BACKGROUND:Number of experimental and clinical studies have shown that stem celltransplantation can establish new blood vessels and improve heart function instead of necrotic myocardium, to significantly improved clinical symptoms and prognosis of cardiovascular disease patients.
OBJECTIVE:To observe the safety of human umbilical cord blood mononuclear cells transplantation in patients with coronary heart disease and heart failure.
METHODS:A total of 12 patients with coronary heart disease and heart failure (acute myocardial infarction and heart failure in six cases, old myocardial infarction and heart failure in six cases) were enrol ed in this study. Patients were treated on the basis of standard medication and percutaneous coronary intervention. The coronary pathway was established via a percutaneous catheter, and suspension of cord blood mononuclear cells was injected through microcatheter into the distal artery. Routine blood test was carried out at 1 week after celltransplantation, blood routine, liver function, kidney function, C-reactive protein, IgA, IgG were compared preoperatively and postoperatively.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:The incidence of adverse reactions in cord blood stem celltransplantation was 8.3%, including one case of fever. No micro-embolism occurred. During 1-week fol ow-up, no graft-versus-host disease appeared. After celltransplantation, there were no significant changes in blood routine, liver function, kidney function, C-reactive protein, IgA, IgG. These findings indicate umbilical cord blood monomuclear cells transplantation is safe in a short term for patients with coronary heart disease and heart failure.

BACKGROUND:Myocardial infarction patients commonly appear to have left ventricular remodeling and heart failure. Because of physical characteristics, these two complications are more likely to occur in elderly patients with myocardial infarction. In recent years, stem celltransplantation in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction and heart failure has become a hot topic, and the feasibility and safety has been confirmed, but its long-term outcomes in elderly patients are stil unclear.
OBJECTIVE:To assess the long-term effect of transplantation of autologous peripheral blood stem cells on the left ventricular remodeling and heart function in the old patients with myocardial infarction.
METHODS:Thirty old patients (age ≥ 60 years) with myocardial infarction were randomly assigned to receive intracoronary transplantation of peripheral blood stem cells fol owing bone marrow cells mobilization by granulocyte colony-stimulating factor ( 300-600μg per day) subcutaneously for 5 days in addition to conventional therapy (standard drug therapy and percutaneous coronary intervention;transplantation group, n=15) or standard therapy (standard drug therapy and percutaneous coronary intervention;control group, n=15) . Complications during intervention, left ventricular function and left ventricular remodeling at baseline and 6, 12, 24, 60 months after treatment were monitored.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Left ventricular function, left ventricular end diastolic volume, and left ventricular end-systolic volume were significantly improved 6,12, 24, 60 months after autologous peripheral blood stem celltransplantation compared to baseline, while these parameters remained unchanged in the control group. These parameters had statistical difference between the two groups after treatment. During the fol ow-up, no severe side effects were observed. These findings indicate that autologous peripheral blood stem celltransplantation leads to significant and longstanding improvements in left ventricular performance of old patients with myocardial infarction, and shows good safety.

Objective This study was designed to evaluate the short-term effect and safety of 80 mg/d atorvastatin treating on ACS patients with interventional therapy in China. Methods From August 2002 to March 2014,1746 ACS patients accepting 80mg/d atorvastatin treatment were enrolled from three province hospital. All patients were divided into three groups, 886 patients in group A with 80mg/d atorvastatin treating for 4 weeks, 562 patients in group B with 80mg/d atorvastatin treating for 8 weeks, and 298 patients in group C with 80mg/d atorvastatin treating for 12 weeks after discharge. Blood lipid level, hepatic function, renal function and creatine kinase level were tested on 4th, 8th, 12th week. Results The percentage of patients reacting lipid levels was 85.0%in group A, 86.1%in group B, 94.0%in group C and 86.9%in total. The rate of ALT/AST exceed two times of normal upper level in group A was 1.6%, in group B was 1.8%and in group C was 1.0%.The symptom of joint and muscle pain in group A was 6.3%, group B was 1.4%, group C was 2.7%. The elevation of creatine kinase in group A was 0.8%, in group B was 0.5%, and 0%in group C. The symptom of abdomen discomfort in group A was 2.3%, group B was 2.5%and group C was 4.0%. The complaint of other symptoms was 3.2%in group A, 2.1%in group B, 1.7%in group C. Conclusions Accepting 80 mg/d atorvastatin treating for ACS patients with interventional therapy is effective and safe in short term.

