ObjectiveTo observe the clinical efficacy of qi-blood-supplementing needling in treating the incipient leukopenia after chemotherapy for breast cancer.MethodSeventy-eight patients with incipient leukopenia after chemotherapy for breast cancer were recruited and randomized into a control group (38 cases) and a treatment group (40 cases). The control group was intervened by medications for increasing white blood cell (WBC) count, while the treatment group was by qi-blood-supplementing needling plus the medication. The therapeutic efficacies were evaluated at the end of the intervention.ResultThe WBC counts increased significantly in both groups after treatment (P<0.01), and the count in the treatment group was significantly higher than that in the control group (P<0.05). The total effective rate was 95.0% in the treatment group versus 89.5% in the control group, and the therapeutic efficacy of the treatment group was superior to that of the control group (P<0.05). The treatment group was also better than the control group in improving symptoms including poor appetite, fatigue, pale complexion, and lassitude (P<0.05,P<0.01).ConclusionFor patients with incipient leukopenia after chemotherapy for breast cancer, qi-blood-supplementing needling plus medication for increasing WBC count can up-regulate the WBC count and improve the symptoms due to qi-blood deficiency.

Myeloid sarcoma (MS) is a localized extramedullary mass of immature granulocytic cells. MS may be found in any location, but intraoral occurrence is rare. This report presents a case of MS in the gingiva.
Gingiva ; Gingival Neoplasms ; Humans ; Sarcoma, Myeloid

Objective:To observe the clinical effects of acupuncture plus external medicine application for cervical radiculopathy.Methods:A total of 98 patients with cervical radiculopathy were randomly divided into an observation group and a control group based on the random digital table.The observation group (50 cases) was treated by acupuncture plus external medicine application and the control group (48 cases) was treated by acupuncture alone.The patients received the treatment every day.Ten sessions made a course.Cervical spondylosis symptom scale was used to assess the cases before and after the treatment.The clinical efficacy was compared between the two groups after the treatment.Results:The total effective rate was 98.1％ in the observation group versus 87.6％ in the control group with a statistically significant difference between the two groups (P＜0.05).The cure rate was 52.0％ in the observation group versus 18.8％ in the control group with a significant difference between the two groups (P＜0.05).There was no significant difference in the score of cervical spondylosis symptom scale between the two groups before the treatment (P＞0.05).It increased with a significant difference in both groups after the treatment (both P＜0.05),while a significant difference was found in the results between the two groups after the treatment (P＜0.05).Conclusion:Acupuncture plus external medicine application is more effective than acupuncture alone for treating cervical radiculopathy.The method also effectively improves the clinical symptoms.

Objective To explore the clinical effects of high frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV) combined with pulmonary surfactant (PS) on neonatal meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS).Methods Data of 53 newborns with MAS admitted into the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Ning Bo Women and Children's Hospital from June 2008 to June 2011 were retrospectively analyzed.According to different therapeutic measures,they were divided into three groups:conventional mechanical ventilation (CMV) group (n=23),HFOV group (n=18) and HFOV+PS group (n=12).The oxygen index,arterial oxygen/alveolar oxygen ratio (a/ApO2) and inspired oxygen fraction (FiO2) were monitored at 2,12,24 and 48 h after mechanical ventilation.The mechanical ventilation time,duration of hospital stay,change of symptom,complications and clinical outcomes of the three groups were compared by analysis of variance and Chi-square test.Results The parameters of the three groups at 2 and 48 h after mechanical ventilation were as followed:CMV group [oxygen index:(23.79±7.27) and (15.04±4.76) mm Hg; a/ApO2:0.11±0.04 and 0.31 ±0.07; FiO2:0.74±0.16 and 0.47± 0.21],HFOV group [oxygen index:(21.13±6.29) and (11.73±4.54) mm Hg; a/ApO2:0.14±0.06 and 0.35±0.06; FiO2:0.68±0.14 and 0.41±0.11] and HFOV+ PS group [oxygen index:( 18.35 ± 5.68 ) and ( 7.85 ± 5.06 )mm Hg; a/ApO2:0.17±0.03 and 0.40±0.02; FiO2:0.59±0.13 and 0.29±0.16].Compared with CMV group,the parameters of HFOV group and HFOV+ PS group were different at different time points,and the parameters (duration and extent) of HFOV+ PS group were better than those of HFOV group (all P＜0.05).The mechanical ventilation time was (7.2±0.6) days in CMV group,(4.2± 1.4) days in HFOV group and (2.9±0.5) days in HFOV+PS group; the hospital stay was (22.2±4.5) days in CMV group,(15.6±3.4) days in HFOV group and (11.8±4.3) days in HFOV+PS group; and the oxygen treatment time was (15.4± 2.4) days in CMV group,(11.8±5.3) days in HFOV group and (7.4±2.2) days in HFOV+PS group.The mechanical ventilation time,oxygen treatment time and hospital stay time were the longest in CMV group,the shortest in HFOV+ PS group (P＜ 0.05,respectively).Conclusions Early HFOV combined with PS might be a better therapeutic method for infants with MAS than HFOV or CMV alone.

