Objective To evaluate the life quality of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma after intensity modulated radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Method Using phenomenological research method, we interviewed 10 patients repeatedly to explore their somatization, psychological changes as well as the effect on quality of life. Result The life quality of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma after intensity modulated radiotherapy and chemotherapy were affected tremendously , characterized by intense psychological stress, side effects from radiochemotherapy, hunger for emotional support, heavy burden of medical expenses, and the change of family and work roles. Conclusion Nursing staff should understand the mental feelings of patients, and provide supports for the patients psychologically, physically, from the economic, family and social points of view, so as to improve the life quality and physical and mental health of patients.

Objective To compare the clinical value of Heidelberg retinal tomography (HRT-Ⅱ) and Heidelberg optical coherence tomography (HRA OCT) in discriminating healthy eyes and pre-perimetric glaucoma eyes.Methods A total of 33 patients with pre-perimetric glaucoma and 37 healthy subjects were included in this study.All individuals underwent imaging tests with HRT-Ⅱ and HRA OCT within 1-month period.ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis test were used to compare all of the parameters from HRT-Ⅱ and HRA-OCT between pre-perimetric glaucoma eyes and normal eyes.Receiver operating characteristic curves (ROC) were calculated for all of the parameters to seek the best discriminant point of each instrument between pre-perinmetric glaucoma and healthy eyes.Results Statistically significant differences were found in most of the HRT-Ⅱ parameters except for disc area and height variation contour between pre-perimetric glaucomatous eyes and normal eyes (all P＜0.05),which showed that most of the HRT-Ⅱ parameters were capable of diagnosing preperimetic glaucoma except for the disc area and height variation contour (all P＜0.05).66.7％ of the areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUC) from HRT-Ⅱ parameters were larger than 0.800 and 58.3％ of the AUC were larger than 0.900.Statistically significant differences were found in most of the HRA-OCT parameters except for the nasal retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL)thickness between pre-perimetric glaucoma eyes and normal eyes (all P＜0.05),which showed that most of the HRA-OCT parameters were capable of diagnosing pre-perimetic glaucoma except for the nasal RNFL thickness (all P＜0.05).66.7％ of the AUC from HRA-OCT parameters were larger than 0.800 and 33.3 ％ of the AUC were larger than 0.900.No statistically significant difference was found between the AUC for the best parameter diagnosing pre-perimetic glaucoma from HRT Ⅱ (cup/disk area ratio,AUC =0.984) and HRA OCT (average RNFL thickness,AUC =0.940).No Statistically significant differences were found in specificity and sensitivity of diagnosing pre-perimetic glaucoma between the two best parameters cup/disk area ratio and average RNFL thickness (both P＞0.05).Conclusions Both HRT-Ⅱ and HRA-OCT can well reflect the damage of optic disc and retinal nerve fiber layer in eyes with pre-perimetric glaucoma.HRT-Ⅱ and HRA-OCT have higher accuracy and similar sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of pre-perimetric glaucoma.

Objective To investigate the incidence and influencing factors of healthcare-associated infection (HAI) in inpatients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma during radiotherapy period.Methods The occurrence of HAI among patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma in a tertiary first-class cancer hospital in Jiangsu Province between July 2012 and June 2014 were analyzed retrospectively.Results A total of 1 396 patients were investigated,the incidence of HAI was 2.29%,case incidence of HAI was 2.44%.The most common infection site was oral mucosa (n =24, 70.59%),and most infection occurred 2-4 weeks after the start of the radiotherapy.A total of 38 pathogenic iso-lates were isolated,24 (63.16%)were gram-positive bacteria,12 (31 .58%)were gram-negative bacteria,and 2 (5.26%)were fungi.Incidences of HAI were high in patients >50 years old,with chemotherapy,length of hospital stay>60 days,and used at least 2 kinds of antimicrobial agents (all P <0.05).Conclusion Prevention and control of HAI in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma during radiotherapy period should be strengthened,especially for the elderly,patients with chemotherapy,long length of hospital stay,and extensive use of antimicrobial agents.

