Fibroid uterine is a common disease, accounts for 30-40% women between 30 and 50 years old. It is benign, gradual progress, and diversified clinical development. Artery embolization - a less-invasive method was widely used in the world within 8 years ago (but only 3 years in Vietnam).. This method has many advantages: gentle, safe, and effective technique, keeping body intact, higher quality of life for patients. Wide application of this method is reasonable and essential
Embolization, Therapeutic ; Therapeutics ; Myoma ; Leiomyoma

System of clinical staging of hepatocellular carcinoma plays an important role in evaluating the condition of patient and choosing treatment method. It also is basic to compare different study groups and studies. In the world, there are various systems of staging hepatocellular carcinoma. However, TNM and Okuda are the most classical systems. Some countries have recently built up their own systems such as Child-Pugh, Okuda, CLIP, VISUM-HCC (Austria) and BCLC (Spain). In these systems, CLIP is the most preeminent. It shows completely all prognosis factors of hepatocellular carcinoma
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular ; Therapeutics

A 26-year male patient admitted for severe head trauma. The patient was given tracheotomy and inserted Cavafix-type catheter into left subclavian vein. After 14 days, the surgeon cut off the catheter unintentionally during cutting the suture on the skin. The remain catheter section was dept. Chest X-rays showed that the distal of catheter was in the right atrium. Intravascular interventional procedure produced successful result with minimal invasion and spared the risk for patient.
Catheterization ; Femoral Vein

10 patients with the hepatocellular epithelioma (male: 9; female: 1) ages of 33-80 in the Army Central Hospital N0108 participated to a study. The results have shown that 80% patients had a tumor, right hepatocellular epithelioma is 86,9, left hepatocellular epithelioma: 13,1% with diameter of 6 cm and 12 cm were 75% and 16,5%, respectively, patients with the normal artery: 80% rate of success: 9/10= 90%.
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular ; Embolization, Therapeutics

Background: Malignant Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas is one of the ten most common malignant diseases. Until recently, Chop regimen is considered as the standard treatment regimen for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas of intermediate and high grade.\r\n", u'Objectives: Assessing response rates, side effects, survival time and in treatment for these patients with CHOP regimen.\r\n', u'Subjects and methods: The controlled, prospective, descriptive study was carried out on 40 patients with Non-Hodgkin\u2019s Lymphomas of intermediate and high grade treated at the Military Hospital No 108.\r\n', u'Results and conclusion: The prevalence in men was higher than in women (77.5% compared to 22.5%). Complete remission accounts for 70%, part remission 15%, stable state of disease 5%, progressive disease 10%. Overall survival of 5 years is estimated at 37.23% disease-free survival of 5 years at 34.04%, event-free survival of 5 years at 32.46%, progressive-free survival of 5 years at 29.93%. There was a total of 241 chemical transmitted turns. Common side effects were nausea, vomiting, mouth ulcers, diarrhea and hair loss. This result was consistent with the results of previous studies.\r\n', u'
malignant Non-Hodgkin\u2019s Lymphomas ; CHOP regiment

Background:The progress of the cardiac intervention technique has been changed the doctors' viewpoint in the treatment for congenital cardiac. In the past years, treatment for congenital cardiac needed to surgery but nowadays, the cardiac intervention technique are being applied in many Cardiac Centers with very good results. This technique also helped to prevent the complication in cardiac operation. Objectives:This study aims to report the results for cardiac intervention in National Hospital of Pediatrics. Subjects and method:A prospective study was conducted on 298 children diagnosed with patent ductus arteriosus, atrial septal defect (ASD), ventricular septal defect, coarctation, pulmonary stenosis (PS), aortic stenosis (AS), small patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) infant with pulmonary atresia - ventricular septal defect (VSD) and Dextro- transposition of the great arteries (d- TGA) with intact ventricular septum at National hospital of Pediatric between June 2004and October 2006. Results: Transcatheter closure of PDA, ASD by Amplatzer or Coil was safe and effective. Critically ill children diagnosed with PS, AS and Coarctation may be saved by valvuloplasty and angioplasty procedures. Catheter interventions avoided the needs for surgery without scars. Catheter interventions had low complications. Conclusion: The hospitalized duration was short so the expenditures reduced.
Heart Defects ; Congenital/ epidemiology ; therapy

