Objective:To explore the application value of multislice spiral CT scanning on abdomen for the detection of complication of acute pancreatitis.Methods: 120 patients with acute pancreatitis were divided into observation group (70 cases) and control group (50 cases) according to different detection method. The patients of control group were applied basic clinical detections included X-ray radiography and ultrasound imaging, while patients of observation group were supplemented CT detection besides these detections of control group. And situation of complication of patients in two groups were observed.Results: The positive rate of complications, which involved pancreatic pseudocyst, cellulitis, complications of gastrointestinal tract, pancreas hemorrhage and pancreatic ascites, in observation group was 97.14%, that was significant higher than that (62.0%) of control group (x2=24.74,P<0.05). Among 20 patients with pancreatic pseudocysts, there were 9 patients located at tails of pancreases, 6 patients located in bodies of pancreases, 3 patients located in small omental bursas, 2 patients located at heads of pancreases, and the CT images of them showed quasi-circular liquid form density lesions with clear boundaries appeared in lesion field. The CT images of cellulitis showed the volume of pancreas increased and the boundaries were fuzzy, and a larger range of density lesions with irregular soft tissue shape appeared in its periphery. CT detetions of gastrointestinal complications showed fuzzy point-shaped, strip-shaped and flake-shaped soft tissue-styled density shadow appeared in gastrointestinal tracts. The CT image of pancreatic ascites showed intraperitoneal fluid density shadow.Conclusion: Abdominal CT scan applied on patients with acute pancreatitis can increase the positive rate of complications and may be used as preferred detection method for clinical evaluation on the complications of acute pancreatitis.

AIM: To study the inhibitiory effects of Fuerkang Injection (sweet worm wood oil, glycyrrhetate and Vitamin A acetate). and its ingredients on SMMC-7721 and NB4 cell lines, in order to understand its antitumour spectrum and reasonability of its composition. METHODS: SMMC-7721 and NB4 cell lines were treated with Fuerkang Injection and its ingredients under the same concentration for 48 h, adfiamycin was used as standard com-parison,inhibitiory effect on growth of two cell lines was detected by MTT method. RESULTS: At 1.260 μg/mL, the inhibition rate of Fuerkang Injection and its decomposed recipes preparations 1,2,3 to SMMC-7721 cell lines were 54.78%, 55.49%, 53.18%, 53.79%, hemi-inhibitory concentration IC_(50) were 0.415,0.376,0.715 and 0.636 μg/mL,respectively. The inhibition rate of NB4 cell lines were 88.6% ,82.5% ,77.9% and 76.9% ,hemi-inhibitory concentration IC_(50) were 0.091,0.108 1,0.084 and 0.120 μg/mL. CONCLUSION: Fuerkang Injection and its ingredients have significant inhibitory action on SMMC-7721 and NB4 cell lines,each component herb in the compound preparation has synergetic effects.

AIM: To study the inhibitiory effects of Fuerkang Injection (sweet worm wood oil,glycyrrhetate and Vitamin A acetate) and its ingredients on SMMC-7721 and NB4 cell lines,in order to understand its antitumour spectrum and reasonability of its composition. METHODS: SMMC-7721 and NB4 cell lines were treated with Fuerkang Injection and its ingredients under the same concentration for 48 h,adriamycin was used as standard comparison,inhibitiory effect on growth of two cell lines was detected by MTT method. RESULTS: At 1.260 ?g/mL,the inhibition rate of Fuerkang Injection and its decomposed recipes preparations 1,2,3 to SMMC-7721 cell lines were 54.78%,55.49%,53.18%,53.79%,hemi-inhibitory concentration IC_50 were 0.415,0.376,0.715 and 0.636 ?g/mL,respectively.The inhibition rate of NB4 cell lines were 88.6%,82.5%,77.9% and 76.9%,hemi-inhibitory concentration IC_50 were 0.091,0.108 1,0.084 and 0.120 ?g/mL. CONCLUSION: Fuerkang Injection and its ingredients have significant inhibitory action on SMMC-7721 and NB4 cell lines,each component herb in the compound preparation has synergetic effects.

