Objective To evaluate the anatomic relationships between the portals and radial nerve of three different operations of antrolateral approach elbow arthroscopy.Methods The dissections were pedormed in 10 formalin soaked adult cadaver elbows.The distances from the three different antrolateral portals to the radial nerve in extension and flexion 90° position were measured.The portal A was located at 3 cm distal and 1 cm anterior to the lateral epicondyle;the portal B was located at 2 cm distal and 2 cm anterior to the lateral epicondyle;the portal C,1 cm distal and 1 cm anterior to the lateral epicondyle.Results The nearest distances from the anterolateral portal A,B,and C to the radial nerve in extension position were (2.30 ± 0.95) mm,(3.00 ± 1.56) mm,and (3.60 ± 1.65) mm,with significant differences (F =11.097,P =0.001).Statistical difference in distances from the anterolateral portal to the radial nerve between portal A and C was found (P =0.006).No statistically significant difference was seen between A and B or B and C (PA-B =0.134,PB-c =0.072).The distances from the anterolateral portal A,B,and C to the radial nerve in flexion 90° position were (4.40 ± 2.01) mm,(6.10 ± 1.79) mm,and (7.90 ± 1.85) mm,with significant differences (F =54.775,P =0.000).There were statistically significant difference among the three approaches (PA-B =0.000,PA-c =0.000,PB-c =0.002).The distances increased when the position changed from extension to flexion 90° for portal A (t =-5.161,P =0.001),portal B (t=-8.188,P=0.000),and portal C (t =-10.167,P =0.000).Conclusion The anterolateral portal 1 cm distal and 1 cm anterior to the lateral epicondyle is the safest apporach.

Objective To investigate the situation of the activities of daily living(ADL)for elderly people in Changsha,and analyze the influencing factors. Methods Questionnaire survey on ADL was held in 2239 elderly people(ranging from 60 to 91 years old),and the influencing factors including age,sex,family structure,marital status,education level,occupation,common chronic diseases and medical care consciousness were analyzed. Results Going to the toilet irregularly hadthe highest injury rate in physical self-maintenance viability(18.2%).But in instrumental ADL,the highest injury rate occurred while shopping(26.3%).Advanced age,living alone,losing spouse,sickness and the lack of medical care awareness were the major factors that influenced the ADL of the elderly people. Conclusions The ADL is an important indicator which reflects the health condition of elderly people.Advanced age,living alone,losing spouse,having many chronic diseases and lacking in medical care awareness are risk factors.

Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase(IDO)is the crucial rate-limiting enzyme of tryptophan outside the liver in the body and is considered as an immune defense mechanism in tumor microenvironment.IDO is expressed in a number of cells including cancer cell,dendretic cell and so on.In tumor microenvironment,the overexpression of IDO can lead to the exhaustion of tryptophan and induce the proliferation of regulatory cells,which can prevent the proliferation,diffenentiation and activity of T cells and result in the immune tolerance to tumors.

Objective To explore the influence of continuity care model on how to deal with medical waste of insulin injections among domestic patients Methods Consecutive diabetes patients using the home insulin injections were recruited as the the members of our Diabetes Education Classfrom September 2014 to March 2015. The home medical waste disposal was brought into the content of diabetes education;problems were intervened through the continuity care model. Using the questionnaire survey to investigate the cognitive and disposal of patients on medical waste, to compare the difference of results of questionnaire before and after the intervention. Results The cognitive rate of medical waste after intervention was 97.70%(212/217),while the cognitive rate before intervention was 3.69%(8/217), the difference was significant (χ2=383.63,P<0.01). Disposal of diabetes patients using the home insulin injections had improved after the continuity care, the rate of dealing with medical waste according to specification after the intervention was 91.24% (198/217),while the rate before the intervention was 3.23%(7/217), the difference was significant (χ2=337.26,P<0.01). Conclusions The continuity care model standardized the behavior of patients for disposal of medical waste, reduced the environment pollution of medical waste and decreased the spread of disease.

