The disc herniation occurs in 1/3 population in the world but 3% of this population had clinical symptoms that need a treatment. 87 patients received the method of percutaneous laser disc decompression has show that the successful rate was 80%. There had no major complications. There was only case suffering from the small abscess at the back of spine
Angioplasty, Balloon, Laser-Assisted ; Abscess

There are several advantages of percutaneous laser. Candidates for this technique are patients who have CT or MRI imaging findings showed that the spinal disc(s) were displaced but remained to be intact, with correlative pain symptoms and received conservative treatment for at least three months without success. The patients have only to suffered regional anesthesia, have not to hospitalize, free from scar, have not any spinal problem, time of immobilization and activity limitation was shorter
Angioplasty, Balloon, Laser-Assisted ; contraindications ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging

In 2002, 99.807 blood slides were taken and examined in Thanh Hoa province, of which 33.464 slides were taken from fever patients (33.52%). 196 positive cases were detected. 52 microscopic points were checked, of which 10 microscopic points were very good functioning (19.23%), 27 points were good (59.9%), 12 were average and 3 were not good (5.76%). The quality of slides taken by the commune and village health workers was not so good, the slides were too thick or too thin with blood. In some villages, the slides were taken massively in order to fulfill the target. Checking the quality of microscopy showed that the mistake rate of microscopy was 13.16% as compared with the total slides sent for rechecking. In some microscopic points, the mistake rate was high (the provincial hospital had the mistake of 6/19 positive slides)
Malaria ; Parasites ; Quality Control ; diagnosis ;

Cerebrovascular accident is the most common cause of death and disabled over the world. The combination of modern medicine and traditional medicine of Vietnamese medicine and pharmacology has brought many satisfactory results. In application of traditional medicine into treatment of cerebrovascular diseases in general and cerebrovascular accident in particular, the cooperation between clinical and paraclinical features, between modern medicine and traditional medicine, and between doctors and patients is extremely important. Most of the patients are treated by electricity acupuncture according to formal applicable therapies; some are combined with traditional remedies
Stroke ; Therapeutics ; Medicine, Traditional

Among military officials aged > 30 years in air force and air defence army, the rate of overweight and obesity are high relatively according to IDI and WPRO 2000 classification with a general overweight of 35.2%, of them pre-obesity 24.2%, 1st grade obesity 11%, 2nd grade 0.1%. According to WHO 1998, classification 11%, pre-obesity 10.9%, 1st grade obesity 0.21% and 2nd grade none; especially in fly-troop, the rate is very high 67.5% (according to IDI and WPRO 2000) and 20% (according to WHO 1998). Energy intake is 4645-5162 Kcalo/capita daily and P:L:G ratio is 16:22:62
Overweight ; Obesity ; Diseases

Study on dental carries situation of 200 pupils at 6 secondary schools in Hai Duong city. Results: The rate of dental carries of 12 years old pupils was high (67%), in the 6th teeth was 63%. 80.5% of pupils had good knowledge of oral hygiene and 74.5% had good practice of oral hygiene. School based oral health program is strongly supported and collaborated by the leaders of schools. It is necessary to develop human resource for school based oral health program, and the teachers should be trained for co-operation and participation this program.
Dental Caries ; Hygiene ; Pupil

Eupatorium chinese L. is an indegenous plant using in the folk medicine of Vietnam. From the ethanol extract and petroleum – ether extract of aerial parts of this plant a coumarin was isolated. It’s structure was identified by MS, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR and 13C-DEPT methods
Coumarins ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; Medicine

A study was conducted on 24 patients with advanced chronic renal failure treated at Central Military Hospital 108. Results: The majority of patients with advanced chronic renal failure and periodic dialysis had stable blood pressure in all 7 days follow-up (with 508 measurements). The rate of measurements had systole blood pressure in emergency level (≥ 180mmHg) was very low (4/504 = 0.75%). Less measurements (8.1%) had blood pressure ≥ 160 or ≤90mmHg. The effectiveness of blood pressure medications will be enhanced when using combined treatment and taking at reasonable time (at 6 am, 10 am, 4 pm, 9 pm).
Kidney Failure, Chronic ; Dialysis ; Hypertension ; Therapeutics

Investigating the role of CRP levels in the blood of major burned patients in predicting bacterium and treatment results. The plasma CRP levels of 54 patients (18 female, 36 males), average age (20.44 ± 2.17) with burns between 20 and 90 (47.27±2.21) TBSA (total body surface area), full thickness burns between 1 and 75 (15.58±2.3) TBSA were determined for 4-7 days (CRP1) and 10-14 days (CRP2) after thermal trauma by CRP test kit (Human Co-Germany). Result: CRP1 concentration of patients with sepsis were much higher than without sepsis (p<0.05). Decreased level of CRP was observed in patient who had good response to therapy. The mortality rate increased in case of high CRP levels. Results suggested that there was risk of infection in patients with high plasma CRP levels. CRP measurement appeared to be the most useful method to monitor patient’s response to therapy
Burns ; Inflammation ; Blood

Study was carried out on 22 advanced chronic renal failure, regular dialysis inpatients with hypertension (21 males, 1 female, ages from 25 - 76) treated in Central Military Hospital No.108. All of patients were treated hypertension with combined regimen or one drug followed convention, periodic dialysis 2-3 times per week, 4 hours per 1 time. The study’s time was 7 days. The results: almost of chronic renal failure patients had stable blood pressure, less daytime fluctuation in all of 7 days (with 462 measurements). Very less measurements (8/462) had systole blood pressure in emergency level (≥180 mmHg), less measurements (25/462) had blood pressure, which was not achieved treatment aim due to systole blood pressure at grade 2 (≥160 mmHg). A good efficacy of treatment with hypertension medications achieved by combined treatment at 6 hours, 10 hours, 16 hours and 21 hours of taken times.
Hypertension ; Kidney Failure, Chronic