BACKGROUND: The inflammatory reaction occurs following implantation of cardiovascular stent with manifestations of the activation of blood coagulation system and dramatically increasing of inflammatory markers serum C-reactive protein. OBJECTIVE: To explore the changes of inflammatory reaction and C-reactive protein in coronary artery disease patients following cardiovascular stent implantation.METHODS: A computer-based online search of CNKI (1990/2009) and PubMed databases (1990/2009) was performed for related articles with the key words "cardiovascular stent, C-reactive protein" in Chinese and "cardiovascular stent on plasma, C-reactive protein" in English.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Based on the metal stents, drug-eluting stents can transfer the active drugs to the damaged vessels, release them into the vascular wall and inhibit the in-stent restenosis, Main drugs of anti-inflammatory drug-eluting stent include dexamethasone and methylprednisolone. Main drugs of anti-migratory and anti-proliferative drug-eluting stent includerapamycin, paclitaxel and actinomycin D. Main drugs of supporting intima concrescence stent include estradiol. Coronary artery stents implantation can induce and aggravate local inflammation reaction, which have important infection for vascular endodermis hyperplasia and restenosis occurrence. Some impressible index for inflammation reaction, such as levels of C-reactive protein,have predictive value for vascular events following the coronary artery stents implantation. A significant increase in plasma C-reactive protein after coronary stenting has been observed following stent implantation. Therefore, understanding of inflammatory reaction and C-reactive protein, as well as cytokine changes is important for preventing restenosis, early treatment of restenosis, as well as improving treatment effect.

Through analysis of the anatomic and physiological characteristics and the pathophysiological changes of 84 obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) patients,the risks and key points of nursing care during general anesthesia were summarized,such as careful assessment of the patient situation,preparations of first aid materials and drugs,close observation and cooperation with the procedure of anesthesia,timely detecting and dealing with the abnormal changes during anesthesia.

Objective To explore the efficacy of closed reduction and inter na l fixation of cannulated screws by minimally invasive procedure in management of tibial plateau fractures. Methods From October 1999 to January 2002, 42 patient s with tibial plateau fractures, which were 29 males and 13 females with an aver age age of 41 years ranging from 26 to 67 years, were treated surgically in our hospital. According to Schatzker system, the fractures were diagnosed as type Ⅰ in 9, type Ⅱ in 5, type Ⅲ in 13, type Ⅳ in 3, type Ⅴ in 6 and type Ⅵ in 6. There was open fracture in 5, and closed fracture in 37. The fracture fragments of tibial plateau were reduced with closed manipulation or reduced assisted by minimally invasive procedure. The later by minimally invasive procedure included two kinds of reductions, one of which was reduction assisted by Kirschner pin t hat was introduced percutaneously into the larger fragment; the other was reduct ion assisted by a bone tamper that was introduced through a small incision into the cortical window beneath the depressed articular surface. Fixation was achiev ed using percutaneous 6.5 mm cannulated screws or combination of the cannulated screws and Bastiani external frame in unstable fractures. Results Of 42 patients , 37 were followed up from 6 to 30 months (average, 15 months). All 37 fractures were united within 12 weeks postoperatively. The mechanical axis of affected li mb and the stability of affected knee joint were restored in the patients. Accor ding to Sanders score for functional results of knee joint, 13 patients were rat ed as excellent, 20 good, and 4 fair. Anatomical reduction was identified while the stepping of articular surface after reduction was less than 2 mm. In 21 pati ents with anatomical reduction, the functional results were excellent in 8, good in 11, and fair in 2. However, in 16 patients without anatomical reduction, the functional results were excellent in 5, good in 9, and fair in 2. There was sig nificant difference between the two groups on functional results. There were no postoperative complications such as infections and neurovascular bundle. Conclus ion Closed reduction and fixation through minimally invasive procedure has provi ded satisfied results in tibial plateau fractures such as less complications, ex cellent mechanical axis restoration, and ideal functional recovery.

