Objective To study the change of interleakin-18 (IL-18) in patients of pregnancy induced hypertension syndrome(PIH) and its correlation with endothelint-1 (ET-1). Methods Serum levels of IL-18 and plasma levels of ET-1 in 47 PIH patients and 30 normal pregnancy women were measured with ELISA and RSA respectively. Results (1)Serum IL-18 of PIH group (M=43.76 ng/L) was significantly higher than that of normal pregnancy group (M=37.975 ng/L) , H=42.845,P

Objective To study the lymphocytes subsets including Th1 and Th2 cells in PBMC of children with bronchiolitis in acute period.Methods The present study enrolled 34 patients with bronchiolitis,23 of them were respiratory syncytial virus(RSV)and 11 non-RSV,and 22 age-matched normal infants.Fresh peripheral blood samples were treated and run through the flow cytometry.The percentage of lymphocytes subsets were acquired using simultest IMK-lymphcyte software.Results The results showed the percentage of CD3+ and CD4+ cells in bronchiolitis group was higher than that in control group(P

We presented a case of Reiters syndrome consisting of conjunctivitis, arthritis and mucocutaneous lesions, occurring in 49 year-old Korean male. He had an pisode of dysentery 18 months before the onset of the syndrome and later followed by transient conjunctivitis but no history of venereal disease was revealed. He had the relatively well demarcated erythematous scaly patches on the scalp, face and back, and also the solitary or confluent thickened hyperkeratotic plaques on the dorsum of the feet and hands and lower extremities. Balanitis circinata as .a lesion of the mucous membrane, was seen but there were no lesions on the oral mucosa and palate. Arthritis of the knee and elbow joints were very scvere, accompanied by severe pain and limited motion, and severe wasting and weakness of the muscles of both lower extremities were noticed. He was treated with penicillin and corticosteroids systemically combined witb physiotherapy with some improvement of both skin lesions and joint pain but he died 3 months later probably of the far advanced pulmonary tuberculosis, gastrointestinal bleeding and cachexia.
Adrenal Cortex Hormones ; Arthralgia ; Arthritis ; Balanitis ; Cachexia ; Conjunctivitis ; Dysentery ; Elbow Joint ; Foot ; Hand ; Hemorrhage ; Humans ; Knee ; Lower Extremity ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Mouth Mucosa ; Mucous Membrane ; Muscles ; Palate ; Penicillins ; Scalp ; Sexually Transmitted Diseases ; Skin ; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary

Brain Neoplasms ; complications ; Humans ; Hypothalamic Diseases ; etiology ; Syndrome

Adult ; Aged ; Angiography, Digital Subtraction ; Carcinoma, Hepatocellular ; diagnostic imaging ; therapy ; Chemoembolization, Therapeutic ; Female ; Hemangioma ; diagnostic imaging ; therapy ; Humans ; Liver Neoplasms ; diagnostic imaging ; therapy ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Radiography, Interventional ; methods ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed ; methods

Objective To investigate the feasibility and results of the application of both expanded cutaneous flap and temporoparietal fascia flap in total ear reconstruction with Medpor framework.Methods The main procedures consisted of three stages:stage Ⅰ-skin expansion,stage Ⅱ auricle formation that consisted of orientation of Medpor implant and creation of coverage for the implant by both expaned skin flap and temporoparietal fascia flap,and stage Ⅲ-treatment of residual ear and recontruction of auricular lobule. Results Twenty-two ears in 22 unilateral microtia patients were constructed using Medpor implants covered with both expanded cutaneous flap and temporoparietal fascia flap over the last three years,and they were accepted as pleasing by the patients.Conclusions Application of both expanded cutaneous flap and temporoparietal fascia flap can assure no extrusion of Medpor implant in ear reconstruction.Further more,the two layers of transferred tissues will not affect the profile details of the reconstructed ear.And because the skin covering the framework and fascia is derived from frommastoid region,the appearance and profile of the reconstructed auricle is true to nature and close to that of the opposite one.

Objective To explore the stability of unilateral external fixator for tibial fracture in its middle in condition of different distribution and number of screws. Methods The experiment model was made when eighteen human corpse tibial transverse fractures had been fixated with unilateral external fixation, which were divided into six groups. In each group, resistance fragments were adhered to be close to the transverse tibial fracture and near the screw-bone interface(SBI), including three screw distribution models, which were well distributed, close to and far off the fracture site distribution. Each model had also been accomplished according to the conditions of four and six screws before compression load of the same magnitude, the same direction and the same loading position. This method was used to observed the values of strain of SBI and axial displacement at the fracture site at grade load. Results ① Under compression condition, the models displacements and the force at Y-axial were the smallest when screw distribution was even in four or six screws and much better than those of four screws. ② The stability at the condition of six screws was stronger than that of four screws. Conclusion The even distribution of four screws is reasonable when tibial fractures are treated with unilateral external fixation, and six screws can be choosen if conditions permit.

Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; Alanine Transaminase ; blood ; Bilirubin ; blood ; Choledochostomy ; methods ; Common Bile Duct ; surgery ; Common Bile Duct Neoplasms ; complications ; Drainage ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Jaundice, Obstructive ; blood ; etiology ; surgery ; Jejunum ; surgery ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Pancreatic Neoplasms ; complications ; Survival Rate ; gamma-Glutamyltransferase ; blood

Eight phenolic compounds were isolated from Rhododendron phaeochrysum var. agglutinatum and their sructures were identified as phaeochrysin (1), (2R)-4-(3',4'-dihydroxyphenyl) -2-butanol (2), (-) -rhododendrol (3), rhododendrin (4), (+) -isolariciresinol (5), (-) -lyoniresinol (6), lyoniresinol-9'-O-β-D-xylopyranoside (7), and dihydrodehydrodiconiferyl-3a-O-α-L-rhamnopyranoside (8). Compound 1 is new, and compounds 2, 5-8 were isolated from this plant for the first time.
Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; chemistry ; Mass Spectrometry ; Molecular Structure ; Phenols ; chemistry ; Rhododendron ; chemistry

Accidents, Occupational ; Acute Disease ; Adult ; Furaldehyde ; poisoning ; Humans ; Male