The in-vitro fertilization and embryo transfer technique has been widely applied in human insemination. The rate of successful insemination is gradual y rising, and the in-vitro fertilization directly determine the insemination outcome.
OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the difference between the two common using insemination methods, microdrop and open, in in-vitro fertilization and embryo development.
METHODS:A randomized study was conducted to compare microdrop and open insemination methods among non-male factor patients undergoing in-vitro fertilization and embryo transfer. A total of 1 175 cases were enrol ed in the research. There were 573 cases in the microdrop group, and 602 cases in open insemination group. The fertilization rate and embryo development in the two groups were compared.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:The fertilization failure rate [total fertilization failure rate+low fertilization rate (<25%oocytes fertilized)] in the microdrop insemination group was higher than in the open insemination group (11.9%, 3.3%, P<0.001), while the good quality embryo rate and pregnancy rate did not differ significantly between the two groups (al P>0.05). The open insemination method is a simple insemination method with a lower fertilization failure rate. As the fertilization is a highly complicated process involving many extrinsic and intrinsic factors, further study is needed to confirm the effects of the two insemination methods on in-vitro fertilization outcome.

Objective To explore the value of serum thyroid hormones in assessing the severity of acute pancreatitis early in its course.Methods Fifty-two patients with acute pancreatitis were included in this prospective study.Attacks were classified as severe ( n =32) or mild ( n =20) according to the Atlanta criteria.Serum levels of thyroid hormones,including FT4,FT3,rT3 and TSH,were measured at admission.Each of the thyroid hormone levels was compared between the severe and mild groups,and the relationships of these thyroid hormones with APACHE Ⅱ scores and CT severity grading were analyzed.Effectiveness of thyroid hormone for the prediction of disease severity was evaluated by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis.Results Serum FT3 levels were decreased significantly in severe acute pancreatitis compared with those in mild acute pancreatitis (P ＜ 0.01 ) ; whereas no significant difference was noted in the levels of FT4,rT3 and TSH between groups (P ＞ 0.05 ).Serum FT3 levels were negatively correlated with APACHE Ⅱ scores ( r =- 0.687,P ＜ 0.01 ) and CT severity grading ( r =- 0.720,P ＜ 0.01 ).The area under curve of FT3 was 0.875.With an optimum cutoff value of 2.87 pmol/L for FT3,the sensitivity,specificity,positive predictive and negative predictive values for the prediction of severe acute pancreatitis were 75％,95％,93.8％,and 79.2％,respectively.Conclusions Serum FT3 level is an acceptable indicator for early assessment of the severity of acute pancreatitis.

Objective To investigate the relationship between acute radiation proctitis and radiation dose,volume as well as radiation time,in the process of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) for the cervical cancer patients.Methods A total of 51 patients with locally advanced cervical cancer were enrolled from January 2011 to December 2013.Those patients were then classified into grade 1 to 4 groups,according to the RTOG/EORTCtoxicity grading standard.The exposure dose volume and the average dose of rectum under the standard plan were evaluated with dose-volume histogram (DVH).The ANOVA test was used for analyzing Dmax,D mean,D1 cm3,D2cm3,D40 and V40 values of rectum and the average exposure dose of rectum.Results The average time of acute radiation proctitis with clinical symptoms was (23.06 ± 12.01) d after radiotherapy.Dmaxvalues of rectum in grade 2 group was lower than those in grade 3 and 4 groups (F =5.268,P ＜ 0.05).Moreover,D1 cm3 and D2 cm3 values of rectum in grade 1 and 2 groups were also lower than those in grade 3 and 4 groups (F =4.893,4.406,P ＜ 0.05).There was no statistically significant difference between D40 and V40 values.Conclusions The acute radiation proctitis could be frequently found around 20 days during the IMRT for cervical cancer patients.Mild and moderate acute radiation proctitis are more common,while severe acute radiation proctitis is rare.Minimizing Dmax,D1 cm3 and D2 cm3 values of rectum might reduce the incidence of severe acute radiation proctitis in cervical cancer patients receiving IMRT.

