Thymomas are most frequent primary tumors of anterior mediastinum.Surgery is the principal treatment method.Thymomas are sensitive to chemotherapy,and chemotherapy has showed a sig- nificant anti-tumor effect in locally advanced,recurrent or metastatic thymomas.Chemotherapy,radiother- apy or combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy before or after operation can offer patients excellent re- sponses,improve resectable rate.Some patients who are once inoperable obtain curative and palliative operation.Radiotherapy after operation can decrease residual tumor tissue,increase local control,de- crease recurrence,and prolong the survival.The multimodality therapy plays an important role in thy- moma treatment.

Objective To investigate the relation of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1)with acute coronary syndrome.Methods 60 patients with coronary heart disease patients including 39 cases of a-cute coronary syndrome (ACS group),21 cases of stable angina (SA group)from January 2015-March 2016 in Xi’an First Hospital were in this observation.ACS group was divided into acute myocardial infarction (AMI,n=21)and unstable angina pectoris (UAP,n=18).Another 30 cases with angiographically normal was included in control group.Enzyme-linked immu-nosorbent assay (ELISA)detection was used to detect the serum content of MCP-1,TLR4 expression was tested by flow cy-tometry.Triglyceride (TG),total cholesterol (TC),low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C)and high-density lipopro-tein cholesterol (HDL-C)were detected.Results TLR4 levels of ACS group was significantly higher than SA group (t=4.455,P=0.021).Serum MCP-1 levels of ACS group were significantly higher than SA group (t=3.220,P=0.002)and control group (t=6.197,P=0.000).MCP-1 levels of ACS group were higher than control group (t=2.306,P=0.025). The Spearman correlation test TLR4 was positively with MCP-1 (r=2.389,P=0.025).Conclusion MCP-1 and TLR4 may determine the severity of coronary heart disease,combined detection of MCP-1 and TRL4 can provide the clinical value for early diagnosis and treatment of ACS.

Objective A retrospective study was conducted to evaluate the clinical significance of Video EEG monitoring in the diagnosis of epilepsy and other paroxysmal events Methods Video EEG monitoring under the state of awaking and sleeping and evoked tests were performed continuously in 216 patients with epilepsy and other paroxysmal events Results The characteristic events were captured in 130(60%) of the 216 patients And out of the 130 patients, 53 had clinical events accompanying epileptiform discharge 73 patients had no epileptiform discharge in both ictal and interictal period Seizure types were defined in 80%of 80 patients with epileptiform discharge, and classification was different from the original 42% of the 64 patients Conclusions Video EEG can record much more epileptiform discharge than routine EEG It should be an effective method in both diagnosis and classification of epilepsy

Objective To compare the clinical efficacy of different trough concentrations of vancomycin in patients.Methods A retrospective study in patients having at least one trough concentration of vancomycin for enrollment between January 2009 and December 2013 was carried out.The eligibility patients were divided into 3 groups according to the level of trough concentrations namely group A (＜ 10 mg/L),Group B (10 ～ 15 mg/L),and Group C (＞ 15 mg/L).The clinical efficacy,clearance of pathogens and in-hospital mortality were analyzed with the help of SPSS Statistics 17.0.The comparison of dosing days,length of hospital stay and time consumed from initial dosing to the appearance of recovery signs of survivors among the 3 groups.Results There were no significant difference among 3 groups in terms of clinical efficacy (55.6％ vs.33.3％ vs.51.7％),clearance of pathogens (38.9％ vs.25％ vs.24.1％) and in-hospital mortality (44.4％ vs.25％ vs.27.6％).After adjusting by age,the in-hospital mortality decreased along with the trough concentrations vancomycin.Along with increase in the trough concentrations vancomycin,the dosing day (14.90 ± 6.44 vs.18.75 ± 7.23 vs.17.93 ± 9.42) and length of hospitalization [(33.70 ± 18.17) vs.(79 ±45.53) vs.(66.20 ±52.48)] increased,and time required from dosageinitial dosing to the appearance of recovery signs of survivors among the 3 groups [(4.82 ± 2.62) vs.(3.75 ± 0.50) vs.(4.07 ± 3.20)] shortened.Conclusions Improving the trough concentrations of vancomycin could not increase clinical efficacy rate or bacterial clearance rate,but could lower in-hospital mortality.However,it might enhance the financial burden on patients as well.

Objective To investigate transplantation of autologous peripheral blood stem cells(PBSC)for therapeutic treatment of ischemic arterial disease of the lower extremity.Methods Mobilized PBSC was directly injected into the ischemic hindlimb muscles in rabbit models.Two and four weeks after the transplantation of autologous PBSC selective angiography was carried out,and the capillary density was determined histochemically in the specimens using CD31 mAb.Results In angiography,collateral arteries were significantly increased in ischemic hindlimbs.The capillary density was significantly higher in treatment group.Conclusion Transplantation of autologous PBSC is a simple and effective therapy for the ischemia hindlimb.

