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@#AIM: To observe the clinical effect of the neotype lacrimal drainage tube(RS model)for the treatment of lacrimal duct obstruction.<p>METHODS: It was a retrospective case series study. Totally 75 cases(93 eyes)of lacrimal duct obstruction were enrolled in the study and randomly divided into two groups: treatment group(50 eyes)and control group(43 eyes). The treatment group was implanted the neotype lacrimal drainage tube(RS model). The control group underwent the implantation of annular silicone tube and their efficacy were analyzed. <p>RESULTS: Followed up for 3-12mo after extubation, the cure rate and total effective rate of the treatment group were 90%, 96% respectively, and the control group of it were 72%, 84%.The difference between the two groups was statistically significant(<i>P</i><0.05). The total rate of intraoperative and postoperative complications was 8% in treatment group, 35% in control group respectively, the rate of the control group was obviously higher than that of the treatment group, there was significant statistical difference between the two groups(<i>P</i><0.05). <p>CONCLUSION: The implantation of the neotype lacrimal drainage tube(RS model)is safe,fast and simple, easy to operate and extubate easily with good clinical effect in the treatment of lacrimal duct occlusion.
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Metagonimus yokogawai (Katsurada, 1912) Katsurada, 1912 (Trematoda: Heterophyidae) is parasitic in the small intestine of mammals including man and birds in Far Eastern Russia, Korea, Japan, China, and Taiwan. In the present study, the metacercariae and adults of M. yokogawai were redescribed to designate a neotype of this fluke together with reviews of previous studies including study histories from the first discovery to now. We particularly, attempted to review the study histories and morphological descriptions of M. yokogawai for the species validity, and compared with the morphological characteristics and life cycles of the closely related species, Metagonimus takahashii and Metagonimus miyatai. Finally, we proposed a differential key for the 8 known Metagonimus species distributed in East Asia. Metacercariae were obtained from the body muscles of sweetfish (Plecoglossus altivelis) collected in the Asahi River at Takebe-cho, Kita-ku, Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Adults were recovered from the small intestine of Syrian golden hamsters, to which the metacercariae had been fed 14 days before. A neotype was selected out of the present adult specimens. The Asahi River at Takebo-cho became the type locality of M. yokogawai. In conclusion, the present review shows that M. yokogawai, M. takahashii, and M. miyatai are valid and discriminated by means of morphological characteristics.
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Animals , Fish Diseases/parasitology , Helminthiasis , Heterophyidae/anatomy & histology , Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic/veterinary , Japan , Life Cycle Stages , Mesocricetus/parasitology , Microscopy , Osmeriformes/parasitology , Rodent Diseases/parasitologyABSTRACT
A Cordyceps species was found with a Beauveria anamorph state on larval insect cadavers on Obong mountains in Gangwon Provinces, Republic of Korea. Cultures from discharged ascospores formed an anamorph identifiable as Beauveria bassiana. This teleomorph-anamorph connection was also confirmed by the in vitro production of fertile ascomata from conidial cultures with morphology like that of field-collected specimen. This is the first report of in vitro production of a teleomorph for any Beauveria species. The Cordyceps species has been conspecified as Cordyceps bassiana, a species described from China with B. bassiana anamorph.