Objective To evaluate the diagnostic value, patients' tolerance and complications of double-balloon enteroscopy (DBE) in the diagnosis of small intestinal diseases. Methods During May 2003 to July 2005, a total of 68 patients (36 men, 32 women; mean age of 52. 6 years, range 15-78 years) with suspected small intestinal diseases were performed double-balloon enteroscopy (36 via mouth, 25 via anus and 7 via both mouth and anus according to suspected lesion location). Among them, obscure recurrent gastrointestinal bleeding was found in 39 cases, incomplete small intestinal obstruction in 7 cases, chronic abdominal pain in 14 cases, and chronic diarrhea in 8 cases. Results Approximately one half to three-fourth of the entire small intestine was observed by each approach in all cases except for 3 cases of severe intestinal stricture. The observation of the whole small intestine was finished by the combination of both oral and anal approaches in 7 cases. The appropriate use of X-ray made the enteroscopy easier and more helpful to determine the extent and location of the lesions. The lesions were found in 41 of the 68 patients, with a total positive rate of 60. 3%. The diagnostics yields was 26/39(62. 6%) in obscure recurrent gastrointestinal bleeding, 5 in incomplete intestinal obstruction, 6/14(43%) in chronic abdominal pain and 4 in chronic diarrhea, respectively. Fifty-seven cases (83. 8%) tolerated well without anesthesia while 11 cases received propofol anesthesia. No procedure-related severe adverse events or severe complications such as hemorrhage or perforation occurred in all cases. Conclusion Double-balloon enteroscopy is a well-tolerated and safe diagnostic approach with a high diagnostic yield in small intestinal diseases.

Objective To explore the common factors' influence on serum gastrin level,and reveal the value of serum gastrin in the diagnosis of gastric precancerous lesions and gastric cancers.Methods Serum gastrin level of 3 906 serum samples was detected by ELISA.Results Serum gastrin level of patients over 60 years old was distinctively higher than that of other age groups.Serum gastrin level in antral diseases was higher than that in diseases of the body.HP positive group was higher than the negative one.The level progressingly increased from normal group to superficial gastritis and to gastric erosion or ulcer;and it decreased from gastric erosion or ulcer to atrophic gastritis,while it increased from atrophic gastritis to dysplasia,and it decreased from dysplasia to gastric cancer.Serum gastrin level was distinctively lower in gastric cancer than in other groups.Conclusion For people over 60 years old,their serum gastrin level has the tendence to increase.The location of gastric disease is an important factor affecting serum gastrin level.HP can increase the serum gastrin level.During gastric precancerous stage,the serum gastrin level may gradually increase with the diseases' progression,and decrease when gastric cancer is formed.Serum gastrin is a good marker to differentiate benign and malignant gastric diseases.

Objective To investigate the oxidative stress,microinflammation and their relationship in patients with MHD(maintenance hemodialysis)and to evaluate the effect and safety of vitamin E supplementation in patients with MHD.Methods Fifty-eight patients with MHD and 20 healthy volunteers were involved in this study.The patients were administered 400 mg/d of vitamin E for 6 weeks.The levels of oxidative vitamin E(Vit E),malondialdehyde(MDA),advanced oxidation protein product(AOPP),superoxide dismutase(SOD),activity of glutathione peroxidase(GSH-PX),microinflammation cytokines C-reactive protein(CRP),interleukin-6(IL-6),interleukin-10(IL-10) and tumor necrosis factor(TNF-?)in plasma were measured at the beginning and the end of administering Vit E.Results 400 mg/d of Vit E supplementation decreased the levels of plasma AOPP,MDA,CRP,TNF-?(P

Objective: To investigate the postoperative change of concentration of CD_(41) in peripheral platelet following intra-operative polygeline administration. Method: Sixty-eight patients were randomly divided into studied and control groups. The patients in studied group were infused with 1 000ml polygeline whereas 1 000ml ringer's solution in control group. The concentration of CD_(41) in peripheral platelet was measured with immunocytometry before surgery, one hour, one day, two and five days after surgery. Result: There was no statistical difference in CD_(41) level between the two groups before surgery, CD_(41)values one hour and one day after surgery were obviously decreased in studied group compared with these in control group (P

