Neuropathies are complications of cardiac surgery. The reported frequency of nerve injuries varies from 1. 5% to 2. 4% for the brachial plexus and 10% to 60% for the phrenic nerve. But the recurrent laryngea! nerve,lower limb (saphenous) nerves, and the sympathetic chain are less frequently injured. The reasons of neuropathy are mainly positioning and topical hypothermia for myocardial protection. The overall prognosis of neuropathies after cardiac surgery is good, and they need no special treatment. However, prolonged recovery of phrenic neuropathy did occurr.

Objective To discussed the significance of serum Hepatocyte growth factor(HGF) in chronic liver diseases.Methods 50 cases with hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC),59 cases with liver cirrhosis(LC),38 cases with chronic hepatitis(CH) and 36 healthy people were detected by enzyme linkedimmunosorbent assay(ELISA).Results The serum HGF levels of patients of HCC,LC,CH and normal control were(45.64?40.68)pg/ml,(630.84?469.12)pg/ml,(59.24?36.13)pg/ml,(8.02?5.51)pg/ml,espectively.Serum HGF levels of HCC and LC patients were significantly higher than those of healthy group(t=2.794,t=2.851,P

In the present experiments, the effect of hypertonic NaCl infusion on the renal ultrastructure in rabbits with hypovolemia was examined by electron microscopy. Rabbits were anasthetized with pentobarbital sodium and submitted to control bleeding and held at a mean arterial pressure of 40 mm Hg for 45 minutes. They were then given 6 ml/kg i. v. of 1) isotonic NaCl (300 mosm/L; 2) hypertonic NaCl (2400mosm/L). Only animals receiving hypertonic NaCl had immediate and permanent resto ration of mean arterial pressure and nearly intact ultrastructure of nephron. However, the animals with isotonic NaCl had an ischemic changes of nephron ultrastructure and unrestored mean arterial pressure.

0.05). Other indexes value are as follows: IR 1.1?0.3(NGT),1.3?0.6 (IGT) and 1.6?0.5 (DM), P

Objective To study the application of ABCD3-I score in predicting the risk of early is-chemic stoke after transient ischemic attack (TIA) .Methods One hundred and eighty-two carotid TIA patients were divided into low risk group (n=40) ,moderate risk group (n=74)and high risk group (n=68) according to their ABCD2 ,ABCD3 and ABCD3-I scores .The incidence of ischemic stroke was observed within 7 days after TIA .Results The area under the ROC curve for ischemic stroke within 7 days after TIA was 0 .625 ,0 .713 and 0 .831 ,respectively .Twenty-seven patients (14 .8% ) developed ischemic stroke within 7 days after TIA .The incidence of ischemic stroke was significantly higher in moderate and high risk groups than in low risk group and in high risk group than in moderate risk group (6 .8% vs 0% ,32 .4% vs 0% ,32 .4% vs 6 .8% ,P< 0 .01) .The ABCD3-I socre was positively related with the incidence of ischemic stroke within 7 days after TIA (r=0 .486 ,P<0 .01) ,suggesting that ABCD3-I socre could significantly affect the incidence of ischemic stroke within 7 days after TIA (P<0 .05) .Conclusion ABCD3-I score can effectively predict the risk of early ischemic stroke after TIA ,and can thus be used in assessment and treat-ment of T IA .

Objective To assess prognostic factors impacted on overall survival in patients with epithelial ovarian carcinoma. Methods Totally 170 patients with stages Ⅰ-Ⅳ epithelial ovarian carcinoma admitted in Shanxi Provincial Cancer Hospital from Jan 2002 to Dec 2005 were analyzed by retrospective analysis. Results The results showed that the prognostic factors of epithelial ovarian carcinomas were related to age, stage, histological type, pathological differential grade, the size of residues lesions and the number of course of chemotherapy (P<0.01). The univariate analysis showed that family history was not related to the survival of epithelial ovarian carcinoma (P > 0.05). Compared with stage Ⅳ,the risk of mortality was 0.005 for stage Ⅰ (95% CI, 0.001-0.024), 0.106 for stage Ⅱ (95% CI,0.038-0.297) and0.361 (95% CI, 0.181-0.718)for stage Ⅲ (P<0.01). The risk of mortality was 0.307 (95% CI, 0.176-0.536) for the patients with residual diameter >2 cm, in comparison with the residual ≤2 cm (P < 0.01). The risk of mortality in patients received < 6 courses of chemotherapy was 8.191 times higher than that in patients received ≥6 courses of chemotherapy (95% CI, 4. 666-14. 379;P < 0.01). Conclusions The major independent prognostic variables for epithelial ovarian carcinoma are stage, the size of residual tumor lesions and the number of courses of chemotherapy. Therefore, the earlier diagnosis, the earlier surgery, sufficient cycles and timely assistant chemotherapy are the key point to improve the survival rates of epithelial ovarian carcinoma.

The incidence rate of epithelia ovarian cancer is high. The recurrence rate is also high. To improve the survival quality of patients and extend their life time as far as possible, and according to the recurrence epithelia ovarian carcinoma's different situation, we can selectively perform surgery, and combined it with appropriate chemotherapy and biological treatment. This article summarized its treatment from surgery, chemotherapy and biological therapy, these three aspects.

Objective To evaluate the scan technique and clinical value of multi-slice spiral CT angiography(MSCTA) of coronary artery.Methods MSCTA was performed in 86 patients,and 25 of them were also investigated with selective coronary angiography(SCA).The imaging quality of MSCTA in different scanning condition were analyzed.The patency of coronary artery and other branches were examined.The distribution and extent of coronary arterial stenoses were assessed.The findings demonstrated on MSCTA were compared with those seen on SCA.Results(1)The imaging quality on MSCTA of coronary artery was significant better in patients with a heart rate below 60 beats per minute,contrast flowing rate 3.0~3.5 ml/s,volume 120~150 ml and delayed time 22~25 s;(2)in 25 cases,of 71 coronary artery and branches without stenoses examined with MSCTA,68 had identical appearance on both MSCTA and SCA.The distribution and extent of 19 coronary arterial stenoses revealed by MSCTA were correlated exactly with SCA in 29 coronary arterial stenoses.The negative and positive predicted value were 95.8% and 65.5% respectively.Sensitivity,specificity and accuracy were 86.4%,87.2% and 87.0% respectively.Conclusion MSCTA as a noninvasive examination is a valuable method in detecting diseases or variations of coronary artery.

Ischemic cerebrovascular disease is a common and frequently emergency, and leads to disability and death. In recent years,inflammatory reaction is thought as the key to secondary injury after cerebral ischemia/reperfusion. Inflammatory cells, as the target of inflammatoryfactors, infiltrate and gather in the ischemic areas leading to secondary neurological injury and enlarge the infarct size. Acupuncturemay adjust the activity of inflammatory cells.

OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effects of clopidogrel plus atorvastatin on ischemic cardiovascular diseases and to explore the clinical significance of drug interactions.METHODS:Literatures were retreived from EMBase,PubMed,Cochrane Library and CNKI with clopidogrel,atorvastatin,clinical trial as