Objective: To observe the clinical efficacy of acupuncture plus auricular point sticking for tension-type headache (TTH). Methods: A total of 90 TTH patients were divided into an acupuncture group, an auricular point sticking group and an observation group by random number table method, with 30 cases in each group. Patients in the observation group received acupuncture plus auricular point sticking for treatment, while those in the acupuncture group only received acupuncture and those in the auricular point sticking group only received auricular point sticking for treatment. The headache attack frequency and the scores of visual analog scale (VAS), self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) and self-rating depression scale (SDS) were observed before treatment, after treatment and 3 months after treatment. The clinical efficacy was evaluated at the follow-up of 3 months after treatment. Results: At follow-up, there were significant differences in clinical efficacy among the three groups (P<0.01 or P<0.05), and the clinical efficacy ranking from high to low was the observation group, the acupuncture group and the auricular point sticking group. After treatment and at follow-up, the VAS score, headache attack frequency, SAS and SDS scores in the three groups were significantly lower than those before treatment (all P<0.01). The above four results in the observation group were lower than those in the acupuncture group and the auricular point sticking group at the same time point (all P<0.01); VAS score in the acupuncture group was lower than that in the auricular point sticking group (both P<0.05). At follow-up, the headache frequency in the acupuncture group was lower than that in the auricular point sticking group (P<0.05). Conclusion: Either using acupuncture and auricular point sticking together or separately can reduce the headache degree of TTH patients, reduce the number of headache attacks, and relieve anxiety and depression. The efficacy of acupuncture plus auricular point sticking is most significant.

Dental Bonding ; methods ; Dentin ; Dentin-Bonding Agents ; chemistry ; Electricity ; Humans

Septic arthritis of the sternoclavicular joint(SCJ) is a rare condition and accounts for 0.5％-1.0％ of septic arthritis.SCJ infections often require surgical intervention.Diabetes mellitus,rheumatoid arthritis,intravenous drug use,intraarticular injection and immunosuppressive disorders are predisposing factors.Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa are the most common bacteriologies.Early diagnosis of SCJ infection requires a high index of suspicion and a confirmatory CT or MRI scan.The characteristic imaging features include intramedullary and soft tissue gas,sequestra,soft tissue swelling and destruction or widening of joint space.Management strategies have ranged from conservative antibiotic therapy to en-bloc resection of the sternoclavicular joint with or without ipsilateral pectoralis major muscle transposition.The shoulder function in most patients were well preserved.

ObjectiveTo analyse treatments and prognostic factors of T cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (T-NHL). MethodsNinety-one patients with T-NHL were retrospectively analyzed, and clinical features,histopathology, laboratory data were included in Kaplan-Meier and prognostic analysis. Results Median age was 38 years,58 (63.7 ％) had high-intermediate and high risk by IPI,72 (79.1％) presented with advanced stage disease,extranodal disease was present in 64.8 ％ of patients.The overall response rate (ORR) for the whole group was 63.8 ％,and the estimated 3,5-year ORR were 55.5 ％,41.3 ％ respectively.Compared with CHOP-like regimen, the addition of etoposide could improve the survival of patients, meanwhile radiation therapy could improve the outcome of patients with NK/T cell lymphoma and mediastinal bulky disease, and consolidation chemotherapy with HSCT could improve the survival and reduce the recurrence of patients.Clinical stage,B symptoms,ECOG score,the level of LDH,extranodal involvment,anemia,initial treatment outcome, IPI score, the level of serum albumin and fibrinogen were predictive to overall survival. Cox multivariate analysis showed initial treatment outcome and B symptoms were independent prognostic factors.IPI and m-PIT were useful for stratified patients into different prognostic risk groups. Conclusion T-NHL is a heterogeneous group of malignancies with an inferior long term outcome. New treatment modality needs to be explored for these patients,and new drugs and HSCT may be good choices.

Objective:To analyze the characteristics of hospital infection of hematological disease, so as to provide reference for clinical therapy. Methods: Bacterial strains and antimicrobial resistance of pa-tients with hospital infection in Department of Hematology, Peking University Third Hospital from Jan. 2011 to Dec. 2013 were identified and analyzed retrospectively. The specimens were from their blood, urine, sputum, throat swabs and etc. Results:Among the total of 168 isolates of bacteria,the majority of the bacteria strains were from sputum (42. 9%);114(67. 9%) bacteria strains were gram negative and 54(32. 1%) bacteria strains were gram positive;the pathogen testing showed that 20. 8% were Pseudo-monas aeruginosa,18. 5% Escherichia coli,17. 9% Staphylococcus aureus, 9. 5% Klebsiellar pneumonia, 5. 9% Staphylococcus epidermis and 27. 4% other bacteria ;The gram negative bacilli to cefepime, ami-kacin and carbapenems showed the lowest antimicrobial resistance rates, and S. aureus showed the lowest antimicrobial resistance rates to vancomycin and linezolid. Conclusion:Patients with hemopathy are the main population of hospital infections, the gram negative bacteria are the most common pathogens. It is very important to promptly know the change in distribution of the pathogens in order to rationally select antibiotics and reduce the incidence of bacterial infections.