BACKGROUND:In recent years, great progress has been achieved in the mechanical and viscoelastic properties of arterial blood vessels of normal human corpses and animals. OBJECTIVE: To quantitatively analyze the tensile mechanical properties of thoracic aorta in normaly fed spontaneously hypertensive rats and salt-loaded spontaneously hypertensive rats. METHODS: Twenty spontaneously hypertensive rats were obtained and randomly divided into experimental and control groups (n=10/group). Rats in the experimental group were subjected to continuous salt loading intervention for 16 weeks. Rats in the control group were fed with normal diet and ordinary tap water. At the 16th week, 10 specimens of thoracic aorta of rats from these two groups were harvested to conduct stress relaxation experiments.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The decrease in stress at 7 200 seconds and the decrease in normalized stress relaxation function value at 7 200 seconds of thoracic aortic specimens of rats in experimental group were both lower than those in the control group (P< 0.05). These results confirm that the stress relaxation properties of thoracic aorta of normaly fed and salt-loaded spontaneously hypertensive rats change, wherein the changes in salt-loaded spontaneously hypertensive rats are more obvious.

Objective To observe the initial therapy outcomes of Valproic acid for childhood absence epilepsy (CAE),and to assess its therapeutic reaction and short-term prognosis,and to investigate the risk factors for initial therapy failure.Methods From January 2010 to December 2015,absence seizures as key words were used to search CAE in the video-electroencephalogram(VEEG) database of Children's Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University.Sixty-seven children fulfilled the CAE diagnosis criteria of International League Against Epilepsy in 1989.These patients were separated into 2 groups based on the therapy outcome after 6 months,including seizure control failure group and seizure control group.The patients' clinical characteristics and VEEG characteristics were reviewed.The gender,age of seizure onset,a family history of epilepsy or febrile seizures (FS),consistent with 2005 Panayiotopoulos diagnostic criteria,and VEEG findings were analyzed to evaluate the predictive ability of independent variables and the relationship between these features and treatment outcomes by using a stepwise multivariate Logistic regression model.Results The age at seizure onset was (5.89 ± 2.91) years old,and follow up duration was 6 months.Approximately 23 cases (34.3％) of CAE patients had poor response.No statistical correlation was made for gender,age at onset,the occurrence of generalized tonic clonic seizures,and family history of FS or epilepsy between 2 groups (all P ＞0.05).Compared with seizure control group,patients of the seizure control failure group had significantly higher rates of focal epileptic discharge (87.0％ vs.6.8％),higher rates of intermittent photic stimulation (IPS) induced seizures (52.2％ vs.6.8 ％),fewer rates of occipital intermittent delta activity (8.7 ％ vs.77.3 ％),and fewer rates of patients met the new diagnostic criteria proposed by Panayiotopoulos in 2005 (8.7％ vs.88.6％) (all P ＜ 0.001).The presence of occipital intermittent rhythmic delta activity during wake stage and the interictal focal epileptiform discharges on VEEG during sleep stage were significantly associated with the therapy outcomes in a multivariable Logistic regression analysis (OR =133.714,P ＜ 0.05;OR =0.068,P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions The presence of focal epileptiform discharges,and a typical absence induced by IPS are important factors for first-drug treatment failures with CAE,and conversely the occipital intermittent rhythmic delta activities have a good efficacy.There is no statistical correlation between clinical characteristics and treatment outcomes.

Objective To reveal the status quo and emerging issues of co-authorship in regional health informatization research community in China.Methods The terms or keywords describing and covering regional health informatization were used to search the most relevant literatures about the subject in CNKI,Wanfang database and PubMed.Software tools were used to extract bibliographic,Social network analysis (SNA);co-authorship,and co-word analysis were used in this study.Results ①11,482 articles with 16,449 authors in the period of 1984-2013 were found.Each publication has an average of 1.43 authors,and each author has 0.70 publications.The number of coauthored literature was 7741 (67.42 ％).Both production and collaboration have been growing steadily.② Coauthored knowledge network was build which composed by 150 high-yielding Authors.The largest component comprises 43 authors(28％,43/156).The intermediate centrality of 57 authors were above 0.③ 230 2-plexes were found,and 65 2-plexes scale was 4 and over;and there was overlap among them.There were extensive cooperation between the military institutions,a large number of regional health information technology research talent were found in army research institutes..Cohesive subgroups density showed an E-I index=-0.901,which indicated that factionalism was comparatively weaker in this field,and the relationship tended to occur among subgroups.④ Cooperative network was established between the provinces and municipalities.Beijing,Guangdong,Jiangsu,Hubei were the core area.⑤ The average distance between the author=3.155,and it consistent with the small-world characteristics.⑥ The largest component of the network research can be summarized into three categories:HIS-related research,electronic medical records related research,and regional health informatization related research.Conclusions Although such collaboration is growing steadily,the collaboration behavior about regional health informatization study needs to be enhanced.Policy makers and researchers can refer to the relevant information and promote cooperation,improve the capacity of regional health information research and construction.

