time to treat primary disease.

Objective To study the hemostnsis effects of compression cords oppressing after femoral artery puncture and encheiresis. Methods Self-made compression cords were used to stop bleeding of femoral artery puncture sites in 2164 patients underwent 3046 cases of arteriopuncture encheiresis. The total eases were divided into group A (1482 eases) and group B (1564 cases) according to different treatment of oppression and breaking duration which were 8-10 hours for group A and 5-6 hours for group B, the hemostasis effects, discomfortableness and related complications within two groups were evaluated. Results The proportion of patients who got good hemostasis effects were 99.2% in group A, 99.0% in group B. There was no difference in hemostasis effects between two groups (P> 0.05). While the rate of discomfortableness in group A (63.8%) was higher than that in group B(42.9%) (P<0.05). The related serious complications were 2 patients in group A, but no occurred in group B. Conclusion Self-made compression cords op- pressing and 5-6 hours breaking time course can achieve both finer hemostasis effect and lower frequency of complications after femoral artery puncture and encheiresis.

Background and purpose:Early evaluating the therapeutic efficacy of transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) in patients with hepatic cancer is still a diffcult clinical problem. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ability of the apparent diffusion coeffcient (ADC) to help predict early disease progression after TACE.Methods:Institutional review board approval was obtained, and all patients signed informed consent. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) (b=50, 500, 1 000 mm2/s) were performed before and 1 month after initiating TACE for 23 patients with hepatic cancer (14 were male, 9 were female; mean age: 53.3 years;range: 21-85 years). Contrast-enhanced MRI was performed 3 months after initiating TACE. Patients were classiifed as either progressing or non-progressing according to RECIST 1.1. The preoperative ADC values of tumor and the ADC values of tumor 1 month after TACE were analyzed by pairedt-test in both progressing and non-progressing group. Unpairedt-test was used to compare ADC parameters between progressing and non-progressing group. In all the 23 hepatic cancer patients, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis was performed to determine a threshold ADC ratio (ADC%) to differentiate progressing from non-progressing patients.Results:Thirteen progressing and 9 non-progressing patients were evaluated. Increase in ADCs of tumor was observed in non-progressing patients at 1 month after TACE compared with preoperative ADCs. There was a signiifcant difference between the 2 groups (P=0.01). In progressing group, preoperative ADCs of tumor were similar to those at 1 month after TACE (P=0.221). There was no significant difference in preoperative ADCs of tumor and ADC% between the progressing and non-progressing groups. In patients with hepatic cancer, 1 month ADC ratio in non-progressing patients were signiifcantly higher than those of progressing patients (P=0.029). Using ROC to evaluate the ability of ADC% could predict early disease pro-gression after TACE. Using -6.455% as the threshold, the area under the ROC curve was 0.867 (95%CI: 0.643-1.000). The sensitivity was 100%, and the speciifcity was 66.7%.Conclusion:One month after TACE, the increases in ADCs of tumor were observed only in the non-progressing group; and the ADC ratio seems to be a promising tool for helping predict the early disease progression after TACE in patients with hepatic cancer.