OBJECTIVE To study the risk factors of neurosurgical postoperative intracranial infection.METHODS Totally 5405 patients who had a neurosurgical operation from 1996 to 2003 in our department were chosen(172(cases) with intracranial infection).Many risk factors were studied retrospectively,A data-base was set up with EXCEL,and Logistic regression was selected to analyze the factors which might cause infection.RESULTS The(analysis) of 5405 cases revealed that infection rate was closely related to the operation durations,CSF fistulae,(ventricle) drainage,the insertion of tubes,the approach to the post fossa,the complication from diabetes mellitus(DM),and open(craniocerebral) injuries.While had little effect of sex,age,the season,longer application of hormones before the operation,preoperative diseases,and longer application of antibiotics before or after the operation.(CONCLUSIONS) To decrease the infection rate,according the clinical experience,the operation should be finished as soon as possible,the suture should be done completely to prevent CSF fistulae,and the duration of the ventricle drainage should be controlled strictly.

ObjectiveTo evaluate the efficacy and safety of Qingpeng ointment in the treatment of chronic eczema.MethodsTotally,95 patients with chronic eczema were enrolled and divided into 3 groups to receive topical Qingpeng ointment (n =33),0.2％ hydrocortisone cream (n =32),10％ urea ointment (n =30) respectively twice a day for 4 weeks.All the patients were followed up once a week for the evaluation of therapeutic and side effects.ResultsAfter 4-week treatment,the response rate was 78.8％,84.4％ and 46.7％ in the Qingpeng ointment-,hydrocortisone cream- and urea ointment-treated patients respectively.Significant differences were observed in the response rate between the Qingpeng ointment- and urea ointment-treated patients (P ＜ 0.05 ),but not between the hydrocortisone cream- and Qingpeng ointment-treated patients (P ＞0.05).Skin flushing with a sensation of burning was observed at the application sites of 2 patients treated with Qingpeng ointment,and tingling sensation at the application sites was reported in 1 patient treated with hydrocortisone cream.All of these adverse reactions were tolerable and had no influence on the treatment.Conclusion Topical Qingpeng ointment is effective and safe for the treatment of chronic eczema.

AIM: To explore the role of intestinal lymphatic pathway in MODS pathogenesis by two-hit in rats. METHODS: Mesenteric lymph was diverted by ligating mesenteric lymph duct, and the MODS model was established by two-hit method. 45 Wistar rats were divided into three groups: mesenteric lymph duct ligation group, non-ligation group and sham group. All rats facilitated blood withdrawal for serum sample at pre-experiment and after 24 h. Then organs including kidney, liver, lung, heart and intestine were collected for preparing homogenate. The tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF?), nitric oxide (NO), malondialdehyde (MDA) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) were determined. RESULTS: It showed that the MODS model was established successfully. After two-hit, the TNF?, NO 2 -/NO 3 -, NOS, iNOS and MDA in serum of non-ligation group were significantly increased than that in pre-experiment and sham group, and SOD was significantly lower ( P

Objective To investigate the expression of PCNA in gastric cancer and its relationship with telomerase activity of peritoneal washings and peritoneal dissemination, and to compare the efficacy of telomerase activity and cytology of peritoneal washings for prediction of peritoneal metastasis of gastric cancer. Methods Telomeric repeated amplification protocol (TRAP)-enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was performed to measure the telomerase activity of peritoneal washings collected from 60 patients with gastric cancer. Exfoliate cytologic analysis of the corresponding samples was used for comparison.Expression of PCNA was measured with immunohistochemical staining.Their relationship with clinicopathologic features were evaluated. Results The positive rate of telomerase activity in peritoneal washing collected from patients with gastric cancer was 41.7%,which well related to serosal invasion, histology types, depth of infiltration and peritoneal metastasis of gastric cancer. The positive rate of telomerase activity increased with the increased depth of infiltration and serosal involvement areas (P

Objective To investigate the expression of cannabinoid receptor 2 (CB2) in pigmented nevus and malignant melanoma and its significance. Methods The protein and mRNA expressions of CB2 were measured in tissue samples of 20 patients with pigmented nevus and 20 patients with malignant melanoma using immunohistochemical staining and RT-PCR, respectively. Results CB2 was expressed in both pigmented nevus and malignant melanoma. In tissue of pigmented nevus, CB2 was chiefly expressed in nevocytes and basal cell layer, and only a small quantity of CB2 was expressed in subcutaneous tissue. Statis-tical differences were observed between samples of malignant melanoma and pigmented nevus in the expres-sion intensity of CB2 (P < 0.05). Conclusions Increased protein and mRNA expressions of CB2 are observed in tissue of malignant melanoma, and the expression intensity of CB2 is higher in tissue of malig-nant melanoma than in that of pigmented nevus.

