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BACKGROUND: With age and blood pressure increasing, the damaged elastic membrane induced by degenerative vascular matrix results in calcium and collagen deposition, and finally expanded large arteries and aortas are easy to cause arteriosclerosis. OBJECTIVE: To compare the rheological properties of the common carotid artery in the youth and elderly, thus providing a basis for the study on the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis of the common carotid artery. METHODS: Common carotid arteries were respectively removed from the young and elderly cadavers. Ten samples from each group were randomly selected, and subjected to stress relaxation and creep tests. Meanwhile, one sample from each group was selected for histological observation. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The stress at 7200 s in the young group was significantly decreased compared with the elderly group (P < 0.05). The strain at 7200 s in the young group was significantly increased compared with the elderly group (P < 0.05). Scanning electron microscope observed that in the elderly group, there were lipid plaques and foam cell accumulation; the internal elastic lamina and middle elastic plate presented with degeneration, rupture and disintegration; and there were abundant plaques and inflammatory cells in the intimal and media, which characterized as atherosclerosis. While no lipid plaques were found in the young group. These results indicate that the elastic fibers and collagen fibers in the common carotid artery arrange in disorder as age increases, and the rheological properties are also changed.
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BACKGROUND:In recent years, great progress has been achieved in the mechanical and viscoelastic properties of arterial blood vessels of normal human corpses and animals. OBJECTIVE: To quantitatively analyze the tensile mechanical properties of thoracic aorta in normaly fed spontaneously hypertensive rats and salt-loaded spontaneously hypertensive rats. METHODS: Twenty spontaneously hypertensive rats were obtained and randomly divided into experimental and control groups (n=10/group). Rats in the experimental group were subjected to continuous salt loading intervention for 16 weeks. Rats in the control group were fed with normal diet and ordinary tap water. At the 16th week, 10 specimens of thoracic aorta of rats from these two groups were harvested to conduct stress relaxation experiments.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The decrease in stress at 7 200 seconds and the decrease in normalized stress relaxation function value at 7 200 seconds of thoracic aortic specimens of rats in experimental group were both lower than those in the control group (P< 0.05). These results confirm that the stress relaxation properties of thoracic aorta of normaly fed and salt-loaded spontaneously hypertensive rats change, wherein the changes in salt-loaded spontaneously hypertensive rats are more obvious.
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Objective Aim to explore how severe chyle blood serum effects on the End-point method of colorimetry,velocity method,immunological transmission turbidimetry(TIA)three types of common biochemical tests and their different influ-ences.Methods Collected 20 normal appearance serums,divided each pooled serum into A,B,C,D,E,F and G 7 experimen-tal groups and one control group.Each group contented for 1ml serum.Added intralipid 10,20,40,80,160μl and 320μl to the experimental groups from A to G in turn to prepare into different concentrations of simulate chylous samples.Tested each group by the End-point method of colorimetry,velocity method and TIA which represented by Glucose (Glu),uric acid (UA),Total bilirubin (TBil),aspartate aminotransferase (AST),gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT),lactate dehydro-genase (LDH),hypersensitive C reactive protein (hs-CRP),Apolipoprotein A1 (apoA1 )andβ2-microglobulin (β2-MG). Used pair T test for both experimental group and their control group.Results In terms of TIA,there were statistical differ-ences between all the experimental groups and their control groups in the three projects (t=-2.842~29.465,P0.05).In terms of velocity method,there were no statistical differences between all the experimental groups and their control groups (t=-1.532~1.619,P>0.05)except for the B and C groups in GGT experiment (t=2.234&5.006,P<0.05).Conclusion Severe chyle blood serum had significant influence on the End-point method of colorimetry and TIA,as well as less influ-ence on velocity method.