Jiaji (Ex-B 2), Waiguan (TE 5), Taichong (LR 3), Zulinqi (GB 41) and Ashi points were mainly selected. Adjunct acupoints were added according to the affected positions. Neiting (ST 44) was added when the affected position was mainly on the abdomen, Kunlun (BL 60) was added on the back and Xingjian (LR 2) was added on the hypochondriac region. Twenty- one patients with post-herpetic neuralgia were treated. The result showed that pain and skin injury of 16 cases disappeared, skin injury of 4 cases disappeared with obviously alleviated pain and skin injury of 1 case disappeared with slightly alleviated pain.

Objective To evaluate the value of (1 ,3)‐β‐D‐glucan(G test) in the diagnosis of invasive pulmonary fungal infection (IPFI)in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) .Methods 96 COPD patients with high risk of IPFI were en‐rolled in the study ,and were divided into IPFI group and non‐IPFI group .The G test were performed on those people while the tra‐ditional methods sputum smear and fungal culture were also performed .The (1 ,3)‐β‐D‐glucan concentrations of IPFI group and non‐IPFI group were compared ,and then the areas under receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) were calculated .The sensi‐tivity ,specificity ,positive predictive value ,negative predictive value ,and the area under ROC of the two methods (G test and tradi‐tional methods) were compared .Results The sensitivity ,specificity ,positive predictive value ,negative predictive value of G test were 89 .5% ,89 .6% ,68 .0% ,97 .2% ,respectively ,when 20 pg/mL was the critical value .Areas under curve were 0 .942 for G test ,and 0 .790 for traditional method .Conclusion The detection of (1 ,3)‐β‐D‐glucan might be faster and with higher positive rate than traditional method ,and could be used for the early diagnosis of IPFI ,provide reference for the treatment .

BACKGROUND: Transplantation of the human umbilical cord blood mononuclear cells (HUCBCs) have received increasing attention, as a promising candidate for the cellular transplantation, but the majority of the existing studies are basic research.OBJECTIVE: To report a patient of extensive anterior-wall acute myocardial infarction with cardiogenic shock and severe heart failure, after treatment of HUCBCs transplantation. METHODS: A 73-year-old female patient with cardiogenic shock and severe heart failure after extensive anterior-wall acute myocardial infarction was treated with percutaneous coronary intervention (three scaffolds implantation) and medications, and she still appeared the symptoms of congestive heart failure, such as severe recurrent dyspnea. 2.4 × 108 HUCBCs (50 mL cell suspension) was injected into the infarcted myocardium through the left anterior descending artery by using coronary micro-guide catheter.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The patient reported profound clinical benefit including improvement of heart-failure-associated symptoms after the transplantation. Notably the patient did not experience the cell transplant-related side effects during 4 months of follow-up. The ejection fraction increased from 22% before the transplantation to 53% at 21 days after the transplantation. The B-type natriuretic peptide decreased from 1 730 ng/L before the transplantation, 854 ng/L after the transplantation to 264 ng/L at 21 days after the transplantation. The patient did not appear the symptoms of congestive heart failure, including dyspnea, chest distress and hypodynamia, she returned to daily activity at 4 months of follow-ups. Experimental findings indicate that the HUCBCs transplantation is an effective and safe means for patients cardiogenic shock and severe heart failure after acute myocardial infarction.