Background: Monitoring antimalarial drug quality should be conducted regularly in locals to enhance the effect of treatment for malaria \r\n', u'Objective: to study and analyze antimalarial drug quality\r\n', u'Subjects and methods: The study was carried out in 2007 for 5 provinces supported by the Global Fund: Ha Giang, Dien Bien, Thanh Hoa, Quang Tri and Gia Lai. Material were malaria drugs: artesunat, chloroquin, quinine, mefloquin, fansidar\u2026etc\r\n', u'Results and conclusion: The strict supervision on the anti-malarial drug quality by the National Malaria Control Program was very good and no substandard antimalarial drugs were detected. Evaluation of antimalarial drug quality and control was made for finding out the counterfeit drugs through sentinel sites in both private and public sectors. A total of 268 samples were collected, of which 13 samples were found substandard drugs (8 samples collected in private and 5 samples in public sectors). No counterfeit drugs were found. \r\n', u'
Antimalarial drug ; quality ; monitoring

Background: The combination of dihydroartemisinin and piperaquine is interested because of its efficiency and safety in treating malaria. Objective: To evaluate the influences of the fixed combination anti-malarial drug dihydroartemisinin plus piperaquine in constitutions and some biochemical and haematological indices of rabbits. Subject and Method: The sub-chronic toxicity of the fixed combination anti-malarial drug of 40 mg dihydroartemisinin plus 320 mg piperaquine phosphate (DHA-PQP), with the materials produced by Institute of Chemistry, in rabbits was investigated. Rabbits were treated daily by oral route with DHA-PQP at the dose regimens of 64 and 100 mg/kg per day for 28 consecutive days. Result and Conclusion: DHA-PQP did not affect on rabbits' constitutions. Generally, all rabbits had normal ingestions, activities, and defecations. Rabbits' body weights increased regularly along the study period and significantly increased between day 28 and day 0 (P < 0.05). At the dose regimen of 64 mg/kg per day for 28 consecutive days, DHA-PQP did not change significantly rabbits' biochemical indices (including GOT, GPT, bilirubin, creatinine and protein) and haematological. These changes were insignificantly different between the treated and control groups at the same study points (P > 0.05). With the dose regimen of 100 mg/kg, the combination did not affect significantly (P>0.05) on some rabbits' biochemical and haematological indices. But hemoglobin, erythrocyte count and rate of monocytes increased significantly on day 14 comparing to that the control group (P < 0.05) and became in normal limits on day 29 (P > 0.05). Protein concentration also increased significantly on days 14 and 29 comparing to that of day 0 (P < 0.05).
Dihydroartemisinin plus piperaquine combination ; constitutions ; haematological

Papiliotrema huenov was previously reported to be highly tolerant of a range of extremely toxic heavy metals. This study aimed to identify the potential of P. huenov to remove manganese and copper from aqueous solution. Physical conditions which affect removal of Mn(II) and Cu(II) were determined. Optimal temperature for adsorption of both metal ions was 30°C, and optimal pH for maximum uptake of Mn(II) and Cu(II) were 5 and 6, respectively. Under these conditions, living cells of P. huenov accumulated up to 75.58% of 110 mg/ L Mn(II) and 70.5% of 128 mg/L Cu(II) over 120 h, whereas, the removal efficiency of metal ions by dead cells over 1 h was 60.3% and 56.5%, respectively. These results indicate that living cells are more effective than dead biomass for bioremediation, but that greater time is required. The experimental data extends the potential use of P. huenov in biosorption and bioaccumulation of toxic heavy metals to copper and manganese, two of the most common industrial contaminants.

Trombiculid “chigger” mites (Acari) are ectoparasites that feed blood on rodents and another animals. A crosssectional survey was conducted in 7 ecosystems of southern Vietnam from 2015 to 2016. Chigger mites were identified with morphological characteristics and assayed by polymerase chain reaction for detection of rickettsiaceae. Overall chigger infestation among rodents was 23.38%. The chigger index among infested rodents was 19.37 and a mean abundance of 4.61. A total of 2,770 chigger mites were identified belonging to 6 species, 3 genera, and 1 family, and pooled into 141 pools (10-20 chiggers per pool). Two pools (1.4%) of the chiggers were positive for Orientia tsutsugamushi. Ricketsia spp. was not detected in any pools of chiggers. Further studies are needed including a larger number and diverse hosts, and environmental factors to assess scrub typhus.