Objective To evaluate the characteristics of echocardiogram in senile degenerative heart valvular disease. Methods The cardiac structure and functional changes of the 166 cases of senile degenerative heart valvular diseases were studed with HP5500(USA) and En Visor color doppler(Philips). Results Simple aortic valve calcification was found in 93 cases(56.0%); simple mitral calcification, 18 cases(10.8%);aortic valve calcification combining mitral calcification, 55 cases,(33.1%);enlarged left atrium 116 cases(69.9%);left ventricular diastolic dysfunction 142 cases(85.5%).Within 136 cases of cardiac valve dysfunction, there was aortic valvular regurgitation in 70 cases(42.2%),stenosis of aortic valve in 23 cases(13.9%),mitral regurgitation in 20 cases(12.2%),mitral stenosis in 8 cases(4.8%),aortic valvular regurgitation combining stenosis in 10 cases(6.0%),mitral regurgitation combining stenosis in 5 cases(3.0%). The highest morbidity in valvular dysfunction was aortic valvular regurgitation(42.2%),the second was aortic valve stenosis(13.9%),the lowest morbidity was mitral stenosis combining insufficiency(3.0%). Enlarged left atrium was in 116 cases(69.9%). Conclusions The senile degenerative heart valvular disease have no specific clinical manifestation. With increasing age,the proportion of complex valve calcification is increased, and the highest is the aortic insufficiency in valvular dysfunction. The proportion of enlarged left atrium is also increased.

Objective To investigate hemoglobin A1c(HbA1c) and homocysteine (Hcy) in nondiabetic elder patients with coronary heart disease (CHD),and explore their clinical value.Methods Eighty-six non-diabetic elder patients with CHD [45 cases with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and 41 cases with stable angina pectoris (SAP)] and sixty elder patients without diabetes mellitus and coronary heart disease as control group were selected.The plasma levels of HbA1c and Hcy in all groups were detected and analyzed.Results The levels of HbA1c and Hcy in CHD group were significantly higher than those in control group (P ＜0.05),and levels of HbA1c and Hcy in ACS group were both higher than SAP group (P＜0.05).The change of HbA1c and Hcy had positive correlation (r =0.34,P ＜0.05).Conclusions The levels of HbA1c and Hcy were higher in non-diabetic elder patients with CHD than those without CHD,and might correlate with atherosclerosis.HbA1c and Hcy might be markers of cardiovascular risk.

Objective: To explore the role of clinical pharmacist played in treating patients with acute myocardial infarction. Methods:The clinical pharmacists participated in the therapy for a patient with acute myocardial infarction and provided individual pharmaceutical care. The clinical pharmacist optimized the therapy by means of recognizing the drug-drug interactions and adverse drug reactions as well as evaluating the risk of thrombosis versus bleeding for the patient. Results:The therapeutic suggestions of the clinical pharmacist were accepted by the physicians. The patient was treated effectively and discharged from hospital. Conclusion: Clinical pharmacist can provide beneficial contributions to safe, effective and optimal medication.

Objective To establish a method for the determination of organochlorine and organophosphorus pesticides residues in vegetables.Methods The heavy-caliber capillary gas chromatography and the program control temperature were used to separate and determine the residuals of the pesticides.Results As for the organophosphorus pesticides, the detection limits were 0.004-0.008 mg/kg;The linear range was 0.5-5.0 ?g/ml;The correlation coefficients were 0.996 5-0.999 0;The rates of recovery were 88.47%-96.51%;Relative standard deviations were 2.98%-5.16% .As for the organochlorine pesticides, the detection limits were 0.0007-0.001 mg/kg;The linear range was 0.002-0.2 ?g/ml;The correlation coefficients were 0.999 4-0.9997;The rates of recovery were 86.51%-98.45%;Relative standard deviations were 2.47%-5.32%.Conclusion This method may efficiently separate and determine the organochlorine and organophosphorus pesticides residues in vegetables with good sensibility and accuracy.