Objective To investigate the clinical characteristics of polymyositis/dermatomyositis (PM/DM) complicated with venous thromboembolism (VTE).Methods Medical records of patients with PM/DM at Peking Union Medical College Hospital from Jan 2000 to Oct 2014 were reviewed to identify VTE.The comparisons of various categorical clinical manifestations between groups were evaluated using t-test and x2 test.Results Twenty-three PM/DM patients developed VTE,which accounted for 1.86％ of the 1 235 PM/DM patients hospitalized during the same period.Among these 23 patients (18 female and 5 male),5 patients had PM and 18 patients had DM.With respect to the occurrence of VTE,no significant difference was found between DM and PM or between male and female.Their age was (57±7) years (range:47-71 years old),significantly older than patients without thrombosis [(47±13) years,t=-3.191,P=0.001].Twenty-one patients (75％,21/28) developed VTE in the first year after the diagnosis of PM/DM.The incidence rate ratios (IRR) for DVT in PM/DM were 1.46％ (18/1 235) and for PTE was 0.73％ (9/1 235),in which 4 cases complicated with lower extremity DVT.Most patients exhibited active disease and high levels of D-Dimer during the emergence of VTE.Conclusion Patients with PM/DM have an increased risk of VTE,especially in older patients and at the early stage after the diagnosis of PM/DM,indicating that more attention should be paid to these patients in the clinic.

Objective To observe the clinical efficacy of electroacupuncture plus nasal irrigation in treating upper airway cough syndrome (UACS).Method A total of 114 UACS patients were randomized into 3 groups, 38 cases in each group. Group A was treated with acupuncture plus electrical stimulation with sparse-dense wave, group B was intervened by nasal irrigation with Shuang Huang Lian, and group C was treated with the two methods together. The clinical efficacies of the three groups were compared.Result The total effective rates were respectively 84.2%, 73.7% and 94.7% in group A, group B and group C. The total effective rate of group C was significantly different from that of group A and group B (P<0.05).Conclusion Electroacupuncture plus nasal irrigation can produce a more significant therapeutic efficacy compared to electroacupuncture or nasal irrigation alone.

Objective To develop a lower limbs rehabilitative apparatus and explore its effects. Methods From January to September, 2016, 28 children with spastic cerebral palsy were divided into control group (n=14) and observation group (n=14) randomly. The control group received routine rehabilitation, while the observation group received self-made lower limbs rehabilitative apparatus training addition-ally. They were assessed with Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM)-88 and Berg Balance Scale (BBS) before and three months after treatment. Results There was no significant difference in the scores of GMFM-88 and BBS between two groups before treatment (P>0.05), while they increased after treatment (t>6.124, P<0.001), and were higher in the observation group than in the control group (t>2.329, P<0.05). Conclusion Self-made lower limbs rehabilitative apparatus could help to improve the gross motor function and balance function in children with spastic cerebral palsy.

BACKGROUND: Three-dimensional printing technology is a new technology which can quickly and accurately transform the virtual computer-aided design into the three-dimensional physical prototypes. Three-dimensional printing physical model method can replace the method of traditional preoperative planning and repair surgical simulation, with the characteristic of repeatable, which has been deepened day after day in clinical application of spine surgery. OBJECTIVE: To summarize the application status of three-dimensional printing technology in spine surgery and look forward to its future development directions. METHODS: The articles regarding the application of three-dimensional printing technology on clinical applications in spine surgery were retrieved from PubMed databases, Google Scholar, China National Knowledge Infrastructure and Wanfang Database from January 2000 to July 2015. The key words were 3D printing technology, rapid prototyping technology, spine, vertebra, department of orthopedics, fracture, joint, hand and foot, bone tumor, trauma, cervical vertebrae, thoracic vertebrae, lumbar vertebrae, sacral vertebrae, pedicle of vertebral arch, vertebral body, intervertebral disc, and clinical application. A total of 50 articles with a good representation were selected and discussed after repetitive studies and reviews were excluded. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The three-dimensional printing technique has been applied in preoperative diagnosis, individualized orthosis customerization, the communication between doctors and patients, teaching, the formulation of individualized and high-accurate repairing plan, intraoperative navigation and individualized implant customization. These results suggest that with the rapid development of medical imaging, digital medicine and technologies of the cel and tissue culture and new materials, three-dimensional printing technology wil have a wide range of applications in spine surgery.

