Objective To explore the distribution of parvovirus B19 (HPVB19) infection in patients with leukopenia.Methods Patients who visited the Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University from January 2015 to June 2016 were analyzed.Patients with peripheral leucocytes count less than 3.5×109/L were included in experiment group and healthy people were included in control group.HPVB19 IgG and IgM were detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and HPVB19 DNA was detected by quantitative polymerase chain reaction.Differences in continuous data between two groups were compared with two-sample t test and those in categorical data were compared with Chi-square test.Results A total of 79 patients were included in experiment group, including 32 males and 47 females.Ages ranged from 24 to 62 years old.And 126 healthy individuals were included in control group, including 55 males and 71 females.Ages ranged from 28 to 67 years old.The positive rates of HPVB19 IgG, IgM and DNA in experiment group were 34.2%, 5.1% and 3.8%, respectively, while those in control group were 36.5%, 0 and 0, respectively.The detection rates of HPVB19 IgM and DNA between two groups were significantly different (χ2=6.507, P=0.011 and χ2=4.856, P=0.028, respectively).Sequence analysis for 3 of the HPVB19 DNA positive samples showed that there were two single nucleotide polymorphisms in VP1/VP2 sequence from one patient, which contributed to the 153rd (L/H) and 219th (N/Y) amino acids mutations, respectively.Phylogenetic analysis found that two strains belong to genotype 1a and one strain belongs to genotype 1b.Conclusions Detection rate of parvovirus HPVB19 infection (positive rates of HPVB19 IgM and DNA) in leukopenic patients is significantly higher than healthy controls.HPVB19 should be detected before considering transfusion in leukopenic patients in clinical practice.

Objective To observe the therapeutic efficacy of the Chinese medical herb decoction qu yin tang combined with narrow-band ultraviolet B (NB-UVB) phototherapy on psoriasis vulgaris, and to investigate its influ-ence on osteopontin (OPN) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in serum. Methods Sixty patients with psoriasis were randomly divided into a treatment group and a control group. The treatment group was treated with qu yin tang and NB-UVB; the control group was treated with qu yin tang only. The levels of OPN and VEGF in serum were detected in both groups before and after treatment using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Twenty healthy persons' serum samples were taken as controls. At the same time, any changes in psoriasis area and severity index (PASI) scores in the two groups were recorded and compared. Results After 8 weeks of treatment, PASI scores and levels of OPN and VEGF had been reduced significantly in both groups, and there was a significant difference between the treatment group and the control group. Conclusions Chinese medical herbs combined with NB-UVB phototherapy is a safe and effective method for the treatment of psoriasis. The results suggested that OPN and VEGF may play an important role in the pathogenesis of psoirasis vulgaris.

Objective To investigate the feasibility of iterative model reconstruction (IMR) combined with low tube voltage and low iodine intaken of contrast media in head and neck CT angiography (CTA). Methods Eighty patients with clinical suspicion of head and neck vascular disease underwent head and neck CTA were enrolled in this prospective study. According to random number table, patients were randomly divided into two groups. Group A (n=40) was scanned according to the protocol of 120 kV, 50 ml iopromide (370 mg/ml) and filtered back projection (FBP) reconstruction, and group B (n=40) was scanned with 80 kV, 30 ml iohexol (300 mg/ml) and IMR, while the other parameters kept consistent. Mann-Whitney U test was used to compare the enhanced CT value of arteries, image noise, signal noise ratio (SNR), contrast noise ratio (CNR), the score of image quality, effective radiation dose (ED) and iodine intaken of contrast media between two groups. Results The CT value at the origin level of common carotid artery were (316.9 ± 53.0) and (433.4 ± 101.8)HU in group A and B, image noise were (28.1 ± 6.8)and (12.1 ± 2.6)HU ,SNR were (11.9 ± 3.2) and (37.7 ± 13.3) ,and CNR were (10.2 ± 2.9) and (32.6 ± 13.3), respectively. There were showed significant differences in CT value, image noise, SNR and CNR between two groups (Z=-5.490,-7.592,-7.698,-7.660, P<0.05). The CT value at the origin level of internal carotid artery were (359.5 ± 54.3) and (443.5 ± 120.1) HU in group A and B, image noise were (18.8±6.2) and (6.8±1.7) HU ,SNR were 21.5±8.7 and 69.7±27.4 ,and CNR were 18.0±7.3 and 62.7± 26.4, respectively. The significant differences were acquired in CT value, image noise, SNR and CNR between two groups (Z=-3.022,-7.376,-7.496,-7.515, P<0.05). The CT value at M1 segment level of middle cerebral artery were (321.1±47.3) and (401.6±104.0) HU in group A and B, image noise were (32.3± 17.2) and (11.2 ± 2.7) HU,SNR were 12.4 ± 5.6 and 39.3 ± 18.4,and CNR were 10.7 ± 4.7 and 36.4 ± 17.7, respectively. There also showed significant differences in CT value, image noise, SNR and CNR between two groups (Z=-3.527,-7.487,-7.482,-7.535, P<0.05). The score of image quality of group A and B were 3.9 ± 0.7 and 4.5±0.6, which also showed significant difference between two two groups (Z=-3.517, P<0.05). The ED were (2.78 ± 0.13) and (0.84 ± 0.04) mSv for group A and B, which also showed significant difference between the two groups (Z=-7.706, P<0.05). The iodine intaken of contrast media were 1.85 g and 0.90 g in group A and B. Conclusion IMR combined with low tube voltage and low iodine intaken of contrast media can not only decrease effective radiation dose and iodine intaken of contrast media significantly, but also improve the imaging quality in head and neck CTA examination.

