Objective To analyze the clinical characteristics and the endocrine changes in children with craniopharyngioma,and to improve the pediatrician understanding of the disease.Methods The study subjects consisted of 14 children with craniopharyngioma admitted to the Department of Endocrinology,Beijing Children's Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University from Jan.2004 to Dec.2012.All the patients were followed up to analyze the clinical symptoms improvement,endocrine test results and medication,et al.Results The main clinical manifestations were headache (7/14 cases,50.0％),growth retardation(4/14 cases,28.6％),vomiting (4/14 cases,28.6％),polydipsia/ polyuria (3/14 cases,21.4％) and vision diminution (3/14 cases,21.4％).Three patients didn' t undergo the surgery,and 3 cases with diabetes insipidus and 2 cases with growth hormone deficiency,and 1 case with central hypothyroidism by laboratory test.The rest 11 children received surgery and all patients had changes in endocrine after it.Five cases got polydipsia and polyuria,other 5 cases had electrolyte disturbances,and 2 cases had epilepsy.Nine patients were followed up,and the follow-up duration ranged from 5 months to 10 years [(3.29 ± 3.52) years] after surgery.Seven patients got better and 2 patients got worse.Conclusions For clinical symptoms of increased intracranial pressure,changes in endocrine,the vision and visual field,the possibility of craniopharyngioma should be taken into account.Surgery is the main treatment,but it can lead to the damage of hypothalamus and pituitary gland.Changes in endocrine,electrolyte disturbances and epilepsy are the common complications.According to the level of endocrine,longterm hormone replacement therapy for some postoperative patients should be continued.

ObjectiveTo evaluate regional and global systolic function of left ventricle (LV) after mitral valve replacement(MVR) of different methods by 2-dimensional strain (2DS).MethodsAccording to the operational method whether preserve the posterior leaflet and its subvalvular apparatus,48 patients who underwent MVR were divided into two groups,the preservation group (group A) and the resection group (group B).Echocardiography was examinated before and after MVR and the apical four-chamber view,two-chamber view and long-axis view of LV were acquired.Regional peak strain (Sp) and global strain (GS) of LV longitudinal movement were analysed by 2DS software.Results①Compared to preoperation,the Sp in basal segment of posterior septum and inferior wall and middle segment of lateral wall in group A increased significantly ( P ＜0.01 or P ＜0.05).The Sp of group B were improved in both basal and middle segments of posterior septum ( P ＜0.05),while declined in middle segment of lateral wall and anterior wall,basal segment of lateral wall and apical segment of anterior wall significantly (P ＜0.01 or P ＜0.05).②Compared with group A,subtractions between preoperative and postoperative Sp of group B decreased in middle segment and apical segment of anterior wall,middle segment of lateral wall and middle segment of inferior wall significantly ( P ＜0.01 or P ＜0.05).③The GS of group A increased significantly ( P ＜0.05),while that in group B tended to reduce with no statistical significance ( P ＞0.05).Compared with group A,subtractions between preoperative and postoperative GS of group B droped significantly (P ＜ 0.05).ConclusionsAppropriate preservation of the posterior leaflet and its subvalvular apparatus has morebeneficial effect in improving the early regional and global function of LV after surgery,which would be recommended in MVR.Early regional and global systolic function of LV after MVR could be accurately evaluated by 2DS relatively,which has the application value of guiding clinical treatment and estimating prognosis.

Objective To investigate the dynamic alterations of parameters of platelet in newborns with pulmonary hemorrhage(PHN).Methods One hundred and forty-eight cases were selected into research group,within 48 hours after admission,every 3 hours at the time of pulmonary bleeding,peripheral arterial blood were collected and tint deal blood samples were examined with full-automatic blood cell analyzer in order to monitor dynamically changes of platelet and its parameters.Results The blood platelet count(BPC),thronbocytocrit and PDW were greatly changed at 6 hours before occuring pulmonary hemorrhage(all P

