Objective:To explore the influence of information technology on the management of medical equipment.Methods: To develop the protocols how to improve the management level of medical equipment planning, procurement, installation, performance evaluation, warehouse management, measurement, quality control, and maintenance, etc.Results: The promotion of information technology can promote the medical equipment management to achieve closed-loop control, open and transparent, efficiency improvement, module management, massive data analysis, etc.Conclusion: Information management can promote the relevant departments of the hospital medical equipment to improve the level of cooperation, to achieve functional integration, combination of medicine and engineering, be better for clinical services.

Humans ; Nephritis ; etiology ; therapy ; Prognosis ; Purpura, Schoenlein-Henoch ; complications ; therapy ; Sjogren's Syndrome ; etiology ; therapy

Objective Alzheimer's disease(AD) is a common and devastating disease and there is no readily available biomarker to aid diagnosis or to monitor disease progression. This study is to further understand the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease and seek new biomarkers for AD. Methods AD rats made by Aβ1-40 were assessed using the Morris water maze method. Sera of two groups were collected and albumin, IgG and sodium chloride were removed from the serum before concentration. Two-dimensional electrophoresis(2-DE) was performed on serum protein. Altered proteins were identified by matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry(MALDI-TOF-MS). Results Compared with untreated samples, 10 altered proteins were found through 2-DE and all of them were down-regulated of which 2 were identified by MALDI-TOF-MS to be plasma retinol-binding protein precursor and complement component 4, gene 2 (C4b). Conclusion C4b may be the biomarker of AD and it may be helpful to understand the pathogenesis of AD.

The 23 cases with chronic myelogenousleukemia (CML) were treated with program ofharringtonine and ara-c (HA) and the results werethat the 13 cases got complete remission and 10cases got partial remission. Comparing with thecontrol group the patients of which were treatedwith busulfan, the authors found that the spendedtime of decreased WBC in blood (WBC decreasedto 10. 0 ? 10~9/L) and reduced spleen (reduced tosmallest status of spleen) and improvement of self-sensation symptoms in the group treated with HAwere better than those in control group. The HAprogram for cases who recured CML again and re-ceived maintenance cure after remission of CMLwas still effective. The time of maintenance cureand interval should be individualized.

Objective To study the characteristics and the related risk factors of coronary artery changes in the elderly patients of coronary heart disease complicated with diabetes mellitus. Methods According to WHO diagnostic standards of diabetes, coronary heart disease(CHD) complicated with diabetes mellitus(65 patients) was indicated as CHD+DM group, and the coronary heart disease without diabetes(68 patients) was indicated as CHD group. All patients were examined by coronary angiographic semiquantitative(CAG), and blood pressure, oral glucose tolerance test, level of blood sugar, insulin, lipid, BUN and Cr were measured. The coronary artery changes were analysed by CAG, and the severity of coronary artery stenosis were evaluated by AHA standards. The related risk factors in coronary artery disease were analysed by pluralism straight line statistics. Results The coronary multivessel changes(75 4% vs 38 2%, P

Objective To investigate the rationality and prognostic value of the Criteria for clinical staging of esophageal cancer treated by non-surgical methods (Draft) by comparison with the criteria for postoperative pathological staging.Methods A retrospective analysis was performed on the clinical data of 162 patients with esophageal cancer who underwent radical resection at the Second Hospital of Soochow University from December 2008 to July 2012.Preoperative clinical staging and postoperative pathological staging were performed,and the Kappa statistic was used to evaluate the agreement between the two staging systems.The Kaplan-Meier method was used to calculate overall survival (OS) rates,and the log-rank test was used for survival difference analysis and univariate analysis.Results The coincidence rates of T,N,and TNM stages were 67.9％,57.4％,and 67.9％,respectively,and the agreements were moderate,poor,and moderate,with Kappa values of 0.544,0.302,and 0.509.The follow-up rate was 93.2％.The 1-,2-,and 3-year sample sizes were 127,66 and 27,respectively.The 1-,2-,and 3-year OS rates were 82.6％,56.2％,and 37.7％,respectively.There were no significant differences in OS between patients with preoperative T1 and T2 stages and between patients with preoperative N0 and N1 stages (P =0.086,0.101),but significant differences were observed between patients with different T stages,N stages,or TNM stages (P =0.000-0.028).This was in line with the prognostic results based on the postoperative pathological staging.Conclusions The clinical staging criteria (draft) have moderate agreement with the criteria for postoperative pathological staging and have good prognostic value,but they require further refinement and improvement.

