Objective To analysis the relationship between blood homocysteine concentration in diabetic retinopathy patients with vascular endothelial cell damage and platelet activation.Methods 80 type 2 diabetes mellitus(T2DM)patients,including 50 no diabetic retinopathy(NDR group)and 30 diabetic retinopathy(DR group)and 30 normal controls were selected to measure the concentration of Hcy as well as circulating endothelial cells(CEC),Endothelin(ET),Yon Willebrand(vWF)and platelet activation markers CD62p and CD63.Results The level of CEC,ET,vWF,CD62p,CD63 and Hcy in T2DM group were,distinctly higher than those of control(P＜0.01),furthermore,the level of these markers in DR group were also higher than that in NDR group(P＜0.01).Blood CEC level Was positively related with ET(r=0.839,P＜0.05),and the same relationship was found in Hcy and CEC(r=0.615,P＜0.05),ET(r=0.642,P＜0.05),CD62p(r=0.623,P＜0.05)and CD63(r=0.542,P＜0.05).Conclusions High blood Hcy,CEC,ET,vWF,CD62p and CD63 level were tighdy related with DR.High level of Hcy,vascular endMermis cell damage and platelet activation maybe play an important role in the pathogenesis of DR.

Public-private partnership(PPP)serves as a useful attempt for an adjustment of existing number of public hospitals and incremental development of private hospitals in an effort to implement policies of the health reform and optimize the allocation of medical resources.Investment-OperationTurnover(IOT) is a way to introduce the PPP practice,regarded as an institutional innovation in reforming public hospitals.This paper traced back the IOT model in its development and analyzed its connotation and form,as well as its strengths and weaknesses in a feasibility study,and presented the existing IOT projects in China for reference and open discussion.

Objective To analyze the value of the serum BHMT for diagnosis of hepatic injury in patients with acute poisoning.Methods ELISA method was used to detect BHMT in serum samples,and the samples were detected in the sera of normal persons and patients with acute poisoning.Results 300 samples were detected in the sera of normal persons by ELISA method.The average level of human serum B HMT content in 300 samples was 9.02 ng/mL(6.19-12.84 ng/mL),and the 95 ％ medical reference value of BHMT content in healthy people ranges from 0.00 to 28.01 ng/mL.BHMT and ALT were detected in 43 samples from acute liver injury,the Spearman analysis indicating a good positive correlation between BHMT and ALT(rs =0.757 62,P＜0.001).The comparison of the content of BHMT was made between the serum samples from 20 renal damage patient and 20 normal human serum,there was no significant difference in the BHMT content between the serum of patients with renal injury and the normal human serum(P＞0.05).Conclusion The medical reference value range for of serum BHMT content in healthy population ranges from 0.00 to 28.01 ng/mL.There was a good positive correlation between BHMT and ALT.BHMT might not be closely related to kidney injury,while be more specific to liver injure.BHMT could be a better marker of acute poisoning liver injury.

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a bone and joint disease caused by multiple factors, which seriously threatens human health. It is mainly manifested as joint pain and dysfunction. In severe cases, it can cause deformity. The mechanism of OA is not very clear, and there is a lack of effective therapeutic drugs; the exploration of etiology, pathogenesis and preventive measures of OA has always been an important research direction in this field. Studies have found that the transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β)/Smad signaling pathway plays a key role in the occurrence and development of OA. This article reviews the research progress of TGF-β/Smad signaling pathway in OA in recent years at home and abroad.

Microcirculation is closely related to occurrence and development of disease, so it is of significance in noninvasive imaging of microcirculatory structure and function in vivo.Photoacoustic imaging is one of the main techniques in microcirculation imaging, which has the characteristics of high contrast, high detection depth and high sensitivity to tissue function.A review of the literature showed that photoacoustic technique can noninvasively image and quantitatively measure microcirculatory structure, vasoconstriction and vasodilation, concentration of hemoglobin, oxygen saturation, blood velocity and direction, oxygen metabolism level in a certain depth of living tissue in real time.Research progress in photoacoustic imaging of microcirculation in subcutis, cerebral cortex, tumor, eye and other tissues is reviewed in this paper.

