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Traditional microtubule inhibitors fail to significantly enhance the effect of colorectal cancer;hence,new and efficient strategies are necessary.In this study,a supramolecular nanoreactor(DOC@TA-Fe3+)based on tannic acid(TA),iron ion(Fe3+),and docetaxel(DOC)with microtubule inhibition,reactive oxygen species(ROS)generation,and glutathione peroxidase 4(GPX4)inhibition,is prepared for ferroptosis/apoptosis treatment.After internalization by CT26 cells,the DOC@TA-Fe3+nanoreactor escapes from the lysosomes to release payloads.The subsequent Fe3+/Fe2+conversion mediated by TA reducibility can trigger the Fenton reaction to enhance the ROS concentration.Additionally,Fe3+can consume gluta-thione to repress the activity of GPX4 to induce ferroptosis.Meanwhile,the released DOC controls microtubule dynamics to activate the apoptosis pathway.The superior in vivo antitumor efficacy of DOC@TA-Fe3+nanoreactor in terms of tumor growth inhibition and improved survival is verified in CT26 tumor-bearing mouse model.Therefore,the nanoreactor can act as an effective apoptosis and ferroptosis inducer for application in colorectal cancer therapy.
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@#Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with memory impairment as the main manifestation. With the development of an aging society,the incidence of AD is on the rise,bringing a huge social and economic burden. In recent years,the classical amyloid cascade hypothesis in the pathogenesis of AD has been challenged,and the toxic effects of Aβ oligomers (AβOs) have been consistently recognized,which may be a trigger for the pathogenesis of AD. The specific source,structure,and pathogenic mechanism of Aβ oligomers are not fully understood. It is possible that different types of oligomers are not consistent in pathogenicity and toxicity,and their mechanisms of action are different. This article reviews the recent understanding of Aβ oligomers,as well as their structural characteristics and pathogenic effects,to better understand the relationship between Aβ oligomers and AD,and provide possible directions for future research.
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Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a class of RNA molecules that are greater than 200 nt in length and do not have protein-coding capabilities or encode micropeptides only. LncRNAs are involved in the regulation of cell proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis and other biological processes, and are closely associated with the occurrence, recurrence and metastasis of a variety of malignant hematologic diseases. This article summarizes the function, regulatory mechanism and potential clinical application of lncRNAs in leukemia. In general, lncRNAs regulate the occurrence and development of leukemia and the multi-drug resistance in chemotherapy through epigenetic modification, ribosomal RNA transcription, competitive binding with miRNA, modulating glucose metabolic pathway, and activating tumor-related signaling pathway. Studies on lncRNAs provide new references for understanding the pathogenesis of leukemia, uncovering new prognostic markers and potential therapeutic targets, and addressing the problems of drug resistance and post-treatment recurrence in patients in clinical treatment of leukemia.
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@#Objective Immunohistochemical methods were used to observe the age-related changes of Alzheimer’s disease-related pathology in the hippocampus and sensory cortex in male APP/PS1/Tau triple transgenic mice aged 2-15 months.Methods Male 3xTg-AD mice were randomly divided into 7 groups according to the age of 2,4,6,8,10,12 and 15 months,with 3 mice in each group as the experimental group;age-matched male C5B7L/6J mice Randomly divided into 7 groups according to the age of 2,4,6,8,10,12 and 15 months,with 3 mice in each group as a control group. The immunohistochemical method was used to detect the pathological age-related changes in the hippocampus and sensory cortex of each mouse brain tissue with age,closely related to Alzheimer’s disease,including Aβ,phosphorylated tau,transgenic products of human tau P301L mutant,astrogliosis,neuron markers.Results Compared with C5B7L/6J mice,the intensity of immunostaining of Aβ cells(6E10),p-tau(AT8,Ser202/Thr205) and tau(HT7) astrocytes(GFAP) in APP/PS1/Tau triple transgenic mice is significantly enhanced,P<0.0001.The hippocampus and sensory cortex of male APP/PS1/Tau triple transgenic mice aged 2-15 months did not have obvious amyloid plaque deposition. The staining degree of Aβ cells in the CA1 area of the hippocampus gradually increased at the age of 8 months,and the staining degree of the sensory cortex remained unchanged,P<0.05. The staining degree of Tau (HT7) in the CA1 area has weak staining at 2 to 6 months of ageand the staining degree remained stable from 6 months to 15 months;The degree of staining in the sensory cortex increased from 2 to 4 months old,and the degree of staining remained stable at 4 to 15 months,P<0.05.The phosphorylation of AT8 in CA1 area began to increase at 6 months,and the phosphorylation of sensory cortex began to increase at 12 months,P<0.05.Astrocytes(GFAP) in CA1 area and sensory cortex area gradually increase in reactivity from 2 months to 15 months. The number of mature neuron markers(NEUN) in CA1 area gradually decreased from 2 months to 6 months,and was stable from 6 months to 15 months. The number of NEUN in CA-3 area gradually decreased from 2 months to 15 months,P<0.05.Conclusion 3xTg-AD mice show a clear interaction between age and phenotype development,which makes it an important tool for studying the role of aging in disease pathogenesis.
