Abstract?AlM:To analyze the blindness causes of 1854 cases in our hospital hospitalized patients, and explore the strategy and direction of blindness prevention according to the different treatment efficacy.?METHODS: Cluster sampling was used to select from September 2010 to August 2013 in our hospital department of ophthalmology patients 5 473 cases, in which total of 1 854 cases of blind patients, accounting for 33. 88% of hospitalized patients. According to the WHO's criteria of blindness. The BCVA enacted <0. 05 or vision radius less than 10 degrees are for the blind, and the exclusion of less than 3 years old children don't cope with visual inspection of the inclusion criteria for age and cause of blindness blind patients were analyzed. To the blind to patient age and etiology were analyzed, the main cause of blindness and statistics of all ages, records of the blind patients after treatment eye sight;and calculating the blindness of the literacy rate, on the blindness through analysis of the causes of the risk treatment.?RESULTS:ln 1 854 cases of blind patients, including 728 people right-eye blinding, 767 people left-eyes blinding, 359 people total blinding, adding up to 2 213 eyes, aged from 60~80 years old were in the majority. The top three diseases resulting blindness were cataract, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. ln 2 213 blind eyes, the eyes treated were 2 172, of which 1 762 eyes ( 81. 12%) were succeeded, 410 eyes ( 18. 88%) failed. ln the failed cases, the first three diseases were diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and retinal detachment.?CONCLUSlON: ln recent years, disease etiology of blinding eye has changed, but cataracts, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma are still high incidence of blindness due, so the treatment of diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and retinal detachment should be the emphasis for blindness prevention and treatment in the future.

0.05). The MIP image should be used to select the optimal projection angle and measure the aneurysm, while the SSD image was for reference only. Conclusion SCTA can not only diagnose cerebral aneurysms accurately but also has high directive value in making therapy plan, surgical preparation and endovascular embolization.

Objective To evaluate the effects of percutaneous computed tomography-guided ethanol injection (PEI-CT) in adrenal benign functioning tumors. Methods Twenty cases of adrenal benign functioning tumors were treated by the therapy of PEI-CT. Among them, 5 cases were pheochromocytomas, and 15 cases were aldosteronomas. After the treatment, the change of blood pressure, aldosterone plasma levels, potassium plasma levels, and catecholamines urine levels was investigated. Both plain and enhanced CT scans were performed before and after the treatment to evaluate the changes of the size and necrosis in the tumors. Results Normalization of blood pressure and catecholamines urine levels was observed in 5 cases of pheochromocytoma during 6-19 months′ follow up after the treatment. In the 15 cases of aldosteronoma, aldosterone plasma levels reduced with potassium plasma levels increasing to the normal range within 5-7 days after the treatment. Aldosterone plasma levels increased with potassium plasma levels reduced again in 7 months after the treatment in one case, aldosterone plasma levels and potassium plasma levels returned to the normal range after the second treatment. Hypertension returned to normal in 13 cases of aldosteronoma, and one case maintained normal blood pressure (BP) only under the condition of taking lower dosage of spironolactone within 7-15 days after the treatment, and one month later, the blood pressure of the case become normal without taking any antihypertensive drugs. The other case maintained normal blood pressure in the need of taking lower dosage of antihypertensives after the treatment. CT scan showed total necrosis of tumors in 15 cases and majority necrosis in 5 case within 7-15 days after the treatment. Conclusion The therapy of percutaneous computed tomography-guided ethanol injection in adrenal benign functioning tumors shows satisfactory effects with the advantages of easy manipulation, safety, less injury and cost.

