OBJECTIVEThe effect of Kou Yan Qing Ke Li on the prevention and treatment of radiation-induced oral mucositis was investigated in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

METHODSSixty patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma to be treated with radiotherapy were randomized into two groups: the experimental and control groups. The experimental group (30 patients) was treated with Kou Yan Qing Ke Li during the full course of radiotherapy. The control group (30 patients) rinsed their mouths in the same way with mouth washes containing 0.9% sodium chloride injection, lidocaine, dexamethasone, vitamin B2 and B2 gargle liquid mixture, when grade 2 and above radiation-induced oral mucositis appeared in the process of radiation. Radiation-induced oral mucositis was assessed according to the radiation therapy oncology group criteria. The time of occurrence and degree of pain grade were compared between the two groups.

RESULTSThe first onset of oral mucositis in the experimental group (12.40 d ± 2.74 d) was later than that in the control group (9.46 d ± 1.39 d) (t = 5.241, P < 0.001), whereas the grade of pain and acute radiation mucositis was lower in the experimental group than that in the control group. The difference was statistically significant.

CONCLUSIONKou Yan Qing Ke Li could delay the time of occurrence of radiation-induced oral mucositis, reduce the severity of radiation stomatitis, alleviate the pain of patients, improve the clinical symptoms of patients, and effectively prevent and treat radiation-induced oral mucositis in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Carcinoma ; Humans ; Lidocaine ; Mouth Mucosa ; Mouthwashes ; Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms ; Pain ; Radiation Injuries ; Stomatitis

Objective To evaluate the diagnostic value of urine-based prostate cancer antigen 3 ( PCA3 ) score in detecting prostate cancer during initial prostatic biopsy .Methods Urine was collected after digital rectal examination ( DRE) ( three strokes per lobe ) from 248 men before prostate biopsy .The specimens were collected between January 2010 and December 2012.The expression of PCA3 mRNA and prostate specifc antigen (PSA) mRNA was determined by quanti-tative real time polymerase chain reaction ( qRT-PCR ) .PCA3 scores were calculated by PCA 3 mRNA/PSA mRNA × 1000 .The ability of the PCA3 score to predict the biopsy outcome was assessed with AUC-ROC analysis and compared with the serum PSA levels.Results The rate of positive prostate biopsy was 32.3%(80 patients with positive prostatic biopsy versus 168 patients with negative prostate biopsy ) .PCA3 scores were significantly higher in patients with positive biopsy than in those with negative biopsy results (P<0.001).The ROC curve analysis demonstrated that the area under the ROC curve (AUC) of serum total PSA (tPSA), PCA3 score and the duplex model combining tPSA and PCA 3 score was 0.620, 0.693 and 0.724, respectively.Further analysis of the diagnostic performance of PCA3 score revealed that at a cut-off of 90.2456, the sensitivity was 67.5%and the specificity was 61.9%for discriminating positive biopsy from negative biopsy. The duplex model combining tPSA and PCA 3 score represented a better approach than tPSA alone in PCa diagnosis by pros-tatic biopsy (P=0.011), but there was no statistically significant difference between tPSA and PCA 3 score (P=0.160). In addition , a comprehensive diagnostic model based on multiple risk factors of prostate cancer combined with PCA 3 score could further improve the predictive accuracy of prostate cancer .Conclusion PCA3 could be a good predictor of prostate cancer in initial prostate biopsy in Chinese population .The comprehensive diagnostic model can improve the diagnostic potency .Further large-scale multicenter studies in China are needed to confirm our findings .

Recent years found a series of severe incidents of injuring or killing medical workers in several places in China,deteriorating patient-physician relations,and disturbing medical orders.Beijing Administration of Hospitals,since its founding,has attached great importance to the management of medical disputes,as evidenced in the full-process management covering pre-during-post disputes.The administration guided the hospitals in their dispute resolution,and included resolution rate of disputes as an index of municipal hospital performance evaluation.By means of the guidance of such evaluation, medical disputes and major medical accidents have been resolved satisfactorily,and fine management of service quality of such hospitals in terms of medical service,pharmacy,nursing and medical technology has been intensified all the time.

Humans ; Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee/adverse effects* ; Surgical Wound Infection/etiology* ; Retrospective Studies ; Risk Factors ; Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip/adverse effects* ; Prosthesis-Related Infections/etiology*

【Objective】 To explore the relationship between the methylation level of CNR1 and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), in order to provide a theoretical basis for the etiology of ASD. 【Methods】 A case-control study was conducted, recruiting 30 children with ASD from the Child Development and Behavior Research Center of Harbin Medical University and a rehabilitation facility, and 30 matched typically developed children from June 2017 to December 2018. The methylation levels of CNR1 in peripheral blood were measured by the Agena MassArray^® Mass Spectrometry System. A univariate conditional Logistic regression model was used to analyze the potential association between the methylation level of CNR1 and the risk of ASD with adjustment for age, BMI, body fat percentage and body fat. The correlations between the methylation level of CNR1 and the score of Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS) were evaluated by Pearson/Spearman correlation analysis. 【Results】 The methylation levels of the average methylation (t=2.224), CpG_3.4 (Z=2.187), CpG_9.10.11 (t=2.308), and CpG_28.29 (t=2.943) of the CNR1 promoter region in ASD children were significantly higher than controls (P<0.05). The methylation levels of the average methylation (OR=1.117, 95%CI: 1.003 - 1.245), CpG_9.10.11 (OR= 1.072, 95%CI:1.006 - 1.142), and CpG_28.29 (OR=1.078, 95%CI: 1.018 - 1.141) of the CNR1 promoter region were positively correlated with the risk of ASD (P<0.05). The methylation level of CpG_28.29 in ASD children was positively correlated with the scores of social motivation in SRS (r=0.421, P<0.05). 【Conclusions】 The methylation levels of CNR1 in peripheral blood are abnormal in ASD children and might be correlated with the risk of ASD and social function. The underlying mechanism needs to be further explored.