Objective To explore the role of pancreatic cancer-derived microvesicles (MV) and their enclosed microRNAs (miRNA) in the pathogenesis of pancreatic cancer induced diabetes mellitus (DM).Methods The supernatants of three pancreatic cancer cell lines SW1990, BxPC3 and PANC1 were collected, and MV were isolated with gradient centrifugation.The entrance of MV into pancreatic islet cell line MIN6 was proved by Western blot assay and fluorescence-label method.The miRNA-19a levels were measured in MV and MV-free supernatants of three pancreatic cancer cells lines.The three experimental groups were MIN6 cells separately treated by MV derive from SW1990, BxPC3 and PANC1, and untreated MIN6 cells were assigned to the control group.The miRNA-19a levels as well as changes of glucose stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) were measured.Afterward, pre-miRNA-19a and anti-miRNA-19a were transfected into MIN6 cells by liposome, and the effects of them on GSIS were observed.Results CD63 and AGO2 as the protein markers of MV and the entrance of MV from pancreatic cancer into pancreatic islet cell line MIN6 were detected by Western blotting.The miRNA-19a levels in MV and MV-free supernatants of SW1990, BxPC3 and PANC1 were (132.7±16.0), (32.8±4.3), (78.4±8.9),(22.6±3.3), (63.3±12.0) and (23.3±3.3) pmol/L, respectively, and the differences were statistically significant (t=10.44, 10.12 and 5.56,all P＜0.01).Compared to the MIN6 control group, the miRNA-19a levels of MIN6 treated by MV from SW1990, BxPC3 and PANC1 significantly increased, and the 2-△△Ctvalue was 2.02 ± 0.50, 1.80 ± 0.41 and 2.11 ± 0.59, respectively, and the differences were statistically significant (t=2.97, 2.77, 2.84;all P＜0.05).Stimulated with high glucose, the GSIS of pancreatic islet cells treated by SW1990, BxPC3 and PANC1 in three groups decreased, which were (103.73±16.49), (141.17±11.26), and (138.24±13.97) ng · mg protein-1 · h-1 MV, respectively, and that of control group was (256.24 ± 33.05) ng · mg protein-1 · h-1.The differences were statistically significant (t=4.13, 3.30 and 3.29, all P＜0.05).Compared with control group, GSIS of pre-miRNA-19a treated MIN6 remarkably decreased, which was (126.17± 62.87) ng · mg protein-1 ·h-1 and (316.72±91.87) ng · mg protein-1 · h-1 , and the difference was statistically significant (t=2.97, P＜0.05).GSIS of MIN6 cells transfected with anti-miRNA-19a was higher than that of control group, which was (697.47±77.62) ng · mg protein 1 · h-1 and (355.33 ±84.77) ng · mg protein-1 ·h-1 , and the difference was statistically significant (t=-2.97,P＜0.05).Conclusion The entrance of MV derived from pancreatic cancer into pancreatic islet cell line MIN6 may cause the dysfunction of insulin secretion an important signaling molecules, miRNA-19a.

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BACKGROUND: Intramyocardial transplantation of autologous umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells for repair of myocardial tissue damage is paid increasing attention in the cardiovascular field. OBJECTIVE: Human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells were isolated and cultured. Passage 2 human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells were treated with various concentratins of 5-azacytidine (2.5, 5, 10, 20, 40, 80 μmol/L) for 24 hours . After removal of 5-azacytidine, cells were cultured for another 4 weeks. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Before 5-azacytidine treatment, filament-like structures or particles were not observed in the cells, but the amount of cytoplasm was less and uniform, nuclear/cytoplasm ratio was high, cells exhibited typical fusiform appearance and grew in a swirl-like manner, and nucleolus was obvious. After treatment with 5-azacytidine for 24 hours, some cells died in each group, and typical fusiform appearance turned into stick-like or column-like appearance, especial y in the 40 and 80 μmol/L 5-azacytidine groups. Reverse transcription-PCR results showed that atrial natriuretic peptide and α-skeletal actin gene expression levels were detected on human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells after treatment with 2.5 or 40 μmol/L 5-azacytidine for 4 weeks or with 5, 10, 20 μmol/L 5-azacytidine for 1, 2, 3 and 4 weeks. These findings suggest that 5-azacytidine-induced human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells express the specific gene of myocardiocytes.