Objective To improve the probability of early diagnosis and treatment on leukemia combined with hepatosplenic abscesses and to reduce the mortality of leukemia in relation to infection.Methods Nineteen children,who were diagnosed and treated as leukemia combined with hepatosplenic abscesses in Hematology Center of Beijing Children′s Hospital from Jan.2000 and Dec.2007,were selected.Data of them including presenting signs and symptoms,proof of diagnosis,culture data,treatment modality,opportunity of recovering chemotherapy,following up data and so on were reviewed.Results The neutrophil counts were more than 1.0?109 L-1 in all children when hepatosplenic abscesses were diagnosed by means of images.Positive blood cultures were found in 7 children and positive pharyngeal or stool cultures were found in 8 children.Sonographic-guided hepatic abscess biopsies were operated in 3 children,but microbiologic and histologic examination were negative.According to the positive cultures or the validity of empirical antimicrobial or antifungal therapy,7 cases of fungal,7 cases of bacterial and 5 cases of bacterial/anaerobic hepatosplenic abscesses were diagnosed.During follow-up period from 10 days to 2 years and 11 months(median time was 9 months),images improved in 17 children,abscesses disappeared in 10 children and chemotherapy restarted in 84% children.Conclusions The images should be taken opportunely when neutropenia recovered in neutropenic patients with prolonged fever.As blood cultures were often negative,the clinician must pay more attention to the other positive cultures involvement.Early biopsy is advised in order to obtain positive results.The prognosis of bacterial/anaerobic hepatosplenic abscesses is good by adopting an extended spectrum antimicrobial treatment.Antifungal therapy must last enough time in children with fungal hepatosplenic abscesses.Chemotherapy was advised when manifestations of hepatosplenic abscesses improved significantly,neutrophil counts recovered and images did not deteriorate.

Objective To study the validity,reliability and sensitivity of the simplified Chinese version of modified Barthel index (MBI) in evaluation of activities of daily living(ADL) of Chinese stroke patients. Methods Forty Chinese stroke patients (26 males and 14 females,aged 59.65±11.68 years) participated in the study.The duration of the disease averaged 21.20±19.44 days.All the patients were evaluated for three times with MBI.Barthel Index (BI) and the motor component of Functional Independence Measure (M-FIM)independently by twophysiatrists.Spearman correlation coefficients between MBI and Barthel index (BI),between MBI and M-FIM were used to test the validity of MBI.Intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) were used to test both interrater and intra rater reliability of MBI.Sensitivity of MBl was analyzed with the Wilcoxon signed rank test and paired t-test.Results MBI was highly correlated with BI in each item and total score(r=0.816～1.000,P<0.01),and with M-FIM in total score(r=0.935～0.981,P<0.01).There were high reliability with MBI in the results collected by same assessor and different assessors(ICC=0.866～0.997).Furthermore,MBI was more sensitive than BI in majorities of its items and its total scores as well.Conclusions MBI has good validity and reliability as well as sensitivity in assessment of ADL of Chinese stroke patients.

According to the registered product standards specification of medical devices, combined with the standard reviewing work, the common problems of standards during medical devices registration were analyzed and corresponding suggestions were proposed to standardize the standard of the registered product, accelerate the standardization and promote the industry standardized.
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Objective:To evaluate the performance of Sysmex XN-9000 automatic blood analyzer (hereinafter referred to as XN-9000) in whole blood with the low platelet (PLT). Methods:A total of 48 whole blood samples with platelet count less than 70×109/L were randomly collected from XN-9000 correlation analysis to evaluate XN-9000 the accuracy and precision of detection in low whole blood PLT and carry pollution rate, use XN-9000 and microscope count, respectively.Results: XN-9000 detection in low whole blood PLT between batch and batch of CV% 1.13% and 1.29%, respectively; XN-9000 with microscope PLT count results have high correlation, The regression equation forY=0.917X+3.217,correlation coefficientr=0.964; XN-9000 detection in low whole blood PLT carry pollution at a rate of 0.12%. Detection accuracy of PLT Bias, %(-1.25%~1.8%); Linear range(0~1206)×109/L; Clinical reportable range (0~6030)×109/L.Conclusion: The detection of XN-9000 blood analyzer is in low whole blood PLT has high precision and accuracy, carry pollution rate is extremely low, the result has the reliability, can be directly applied to clinical.

Objective To improve the diagnosis of amniotic bands syndrome with ultrasound. Methods All pregnant women underwent ultrasonographic examination to observe the intra amniotic band like structures. Results Among 8771 women undergone ultrasound examination, 60 were found with intra amniotic band structure. Seven cases were diagnosed as amniotic bands syndrome and 53 intra amniotic band like structures included extra amniotic pregnancy(7), amniotic sheets(4), incomplete uterine septum(24), fetal nuchal cystic hygroma(2), fetal nuchal and trunk edema(11) and disclosed extra embryo sac(5). Conclusions Not all the intra amniotic band like structures is amniotic band. But any abnormal structures detected in early stage should be closely followed up.