Catheterization ; adverse effects ; Child ; Ductus Arteriosus, Patent ; therapy ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Platelet Count ; Thrombocytopenia ; etiology ; Young Adult

Abstract: Objective　To study the biological function of the possible efflux pump gene BPSL1972 in Burkholderia pseudomallei (Bp), so as to improve the drug resistance mechanism of Bp. Methods BPSL1972 gene knockout strain and its complement strain were constructed by homologous recombination and electric shock transformation, respectively. BPSL1972 protein expression vector was constructed by enzyme digestion and enzyme-linked method. The BPSL1972-encoded protein was expressed using a His-tag protein expression kit and the expressed proteins were verified by Western Blot. The changes in drug sensitivity, growth, biofilm formation, and cytotoxicity were compared by microbroth dilution assay, Kirby-Bauer assay, turbidimetric assay, tube assay, crystal violet staining, and CCK-8 kit. The physicochemical properties of BPSL1972 were predicted by Protscale and Protparam online websites, the signal peptide of BPSL1972 was predicted by SignalP 5.0 online website, and the transmembrane domain and gene function of BPSL1972 were predicted by Smart online website. The 3D structure of BPSL1972-encoded protein and its homology were analyzed through Phyre 2 online website. Results The predictions suggested that the BPSL1972-encoded protein is a class of neutral-stable hydrophobic protein with a lipoprotein signal peptide and a transmembrane region, classified under the RND efflux pump system with two lipoprotein outer membrane efflux proteins, potentially mediating macrolide resistance. Its 3D modeling results show high homology to VceC and fusaric acid efflux protein, possibly mediating the efflux of ion activators. Sequencing results confirmed the successful construction of both the deletion mutant strain and complement strain. However, there were no significant differences in biological characteristics between the deletion mutant strain and the wild-type strain, and there was also no significant difference in resistance to antibiotics such as cephalosporins, quinolones, carbapenems, aminoglycosides, tetracyclines, and surfactants such as sodium deoxycholate. Conclusion BPSL1972 may be an auxiliary gene of LysR family, and this auxiliary gene is secondary, thus resulting in no functional changes after its deletion. Further research is needed to investigate whether it has resistance to other antibiotics such as fusaric acid and its specific replacement or auxiliary function.

Objective To investigate the relationship between glucose tolerance change and the coronary artery lesion in the patients with coronary heart disease. Methods One hundred and ninety three patients with coronary artery disease were divided into 3 groups according to WHO(1985) and American Diabetes Association (1997) standard of diabetic diagnoses: (1) normal glucose tolerance (NGT) group 122 cases; (2) impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) group 39 cases; (3) type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) group 32 cases. All patients were examined by the coronary angiographic semiquantitative (CAG) and 75 g oral glucose tolerance test. Blood glucose, insulin, triglyceride (TG), total cholesterol (TC) and high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL C) were determined. The coronary artery changes were analysed by CAG, and the severity of coronary artery stenosis was evaluated according to American Heart Association standard. The risk factors of coronary artery lesion were analysed by pluralism stepwiss regression analysis. Results The coronary multivessel changes and the severity of coronary artery stenosis and calcification were more frequent in IGT group than those in NGT group (66.5% vs 35.1%, 8.9?3.6 vs 6.5?3.9, 6.3?3.6 vs 3.9?4.1 respectively, P

Objective Predicting protein structural class is the basis for predicting protein spatial structure,so it is important to improve the prediction accuracy of protein structural class.Methods We proposed 3-state and 8-state Hidden Markov model (HMM),and applied these HMMs to the prediction of protein structural class,respectively.We evaluated their accuracy on two different datasets through the rigorous jackknife cross-validation test.Results Prediction ability of 8-state HMM and 3-state HMM to all α class were excellent,the prediction accuracy of 3-state HMM even reached above 95％.Compared with Chou data set,the prediction accuracy of Zhou data set for all β class and α/β class of was improved,while overall prediction accuracy increased by 2％.Conclusion HMM is an effective method to predict protein structural class.