Objective To investigate and compare the perception of communication difficulties by mainstreaming students with hearing impairment and that of their peers.Methods The children’s version of the Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit (APHAB) was used to measure perceived communication difficulty in various daily situations.Results There was significant difference between the perception of mainstreaming students and that of their peers for the background noise(BN) subscale questions.Conclusion In order to improve the communication ability of the students with hearing impairment, it is critical to educate one of their important communication partners—their peers, about the hearing loss and its effect on communication, especially under the situation of background noise.

BACKGROUND: There is a complicated relation between somatic disease and mental disorder. Somatic disease may induce functional disorder of brain, and generate psychiatric symptoms due to the change of psychological and social environment. The proportion of depression in elder people based on the chronic somatic disease is much higher, and thus the fatality of them increases.OBJECTIVE: To investigate the influence of single antidepressant, and therapeutic alliance of psychological and drug treatment on the rehabilitation of patients with elderly chronic somatic disease complicated with depression. DESIGN: Randomized and controlled grouping experiment.SETTING: Department of Senile Disease of Tongji Hospital Affiliated to Huazhong University of Science and Technology.PARTICIPANTS: Totally 102 patients were hospitalized in the Department of Senile Disease of Tongji Hospital Affiliated to Huazhong University of Science and Technology from March 2000 to January 2003, and all the patients had sleep disorder to a different extent, and suffered from symptoms of heart and alimentary tract which could not be explained as organic diseases, and chronic pain or systemic symptom. Their score of Zung scale was ＞ 40 points with average of (48.83±4.15)points. The patients were randomly divided into the drug group (n=46) and the combined treatment group (n=56). Each patient had more than two somatic symptoms in the two groups and more than 81.0% of them had three somatic symptoms. METHODS: According to the different primary diseases in patients of the two groups, regular treatment was given routinely. Oral thymoleptics fluoxetine of 20 mg/d 5-hydroxyltryptamine reuptake restrainer with 20 mg/d was administered, the dose of which could be added to 40 mg/d according to the pathogenetic conditions. At the beginning of the administration of oral antidepressant drugs, the patients in the combined treatment group were The focal point of depression and fear was identified, and the comfort and edge related to the disease was supplied, and the pathogenetic condition and the prognosis were told to the patients objectively. The family and society were encouraged to learn the rehabilitative skill and improve their possible, and the family and society were encouraged to give the patients adequate psychological support and life support. The patient and the family were assisted to establish favorable communication. The feeling of loneliness and isolation was reduced, and the sense of safety was increased. The depression status and the quality of life of the patients in the two groups were evaluated before the treatment and at 2 and 8 weeks after treatment with the Zung scale and the Spitzer quality of life index score (QLI), including 5 aspects: Activity, daily life, health, support and perspective. The highest score was 10 points. The lowest was 0, and the higher the score, the better the quality of life is.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The results of the Zung scale and the QLI score evaluated before the treatment and at 2 and 8 weeks after the treatment.RESULTS: The treatment of the patients in the two groups was all finZung scale in the drug group and the combined treatment group at 2 weeks after the treatment indicated that there was significant difference in comparison with those before the treatment (41.12±2.60,48.83±4.15,t =10.67,P ＜ 0.05); (40.88±3.43,49.03±4.21 ,t=11.24,P ＜ 0.05). There was not significant difference in group comparison. The total points of Zung scale at 8 weeks were significantly decreased (36.11 ±2.87 ), (30.71±3.62),and there was significant difference in comparison with that before the treatment. The combined treatment group was better than the drug group in difference of QLI score at 2 weeks between the drug group and combined treatment group before and after the treatment (5.47 ± 1.33,5.32 ± 1.04,5.55±1.18,5.27±1.35). The QLI score of drug group and combined treat ment group at 8 weeks after treatment began to rise 7.21±0.13 and 8.83 ±0.32 ,respectively, and there was significant difference in comparison withthose before the treatment, and there was also significant difference in group comparison.CONCLUSION: The positive and effective combined therapy of anti-depression significantly improved the somatic symptoms of patients, no complications appeared, and most patients presented optimistic attitude to the prognosis of the primary disease. To identify the depression of elder people in earlier period is very important to promote rehabilitation of the primary disease.

