Objective To compare the effects of hypertonic saline,acetic acid and acetic acid-hypertonic saline(AAHS) solution on the ablated volume produced by hepatic radiofrequency ablation(RFA) in rabbits in vivo,and to determine the optimal synergist for radiofrequency ablation.Methods Thirty big-ear white rabbits were equally divided into group A(RFA alone),group B(RFA with 36% NaCl injection),group C(RFA with 50% acetic acid injection),group D(RFA with 50% AAHS injection),group E(50% AAHS injection alone),and group F(36% NaCl injection alone),with five rabbits in each group.Follow-up exam with CT scanning was made.The experimental rabbits were sacrificed by stages.The livers were collected and fixed in 10% formalin.Both the longitudinal and transverse diameter of the necrosis lesion produced by radiofrequency ablation were measured,the results were compared among groups.Results The difference in the lowest impedance value between group A and other groups was statistically significant(P 0.997).The persistent time of group A was significantly shorter than that of both group B and group D(P

BACKGROUND: Diseases and maternal poor habits before conception and during pregnancy have been considered as the definite risk factors for premature delivery and one of the results with better repeatability in the studies on the pathogenesis, whether parental socioeconomic status is related to the occurrence of premature birth?OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association of parental socioeconomic status with premature birth.DESIGN: A case-control study with the parents who has premature infants or normal infants as subjects.SETTING: Department of Preventive Medicine, Medical College of Qingdao University;Woman's Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Qingdao Municipal Haici Medicine Group; Department of Obstetric and Gynecology, Qingdao Municipal Eighth People's Hospital PARTICIPANTS: A cohort of premature infants (n=227) were recruited from Qingdao Municipal Maternity and Children Health Institute and the Eighth People's Hospital, Qingdao, premature birth were confirmed according to the diagnostic standards; the control infants (n=750) were also recruited from the same place, they were delivered at pregnancy of from 38 to 42 weeks with birth mass of 3 000-4 000 g. Two groups were matched in sexual constitution and the birthday of within the same week.METHODS: Parents of two groups were asked to fill the self-made questionnaire. Maternal obstetric factors were referring to the perinatal booklet and infant birth record; meanwhile parental socio-economic status, daily-life behaviours and sociodemographic character were also investigated. Multivariate non-conditioned logistic regression analysis was used to assess the relationship of correlative factors.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Parental school education, occupation, the annual family income, as well as bad living and behavioral habits.RESULTS: According to the real state, data of 227 premature infants and 750 normal control infants were analyzed finally. Maternal delivery age of ＞ 35 years old (≤ 25 years old in normal control group), working as a teacher or unemployment (worker in control group), smoking and drinking during pregnancy, father's occupation as peasant (worker in control group), with a long smoking history, lower parental education (not lower than junior college education in control group) and family income less than 35 thousand Yuan (more than 35 thousand Yuan in control group) were proved to be the significant risk factors for premature birth (OR =1.629-15.701).CONCLUSION: Maternal employment as a teacher with father as a peasant, together with lower family income and lower parental education are connected with premature delivery.

BACKGROUND:Pressure sensitive instrumented shoes are fast and easily used tools to measure ground reaction forces. Currently researches about the utilities of these systems in assessment of gait in children with neurological diseases have been started to run.OBJECTIVE: To find the gait characteristics of dynamic plantar pressure in children with spastic cerebral palsy. DESIGN: A cross-sectional study.SETTINGS: Department of Rehabilitation, Songgang People's Hospital; Department of Rehabilitation, Shenzhen Children's Hospital; Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University. PARTICIPANTS: ① Patient group: Twenty children with spastic cerebral palsy were selected from Shenzhen Children's Hospital from May 2004 to April 2005, including 9 boys and 11 girls, aged 26-66 months old, and they all could walk for more than 10 m independently. ② Normal control group: 52 healthy children with normal walking ability were enrolled, including 28 boys.and 24 girls, aged 35-76 months old.METHODS: Ultraflex gait analysis system was used to perform continuous plantar pressure tests of both groups of children. Diagram and data of dynamic plantar pressures in gait were recorded and analyzed with a computer. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: ① 10 sequential gait cycles were chosen from the continuous stable steps to calculate the average data with the software; ② Differences of the characteristic parameters of plantar pressure curve between the two groups.RESULTS: ① The curves of plantar pressure to time of testees in the normal control group were of the wave shapes with two peaks and one valley. Half of the CP children could not perform the two-peak shape pressure curve in the gait analysis. One kind of abnormal plantar pressure curve style was a wave shape with only one peak. Another kind of abnormal plantar pressure curve style was a shape showing asymmetry between sides and variation in different steps even in the same side. Two-peak shapes of dynamic plantar pressure were recorded in 10 CP children. ② Characteristic parameters picked up from the curves of plantar pressure had been compared between the two groups. Significant difference have been found in ts of both sides and tz1,tz2,tz3 on the right side between the two groups. It was shown that the single-limb support time of both sides in the CP children was longer than that in healthy children [left: (0.879± 0.658), (0.472±0.051) s; right: (0.818±0.682), (0.478±0.050) s; P ＜ 0.01]. The tz1 and tz3 on the right side in the CP children were longer and while the tz2 was shorter than those in the healthy children. CONCLUSION: ① Using dynamic plantar pressure gait analysis system, plantar pressure curves can be observed directly, and information about kinetic characters can be drawn straightly. ② Part of patients with spastic CP could not perform the two-peak shape pressure curves in gait analysis. In patient can be recorded of two-peak shape dynamic plantar pressure curves, ts of both sides are shorter than those in healthy children, tz1 and tz3 on the right side is longer and tz2 is shorter than those in healthy children.