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Objective:To develop a rating scale on the knowledge, attitude and practice of stroke-dysphagia for nurses, and to test the reliability and validity.Methods:Based on theoretical framework of the Knowledge, Attitude, Practice (KAP), the scale items were determined through literature review, expert consultation, pre-investigation, and qualitative interviews. 633 nurses in the department of stroke that from 18 hospitals in Hubei Province were selected for the survey, to further screen the items and test reliability and validity of the scale.Results:The positive coefficient of the two-round expert consultation were both 100%; the expert authority coefficient was 0.930; the level of coordination of experts ′ opinions was good. Exploratory factor analysis extracted 4 factors, the accumulative variance contribution rate was 44.278%, Content validity index S-CVI was 0.984, I-CVI was 0.857-1.000; the Cronbach α coefficient of scale was 0.855, test-retest reliability was 0.909. Eventually, the scale was consisted of 3 dimensions, 32 items. Conclusion:The scale has good reliability and validity, and can be used as a survey tool to test the current knowledge, attitude, practice of clinical nurses about patient with stroke-dysphagia.
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OBJECTIVE: To explore the effect of long-term low-level lead load on the immune function of occupationally exposed workers. METHODS: The convenient sampling method was used to select 57 lead-exposed workers as the observation group.These workers had the blood lead level of ≥300 μg/L and <400 μg/L.They worked in a battery plant from 2009 to 2018. Another 61 none-lead exposed logistical personnel with blood lead level of <100 μg/L were selected as the control group. The blood lead levels and immune function indicators were detected in these 2 groups, including serum immunoglobulin(Ig)G, IgA, IgM, complement(C) 3, C4, C-reactive protein(CRP), tumor necrosis factor alpha(TNF-α) level, blood intermediate cell(MID) count and MID ratio(MID%).The abnormal rates of the above immune indexes were calculated. RESULTS: The median blood lead level in the observation group was 338 μg/L. The levels of IgA(M: 2.3 vs 1.9 g/L), C3 [(10.8 ± 1.7) vs(10.1±1.5) mg/L] and C4(M: 2.6 vs 2.3 mg/L) of observation group decrease(P<0.05), the abnormal rate of IgG increased(1.6% vs 14.0%, P<0.05), compared with the control group. The other immune indexes of these two groups were compared, and the differences showed no statistical significance(P>0.05). Blood lead level was negatively correlated with C3 level and positively correlated with TNF-α level(Spearman correlation coefficients were-0.20, 0.19, P<0.05). CONCLUSION: Low level lead might have an impact on the immune system of lead-exposed workers.
