Acupuncture Therapy ; Female ; Humans ; Polycystic Ovary Syndrome ; therapy

Yokuinin, coix seed extract, has been used to regulate gastric functions and to reduce pathological water retention. This paper reports the effect of Yokuinin on controlling hydrarthrosis for patients with arthralgia. Seventeen patients who have had maintenance hemodialisis for an average of 12.7 years and who have suffered hydrarthrosis with arthralgia have been tested. There are 7 male and 10 female patients, with an average of age of 63.4. The hydrarthrosis of the patients resulted from dialysis arthropathy and gonarthrosis. The patients were provided with 3 to 6 tablets of Yokuinin (Yokuinin extract tablet “Kotaro”) a day, and the effect on hydrarthrosis was measured after 3 weeks. The dosage of Yokuinin was 0.33g in 3 tablets. Yokuinin was effective on 14 patients (hydrarthrosis was reduced), relatively effective on 2 patients, and not effective on one patient. This shows an efficacy rate of 82.8%. Arthralgia was reduced for 12 patients, and analgesia was seen in 3 patients. Effective reduction of hydrarthrosis by this medicine was observed: 5 cases out of 6 for patients with dialysis arthropathy (83.3%); 6 cases out of 7 for gonarthrosis (85.7%); and 3 cases of 4 for other diseases (75.0%)—a total of 82.8%. The patient for whom the drug was not effective was suffering from acute hydrarthrosis. Side effects were not observed except for indigestion and cramps. These results suggest that Yokuinin is an effective medicine to control hydrarthrosis with arthralgia for patients under hemodialysis.

Anesthesia, General ; adverse effects ; Child, Preschool ; Humans ; Male ; Malignant Hyperthermia ; diagnosis ; etiology

BACKGROUND:Repair of large-area burns and severe post-traumatic skin defects has always been urgent clinical breakthrough technology bottleneck. With the development of tissue engineering, epidermal stem cel s are increasingly being used in tissue engineering, cel replacement therapy and genetic engineering. Therefore, the isolation and identification of epidermal stem cel s is becoming the research focus of concern.
OBJECTIVE:To review the research progress in biological markers of epidermal stem cel s.
METHODS:The Chinese Biomedical Literature database, CNKI database, China Academic Journals Ful-text database, PubMed database and EMbase database were retrieved for articles about specific markers of epidermal stem cel s using the keywords of“epidermal stem cel s, integrin, keratin, P63, CD71, telomerase, ACE, cx43, hoechst”in Chinese and English. Older theoretical perspectives and repetitive research were excluded.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Final y, only 40 articles were included in result analysis. Epidermal stem cel s bring a new source for skin tissue repair. Epidermal stem cel s distribute in the fol icle eminence and basal layer of the epidermis. About 4%cel s in the basal layer, however, are stem cel s. Therefore, it is critical to correctly isolate, culture and identify skin stem cel s. As a reason, specific markers of epidermal stem cel s become a hotspot. Currently, a great progress in the biological markers of epidermal stem cel s has been made, but there is stil no absolute and proven marker for epidermal stem cel s. Most studies are focusing on integrin, keratin, P63, CD71, connexin 43, and telomerase. In addition, hoechst, CD90, CD98, CD200 have been reported recently. Each marker has its own shortcomings, and there are stil many problems that need to be solved.

Objective:To investigate whether enamel matrix proteins (EMPs) has osteoinductive property. Methods: EMPs and propylene glycol alginate (PGA) in the size of 2 mm3 were placed into calf muscle of 8 SD rats on experiment side. PGA was placed on control side. The rats were sacrificed four weeks after operation. The calf samples were examined by histological observation.Result:Bone-like and/or cartilage-like tissues was not observed in all the operated calf muscles. Conclusion:EMPs are not osteoinductive.

BACKGROUND:Recently, the biodegradable materials with good biocompatibility and with no adverse reaction have been widely applied in the clinical treatment and care of gynecology and obstetrics. The development of the biodegradable material is very rapid. OBJECTIVE:To summarize the application of biodegradable materials in gynecology and obstetrics. METHODS: The first author searched PubMed and CNKI databases for articles related to biodegradable materials in gynecology and obstetrics using the keywords of “degraded materials, biodegradable materials, gynecological care, surgery” in Chinese and English respectively. This article has an outlook of the potential application in gynecology and obstetrics based on clinical experience. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Biodegradable materials with good biocompatibility and biological security play an important role in biomedical materials. Their polymers and degradation products show smal adverse reactions to the body, and have good biomechanical properties, physical and chemical properties and good workability, which have been widely used in gynecology and obstetrics, such as absorbable stylolite and tampon tape. Although we have made a great progress on the biomaterial research, it stil has the limitation and safety flaws in the clinic. As the biomaterial research is further developed, the biomaterial application prospect wil be more promising.

