Regeneration ; Tissue Engineering ; Vocal Cords

The molecular weight of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-9 is the largest in MMP family which comes mainly from macrophage and neutrophil.MMP-9 is considered to be involved in the occurrence and metastasis of colorectal cancer.It also provides a new way for colorectal cancer in clinical prevention and treatment.

Objective:To observe the emergency treatment effect of levosimendan combined noninvasive mechanical ventilation on acute heart failure during emergency treatment period .Methods :According to random number table , 120 cases with acute heart failure were randomly and equally divided into routine treatment group and levosimendan group (levosimendan + noninvasive mechanical ventilation ) .Improvements of arterial blood gas [partial pressure of carbon dioxide and oxygen (PaCO2 ,PaO2 ) ,pH etc .] after 72h ,change of N terminal pro brain natriuretic pep-tide (NTpro-BNP ) level 4d after hospitalization and mortality rate were observed and compared between two groups .Results:After treatment ,PaO2 ,mean arterial pressure and NTpro-BNP level of the two groups significant-ly improved compared with before treatment ;compared with routine treatment group ,there was significant rise in PaO2 [ (78.2 ± 9.4) mmHg vs .(86.2 ± 10.5) mmHg] and significant reductions in mean arterial pressure [ (86.3 ± 8.2) mmHg vs .(82.2 ± 9.0) mmHg] and NTpro-BNP level [ (4340.5 ± 540.7) pg/ml vs .(4012.1 ± 426.3) pg/ml] in levosimendan group , P<0.01 all;total effective rate of levosimendan group was significantly higher than that of routine treatment group (86.7% vs .76.6% , P=0.047);after three-month follow-up ,mortality rate of le-vosimendan group was significantly lower than that of routine treatment group (11.7% vs .20.0% , P= 0.026 ) . Conclusion:Emergency treatment effect of levosimendan combined noninvasive mechanical ventilation on acute heart failure is significant ,which is worthy of further research and extension .

Great progress has been made in the study of fatty liver with integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine in aspects of diagnosis, treatment and experimental study, etc. Most researches were designed to utilize diagnostic or model replicating method of western medicine to observe the effects or investigate the action mechanism of compound recipe, single Chinese herb or effective ingredients of Chinese herbs on fatty liver. According to the pathological mechanism of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), fatty liver is characterized by deficiency in nature and repletion in appearance, which involves three Zang viscera such as liver, spleen and kidney and manifests as spleen Qi deficiency, liver and kidney deficiency, phlegm and dampness heaping internally, and Qi stagnation and blood stasis. This facilitates us to use specific recipe or modified recipe to treat fatty liver from the points of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine and combining syndrome differentiation with disease differentiation. With gratifying achievement, this kind of approach has been the mainstream of the research on fatty liver and many researchers have reached an agreement on this point domestically. Spleen Fortifying and Blood Invigorating Recipe (SFBVER in brief, invented by our institute) can significantly improve the B ultrasound outcome of the liver in patients with fatty liver, with significant difference in B ultrasound scoring between pre-and post-treatment. It can alleviate the patients' symptoms, improve or regain liver function, decrease waist/buttocks ratio and the content of triglyceride and cholesterol in blood. SFBVER is superior to Dongbao Gantai Recipe in general effective rate. Experimental study also reveals that SFBVER can alleviate CCl(4) induced liver cell fatty degeneration and the inflammatory cell infiltration in rats, decrease the activities of ALT and AST, lower the content of triglyceride in liver, recover SOD activity in liver to normal level. The overall efficacy of SFBVER is superior to that of Dongbao Gantai Recipe. Further correlated study should be focused on inventing new preparation of traditional Chinese medicine and investigating its action mechanism with the guiding of the theory of TCM and referring to the latest discovery in fatty liver research in modern medicine.

The severity of coronary artery diseases is assessed based on morphological and functional stenosis.The study Oil detection of coronary artery diseases based on morphological lesions has unveiled its short comings for evaluation of the seriousness of the disease.Therefore,many research groups diagnose the coronary artery diseases by functional stenosis.From functional aspect,studies of x-ray angiography algorithms for blood flow and velocity measurement are potentially clinically important and are an actively researched subject,which Can accurately diagnose the coronary diseases from functional stenosis aspect.Based on the angiographic images,the article describes formulation and characteristics of existing coronary blood flow and velocity techniques such as tracking and computational methods.Tracking methods can be divided into four classes:bolus transport time algorithms,continuous velocity determination from two-dimensional(time-distance)parametric images,contrast traversal distance algorithms,and droplet tracking algorithms.Computational methods can be divided into six classes:indicator-dilution or Stewart-Hamilton method,first-pass distribution analysis,inverted continuity equation algorithms,inverse mass transport problem approach,optical flow type algorithms,and the fluid continuity method.