Objective To study the influence of postural intervention on ambulation of patients after video-assisted thoracoscope surgery? Methods One hundred and forty eight patients having undergone chest cardiac surgery were randomly divided into the control group(n = 75)and the observation group(n = 74)? The former received routine nursing intervention and the latter postural intervention besides routine nursing? The two groups were compared in terms of the time for ambulation and the ability in ambulation? Result The ambulation in the observation group was earlier than the control group and the ability in ambulation was better compared to the control group(both P < 0?05)? Conclusion The postural intervention after thoracic surgery is effective in pushing patient’s ambulation and improve their ability?

Objective To explore the feasibility of inherent depressive Fawn-Hooded (FH/Wjd)rats as a comorbidity model of mental disorder and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) by comparing visceral sensitivity of FH/Wjd rats and Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats. Methods Depression trait of FH/Wjd rats was validated through forced swimming test (FST) and sucrose preference test (SPT).Visceral sensitivity to colorectal distention (CRD) under various pressures was assessed by abdominal withdrawal reflex (AWR). The expression of 5-HT in rats' colon,c-fos expression in colon and brain areas of infralimbic cortex (IL),prelimbic cortex (PrL) and rostral anterior cingulated cortex (rACC)was tested with immunohistochemistry. Results FST indicated that the immobility time of FH/Wjd rats was significantly longer than that in SD rats (t=-8. 931,P＜0. 01). SPT showed that the ratio of sucrose water in total liquid consumed was significantly lower in FH/Wjd rats than that of SD rats(t=4. 155,P=0. 01). At each CRD pressure gradient (20,40,60 and 80 mm Hg,1 mm Hg=0. 133kPa),AWR score was all significantly higher in FH/Wjd rats than that of SD rats (t=-2. 697,-3.464,-6.822 and -3. 976,P=0. 022,0.006,0.000 and 0.003). The expression level of 5-HT in FH/Wjd rats' control group was significantly higher than that of SD rats' control group (t=-11.371,P=0. 000). Compared with their own control group,5-HT expression increased both in FH/Wjd rats dilated groups and SD rats dilated groups,and the expression level in FH/Wjd rats was higher than that of SD rats (t= -3. 364,P= 0. 007). There was no significant difference of c-fos expression in colon and prefrontal brain areas between FH/Wjd rats' control group and SD rats'control group (colon:t=-0. 129,P= 0. 900;IL:t=-1. 316,P= 0. 218;PrL:t=1. 241,P = 0. 243;rACC:t=2. 151,P = 0. 057). Compared with their own control group,the expression of c-fos in colon and prefrontal brain areas significantly increased both in FH/Wjd rats dilated groups and SD rats dilated groups,and the expression level in FH/Wjd rats was higher than that of SD rats (colon: t=- 5.864,P= 0.000;IL:t=-2. 530,P = 0. 030;PrL:t=-7. 039,P= 0. 000;rACC:t=-6. 489,P=0. 000). Conclusions Inherent depressive FH/Wjd rats present visceral hypersensitivity. Meanwhile,the expression of 5-HT in colon is high,and with hyperreactivity to visceral noxious stimuli in colon and brain IL,PrL,and rACC areas. FH/Wjd rats might be a comorbidity animal model of mental disorder and IBS.

