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Objective To explore the diagnostic value of ultrasonography in acute abdomen of women.Methods 269 women with acute abdomen were examined with ultrasonography,the results were compared with clinical and pathological data.Results Of 269 cases,78 cases of ectopic pregnancy,26 cases of ovarian cyst torsion,44 cases of endometriosis("chocolate" cyst),33 cases of ruptured corpus luteum cyst,69 cases of acute pelvic inflammatory mass,6 cases of ovarian cyst rupture,2 cases of pedical of subserous myoma,5 cases of ovarian teratomas,2 cases of ovarian fibromas and 4 cases of red degeneration of uterine myoma were diagnosed by sonography.In comparsion with pathological results,the accorded rates of ultrasonography were 83.3%,84.6%,81.8%,72.7%,82.6%,66.7%,50%,60%,50% and 50% respectively.Conclusion As its convenience and rapid,ultrasonography plays an important role for the diagnosis of acute abdomen in gynecology.

Bibliometrics ; China ; Occupational Health ; statistics & numerical data ; Periodicals as Topic ; statistics & numerical data

Objective To investigate the clinical efficacy of dexmedetomidine combined with ropivacaine for ilioinguinal and iliohypogastric nerve block in elderly patients undergoing inguinal her-nia surgery.Methods Sixty elderly patients undergoing inguinal hernia surgery were randomly divided into dexmedetomidine group (group D)and control group (group C),30 patients in each group.All patients received ilioinguinal and iliohypogastric nerve block by the same anesthesiologist. 0.375% ropivacaine and dexmedetomidine 1 μg/kg 20 ml were used in ilioinguinal and iliohypogastric nerve block in group D,while 0.375% ropivacaine 20 ml were used in ilioinguinal and iliohypogastric nerve block in group C.Sensory block onset time and blockade duration were recorded.Side effects were recorded in both groups.Results Sensory block onset time in group D was significantly shorter than that in group C (10.6±4.3 min vs 14.4±5.1 min,P <0.05).Sensory block durations in group D was significantly longer than that in group C (832.7±136.6 min vs 669.8±140.1 min,P <0.05). There were two bradycardia cases in group D.No adverse reactions or anaesthesia complications oc-curred in all patients following postoperative follow-up.Conclusion Dexmedetomidine combined with ropivacaine can be used in ilioinguinal and iliohypogastric nerve block safely,and dexmedetomidine shortens the onset time and prolonged the duration of sensory block.

Autophagy is an active research area in the biomedical field as its role has been identified in many physiological and pathological processes. Accordingly, there is a growing demand to identify, quantify and manipulate the process accurately. Meanwhile, there is great interest in identifying compounds that modulate autophagy because they may have applications in the treatment of a variety of autophagy-related diseases. In this review, we summarize the current status of autophagy screening systems to facilitate identification of autophagy modulators.
Autophagy ; Humans

Child ; China ; Humans ; Paramyxoviridae Infections ; physiopathology ; Respiratory Tract Infections ; physiopathology ; virology

Adult ; Aortic Rupture ; pathology ; Death, Sudden, Cardiac ; etiology ; Heart Ventricles ; pathology ; Humans ; Male

Objective To investigate the changes of B lymphocyte subsets ( naive B cells, memory B cells and plasmablasts) in peripheral blood of patients with rheumatoid arthritis ( RA) and their correla-tions with the clinical manifestation and laboratory indexes.Methods Sixty-six patients with RA were di-vided into two groups including the group with active RA and the group with inactive RA according to the dis-ease activity score in 28 Joints (DAS28).A control group with healthy subjects was set up accordingly.The distributions of B lymphocyte subsets in peripheral blood samples were detected with flow cytometry analysis and their correlations with clinical manifestations and laboratory indicators were analyzed.Results ( 1 ) Compared with healthy subjevts, the mean fluorescence intensities ( MFIs) of CD19 and the percentages of memory B cells in peripheral blood of the patients with RA were significantly decreased, while the percenta-ges of naive B cells were increased (P<0.05).The percentages of plasmablasts in the patients with active RA were significantly increased as compared with those of healthy subjects and the patients with inactive RA (P<0.05).(2) The percentages of plasmablasts in peripheral blood of the patients with RA were positively correlated with the joint tenderness count, joint swelling count and joint swelling index (P<0.05).(3) A positive correlation was found between the MFIs of CD19 and the erythrocyte sedimentation rates ( ESRs ) among the patients with RA.The percentages of plasmablasts were positively correlated with C reaction pro-tein (CRP) and anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) antibody (P<0.05).(4) The percentages of plasmablasts were also positively correlated with the DAS28 among the patients with RA ( R2=0.343, P<0.01).Conclusion The distributions of B lymphocyte subsets varied among the patients in different stages of RA, which were related to the patient′s clinical symptoms and laboratory indexes.The study suggested that different subsets of the B lymphocytes might play an important role in the pathological process of RA.

Objective To investigate the clinical significance of CD44st expression in non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC).Methods Specific primers for the CD44st gene (Gene Bank NO.FJ216964) which was found in multidrug resistance cells were designed,and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR),gene sequencing and real-time PCR were used to validate the expression of the CD44st in the tissues and cancer adjacent tissues of 83 NSCLC patients (47 cases of adenocarcinoma,36 cases of squamous carcinoma).The clinicopathologic features were analyzed by statistical analysis method.Results The positive expressive rate of CD44st gene mRNA in NSCLC tissue was 63.9 ％ (53/83) and the negative expressive rate was 36.1％ (30/83),which were more higher than those of cancer adjacent tissues (0/30,0 ％) (P ＜ 0.001).DNA sequencing results showed that the sequence of CD44st mRNA was consistent with the CD44st mRNA found in MCF-7/Adr cells in our previous study.Expression of CD44st was closely associated with pathological pattern,lymphatic metastasis and TNM staging in NSCLC (P ＜ 0.05),but not with tumor size and differentiated degree (P ＞ 0.05).The rates of two years disease progression and stable condition in the group of lower CD44st expression were 45.2 ％ (19/42) and 54.8 ％ (23/42),respectively,and the rates in the group of higher CD44st expression were 68.3 ％ (28/41) and 31.7 ％ (13/41),respectively (P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions The expression level of CD44st is closely related to pathological pattern,the lymph node metastasis and the TNM-staging in NSCLC patients,which seriously influences the prognosis of the NSCLC patients.Therefore,the detection and the therapy to this special target may be a beneficial choice for the prognostic prediction of NSCLC.