Objective To investigate the correlation between the results of HBsAg positive results among different detection systems,and provide reference for the analysis of clinical test results and the publication of the report.Methods The HBsAg positive serum specimens with the quantitation result lower than 80 COI were detected by Roche Cobas e602 electrochemical luminescence analyzer.All the specimens were also detected by Roche Modular e170 electrochemical luminescence analyzer.The differences of detecting results were compared and performed the linear correlation analysis.Results The experimental results of two detection systems are R2 =0.933.The positive coincidences of Group A,B,C,D and E were 60.60％,92.72％,96.66％,96.66％ and 100％,respectively.The positive coincidence of the males was 87.66％,while the positive coincidence of the females was 70.96 ％.The positive coincidence of the males was significantly higher than the females (P＜0.05).Conclusion The HBsAg detecting results of Roche Cobas e602 and Roche Modular e170 electrochemical luminescence analyzer had high correlation.The results higher than 10 COI had 100％ positive coincidence rate,however the results between 1 and 10 COI were not.The result between 1 and 10 COI may lead to controversial results,suggestions for further checks.

Objective To analyze the effect of prevention and treatment with lamivudine in HBsAg positive renal allograft recipients with HBV recurrence.Methods In 28 patients with chronic renal failure whose HBsAg was positive,8 cases were positive for HBV-DNA positive.All these 28 cases had normal liver function without hepatic cirrhosis before renal transplantation.All donors were negative for HBsAg.Twenty patients received lamivudine prophylactic treatment:14 cases positive for HBsAg but negative for HBV-DNA before transplantation received lamivudine treatment immedia- tely after transplantation and 6 cases positive for both HBsAg and HBV-DNA received lamidudine treatment before transplantation.Eight patients were treated with lamivudine when their hepatic dys- function with recurrent HBV antigenemia were developed after transplantation.Lamivudine was orally taken and its initial dosage was 100 rag/day.Results The follow-up period of the 28 patients were 13- 54 months with the average of 23.6 months,and 2 died during this period.Mild hepatic dysfunction with recurrent HBV antigenemia developed in 3 of 20 hepatitis antigenemia patients received lamivu- dine prophylactic treatment with a mean duration of 9.3 months after transplantation.The highest average level of serum ALT was 87.5 U/L.The liver function returned to the normal with HBV-DNA negative after lamivudine treatment in 3 patients.The other 17 patients maintained normal liver func- tion with HBV-DNA negative during the follow-up period.Hepatic dysfunction with recurrent HBV antigenemia(or HBV-DNA titer increased significantly)developed with a mean duration of 4.6 months in all 8 patients without receiving lamivudine prophylactic treatment.The highest average level of serum ALT was 174.5 U/L.The liver function returned to the normal with HBV-DNA negative after larnivudine treatment in the 8 cases.HBV-DNA,however,reappeared in 5 eases without any dis- continuation of lamivudine.The creatinine level remained normal without any severe drug side effects in 28 patients during lamivudine treatment.Conclusion Lamivudine treatment before hepatic dysfunc- tion might be a safe and effective strategy for prevention of recurrence of hepatitis B viremia in HBsAg positive renal allograft recipients.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the most common causes of nosocomial infection due to its intrinsic resistance to antibiotics. In the host,glutathione(GSH) ,one of the most important intracellular antioxidants,provides protection against high levels of oxidative stress. A decrease in GSH levels in tissues infected with P. aeruginosa has been observed while interactions between pyocyanin and GSH maybe partially attribute to P. aeruginosa infection. In this review,the relationship between GSH and the pathogenicity of P. aeruginosa has been discussed based on the author's own research results and the latest literature.

