Application of noninvasive brain-edema dynamic monitoring in critically ill patients with traumatic brain injury / 中华危重病急救医学

Brain edema could be secondary to cerebral lesion caused by a variety of reasons, severe cases may result in brain herniation or even death. Accurate real-time monitoring of cerebral edema, rational application of dehydrating drugs, and timely treatment of cerebral edema were very important for patients. However, there were defects in the monitoring methods commonly used in clinical practice. Noninvasive brain-edema monitoring was a new method, which can quantify the degree of brain edema by electromagnetic disturbance and directly reflect the state of brain edema. This article reviews the application of noninvasive brain-edema monitoring in the treatment of in critically ill patients with traumatic brain injury.

The epidemiologic studies on diabetes in 1180 workers of Xuzhou mine / 中国基层医药

Objective Purpose understanding the prevalence of diabetes(DM) of Xuzhou mine workers and impacts on the incidence of risk factors, and discussing the prevention and treatment.Methods From November 2007 to March 2008,1180 Xuzhou mine workers were determinated by height,weight,abdominal circumference,blood pressure,fasting plasma glucose and lipid four(including triglycerides ,total cholesterol,low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol), OGTT test.Results DM prevalence rate is 5.25 percent,more men than women;prevalence rate under 40 years old is lower,the prevalence rate from 40 to 50 year-old began to increase, to the top of 50-year-old.Overweight and obesity people took the most part.Conclusion DM is a common diseases among Xuzhou mining area in-service workers with high rates of prevalence,it connected with age,family history, occupation,body mass index(BMI),etc.

Research on the local immunotherapy with dexamethasone used in healing Graves disease / 中国实用内科杂志

Objective To evaluate the curative effect of local immunotherapy with dexamethasone in healing Graves disease.Methods We divided the 76 patients diagnosed as Graves disease in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical College from Jan.2004 to Aug.2006 into two groups randomly.The therapy group(38 cases)were treated with oral drug and local immunotherapy,while the contrast group were treated with oral drug.Then we observed and analyzed the results of the two groups.Results There're 35 cases having exceptional curative effect such as rapid significance,short period of treatment and lasting effect in the therapy group,while only 28 cases having the less exceptional curative effect in the contrast groups.The difference was quite noticeable(P