Objective:To explore the effect of comprehensive intervention program based on the concept of fast track surgery in early enteral nutrition tolerance and rehabilitation in patients with esopha geal cancer.Methods:93 selected patients were divided into the intervention group and the conventional control group according to the admission time.Patients in intervention group were treated with comprehensive intervention,and control group were given routine nursing care.Enteral nutrition intolerance incidence,the first time of bowel sounds,the first time exhaust and defecation and complications were compared between the two groups.Results:36 patients from 47 patients (76.60％) in the intervention group could tolerate the early feeding,while 24 patients from 46 patients (52.17％) in the control group could tolerate.There was significant difference between two groups (P ＜ 0.05).The first time of exhaust,bowel sounds and defecation,and the hospitalization time of patients in the intervention group were better than that in the conventional control group (P ＜ 0.01).Incidence rate of incision infection,pulmonary infection and intestinal obstruction in patients of the comprehensive intervention group was lower than that in the control group (P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion:Compared with the traditional treatment,the comprehensive intervention can effectively reduce the enteral nutrition intolerance incidence,promote the recovery,reduce hospitalization time and the incidence of postoperative complications,and improve the life quality of patients after surgery.

AIM: To decide the effect that selected siRNA degrades mRNA of IL-1? specifically and suppression of its expression after connected with target site with homology complementary sequence. METHODS: Synthesized DNA expression box aimed directly at target site through PCR reaction in vivo was purified, and transfected into lymphocytes stimulated by LPS. siRNA was transcribed by cellular endogenous RNA polymerase Ⅲ and then evoke the degradation of target mRNA. After 48 hours of transfection, the cell culture supernatant was collected and the concentration of IL-1? was assayed using ELISA. RESULTS: Compared with blank-control and negative-control, selected sequence decreased the expression of IL-1?. Rate of the suppression was about 15%. CONCLUSION: RNAi technology produces specific interference effect in mouse spleen lymphocytes in original culture and inhibits the excretion of IL-1?.

Objective Current study used quantitative research methods to reveal the regional medical information research in hotspots, and summarize the mainstream knowledge base to provide the reference for researchers in the field.Methods A systematic search was conducted to find publications in CNKI, Wanfang Database and PubMed.Bibliometrics method, social network analysis, coword analysis, principal component analysis and multidimensional scaling analysis were used in this study.Results ① total 11,482 articles published from 1984 to 2013 were screened out.The development of research publications showed an increasing trend, and the papers were distributed in 1233 types of journals.The number of authors who located in Beijing, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shanghai,Shandong ranked top five.② The top 59 high frequency key words were identified that representing the hot contents in regional health information technology research field, and was used to build knowledge network map.Among them, HIS, electronic medical records, hospital information technology,information technology were at the core of this research area.③ We summarized research and development in the field of nine major mainstream knowledge base include: research on electronic medical records, medical personnel, information systems, information security, information networks, information sharing, information integration, information technology, and information management, resident' s health record related studies;qualitative analysis and problem-oriented research;HIS and telemedicine-related research;community related research, two-way referral related research, health care reform and cloud computing-related research, telemedicine related research and V43 related research.Conclusions The development of regional medical information research has good momentum and closely follow the international trend, but the research contents and methods are still distance from international standard..Research mostly focused on hospital information system construction, regional research and applied research are weak and need to be further improved.