[Objective] To discuss the clinical manifestations,treatment,and therapeutic efficacy of lumbar disc herniation complicated by lumbar spinal stenosis in elderly patients.[Method]Thirty-six elderly patients with lumbar disc herniation complicated by lumbar spinal stenosis were treated with surgical treatment,including multi-segment fenestration,laminectomy,resection of nucleus pulposus,and internal fixation of pedicle screws.The therapeutic efficacy was retrospectively assessed.[Result]All patients were followed up with an average time of 3 years and 6 months.The good to excellence results was 83%.[Conclusion]In elderly patients with lumbar spinal stenosis,there are patients have special clinical manifestations.Different operations should be adopted for different patients.There are several important factors that affect the efficacy of operation,including operation modes,sufficient decompression,restotation of spinal instability,and postoperative exercises of lumbodorsal muscles.

[Objective]To evaluated the clinical results of the ulnar osteotomy and external fixation for the treatment of chronic anterior dislocation of head of the radius in children.[Method]From 2002 to 2004,thirteen cases of children with chronic anterior dislocation of the radial head were treated by ulnar osteotomy,external fixation and close or open reduction of elbow joint but without repair of the annular ligament. Their mean age was 5.5 years(2 to 11) and the mean interval between the injury and reconstruction was 19 months(2 months to 3 years).[Result]All radial heads remained reduced at a mean follow-up of 14 months(2 months to 3 years).Normal ranges of movement for flexion,extension,pronation and supination were improved or unchanged in 12 patients.One patient had further decreased in 10? for supination.There were one superficial pin-track infections but with no serious complication.[Conclusion]Angular ulnar osteotomy and external fixation of the ulna can lead to stable reduction of the radial head with minimal complications.Reconstruction of the annular ligament is not necessary if satisfactory re-orientation of the ulnar is achieved in all planes.

Objective To ascertain the dose levels to personnel from the activation products in the radiotherapy place of a proton acceterator and to provide technical basis for protection design of the treatment place and the personnel's radiation protection.Methods A PROTEUS 235 proton therapy system was analyzed for the potentials to produce activated nuclides in the air during its operation.The concentrations of the main radionuclides and the resultant personnel doses were estimated.Results The activity concentrations of activated nuclides were 15O 4.1 × 10-2,13N 3.3 × 10-2,41 Ar 6.2 × 10-3 and 11 C 2.0 × 10-2 Bq · cm-3,respectively,in proton accelerator hall,whereas those in the proton beam radiotherapy room were only about 5％ of the corresponding values in the proton accelerator hall.The annual doses to the radiation workers from immersion external exposure due to air activation were less than 1 and 0.1 mSv,respectively,when entering the proton accelerator hall 5 and 30 min after beam stopping;whereas those were 1.3-2.0,0.7-1.2 and 0.3-0.6 mSv,respectively,when entering the therapy hall 0,5 and 15 min after beam stopping.Conclusions The personnel doses received from activated nuclides in the air in the radiotherapy place of a proton acceterator are unignorable.The contribution to doses from immersed external exposure of 15O,13N,41Ar and 11C should be taken into full considerations,with necessary protection measures needed.

Objective To study the relationship between liver fibrosis degree and widths of portal vein(TPV) and spleen vein(SPV).Method Liver specimens from 151 patients with chronic viral hepatitis were divided into 4 groups from S 1 to S 4 according to the liver fibrosis degree.The diameters of TPV and SPV were measured by ultrasonic B.Results The diameters of TPV and SPV of groups S 1,S 2,S 3 and S 4 were (11 89?1 39)mm and (5 78?1 33)mm,(12 22?1 19)mm and (6 25?1 28)mm,(12 43?1 26)mm and (7 03?1 54)mm,(13 07?1 23)mm and (8 0?1 80)mm,respectively.The differences of diameter of TPV between group S 4 and group S 1,S 2 were significant(all P

Objective To investigate the effects of splenctomy on the idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) patients. Methods 9 patients with ITP were involved in the present study,who were performed with splenecto-my because of refractoriness, contraindicatiun and intolerance during corticosteroids therapy. Results The average platelet count of the patients before operation was 35×109/L,while the first,4th and 7th day after operation,the aver-age platelet count was 98×109/L, 179×109/L and 235×109/L. After follow-up for 6 months,there were 7 cases having marked improvement, and the total effective rate was 88.9%. Conclusion Splenectomy is a recommendable method for ITP, expecially for those are inefficient,incompatible and intolerated to continually pharmacotherapy.

Objective To investigate the characteristic of intravascular catheter-related infections (CRI) in Peking University Third Hospital in 2009. Methods The clinical and microbiological features of CRI were analyzed retrospectively. Results Two hundred and nineteen catheters were examined. Twenty-nine CRI cases were confirmed with colonization, 7 were insertion site infection and 6 were catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSI) by quantitative catheter culture method, but no CRBSI was diagnosed by differential time to positivity (DTTP) method. The incidence rates of CRBSI in intensive care units (ICU) were 0. 99- 3.03 per 1000 catheter-days.Among the colonized strains, 51.72 % were Gram-positive cocci, 20.69 % were non-fermenting bacilli (NFB), 13. 79% were Enterobacteriaceae and 10. 34% were Candida. One neonatal CRBSI was caused by Leuconostoc mesenteroides. Most of bacterial isolates were drug resistant. Seventy-seven percent of adult patients were older than 60 years and most of them had chronic underlying diseases.All of the 9 neonate patients were preterm neonate and 7 of them were extremely low birth weight infants. Conclusion There is a certain amount of CRI occurred in Peking University Third Hospital in 2009 and the intravascular catheter management should be enhanced.

For the near-infrared (NIR) spectral analysis of the concentration of blood glucose, the calibration accuracy can be affected because of the existing of outlier samples. In this research, a Monte-Carlo cross validation (MCCV) method is constructed for eliminating outlier samples. The human blood plasma experiment in vitro and the human body experiment in vivo were introduced to evaluate the MCCV method for its application effect in NIR spectral analysis of blood glucose. And the uninformative sample elimination method based on modified uninformative variable elimination (MUVE-USE) was employed in this study for the comparison with MCCV. The results indicated that, like the MUVE-USE method, the outlier samples elimination method based on MCCV could be used to eliminate the outlier samples which came from gross errors (such as bad sample) or system errors (such as baseline drift). In addition, the outlier samples from the random errors of uncertain causes which affect model accuracy can be eliminated simultaneously by MCCV. The elimination of multiple outlier samples is beneficial to the improvement of prediction accuracy of calibration model.
Blood Glucose ; analysis ; Calibration ; Humans ; Models, Theoretical ; Monte Carlo Method ; Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared ; methods

Object To study the pharmacological effects of CH 2Cl 2 extract of Flos Magnoliae.Methods Anti inflammatory and antiallergic effects of CH 2Cl 2 extract of Flos Magnoliae were studied on various experimental models. Results The extract remarkably inhibited the contraction caused by histamine and acetylcholine, as well as the ovalbumin sensitized allergic constriction of isolated ileum smooth muscle of guinea pigs. It could inhibit the increase of capillary permeability induced by acetic acid in mice, inhibit the mice paw edema produced by carrageenin and reduce the production of PGE 2 in inflammatory tissues. Conclusion CH 2Cl 2 extract of Flos Magnoliae showed remarkable anti inflammatory and antiallergic effects.