BACKGROUND:Cleft palate repair with levator veli palatini retropositioning can achieve good effects on pharyngeal function and voice quality by dissecting the muscle and rebuilding the muscle function only at the incision, without opening the mucoperiosteal flap, OBJECTIVE: To investigate the clinical effects of cleft palate repair with levator veli palatini retropositioning versus traditional surgery treatment on speech disorder correction. METHODS:Totaly 176 children with cleft palate were randomly assigned into treatment group and control group, 88 cases in each group. Patients were subjected to traditional surgery treatment in the control group and levator veli palatini retropositioning in the treatment group. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:The postoperative speech inteligibility in the treatment group and the control group were 81.8% and 54.5%, respectively, and there was a significant difference between the two groups (P < 0.05). After cleft palate repair, the folowing indicators were al improved in the two groups, including soft palate functional length at static state and when pronouncing, and soft palate elevation angle (P < 0.05), and moreover, these indicators were better in the treatment group than the control group (P < 0.05). Scores on high nasal tone and rhinorrhea tone were decreased significantly in the two groups after repair, and the scores were significantly lower in the treatment group than the control group (P < 0.05). These findings indicate that cleft palate repair with levator veli palatini retropositioning can effectively rebuild soft palate function and perfect velopharyngeal competence in patients, which is of great significance for speech disorder correction and voice quality recovery.

Objective To investigate the curative effect of low-temperature plasma-assisted uvulopalatopharyngoplasty(UP-PP)in the patients with positional and non-positional obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome(OSAHS).Methods Twenty-six patients with OSAHS diagnosed by polysomnography monitoring receiving the low-temperature plasma-assisted UPPP in our hospital from January 2014 to December 2015 were selected and divided into the positional OSAHS group(PPs) and non-positional OSAHS group(NPPs) according to the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) under different sleep positional status.The AHI change before and after operation and operation effective rate were compared between the two groups.Results Theoverall AHI,supine position AHI and lateral position AHI in the PPs group all were lower than those in the NPPs group(P＜0.05),moreover the blood oxygen related indexes were higher than those in the NPPs group(P＜0.05).The overall surgical effective rate in the OSAHS patients was 73.08％ (19/26),in which the surgical effective rate was 100％ (7/7) in the PPs group and 63.16％ (12/19) in the NPPs group,the difference between the two groups had no statistical significance(P=0.13).The postoperative total AHI,supine position AHI and lateral position AHI in the two groups were decreased compared with before operation(P＜0.05);the decrease range of lateral position AHI in the NPPs group was significantly higher than that in the supine position AHI[0.96(0.86,1.00)vs.0.53(0.34,0.77),P＜0.01].78.95 ％ (15/19) postoperation patients in the NPPs group converted to PPs.Conclusion Low-temperature plasma-assisted UPPP has some effects on OSAHS patients,in which the benefit of NPPs are more apparent.

Objective :To study influence of health management mode on poor living habits and incidence rate of relat—ed complications in aged patients with coronary heart disease (CHD).Methods : Medical data of 259 aged CHD pa—tients in our hospital from Jan 2013 to Dec 2016 were collected .Health management mode was performed in our hospital since Jan 2015 ,therefore ,according to treatment time ,patients were divided into CHD control group (n＝114) and health management group (n＝ 140 ) ,both groups were intervened for continuous six months .Scores of self—rated abilities for health practices scale (SRAHP ) and Seattle angina questionnaire (SAQ ) ,levels of fasting blood glucose (FBG) ,blood pressure and blood lipids before and after intervention ,incidence of complications and mortality during follow—up were measured and assessed between two groups .Results :Compared with before interven—tion ,after six—month intervention , there were significant rise in each item score and total scores of SRAHP and SAQ ,and significant reductions in levels of FBG ,SBP ,DBP ,TC and TG in two groups , P＝0. 001 all.Compared with CHD control group after six—month intervention ,there were significant rise in each item score and total score of SRAHP [(82. 95 ± 18.24) scores vs .(91.91 ± 20.23) scores] ,each item score and total score of SAQ [(64. 90 ± 14. 29) scores vs .(72. 15 ± 15.87) scores] ,and significant reductions in levels of FBG [(5.51 ± 1.21) mmol／L vs. (5. 14 ± 1. 13)mmol／L] ,SBP[(121.07 ± 14.52) mmHg vs.(116. 72 ± 14. 01) mmHg] ,DBP [(80. 23 ± 9.63) mmHg vs.(77. 62 ± 9.31)mmHg] ,TC[(4. 31 ± 0.65)mmol／L vs.(4. 11 ± 0. 61) mmol／L] and TG[(1.45 ± 0. 21) mmol／L vs.(1. 39 ± 0.21)mmol／L] in health management group , P＜0. 05 or ＜0. 01. During follow—up ,incidence rates of recurrent angina pectoris (21.4% vs.35.3%) ,heart failure (2. 1% vs.7.6%) and myocardial infarction (3. 6%vs.10. 1%) in health management group were significantly lower than those of CHD control group , P＜0.05 all. Conclusion :Health management mode can enhance health behavior ,correct poor living habits ,stabilize blood glu—cose ,blood lipid and blood pressure ,and reduce incidence rate of related complications in aged CHD patients .

In this work, retinal penetration of fluorescein was achieved in vitro by covalent attachment of taurine to fluorescein, yielding the F-Tau conjugate. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) were used to confirm the successful synthesis of F-Tau. The cellular uptake of F-Tau in adult retinal pigment epithelial cells (ARPE-19) and human retinal microvascular endothelial cells (hRMECs) was visualized via confocal scanning microscopy. The results indicated an improvement of solubility and a reduction of logP of F-Tau compared with fluorescein. As compared with fluorescein, F-Tau showed little toxicity, and was retained longer by cells in uptake experiments. F-Tau also displayed higher transepithelial permeabilities than fluorescein in ARPE-19 and hRMECs monolayer cells (P<0.05). These results showed that taurine may be a useful ligand for targeting small-molecule hydrophobic pharmaceuticals into the retina.