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Objective@#To investigate the profiles of blood amino acid and acylcarnitine in early neonates with neonatal intrahepatic cholestasis caused by citrin deficiency (NICCD) and the sensitivity of newborn screening, and to explore potential biochemical metabolic markers for newborn screening program.@*Methods@#Amino acid and acylcarnitine profiles in dried blood spots of newborn screening program were analyzed by tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS). A total of 158 651 neonates born in Guangzhou from January 1, 2015 to June 30, 2019 were enrolled in this newborn screening program, and additionally 55 patients with NICCD confirmed by SLC25A13 gene analysis in Guangzhou Women and Children Medical Center were included in this study. NICCD screen-positive was defined as the cutoff value of citrulline (Cit) ≥ 30 μmol/L. The values of blood sampling time of the true positive group and those of the false negative group were compared by t-test. The levels of amino acid and acylcarnitine among different groups, including true positive group (Cit≥30 μmol/L), false negative group (Cit 21-<30 μmol/L and Cit<21 μmol/L) and the normal control group, were analyzed by F test, respectively.@*Results@#Among 158 651 neonates, 39 neonates were positive for NICCD screening. Three of them were confirmed NICCD and 4 cases were found to be false negatives. The positive predictive value was 7.7% and the sensitivity was about 43.0%. Among 55 patients with NICCD, 18 cases (18/55, 32.7%) were true positives and 37 cases (37/55, 67.3%) were false negatives based on the cutoff value of citrulline in the dried blood spots for newborn screening. The blood sampling time was significantly different between true positive group and false negative group ((4.28±1.6) vs. (2.98±0.74) d, t=4.06, P<0.01). The increased levels of tyrosine((176.0±98.4) μmol/L), methionine ((37.0±26.9) μmol/L) and phenylalanine ((133.0±80.9)μmol/L) in Cit≥30 μmol/L group (n=18) were significantly different as compared with those in the other three groups, respectively (F=117.0, 58.5, 135.0, P<0.01). The levels of arginine ( (10.0±9.2) , (11.0±9.3) , (9.0±17.8) μmol/L), valine ( (119.0±29.8) , (107.6±14.1) , (102±68) μmol/L) and leucine ( (167.0±37.1) , (161.0±37.7) , (163.5±180.6) μmol/L) were not statistically significant among groups of Cit≥30 μmol/L(n=18), Cit21-<30 μmol/L(n=7) and Cit<21μmol/L(n=30,P>0.05), but they were significantly higher than those of the normal control group ((4±3), (78±21), (114.0±31.5) μmol/L, n=1 000), respectively(F=30.1, 23.0, 29.8, P<0.01). Alanine (Ala) ( (150±50) , (156.0±30.2), (168±105), (152±52) μmol/L) levels showed no significant difference (F=0.86, P>0.05) but the ratios of Ala/Cit (1.52±1.44, 6.82±1.56, 12.06±7.71, 19.42±6.27) decreased significantly among the four groups (F=69.0, P<0.05). The acylcarnitine levels showed no statistically significant results among the different groups (P>0.05). With Cit≥30 μmol/L and Ala/Cit<7.5 as cutoff values, the number of screen-positive cases reduced from 39 to 22 cases with no additional false negative case. With Cit≥21 μmol/L and Ala/Cit<7.5 as cutoff values the number of screen-positive cases increased to 117 cases with 1 additional true positive.@*Conclusions@#The profiles of blood amino acid in early neonates with NICCD present the increased levels of multiple amino acids including citrulline, tyrosine, methionine and phenylalanine, and decreased ratio of Ala/Cit. Taking citrulline and ratio of Ala/Cit as screening markers can improve the positive predictive value appropriately. The limited sensitivity of NICCD newborn screening may be related to early blood sampling time.
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Recent research data on post-stroke seizures and epilepsy are reviewed and summarized.They are reviewed from the aspects of concept, risk factors, epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, as well as prevention and treatment.
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At present , laboratory medicine has become one of the fastest growing subjects in the field of medicine.The development of laboratory medicine directly led to the improvement of diagnosis and the increase of test methods in clinic .The data of project applications and grants of the National Natural Science Foundation of China in the field of laboratory medicine from 2014 to 2017 were reviewed and summarized.The future prospect was also analyzed to provide references for related researchers in this field .
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Objective To investigate the effect of different degree lipidemia on time-resolved fluoroimmunoassay(TRFIA)for determination of unconjugated estriol(uE3).Methods Mixed serum was prepared by collecting different levels of lipidemia samples which were normal and chylous appearance from male and by mixing with definite value serum of uE3.The levels of uE3 in the sam-ples were measured by TRFIA and the effect of lipidemia on TRFIA for determination of uE3 was evaluated.Results For the ap-pearance of chylous specimens,mild lipidemia increased uE3,mid-or hiper-lipidemia samples reduced uE3 and the effect of both was considerable.Conclusion The chylous lipidemia has variant degree of influence to TRFIA for determination of uE3,then the results effect accuracy of Down′s screening.
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An efficient method for the analysis of multiclass plant growth regulators and pesticide (imidacloprid, acetamiprid) residues in tea was developed based on ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS). The samples were extracted with acetonitrile/formic acid (99∶1, V/V) solution, cleaned up with four sorbents including C18, strong anion exchanger (SAX), primary secondary amine (PSA) and anhydrous MgSO4. The compounds were separated on a HSS T3 column under positive/negative electrospray ionization mode, detected by scheduled multiple reaction monitoring (SMRM), and quantified by matrix-matched external standard curves. All pesticide residues showed good linearity in the concentration range of 1-200 μg/L (6-benzylaminopurine, paclobutrazol, uniconazole, forchlorfenuron, mepiquat chloride, imidacloprid, acetamiprid) or 5-1000 μg/L (2,4-dichlor-ophenoxyacetic acid, 4-chlorophenoxyacetic acid, indole-3-acetic acid, gibberellic acid, 1-naphthaleneacetic acid, indole-3-butyric acid) , with correlation coefficient (R2≥0.99). Limits of detection (LOD, S/N=3) and limits of quantitation (LOQ, S/N=10) were 0.18-9.68 μg/kg and 0.61-32.26 μg/kg, respectively. In addition, the spiked recoveries of tea samples were 73.1%-108.9%, and RSDs were 0.6%-8.0%. This method was applied to commercial samples, and all the detections were confirmed by acquiring transitions for each pesticide in the samples.
