Objective To compare the therapeutic efficacy and adverse effects between transcather arte-rial chemoembolization(TACE) and comprehensive therapy in primary advanced heptocellular carcinoma(HCC).Methods 216 patients with primary HCC were arranged randomly into two groups:104 (group A) were treated with TACE alone,the rest(group B)were treated with TACE combined with intraperitoneal perfusion chemothera-py, Chinese herbs and immunotherapy.The therapeutic efficacy and adverse effects were analysed and compared between two groups.Results The CR + PR rates were 28.84% in group A and 34.82% in group B.The 4-year survival rates were 1.92% in group A and 3.87% in group B(P < 0.05).There were no severe side effects in both groups.Conclusions The short-term effective rate and 4-year survival rate in comprehensive treatment group were superior to the control group.Therefore, the comprehensive treatment is worthwhile to use in primary advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.

Objective: To study the effects ot intravenous 1％ procaine on cortex. Method: Ten patients,aged 29-59 years,for elective surgical operations,were observed the changes of spectral edge frequency(SEF), medium power frequency (MPF)and ? rate(?R)on power spectral analysis and bispectral index(Bl)on bispectral analysis during intravenous propofol 4 mg?kg~(-1)? h~(-1) purely for 15 min,intravenous combination of 1％ procaine 1mg?kg~(-1)?min~(-1) and propofol for 30 min, then intravenous propofol 4mg?kg~(-1)?h~(-1)purely for 15min. Result: SEF,MPF and BI values during combination stage were lower significantly (15.46?1.87Hz, 7.21?2.01Hz, 68.77?7.99 respectively)than the values during other two stages(stage 1 and stage 2 were 21.36?2.79Hz,11.55?2.62Hz,85.6?8.84 and 20.59?3.10Hz, 9.5?3.44Hz, 84.97?8.71 respectively, P

Diclofenac potassium delayed-sustained release pellets were prepared by double-layer coating method with ethylcellulose aqueous dispersion.The effects of release condition and pellet compositions on the in vitro drug release were evaluated.The formulation was optimized by the central composite design-response surface methodology.It was shown that the pH of the media greatly affected the in vitro drug release of the pellets while the viscosity of the media had little influence.Drug release from the pellets was related to the proportion of the inner coat to the outer coat and the amount of pore forming agent in the outer coat.The optimization of the formulation could be achieved by the central composite design-response surface methodology.

The effects of different concentrations of enflurane and enflurane/nitrous oxide on EEG in 20 patients (ASA grade Ⅰ) were studied during elective surgery. They were divided randomly into two groups:enflurane (E) group (n=10) and enflurane/nitrous oxide (EN) group (n= 10). Anesthesia was induced by inhaling enflurane or enflurane/60% nitrous oxide. After intubation patients were venti lated mechanically to maintain P_(ET)CO_2 4.27—4.93 kPa, Two-leads EEG monitor was used during operation. 95% spectral edge frequency (SEF),MAP and HR were recorded in group E at 0.5,0.8,1.0,1.3 and 1.5 MAC, and in group EN at 0.8,1, 0,1.3,1.5,1.8 and 2.0 MAC. SEF decreased in linear manner,but MAP insignificantly changed as enflurane level increased. SEF was smaller in group E than that in group EN under the same additive MAC value, In raw EEG,patients in group E had spike wave at more than Ⅰ.0 MAC,but there was no spike wave in group EN. So enflurane/nitrous oxide anesthesia is more proper because nitrous oxide diminishs the undesirable effects of enflurane on brain during deeper anesthesia. The simple additive MAC value may not reflect the exact anesthesia level when nitrous oxide is used in combination, but SRF can do it.

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Acupuncture clinical trials are designed to provide reliable evidence of clinical efficacy, and SCI papers is one of the high-quality clinical efficacy of acupuncture research. To analyze these papers published in high impact factor journals on acupuncture clinical trials, we can study clinical trials from design to implementation, the efficacy of prevention and cure, combined with international standard practices to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of acupuncture. That is the core of acupuncture clinical trials, as well as a prerequisite for outstanding academic output. A scientific and complete acupuncture clinical trial should be topically novel, designed innovative, logically clear, linguistically refining, and the most important point lies in a great discovery and solving the pragmatic problem. All of these are critical points of papers to be published in high impact factor journal, and directly affect international evaluation and promotion of acupuncture.
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AIM: To investigate a new method for identification of traditional Chinese medicine injection by FTIR. METHODS: For the steadiness of spectra, the factors of effecting spectrum's information quality were all investigated scientifically over the experiment procedures and instrumental setting, such as the preparation of samples, resolution ratio, scanning times, repeating scanning times, etc. The traditional Chinese medicine injections were used as the analytical samples such as Radix Isatidis, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Flos Carthami, Radix Astragali and Herba Houttuyniae. RESULTS: Although all these original spectrums were similar at a certain degree, the FTIR combined with computer aided analysis, such as the cluster analysis and derivative spectrometry comparability calculation could be used to identify these injections. CONCLUSION: The method of identification by FTIR is non destructive testing, cheap, clean, fast, simple and convenient. The result indicates this method is suitable for establishing identification database of traditional Chinese medicine injections.