Objective: To study validity and reliability of Wolf motor function test (WMFT) on assessing the upper extremities motor function of acute stroke patients so as to guide clinical application. Method: Twenty-three stroke patients in acute stage participated in the study. Patients were assessed twice with WMFT and the upper extremities motor function test of Fugl-Meyer movement assessment (U-FMA) within one week. The correlation between the assessment results of WMFT and U-FMA were analyzed to study the validity and reliability of WMFT. Result: WMFT was highly correlated with U-FMA in total scores (r =0.922, 0.929, P＜0.001). There were high correlation in all items of WMFT between two assessment sessions. The intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) were 0.989, 0.997 for intrarater and 0.980, 0.991 for interrater. Conclusion: The WMFT is valid and reliable on assessing upper extremities motor function of stroke patients in acute stage.

BackgroundDiabetic retinopathy (DR) is a progressive vision-threatening complication of diabetes mellitus,but its pathogenic mechanism is still unclear. Recent studies showed that it may be associated with the inflammation response of retinal capillary. Cytokines can cause induction of proinflammatory and adhesion molecules and thereby increase monocyte endothelial cell adhesion, which is now accepted as the early key event in the development of DR. ObjectiveThe present study was to determine the relationship between the stages of DR and the levels of serum vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) , interleukin-2 ( IL-2 ), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) in diabetic patients. Methods This was a pilot case-controlled study. Ninety patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus were included in this clinical trial and 30 healthy individuals were enrolled as controls. The patients were grouped into the non-diabetic retinopathy(NDR) group,background DR group and proliferative DR(PDR) group according to the results from ophthalmoscopic examination and fundus fluorescein angiography(FFA) ,with 30 patients for each group. The levels of serum VEGF,IL-2,TNF-α were assayed by ELISA and compared among the 4 groups.Written informed consent was obtained from each subject before received any related medical examination to this study. ResultsThe mean serum VEGF levels were(217.35±27. 87)ng/L,(298.31±49.26)ng/L,and(341.23±40. 18)ng/L, respectively, and mean serum IL-2 levels were( 12. 12± 1. 57 )ng/L, (16.43 ±2. 26 )ng/L, and (21.36±0. 86) ng/L,respectively and mean serum TNF-α levels were( 11.63±0. 94) ng/L, ( 17. 52±0. 65) ng/L,and(22. 01±0. 87 ) ng/L respectively in the patients with NDR ,background DR and PDR, showing significant differences from healthy controls with( 193.46±37. 39 ) ng/L for serum VEGF, ( 8. 99 ±0. 57 ) ng/L for serum IL-2 and ( 7.31 ±0. 52 ) ng/L for serum TNF-α ( F =126. 38, P＜0. 0 1 ;F =120. 37, P＜0. 01 ;F =99. 84, P＜0. 01 ). The levels of serum VEGF, IL-2, and TNF-α in the patients with the NDR,background DR and PDR were increased significantly. The level of serum VEGF showed the positively significant correlation with serum IL-2 level and TNF-α level ( r =0. 749, P ＜ 0.01 ; r =0. 631,P＜0. 01 ). The serum levels of VEGF, IL-2 and TNF-α showed a significantly positive correlation with the prolongation and severity of DR(r=0. 791 ,P＜0. 01 ;r=0. 665 ,P＜0. 01 ;r=0. 632,P＜0. 01 ). ConclusionsVEGF, IL-2 and TNF-α play active roles in the generation and development of diabetic retinopathy, and the level of serum VEGF is closely associated with the levels of serum IL-2 and TNF-α. during the development of DR.

Objective To investigate the ratios and the distribution of subjects with indeterminate results of HIV antibody in different populations who were positive for HIV screening test in Fujian and to ana-lyze the features of Western blot bands for further understanding the relationships between the Western blot band patterns and HIV infection. Methods The subjects who were diagnosed with indeterminate results of HIV antibody at the first examination were re-tested with Western blot assay every month until the results turned into HIV antibody-positive or HIV antibody-negative. Results The detection rate of indeterminate results of HIV antibody was 3. 69% in Fujian in 2015. Higher rates were detected in blood donors, pregnant woman and other clinical patients. The most common band patterns of HIV antibody-indeterminate samples were p24, gp160+p24 and gp160. Results of the follow-up confirmatory tests showed that 76% of the sam-ples of p24 band pattern were HIV antibody-negative and 76. 47% of the samples of gp160+p24 band pattern were HIV antibody-positive. The nucleic acid test showed that positive results were detected in 29 samples whose band patterns were gp160+gp120+p24,gp160+gp120+p66andgp160+gp120+p31. Conclusion The detection rates of indeterminate results of HIV antibody varied in different populations. The most com-mon band patterns of HIV antibody-indeterminate samples were p24, gp160+p24 and gp160. The more bands the samples presented themselves in Western blot assay, the more likely they would be HIV antibody-positive. Follow-up should be strengthened to prevent the spread of HIV infection. Samples with the band pattern of gp160+gp120+p24 showed a low probability of false positive and they were more likely to be end-stage AIDS with immunosuppression.

(0.05)).And there were no side effects in two groups. CONCLUSION: The Yinqiao Tablet is effective and safety in treating wind-type common cold.

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