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Objective To compare the effectiveness of arthroscopy assisted percutaneous internal fixation and open reduction and traditional surgery tibial plateau fractures.Methods From August 2013 to April 2014, 78 patients with tibial plateau fractures according to random number table were divided into group A and group B, 39 cases in each. A group of traction using arthroscopic surgery, group B with traditional open bag reduction surgery.Results The operation time, intraoperative and postoperative bleeding less and wound lesion area was shorter and less in group A than that in group B; while the healing time and HSS score was faster and higher than that in group B. The difference was statistically significant (P 0.05); postoperative complication rate in group A was lower than that in group B, and there is significant difference (P < 0.05).Conclusion Both treatment methods can achieve good clinical results, but arthroscopically assisted treatment of tibial plateau fractures reset shorter operative time, less blood loss, healing time is shorter, less complications, but higher HSS score, etc., which reduced the suffering of patients and improved the outcome.
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Objective To investigate clinicopathological features of scalp angiosarcoma, and to analyze the relationship of tumor stage and treatment with prognosis. Methods Clinical and follow-up data were collected from 16 patients with non-metastatic primary scalp angiosarcoma treated in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University from September 2002 to June 2013. According to the seventh edition American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC)TNM staging system for soft tissue sarcomas (2010), staging of scalp angiosarcoma was performed for the 16 patients. Statistical analysis was carried out by the Kaplan-Meier method for survival rates and by the Log-rank test for survival curve. The Cox regression model was used for multivariate regression analysis. Results Of the 16 patients, 4 had stageⅠangiosarcoma, 4 stage Ⅱangiosarcoma, and 8 stage Ⅲ angiosarcoma. The tumor usually began as ecchymosis-like lesions on the head or face in early stage, and progressed into dark red infiltrative plaques, nodules and ulcers which easily ruptured and bled in later stage. Histopathological examination showed generalized vascular proliferation and infiltration with high histological morphological diversity. Cytologic atypia was commonly seen. The median time to recurrence was 15 months, and local recurrence occurred in 7 patients. The median time to metastasis was 20.5 months, and distant metastasis was observed in 8 cases, including 4 cases of pulmonary metastasis, 2 lymph node metastasis, 1 liver metastasis and 1 bone metastasis. The survival time was 33.0 ± 4.4 months (median, 32 months)in 4 patients with stage Ⅰangiosarcoma, 24.0 ± 7.9 months(median, 15 months)in 4 patients with stage Ⅱangiosarcoma, and 23.9 ± 3.9 months (median, 24 months)in 8 patients with stage Ⅲ angiosarcoma. Additionally, the survival time was 23.4 ± 5.2 months(median, 21 months), 24.4 ± 5.7 months(median, 24 months)and 35.8 ± 9.7 months(median, 26 months) in 5 patients receiving surgical treatment alone, 7 patients receiving surgical treatment and radiotherapy, and 4 patients receiving surgical treatment, radiotherapy and immunotherapy, respectively. Conclusions Surgical treatment combined with radiotherapy and immunotherapy may serve as the first-choice treatment for scalp angiosarcoma. Tumor size and treatment regimens are main factors influencing prognosis of scalp angiosarcoma.
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Objective To explore the clinical application value of serum procalcitonin(PCT)in infectious diseases.Methods 1 98 cases of patients with suspected infectious disease in this hospital,from June 2013 to June 2014,were enrolled in this study,and di-vided into virus infection group(67 cases),bacterial infection group(1 1 1 cases)and fungal infection group(20 cases)according to the results of blood cultures and fungus culture of infected tissues.Serum levels of PCT were detected and the results were statically analysed.Results Taking 0.5 ng/mL as positive threshold,the positive rate of PCT in the bacterial infection group,virus infection group and fungal infection group were 69.37%,8.96% and 5.00%,repectively,the positive rates of the three groups were statisti-cally significant different(P <0.05).Distribution of concentration of serum PCT in the virus infection group and fungal infection group were statistically significant different with that in the bacterial infection group(P <0.05 ).Conclusion Detection of serum PCT levels could be used in the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of bacterial infection,and the method is simple and reliable, which could provide clinical significance for prognosis and be worthy of clinical application.