Objective To investigate the efficacy of neoadjuvant chemotherapy combined with radical resection of cervical cancer in the treatment of stage IB2-ⅡB cervical cancer.Methods According to the treatment plan from October 2012 to October 2016 in the People′s Hospital of Luohu District of Shenzhen in 80 cases of stage IB2-II B cervical cancer patients were divided into observation group(n=43) and control group(n=37),the observation group was treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy combined with radical surgery for cervical cancer,patients in the control group directly treated for radical resection of cervical cancer.Chemotherapy effect,operation time,intraoperative blood loss,postoperative pathological risk factor differences of two groups of patients were compared.Results (1)Evaluated the curative effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy,squamous cell carcinoma group complete remission(CR) 4 cases,partial remission(PR) 22 cases,stable disease(SD),6 cases of disease progression(PD) in 0 cases,in adenocarcinoma group CR 1 cases,PR 3 cases,SD 5 cases,PD 2 cases of squamous cell carcinoma group adjuvant chemotherapy was significantly better than that of adenocarcinoma group,the difference was statistically significant(z=2.4968,P=0.0063).(2)The operation time((215±57) min) and intraoperative blood loss((682±145) ml) in the observation group were significantly lower than those in the control group(((259±62) min,(758±193) ml)),the difference was statistically significant(t=3.8780,2.2528,P=0.0002,0.0263).(3)The two groups of patients with ureteral fistula(P=0.5039),vesicovaginal fistula(P=0.3639),wound healing(P=0.5182),lower extremity deep venous thrombosis(P=0.4818) complications had no significant difference.(4)The positive rate of the observation group of lymph nodes(χ2=8.2005,P=0.0000),parametrial infiltration rate(χ2=8.1553,P=0.0000) was significantly lower than the control group,the difference was statistically significant.Two groups of patients with deep myometrial invasion rate(χ2=0.0991,P=0.7516),the incidence of cancer embolus(χ2=0.0130,P=0.9176) compared to no statistical significance.Conclusion The effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on cervical squamous cell carcinoma is better than that of adenocarcinoma.Compared with the direct for radical resection of cervical cancer,neoadjuvant chemotherapy combined with radical resection of cervical cancer patients for the treatment of stage IB2-ⅡB cervical cancer,operation time and blood loss are lower,node positive and parametrial invasion and postoperative pathologic risk factors in lymph node also can get better effect.

To establish a UPLC-MS/MS method for the simultaneous determination of geniposide, genipin 1-O-beta-D-gentiobioside and geniposidic acid in rat brains and study the brain pharmacokinetics of the three iridoid glycosides in stroke rat after the oral administration of Xingnaojing. In this experiment, brain samples were precipitated with protein for twice. Acquity BEH C18 column was adopted, with acetonitrile-0.1% formic acid-water as the mobile phase for gradient elution. ESI source was adopted for mass spectra; multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) was conducted to detect negative ions. The time for sample analysis was 3.5 min. the results showed good linear relations among the three iridoid glycosides, with the extraction recovery between 99.6% and 114.3%, good intra- and inter-day precisions and accuracies and stability in line with the requirements. The t1/2 and MRT in the three components were similar in brains of stroke rats. Geniposide and genipin 1-O-beta-D-gentiobioside showed double peaks; where as geniposidic acid showed a single peak. In conclusion, the method is so specific, sensitive, accurate and reliable that it can be used to study the brain pharmacokinetics of Xingnaojing oral preparation.
Animals ; Brain ; metabolism ; Brain Chemistry ; Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid ; methods ; Drug Stability ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; chemistry ; pharmacokinetics ; Iridoids ; chemistry ; pharmacokinetics ; Male ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Tandem Mass Spectrometry ; methods

Suitable pretreatment of biological samples can truly reflect the role of law of the measured components played in the body and will provide experimental evidence for the studies on metabolic process, material basis of efficacy, mechanism of action, pharmacology, toxicology and the others. Biological samples include blood, urine, hair, tears, etc. There are also many samples processing methods, such as the direct protein precipitation, liquid-liquid extraction and solid phase extraction and so on. These methods could be used alone or combined.
Animals ; Body Fluids ; chemistry ; Chemical Precipitation ; Chemistry Techniques, Analytical ; methods ; Humans ; Liquid-Liquid Extraction ; Proteins ; isolation & purification ; Solid Phase Extraction

Objective To investigate the feasibility of using low volume of low concentration isotonic contrast medium for 320 row coronary CT angiography.Methods 64 patients whose heart rate 70 beats per minute or less,normal cardiac rhythm,BMI≤24 kg/m2 were scanned using a 320 row dynamic volume CT with the tube voltage of 100 kVp and injection of contrast medium with a concentration 270 mg I/mL.Prospective ECG gating technique and adaptive iterative dose reduction algorithm reconstruction were used.In group A,22 patients were injected 50 mL contrast medium by a rate of 5.0 mL/s.In group B,21 patients were injected with the dosage of contrast medium calculated by 0.7 mL/kg and injection rate was 4.5 mL/s.In group C,21 patients were injected with the dosage of contrast medium calculated by 0.6 mL/kg and the injection rate was 4.0 mL/s.The attenuation value,signal-to-noise(SNR),con-trast-to-noise ratio(CNR),image quality and iodine intake between three groups were compared using One-Way ANOVA .Results There was no significantly statistical difference of age,sex ratio,BMI,heart rate between the three groups (P >0.05).However,the dosage of the contrast agent and different injection time had statistical significance (P <0.05).The attenuation value from group A to group B and then to group C was on the decline,the CT value of group A was obviously higher than that of group B and group C,and the differences were statistically significant (P <0.05),and there was no significantly statistical difference between the group B and group C (P >0.05).The image quality,SNR and CNR in three groups did not have significant difference (P >0.05).The total iodine and iodine injection rate were lowest in group C.Conclusion In 320 row coronary CT angiography with 100 kVp tube voltage and iterative reconstruction algorithm,the patients whose heart rate 70 beats per minute or less,BMI≤24 kg/m2 injected the low concentration of contrast medium by 0.6 mL/kg dose injection can give a good image quality which can meet the diagnostic requirement.Mean-while,it can also reduce the iodine intake and the risk of contrast induced nephrology (CIN).