Objective:To investigate the application value of three-dimensional (3D) printing technology assisted laparoscopic anatomic liver resection of segment 8 (Lap-S8).Methods:The retrospective and descriptive study was conducted. The clinicopathological data of 8 liver cancer patients including 7 cases with hepatocellular carcinoma and 1 case with intrahepatic cholangio-carcinoma who underwent 3D printing technology assisted Lap-S8 in the Hunan Provincial People′s Hospital from January 2019 to December 2020 were collected. There were 7 males and 1 female, aged from 49.0 to 80.0 years, with a median age of 56.5 years. Of the 8 patients, 6 cases underwent laparoscopic anatomic liver resection of the entire segment 8, 1 case underwent laparoscopic anatomic liver resection of ventral subsegmental of the segment 8 and 1 case underwent laparoscopic anatomic liver resection of dorsal subsegmental of the segment 8. 3D printing technology was used to assist preoperative evaluation and intraoperative navigation for all 8 patients. Observation indicators: (1) surgical situations; (2) postoperative situations; (3) follow-up. Follow-up was conducted using outpatient examination, internet or telephone interview to detect survival and tumor recurrence of patients after operation up to March 2021. Measurement data with normal distribution were represented as Mean±SD, and measurement data with skewed distribution were represented as M(range). Count data were described as absolute numbers. Results:(1) Surgical situations: all the 8 patients underwent 3D printing technology assisted Lap-S8 successfully, without conversion to open surgery. The operation time, hepatic portal occlusion time and volume of intraoperative blood loss of the 8 patients were (216±41)minutes, (56±11)minutes and 75 mL(range, 50 to 300 mL), respectively. There was no intraoperative blood transfusion in 8 patients, and the surgical margin of the 8 patients was negative. (2) Postoperative situations: the duration of postoperative hospital stay of the 8 patients were (9±3)days. There was no complication such as postoperative hemorrhage, biliary fistula, liver abscess or abdominal infection occurred. (3) Follow-up: all the 8 patients were followed up for 3.0?24.0 months, with a median follow-up time of 12.5 months. During the follow-up, 1 of 8 patients with preoperative diagnosis of recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma developed tumor recurrence at 5 months after operation. The patient underwent laparoscopic surgery followed with the transcatheter arterial chemoembolization and target therapy, and survived with tumor. There was no tumor recurrence in the other 7 patients.Conclusion:3D printing technology assisted Lap-S8 is safe and feasible.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVEThe aim of this study is to screen for multi-drug resistance-related genes of human non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and provide the evidences for drug-sensitive predicting genes of different NSCLC patients treated with chemotherapeutic drugs.

METHODSSensitivity and inhibition ratio of five antitumor drugs (NVB, GEM, TAL, DOC, CDDP) on 75 fresh NSCLC samples from different individuals were studied by means of culturing primary tumor cells and MTT assay. After the five chemotherapeutic drugs were used, multi-drug resistance-related genes of NSCLC with cDNA microarry on the samples which were all high sensitive and those resistant were screened.

RESULTScDNA microarray analysis screened out 212 genes, 168 of which were up-regulated while the other 44 were down-regulated in the group of highly sensitive compared with the group of resistance.

CONCLUSIONThe multi-drug resistance of NSCLC may be correlative with the 212 genes screened by cDNA microarray; the detailed mechanisms of the genes still need to be detected in the future.