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<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To investigate human papilloma virus (HPV) infection and typing in 7 640 cases of women in Shanxi province in order to provide theoretical basis for the prevention and treatment of the cervical cancer.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Totally, 7 640 cases of cervical cell specimens in Shanxi provincial tumor hospital, screening and physical examination from 2012 January to 2013 May and 23 HPV genotypes were analyzed by PCR and reverse dot blot gene chip technology.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>A total of 1 441 cases of patients with HPV infection were to be found in 7 640 cases of women with an average age of (42.26 ± 19.15)years old. The total infection positive rate, infection rate of high-risk HPV, infection rate of low-risk HPV and infection rate of mixed high and low risk were 18.86% (1 441/7 640), 16.03% (1 225/7 640, including multiple high-risk of HPV infection), 4.88% (373/7 640, including multiple low-risk of HPV infection) and 2.05% (157/7 640) respectively. The rate of high-risk HPV infection was 85.01% (1 225/1 441) in total infection positive women. The most common subtype was HPV16 (34.70%, 523/1 507) and followed by HPV58 (11.48%, 173/1 507), HPV18 (7.43%, 112/1 507), HPV33 (7.10%, 107/1 507), HPV56 (6.04%, 91/1 507) and HPV52 (5.51%, 83/1 507) respectively in tested 18 high-risk HPV subtypes, and there was no HPV82. The most common subtype was HPV43 (38.13%, 151/396) and followed by HPV42 (22.22%, 88/396), HPV81 (20.45%, 81/396), HPV6 (11.87%, 47/396) and HPV11 (7.32%, 29/396) respectively in tested 5 low-risk HPV subtypes. The HPV infection positive rates were significantly different in different age groups and HPV total infection rate, high-risk infection rate in 41-50 year-old age group was the highest, 23.23%. The infection rates of single subtype of HPV and single high-risk subtype of HPV were 75.71% (1 091/1 441) and 61.35% (884/1 441) respectively in all cases of infection women and single high-risk subtype infection rate was 81.03% (884/1 091) in all cases of single subtype infection women. The infection rate of multiple subtype of HPV was 24.29% (350/1 441) in all cases with HPV infection. The double infections was most common (18.18%, 262/1 441) in which the women of double high-risk infections of HPV were 151 cases (10.48%, 151/1 441). The rates of double infection, triple infection and quadruple or more infection of HPV were 74.86% (262/350), 20.29% (71/350) and 4.89% (17/350) respectively in all cases with HPV multiple infection. The positive rates of HPV infection in different age groups were obvious difference. The positive rate of single infection of HPV was 17.80% (574/3 224) in cases of 41-50 years old group which higher than that in other groups(χ² = 20.18, P < 0.05).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>The more common high-risk HPV subtype is HPV16, HPV58, HPV18, HPV33, HPV56 and HPV52 and low-risk HPV subtype is HPV43, HPV42 in Shanxi province. HPV infection is most common in the age group of 41- 50 years old female.</p>
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Adult , Aged , Female , Humans , Middle Aged , Young Adult , Uterine Cervical Dysplasia , Epidemiology , Virology , China , Epidemiology , Cross-Sectional Studies , DNA, Viral , Genetics , Genotype , Human papillomavirus 16 , Genetics , Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis , Papillomaviridae , Classification , Genetics , Papillomavirus Infections , Epidemiology , Virology , Risk Factors , Uterine Cervical Neoplasms , Epidemiology , VirologyABSTRACT
Objective To assess the dynamic changes of bacteria culture of patients with chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM ) preoperative ,intraoperative ,and postoperative the mastoidectomy .Methods Secretions or tissues in 86 CSOM patients were collected for bacterial culture and drug sensitivity tests ,and analyzed the rusults between cholesteatoma group and nonchol-esteatoma group .Results Hospitalized CSOM patients with positive culture rates preoperatively ,intraoperatively and postopera-tively were 75 .6% ,41 .9% and 1 .2% respectively ;Before the mastoidectomy ,positive bacteria ,positive fungus and no pathogenic bacteria were found correspondingly 49 .1% ,25 .0% and 28 .6% of positive bacteria during the surgery .Culture positive rates be-tween the cholesteatoma group and noncholesteatoma group were significantly different intraoperatively (P0 .05) .Different bacteria showed different drug sensitivity results .Conclusion Intraoperative bacteriological results shows the different bacteria and drug sensitivity from the preoperative bacteriological results ;CSOM patients with cholesteatoma are more likely to develop bacteria ;it is necessary to carry out dynamic detection on bacterial culture and drug sensitivity tests before ,during and after the surgery .
