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Objective: To investigate the effectiveness of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) with or without patellar resurfacing.
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Objective To assess the clinical efficacy and safety of fire needling therapy for vitiligo. Method A self-control study was carried out. Fifty-six vitiligo patients with 124 skin lesions were allocated by long-axis random to two groups. The treatment group received fire needling therapy weekly for 12 times or until cure and the control group, no treatment as a blank control. The clinical efficacy and safety were assessed after the completion of treatment. Result The total efficacy rate of local fire needling therapy for vitiligo skin lesions was 79.8% and there was a statistically significant difference as compared with the control group (P<0.05). The therapeutic effect was better in patients with faciocervical skin lesions or short course of disease. The therapeutic effect increased with an increase in the course of treatment at the early stage of treatment but did not significantly increase after 8 weeks of treatment. Main adverse reactions were mild pain and skin infection. Conclusion Local fire needling has a definite therapeutic effect on vitiligo with high safety.
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Objective To study the clinical effect of compound Yisui Shengxue Keli(YSSXKL) on treating ?-thalassemia. Methods By using self-control study method,30 cases of major and intermediate ?-thalassemia had been first treated with placebo for three months,then were treated with YSSXKL in the followed three months in Guangxi province,the high incidence area of the disease. The clinical symptoms,traditional Chinese medicine symptoms and dynamic changes of the blood levels of Hb,RBC,Ret and HbF were observed before and after each treatment. The CRF tables were filled in according to the traditional Chinese medicine symptoms of the patients and the side effects recorded. Results During period of placebo treatment,the main curtive effective indexes Hb and RBC were not obviously raised,while the RBC levels were inversely degraded after the first month of taking placebo orally(P
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Objective:To explore the impact of total sleep deprivation (TSD) on executive control function.Methods:Thirteen healthy young men completed visual Go/No-go task before and after the 36 hour sleep deprivation.Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was carried out in these subjects 3 weeks apart.Results: The hit rate of Co/No-go task decreased (P