Objective To explore effects of monitored anesthesia care (MAC) on gastrointestinal endoscopy.Methods All patients who underwent gastrointestinal endoscopy in Peking University People's Hospital from September 2010 to September 2015 were analyzed retrospectively and divided into two groups:the MAC group and control group by usage of MAC.Success rates of removal of foreign bodies by upper gastrointestinal endoscopy were compared between two groups during this period.Detection rates of ectopia of gastric mucosa in upper esophagus were compared between two groups from September 2014 to September 2015 when esophagogastroduodenoscopy was performed.The monthly cases of gastrointestinal endoscopies were compared between the two groups,which were separately collected from one MAC operating table and one routine operating table from September 2014 to September 2015.Results The success rate of removal of foreign bodies in the MAC group was higher than that in the control group (100.0％ VS 89.7％,x2 =11.737,P=0.001).The detection rate of ectopia of gastric mucosa in upper esophagus in the MAC group was higher than that in the control group(4.3％ VS 1.7％,x2 =58.751,P＜0.001).The monthly cases of gastrointestinal endoscopies in the MAC group was higher than that in the control group(350.2±36.2 cases VS 213.2±27.9 cases,t =17.591,P＜0.001).Conclusion The use of MAC for gastrointestinal endoscopy improves operating success rate,accuracy and operating time.MAC in gastrointestinal endoscopy can be recommended.

Objective To evaluate the performance of artificial neural network(ANN) models for predicting ovarian malignancy in the patients with adnexal masses by using B-mode and color Doppler ultrasonography.Methods The data of 180 patients with adnexal masses were randomly divided into training and testing subsets.The training subsets were used to screen out significant single parameters and to compute the optimum statistic equations and to train the ANN.The testing subsets were used to estimate the performance of each of the two models in predicting ovarian malignancy.Results Thirteen of seventeen parameters were significant to diagnose malignancy in adnexal masses by single analysis(P

The effect of maltol to prevent erythrocyte from auto-oxidation is presented. When erythrocytes were incubated at 37 ℃ for 24 h in vitro, oxyhemoglobin was decreased, methemoglobin, superoxide freeradical, lipofuscin and Heinz's body were increased as well as membrane proteins were changed. These reactions could be inhibited by maltol.

Objective: To investigate the mechanism that glutamine downregulates the cytokine expression in lipopolysaccharide-stimulated human peripheral blood mononuclear cells.Methods:PMBC were extracted from healthy volunteer by density gradient centrifugation,and stimulated by lipopolysaccharide.The release of TNF-α and IL-10 was analyzed via enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and p-P38 via western blot. Results:Gln led to an increase in HSP70 expression,and decreased TNF-α、IL-10 release at 4 h after LPS stimulation.The expressions level of TNF-α、IL-10 and P-P38 were decreased after using SB203580.Conclusion:These results indicate that the effect of Gln could attenuate cytokine release in PBMC and might may be related to the inhibition of P38 MAPK.

