Objective: To assess the value of non-vascular contrast-enhanced ultrasound (oral contrast-enhanced ultrasound, fistula cavity contrast-enhanced ultrasound, etc.) in guiding percutaneous drainage of the upper gastrointestinal fistulas. Methods: Thirteen patients with suppurative pleuro-esophageal fistulas following esophagus-anastomosis/Billroth I stomach-anastomosis and two patients with gastric fistulas combined with severe infection underwent percutaneous drainage. Before and during the procedure, oral contrast-enhanced ultrasound and fistula cavity contrast-enhanced ultrasound scanning were conducted to identify the position of fistulas, determine the safe approach for a radical catheterization drainage. Results: The actual positions of the upper gastrointestinal fistulas in the 13 patients were identified for puncturing after preoperative oral contrast-enhanced ultrasound. Two of the 13 patients did not receive puncturation due to lack of safe approach. During the operation, oral contrast-enhanced ultrasound maintained the fistula cavity enhanced for a long time, ascertaining a safe approach. Fistula cavity contrast-enhanced ultrasound could be used to evaluate the accuracy of percutaneous drainage, ascertain the location of catheter tip for more effective drainage, and estimate the efficacy of interventions. Conclusion: Non-vascular contrast-enhanced ultrasound is valuable in guiding percutaneous drainage for upper gastrointestinal fistulas, which makes for the shortcomings of the conventional ultrasonic imaging.

Objective To prove into the effect of parental involvement in nursing to discharged children with metabolic syndrome.Methods Forty-six children with metabolic syndrome were equally divided into the observation group and the control group according to the order of admittance.Both groups accepted health education,guide to lifestyle and so on.After leaving hospital,the observation group accepted parental involvement in nursing,while the control group accepted physical examination regularly.Then the lifestyles,physical indicators,blood pressure and biochemical indicators of both groups were compared.Results The lifestyle of the observation group was significantly greater than that of the control group(All P<0.01).The observation group had greater declines in waist,blood pressure,TC,TG and LDL-C and a greater increase in HDL-C than those of the control group.Conclusions Parental involvement in nursing can improve the lifestyle of children patients,which is good for the declines of their weigh and blood lipid.This treatment can achieve the goal of control and treatment of children metabolic syndrome.

Interferon-tau (IFN-tau) is a newly discovered IFN of type I. It was originally found for its role as a pregnancy recognition hormone in ruminant animals such as sheep and cows. Like the other type I IFNs, IFN-tau have the same biological activities including antiviral, antiproliferative and immunomodulatory effects. In order to clearly identify the function of IFN-tau, the coding sequence of IFN-tau was amplified by PCR from IFN-tau cDNA, this fragment digested by EcoR I and BamH I and was inserted into pBV220 to form the recombinant plasmid pBV220/IFN-tau which was then transformed into E.coli BL21. It was found that pBV220/IFN-tau was highly expressed as inclusion body in BL21. Next, the expressed protein was purified on S-100 High Resolution and the purified product was confirmed by amino acid sequence analysis. Moreover, the standard antiviral activity test indicated that the activity of IFN-tau was about 2.09?106IU/ml.

Idiopathic myelofibrosis a Philadelphia-negative chronic myeloproliferative disorder. Potentially curative therapies, such as stem-cell transplantation, are reserved only for a minority of patients. Currently palliative therapies such as androgen and hydroxycarbamide are commonly used but with poor results. Thalidomide has anti-angiogenic effect and also can inhibit cytokines, and therefore plays a certain role in the treatment of a subset of idiopathic myelofibrosis.
Angiogenesis Inhibitors ; adverse effects ; therapeutic use ; Humans ; Immunosuppressive Agents ; adverse effects ; therapeutic use ; Primary Myelofibrosis ; drug therapy ; Thalidomide ; adverse effects ; therapeutic use ; Treatment Outcome

“Ark Peace” is a modern hospital ship for marine medical rescue, and is taken as “the tertiary academic hospital floating on the sea”. It plays an important role in the ocean-going medical support and military diplomacy of the Chinese Navy. Ultrasound diagnosis, as an indispensable part of hospital ship, provides a solid guarantee for medical services. We summarized our experience on the equipment configuration, staff preparation, reporting system improvement, quality control management and introduction of new technologies on hospital ship during “Mission Harmony-2017” task, and put forward some suggestions for improving the comprehensive diagnosis and medical treatment ability and carrying out diversified military tasks in the future.

Objective To investigate the pharmaeokinetics of levofloxacin in rat's pancreatic tissue. Methods Pancreatic tissue and blood were sampled in vivo by microdialysis simultaneously. The concentrations of levofloxacin in beth blood and tissues were measured by high performance liquid chromatography. All date were analyzed by WinNonlin software. Results The maximum concentration of free levofloxacin in blood and pancreatic tissue were (65.23 ± 12.9) μg/ml at 10min and (30.56±3.22) μg/ml at 20 min, respectively, then beth continuously decreased. Concentration of free levofloxacin in pancreatic tissue was higher than that in blood from 20min to 100min, then returned to similar level. The area under the concentration curve(AUC)of unbound levofloxacin was(2465.11±258.56)min·μg~(-1)·ml~(-1) in pancreas,and (2914.38±205.73)min·μg~(-1)·ml~(-1) in blood.Conclusions Microdialysis with reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography established in this essay could be used to determine the pharmacokinetics of levofloxacin objectively. High concentration of levofloxacin in pancreatic tissue and blood was observed.

