CHESS endoscopic ruler in objective measurement of diameter of esophageal varices in liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension: a prospective multicenter study / 中华消化杂志

Objective:To investigate the safety and feasibility of the CHESS endoscpic ruler (CHESS ruler), and the consistency between the measured values and the interpretation values by endoscopic physician experience.Methods:From January 2021 to January 2022, a total of 105 liver cirrhosis patients with portal hypertension were prospectively enrolled from General Hospital, Xixia Branch Hospital, Ningnan Hospital of People′s Hospital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (29 cases), and the First People′s Hospital of Yinchuan (25 cases), General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University (18 cases), Wuzhong People′s Hospital (10 cases), the Fifth People′s Hospital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (10 cases), Shizuishan Second People′s Hospital (6 cases), Yinchuan Second People′s Hospital (5 cases), and Zhongwei People′s Hospital (2 cases) 8 hospitals. The clinical characteristics of all the patients, including gender, age, nationality, etiolog of liver cirrhosis, and Child-Pugh classification of liver function were recorded. A big gastroesophageal varices was defined as diameter of varices ≥5 mm. Endoscopist (associated chief physician) performed gastroscopy according to the routine gastroscopy procedures, and the diameter of the biggest esophageal varices was measured by experience and images were collected, and then objective measurement was with the CHESS ruler and images were collected. The diameter of esophageal varices of 10 randomly selected patients (random number table method) was determined by 6 endoscopists (attending physician or associated chief physician) with experience or measured by CHESS ruler. Kappa test was used to test the consistency in the diameter of esophageal varices between measured values by CHESS ruler and the interpretation values by endoscopic physician experience.Results:Among 105 liver cirrhosis patients with portal hypertension, male 65 cases and female 40 cases, aged (54.8±12.2) years old, Han nationality 82 cases, Hui nationality 21 cases and Mongolian nationality 2 cases. The etiology of liver cirrhosis included chronic hepatitis B (79 cases), alcoholic liver disease (7 cases), autoimmune hepatitis (7 cases), chronic hepatitis C (2 cases), and other etiology (10 cases). Liver function of 32 cases was Child-Pugh A, Child-Pugh B 57 cases, and Child-Pugh C 16 cases. All 105 liver cirrhosis patients with cirrhotic portal hypertension were successfully measured the diameter of gastroesophageal varices by CHESS ruler, and the success rate of application of CHESS ruler was 100.0% (105/105). The procedure time from the CHESS ruler into the body to the exit of the body after measurement was (3.50±2.55) min. No complications happened in all the patients during measurement. Among 105 liver cirrhosis patients with cirrhotic portal hypertension, 96 cases (91.4%) were recognized as big gastroesophageal varices by the endoscopists. Totally 93 cases (88.6%) were considered as big gastroesophageal varices by CHESS ruler. Eight cases were recognized as big gastroesophageal varices by the endoscopist, however not by the CHESS ruler; 5 cases were recognized as big gastroesophageal varices by the CHESS ruler, but not by the endoscopists; 4 cases were not recognized as big gastroesophageal varices both by the endoscopists and CHESS ruler; 88 cases were recognized as big gastroesophageal varices both by the endoscopists and CHESS ruler. The missed diagnostic rate of big gastroesophageal varices by the endoscopists experience was 5.4% (5/93), and the Kappa value of consistency coefficient between the measurement by the CHESS ruler and the interpretation by endoscopists experience was 0.31 (95% confidence interval 0.03 to 0.60). The overall Kappa value of consistency coefficient by 6 endoscopists measured by CHESS ruler in big gastroesophageal varices diagnosis was 0.77 (95% confidence interval 0.61 to 0.93).Conclusion:As an objective measurement tool, CHESS ruler can make up for the deficiency of subjective judgment by endoscopists, accurately measure the diameter of gastroesophageal varices, and is highly feasible and safe.

LncRNAs could play a vital role in osteosarcoma treatment: Inhibiting osteosarcoma progression and improving chemotherapy resistance.

