Recent years,progress has been made on the basic researches and clinical applications of ocular surface reconstruction with autologous or allogeneic limbal stem cells,oral mucosa epithelium and ex vivo cultured limbal stem cells.However,there are several issues,including the successful treatment for severe ocular damage,longterm follow-up and evaluation of clinical outcome,and the in vivo tracking of donor stem cells,remained to have definitive conclusions.Future studies should address the questions and challenges based on the basic research of limbal stem cell deficiency and standardized evaluation of clinical outcome.

Objective To evaluate the feasibility of trans-umbilicus two-port laparoscopic procedures in pediatric surgery.Methods Sixty children (age, 3 months～14 years; mean, 3.5 years) with indirect inguinal hernia and 40 children (age, 2.5～14 years; mean, 6.3 years) with appendicitis underwent supra-high ligation and appendectomy, respectively, by using mini laparoscope from January 2003 to December 2003. During the supra-high ligation, the camera and forceps were respectively introduced via the left and right side of umbilical ring, and a hernial-ring needle with suture was brought in at the site of body surface projection of internal ring to apply external knotting. During the appendectomy, laparoscopic instruments were put through the site of right McBurney’s point, and explorations for contralateral hernia or other digestive tract malformations were applied simultaneously. Results All the operations were completed smoothly. The mean operating time was 8.5 min and 55.7 min in hernia repair (per side) and appendectomy, respectively. The mean postoperative hospital stay was 1～2 days in children with indirect inguinal hernia and 5～7 days in children with appendicitis. Follow-up for 3～12 months showed no recurrence of hernia except for 1 case of intraoperatively misdiagnosed latent hernia, which relapsed 2 months after the surgery. Postoperative abdominal cavity infection took place in 2 cases of perforated appendicitis. Conclusions Trans-umbilicus two-port laparoscopic technique is simple to perform, safe and minimally invasive. The technique has fewer complications and gives satisfactory cosmetic results, being highly recommended.

Bile Duct Neoplasms ; diagnosis ; surgery ; Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic ; Cholangiocarcinoma ; diagnosis ; surgery ; Hepatectomy ; Humans ; Liver Transplantation ; Prognosis

Objective To summarize clinical data of 33 patients with off-pumb coronary artery bypass grafting(OPCABG) procedure and analyze the benefit and curative effects of OPCABG procedure. Methods From February 2002 to June 2005,33 patients with cardiac function in class Ⅱ-Ⅲ (NYHA) and left ventricular ejection fraction(LVEF) was 34%-68%,and all of them underwent coronary artery bypass grafting(CABG) surgery without cardiopulmonary bypass. Results After operation,There was no death, the cardiac function improved in various degree. Preoperative angina disappeared. Conclusion OPCABG procedure is a safe, available, effective method for coronary artery disease.

Objective To assess the efficacy and clinical resuhs of thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) in Stanford type B aortic dissection,and to explore the therapentic strategy and prevention of complication.Methods Fifty-eight patients with Stanford type B aortic dissection underwent TEVAR were enrolled,and were followed up regularly.Results The technical feasibility and success with deployment proximal to the entry tear was 100.0％(58/58),requiring partial coverage of the left subclavian artery in 20 patients and total coverage in 4 patients,and 2 patients used chimney stents.Hospital mortality was 5.2％ (3/58).Type Ⅰ endoleak was found in 11 patients (19.0％,11/58).In 55 survival patients,48 patients occurred thrombosis in pseudocoele and 2 patients' endoleak disappeared.Seven patients' endoleak appeared blood flow.Forty-eight patients(87.3 ％,48/55) were followed up for 3-68 months.Two patients died,and 2 patients' endoleak disappeared,with total suberization in pseudocoele.Other 5 patients' endoleak relieved,with partial suberization in pseudocoele.One patient had new intimal tear at the distal end of the stent-graft and required a second stent implantation.Conclusion TEVAR is safe and effective for the treatment of Stanford type B aortic dissection.