The value of combined application of both ECG-gated cine MRA and 3D-CEMRA in the detection of large intracranial aneurysms was evaluated and the findings were compared with those of conventional MRA and DSA. Twenty-four patients with 26 large intracranial aneurysms underwent MRI and DSA. All these aneurysms, diameter from 15 to 39 mm, were located at internal cerebral artery (n=12), vertebral artery (n=3), basilar artery (n=4), anterior cerebral artery (n=2), middle cerebral artery (n=2), anterior communicate artery (n=2) and posterior communicate artery (n=1). Thirteen cases of hematoma or cavernoma were studied as control group. All patients were examined on GE 1.5T MR system. ECG-gated cine MRA was performed with 2D multi-phase fast gradient-recalled echo sequence in a single section. All the images were analyzed with signal intensity VS time curve for differentiating intraaneurysmal blood flow from static tissue. The results were analyzed by statistic "t" test. 3D-CEMRA was performed with spoiled gradient-recalled echo and one dose of Gd-DTPA. All data was processed with multi-plannar reformat (MPR) and tomography for the demonstration of aneurysms in detail. All 26 aneurysms were demonstrated successfully by combined application of both cine MRA and 3D-CEMRA. Compared to DSA and conventional 3D-MOTSA, its sensitivity and specificity figures were both 100%. Cine MRA could differentiate the blood flow from the static tissue. The intensity VS time curves of intraaneurysmal blood flow offered fluctuating form and average signal change between systole and diastole period was about 89.8 +/- 37.4; However, under the control group, intraaneurysmal thrombus or cerebral hemorrhage or cavernomas had no significant signal change and the curves offered steady form with the average signal change being about 8.2 +/- 6.3. There was statistically significant difference between the intraaneurysmal blood flow and static tissue (P=0.025, <0.05). 3D-CEMRA was very useful in demonstrating the aneurysmal size, intraaneurysmal thrombus formation, neck and the detailed relationship of the aneurysm to the surrounding structures. It was concluded that the combined application of both cine MRA and 3D-CEMRA might be a valuable clinical tool for the detection of large intracranial aneurysms.
Angiography, Digital Subtraction ; Contrast Media ; Evaluation Studies ; Image Enhancement ; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted ; Imaging, Three-Dimensional/methods ; Intracranial Aneurysm/*diagnosis ; Magnetic Resonance Angiography/*methods ; *Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine

Background and purpose:miR-124 is considered to be a tumor suppressor in multiple tumors, including lung cancer, prostate cancer, bladder cancer, and breast cancer. However, its function is unclear in gastric cancer. This study aimed to explore the expression of miR-124 in human gastric mucosal epithelium cells and different gastric cancer cells, as well as gastric cancer tissues and matched para-cancerous tissues. The correlations of miR-124 expression with gender, age, histological grade, T stage, TNM stage, lymph node metastasis and prognosis of gastric cancer patients were analyzed.Methods:A real-time lfuorescent quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RTFQ-PCR) was employed for detecting the expression of miR-124 in human gastric mucosal epithelium cells and gastric cancer cells. The expression of miR-124 in gastric cancer tissues and matched para-cancerous tissues was detected by in situ hybridization.Results:The RTFQ-PCR results indicated that the expression of miR-124 was down-regulated in MKN-74, MKN-28, MKN-45, MGC-803, SGC-7901 and AGS cells compared to GES-1 cells.In situ hybridization showed that miR-124 was strongly expressed in normal gastric mucosa. However, low expression, focal positive expression or lack of miR-124 expression were observed in gastric cancer tissues. Statistical analysis showed that miR-124 was close-ly correlated to histological stage, TNM stage and node metastasis of gastric cancer patients, but not the age, gender and tumor size. The OS and DFS of the patients with low expression of miR-124 were shorter than that of the patients with high expression of miR-124. Multivariate analysis suggested that miR-124 down-regulation was an independent prog-nostic factor for survival in patients with gastric cancer.Conclusion:miR-124 is down-regulated in gastric cancer cells and tissues. The expression of miR-124 is correlated to histological stage, TNM stage, node metastasis and prognosis.

Objective To discuss the feature,diagnosis and treatment,and proguosis of adrenal teratoma.Methods Clinical data of 5 patients with confirmed adrenal teratoma were retrospectively reviewed.There were 2 males and 3 females,with a median age of 57 years (35-64).The mean tumor size was 5-8.5 cm.The tumors were located on the right side in 3 cases and the left side in 2.Two cases were detected by routine health check up,and 2 were detected with the complains of fatigue and 1 with complains of back pain.All cases had normal value of endocrinology and biochemistry tests.Ultrasound examination showed cystic tumor on adrenal gland with uneven echo.CT showed irregular,inhomogeneous adrenal neoplasms in adrenal gland.The tumor presented as inhomogenous high signal intensity on MRI T1 and T2.Results Five patients underwent laparoscopic adrenalectomy,and histopathology showed adrenal mature teratoma.No recurrence occurred after operation in all patients.Conclusions These cases combined with literature review indicate that adrenal teratoma is extremely rare which has no characteristic clinical manifestations; and laparoscopic adrenalectomy is a feasible,effective technique with excellent results.