10 mg/L)and normal CRP group (CRP≤10 mg/L).The associations between CRP and hemoglobin,albumin,prealbumin,serum ferritin in were analyzed respectively.Results HD patients'CRP indexes are higher than PD patients'(P

Acupuncture Points ; Acupuncture Therapy ; Adult ; Aged ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Tennis Elbow ; therapy

Database of analgesic traditional Chinese prescriptions manages 3 sub-databases of information on disease, herbs, and compound prescription intelligently and relatively. When a key word is input into the database, the associated information of herbs, their compound prescriptions, actions and effects will be displayed immediately. Starting from setting inclusion criteria, the module of database was designed according to application purpose, and the searching strategy was designed according to regularity of prescription compatibility. The compound prescription can be quantitatively estimated as monarch, minister, assistant and guide in order.

With the development of dental implant techniques, dental rehabilitation of partially or totally edentulous patients with oral implants has become a common practice. Adequate bone volume in the implant area is a key factor for the success of implant restoration. However, insufficient bone volume in the implant area is very common in clinical practice, which jeopardizes the structural, functional, and esthetic outcomes of implant treatment. Bone augmentation with bone grafts is one of the methods commonly used in clinical practice to meet the requirements of implantation. Properties of bone grafts, such as biocompatibility,osteoconduction, osteoinduction and osteogenesis, are important to the success of bone augmentation. This paper reviews current research on dental bone grafts about their clinically relevant capabilities, classification and their potential development in the future, in order to provide theoretical reference for clinical application of bone grafts and successful implant restoration.

Objective To investigate the feasibility and safety of transvaginal endoscopic cholecystectomy.Methods The clinical data of 88 female patients who underwent cholecystectomy at the Qilu Hospital of Shandong University from May to November, 2009 were retrospectively analysed. Among all the patients, 32 received transvaginal endoscopic cholecystectomy ( NOTES group) and the remaining 56 patients received laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC). Thirty-two patients who received LC at the same period were selected (LC group)acccording to age, body mass index, type and severity of disease to conduct a matched case-control study. The differences in time span of postoperative pain, anodyne dose, enterokinesia recovery time, operation time, out-ofbed activity time, average hospital stay and hospitalization expenses between the two groups were compared using the paired t test. Results Cholecystectomies were successfully carried out for all the patients. The intraoperative blood loss, operation time, degree of pain, anodyne doses, enterokinesia recovery time, out-of-bed activity time,average hospital stay and hospitalization expenses were (5.7 ± 1.5 ) ml, ( 76 ± 27 ) minutes, 2.2 ± 0.6, ( 10 ±6) mg, (25±5) hours, (9±3) hours, (2.1 ±1.2) days and (1.12±0.34) ×104 yuan in NOTES group, and they were ( 13.9 ± 3.1 ) ml, (38 ± 16) minutes, 6.7 ± 1.5, (28 ± 8) mg, (45 ± 8) hours, (26 ± 6) hours,(4.3 ± 2.1 ) days and ( 1.54 ± 0.18 ) × 104 yuan in the LC group. There were significant differences between the two groups (t = 5.098, - 4.712, 2.417, 3.203, 3.089, 4.136, 4.786, 3.917, P ＜ 0.05 ). Conclusion Transvaginal endoscopic cholecystectomy is safe and feasible, and it is superior to tranditional LC.

Adenocarcinoma, Papillary ; blood supply ; metabolism ; pathology ; Adult ; Aged ; Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal ; blood supply ; metabolism ; pathology ; Chemokine CXCL12 ; metabolism ; Female ; Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic ; Humans ; Lymph Nodes ; metabolism ; Lymphatic Metastasis ; Male ; Microvessels ; pathology ; Middle Aged ; Neoplasm Staging ; Neovascularization, Pathologic ; metabolism ; pathology ; Pancreas ; metabolism ; Pancreatic Neoplasms ; blood supply ; metabolism ; pathology ; Receptors, CXCR4 ; metabolism

The development and progression of atherosclerosis and thrombosis are closely related to changes of hemodynamics parameters. Ultrasonic pulse wave Doppler technique is normally used for noninvasively blood flow imaging. However, this technique only provides one-dimensional velocity and depends on the angle between the ultrasound beam and the local velocity vector. In this study, ultrasonic particle image velocimetry method was used to assess whole field hemodynamic changes in normal blood vessels. By using the polynomial fitting method, we investigated the velocity gradient and assessed the shear in different blood flow velocity of 10 healthy rats. It was found that using four polynomial fitting could result in optimal measurement results. The results obtained by ultrasonic particle image velocimetry accorded with the results obtained using Doppler technique. The statistical average of cyclical vessel wall shear stress was positively related to the locational mean velocity. It is proven that ultrasonic particle image velocimetry method could be used to assess directly the real-time whole field hemodynamic changes in blood vessels and was non-invasively, and should be a good prosperous technique for monitoring complex blood flow in stenotic ar- teries.
Algorithms ; Animals ; Arteries ; diagnostic imaging ; pathology ; Blood Flow Velocity ; Echocardiography, Doppler ; Hemodynamics ; Models, Cardiovascular ; Rats ; Rheology ; Stress, Mechanical ; Ultrasonics