Objective: To observe the clinical efficacy of herbal cake-partitioned moxibustion for dysmenorrhea due to deficiency cold. Methods: A total of 70 patients with dysmenorrhea who met the inclusion criteria were randomized into a mild moxibustion group and a herbal cake-partitioned moxibustion group by the random number table, with 35 cases in each group. Shenque (CV 8), Zhongji (CV 3) and bilateral Zigong (EX-CA 1) were selected for both groups. The treatment continued for 3 menstrual cycles. The visual analog scale (VAS) and COX menstrual symptom scale (CMSS) were scored in both groups before treatment, after treatment and at the end of the 3rd menstrual cycle after treatment. The clinical efficacy was evaluated at the end of the 3rd menstrual cycle after treatment. Results: After treatment, the clinical efficacy of the herbal cake-partitioned moxibustion group had the tendency to be superior to that of the mild moxibustion group, while there was no statistically significant difference in the overall efficacy between the two groups (P>0.05). The VAS and CMSS scores after treatment and at the follow-up were significantly lower than those before treatment in both groups (all P<0.05). At the follow-up, the VAS scores in both groups had no significant intra-group differences from those after treatment (both P>0.05). The CMSS scores in both groups were significantly lower than those after treatment (both P<0.05). The VAS scores at the follow-up of both groups had no statistical differences from those after treatment (both P>0.05). After treatment, the CMSS score in the herbal cake-partitioned moxibustion group was significantly lower than that in the mild moxibustion group (P<0.05). At the follow-up, there were no statistical differences in the CMSS score between the two groups (P>0.05). Conclusion: The herbal cake-partitioned moxibustion has the same therapeutic efficacy for dysmenorrhea as the mild moxibustion; the two moxibustion methods can significantly improve the concomitant symptoms of dysmenorrhea, and the herbal cake-partitioned moxibustion is little better.

Background The surgery for congenital idiopathic nystagmus has make great progression recent year,but the influence of surgery on visual function is closely concerned.Objective This work was to study the surgeries for congenital idiopathic nystagmus with or without strabismus and explore the effect of horizontal rectus muscle surgery on the visual function and ocular movement in congenital idiopathic nystagmus.Methods This was a case-observational study.Sixty cases with idiopathic congenital nystagmus were enrolled assigned to four groups as follows:The patients of group Ⅰ appeared the head postures of less than 15 ° and heterotropia less than 15△underwent extraocular proprioceptiou resection,and those of group Ⅱ presented with the head postures of less than 20° and heterotropia more than 15△ underwent extraocular proprioception resection and stabismus surgery.In the group Ⅲ,the patients had the head postures of more than 15° and heterotropia less than 15△ underwent Park's surgery and part of them underwent extraocular proprioception resection) and the cases in group Ⅳ were selected with the head postures of more than15° and heterotropia more than 15△ underwent Park' s surgery and strabismus surgery ( part of them underwent extraocular proprioception resection).Baseline and follow-up evaluations included the best distance and near corrected visual acuity,head posture,ocular movement and Titmus stereotest.The examination results were compared between before and after operation.Results One year after operation,monocular and binocular distance visual acuity improved significantly in all four groups ( monocular:t =6.00,8.94,11.76,16.41,P =0.00 ; binocular:t=4.81,P=0.01 ; t =6.27,4.25,4.18,P =0.00 ),but monocular and binocular near visual acuity improved significantly only in groups Ⅲ and Ⅳ after operation compared with before operation ( monocular:t=2.91,P=0.01 ; t =5.32,P =0.00 ; binocular:t =3.36,t =4.30,P =0.00 ).The compensatory head posture from 39 subjects was disappeared after operation,showing an evident difference between before and after surgery ( group Ⅲ:t =29.90,P=0.00;group Ⅳ:t=16.91,P=0.00).Strabismus were corrected rightly for 24 patients and undercorrection for 2 patients.( group Ⅱ:t =29.15,P =0.00 ; group Ⅳ:t =36.79,P =0.00 ).The binocular visual function of 23 cases with the age below 12 years were improved throughout the follow up duration ( t =12.06,P =0.00).Conclusions Park' s surgery,extraocular proprioception resection and strabismus corrective operation can improve the visual function and head posture in congenital idiopathic nystagmus patients.