Objective To analyse the clinical characteristics,treatments and prognosis of the chemotheray-induced lung injury in malignant hematological diseases patients.Methods 26 malignant hematological diseasespatients with chemotheray-induced lung injury were collected.The clinical characteristics,chemotherapy regimen,treatments and prognosis of the patiants were retrospectively analyzed.Results Among 26 patients,10 patients were male and 16 patients were famale.The dignosis were nonHodgkin's lymphoma (16 cases),leukemia (9 cases) and multiple myeloma (1 case).The chemotherapy regimens inducing lung injure probably were R-CHOP,R-BEACOP and BEACOP in lymphoma,while they were HA,AA,DA and IA in leukemia.The symptoms of lung injury in these patients were fever,cough,hemoptysis,dyspnea,fatigue,or asymptomatic radiological examination revealed.Pulmonary diffuse infiltration and shadows were showed in CT scan.21 cases were cured by hormone therapy,5 cases died of lung injury,2 cases died of tumor recurrence after lung injury cured.There was no effect on the quality of life in most cured patients.Conclusion The lung injury induced by chemotherapy has no specific clinical characteristics and diagnostic criteria,and it could progress rapidly to cause death.But early dignosis and early hormonal treatment can obtain good therapeutic effect.The occurrence regularity and clinical characteristics should be studied furtherly.

Objective To analyze the toxicity of dose adjusted-BEACOP (DA-BEACOP,classic CHOP regimen plus etoposide and (or) bleomycin with or without rituximab) regimen for poor-prognosis lymphoma.Methods 89 patients with poor-prognosis lymphoma who had been treated in-patient at Peking University Third Hospital during August 2002 and February 2012 were retrospectively studied.All patients received at least 1 cycle of DA-BEACOP regimen.Results 3-4 grade adverse events were observed in 74 (83.1％) patients,most of which was myelosuppression (73 cases,82.0 ％).There was not death related with the treatment.Compared to male patients,female patients suffered higher rates of grade 3-4 of toxicity (94.2 ％,33/35 vs 75.9 ％,41/54) (P =0.024).The rate of grade 3-4 of hematological toxicity in patients who were pretreated with ≥3 cycles of chemotherapy than that in patients receiving≤2 cycles of chemotherapy (95.9 ％,47/49 vs 75.0 ％,30/40) (P =0.004),while the rate of 3-4 hematological toxicity in pret-radiotherapy posed patients was higher than that in their counterparts who did not receive radiotherapy (95.9 ％,47/49 vs 75.0 ％,30/40) (P =0.022).Conclusion The DA-BEACOP regimen showed manageable toxicity in patients with poor-prognosis lymphoma.

Objective To analyze the relationship between different rectal volume,bladder volume and dose of organs at risk (OARs) in intracavitary brachytherapy for cervical cancer.Methods A total of 47 patients with cervical cancer were selected.All of them were treated with high dose rate (HDR) intracavitary brachytherapy with a 600 cGy dose for the dosage point.The effects of different volume of rectum bladder and small intestine for corresponding exposure dose under the standard planning were evaluated using a dose-volume histogram (DVH).According to bladder volume,patients were divided into three groups,＜ 80 cm3 group,80-120 cm3 group and ＞ 120 cm3 group.And according to rectum volume,patients were divided into ＞ 60 cm3 group and ≤ 60 cm3 group.The relationship between the volume and dosage were analyzed.The ANOVA test and t test were used for analyzing D1 cm3,D2 cm3,D30％ and D50％.Results Compared with the group with ＜ 80 cm3 bladder volume,D30％,D50％ value of bladder in groups with 80-120 cm3 and ＞ 120 cm3 of bladder volume increased (F =5.074,5.088,P ＜ 0.05).The difference of D1 cm3 and D2 cm3 value of the small intestine between 80-120 cm3 and ＞ 120 cm3 bladder volume groups were not statistically significant (P ＞ 0.05).D1 cm3 of rectum in groups with ≤ 60 cm3 rectum volume was decreased than that of ＞ 60 cm3 group (t =-2.045,P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions Keeping an appropriatly full bladder and reducing rectal volume in cervical cancers treated with intracavitary brachytherapy can make the exposure dose of bladder,rectum and small intestine relatively small,and reduce the adverse reactions of radiotherapy.

Animals ; Humans ; Liver ; growth & development ; Liver Diseases ; Receptors, Notch ; metabolism ; Signal Transduction

Although considerable clinical problems were solved by parenteral nutrition since 1960s, because of the risk of infectious and metabolic complications and advance in feeding tube placement, feeding methods, and artificial ingredient nutrients, enteral nutrition from 400 years ago has been brought to attention again. This review article is aimed to illustrate the issues related to enteral tube feeding in esophageal surgery.
Enteral Nutrition ; instrumentation ; methods ; Humans