Objective To observe the evaluation of early chemoradiotherapy efficacy in uterine cervical cancer by different b-value combination.Methods Thirty uterine cervical cancer patients who were treated with chemoradiotherapy received conventional MRI and diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) before treatment,after 2 weeks treatment and after treatment.The patients were divided into complete remission (CR) group (15 cases),partial remission (PR) group (9 cases),stable disease (SD) group (6 cases) according to the changes in tumor size after 9 months of treatment.The tumor size and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) of uterine cervical cancer were measured at each examination among the 3 groups.All ADC were calculated with b =0,600 s/mm2 and b =0,1000 s/mm2.According the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve,chemoradiotherapy efficacy and prognosis value of different b-value of ADC chart in uterine cervical cancer were compared.Results There were no significant differences in ADC of b =0,600 s/mm2 ADC chart and b =0,1000 s/mm2 ADC chart before treatment and after 2 weeks treatment in the 3 groups (P＞ 0.05).ADC increase rate after 2 weeks treatment in CR group was significantly higher than that in PR group and SD group (0.35 ± 0.10 vs.0.22 ± 0.10 and 0.21 ± 0.08,0.28 ± 0.08 vs.0.14 ±0.04 and 0.16 ± 0.02,P ＜ 0.05).There was no significant difference between PR group and SD group (P ＞0.05).The decrease rates of tumor diameter after 2 weeks treatment in CR,PR and SD group were 0.36 ±0.18,0.33 ± 0.17 and 0.24 ± 0.09,there were no significant differences (F=1.151,P ＞ 0.05).After 2 weeks treatment,at b =0,600 s/mm2 ADC chart,when liminal value of ADC was 0.211 × 10-3 mm2/s,ROC area under curve was 0.976,sensitivity was 85.6％,specificity was 100.0％; at b =0,1000 s/mm2 ADC chart,when liminal value of ADC was 0.181 × 10-3 mm2/s,ROC area under curve was 0.979,sensitivity was 85.6％,specificity was 100.0％.The accuracy of two kinds of ADC chart evaluation of uterine cervical cancer early chemoradiotherapy efficacy was higher,and the effect was similar.Conclusion The ADC increase rate after 2 weeks treatment can be used to predict the early chemoradiotherapy efficacy of uterine cervical cancer,and the value of two kinds of ADC chart of different b-value is similar.

Objective To explor the value of Tei index for evaluation the cardiac function of patients with chronic heart failure(CHF).Methods Tei index in 60 patients with CHF(CHF group) and 30 normal controls(control group) were evaluated and compared with the levels of NT-ProBNP and the NYHA class,and the sensitivity and specificity of Tei index for CHF diagnosis were appraised.Results (1) Tei index in CHF group was significantly higher than that in control group.When Tei index was more than and equal to 0.45,the sensitivity,specificity,positive predictive value,and negative predictive value of Tei index for diagnosing CHF were 85.6％,90.4％,89.8％ and 78.0％.(2)There was a remarkable positive correlation between Tei and Log NT-ProBNP(r =0.84,P ＜ 0.01).(3)There were significant differences in Tei index among NYHA Ⅱ,Ⅲ,Ⅳ class [(0.47 ± 0.06),(0.56 ± 0.08),(0.64 ±0.13)].Conclusion Tei index can be used to diagnose CHF and evaluate the degree of it.

Objective To explore the essentiality of dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) examination before breast-conserving surgery (BCS) in breast cancer patients with young women.Methods The data of DCE-MRI and mammography X-ray in 30 breast cancer patients with young women (＜ 40 years old) who received surgery with pathology-proven were retrospectively analyzed.The detection rate of breast lesion,number,size,extent of invasive and lymph node metastasis of preoperative were observed.The DCE-MRI was assessed accuracy of BCS in accordance with indications for BCS and histopathology results.Results The breast cancer detection rate of DCE-MRI was significantly higher than mammography X-ray [100.00％(30/30) vs.73.33％(22/30),P =0.002].The maximum tumor diameter of DCE-MRI was (3.55 ± 1.50) cm,mammography X-ray was (3.38 ± 1.70) cm,postoperative pathology was (3.51 ± 1.20) cm,and DCE-MRI was closer to postoperative pathology than mammography X-ray.The discovery of additional lesions of DCE-MRI was more than mammography X-ray (P ＜ 0.05).The surrounding tissue invasion of DCE-MRI was detected in 22 cases,mammography X-ray was in 9 cases,postoperative pathology was in 19 cases,there was no significant difference between DCE-MRI and postoperative pathology (P =0.598),there was significant difference between mammography X-ray and postoperative pathology (P =0.010).The number of axillary fossa lymph node metastasis of DCE-MRI was in 127,mammography X-ray was in 48,compared with postoperative pathology (91),there was significant difference (P =0.026,0.034).The detection of microcalcification of mammography X-ray was better than DCE-MRI (7 cases vs.0 case,P =0.001).The number of BCS of postoperative pathology was in 12 cases,DCE-MRI was in 11 cases,mammography X-ray was in 8 cases,DCE-MRI was higher than mammography X-ray,but there was no significant difference (P=0.132).Conclusion DCE-MRI provides comprehensive and accurate information for breast cancer patients with young women for BCS,and it is feasible to assess them using DCE-MRI preoperative for BCS.