Objective To study the relationship between carotid artery atherosclerosis and serum C-reactive protein(CRP) in elderly patients with essential hypertension. Methods 100 hypertensive patients(mean age 73?7 years), including 93 males and 7 females were enrolled in this study. Colour Doppler ultrasonography was used to measure intima-media thickness(IMT) and atherosclerotic plaque of carotid arteries. Serum CRP was determined with immunological method. The relationship between the result of ultrasonography and CRP concentration was analyzed. Results CRP concentration was positively correlated with IMT(P

Objective To investigate the relationship between pluse pressure(PP) and serum levels of C-reactive protien(Hs-CRP) in elderly patients with HBP.Methods To measure serum levels of Hs-CRP,total cholesterol(TC),triglyceride(TG),high density lipoprotein-cholesterol( HDL-C),low density lipoprotein-cholesterol(LDL-C) and FBG in 160 patients. Patients were divided into four groups according to the levels of their PP,100mmHg whose serum levels of Hs-CRP were compared.Results Hs-CRP rose with the levels of PP,and were significantly higher in four groups(P

Objective To observe the serum levels of homocysteine (Hcy) and hypersensitivity C-reactive protein(hs-CRP) in elderly patients with cerebral infarction and to investigate their relationship and clinical significance by National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS).Methods The serum levels of Hcy and hs-CRP were by enzymatic cycling method and scattering turbidimetry in the elderly patients ( 116 cases with cerebral infarction and 100 cases of healthy control).Those 116 cases with cerebral infarction were divided into three groups by the degree of NIHSS.The three groups were compared with each other.Results The levels of serum Hcy and hs-CRP in elderly patients with cerebral infarction were significantly higher than that of healthy control group ( t =6.97,P ＜0.01 ; t =14.96,P ＜0.01 ).There has significant difference among those three groups with cerebral infarction by comparing with each other( F =23.49,P ＜0.05; F =28.19,P ＜0.05).A positive correlation was found between Hcy and degree of NIHSS( r=0.54,P ＜0.05),and between hs-CRPand degree of NIHSS( r =0.58,P ＜0.05).Conclusions Serum levels of Hcy and hs-CRP are correlated with the occurrence of cerebral infarction and its severity.There has positive clinical significance to evaluate the effect of cerebral infarction by measuring the serum levels of Hcy and hs-CRP dynamic.

Objective To study the relationship between morning blood pressure surge with carotid artery intima-media thickness in good controlled elderly hypertensive patients.Methods A total of 151well controlled elderly hypertensive patients was selected in this study.Through the ABPM examination,the morning blood pressure peak was calculated,and then these patients were divided into two groups according to the morning blood pressure peak.The patients whose morning blood pressure peak ≤30 mmHg were divided into non-morning blood pressure surge group (NMS group),and the patients whose morning blood pressure peak ＞ 30 mmHg were divided into morning blood pressure surge group (MS group).The carotid IMT of these patients was measured with ultrasonic detection.The hypertension-related factors with blood pressure and morning peak phenomenon and the impact of IMT were analyzed,and the relationship between the morning blood pressure peak and IMT was analyzed with linear regression analysis.Results Two groups of 151 cases were well-controlled hypertension,76 patients with morning blood pressure showed peak phenomenon,accounting for 50.3％.Age,gender,body mass index,blood lipids,blood glucose,the maximum systolic blood pressure,average systolic blood pressure,minimum systolic blood pressure,maximum diastolic blood pressure,average diastolic blood pressure and minimum diastolic blood pressure had no difference between the two groups ( P ＞ 0.05 ).However,the morning blood pressure peak in patients with MS group [ (42.34 ± 7.10)mmHg] and IMT [ (0.89 ± 0.13 )mm] was higher than the NMS group [ (21.16 ±5.23) mmHg,(0.84 ±0.14) mm,P ＜0.01 orP ＜0.05],and carotid IMT and peak morning blood pressure was positively correlated ( r =0.56,P ＜0.01 ).Conclusions Good controlled elderly hypertensive patients remained the phenomenon of the morning blood pressure surge,the morning blood pressure peak might lead to carotid atherosclerosis.

