The early damage detection and evaluation are of great significance in treatment and prognosis to the left ventricular function for children with tumor. In this paper, it is reported that the early damage of the left ventricular function was observed by pulsed wave Doppler (PWD) and tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) in our laboratory. Eighty children half a year to fourteen years old were included in this study. The cardiac function indices in chemotherapy group and control group were measured and compared. The results showed that there was significant difference in mitral and tricuspid annulus flow spectrum between the two groups. Compared with PWD,TDI is more prompt, objective and accurate in detecting early damage of left ventricular function in children with tumor. And TDI is a good method for early identification of ventricular function damage in children with tumor.
Child ; Early Diagnosis ; Echocardiography, Doppler ; Heart ; physiopathology ; Humans ; Neoplasms ; physiopathology ; Ventricular Function, Left

Objective To investigate the risk factors of hyperthermia in early period of an acute cerebral infarction.Methods 299 patients admitted to hospital from January 2003 to December 2004 with a diagnosis of cerebral infartion by CT or MRI,were retrospectively studied.The risks of hyperthermia in the early period for stroke,such as admission conscious level,bulbar palsy,emphysema,atrial fibrillation,multi-cerebral infarction,diabetes mellitus and chronic heart failure were analyzed,Logistic regression analysis was used to determine the factors that were associated with hyperthermia in the early period of stroke.Results 71 patients had fever in early period of an acute cerebral infarction(23.7%).The most common infection was pneumonia(18.4%).The analysis showed that the admission conscious level and atrial fibrillation were the risks of early hyperthermia of an acute cerebral infarction.Conclusion Admission conscious level(subconscious or unconscious/coma) and atrial fibrillation and chronic heart failure are independent risk factors for development of early hyperthermia for acute stroke.

Calcaneal fractures, common injury to foot, usually require surgery if complicated with an obvious displacement. Since open reduction and internal plate fixation often leads to wound infection, more and more minimally invasive surgery has been adopted for calcaneal fractures. As a minimal invasive treatment, intramedullary fixation can be used to treat calcaneal fractures of Sanders types Ⅰ-Ⅳ. Calcanail and C-Nail are 2 major types of intramedullary nails that have been used to treat calcaneal fractures in Europe and the United States since 2011. This article reviews the basic structural features, biomechanical properties, surgical procedures and clinical efficacy of these intramedullary nails.

Multi-layer perceptron (MLP) neural network belongs to multi-layer feedforward neural network, and has the ability and characteristics of high intelligence. It can realize the complex nonlinear mapping by its own learning through the network. Bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness with high recurrence rate, high self-harm rate and high suicide rate. Most of the onset of the bipolar disorder starts with depressive episode, which can be easily misdiagnosed as unipolar depression and lead to a delayed treatment so as to influence the prognosis. The early identifica- tion of bipolar disorder is of great importance for patients with bipolar disorder. Due to the fact that the process of early identification of bipolar disorder is nonlinear, we in this paper discuss the MLP neural network application in early identification of bipolar disorder. This study covered 250 cases, including 143 cases with recurrent depression and 107 cases with bipolar disorder, and clinical features were statistically analyzed between the two groups. A total of 42 variables with significant differences were screened as the input variables of the neural network. Part of the samples were randomly selected as the learning sample, and the other as the test sample. By choosing different neu- ral network structures, all results of the identification of bipolar disorder were relatively good, which showed that MLP neural network could be used in the early identification of bipolar disorder.
Bipolar Disorder ; diagnosis ; Humans ; Neural Networks (Computer)

Objective To study the effects of improved Wright-Giemsa staining. Methods 40 semen samples by both traditional and improved Wright-Giemsa staining.The morphological characteristics stained by two methods was ob-served. Results The defective rates of the middle and tail parts of sperm were 7.02%± 2.4%and 11.02%± 2.03%respec-tively in improved staining group;while those were 5.48%±2.8%and 8.05%±2.56%in traditional staining group. There was statistical significance between two staining methods (P < 0.05). There was no significant difference of normal sperm and sperm head between these two staining methods;however, improved staining method showed a much clearer nucleus and ac-rosome staining than that of traditional methods. Improved Wright-Giemsa staining is better for sperm, vaginal discharge and Trichomonas vaginalis. More importantly, axostyle and flagella were clearly stained with the improved method. Conclusion Improved Wright-Giemsa staining is simple and can be used in clinical diagnosis.