Antineoplastic Agents ; therapeutic use ; Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung ; drug therapy ; genetics ; Cell Line, Tumor ; Drug Resistance, Neoplasm ; genetics ; Humans ; Lung Neoplasms ; drug therapy ; genetics ; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis

A new optimized experimental designing method in biomedical engineering study is provided in this paper. The characteristic of the uniform design and orthogonal design was compared. Then, a new experimental design was proposed, which was the combined use of the two experimental designs. Discussed the theoretical basis, using method and its advantages. Furthermore, we proved the validity through our experiment. This method has the specificity of uniform design, fewer times of experiment and suit for experiment with multi-factors and multi-levels. This makes full use of the advantages of orhtogonal design which is widely used and can be analyzed by simple intuitionist analysis, avoids the disadvantages of uniform design in which data can only be processed by computer software. It can be widely used in the research and development of biomedicine engineering.
Biomedical Engineering ; methods ; Biomedical Research ; methods ; Data Interpretation, Statistical ; Research Design

BACKGROUNDIt has been proven that clusterin is a newly apoptosis-related factor and upregulates in many tumors. It plays important roles in carcinogenesis and tumor progression. The antiapoptosis of clusterin seems to be relative to other antiapoptosis factors. The aim of this study is to investigate the expression and significance of clusterin in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tissue.

METHODSThe expression of clusterin, p53 and Bax in NSCLC were detected by immunohistochemical SP method and Western blot assay.

RESULTSPositive expression rate of clusterin was 79.25% (42/53) in NSCLC tissues which was much higher than that in normal lung tissue (2/16, 12.50%) (Chi-square=23.68, P < 0.05). The expression of clusterin was closely related to pathological differentiation (rs=0.464, P < 0.01), clinical stage (rs =0.320, P < 0.01) and lymph node metastasis (rs=0.255, P < 0.05), but not correlated to the sex (Chi-square=0.007, P > 0.05), age (Chi-square=0.707, P > 0.05) and histological type (Chi-square=0.702, P > 0.05). The expression of clusterin in NSCLC was positively correlated to the expression of p53 (rs=0.589, P < 0.01), but was negatively related to the expression of Bax (rs =-0.346, P < 0.01). The relative expression level of clusterin protein in NSCLC was significantly higher than that in normal lung tissue (0.541±0.010 vs 0.201±0.020) (P < 0.05).

CONCLUSIONSClusterin may play an important role in the biological characteristics of NSCLC by the antiapoptosis pathway.

Background and objective Galectin-3 is involved in many physical and pathologic process, and is closely correlated with tumorigenesis, development and metastasis. hTe aim of this study is to investigate the gene expression and signiifcance of Galectin-3 in normal lung tissue and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tissue. Methods Gene expres-sion was examined using the immunohistochemical S-P method in 62 NSCLC cases and in 17 cases with normal lung tissue. RT-PCR veriifed the expression of Galectin-3 at the transcriptional level. Results hTe expression rate of Galectin-3 in NSCLC tissue was 83.8%(52/62), which was signiifcantly higher than that in normal lung tissue (P<0.01). Galectin-3 expression was not correlated with sex (χ2=0.113, P>0.05), age (χ2=0.220, P>0.05), and histological type (χ2=0.012, P>0.05), but was nega-tively correlated with pathological differentiation (r=-0.292, P<0.05) and positively correlated with the clinical stage (r=0.336, P<0.05) in NSCLC tissue. RT-PCR results showed that the expression level of Galectin-3 in NSCLC tissue was signiifcantly higher than in normal lung tissue. Conclusion Galectin-3 may be useful in lung cancer diagnosis and may increase diagnosis rate when combined with other lung cancer markers.

OBJECTIVETo determine the feasibility and efficacy of endoscopic submucosal dissection(ESD) in treating early gastric cancer(EGC) and precancerous lesions in the remnant stomach of patients after gastrectomy.

METHODSClinical data of 36 patients with EGC and precancerous lesions in remnant stomach undergoing ESD in Endoscopy Center of Zhongshan Hospital from January 2008 to December 2013 were retrospectively analyzed. Operative, postoperative conditions and long-term follow-up of these patients were evaluated.

