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【Objective】 To investigate the resource allocation status of blood testing laboratories in 14 blood stations in Gansu Province, explore the impact of differences in basic conditions on the comprehensive testing ability of laboratories, so as to promote the homogenization and standardization of blood screening capacity in blood stations in Gansu and improve blood safety and effectivenes. 【Methods】 An evaluation index system of laboratory resource allocation was constructed and a question-naire was designed. The data of human resources, infrastructure and key equipment of 14 blood stations were collected. The entropy weight -TOPSIS method was used to evaluate and rank the resource allocation of 14 blood stations. 【Results】 In the comprehensive evaluation of blood testing laboratory resource allocation in 14 blood stations in Gansu, the top three were laboratories A, B and I, and the last three were laboratories G, M and J. On the whole, the main issue was unreasonable structure of human resources: most laboratories had unreasonable age structure; except for Laboratory A, there was no personnel with bachelor's degree or above in laboratories; most laboratories had not established a team with intermediate professional titles. In terms of infrastructure, the size of seven laboratories could not meet the needs of modern laboratory testing, and all eight blood stations had no spare nucleic acid laboratories nor a mutual spare laboratory with other blood stations As for the key equipment, 5 laboratories had no automatic blood grouping diagnostic instrument, 5 laboratories only had one set of enzyme immunoassay detection system, 3 laboratories had no spare equipment for the key equipment, which means if the equipment failure could not be repaired in time, the release of results would be affected. 【Conclusion】 There were significant differences in human resources, infrastructure and key equipment of blood testing laboratories in 14 blood stations in Gansu, which had a great impact on laboratory testing capacity and subsequent development. It is suggested that governments at all levels and health administrative departments optimize the input of laboratory resource allocation according to the blood collection volume of blood stations to gradually narrow the differences in resource distribution between different regions, improve the degree of laboratory automation and optimize the personnel structure, so as to build high-quality and efficient blood testing laboratories and ensure the safety of clinical blood use.
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Objective To explore the association of single nucleotide polymorphism ( SNP ) in TP53 Arg72Pro (rs1042522) locus with thyroid cancer risk in human. Methods Articles involved in the association between SNP in TP53 Arg72Pro ( rs1042522) locus and thyroid cancer risk were retrieved from PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science databases, and studies which met the inclusion criteria were included. The meta-analysis, sensitivity analysis, subgroup analysis, and the assessment of publication-bias were performed by Stata 14. 0 software. The odds ratio ( OR) and their corresponding 95％ Confidence Intervals ( CI) were used to determine the strength of association between SNP in TP53 Arg72Pro locus and thyroid cancer risk. Results Thirteen case-control studies were eligible for this meta-analysis, including 2112 thyroid cancer cases and 4000 control subjects. Overall, mutated homozygous genotype ( Pro/Pro) in TP53 Arg72Pro ( rs1042522) locus was associated with significantly increased thyroid cancer risk(Recessive model, OR=1.78, 95％CI 1.24-2.56, P=0.002), showing a significantly higher Pro mutation frequency among thyroid cancer patients ( Allelic model, OR=1. 35, 95％ CI 1. 12-1. 63, P=0.002). In the stratified analysis, mutated homozygous genotype (Pro/Pro) in TP53 Arg72Pro (rs1042522) locus was only asscociated with significantly increased thyroid cancer risk among Asians, but not among Europeans and South Americans;mutated homozygous genotype ( Pro/Pro) in TP53 Arg72Pro ( rs1042522) locus was asscociated with significantly increased risk of papillary thyroid carcinomas ( PTC) among total population, but not medullary thyroid carcinomas. Conclusion There is a significant association between TP53 Arg72Pro polymorphism in TP53 and thyroid cancer risk, and the mutated homozygous genotype ( Pro/Pro) in this locus of TP53 maybe a risk factor for thyroid carcinoma among Asians.