Objective To investigate measures of preventing asphyxia neonatorum in order to reduce the rate of asphyxia neonatorum.Methods Clinical datas on a total of 78 cases of critical asphyxia neonatorum from the year 2003～2004 in Longgang Central Hospital were collected and analyzed.Related high risk factors and effective precaution measures of reducing the rate of asphyxia neonatorum were studied.Results The rate of asphyxia neonatorum from January 2003 to December 2004 was 4.22%,of which it was 1.70% of critical asphyxia neonatorum and 8% of treated deaths.The first seven related factors to critical asphyxia neonatorum of this group were:fetal distress(47%),premature delivery(49%),umbilical factors-torsion,prolapse,shortening(32%),breech presentation(26%),high risk PIH(14%),monstrosity(6%),placental abruption and placenta praevia(6%).Conclusion Effective measures of reducing critical asphyxia neonatorum are to strengthen the monitoring of pregnant women and their antenatal care so as to find and treat PIH early and correct breech presentation in time,try to reduce premature delivery,find early and properly treat fetal distress and oafs and prohibit illegal accouchement.

Objective To study the possibility of fetal cardiac rhabdomyoma diagnosed by ultrasonography,and the relationship between the fetal cardiac rhabdomyoma and family tuberous sclerosis. Methods High resolution ultrasonic equipment with fetal cardiac software was used. The main cross section of four chamber view was studied mainly. The location, the number of the tumor and the outflow tract of left and right ventricular cordis were scanned carefully, the maternal abdominal scan was performed as well. Results Five cases of fetal cardiac rhabdomyoma were found by routine prenatal ultrasonography, and were confirmed by autopsy. Among them, one case were associated with maternal tuberous sclerosis. Conclusions Fetal cardiac rhabdomyoma associated with tuberous sclerosis. Fetus with cardiac rhabdomyoma frequently die of cardiac failure; since the prognosis of the tuberous sclerosis with neural sclerosis was very poor, when the fetal cardiac rhabdomyoma was detected prenatally, the possibility of tuberous sclerosis should be considered, also relative examination must be performed to the mother to decrease the perinatal mortality.

Objective To understand the main pathogenic bacteria distribution and drug susceptibility in the common bile duct calculi with infection ,so as to provide the basis for rational use of antimicrobial agents .Methods Data′s of 296 cases of bile specimens treated from January 2011 to December 2013 were retrospectively surveyed and drug resistance of bacteria culture results were analyzed .Results Among all the 296 cases ,there were 199 cases of pathogenic bacteria in bile specimens ,the positive rate was 67 .23% ;among them ,there were 21 cases of two kinds of bacteria ,a total of 220 strains of pathogenic bacteria were detected ,and among them there were 158 strains of gram negative bacteria ,accounting for 71 .82% ;there were 46 strains of gram positive bacte‐ria ,accounting for 20 .91% ;there were 16 strains of fungi ,accounting for 7 .27% ;the lowest resistance of gram negative bacilli lies in amikacin ,followed by tazobactam ,aztreonam ,three to four generations of cephalosporins and quinolone .Gram negative bacilli has the highest drug resistance to pseudomonas aeruginosa and e .coli ,and it has a drug resistant rate higher than 50 .00% to most anti‐microbial drugs .Gram positive cocci has 0 drug resistance rate to add ring element ,has a drug resistance rate lower than 30 .00% to vancomycin and rina thiazole amine ,and has highest drug resistance rate (70 .00% -100 .00% ) to erythromycin ,clindamycin and chlorine lincomycin .Conclusion Among all the 296 cases of common bile duct calculi bile with biliary tract infection ,the main path‐ogenic bacteria were e .coli ,klebsiella pneumoniae ,eosinophilic malt narrow and excrement enterococcus bacterium ;and the drug re‐sistance to penicillin is highest .