Objective To investigate the perception of communication difficulties of children with hearing impairment and their parents.Methods Using the abbreviated profile of hearing aid benefit (APHAB),perception of communication difficulty in daily situations of the children with hearing impairment and their parents was measured,then the scores were compaired.Results There was no significant difference in perception of communication difficulty between the children and their parents.On problems on ease of communication(EC) and aversiveness(AV), there was difference in the perception of communication difficulty between the children who did not wear hearing aids and their parents.Conclusion It's critical to teach the parents knowledge about hearing loss to reduce their communication difficuty.

Objective An investigation on social function cognition for bedside care service at patient's home was conducted in the residents aged over SS years in Jingshan Community,Dongcheng District,Beijing,to lay a scientific basis for provision of it.Methods Ninety-seven residents aged over 55 years were selected from 58 families with systematic sampling in Jingshan Community by a questionnaire interview,including history of illness,income,medical expense,awareness of bedside service at patient's home,etc.Results Totally,98.9 % of the residents suffered from at least one kind of chronic disease,98.9 % of them never received bedside care service at their homes,94.9% of them only knew a little of such kind of health care service,91.85% of them knew some social function of it,and 84.5 % of them did not know the criteria of payment for the service.Conclusions Publicity of bedside care service at patient' s home should be strengthened,focusing on its social function,inexpensiveness,convenience,etc.Function of bedside service should be perfected further,with quality care,to make it an important part of community health care.

Objective To explore the expression and effects of extragenous angiostatin gene in human bladder carcinoma BIU-87 cell line. Methods A full human angiostatin gene was cloned into expression vector pcDNA3.1(+) and transfected into human bladder carcinoma BIU-87 cells by lipofectamine, and the positive clone was screened by G418. The growth characteristics of BIU-87 cells before and after transfection were compared.The expressions of angiostatin protein in BIU-87 cells were examined by immunofluorescence assay, immunohistochemistry and Western blotting, and the activities of angiostatin protein were examined by endothelial cell inhibition assay and the chicken-embryo chorioallantoic membrane assay. Results The expression of extragenous angiostatin gene had no inhibitory effect on the growth of BIU-87. The transfected cells could inhibit the umbilical vein endothelial cell growth in vitro and chicken-embryo choriallantoic membrane angiogenesis in vivo. Conclusion The results indicated that the angiostatin gene clones could be transfected into BIU-87 bladder cancer cells, and angiostatin could inhibit endothelial cell proliferation and neovascularization.

ObjectiveTo observe the therapeutic effects of calcium dobesilate combined with irbesartan in treating early diabetic nephropathy ( DN ).Methods65 patients with early DN were randomly divided into two groups,experiment group( irbesartan plus calcium dobesilate,n =34) and control group( irbesartan,n =31 ).After 24 week treatment,the urinary albumin excretion rate(UAER),fasting blood glucose ( FBG ),postprandial blood glucose (PBG) and glycosylated hemoglobin(HbA1c) were detected and compared between two groups before and after treat ment.ResultsUAER after treatment was significantly reduced in both 2 groups(t =8.074,12.89,all P＜0.01),and the decrement in the experiment group was more obvious than that in the control group with statistical significance ( t =3.965,P ＜ 0.05).ConclusionCalcium dobesilate combined with irbesartan has good effects in the treatment of early DN.