Objective To observe the clinical effect of mechanical perfusion preservation kidney transplantation in donor after cardiac death (DCD),and to explore the effect of mechanical perfusion preservation of DCD on renal function recovery.Methods The clinical data of 186 patients undergoing DCD kidney transplantation from January 2012 to December 2016 were retrospectively analyzed.Sixty-eight DCD donor's kidneys were preserved by LifePortpreservation (low temperature mechanical perfusion group),118 DCD donor's kidneys were preserved by static low temperature preservation (static low temperature preservation group).The renal function recovery,the incidence of primary non-function,delayed graft function and infection,and the survival rate of patients and renal grafts were analyzed.Results There was no significant difference between the two groups in gender,age,hemodialysis ratio,dialysis time,BMI,warm ischemia time and cold ischemia time (P＞0.05).There was significant difference in creatinine value between the two groups at 1st week (P＜0.05),but there was no significant difference in creatinine at 3rd,6th,12th,24th and 36th month (P＞0.05).There was significant difference in the incidence of DGF between two groups (P＜0.05),but no significant difference in the incidence rate of PNF,AR and infection,and the survival rate of patient and renal graft between two groups (P＞0.05).There was no significant difference in 1-and 3-year survival rate of the recipients and transplanted kidney between the two groups (P＞0.05).Conclusion LifePort can significantly reduce the incidence of DGF as compared with static cold preservation.The resistance index and perfusion flow of the LifePort have important significance to assess the renal quality.

Objective: To investigate the intelligence development of the low birth weight babies and related factors. Method: The development ability of 190 low birth weight babies was assessed with the Revised Gesell Development Schedule. The result was compared with that of normal control. Result: The development quotients (DQ) of low birth weight infants in motor, adaptive and personal/social areas at 1 and 2 years of age and in language at 2 years of age were significantly lower than that of the normal controls. The stepwise regression analysis showed that all performances in motor, adaptive, language and personal/social areas were significantly related to age, sex, head circumstance, low birth weight and feeding way of infants, and education of their parents. Conclusion: Low birth weight infants have poorer intelligence at the age of 1 and 2 years than normal controls.

Objective To investigate the association between the level of advanced oxidation protein products (AOPP) in serum and the dialysate glucose exposure dose in patients undergoing non-diabetic maintenance peritoneal dialysis (PD). Methods In this cross-sectional study, the levels of serum AOPP were measured in 192 non-diabetic PD patients. Based on the exposure dose of dialysate glucose , PD patients were assigned into the high-dose exposure and low-dose exposure groups. Serum C-reactive protein levels were also measured and the rates of cardio-vascular disease (CVD) were recorded in both groups. Results The levels of serum AOPP were higher in the high-dose exposure group, as compared with the low-dose exposure group [(78.7 ± 15.6) mmol/L vs. (71.7 ± 14.8) mmol/L, P = 0.003]. The serum C-reactive protein levels [4.6 (3.0-11.4) mg/L vs. 3.0 (2.2-5.3) mg/L, P < 0.001] and the rates of CVD (53.6% vs. 35.8%, P = 0.014) were also higher in the high-dose exposure group. After multivariate adjustment ,the level of serum AOPP was independently associated with dialysate glucose exposure dose (β = 0.157, P = 0.031) and duration of PD (β = 0.164, P =0.043). Conclusion The serum AOPP levels are associated with the dialysate glucose exposure doses in non-diabetic PD patients. Minimizing the glucose load might reduce the risk of developing CVD.