Objective To study the preparation of polylactic-co-glycolic acid(PLGA) nanoparticles carrying arsenic trioxide(As_(2)O_(3)).Methods Polymer PLGA was used to prepare arsenic trioxide nanoparticles with w/o/w double-emulsion evaporation technique,which was optimized by uniform design test.Results The shape of As_(2)O_(3)-loaded PLGA nanoparticle was round,the size was well-distributed,the mean diameter was 178.2 nm,the average encapsulation ratio reached 53.19%,and the average drug loading was 0.64%.Conclusion The technique to prepare nanoparticles is simple and the quality can be easily controlled.

Objective: To investigate Mongolian medicinal plants called Digeda and the prescriptions in Inner Mongolia region and to establish a molecular method for authentication of Digeda Mongolian patent medicines (MPMs). Methods: A field investigation was conducted on traditional uses of Digeda. After interviewed traditional healers in Mongolian, ethnopharmacological information of Digeda prescriptions was recorded in detail, including names, compositions, and traditional uses. And the total DNA from 10 MPMs has been amplified by three pairs of specific primers. Specific PCR products were further identified by sequence alignment with the known sequences already submitted in GenBank or own sequences. Results: Fifteen Digeda plants and 29 Digeda prescriptions with their ethnopharmacological knowledge were collected. Ten MPM samples containing Lomatogonium rotatum, Viola philippica, and Corydalis bungeana were successfully evidenced by PCR with specific bands as raw materials. Conclusion: Digeda should be further investigated in ethnopharmacology, which is a fundamental step toward developing efficacious natural drugs for various diseases. PCR amplification of specific allele is an easy and economical method, which can be used to identify highly processed MPMs and will assist in monitoring their qualities and legalities.

Objective To investigate the clinical effect of vitrectomy with single slice vitrectomy (PDR) and preoperative injection of monoclonal antibody (mAb) for treatment of proliferative diabetic retinopathy. Methods According to clinical treatment were randomly 64 cases of PDR patients in our hospital in February 2016-February 2017 were divided into observation group and control group, 32 cases (37 eyes) single vitreous body resection were included in the control group, the remaining 32 cases (41 eyes) from preoperative intravitreal injection 0.5mg Lei Zhu monoclonal antibody drug treatment after resection of vitreous body were included in the observation group. The operation time, the best corrected visual acuity before and after the operation were recorded and compared between the two groups. The incidence of iatrogenic hiatus, frequency use, vitreous volume and hyphema were recorded in the two groups. Results The operation time of the observation group was (96.47±12.67) min, which was significantly shorter than that of the control group (128.56±13.78) min (P<0.05). The best corrected visual acuity of the two groups was basically at the same baseline level, and the corrected visual acuity of the 30d observation group was obviously improved and better than that of the control group (P<0.05). Compared with the control group, the incidence of iatrogenic hiatus, electrocoagulation, vitreous volume and hyphema was lower in the observation group (P<0.05). Conclusion Intravitreal injection of ranibizumab therapy after resection of vitreous body regimen in the treatment of PDR is safe and effective, not only helps to shorten the operation time, and lower incidence of postoperative complications, postoperative recovery of visual acuity is good, it is worthy of clinical popularization and wide application of bed.

Triple negative breast cancer is a special subtype of breast cancer , including basal -like breast cancer and unclassified breast cancer .Since it was defined in 2005 ,the differences from other subtypes in biological characteristics and poor prognosis of TNBC have became priorities and hotspots which are researched by epidemiologists ,pathologists and clinicians .According to the research ,the risk factors of TNBC include race ,obe-sity,age,women′s reproductive process,oral contraceptive use,physical activity,abortion history,family history, socio-economic factors and so on .This review focuses on race ,obesity,age,women′s reproductive process ,oral contraceptive use ,according to the latest research results of risk factors of TNBC ,helping healthy people get a bet-ter understanding of TNBC and preventing the incidence of TNBC ,suggesting clinicians combine the biological characteristics and epidemiological features and further instructing people to take precautions .This paper also pro-vides theoretical basis for researcher on the further investigaticans of the etiology of TNBC .