Objective To investigate the efifcacy of thalidomide combined with VAD in treatment of elderly multiple myeloma(MM). Methods 76 cases of elderly MM were randomly divided into two groups, control group (n=38) were treated with VAD alone while the observation group (n=38) were treated with thalidomide and VAD. Clinical efifcacy and adverse reactions in two groups were compared. Results The total effective rate in observation group was 84.21%, which was signiifcantly higher than 55.26%in control group (P<0.05). After treatment, the M protein, myeloma cells andβ2-microglobulin in observation group were (20.77±4.15)×10-2μg/mL, (12.84±2.85)×10-2μg/mL and (2.48±0.53)μg/mL, which were signiifcantly lower than before treatment and control group(P<0.05). Hemoglobin in observation group was (108.83±5.81) g/L, which was signiifcantly higher than before treatment and control group(P<0.05). The adverse reactions were nausea, vomiting, drowsiness, constipation, infection and rash and so on in two groups after treatment, and there was no signiifcant difference between two groups. Conclusion Thalidomide combined with VAD regimen has a better effect in treatment of elderly multiple myeloma than single VAD, has less adverse reactions and well tolerated.

To discuss the protective effect of aralosides (AS) on I/R-induced rat myocardial injury. The adult rat ventricular myocyte ischemia model was established through perfusion with sodium lactate perfusate and reperfusion with Ca(2+) -containing Tyrode's solution simulation. The cell contraction and ion concentration synchronization determination system was applied to detect the effect of AS on single I/R cell contraction and Ca2+ transients. According to the findings, AS could increase resting sarcomere length, contraction amplitude, ± dL/dt(max), calcium transient amplitude and speed of post-reperfusion myocardial cells (P < 0.05, P < 0.01), and decrease in time for achieving 90.0% of maximum relaxation, time for achieving peak value, resting calcium ratio, contraction period [Ca2+] i, time for achieving 50.0% of maximum relaxation and attenuation rate of intracellular calcium transient (P < 0.05, P < 0.01). Therefore, it is suggested that AS improved the post-reperfusion cell contraction and injury of calcium homeostasis.
Animals ; Aralia ; chemistry ; Biological Transport ; drug effects ; Calcium ; metabolism ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; administration & dosage ; Humans ; Male ; Muscle Contraction ; drug effects ; Myocardial Ischemia ; drug therapy ; metabolism ; physiopathology ; surgery ; Myocardial Reperfusion ; Myocytes, Cardiac ; drug effects ; physiology ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Saponins ; administration & dosage

Objective To detect the mRNA expression of mesenchymal-epithelial transition factor (MET)gene in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC),and to investigate the relationship and clinical significance between the mRNA expression of MET gene and clinical pathological characteristics. Methods From June 201 1 to November 201 3,48 patients with pathologically confirmed NSCLC in Chinese People′s Liberation Army General Hospital were selected.All patients included in the study were not treated before surgery.The branched DNA liquid chip technology was used to detect mRNA expression of MET gene in tumor tissues.The relationship between mRNA expression of MET gene and clinical pathological characteristics was analyzed.Results The constituent ratios of low,moderate and high mRNA expression level of MET gene were 22.9%,50.0% and 27.1 % respectively,mainly for the moderate expression.The mRNA expression of MET gene was related to the pathologic type (χ2 =7.1 83,P =0.020)and TNM stage (χ2 =24.566,P =0.01 7)of the patients;but it was not related to the gender (χ2 =0.566,P =0.754),age (χ2 =1 .857,P =0.395),smoking history (χ2 =4.959,P =0.084),degrees of differentiation (χ2 =5.749,P =0.067), lymph node metastasis (χ2 =1 .631 ,P =0.442)and distant metastasis (χ2 =4.261 ,P =0.1 1 9).Conclusion mRNA expression of MET gene is more likely to present moderate and higher level in NSCLC patients.MET gene can also be used as a biomarker for judging tumor pathological type.

OBJECTIVE To analyze the clinical features of nosocomial infection of malignant tumor in our hospital.METHODS The clinical material of 6967 malignant tumor patients with hospital infection was analyzed retrospectively.RESULTS From them 409 patients got nosocomial infection and the infection rate was 5.87%;respiratory infection was the main infection(57.9%),digestive tract infection was the rext(18.83%).G-pathogens accounted for 43.22%,fungi infection for 36.91%,in which the Candida were the head pathogens.The risk factors were age,antibiotic usage,invasive operation and anti-tumor treatments.CONCLUSIONS The malignant tumor is easy to cause the hospital infection.Strengthening the nosocomial infection management,controlling the risk factors,and the standardzed antibiotic usage can reduce the nosocomial infection occurrence.

Bring up high quality medical talents with innovative consciousness and practical ability is the aim of high medical ed- ucation.Improving the innovative ability of teachers and quality of teaching with the perfect combination of science and humanities, so as to improve our understanding of the importance and necessity of innovation education,and carry out an overall quality edu- cation which chiefly works for the training of students' innovative consciousness and practical ability during practicing period.