Acupuncture is widely used as an alternative therapy with few side effects because of its simple manipulation and low cost. However, accidents may occur if the practitioner uses it improperly. Early in the Qin dynasty, the Canon of Medicine mentioned that improper use of acupuncture could cause injury to the body and even death, and it systematically described the occurrence and prevention of acupuncture accidents. Physicians in the successive dynasties frequently reported it, and realized that the manipulation skills were significantly important in preventing the occurrence of acupuncture accidents. Since the 1950s, acupuncture accidents had been effectively prevented because of the improving of acupuncture instruments, enhancing of the quality of the practitioners, popularizing of sterilization and disseminating of anatomic knowledge. Nevertheless, with the renovating of acupuncture techniques, new accidents may occur constantly. The prevention of acupuncture accidents still should be an arduous task for acupuncturists. Nowadays, acupuncture therapy is being used in more than 140 countries, and acupuncture accidents due to improper application are increasing. Prevention of acupuncture accidents has become a global issue deserving of great attention.

Moxibustion is an important invention of the Chinese nation, which originated as early as in the clan commune period of the primitive society. The literature records on moxibustion can be traced back to the Warring States Period (475 B.C. to 221 B.C.). Doctors through the ages made considerable progress and published a great number of books on moxibustion. Moxibustion has been applied in treating a great range of diseases. Since the 1950s, the treatment scope of moxibustion has been expanded, and the therapeutic methods of moxibustion are becoming increasingly rich and varied, and great progress in research on the mechanism of moxibustion has been made. Moxibustion was once popular in Europe after its dissemination to the West in the seventeenth century, and the practitioners invented some new methods of moxibustion. Japan is the country in the West where fruitful efforts have been made in research on moxibustion. In modern times, moxibustion has been used for health protection, and the scientists are paying great attention to the experimental research on moxibustion.

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Objective To evaluate the incidence and the causes of the intra-and postoperative cerebrospinal fluid(CSF)leakage during transsphenoidal surgical removal of pituitary adenomas,and discuss the sella closure methods.Method During the period from January 1998 to May 2008,118 patients underwent 134 transsphenoidal operations for pituitary adenomas.Two different methods to close the sella were used.The first one consisted packing the sella turcica and sphenoidal sinus with autologous fat and restoring the defect of sella turcica with autologous bone.In the second method,tht regenerated oxidized cellulose and collagen sponge with human fibrin were used to cover the seUa membrane defect and the dural defect,followed by packing the seHa with autologous fat.Proportions of each type of pituitary adenomas were analyzed.The frequency of the intra-and postoperative CSF leakage were evaluated in different type tumors and different operations.Data had been studied by statistical analysis.Results The incidence rate of intraoperative CSF leakage(26.5%,9/34)Was obviously increased in patients with growth homone adenoma compared with other type of adenoma(13.0%,13/100).Patients with invasive adenoma had an increased incidence rate of intraoperative CSF leakage(21.1%,8/38)compared with noninvasive adenoma(14.6%,14/96)(P＜0.05).When the descent of the sella turcica membrane Was visualized with tumor being totally removed,the incidence rate of intraoperative CSF leakage increased(18.7%,20/107)compared with when membrane descent was not seen with tumor remaining(7.4%,2/27)(P＜0.05).There were 3 cases postoperative CSF leakage happened in all 12 cases which adopted the first method. By the second method,there was no postoperative CSF leakage,and the number of postoperative complications was significantly smaller than the first method (10.0% and 33.3%,respectively). Conclusions The technique of covering the sella membrane and dural defects with oxidized cellulose and collagen sponge with human fibrin in the presence of intraoperative CSF leakage appears to be the most reliable,as no postoperative CSF leakage after applying this technique has been observed.

Recent findings indicate that metastasis-associated gene in colon cancer 1 ( MACC1 ) has an abnormal high expression in most malignant tumors.As a key regulator of HGF-MET signal pathway,MACC1 could obviously up-regulate the expression of MET and promote cancer cell's movement,invasion and metastasis.Further studies will shed light on elucidating the mechanisms of metastasis and may provide a new method for targeted therapy.