Denitrification plays an important role in wastewater treatment systems for the reason that the nitrate or nitrite was reduced, and some gases such as NO, N_2O or N_2 were released. The application of denitrification in wastewater, the mechanism of denitrification, and the effect factors of denitrification were introduced in this paper. The communities of Denitrifying bacteria, and some key enzymes of denitrification were also introduced. The discovery of aerobic denitrifying bacteria, autotrophic denitrifying bacteria, and denitrifying Phosphorus-removing Bacteria were also mentioned in this paper.

While the near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is used to measure the inhomogeneous samples with diffuse reflection mode, the accuracy and robustness of the calibration model is not quite good for the variation of spectrum scattering and absorption coefficient in those samples.Therefore, an establishment strategy of hybrid model based on homogeneous sample and calibration transfer method was proposed to solve the problem of detection inhomogeneous samples by NIRS.This work was focused on the tobacco leaf samples aspect.Three common calibration transfer methods, including Shenk′s patented algorithm (Shenk′s), piecewise direct standardization (PDS) and calibration transfer based on canonical correlation analysis (CTCCA), were used to construct two hybrid models of tobacco powder mixed with cut tobacco and tobacco powder mixed with tobacco flake samples to predict nicotine content in the samples of cut tobacco and tobacco flake.Experimental results showed that the hybrid model of adding some cut tobacco and tobacco flake samples to the powder model would get preferred prediction ability.Root mean square errors of cut tobacco and tobacco flake samples were reduced by 1.39% and 2.73%, respectively.This showed that the hybrid model was help for the improvement of the predicted results and the robustness of model.Moreover, CTCCA got the optimal performance between these three calibration transfer methods.Therefore, the scheme of building a hybrid model by NIRS homogeneous model and calibration transfer method to determinate the heterogeneous samples is feasible, which can accelerate the development of on-line near infrared spectroscopy technology and will provide reference for the share of near infrared spectral model.

Objective To investigate the efficacy of gelatin sponge particles(GSP)or polyvinyl alcohol particles (PVA) for hemoptysis secondary to bronchiectasis or pulmonary tuberculosis. Methods The clinical data on 271 patients with bronchiectasis- or tuberculosis-induced hemoptysis were retrospectively analyzed. The efficacy and rates of recurrence and complications were analyzed. Results A total 271 patients were included in this study, 176 of whom suffered from bronchiectasis and the rest 95 had tuberculosis. One-week cure rate was signifi-cantly higher in bronchiectasis group than in tuberculosis group(73.3%vs. 46.3%,P<0.05),and one-year recur-rence rate was significantly lower in bronchiectasis group(17.6%vs. 26.3%,P<0.05). One-year recurrence rate was slightly higher in patients receiving GSP than in those undergoing PVA(bronchiectasis group:22.2%vs. 10.3%, P<0.05;tuberculosis group:28.8%vs. 22.2%,P>0.05). No severe complications occurred. Conclusions In-terventional artery embolization therapy for hemoptysis secondary to bronchiectasis is better than tuberculosis-induced hemoptysis,and PVA is more effective than GSP. Recurrence of massive hemoptysis mostly occurrs within one month ,and most of the patients are complicated with blood supply and have a history of hemoptysis.

Humans ; Lung ; pathology ; Physical Examination ; Pneumoconiosis ; diagnosis ; Thoracotomy

Objective To summarize the experience of surgical treatment of venous drug-induced infective endocarditis(IE). Methods The 17 cases of drug-induced IE were found to have valvular vegetations,16 patients had involvement of tricuspid valve, 1 mitral valve associated with ventrieular septal defect. Preoperative blood culture was positive in 8 patients. The operations included tricuspid valve repair (6 cases),tricuspid valve replacement(8 cases), mitral valve replacement and VSD closure(1 cases). Results All patients were alive and discharges. After follow-up of 6 months to 6 years, 1 case had severd tricuspid alve regurgitation, 1 had haemoptysis because of incorrect anticoagulation. Conclusions This study indicated surgical intervention is effective treatment of venous drug-induced infective endocarditis.