Objective To discuss the pathological classification and lesion's inner imaging features of lung adenocarcinoma presented as pure ground-glass opacity.Methods CT imaging features of 156 pGGO lesions which confirmed by surgery and pathology were analyzed in retrospectively.There were 58 lesions of pre-invasive (including atypical adenomatous hyperplasia and adenocarcinoma in situ),32 lesions of minimally invasive adenocarcinoma and 66 lesions of invasive adenocarcinoma.CT features were analyzed including lesion density,vacuole sign,air bronchogram and abnormal vascular changes (vascular dilatation,distortion or rigid).Results There were statistical difference in lesions density and abnormal vascular changes in 3 different pathological types (P ＜ 0.05),with increase of lesions invasive,the incidence of uneven density and abnormal vascular changes increase,its mean the more invasive of the lesion,the lesion tent to be more uneven and higher incidence of the dilation,twist or rigid of the vascular happened;while the incidence of the air bronchogram will be higher when the lesions invasive degree increased,but there was statistical difference only between the pre-invasive and invasive groups (including minimally invasive adenocarcinoma and invasive adenocarcinoma) (x2 =4.868,P =0.027).Conclusions The uneven density and abnormal vascular changes had certain value in differential diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma presented as pGGO.

isointensity on arterial phase and hyperintensity on DWI. The combination of DWI and Gd-DTPA-enhanced MR imaging may help to accurately diagnose HCCs.

Objective To investigate the value ofin vivo proton MR spectroscopy(1H-MRS)in the assessment of large focal hepatic tumors.Methods Fifty-three consecutive patients with 54 large(no less than 4 cm in dimneter)hepatic tumors and 19 normal volunteers were:included in this study.MRS of the 25 HCC confirmed by pathological examination,the choline-to-lipid mtios(Cho/Lip)were measured by dividing the peak area of choline at 3.2 ppm and lipid at 1.3 ppm.Differences in the ratios of normal liver,benign tumors and HCC were analyzed by Dunnett-t test.The sensitivity and specificity prof'des of 1H-MRS in the diagnosis of HCC were determined by plotting receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curves.Results The mean Cho/Lip ratios for normal liver(n=17),benign tumor(n=8),and HCC(n=25)were 0.07±0.04,0.11 ±0.06 and 0.55±0.17,respectively(F=6.58,P＜0.05).A significant statistical difference was found in the mean Cho/Lip ratios between HCC and benign liver tumors or normal liver(t=2.99,2.32;P＜0.05).But there wag no difference between benign hepatic tumors and norlnal liver(t=1.53,P＞0.05).The ROC curve showed proton MRS had moderate discriminating ability in diagnosing HCC.The area under the curve was 0.77. If 0.1 was chosen ns the cut-off value for diagnosing HCC with MRS,the sensitivity and specificity for HCC were 80.0%and 62.59b,respectively.Conclusion In vivo proton MRS is technically feasible for the evaluation of focal hepatic lesions,and may be useful in the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of HCC by providing metabolic ifformafion.

Objective To evaluate the feasibility, safety and efficacy of CT-guided radiofrequency ablation in treating osteoid osteoma located at femoral neck. Methods Six patients with osteoid osteomas in the femoral neck received CT-guided percutaneous radiofrequency ablation. In all patients the main complaint was pain at the hip, and the course of disease varied from one month to 2 years, with an average of 8 months. Under spinal anesthesia the surgery was performed. With the help of CT guidance , a 3.5 to 4.0 mm coaxial drill system was inserted into the nidus, and an osseous access was established, then the bone biopsy needle was used to obtain specimens for pathological examination. Subsequently, a 1.5 to 2.0 cm active tip was introduced through a non-cooled radiofrequency needle into the nidus. Radiofrequency ablation was performed with the therapeutic temperature of 90℃, lasting for 6 minutes. The pain visual analogue scale (VAS) was used to evaluate the clinical effectiveness. The postoperative MRI findings were compared with the preoperative ones. Results Three days after the treatment, different degrees of pain relief was obtained in all patients, and all patients could get out of bed and walked around in one week. Postoperative VSA was significantly decreased (P<0.01). No severe complications occurred during and after the procedure. And no recurrence was seen during the follow-up period. Conclusion For the treatment of osteoid osteoma located at femoral neck, CT-guided radiofrequency ablation is a safe and effective minimally invasive treatment with fewer complications and satisfactory clinical results.