Osteosarcoma (OS) is one of the most common primary solid malignant tumors in orthopedics, and its main clinical treatments are surgery and chemotherapy. However, a wide surgical resection range, functional reconstruction of postoperative limbs, and chemotherapy resistance remain as challenges for patients and orthopedists. To address these problems, the discovery of new effective conservative treatments is important. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are RNAs longer than 200 nucleotides in length that do not encode proteins. Researchers have recently found that long non-coding RNAs are closely associated with the development of OS, indicating their potentially vital role in new treatment methods for OS. This review presents new findings regarding the association of lncRNAs with OS and summarizes potential clinical applications of OS with lncRNAs, including the downregulation of oncogenic lncRNAs, upregulation of tumor suppressive lncRNAs, and lncRNAs-based treatment to improve chemotherapy resistance. We hope these potential methods will be translated into clinical applications and greatly reduce patient suffering.

Research progress of FOXO1 in oral squamous cell carcinoma / 国际肿瘤学杂志

Forkhead box protein O1 (FOXO1) has been extensively studied as a tumor suppressor. In oral squamous cell carcinoma, studies have demonstrated that FOXO1 can inhibit tumor cell oxidative stress, stemness and epithelial-mesenchymal transition, and promote tumor cell autophagy and apoptosis. FOXO1 may serve as a potential target for the treatment of oral squamous cell carcinoma.

Research progress on the malignant transformation of oral submucosal fibrosis / 国际肿瘤学杂志

Oral submucous fibrosis (OSF) can cause various oral dysfunctions in patients and can turn into oral cancer. The causes and processes of OSF malignant transformation involve betel nut chewing, vascular atrophy, tissue hypoxia, cell cycle changes, aging, autophagy, and changes in cancer/cancer suppressor genes and microRNAs. It is of great significance to study the causes and process of OSF malignant transformation for the treatment and prevention of OSF malignant transformation.

Morvan syndrome with positive anti LGI1/CASPR2 antibodies in serum/cerebrospinal fluid:a case report and literature review / 中华内科杂志

To report a typical case of Morvan syndrome with positive anti-leucine rich glioma-inactivated 1(LGI1) and contactin-associated protein 2 (CASPR2) antibodies in serum and cerebrospinal fluid. A 39-years-old female initially presented weakness of extremeties. The main symptoms included paroxysmal limb pain, wheezing, itching, muscle twitching, epilepsy, hypomnesia, dysphoria, apathy, intractable insomnia, salivation and sweating. Tests of electrolytes found hypokalemia (2.7-3.1 mmol/L) and hyponatremia (130-136 mmol/L). Arterial blood gas analysis showed hypoxemia (oxygen saturation 50%-70%). Total thyroxine (TT4) was elevated to 207 nmol/L with positive thyroid peroxidase antibody (TPO-Ab) and thyroglobulin antibody (TG-Ab). LGI1and CASPR2 antibodies (CBA method) were positive in both serum and cerebrospinal fluid, and the remaining antibodies related to autoimmune encephalitis and paraneoplastic syndrome were negative. Head MRI was almost normal, while mild abnormalities were found in electroencephalogram. Electromyography showed slightly increased voltage of left quadriceps motor unit potential. After treated with corticosteroids, IVIG and mycophenolate mofetil, the patient completely improved. Cognitive function scores recovered from MoCA/MMSE (16/24) to MoCA/MMSE (26/29). Positivity of LGI1/CASPR2 antibodies both in serum/cerebrospinal fluid are rarely seen in patients with Morvan syndrome. Steroids and immunosuppressants are suggested for treatment as early as possible.

Construction of a predictive model for early acute kidney injury risk in intensive care unit septic shock patients based on machine learning / 中华危重病急救医学