AIM: To observe the changes of morphology, the activity of myeloperoxidase (MPO) and membrane pump activities of spleen tissue in acute renal failure (ARF) rabbits, and to inquire into the role of spleen on pathogenesis of immune function disorders during ARF. METHODS: 42 rabbits were divided into control group, HgCl_2 group and glycerinum group. The ARF model was established by hypodermic injection of 1% HgCl_2 at dose of 1.3 mL/kg in HgCl_2 group, intramuscularly injection of 50% glycerinum at dose of 10 mL/kg in glycerinum group, respectively, and the animals were divided into the 12 h, 24 h, 48 h secondary groups (6 rabbits each group). At different time points, the rabbits were cannulated to facilitate the collection of blood sample to examine the biochemical indexes of renal function. The spleen microscopic sections were prepared for observing the morphology. The spleen homogenate was made for determining the activities of MPO and membrane pumping. RESULTS: Pathological sections of spleen showed that the different degree of congestion was found and spleen trabecula was increased in two model groups at multiple-time points. The MPO activity of spleen homogenate in HgCl_2 group and glycerinum group at all time points were obviously higher than that in control group, and at 24 h, the MPO activitie in two model groups was significantly increased than that in the same group at 12 h and 48 h. The activities of Na~+-K~+-ATPase, Ca~(2+)-ATPase, Mg~(2+)-ATPase, Ca~(2+)-Mg~(2+)-ATPase of spleen homogenate in two model groups at multiple time points were significantly lower than those in control group. Following ARF development, the ATPase activitie in two model groups at 48 h was lower than that at 12 h except the Mg~(2+)-ATPase in glycerinum group. CONCLUSION: Spleen as an immune organ has histological damage, arrest of polymorphonuclear neutrophils and dysfunction of membrane pump during the development of ARF in rabbits, leading to immune disorders.

BACKGROUND: Tension headache means contraction headache or oppressive headache in bilateral occipital-cervical part or whole head. Its pathogenesy bas not been completely known yet, which may be related to many factors and the conventional therapy is drug heteropathy but the effects are different, especially on patients with chronic disease and side effects will be induced by long-time intake of drugs.OBJECTIVE: To explore the curative effect of oral negative pressure on patients with tension headache and its mechanism of ameliorating microcirculation disturbance.DESIGN: Case-control observation.SETTING: Department of Pathophysiology of Hebei North University.PARTICIPANTS: Twenty patients with tension headache in the Department of Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital of Hebei North University from December 2001 to June 2002 including 12 females and 8 males,aged 18-28 (mean 23.4) with the disease course of 1-6 years, were randomly divided into therapeutic group and control group with 10 patients in each group.METHODS: The oral negative pressure instrument was applied. Put the negative pressure exerting equipment in the optimal position of mouth, adjusted the negative pressure to (0.05±0.01) MPa. The therapeutic time was 10 minutes each time (5 minutes for the first time) once a day with the time fixed. There were 5 days in one course and totally 3 courses. Put the negative pressure exerting equipment into mouth of patients in the control group for 10 minutes each time without exerting negative pressure. Quantitative evaluation on pain was performed with visual analogue scale (VAS)method, excellent as the VAS score decreased above 70%, effective as the VAS score decreased between 30% and 70%, invalid as the VAS score decreased below 30%. XTL- Ⅱ type microcirculation micro-television system was used to observe the changes of nailfold microcirculation by magnifing 260 times. The first row nailfold of left ring figure was checked conventionally, state of microvessel, micro-bloodstream and peri-loop were recorded and degree of microcirculatory disturbance was quantitatively analyzed according to TianNiu 's weighing integral method.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The therapeutic effect after three courses and results of microcirculation observation.RESULTS: Totally 20 included patients were involved in the analysis of results. VAS scores of 7 patients in the therapeutic group decreased above 70% (70%), while no patient in the control group; VAS scores of 2 patients in the therapeutic group decreased from 70% to 30% (20%) and one patient in the control group (10%); VAS scores of one patient in therapeutic group decreased below 30% (10%) and nine patie nts in the control group (90%). Negative pressure could obviously ameliorate the microcirculation disturbance and enable it to recover from moderate before treatment to nearly normal with the total score decreased from (4.18±0.68) points to (1.97±0.41) points (P ＜ 0.01).CONCLUSION:Oral negative pressure has a significant curative effect on patients with tension headache. Its mechanism may relate to the improvement of microcirculation and the adjustment of nervous functional disturbance.