Objective To explore the clinical value of CT-guided radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and imaging follow-up for patients with osteoid osteoma.Methods Thirty-seven patients with osteoid osteomas were selected.Their tumors occurred mainly in the femur and tibia (16/37,13/37) with local pain aggravated at night in 32 of the cases.They were treated with CT-guided RFA.One week,1 month and 3 months after the surgery,CT and MRI examinations were conducted to observe the density of the ablated area,any density (signal) changes and the recovery of adjacent tissues.A visual analogue scale (VAS) was used to assess the perceived pain of the patients.Results All of the patients went through the operation successfully and resumed unrestricted normal activity within 2 d to 1 week without complications.Field CT showed a low density of bone defects one month after the ablation,with the bone defect narrowing and peripheral thickened reactive bone thinning slightly 2 months later.One week after the RFA treatment the MRI's T2WI signal was lower than before the treatment and the T1WI signal was low.One month after the RFA the T2WI high signal of 20 of the patients (54.1％) had decreased and the T1WI low signal had narrowed compared to one week after the operation.The signals of the other 17 cases (45.9％) had returned to normal.Three months after the operation the T2WI high signal of 10 of the 20 patients (27％) had decreased further and their T1 WI low signal had also narrowed further compared to one month after the operation,with a total of 27 then normal.After the operation,the average VAS score decreased significantly compared to before the operation.Conclusion CT-guided RFA is a safe and effective minimally invasive method for the treatment of osteoid osteoma.Dynamic imaging is very useful for assessing the therapeutic effect in the short term.

Objective:To explore the microRNA profile changes in the development of NKT cells.Methods: Differently developmental stage of NKT cells in mouse thymus were sorted by flow cytometry.Total RNA were extracted,reversely transcribed and pre-amplified.TaqMan low density microRNA assay and single real-time PCR were applied to detect the expression changes of microRNAs in the developmental process of NKT cells.Results: There were total 92 microRNAs whose expression changed significantly during the development and maturation of NKT cells.Among them,increasly expressed microRNAs were 71,including 36 microRNAs whose expression continuously increased;decreasly expressed microRNAs were 21,including 12 microRNAs whose expression continuously decreased.In addition,single real-time PCR analysis showed that the expression of Let-7f,miR-150,miR-24,miR-29 increased,while the expression of miR-223 and miR-155 decreased during the development and maturation of NKT cells.Conclusion: NKT development and maturation is accompanied by expression changes of large amount of microRNAs,indicating that specific microRNA regulates NKT development and function.

AIM:To observe the effects of adipose differentiation-related protein ( adipophilin) on the expres-sion of inflammatory factors in RAW264.7 macrophage and to clarify the related mechanism.METHODS:The cell models with high expression and low expression of adipophilin were constructed by transfecting PA317 packaging cells with stable high or low expression adipophilin retroviral vectors into the RAW264.7 cells.The concentrations of IL-6, MCP-1 and TNF-αin the cell culture medium were detected by ELISA.The protein levels of AP-1, p-AP-1, ERK1/2 and p-ERK1/2 were measured by Western blot.The protein levels of adipophilin, p-ERK1/2 and p-AP-1 and the releases of the inflamma-tory factors in the RAW264.7 cells treated with or without ERK1/2 inhibitor PD98059 or AP-1 inhibitor curcumin were de-termined.RESULTS:The RAW264.7 cells with high expression of adipophilin had higher levels of IL-6, MCP-1 and TNF-α, and higher protein levels of p-AP-1 and p-ERK1/2 than those in the cells with low expression of adipophilin. ERK1/2 inhibitor had no significant effect on the expression of adipophilin, but the protein expression of ERK1/2 and AP-1 was significantly inhibited (P<0.05).The administration of AP-1 inhibitor curcumin had no significant effect on the protein expression of adipophilin and ERK1/2, but the protein expression of AP-1 was significantly inhibited (P<0.05). At the same time, the releases of inflammatory factors IL-6, MCP-1 and TNF-αwere significantly decreased.CONCLU-SION:Adipophilin may regulate the expression of inflammatory factors through ERK1/2-AP-1 pathway in RAW264.7 mac-rophages.