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Objective The study aimed to study and translate the English edition of HHIE-S into Chinese, and verify the reliability and validity of the scale.Methods The Chinese scale was formed by translation,back-translation,revision and other steps.A total of 170 elder sujbects with normal hearing and presbycusis were sur-veyed.One to two weeks later,they were resurveyed.ResuIts The Chinese version of HHIE-S included 10 entries which were completely retained for their strong correlations.The scale had two subscales:emotional and situation-al,the Cronbach's αcoefficient of the scale were 0.889 and 0.924,respectively,the total coefficient was 0.935;the split-half reliability outcomes of the two subscales were 0.836 and 0.903.The total split -half reliability was 0.836 and the test-retest reliabilities of the two subscales and the ten items were between 0.749 and 0.921.The total scale was was 0.963.For the validity test:the correlation between the ten items and two subscales were 0.750 and 0.927,the correlation between the ten items and the total were 0.659 and 0.878,respectively.The varimax ro-tation factor analysis identified two principal factors:emotional subscale and situational subscale.The two factors would be used to explain 73.874% of the ten items.The factor loadings of 10 entries in the scale were all between 0.684 and 0.871 and the factor loadings of all entries on the corresponding factors were greater than 0.60,consist-ent with the source scale.The average hearing threshold was considered as the gold standard,the two subscales and the total scale were positively correlated to the pure-tone average.ConcIusion The Chinese version of HHIE-S conformed to the characteristics of Chinese culture,and easily accepted by elderly people.The scale had stable structure,satisfactory reliability and validity,provided the basis for a preliminary hearing screening of elder Chinese.
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This article reviews and summarizes the research data about vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia in recent years from the aspects of epidemiology,pathogeny,pathology,diagnosis,clinical manifestations,as well as its mechanism and treatment.
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Objective To evaluate the clinical feature of adult acute myeloid leukemia with nucleophosmin (NPM1) cytoplastic positive (NPMc+AML), and to investigate the significance of the NPM1 gene mutations regularly in detecting the early relapse. Methods The NPM1 gene mutations was screened by the PCR-capillary electrophoresis in 95 newly diagnosed adult AML patients. 5 complete remission AML patients were selected to detecte the NPM1 gene mutations regularly. Results In 95 cases of adult AML patients, the incidence of the NPM1 mutations was 9.5 % (28/95). The incidence of the NPM1 mutations in patients (≥40-year-old) was higher clearly than it' s in pazients (40-year-old) (λ 2= 6.963, P = 0.012). That in the AML patients with normal karyotype (51.1%) was higher than that in the patients with abnormal karyotype (8.3 %) (λ2= 20.860, P= 0.0000). NPM1 mutations occured with a considerate percentage in AML patients with M5/M2 subtype. In AML with recurrent genetic abnormalities the NPM1 mutations wasn' t found.The white blood cell count, platelet count, lactate dehydrogenase in the NPMc+AML patients were clearly higher than that in the NPMc-AML patients (t were individually 4.132, 4.603, 4.069, P <0.05). The rate of complete remission, relapse-free survival and overall survival in the NPMc+AML patients were also higher than that in the N PMc-AML patients (λ 2 were individually 10.448, 4.146, 4.384, P <0.05). In cases detected regularly NPM1 mutations preceded the hematological relapse about 1.5-2 months. Conclusion NPM1 gene mutations has a higher incidence in adult AML, particularly in normal karyotype AML. The clinical manifestations are older, and higher in white blood cell count, platelet count, and lactate dehydrogenase. The NPM1 mutations in adult AML is a good factor for prognosis. The regular detection of NPM1 mutation could find relapse early.
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ObjectiveTo explore the clinical effect of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery(VATS) for chronic empyema. Methods74 patients with chronic empyema were divided into experimental group and control group,control group was given decorticationoflung,and experimental group was given VATS. ResultsThe duration of chest tube drainage, hospitalization and complications in experimental group was significantly better than that in control group,it showed better clinical effect. ConclusionFor part of patients without the serious disease change of chronic empyema, if the surgery indication could be controlled strictly, the VATS was considerable.