Objective To study whether L-cysteine and lysolecithin (16:0) could be as a serum markers in the detection of OVC for overcoming the OVC defects of early detection .Methods Totally 142 cases of healthy check -up patients ( control group ) 100 cases from First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University in January 2012 to January 2014 were extracted patient specimens .These pa-tient specimens were used to detect by MALDI -TOF-MS mass spectrometer and obtain the peak m/z by the method of principal compo-nent analysis for screening expression difference between the two groups in the metabolites and the correlation between metabolites and pathological grade.Results The most difference substance between two groups were 184.05 and 496.30m/z which identified as LPC (16:0) and HCA;On HCA average level and detection rate , OVC group was significantly higher than control (P<0.01); On 184.05 and 496.30m/z peak area, control group was significantly higher than OVC group (P<0.01);HCA positively was correlated with patho-logic grade (P<0.05);184.05 and 496.30 m/z peak area were negative correlation with pathologic grade (P<0.05).Conclusion L-cysteine and lysolecithin (16:0) mechanism in the pathogenesis of OVC is unclear , but it can be used for the detection of serum OVC markers.

Objective To assess the relationship between mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) ND2 gene C5178A polymorphism and complications of cardio-cerebral-vascular in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).Methods This is a case-control study.448 unrelated patients with T2DM were collected from Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital from 2010 to 2011,including 274 males and 174 females.Direct nucleotide sequencing analysis was used to screen mtDNA ND2 gene C5178A genotyping in ）patients.Meanwhile,detailed clinical and laboratory information for all of study subjects were collected.Body mass index (BMI),blood pressure,blood lipid,blood glucose and incidence rate of cerebral infarction were compared between 5178C patients and 5178A patients.Furthermore,according to the genotyping results,we 2analyzed whether these differences exist in patients with different gender by using t test or x2 test.Results 348 out of 448 patients with T2DM were C carriers and the remaining patients were A carriers.There're significant differences between T2DM patients with 5178A and T2DM patients with 5178C on systolic pressure (124.6 mm Hg ± 9.0 mm Hg vs 127.8 mm Hg ± 10.7 mm Hg,t =2.700,P =0.007)and HDL (1.3 mmol/L ± 0.2 mmol/L vs 1.2 mmol/L ± 0.3 mmol/L,t =2.968,P =0.003).Moreover,the incidence of cerebral infarction in T2DM patients with 5178A (8.0％,8/100) was much lower than that with 5178C (21.0％,73/348 ; x2 =8.832,P =0.003).No statistical gender difference was found in the distribution of C5178A (P ＞ 0.05).Our results also revealed that the female T2DM patients with 5178A had a lower serum triglyceride (1.5 mmol/L ±0.8 mmol/L; t =2.601,P =0.011) and lower systolic pressure (123.6 mm Hg±6.6 mm Hg; t =2.887,P =0.004) than that with 5178C (1.8 mmol/L ± 1.0 mmol/L and 128.0 mm Hg ± 9.0 mm Hg,respectively).Furthermore,cerebral infarction was more common in female T2DM patients with 5178C (21.3％,29/136; x2 =5.232,P =0.022) than that with 5178A (5.3％,2/38).Similarly,male T2DM patients with 5178A had a much lower incidence rate of cerebral infarction (9.7％,6/62; x2 =3.946,P =0.047) than that with 5178C (20.7％,44/212).In contrary,the serum concentration of HDL was higher in male T2DM patients with 5178A (1.4 mmol/L ±0.2 mmol/L;t=3.511,P =0.001) than that with 5178C (1.2 mmol/L±0.3 mmol/L).Conclusions The polymorphism site mtDNA C5178A correlates with cerebral-cardiovascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.mtDNA 5178A allele may protect T2DM patients from developing cerebral-cardiovascular diseases through regulation of blood pressure and lipid metabolism.

Objective To investigate the efficacy,safety and practicability of endoscope-controlled microneurosurgery operations for hypertension ventricular hemorrhage.Methods The efficacy and complications of three operation methods,including endoscope-controlled operation,Burr-hole craniotomy,ventricle puncture and drainage of urokinase infusion,were compared retrospectively.Results The complications of endoscopecontrolled operation was significantly lower than the other two methods(x2 =9.966,P ＜ 0.05).Among the 32patients treated by endoscope-controlled operation,2 patients died after the surgery with a fatality rate of 6.25％.Six months after the surgery,the ADL score estimation showed grade Ⅰ 2 cases,grade Ⅱ 14 cases; grade Ⅲ 11cases ; grade Ⅳ3 cases; grade V2 cases.Compared to the other two groups,there was significant difference(x2 =10.499,P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion Endoscope-controlled operation is an effective and safe method in treating patients with hypertension ventricular hemorrhage with less brain damage,better hemorrhage clearance,and less complications when compared with small bone window craniotomy and ventricle puncture and drainage of urokinase infusion operation methods.