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<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To investigate the expression of interleukin-9 (IL-9) in colon cancer tissues and its clinical significance.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Immunohistochenmistry and qRT-PCR were used to detect the expressions of IL-9 protein and mRNA in 92 colon cancer tissues and paired adjacent normal tissues. The correlation of IL-9 expressions with the clinicopathological features and prognosis of the patients was analyzed.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>IL-9 protein and mRNA expressions were significantly higher in adjacent normal tissues than in the colon cancer tissues ( < 0.001). In colon cancer patients, IL-9 expression was significantly correlated with TNM stage (=0.013), Ducks stage (=0.025) and lymph node metastasis (=0.004) but not with gender, age, tumor size, differentiation or hepatic metastasis ( > 0.05). The survival time of colon cancer patients with positive IL-9 expression was significantly longer than that of patients negative for IL-9 expression (=0.015).</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>IL-9 expression is lowered in colon cancer tissues compoved with in the adjacent normal tissues. IL-9 expression is negatively correlated with TNM staging, Ducks staging and lymph node metastasis but positively with good prognosis, suggesting its important role in the tumor microenvironment of colon cancer.</p>
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Objective@#To investigate the diagnosis and treatment of adult small bowel torsion in order to improve early diagnosis and improve prognosis.@*Methods@#Clinical data of 43 cases of small bowel torsion from January 2012 to December 2017 were collected. All of them were confirmed by surgery as small bowel torsion. After admission, white blood cell count > 18 × 109/L was found in 5 patients; and hemoglobin<100 g/L was found in 5 patients; abdomen CT examination in 39 patients showed 33 cases had intestinal torsion; 14 cases suggested possible mesenteric and root torsion.@*Results@#All patients underwent surgical treatment. During the operation, there were 11 cases with intestinal torsion ≥ 720°; 13 cases underwent simple bowel torsion in surgical operation; 4 cases underwent decompression combined with reduction of the bowel; 1 case was treated with reduction and jejunostomy; and small intestine resection was performed for intestinal necrosis. Twenty-two patients had small bowel resection and jejunostomy was performed in 3 cases. The small intestine was resected 7-240 cm, with an average of about 66 cm.@*Conclusions@#Small bowel torsion should be diagnosed and operated as soon as possible. The suspected necrotic bowel should be removed and more healthy intestine should be reserved. The patient′s vital signs should be observed dynamically after operation to prevent the occurrence of intestinal necrosis and septic shock, to avoid excessive intestinal necrosis that would lead to postoperative short bowel syndrome, and to improve the patient's cure rate and reduce hospital stay.
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With the rapid development of genome sequencing technology and bioinformatics in recent years,it has become possible to measure thousands of omics data which might be associated with the progress of diseases,i.e."high-dimensional data".This type of omics data have a common feature that the number of variable p is usually greater than the observation cases n,and often has high correlation between independent variables.Therefore,it is a great statistical challenge to identify really meaningful variables from omics data.This paper summarizes the methods of Bayesian variable selection in the analysis of high-dimensional data.
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With the rapid development of genome sequencing technology and bioinformatics in recent years,it has become possible to measure thousands of omics data which might be associated with the progress of diseases,i.e."high-dimensional data".This type of omics data have a common feature that the number of variable p is usually greater than the observation cases n,and often has high correlation between independent variables.Therefore,it is a great statistical challenge to identify really meaningful variables from omics data.This paper summarizes the methods of Bayesian variable selection in the analysis of high-dimensional data.
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BACKGROUND:To reduce the amount of bleeding and the amount of hemoglobin after total knee replacement has been a key project in the clinical research in the division of bone and joint. Currently, ice therapy has been widely used in the clinic for tissue sweling and pain due to various physical and chemical factors. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the risk factors of postoperative hemoglobin after total knee replacement and discuss the effects of ice intervention. METHODS: 240 patients with osteoarthritis based on the random draw principles were equaly divided into the treatment group and the control group. The general information, disease status, diagnosis and treatment and prognosis of the two groups were investigated. Al patients were actively subjected to artificial total knee replacement. On the basis of the treatment in the control group, the treatment group received ice intervention at 2 hours after replacement for 7 consecutive days. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:The postoperative hemoglobin decrease occurred in 34 patients, with the incidence of 14.2% among 240 patients at 7 days after replacement. Multivariate logistic regression analysis results showed that age, no ice treatment, body mass index were the main risk factors for hemoglobin decrease after total knee replacement (P 0.05). Results verify that clinical application of total knee replacement facilitated the knee recovery in patients with osteoarthritis, but hemoglobin decrease and bleeding existed. Active ice intervention can reduce the risk and relieve postoperative pain.
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Objective To evaluate dynamic graciloplasty (DGP) for canine in situ anal reconstruction. Methods Seventeen dogs were randomly divided into experimental group and control group. In control group, on the stage 1, the gracilis muscle were dissected in situ, manometry performed intraoperatively; In experimental group, the gracilis muscle were dissected in situ and stimulated chronically starting 7 days postoperatively. On stage 2, abdominoperineal resection of anus and graciloplasty for anal reconstruction were performed in two groups. After 2 weeks recovery, manometry and muscular fatigue-resistant curve (MFRC) were observed while myostimulator is switched off and on. The muscle of neosphincter was biopsied. Results After chronic low frequency electrical stimulation (CLFS), the percentage of type Ⅰ fibers in the stimulation group was higher than the control group (P0.05), but functioning neosphincter pressure is different significantly (P