Objective To investigate prognostic factors for bloodstream infection in adult patients. Methods Clinical data of 131 adult patients with positive blood cultures during January 2002 to December 2003 in the Hospital were collected and 91 cases of them were retrospectively analyzed to understand their pathogen species and prognostic factors for it.Results Blood samples from 91 patients were cultured positive,53 cases(58.2%)with gram-negative bacteria mainly including Escherichia coli,Salmonella spp. and Klebsiella pneumoniae,28(30.8%)with gram-positive bacteria,mainly including Staphylococcus aureus and coagnlase-negative Staphylococci,eight(8.8%)with fungi and two(2.2%)with multiple infections.Case fatality ratio in this group of patients with septicemia was 30.8% during their hospitalization,and that in those with Pseudomonas aeruginosa,Staphylococcus aureus,Stenotrophomonas maltophilia and E.coli with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase was over 50%.Case fatality ratio was associated with severity of sepsis(OR=1.15)and inappropriately initial empirical treatment with antibiotics (OR=6.77).Conclusions Pathogen causing bloodstream infection in adults were mainly gram-negative bacteria and severity of infection and inappropriate initial antibiotics treatment could increase their fatality.

Objective To investigate the correlation between red cell distribution width RDW) and prognosis in patients with severe traumatic brain injury.Methods A total of 264 consecutive patients with severe traumatic brain injury admitted from May 2012 to November 2014 were enrolled.The patients were divided into low-RDW group (RDW ＜ 15％,n =198) and high-RDW group (RDW ≥ 15％,n =66) based on their RDW levels.Between-group differences were evaluated on general conditions,acute physiology and chronic health evaluation Ⅱ (APACHE Ⅱ),inflammatory markers [high sensitivity C-reactive proteins(hs-CRP) and arterial lactate],liver/renal dysfunction,and 28-day mortality.Spearman correlation analysis of RDW with mortality was conducted.Independent factors of 28-day mortality were identified using multivariate Logistic regression.Kaplan-Meier 28-day survival curve was analyzed and survival probability of the two groups was compared using Log-Rank test.Results The 28-day mortality was significantly enhanced in high-RDW group compared to that in lowRDW group (43.9％ vs 26.8％,P ＜ 0.01).RDW ≥ 15％ related positively to APACHE Ⅱ and mortality(r =0.172 and 0.253 respectively,P ＜ 0.01),but negatively to Glagow coma score (GCS) (r =-0.169,P ＜0.01).RDW≥ 15％ was the independent risk factor for predicting the 28-day mortality (OR =2.144,95％ CI 1.202-3.826,P ＜0.01).After adjusted gender,age,and other relative factors,RDW≥15％ was still strongly correlated with the 28-day mortality(OR =2.244,95％ CI 1.076-4.678,P ＜ 0.05).Significantly lower 28-day survival rate was found in high-RDW group than in low-RDW group (P ＜ 0.01).Conclusions RDW level rises beyond the normal range on admission in patients with severe traumatic brain injury,which is closely correlated with the 28-day poor outcome.RDW≥ 15％ has significant predictive value in the prognosis.

Objective To investigate the changes of silver-stainng protein of nuclear organizer regions(AgNORs)expression of T lymphocytes and helper T (Th) cell subsets in peripheral mononuclear cells (PBMC) from cancer patients and to analyze the relationship between them.Methods AgNORs expression in T cells activated by a multiple clonal activator was examined using a special image system. After activation of PBMC with ionomycin plus PMA for 5 h, both interferon-? (IFN ?) and interleukin-4 (IL-4)producing cell frequencies were detected by enzyme-linked immunospot assay (ELISPOT). The stimulated with ionomycin plus PMA for 24 h, the IFN ?-and IL-4-production were assayed by ELISA.Resuts AgNORs expression of activated T cells in PBMC from cancer patients (n=86) and healthy persons (n=44) was (4.90?1.20) I.S% and (7.82?1.28) I.S% respectively. Th2 frequency was significantly higher and the ratio of Th1 to Th2 frequency was more lower in cancer patient group. Moreover, the IFN ? and IL-4 production in cancer patient group were changed in the way similar to Th subset frequencies. In lung cancer patients the AgNORs expression, Th1 frequency, Th1/Th2 ratio and IFN ? production were significantly decreased in metastasis or in recurrence status,AgNORs expression in cancer patients correlated with their Th1 frequencies, Th1/Th2 ratio, IFN ? production levels and Karnofsky′s estimators.Conclusions In analyzed cancer patient cases, the expression of AgNORs and the function of Th1 cell were significantly decreased and correlated.