96 anterior teeth with different degree of caries in 80 patients were randomly divided into 2 groups(n =48 teeth,40 patients). In the experimental group the teeth were repair with nanometer resin filling,in the control group with ceramic crown.In 0.5 to 1 year follow-up,the satisfaction rate and the clinical success rate were similar in the 2 groups(P >0.05).Application of nano resin aesthetic restoration can lower tooth injury,postoperative complications and the cost.

OBJECTIVETo explore the effects of early intervention of acupuncture on urinary function reconstruction of neurogenic bladder after spinal cord injury, so as to find the optimal treatment timing of acupuncture.

METHODSFifty-three patients of neurogenic bladder after spinal cord injury were randomly divided into a prior-to-catheter group (25 cases) and a posterior-to-catheter group (28 cases). For the prior-to-catheter group, one week before the removal of catheter, acupoints on the abdomen and back such as Guanyuan (CV 4), Zhongji (CV 3), Baliao (Shangliao (BL 31), Ciliao (BL 32), Zhongliao (BL 33), Xialiao (BL 34), Jiaji (EX-B 2) and acupoints at distal end such as Zusanli (ST 36) and Sanyinjiao (SP 6) were selected; after the catheter removal, simple method. of water column was used to measure bladder capacity pressure to classify the type of bladder, and then different acupuncture manipulations were given; intermittent catheterization was performed if condition was allowed. The posterior-to-catheter group applied identical treatment after removal of catheter as the prior-to-catheter group. The treatment was given 5 times per week; after one-month treatment, five aspects including the time of first effective urination, time of establishing reflex urination, average residual volume of urine, time of residual urine less than 100 mL and quality of life (QOL) were evaluated.

RESULTSAfter treatment, the time of first effective urination, time of establishing reflex urination, average residual volume of urine and time of residual urineless than 100 mL in the prior-to-catheter group were all superior to those in the posterior-to-catheter group (all P<0. 05) ; the score of QOL was improved in two groups after treatment (both P<0. 01), but the difference between two groups was not statistically significant (P>0. 05); each index of urination function was not significant among patients with different injured segments of spinal cord (all P>0. 05).

CONCLUSIONThe early intervention of acupuncture (prior to catheter) has obvious improving function on establishing balanced bladder in patients with neurogenic bladder after spinal cord injury, which is superior to acupuncture intervention after removal of catheter, however, the effects of different injured segments on establishing balanced bladder are not different.

Acupuncture Points ; Acupuncture Therapy ; Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Spinal Cord Injuries ; complications ; Treatment Outcome ; Urinary Bladder ; physiopathology ; Urinary Bladder, Neurogenic ; etiology ; physiopathology ; therapy ; Urination ; Young Adult

BACKGROUND: At present, there are some reports regarding the treatment of high-energy shockwave to chronic pain of muscle and born joint, however,the therapeutic effects and mechanism are still uncertain and need further discussion.OBJECTIVE: To explore the curative effects, mechanism and clinical application of high energy shockwave to bone joint myofascitis.DESIGN: Non-randomized case controlled study based on diagnosis SETTING: Rehabilitation Medicine Department of First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University.PARTICIPANTS: Totally 90 patients with chronic pain of muscle and bone joint treated in Rehabilitation Medicine Department of First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University from July 2001 to April 2002 were divided into treatment group and control group each with 45 cases by the order of visiting time. There were 17 males and 28 females in the treatment group with mean age of 54 years and 15 males and 30 females in the control group with mean age of 63 years.METHODS: Shockwave therapy was applied to the treatment group while routine physical treatment was conducted to the control group. Simple McGill pain questionnaire(MPQ) was used to evaluate the general reactions of patients to pain and assess the shoulder joint territory and clinical effects.therapeutic effects.RESULTS: There was significant difference on sensory, affective and pain score, visual analogous scale(VAS) and pain presentation inventory(PPI) before and after treatment in the treatment group( t =5.69, 5.67, 7.06, 8.37,6. 21, P ＜ 0.01 ). When compared with control group, there was significant difference on sensory, pain score, VAS between the treatment group and control group(t =4. 66, P ＜ 0.01; t =2.52,3.40, P ＜0.05).CONCLUSION: Extracorporeal high-energy shockwave has reliable effects on treating chronic pain caused by bone joint myofascitis, which is characterized by its effective, quick and safe features.

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