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Objective To search the literature of randomized controlled trials on the treatment of anterior vaginal wall prolapse with adjuvant materials and compare the efficacy and safety of anterior vaginal wall prolapse repair with and without adjuvant materials.Methods Searches were made in the databases of Pubmed,Embase and Ovid for randomized controlled trials from 1980 to 2012 on the treatment of anterior vaginal wall prolapse with adjuvant materials.Comprehensive meta-analyses were conducted with Revman 5.1 analysis software to compare vaginal wall anatomy failure rate,operative duration,intraoperative bleeding volume,postoperative visceral injury,pelvic pain,urinary infection,material exposure,material erosion,de novo urinary incontinence and de novo dyspareunia in the adjuvant materials repair and repair without adjuvant materials groups.Results A total of 20 randomized controlled trials including 2313 participants were retrieved.The shortest average follow-up period was 3 months and the longest 36 months.Compared with repair without adjuvant materials,the application of adjuvant materials in anterior vaginal wall repair reduced vaginal front wall prolapse anatomy failure rate lower anatomy failure rate,had a longer operating duration,more peri-operative bleeding and lower urinary tract infection rate.The comprehensive effects were as follows:P＜0.01,RR =0.51,95％CI:0.41-0.64;P ＜0.01,weighted mean differenece (WMD) =16.25,95％ CI:8.07-24.43;P =0.01,WMD =35.00,95％ CI:6.90-63.11 ;P =0.03,RR =0.51,95％ CI:0.28-0.93,respectively,but the comparison of two groups around in visceral injury,postoperative pain,de novo stress urinary incontinence and de novo dyspareunia had no significant differences (P =0.07,0.58,0.54 and 0.67) and the average materiale exposure and rosion rate were 4.37％ (27/618) and 7.69％ (24/312) respectively.Conclusions The application of adjuvant materials in anterior vaginal wall repair can improve the postoperative recurrence.But no obvious differences exist in the incidence of complications in anterior repair with adjuvant materials and repair without adjuvant materials.
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This study investigated the anti-HSV-2 effect of alumen through in vitro and in vivo experiments. Viable cell counting was employed to assess the toxicity of alumen on Vero cells. The inhibition rate of HSV-2 was defined as the cytopathic effect (CPE) of the cells infected with the virus. Alumen suppositories of different concentrations were vaginally applied to the guinea pigs which were then infected with HSV-2 via a vaginal route. The clinical symptoms were observed and the local virus titer calculated. The results showed that alumen had an in vitro anti-HSV-2 effect by means of antiviral duplication, direct killing of the virus, and antiviral adsorption. Alumen suppositories of different concentrations could reduce or completely inhibit HSV-2 infection in guinea pigs. It was concluded that alumen had an in vitro anti-HSV-2 effect through multiple approaches and it could suppress in vivo vaginal HSV-2 infection of guinea pig to some extent.
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ObjectiveTo investigate application value of parametric image processing in contrastenhanced ultrasound imaging in diagnosis of ovarian masses. MethodsFifty cases with ovarian masses underwent routine ultrasound and contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging using a new dedicated parametric image processing software SonoLiver to analyze patterns of vascular formation and blood stream perfusion in the ovarian mass tissues on a digital video recorder in real time, compare their morphological characteristics of time-intensity curve (TIC) and dynamic vascular patterns (DVP) curve, and analyze quantitatively all indicators generated by SonoLiver.ResultsIn ultrasound imaging of the 50 cases, there were 24 cases (86％) displaying mainly blue lowly-enhanced imaging in those with benign masses and 15 cases (68％)displaying mainly red highly-enhanced imaging in those with malignant masses, with statistical significance (P ＜0. 01 ). There was significantly different characteristics of TIC and DVP between patients with benign and malignant masses. In 23 cases with benign masses, their DVP were significantly higher above the baseline than in those with malignant ones ( P = 0. 000), and in 15 cases with malignant lesions, their DVP were much shorter below the baseline than in those with benign ones, with statistical significance (P ＜0.05). The intensity of contrast medium, the time to reach its peak intensity and average transit time were all significantly higher in those with malignant masses than in those with benign ones (all P ＜ 0. 05 ). But, no statistical difference in the time of initial increasing between the two groups was found (P ＞ 0. 05). ConclusionsThere is significant difference in TIC and DVP of ultrasound imaging between benign and malignant masses, which if combined with contrast enhanced ultrasound parametric image processing can provide a more visualized quantitative information of benign and malignant ovarian masses with SonoLiver software.