Objective To analyze the factors related to glare occurred after the phakic intraocular lens (P-IOL) implantation,and to raise the standard for the P-IOL selection.Design Retrospective case series.Participants 104 patients with high myopia underwent P-IOL implantation in Beijing Tongren Hospital.Methods In 104 cases,22 cases (22 eyes) were implanted angle supported Phakic6 designed accord with corneal symmetry,54 cases (54 eyes) were implanted iris fixed Verisyse,and 28 cases (28 eyes) were implanted posterior chamber PRL.Selection of the diameter of P-IOL optics depended on P-IOL diopters.The pupil diameter,the P-IOL optic center position,the pupil and corneal center position were measured with anterior segment optical coherence tomography (OCT).The contrast sensitivity (CS) under different condition (day,day and glare,night,night and glare) and in different space frequency (1.5,3,6, 12,18c/d)were examined with Optec6500 system.Main Outcome Measures Glare incidence,CS,and the influence of pupil diameter and P-IOL location to glare.Results None of the 104 P-IOL eyes occurred glare in day time.59 eyes (56.73%) complained of glare in dime condition.The glare incidence was 63.18% (14/22) in Phakic6 eyes,55.56% (30/54) in Verisyse eyes,and 53.27% (15/28) in PRL eyes (P=0.691).CS of all surgical eyes were improved in day time with or without glare luminous environment (P=0.000).And the CS of halo-complaining eyes was lower than of no halo eyes in night time with or without glare luminous environment (P=0.000).Glare oc- curred more frequently in eyes with the pupil diameter larger than P-IOL diameter in clime condition after surgery (10 in Phakic6 eyes, 20 in Verisyse eyes,12 in PRL eyes,all P

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Objective: To evaluate the clinical results of cryopreserved homografts for the treatment of complex congenital heart defects. Methods: In 420 patients with complex congenital heart diseases received surgical correction with right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) reconstruction was done using cryopreserved homografts. Of the 420 homografts, 234 were aortic homografts and 186 were pulmonary homografts. The mean age of patients was 4.6 years (range, 5 months to 21 years). The mean body weight was 17.5 kg (range, 5.5～52 kg). The mean follow-up time was 27.8 months (range, 3 months to 12.9 years). Results: There were 19 operative deaths with a mortality rate of 4.5%. The postoperative complications occurred in 25 patients and they all recovered uneventfully. The postoperative mechanical ventilation time was 48.7±42.5 hours (range, 8～192 hours). The mean hospital stay was (12.2±9.0) days (range, 7～46 days). There were no late death and complication. Conclusion: The results of this study suggest that ROVT reconstruction with cryopreserved homografts as transannular patch can be achieved with excellent the clinical outcome.

Objective To investigate the characteristic of intravascular catheter-related infections (CRI) in Peking University Third Hospital in 2009. Methods The clinical and microbiological features of CRI were analyzed retrospectively. Results Two hundred and nineteen catheters were examined. Twenty-nine CRI cases were confirmed with colonization, 7 were insertion site infection and 6 were catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSI) by quantitative catheter culture method, but no CRBSI was diagnosed by differential time to positivity (DTTP) method. The incidence rates of CRBSI in intensive care units (ICU) were 0. 99- 3.03 per 1000 catheter-days.Among the colonized strains, 51.72 % were Gram-positive cocci, 20.69 % were non-fermenting bacilli (NFB), 13. 79% were Enterobacteriaceae and 10. 34% were Candida. One neonatal CRBSI was caused by Leuconostoc mesenteroides. Most of bacterial isolates were drug resistant. Seventy-seven percent of adult patients were older than 60 years and most of them had chronic underlying diseases.All of the 9 neonate patients were preterm neonate and 7 of them were extremely low birth weight infants. Conclusion There is a certain amount of CRI occurred in Peking University Third Hospital in 2009 and the intravascular catheter management should be enhanced.