Objective:To analyze the gene polymorphisms at code 54 of exon 1 in mannose-binding lectin(MBL) gene and the palsma MBL concentrations in Mongols and Huis in China.Methods:MBL plasma concentrations were measured by ELISA method with human MBL ELISA kit,Single nucleotide polymorphisms of MBL gene were determined with sequence analysis method.Geneticanalysis was deployed with SHEsis software,and the statistics package for social science,SPSS11.0 was used in the study.Results:The median values of MBL plasma in 79 Mongols and 69 Huis were 1 686 ng/ml and 1 909 ng/ml respectively and no significant difference was found between them(Z=0.63,P=0.4).In 79 Mongols,the variant allele frequencies of the codon 54 of MBL gene was 0.203,62.0% of the 79 cases were A/A exon type,while 35.4% were A/B type and 2.50% were B/B type instead.In all 69 Huis,the variant allele frequencies was 0.268,58.0% of 40 cases were A/A exon type,while 30.4% were A/B type and 11.6% were B/B type instead.The frequency of point mutation at +230 site was 0.203.No significant difference of variant allele frequencies was found between the Mongols and Huis nationalities(?2=1.772,P=0.183).Neither C nor D exon type were found in the study.The A/A wild type was associated with the highest plasma concentration with median values,the A/B type was associated with lower MBL levels and the B/B type with the lowest levels(?2=86.526,P

Background Corneal confocal microscopy can denamically offer the morphological image of corneal cells at cellular level.To find out the dynamic change of corneal thickness and morphology of corneal cells with aging is very important for the design of corneal refractive surgery.ObjectivePresent study is to find out the important relevance of dynamic change of corneal thickness and morphology of corneal cells with aging and the design of corneal refractive surgery and investigate the influence of age on central corneal tissue and characterize precisely the anatomy of cornea by in vivo confocal microscopy.Methods122 eyes of 122 normal subjects were enrolled in this study with the age from 18 through 80 years old.The subjects were diagnosed as emmetropia in the Center of Tianjin Medical University from August 2003 to December 2007.All eyes were examined in vivo by confocal microscopy.The cell morphology,cell density and corneal thickness were measured by confocal microscopy.The relationship of central corneal tissue change and age was evaluated.ResultsThe density of corneal superficial basement epithelial cells showed a significantly negative correlation with age (r=-0.355,P=0.017).The keratocyte density in the anterior and posterior stroma indicated a significantly negative correlation with age (r_1=-0.462,P=0.001;r_2=-0.403,P=0.016).The thickness of corneal epithelium cells had a significantly negative correlation with age (P=0.02).The mean value of total corneal thickness and stromal thickness in high myopic eyes was (523.2±26.20)μm and (468.4±20.72)μm respectively,presenting a significantly negative correlation with age (r_1=-0.552,P=0.014;r_2=-0.545,P=0.035).A significantly negative correlation was also found in endothelial cell areas and density with age (r_1=0.417,P=0.004;r_2=-0.598,P=0.002).The percentage of polymorphological corneal endothelial cells was considerably increased(r=0.417,P=0.004)but that of pleomorphism cells was significantly decreased in >60-year-old population compared with younger subjects (r=-0.598,P=0.002).The morphology of corneal basement cell,anterior stroma cytocyte and endothelial cell were normal in younger subjects,and enlargement of the cells in size,decreases of number and density of the cells were found in >60-year-old subject.ConclusionThe anatomy and histology of the central cornea in young subjects exist discrepancy from older ones.The corneal hisological changes with aging include thinner thickness of epithelium,thinner thickness of cornea,decreased density of keratocyte and endothelial cells and increased size of endothelial cells.Corneal thickness is asymmetric and seems to undergo age-related anatomic changes.