According to the working principle of vertical ultrasonic vial washing machine, receiving respective force of small water droplets on the inside wall of vials and the minimum air velocity of blowing off water droplets can be obtained based on the analysis of water-droplet-related parameters. The inside wall model of 7 mL vial created by GAMBIT was divided into fine grids. Then the Realizable k-epsilon Two Equation Turbulence Model was adopted and the flow field of vial by FLUENT software was simulated when air was flushing inside the wall. In that case, the optimal position, inner diameter and the corresponding minimum air velocity of needle can be acquired to meet the needs of vial washing machine applied to 7 mL vial.
Equipment Design ; Models, Theoretical ; Needles ; Software

In view of the problem of TCM diagnosis expert system, a new computerized TCM diagnosis system is constructed by simulating the process of expert diagnostic process. A disease filter method and grey relational analysis method are introduced to simulate and evaluate the process of TCM diagnosis.
Decision Support Systems, Clinical ; Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted ; methods ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Fuzzy Logic ; Humans ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; methods

AIM: To investigate the effect of human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) on the release of TNF-? by the human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and to elucidate its mechanism. METHODS: Human PMNs and PBMCs were isolated from the venous blood of healthy donors by dextran sedimentation and density gradient centrifugation. After the cells were cocultured at the ratio of 2:1 in the presence of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), the concentration of TNF-? in the supernatant was measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The binding rate of monocytes with the fluorescein isothiocyanate-labeled LPS (FITC-LPS) and the mean surface fluorescence intensity of monocytes were analyzed by flow cytometry. RESULTS: PMNs do not produce detectable TNF-? in the presence of LPS. PMNs were capable of inhibiting the TNF-? release from PBMCs ( P

AIM: To investigate the differentiation from adult rat and human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMMSCs) into neuron with musk polypeptide (Mu-P).METHODS: Adult rat and human BMMSCs were induced with Mu-P.Neuron-specific enolase (NSE),neurofilament (NF),Nestin,glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) were detected by immunohistochemistry.RESULTS: Simple methods with Mu-P induced adult rat and human BMMSCs exhibiting a neuronal phenotype,expressing Nestin at 3 hours to 5 hours,and expressing NE and NF at 5 hours to 7 days.But the neuron-like cells didn't express the glial astrocyte marker GFAP.CONCLUSION: Adult rat and human BMMSCs can be induced to differentiate into neurons with Mu-P.

AIM: To investigate the differentiation potential of human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (hBMMSCs) into hematopoietic cells in vivo. METHODS: hBMMSCs prepared from the bone marrow-aspirate sample obtained from healthy human donors were culture-expanded in vitro with 5-8 passages. hBMMSCs(P5-8, 4.8?10 5 cells/mouse) were injected into the severe combined immuodeficiency (SCID) mice treated by cyclophosphamide(CPA) and various tissues were analyzed at 35 days post-transplant for the presence of differentiated human cells. RESULTS: hBMMSCs(P5-8) viability, which was determined by typan blue staining at the end of the harvest and before infusion, was greater than 95% in every infusate at both time points. Cells characterized by flow cytometry using human MSC-specific monoclonal antibodies were uniformly positive for CD29, CD44, CD90, CD105, CD106, CD166 and negative for CD11a, CD14, CD34, CD38, CD45, CD80, CD86 which are common on cells of the hematopoietic lineages. Analysis of PB demonstrated that 5 of 6 hBMMSCs transplanted SCID mice had low level of circulating human CD45 +/ H-2D d- cells(range from 0.17% to 0.36%)and CD34 +/ H-2D d- cells(range from 0.10% to 0.50%). Analysis of BM for the presence of hematopoietic chimerism demonstrated human CD45 +/ H-2D d- cells and CD34 +/ H-2D d- cells in the marrow of 4 out of 6 hBMMSCs transplanted SCID mice (0.10%-0.19% and 0.03%-0.52%, respectively). Human hematopoietic cells with these same phenotype were also detected in the spleen 4 of the hBMMSCs transplanted SCID mice (range from 0.19% to 1.65% ,from 0.20% to 0.26%, respectively). No human hematopoietic cell was seen either in the PB, BM or spleen of all control animals. CONCLUSION: hBMMSCs have the ability to differentiate into blood cells of multiple lineages, including CD34 + hematopoietic stem cells/progenitor cells (HSC/HPC).