Background Congenital nystagmus is a common disease threatening visual function.The clinical description of congenital nystagmus is still not enough now. Objective The aim of this study was to report the motor and sensory characteristics of congenital nystagmus. Methods A retrospective clinical case analysis was designed.The clinical data of 376 patients with congenital nystagmus were collected.These patients were diagnosed in Henan Eye Institute from January,2005 to August,2011.The clinical characteristics of patients,including age,pedigree analysis,nystagmus classification,ocular alignment,visual acuity,refractive error,stereoacuity and oscillopia,was summarized.Informed consent from all patients and custodian were obtained. Results The age distribution of most patients was ＞5-10 years and ＞ 15-20 years,with the percentage 24.73％ and 24.20％,respectively.Of 376 patients,sensory defect nystagmus was 172 cases,and that of motor sensory defect was 204 cases.The most common inheritance pattern was autosomal dominant.Conjugate uniplanar horizontal oscillations were found in 73.94％patients,and strabismus was found in 66.36％ in this study.Sensory defected subjects did not show a statistically significantly higher strabismus incidence when compared with the idiopaths (x2 =3.048,P =0.081 ).The binocular distance vision in all the subjects was declined in comparison with normal eyes,the best corrected vision was 0.27 ±0.11 and 0.50± 0.13 in sensory defected nystagmus and idiopaths nystagmus respectively,showing a significant difference( t =16.495,P =0.000 ).The incidence of refractive error in this study was 77.62％.Incidence of astigmatism(75.17％ ) was higher than that of myopia and hyperopia ( 39.03％ and 36.12％ ).No significant difference was seen in refractive error incidence between the sensory defected and the idiopaths (x2 =1.337,P =0.248).Patients of 65.18％ displayed non-stereoacuity or very gross acuity levels (3000) in this study,and the patients with idiopathic nystagmus showed better stereoacuity level in comparison with sensory defected ones (x2 =7.058,P =0.008 ).Five of 313 patients existed experienced oscilopla under binocular viewing conditions.Conclusions Autosomal dominant inheritance is the most common pattern of congenital nystagmus.Conjugate uniplanar horizontal oscillation is thought to be a common type of nystagmus.Incidence of strabismus is higher,and visual acuity and stereoaeuity are worse in congenital nystagmus than in common population.Oscillopia is seldom found in congenital nystagmus.

Objective To investigate the correlation of HCV-RNA with detection indexes HCV-Ab and HCV-cAg in its clini-cal application effect among patients with hepatitis C.Methods HCV-cAg and HCV-Ab in 140 cases of HCV-RNA were detected by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay in cases of PCR,which were detected by real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR.Results 127 cases in 140 cases of HCV-RNA positive serum were HCV-cAg positive,in line with the rate of 90.71%,and the cases of 110 HCV-Ab positive,in line with the rate of 78.57%.The positive detection rate of HCV-cAg with different HCV-RNA concentration was increased with the increase of HCV virus content,and the serum of different HCV-RNA concentration had no significant changes in HCV-Ab detection results.Conclusion The detection results of HCV-cAg had a high coincidence rate with HCV-RNA.Therefore detection of HCV-cAg can be as a complementary detec-tion of HCV-Ab,as the window period of HCV infection and infection in immunocompromised persons screening provides a simple,inexpensive method.At the same time it provides rapid screening for HCV infection provide diagnostic basis for those basic medical units who do not have the conditions for detection of HCV-RNA.

Objective:To observe the effect of warm-unblocking acupuncture plus fluticasone propionate nasal spray on the pulmonary ventilation, level of interferon-γ (IFN-γ) and sleep quality in patients with allergic rhinitis (AR). Methods: A total of 112 AR patients were enrolled between January 2013 and August 2018 and were divided into an observation group and a control group by the random number table method, with 56 cases in each group. Patients in the observation group received warm-unblocking acupuncture plus fluticasone propionate nasal spray, and patients in the control group only received fluticasone propionate nasal spray. The nasal symptom score, pulmonary function indexes, the levels of IFN-γ and interleukin (IL)-4 in serum, and sleep quality in the two groups were compared. Results: After treatment, the total effective rate in the observation group was higher than that in the control group (P＜0.05). The nasal symptom score dropped in both groups after treatment (both P＜0.05), and the score in the observation group was lower than that in the control group (P＜0.05). The pulmonary ventilation indexes all increased significantly after treatment in the observation group (all P＜0.05); the forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) to forced vital capacity (FVC) ratio (FEV1/FVC) and the forced expiratory flow at 50%, 75% and 25%-75% of the vital capacity (FEF50%, FEF75%, FEF25%-75%) increased after treatment in the control group (all P＜0.05); the pulmonary ventilation indexes were higher in the observation group than those in the control group (all P＜0.05). The level of IFN-γ increased significantly after treatment in the two groups (both P＜0.05) and the level of IL-4 dropped significantly (both P＜0.05); the observation group had a higher IFN-γ level (P＜0.05) and a lower IL-4 level (P＜0.05) compared with the control group. Regarding the Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI), the scores of subjective sleep quality, habitual sleep efficiency and sleep disturbances and the general PSQI score decreased significantly after treatment in both groups (all P＜0.05), and the scores in the observation group were significantly lower than those in the control group (all P＜0.05). Conclusion: Warm-unblocking acupuncture plus fluticasone propionate nasal spray can effectively control the clinical symptoms and improve pulmonary function in the treatment of AR; this approach can regulate the levels of IFN-γ and IL-4 towards the normal range in AR patients; it can also improve patient’s sleep quality. This method can produce more significant efficacy than fluticasone propionate nasal spray used alone.