In order to meet the needs of national clinical medical education strategy, to train medical students’ability of analyzing and solving problems, it is imminent to carry out the reform on comprehensive experiment in basic medi-cal teaching.During the practice, the basic medical college of Hebei North University tried to integrate functional ex-periment and morphological experiment, and had some experience to share with medical education colleagues.

AIM: To investigate the role of post-hemorrhagic shock mesenteric lymph (PHSML) in the enhancementof vascular permeability .METHODS: Eighteen Wistar rats were randomized into sham group , shock group,and shock plus mesenteric lymph drainage (shock +drainage) group.The rats in shock group and shock +drainagegroup were routinely subjected to hemorrhagic shock and hypotension [(40 ±2) mmHg] was maintained for 90 min, andthen the fluid resuscitation was performed.Mesenteric lymph was drained in the rats in shock +drainage group from resuscitationfinished to 6 h, for the observation of PHSML drainage on the vascular permeability in multiple tissues of hemorrhagicshock rats.Afterwards, human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) were incubated with the PHSML in vitro to observethe effects of PHSML on the morphology and permeability of HUVECs .RESULTS: The degree of blue color and concentrationsof Evens blue in the lung, myocardium, kidney, liver, spleen and small intestine were significantly increased inthe shocked rats than that in sham group, while the ratios of the dry weight to the wet weight were decreased .The mesentericlymph drainage reversed these changes .Meanwhile, 4% and 10% of PHSML at 0 ~3 h and 3 ~6 h after resuscitation,and lipopolysaccharide (10 mg/L) all caused the damage of HUVECs, decreased the viability and trans-endothelial electricalresistance of HUVECs, and increased the permeability of HUVECs to fluorescein isothiocyanate -labeled albumin. CONCLUSION: PHSML is a vital factor in the enhancement of vascular permeability .

Objective To explore the mechanism of mesenteric lymph duct ligation relieving hepatic injury in rats by two-hit of hemorrhage and LPS.Methods Forty-five Wistar rats were divided into three groups: ligation group,non-ligation group and sham group,and the two-hit model was established by hemorrhage and LPS,mesenteric lymph was blocked by ligating mesenteric lymph duct in ligation group.After 24 hours of operation,took out the liver for pathological section,and the hepatocellular apoptosis rate was determined by method of TUNEL,the expression of BCL-2 and BAX protein was determined by immunohistochemical test.At the same time,taking out liver for homogenate of 10 percent,the activity of MPO and ATPase and the contents of TNF-? and IL-6 were determined in hepatic homogenate.Results After two-hit,the hepatocellular apoptosis rate and expression of BAX protein in non-ligation group were significantly increased as compared with sham group and ligation group,and expression of BCL-2 protein was significantly lower.The contents of MPO,TNF-? and IL-6 in hepatic homogenate of non-ligation group were significantly increased than that of sham group,and the activity of ATPase in hepatic homogenate was significantly lower.But the ATPase in hepatic homogenate of ligation group were significantlyincreased and MPO,TNF-? and IL-6 in hepatic homogenate of ligation group were significantly lower as compared with non-ligation group.Conclusion The mechanism of mesenteric lymph duct ligation relieving hepatic injury of rats was related to the mesenteric lymph blockage reduces the TNF-? and IL-6 and improves the expression of BCL-2 protein and the activity of ATPase in liver.