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Purpose To explore the effects of progesterone receptor isoforms A and B ( PR-A,PR-B) on carcinogenesis and progres-sion of ovarian serous cystadenocarcinoma ( OSC) . Methods The expressions of PR-A and PR-B in 52 cases of OSC, 22 cases of o-varian borderline serous cystadenoma ( OBSC) , 22 cases of umbrella of normal fallopian ( UNF) were detected by immunohistochmical Elivision technique. Results The expression of PR-A in OSCs, OBSCs and UNFs were 94. 5%, 94. 5%, and 68. 38%, respective-ly, with there were statistical significance among three groups (P<0. 05). The expression of PR-B in OSCs, OBSCs and UNFs were 100%, 77. 27%, and 40. 38%, respectively, with there were statistical significance among three groups (P<0. 05). The difference of PR-A/PR-B ratio in OSCs, OBSCs and UNFs was statistical significance ( P<0. 05 ) . The expressions of PR-A and PR-B in OSCs were lower, there were statistical significance between the clinical stageⅠ+Ⅱ andⅢ+Ⅳ (P<0. 05), and histological gradeⅠandⅡ. The difference of PR-A/PR-B ratio between the histological gradeⅠandⅡin OSC was statistical significance. There was statistical significance of PR-B between OSCs with lymph metastasis and without lymph metastasis (P<0. 05). Expression of PR-A and PR-B in OSC was positive correlation (P<0. 05). Conclusion With the carcinogenesis and progression of OSC, the expressions of PR-A and PR-B gradually declined, and the downregulation of PR-B is more obvious, may be an important biological sign of malignant transfor-mation in ovarian tissue. The increasing ratio of PR-A to PR-B in OSC may indicate poor differentiation. The relatively higher expres-sion of PR-B may inhibit the lymph metastasis in OSC.

Aim To observe the anti-apoptotic effect of different concentrations of amygdalin on the endplate chondrocytes induced by IL-1 βderived from rat inter-vertebral discs and explore the possible mechanism fur-ther.Methods Chondrocytes were obtained from endplate of one-month SD rat intervertebral discs and cultured primary chondrocytes.After identifying,they were divided into normal group,induced group and A-mygdalin 1 0 -2 mol·L -1 ,1 0 -3 mol·L -1 ,1 0 -4 mol· L -1 ,1 0 -5 mol · L -1 administration group.Then the apoptosis was detected by flow cytometry (FCM).Re-al-Time PCR was adopted to detect the mRNA expres-sion of Bax and Bcl-2.The protein expression of Bax and Bcl-2 was detected by Western blot.Results The apoptosis of the endplate chondrocytes induced by IL-1 βderived from rat intervertebral discs could be inhib-ited by amygdalin with different concentrations.Amyg-dalin could reduce the apoptotic rate analysed by FCM,down-regulate the Bax mRNA expression of Bax and up-regulate the Bcl-2 mRNA assayed by RT-PCR;compared with the induced group the differences were statistically significant (P <0.05).Besides,observa-tion of the protein expression of Bax and Bcl-2 by Western blot found that amygdalin 1 0 -4 mol · L -1 could inhibit the effect of IL-1 β,which could increase the protein expression of Bax and reduce the protein expression of Bcl-2.Conclusion Amygdalin has an effect on anti-apoptosis of the end-plate chondrocytes induced by IL-1 βderived from rat intervertebral discs and improve the degeneration of intervertebral discs.

Objective To investigate the value of mammotome minimally invasive puncture drainage in the treatment of breast abscess.Methods 53 patients with the breast abscess were divided into minimally invasive group (27 cases)and open group(26 cases)according to the principle of completely random.The patients in the minimally invasive group were treated with mammotome minimally invasive puncture drainage under the ultrasound guidance.The patients in the open group underwent conventional breast abscess incision and drainage.All the patients were treated with systemic anti -infection and symptomatic treatment.Then,we collated and analyzed the statistical data from the operation time,postoperative pain time,pain degree,number of dressing,healing time,postoperative breast feeding and breast appearance aspects.Results There was no significant difference in operation time between the two groups.In the minimally invasive group,the time of pain,the degree of pain,the time of dressing change,the healing time,the proportion of nursing and the appearance of the breast were (2.6 ±0.8)d,(2.1 ±0.2)min,(7.3 ±0.6)times, (1 8.0 ±0.1 )d,81 .5%,(3.5 ±0.2)points respectively.Those in the open group were (5.2 ±0.2)d,(3.3 ± 0.3)min,(28.0 ±0.2)times,(30.0 ±0.8)d,26.9%,(2.1 ±0.2)points respectively.The differences between the two groups were statistically significant(t =-3.38,-5.1 2,-5.61 ,-5.39,χ2 =32.25,t =-6.1 2,all P <0.05). Conclusion Minimally invasive treatment is a good method in the treatment of breast abscess,and deserved to be promoted clinically.