Objective To investigate the safety and efficacy of transvaginal hydrolaparoscopic pelvic adhesiolysis (THLPA) treatment in the infertile women.Methods From May 2007 to Sep.2008,30 infertile patients underwent THLPA.The dye-test,hysteroscopy,and dye-test using catheterization of tubal ostium by hysteroscopy were performed at the same time.Pelvic adhesions were scored according to the revised American Fertility Society classification of endometriosis (1985).The adhesions were graded as mild (score 1-9),moderate (10-19),and severe (≥20).Twenty-four cases were in mild adhesions,5 moderate adhesions,and 1 severe adhesion.The duration of the operation and discharge,pelvic adhesions score,tubal patency,complications,and pregnancy rate were investigated.Results (1) THPLA:the majority of pelvic adhesions in all patients were successfully performed adhesiolysis.Only a little filmy adhesions of proximal peritube of 7 tubes and proper ligament of 5 ovaries and cohesive adhesions of 4 ovaries did not underwent surgical lysis.(2) Tubal patency:35 tubes were of proximal occlusion by dye-test,of which 21 (60%,21/35) were unobstructed and 4 (11%,4/35) were partly unobstructed after the dye-test using catheterization of the tubal ostium by hysteroscopy.(3) The duration of operation:the overall operative time were (32±6) minutes in mild adhesion,(52± 6) minutes in moderate adhesion,and 83 minutes in severe adhesion.Of which the time of THLPA were (11±5) minutes in mild adhesion,(35±7)minutes in moderate adhesion,and 62 minutes in severe adhesion,respectively.(4)The duration of discharge:the postoperative discharge time was 120-175 minutes.No complications occurred.(5)The rate of pregnancy:in the (15.8±4.3) months' follow-up,the rate of pregnancy was 45% (13/29),which one patient lost follow-up.Conclusions THLPA is safe,efficacious and not being hospitalized management.When compared with laparoscopy,it is simpler,more economic,and less minimally invasive approach.The appropriate indication of THLPA is to treat filmy,especially mild pelvic adhesions.It could partly avoid transabdominal operative laparoscopy for the infertile women.

Objective:To observe the change of blood endotoxin level after external biliary drainage with bile extracorporeal bypass in patients with malignant obstructive jaundice.Methods:The external biliary drainages with bile extracorporeal bypass were undergone in 14 patients with malignant obstructive jaundice,peripheral blood endotoxin levels were measured in perioperative period, other 15 cases internal biliary drainage and 20 cases external biliary drainage as contrast.Results:The changes of endotoxin level were not significant in external biliary drainage group,however,the endotoxin level was decreased signficantly in internal biliary drainage or external biliary drainage with bile extracorporeal bypass at postoperation.Conclusion:The external biliary drainage with bile extracorporeal bypass can decrease postoperative blood endotoxin level in patients with malignant obstructive jaundice.

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is the commonest head and neck cancer in China and especially sensitive to both chemotherapy and radiotherapy. But radiotherapy alone has disappointing effect to local advanced cases. Nevertheless,chemoradiotherapy provides long term survival. This paper summarized the current status of the different ways of chemoradiotherapy such as induction,concurrent,adjuvant chemotherapy.

Adenosine deaminase (ADA) activity in pleural fluid from 81 patients was measured by colorime-tric method. Of these cases, 55 cases were tuberculous pleural effusion, 22 cases were malignant pleura! effusion and 4 cases were transudate pleural effusion.The mean ADA, activity in pleural fluid of tuberculous group was 188.3?58.2u and that of malignant group was 52. 2?15. 4u. Statistically the difference is highly significant (p0.05). In tuberculous group, pleural fluid ADA levels higher than 110u were found in 53. cases (96.3%), and those above 120u were found in 52 cases (94.5%), while no case in malignat group had the ADA level higher than 90u, and in 20 cases it is lower than 70u (20/22 cases, 90.9%). These data suggest that pleural fluid ADA activity may be a useful index in the differential diagnosis of tuberculous and malignant pleural effusions.