BACKGROUNDp16INK4a and p14ARF, encoded by gene INK4a/ARF located at chromosome 9p21, are cyclin dependent kinase (CDK) inhibitors. Both p16INK4a and p14ARF are cell cycle regulatory proteins and play an important role in Rb and p53 passways respectively. In this study, wild-type INK4a/ARF gene was transfected into human lung adenocarcinoma cell line A549, in which this gene site was lost, and the effects on the cell's biological behavior were investigated.

METHODSThe recombinant eukaryotic expression plasmids pcDNA3-p16INK4a and pcDNA3-p14ARF were transfected into A549 by cationic liposome method. By RT-PCR, immunocytochemistry and Western blot after G418 selection, A549 cells that could stably express p16INK4a and p14ARF were obtained. As a control, the parental cell and negative control cell with plasmid pcDNA3-LacZ were used. Inhibition of proliferation was measured by MTT assay. The cell growth curve was drawn according to cell counts. Cell cycle distribution was measured by flow cytometry (FCM), the apoptosis indexes were observed at the same time. The colony formation rate was counted by staining the cells with Coomassie brilliant blue.

RESULTSThe introduction of exogenous INK4a and ARF caused significantly growth inhibition of A549. By FCM, more percentage of A549-p16INK4a-p14ARF cells couldn't pass through the checkpoint G1. The percentage of A549-p16INK4a-p14ARF cells inhibited at G0/G1 was 59.9%, 50.3% for A549-vector and 51.2% for A549. The statistical differences were significant between A549-p16INK4a-p14ARF cell and A549-vector cell (P=0.025) and between A549-p16INK4a-p14ARF cell and A549 cell (P=0.043). The apoptosis index of A549-p16INK4a-p14ARF cell was 8.0% and 2.7% for both A549-vector and A549 cell (P < 0.01). The colony formation ability of A549-p16INK4a-p14ARF was weaker than that of A549-vector and A549, they were 63%, 87% and 85% respectively.

CONCLUSIONSThe wild-type INK4a/ARF gene can be co-introduced effectively into A549 cell by cationic liposome method. The reexpression of p16INK4a and p14ARF in A549 can inhibit the growth and enhance the apoptosis. This trial will be helpful in using gene therapy of lung cancer in the future.

OBJECTIVETo observe the therapeutic effect of calming the liver and restraining the Yang formula in treating patients with mild or moderate degree of essential hypertension (syndrome of hyperactivity of liver-Yang), and to explore its mechanism in lowering blood pressure.

METHODThe 348 patients with EH of stage I , II were randomly divided into two groups, the 174 patients in the treated group were treated with the calming the liver and restraining the Yang formula, and the 174 patients in the control group were treated with amlodipine. The treatment course for them all was 12 weeks. The related clincial symptoms score and quality of life score estimated before and after treatment at 4th week, 8th week and 12th week were observed. Before and after treatment, the ambulatory blood pressure (AMBP), heart rate, blood lipid, serum livels of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (Hs-CRP), Angiotensin-II (Ang II) and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) were measured respectively in 40 patients of the treared group and 40 patients of the control group.

RESULTAfter treatment, the treatment in the treated group showed an effect better than that in the control group in terms of nigh-time blood pressure reducing rate (P < 0.05). The reducing blood pressure variability and total effective rate in the treated group were no significant than that in the control group. In respect of reducing symptomatic scores on dizzy, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, disturbed and dry and bitter of mouth, ameliorating quality of life score, decreasing the levels of heart rate, total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol(HDL-C) in the treated group were showing marked improvement as compared with that in the control group (P < 0.05 or P < 0.1). The improvement in the level of Ang II , Hs-CRP and CGRP before treatment in two groups were more significant than that after treatment (P < 0.05). However There were no difference in after treatment between the treated group and the control group.

CONCLUSIONThe calming the liver and restraining the Yang formula shows favorable efficacy in lowering blood pressure on the patients with mild or moderate degree of essential hypertension. It can reduce the clincial symptoms, improve the quality of life, regulate blood lipid metabolism. Its mechanism may be related to the functional relieving inflammatory reaction and inhibition the activity of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS).

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