RESULTSBoth the success rate and the complete resection rate were 100%. The average maximum diameter of the tumor was 1.5(range 0.6-4.5) cm. During the ESD process, two bleeding cases were treated successfully by endoscopic hemostasis. The average operation time was 40(10-80) min. The delayed hemorrhage developed in 2 cases within 1-3 days after operation, and were also treated successfully by endoscopic hemostasis. There was no perforation or delayed perforation. No emergency surgery was required for the complication. Twelve cases were diagnosed as mild-moderate dysplasia, 7 cases as high grade intraepithelial neoplasia, 16 cases as hyperplastic polyps, and 1 case as signet ring cell carcinoma with T1 stage, who underwent operation for resecting gastric stump and lymph node dissection 7 days after ESD without subsequent follow-up. The curative resection rate was 92.7%(35/36). The median follow-up of the remaining 35 patients was 36(6-78) months without discomfort and recurrence under gastroscopy.

CONCLUSIONESD is safe and effective for EGC and precancerous lesions in the remnant stomach.

Adenocarcinoma ; Dissection ; Gastrectomy ; Gastric Mucosa ; Gastric Stump ; Gastroscopy ; Hemostasis, Endoscopic ; Humans ; Lymph Node Excision ; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local ; Operative Time ; Retrospective Studies ; Stomach Neoplasms

Objective: To assess the safety and feasibility of the application of the laparoscopic modality in the perioperative treatment of central liver tumors. Methods: Collecting all the clinical information of a total of 40 patients with central liver tumors who received laparoscopic resection treatment carried out at Department of Hepatological Surgery of People′s Hospital of Hunan Provincial from January 2016 to December 2018 to take a retrospective review. There were 19 males and 21 females.The age was (59.5±14.5) years (range: 15 to 71 years) . There were 26 cases of primary hepatic carcinoma (24 cases of hepatocellular carcinoma, 2 cases of cholangiocellular carcinoma) , 8 cases of hepatic cavernous hemangioma, 1 case of metastatic hepatic carcinoma, 5 cases of hepatocellular adenoma. The maximum diameter of tumors were (6.2±2.9) cm (range: 2 to 13 cm) . The patient′s information about hepatectomy methods, blocking mode and time of blood flow, operation time, intraoperative blood loss, intraoperative blood transfusion rate, post-operative hospitalization time, perioperative reoperation and postoperative complications were collected. Results: A total of 40 patients all were treated with laparoscopic surgery. The surgical procedure was as follows: 2 patients received the right hepatic lobectomy (Ⅴ, Ⅵ, Ⅶ and Ⅷ segments) , 2 patients received the left hepatic lobectomy (Ⅱ, III and Ⅳ segments) , 13 patients received mesohepatectomy (Ⅳ, Ⅰ and Ⅷ segments) , 2 patients received left hepatic trisegmentectomy (Ⅱ, Ⅲ, Ⅳ and Ⅷ segments) , 2 patients received right hepatic trisegmentectomy (Ⅳ, Ⅴ, Ⅵ, Ⅶ and Ⅷ segments) , 7 patients received Ⅷ segmentectomy, 1 patient received Ⅳ segmentectomy, 3 patients received Ⅴ and Ⅷ segmentectomy, 5 patients received hepatic caudate lobe resection (Ⅰ, Ⅸ segments) , and 3 patients received local tumors resection.Pathological results: there were 26 cases of primary hepatic carcinoma (24 cases of hepatocellular carcinoma, 2 cases of cholangiocellular carcinoma) , 8 cases of hepatic cavernous hemangioma, 1 case of metastatic hepatic carcinoma, 5 cases of hepatocellular adenoma; the pathological reports of all malignant tumor cases all showed negative incisal edge. The operative time was (333±30) minutes (range: 280 to 380 minutes) ; the intraoperative hepatic portal occlusion period was (58±13) minutes (range: 30 to 90 minutes) ; the intraoperative hemorrhage was (173±129) ml (range: 20 to 600 ml) ; the intraoperative blood transfusion rate was 2.5% (1/40) ; the postoperative incidence of bile leakage was 2.5% (1/40) , the hospital discharge of 1 patient with bile leakage was approved after conservative treatments like T pipe decompression and adequate drainage; there was 1 case of abdominal infection and 1 case of pulmonary infection, both of which were discharged from the hospital with conservative treatments; there were no other serious postoperative complications. The postoperative hospital stay was (10.7±2.7) days (range: 6 to 16 days) ; there were no perioperative mortality and reoperation cases. Conclusion In the centers with abundant laparoscopic hepatectomy experiences, the laparoscopic resection is proved to be safe and feasible in the perioperative treatments of central liver tumors by the highly selective cases, the adequate preoperative assessment and reasonable surgical techniques and approach.