BACKGROUND : Chitosan, derived from chitin, has a poor solubility which limits its application greatly. For improving its dissolubility, according to the feature that intramolecular hydroxy and amino group in chitosan are easy to be chemically modified, and functional groups are introduced to improve its solubility and functionality to widen the range of its application, which has become one of the new trend of development for investigating the application of chitosan. OBJECTIVE: To sum up the research advancements in the application and modification of chitosan in carboxylation,acylation, alkylation, etherification, etc.RETRTEVE STRATEGY: The relevant articles published in English between 1998 and 2007 were searched for in Pubmed database with the key words of "chitosan, modification", and the relevant articles published between 1998 and 2007 were searched for in Elsevier Science database with the key words "chitosan, modification" and search "derivate" within search results in English. Articles closely related to the structural modification and application of chitosan were involved, and repetitive and old studies were excluded.LTTERATURE EVALUATION: Totally 154 articles were selected, and 30 of them are accorded with the inclusive criteria,including 5 are reviews, and the others are clinical or experimental studies.DATA SYNTHESTS: The intramolecular hydroxy and amino groups in chitosan are mostly modified because they are easy to be chemically modified. Recently, reports lay particular emphasis on the modification in carboxylation, acylation,alkylation, etherification, etc. Functional groups are introduced to improve its solubility and functionality to widen the range of its application.CONCLUSTON: The water-solubility of chitosan can be improved through structural modification and introducing multifunctional group, which can also bring about much more special efficacies.

Sepsis is the leading cause of acute kidney injury (AKI) in pediatric intensive care unit.Development of AKI during sepsis increased patient morbidity,predicts higher mortality and days of stay in the intensive care unit.The mechanisms behind AKI in sepsis remain controversial but were believed to be complex and multi-factorial.The pathophysiology of AKI in sepsis involved intrarenal hemodynamic changes,endothelial dysfunction,infiltration of inflammatory cytokines.The new markers of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin as the representative is helpful for early diagnosis of AKI.Renal replacement therapy (RRT)is the main treatment of sepsis related AKI.At present,the model,dose and exact timing of RRT is not well defined.A widely accepted viewpoint is that the injury stage of RIFLE diagnostic criteria and fluid overload up to 10％ ～ 20％ is the beginning of the most appropriate chance of RRT.

Objective To study the different periods of childhood bronchial asthma induced sputum of the percentage change of inflammatory cells,and to explore part of the pathogenesis of asthma in children.Methods 69 children with asthma(the age ≥5 years old) were selected.By clinical symptoms,they were divided into acute exacerbation and clinical remission of 3 months and 6 months.At the same time,in the same groups of hospital pediatric clinic,22 healthy children were chosen as control group.The percentage of neutrophils and eosinophils in induced sputum was detected.Through the comparison,we can explore the correlation between the two kinds of inflammatory cells in different periods of asthma.Results Comparing the percentage of neutrophils among the four groups,acute exacerbation group was compared with clinical remission three months group,clinical remission six months group and the normal control group,acute exacerbation group was higher than the clinical remission group of three months,clinical remission of six months and normal control group [(57.905 ± 11.615)％ vs (40.137 ± 11.668)％,(33.825 ± 12.457) ％,(23.836 ± 13.585) ％,P =0.039,0.000,0.000].The clinical remission of three months and clinical remission six months group were higher than the normal control group(P =0.000,0.032).The clinical remission of three months group and 6 months group had no significant difference (P =0.538).The percentage of eosinophils in acute exacerbation group was higher than the clinical remission of three months group,clinical remission of six months and normal control group [(4.090 ± 1.452) ％ vs (2.685 ± 1.190) ％,(2.151 ± 1.417) ％,(1.848 t 0.887) ％,P =0.002,0.000,0.000].The clinical remission of three months group and the normal control group had no significant difference (P =0.937).Conclusion Asthma in children induced sputum neutrophil percentage and eosinophil percentage are significantly higher in acute exacerbation.The study shows that neutrophils and eosinophils are involved in the part of the pathogenesis of bronchial asthma in children.

It is the trend to integrate the curriculum contents and strengthen the ability training in reform of edu-cation model at present .After the abilities to develop and maintain medical informatics-related information sys-tems, to process medical information and to provide medical information service were analyzed, certain suggestions were put forward for the practical teaching reform of medical informatics according to the requirements of ability training and the characteristics of subject knowledge structure .

Objective To investigate the subjective well-being and its influencing factors of the advanced elderly in the community. Methods Totally 409 cases aged 80 years and over in five communities of Hang zhou city were surveyed using Memorial University of Newfoundland Subjective Well-bing Scale. Results The subjective well-being of the advanced age people was at a high level.The cases with good hearing,well eyesight,income from own source,monthly income between 1000-3000 yuan,health satisfaction and frequently or occasionally regular interest in the activities had higher subjective well-being(all P＜0.05).Subjective well-being was not significantly affected by age,sex,level of education (P＞ 0.05). Conclusions Subjective well-being of aged people is mainly affected by state of health and economic resources.