Objective To evaluate the value of suprasternal long axis view in echocardiography for right pulmonary artery (RPA) lesions.Methods Echocardiography was performed in 31 patients with clinical suspicion of pulmonary vascular disease.Through suprasternal long axis view,RPA,right superior pulmonary artery and right inferior pulmonary artery were identified,and the vessel wall,intraluminal echoes,and location of the lesion were obtained.Blood flow in pulmonary artery was detected with color Doppler flow imaging.The results of echocardiography were compared with those of computer tomography of pulmonary angiography (CTPA) and clinical diagnosis.Results With suprasternal notch echocardiography,RPA lesions were identified in 27 patients.H owever,RPA could not be clearly identified in four patients.There were 22 patients with moderate or low echo mass in RPA,and five patients with intimal thickening and artery stenosis/obliteration.In the 27 patients with detected lesions,20 lesions were located in RPA,seven lesions were located in distal RPA or its branches.Among the results obtained with echocardiography,25 were in accordance with CT results,6 were not in accordance with CT results.Conclusions The suprasternal long axis view of RPA can be an important alternative imaging modality in identification of pulmonary vascular diseases.

BACKGROUND:Immunologic injury is a main pathogenesis of chronic rejection,and it is related to multiple immunological associated-gene polymorphism,in particular,transforming growth factor-β1 gene polymorphism.Recently,there are a lot of researching results of the relationship between TGF-β1 gene polymorphism and chronic rejection.OBJECTIVE:To study the relationship between TGF-β1 genotypes and the chronic renal allograft rejection in recipients and donors.DESIGN:Prospective case analysis.SETTING:Department of Urinary Surgery,Fuzhou General Hospital of Nanjing Military Area Command of Chinese PLA;General Organ Transplantation Center.PARTICWANTS:A total of 144 recipients and 65 out of 114 donors(another 30 cases did not have the blood preparation)were selected from Fuzhou General Hospital of Nanjing Military Area Command of Chinese PLA from Jane 2000 to May 2001.The surgical program was approved by the local ethics committee.METHODS:The TGF-β1 genotypes were detected in 144 recipients before renal transplantation and 65 out of 114 donors by sequence-specific primer polymerase chain reaction.The follow-up lasted for 5 years in recipients after surgery to survey chronic renal allografi rejection;furthermore,the effects of genotypes of recipients,genotypes of donors,and the genotype combination on transplanted renal function were analyzed.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:(1)Inciderce of chronic renal allograft reiection in recipients and donors with difierent TGF-β1 genotypes;(2)incidence of chronic renal allograft rejection in recipients and donors with TGF-β1 genotype combination.RESULTS:(1)Incidence of chronic renal allograft rejection in recipients with high-secretory TGF-β1 genotype was significantly higher than that in those with moderate-secretory or low-secretory TGF-β1 genotypes(x2=10.091,P<0.01).There were no significant differences in chronic renal allograft rejection among donors with different TGF-β1 genotypes(x2=0.002,P>0.05).(2)Chronic renal allograft rejection occurred in the recipients with high-secretory TGF-β1 genotype,whose donors also had high-secretory TGF-β1 genotype,and the incidence of chronic renal allograft rejection was significantly higher than that in other recipients with TGF-β1 genotype combination(x2=4.352,P<0.05).While the incidence of chronic renal allograft rejection in the recipients with moderate-secretory and low-secretory TGF-β1 genotypes,whose donors also had moderate-secretory and low-secretory TGF-β1 genotypes was significantly lower than that in other recipients with TGF-β1 genotype combination (x2=4.134,P<0.05).CONCLUSION:The TGF-β1 gene polymorphism is detected in the recipients and donors before renal transplantation to benefit for along-term prognostic factor for chronic renal allograft ejection and an ideal genotype combination between recipients and donors.

This paper reports the nursing care of 12 patients with idiopathic scoliosis treated with halo-pelvic traction preoperatively which focused on breathing training, traction frame management. One patient suffered from temporary brachial plexus injury and four cases suffered from superior mesenteric artery syndrome. With 14-21 day's traction and nursing care, the correction rate of Cobb angle was 35%-50%,the forced vital capacity was improved by 25%,and all the patients received orthomorphia surgery in time. It is suggested that the patients with severe idiopathic scoliosis treated by halo-pelvic traction could take out-of-bed activity freely. It could not only relieve pain and reduce mental pressure, but also improve the safety of orthomorphia surgery.