Objective To investigate the change in choroid plexus(CP)volume in Parkinson's disease(PD)patients with different cognitive states and its correlation with structural volumes of other brain regions.Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted on 48 PD patients admitted in Department of Neurosurgery of the First Affiliated Hospital of Army Medical University between May 2023 and April 2024,and on 35 healthy controls(HC)recruited through a physical exam center.According to the results of Mini-Mental State Examination(MMSE),the patients were divided into PD with cognitive impairment(PD-CI)group(n=27)and PD with normal cognitive function(PD-NC)group(n=21).3.0T magnetic resonance imaging(MRI)was performed using MPRAGE sequences,and CP volume and volumes of other brain regions were obtained using FreeSurfer 6.0 software.The CP volume was adjusted by calculating the ratio of its volume to estimated total intracranial volume(eTIV).After controlling for confounders,partial correlation analysis was used to assess the relationship between the CPV/eTIV ratio and the volumes of other brain regions as well as cognitive scale scores.Additionally,multiple linear regression analysis was performed to further explore the relationship between CPV and cognitive function in the PD-CI group.Results Compared to the HC group,the CPV in the PD-CI group was significantly larger(P=0.029).In the PD-CI group,the CPV/eTIV ratio showed significant positive correlations with the volume of the lateral ventricles(r=0.689,P=0.001),the volume of the third ventricle(r=0.592,P=0.006),the volume of cerebrospinal fluid(CSF)(r=0.508,P=0.022),and white matter hyperintensities(WMH)(r=0.486,P=0.030),but was negatively correlated with the volume of the caudate nucleus(r=-0.530,P=0.016),the volume of the thalamus(r=-0.477,P=0.033),and the MMSE scores(r=-0.483,P=0.031).But in the PD-NC group,the CPV/eTIV ratio was only positively correlated with CSF volume(r=0.571,P=0.021).Multiple linear regression analysis indicated that the CPV/eTIV ratio and MMSE scores remained significantly negatively correlated in the PD-CI group(β=-0.388,P=0.046).Conclusion Cognitive impairment in PD patients may be closely associated with the change in CP volume,suggesting that the volume can serve as a potential imaging marker in assessment of cognitive impairment in PD patients.

Objective To analysis changes in species distribution of pathogenic dermatophytes from patients with tinea capitis in the Hangzhou Third Hospital between 2015 and 2017.Methods Demographic and mycological data were collected from 321 patients with confirmed tinea capitis in the Hangzhou Third Hospital between 2015 and 2017,and analyzed retrospectively.Results Of the 321 patients with tinea capitis,180 were males,and 141 were females.Their age of onset ranged from 1 month to 70 years.There were 154 (47.9％) preschool children and 13 (4.0％) adults.A total of 321 fungal strains were isolated,including 159 (49.5％) strains of Microsporum canis,110 (34.3％) strains of Trichophyton mentagrophytes,38 (11.8％) strains of Trichophyton violaceum,8 (2.5％) strains of Trichophyton tonsurans,4 (1.2％) strains of Microsporum gypseum,and 2 (0.6％) strains of Trichophyton rubrum.There was no significant difference in the distribution of fungal species (x2 =9.09,P ＞ 0.05) or the proportion of anthropophilic and non-anthropophilic dermatophytes among different age groups (x2 =1.85,P ＞ 0.05).The proportion of non-anthropophilic dermatophytes significantly differed among 2015,2016 and 2017 (x2 =23.82,P ＜ 0.01).From 2015 to 2017,the proportions of Microsporum canis were 32.5％,47.6％ and 59.6％ respectively,and the proportions of Trichophyton mentagrophytes were 53.0％,35.4％ and 23.7％ respectively.Conclusions During 2015-2017,the main population with tinea capitis in Hangzhou Third Hospital was preschool children.Moreover,the main pathogenic dermatophyte was Microsporum canis,whose proportion gradually increased year by year,followed by Trichophyton mentagrophytes,whose proportion gradually decreased year by year.