Objective To evaluate the imaging performance and characteristics of peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumors (pPNET), in order to raise awareness of the disease and the diagnostic accuracy. Methods Thirteen patients with pPNET who confirmed by puncture or pathology were enrolled in this study. The CT and MRI features were retrospectively analyzed. Four patients received simple routine CT examination, and 9 patients had MRI examination based on X-ray, CT examination. Results The part of body involved was more widely.Two patients occurred in the sinuses, 1 patient in the chest wall, 1 patient in the lung, and 3 patients in the abdominal and pelvic(1 patient involved the pelvic floor through the pelvic wall lesions to basins), 1 patient in the spine, and 5 patients located in the extremities. The characteristics of pPNET by CT and MRI in soft tissue of 8 patients showed single large soft tissue mass, and the biggest was 11.2 cm × 10.6 cm. In bonds and joints of 5 patients, CT and MRI showed wide range of soft tissue mass, mixed internal signal/density with obviously uneven enhancement, significant bone destruction and dissolvable osseous changes, and no obvious tumor bone and calcification. Conclusions Each site has its relative imaging characteristics of pPNET. CT and MRI can show lesions involving the scope, internal structure, with or without adjacent tissue invasion and metastasis, and provide guidance for clinical treatment and selecting treatment regimen. But in the end, it depends on the diagnosis of pathological and immunohistochemical examination.

OBJECTIVE:To systematically review the efficacy of agomelatine in the treatment of depression in acute phase, and provide evidence-based reference for the clinical treatment. METHODS:Retrieved from Cochrane Library,Medline,EMBase, CJFD,VIP,CBM,Wanfang Database,WHO Clinical Trials Registry Platform and American Clinical Trials Registry Platform, the randomized controlled trials (RCT) about agomelatine versus placebo in the depression patients in acute phase. After quality evaluation and data extraction,Meta-analysis was conducted by using Rev Man 5.2 statistics software. RESULTS:A total of 7 RCT were included,involving 2 378 patients. Results of Meta-analysis showed the effective rate in agomelatine group was obviously bet-ter than placebo group [RR=1.43 ,95%CI(1.29 ,1.59),P<0.001] ,remission rate was obviously better than placebo group [RR=1.27 ,95%CI(1.03 ,1.57),P=0.02] ,and the endpoint score of depression scales was obviously lower than placebo group [MD=-2.92,95%CI(-3.65,-2.20),P<0.001],there was statistically significance. CONCLUSIONS:Agomelatine is effective in the treatment of depression patients in acute phase. However,due to the limit of methodological quality and sample size,it remains to be further verified with more rigorously designed and long-term follow-up of large-scale RCT.

OBJECTIVE:To provide reference for vancomycin-induced neutropenia adverse reactions/adverse events in clinical diagnosis. METHODS:With a case of children with neutropenia treated by long-course and large-dose vancomycin,PubMed and CNKI were retrieved to collect related literature and the literature was analyzed. RESULTS:Neutropenia may be associated with vancomycin,based on causality criterion of adverse reaction in China. CONCLUSIONS:Vancomycin-induced neutropenia in chil-dren is most likely associated with prolonged exposure induced by infusion,vancomycin dosage should be reduced or stopped,and routine blood and plasma concentration should be closely monitored.

Objective To observe the effect of electroacupuncture at Baihui (GV20) and Shenting (GV24) on learning-memory function and ultrastructure in hippocampal CA1 region of rats after cerebral ischmeia-reperfusion. Methods A total of 25 male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into sham group (n=6) and operation group (n=19). The operation group was occluded the left middle cerebral arter-ies with modified Longa's methods for 90 minutes and reperfused, and twelve qualified rats of them were randomly divided into model group (n=6) and electroacupuncture group (n=6), the later accepted electroacupuncture at Baihui and Shenting for seven days. They were as-sessed with Longa's scores, and tested with Barnes maze. Their cerebral infarct volume was tested with magnetic resonance imaging T2-weighted image. The ultrastructure of synapse in hippocampal CA1 region was observed with transmission electron microscope. Results Compared with the model group, the Longa's score improved (P<0.05), the infarct volume decreased (P<0.01), the average escape latency decreased (P<0.01) and the times entering the wrong hole decreased (P<0.001) in the electroacupuncture group. Under the transmission elec-tron microscope, the number of synapse decreased in the model group, with the structure damage and vesicles sparse;compared with the model group, the number of synapse increased in the electroacupuncture group, with clear and complete structure and rich vesicles. Conclu-sion Electroacupuncture at Baihui and Shenting can improve the learning-memory function in rats after cerebral ischmeia-reperfusion, which may relate to improvement of synaptic plasticity and ameliorating ultrastructure in hippocampal CA1 region.