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Objective To investigate the effect of the combined use of ultrasound (US) elastography and color Dop-pler on the differential diagnosis and TNM staging of benign or malignant breast neoplasm. Methods A cohort of 58 biop-sy-proved cases, who underwent US elastographic and Doppler US imaging, were included in the current study. The pathological results after operation were considered the‘gold standard’of diagnosis. ROC curves were used to compare the changing rates of the diameter and area, elastographic indices and Doppler blood flow score in diagnosis of breast cancer. Re-sults Compared with other indices, the area changing rate showed the highest diagnostic ability with the AUC=0.914. More-over, the combined use of the elastography and color Doppler US increased the AUC to 0.981. The elastographic indices for neoplasm in the advanced-stage (stageⅡ~Ⅳ) were high than those of early-stage (stage 0~Ⅰ). The elastographic and Dop-pler scores increased with the progress of the TNM stages. Conclusion The changing rate of elastographic area can be used to accurately diagnose the breast neoplasm. Moreover, the combined use of US elastography and color Doppler US can in-crease the accuracy of the diagnosis, and may also provide useful information for the TNM staging.
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Objective To evaluate the possible causes of misdiagnosis of minimal breast carcinoma (MBC). Meth-ods The possible causes of misdiagnosis of 90 cases of MBC confirmed by pathology were retrospective analyzed. Accord-ing to the maximum diameter of the lesion, 90 cases were divided into 0.5-1.0 cm group (n=55) and≤0.5 cm group (n=35). And these two groups were subdivided into correct and misdiagnosed groups. The two-dimensional ultrasound findings were observed by using SIEMENZ S2000, GE vivid7 and GE vivid9 color Doppler ultrasound instruments, and reasons of misdiag-nosis were analyzed. Results There were 32 cases were misdiagnosed in 90 patients with MBC. There was significant differ-ence in boundary of misdiagnosis between diameter 0.5-1.0 cm group and≤0.5 cm group. There were significant differences in boundary and calcification between misdiagnosed group and correct group in diameter 0.5-1.0 cm group (P<0.05). There were also significant differences in A/T ratio and accompanying by multiple benign nodules between misdiagnosed group and correct group in diameter≤0.5 cm group (P<0.05). Conclusion The misdiagnosis in MBC is because of different lesion sizes. The misdiagnosis happens in the maximum diameter of the lesions between 0.5-1.0 cm that showed manifestation of sharp edges, no micro-calcification in sonographic features of benign. The misdiagnosis happens in maximum diameter of le-sions≤0.5 cm that manifested as the aspect A/T ratio<1 and characterized by multiple nodules.
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BACKGROUND:Calcium phosphate cement and recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 both have bone osteoinductivity. Maybe both of them could promote repair of tendon-to-bone interface damage. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effect of calcium phosphate cement-II containing recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 on tendon-to-bone interface healing after rotator cuff injury . METHODS: Twenty-seven adult healthy rabbits were enroled in the study. The tendon-to-bone interface of the bilateral shoulder joints was taken from three rabbits as normal group, and the bilateral shoulder joints of the other 24 rabbits were subjected to acute rupture of the rotator cuff and tendon-to-bone reconstructive surgery as experimental group (n=12) and control group (n=12). Rabbits in the experimental group were treated with calcium phosphate cement-II, while those in the control group treated with nothing. Specimens were colected at 2, 4, 8 postoperative weeks for biomechanical test. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:The maximum tensile strength of the rotator cuff in the experimental group was higher than that in the control group (P < 0.001), but lower than that in the normal group (P < 0.001). At postoperative 8 weeks, the rigidity of rotator cuff of the experiment group was higher than the control group (P < 0.001) but lower than the normal group (P < 0.001). These findings indicate that calcium phosphate cement-II can improve the maximum tensile strength and rigidity of rabbit tendon-to-bone interface in the early postoperative period, enhance tendon-to-bone interface binding force, and promote tendon-to-bone interface healing.
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Objective To evaluate the clinical effect and safety of high intensity focused ultrasotmd(HIFU) for treating the uterine leiomyomata. Methods The patients with uterine leiomyornata who had born children were chosen as the eandidates, The high intensity focused ultrasound tumor therapeutic system was applied to focus the extraeorporeal ultrasound inside the uterine lieomyomata. The real-time two-dimensional ultrasonography was used to guide the location of the focal field and monitor the ablating procedure. The uterus ultrasonography, myomx related signs,syrnptoms were performed for follow-up before and after HIFU treatment. Results Among 65 eases who accepted the HIFU ablation,95% of them showed short-term or long-term effect. 5 % of them showed no effect. Conclusion HIFU is a safe and effective method for the treatment of uterine leiomyomata.