Investigation of simvastatin and its related substances was carried out using a reversed phase ultra performance liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry method. The identification of impurities in simvastatin was performed with a triple-quadrupole mass spectrometer, with an electrospray ionization (ESI) source in the negative/positive ion mode. A total of 12 compounds were characterized in commercial samples, among which 2 impurities had never been reported. All the impurities were deduced based on the MS fragment pathways of simvastatin and the biosynthetic pathway of lovastatin. This work provides very useful information for quality control of simvastatin.
Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid ; Chromatography, Reverse-Phase ; Drug Contamination ; Hypolipidemic Agents ; chemistry ; Quality Control ; Simvastatin ; chemistry ; Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization ; Tablets ; Tandem Mass Spectrometry

OBJECTIVETo compare clinical efficacy of Zero-profile implant for anterior cervical discectomy and fusion and conventional titanium plate with cage internal fixation for the treatment of single segmental cervical intervertebral disc herniation.

METHODSFrom August 2011 to March 2014, clinical data of 139 patients with single cervical disc herniation treated with anterior cervical discectomy and interbody fusion with internal fixation were retrospectively analyzed. The patients were divided into two groups according to its operation method. There were 63 patients in group A which performed anterior discectomy and interbody fusion with Zero-profile;76 patients in group B which performed anterior cervical discectomy and cage plate internal fixation. JOA score and Odom functional rating between two groups were compared before and after operation. Videofluorographic swallowing study (VFSS) were used to evaluate thickness of prevertebral soft tissue. Bazaz dysphagia score were used to assess incidence of dysphagia. Postoperative AP X-ray and CT of cervical vertebra at 12 months were applied for evaluating bone graft fusion. Postoperative MRI was applied for evaluating the incidence of adjacent segment degeneration. Blood loss,operative time, preoperative and postoperative JOA score, Odom functional rating and VFSS score, Bazaz score, fusion rate between vertebral bodies and incidence of adjacent segment degeneration were compared between two groups.

RESULTSThere were no statistical meaning between two groups in JOA score, Odom functional rating before and after operation (P > 0.05); and no significant meaning in VFSS score between two groups before operation (P > 0.05); There were no significant difference in operative time and blood loss. There was statistical meaning in VFSS, Bazaz dysphagia score at 2 days, and 6 months after operation (P < 0.05). All patients obtained bone union at 1 year after operation, and no obvious meaning in fusion rate (P > 0.05). Eight patients (12.7%) in group A occurred adjacent segment degeneration and 19 patients (25%) in group B occurred adjacent segment degeneration, and there was significant meaning between two groups (P < 0.05).

CONCLUSIONBoth of Zero-profile implant for anterior cervical discectomy and fusion and conventional cage internal fixation for the treatment of single segmental cervical intervertebral disc herniation could obtain satisfied clinical results. While Zero-profile implant for anterior cervical discectomy and fusion has advantages of lower incidence of adjacent segment degeneration, and its mid and long term following-up results still further observation.

Adult ; Aged ; Bone Plates ; Case-Control Studies ; Cervical Vertebrae ; surgery ; Diskectomy ; Female ; Fracture Fixation, Internal ; Humans ; Intervertebral Disc ; surgery ; Intervertebral Disc Displacement ; surgery ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Retrospective Studies ; Spinal Fusion ; Treatment Outcome