Objective To compare the short term prognostic values between the four scores including ABCD,ABCD2,ABCD+ low density lipoprotein (ABCD+ LDL),ABCD2 + LDL after transient ischemic attack (TIA).Methods 235 TIA patients were evaluated according to ABCD score,ABCD2 score,ABCD + LDL score and ABCD2 + LDL score.The occurrence of cerebral infarction was observed at day 2 and 7.The predictive value was compared between the four scores by using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve.Patients were classified into 3 risk groups:lowrisk group,moderate-risk group and high-risk group according to ABCD2 L score,and the stroke incidence was compared between the 3 groups by using x2 test.Results The area under ROC curves (AUCs) of ABCD、ABCD2、ABCDL and ABCD2L was 0.68 (95％CI:0.59-0.76),0.71 (95％CI:0.62-0.80),0.73 (95％CI:0.65-0.82) and 0.77 (95％CI:0.69-0.84) in predicting the risk of cerebral infarction at day 2,and were 0.73 (95％CI:0.66-0.81),0.77 (95％CI:0.70 0.84),0.80(95％CI:0.74-0.87) and 0.83 (95％CI:0.76-0.89) in predicting the risk of cerebral infarction at day 7 respectively.Patients were divided into 3 groups:low-risk group (score 0-2) (n =28),moderate-risk group (score 3-5) (n=143) and high-risk group (score 6-8) (n=45) according to ABCD2L score.There were significant differences in stroke incidence at day 2 and 7 between the 3groups (0％,9.1％ vs.32.8％,0％,11.9％ vs.56.3％,x2=26.15,58.87,both P＜0.05).Conclusions ABCD2 score is better than ABCD score in predicting the short-term prognosis of transient ischemic attack.Combining ABCD2 score with LDL can significantly increase the predictive value of ABCD2 score.

OBJECTIVETo assess the DNA damage of copper 8-quinolinolate (CuQ) and to elucidate the plausible mechanisms.METHODSHepG2 cells were treated with CuQ0-4 μmol·L-1 for different time,DNA damage was measured by Comet assay.Catalase (CAT) activity,glutathione(GSH) level and thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) were measured.NF-κB was examined using Western blotting.8-Hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) was measured by immunoperoxidase staining analysis.RESULTSCuQ 0.5 -4 μmol·L-1 caused significant increase of DNA migration in HepG2 cells.CuQ significantly decreased levels of GSH and activity of CAT in HepG2 cells (P ＜0.05).Moreover,CuQ significantly increased accumulation of the p65 subunit of NF-κB into nucleus,levels of lipid peroxidation product TBARS and the formation of 8-OHdG (P ＜0.05).The intracellular GSH level was modulated by pre-treatment with buthionine-(S,R)-sulfoximine (BSO),depletion of GSH in HepG2 cells pre-treated with BSO dramatically increased susceptibility of HepG2 cells to CuQ-induced DNA damage.CONCLUSIONCuQ exerts DNA damage by oxidative stress and increases accumulation of p65 subunit of NF-κB into nucleus in HepG2 cells.

Objective To explore the ability of ABCD2 score + Low density lipoprotein (LDL)(ABCD2L) in predicting early stroke risk after transient ischemic attack (TIA) . Method A total of 165TIA patients were evaluated and classified according to ABCD2 score and ABCD2L score. The occurrences of cerebral infarction were observed at 2th day or 7th day. ROC curve was used to compare the predictive vaule of two scores. Furthermore, according to these two scores, these patients were classified into three risk groups (low, moderate and high ), observed their stroke rate , and compared the differences of three groups with x2 test. Results The two-day risk of stroke was 13.33% and the seven-day risk of stroke was 20. 0% in 165 patients. When the occurrences of cerebral infarction were observed in two days, the area under the curves (AUC) of ABCD2 and ABCD2L was 0. 76 and 0. 80; observed in seven days, the AUC of two scores was 0. 73 and 0. 79. According to the risk stratification of ABCD2 score, in three risk groups,the two-day risk of stroke was 1.9%, 14. 9% and 30. 8%; the seven-day risk of stroke was 3. 8%, 21.8%and 46. 2% ( P ＜ 0. 05 ) . According to the risk stratification of ABCD2 L score, the two-day risk of stroke was 0%, 7. 8% and 31.1% ; the seven-day risk of stroke was 0%, 12. 6% and 44. 4% ( P ＜ 0. 05 ).Conclusions The predictive accuracy of the ABCD2L score is significantly higher than that of ABCD2 score. Furthermore, individuals at high early risk of stroke after TIA can be identified according to the risk stratification of ABCD2L score.

Objective To know the effects of training for community residents about cardiopulmonary resuscitation.Methods 60 community residents were trained by CPR with varied training methods,evaluated the effects by the ABC for life questionnaire.Results The knowledge of cardiopulmonary resuscitation among the trained community residents were better than before expect 4 aspects.Conclusions The knowledge of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in community residents was not enough,systemic training can effective promote their skills of CPR.