Objective To evaluate the safety and efficacy of Enterprise stent in the treatment of severe symptomatic basilar artery atherosclerosis stenosis.Methods All patients who underwent Enterprise stent for the treatment of symptomatic basilar artery atherosclerotic stenosis in our center from Nov.2011 to Nov.2014 were enrolled in the study.Preoperative and postoperative dual antiplatelet drugs and intensive lipid-lowering therapy were given to all the patients.Multi-modality imaging guiding for stent angioplasty was performed in all the patients, including head MRI or CT, CT or MRI perfusion, high resolution MRI for plaque analysis and angiography.Angiography after 6 months was recommended.The main outcome parameters were any stroke or death within 30 days, stroke recurrence in the basilar artery blood supply area during the follow-up period and in-stent restenosis.Results A total of 35 cases were enrolled in the study with operation technical success rate of 100％.The average preoperative and postoperative stenosis rate was (83.0-10.1)％ and (28.1 ±8.9)％.The main perioperative complication and mortality rate was 0.The average follow-up period was (10.6 ±7.9) months.During follow-up period, only 2 cases (5.7％) of TIA related to the stented artery were observed.In patients with follow-up period more than 6 months, 17 cases (56.7％) underwent cerebral angiography.Restenosis rate was 17.6％.One patient with in-stent restenosis suffered from transient cerebral ischemia and received another Enterprise stenting successfully.Conclusion Long term follow-up results show that Enterprise stent for the treatment of symptomatic basilar artery severe stenosis is safe and recurrence of stroke can be prevented effectively.

Objective To analyze the characteristics of multi-b-value diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) of the normal cervical, cervical cancer and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia(CIN Ⅲ),and to assess the value of DWI in diagnosis and pathological staging for cervical cancer.Methods There were 54 patients with pathologically confirmed cervical cancer,including 36 squamous cell carcinoma,15 adenomatous carcinoma, and 3 neuroendocrine carcinoma.And other 9 patients with CIN Ⅲ were involved in the study.All patients underwent conventional MR scan with multi-b-value DWI sequence.The apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values of multi-b-value DWI were compared between normal cervical tissue and cervical cancer with its different pathology subtypes.Results The three normal structure of uterine cervix, including cervical endometrial, junctional zone and myometrium, can be clearly distinguished by different b-value DWI, with a statistical difference of ADC value (P<0.05).Further analysis showed that the average ADC values between normal cervix and cervical cancer had a statistical difference (P<0.05).The similar situation was presented among squamous cell carcinoma, adenomatous carcinoma, neuroendocrine carcinoma and CIN Ⅲ(P<0.05).Conclusion The ADC values of multi-b-value DWI could be helpful to diagnose cervical cancer and CIN Ⅲ,and it is correlated with the pathological type of cervical cancer.The application of multi-b-value DWI to cervical cancer and CIN Ⅲ could increase the accuracy of diagnosis.

Four primers against the genes encoding(cpa,cpb,etx,and iA) four major toxins(?,?,?,?) of Cl. perfringens were designed and the colony multiplex PCR of identification and genotyping of Cl. perfringens strains were developed. Cl. perfringens reference strains stored in china institute of veterinary drug control including A,B,C,D and E genotyping were genotyped using the colony muitiplex PCR assay. The expected sequences were obtained successfully by the colony multiplex PCR assay. But the sequences were not obtained from Cl. novyi,Cl. septicum and Cl. tetani. The expected sequences were obtained from Cl. perfringens individual colony diluted to 100 times with 0.85% saline solution.13 Cl. perfringens strains isolated from diferent animals were genotyped using the colony multiplex PCR assay,and the results were comparaed with the results of toxins neutranization test in mice. The two assays showed good accordance. These results showed that the development of the colony multiplex PCR is very important for early and fast identification and genotyping of Cl. perfringens in china.