Objective:To analyze the risk factors of acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients with septic shock in intensive care unit (ICU), construct a predictive model, and explore the predictive value of the predictive model.Methods:The clinical data of patients with septic shock who were hospitalized in the ICU of the Affiliated Hospital of Jining Medical College from April 2015 to June 2019 were retrospectively analyzed. According to whether the patients had AKI within 7 days of admission to the ICU, they were divided into AKI group and non-AKI group. 70% of the cases were randomly selected as the training set for building the model, and the remaining 30% of the cases were used as the validation set. XGBoost model was used to integrate relevant parameters to predict the risk of AKI in patients with septic shock. The predictive ability was assessed through receiver operator characteristic curve (ROC curve), and was correlated with acute physiology and chronic health evaluationⅡ(APACHEⅡ), sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA), procalcitonin (PCT) and other comparative verification models to verify the predictive value.Results:A total of 303 patients with septic shock were enrolled, including 153 patients with AKI and 150 patients without AKI. The incidence of AKI was 50.50%. Compared with the non-AKI group, the AKI group had higher APACHEⅡscore, SOFA score and blood lactate (Lac), higher dose of norepinephrine (NE), higher proportion of mechanical ventilation, and tachycardiac. In the XGBoost prediction model of AKI risk in septic shock patients, the top 10 features were serum creatinine (SCr) level at ICU admission, NE use, drinking history, albumin, serum sodium, C-reactive protein (CRP), Lac, body mass index (BMI), platelet count (PLT), and blood urea nitrogen (BUN) levels. Area under the ROC curve (AUC) of the XGBoost model for predicting the risk of AKI in patients with septic shock was 0.816, with a sensitivity of 73.3%, a specificity of 71.7%, and an accuracy of 72.5%. Compared with the APACHEⅡscore, SOFA score and PCT, the performance of the model improved significantly. The calibration curve of the model showed that the goodness of fit of the XGBoost model was higher than the other scores (the calibration curve had the lowest score, with a score of 0.205).Conclusion:Compared with the commonly used clinical scores, the XGBoost model can more accurately predict the risk of AKI in patients with septic shock, which helps to make appropriate diagnosis, treatment and follow-up strategies while predicting the prognosis of patients.

Expert consensus on dental caries management / 国际口腔科学杂志·英文版

Dental Caries is a kind of chronic oral disease that greatly threaten human being's health. Though dentists and researchers struggled for decades to combat this oral disease, the incidence and prevalence of dental caries remain quite high. Therefore, improving the disease management is a key issue for the whole population and life cycle management of dental caries. So clinical difficulty assessment system of caries prevention and management is established based on dental caries diagnosis and classification. Dentists should perform oral examination and establish dental records at each visit. When treatment plan is made on the base of caries risk assessment and carious lesion activity, we need to work out patient‑centered and personalized treatment planning to regain oral microecological balance, to control caries progression and to restore the structure and function of the carious teeth. And the follow-up visits are made based on personalized caries management. This expert consensus mainly discusses caries risk assessment, caries treatment difficulty assessment and dental caries treatment plan, which are the most important parts of caries management in the whole life cycle.

Analysis of drug resistance of Helicobacter pylori in different age groups in Ningxia / 中华消化杂志

Objective:To investigate the antibiotics resistance of patients with Helicobacter pylori ( H. pylori) infection of different age in Ningxia. Methods:From July to December 2021, a total of 1 040 patients with H. pylori infection confirmed by 14C-urea breath test who had no history of H. pylori treatment and underwent gastroscopy were selected from the H. pylori special outpatient clinics from Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region People′s Hospital, Ningxia Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Yuanzhou District People′s Hospital of Guyuan, Wuzhong People′s Hospital, the Second People′s Hospital of Shizuishan, People′s Hospital of Zhongwei, Yinchuan First People′s Hospital. Gastric mucosa specimens were obtained under gastroscopy and cultured for H. pylori in vitro. Harvested H. pylori were detected for H. pylori drug resistance phenotype. Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method was used to detect antibiotic sensitivity. Previous use of antibiotics of patients were recorded. The characteristics of primary drug resistance of people≤44, 45 to 59, and ≥60 years old were analyzed. Chi-square test was used for statistical analysis. Results:A total of 538 H. pylori strains were obtained from 1 040 gastric mucosa specimens cultured in vitro, with a positive rate of 51.7%. A total of 187 patients could provide information on history of antibiotics usage. The primary drug resistance rates of metronidazole, clarithromycin and levofloxacin were high, which were 95.5% (514/538), 44.6% (240/538) and 45.4% (244/538), respectively; however drug resistance of amoxicillin, furazolidone and tetracycline were not found. The double drug resistance rate was 36.4% (196/538), mainly resistant to metronidazole and clarithromycin or metronidazole and levofloxacin, the drug resistance rates were 17.8% (96/538), 18.2% (98/538), respecitively. The triple drug resistance rate was 25.5% (137/538), all of the strains were metronidazole, clarithromycin and levofloxacin resistant strains. The primary drug resistance rates to levofloxacin and clarithromycin in patients with H. pylori infection who had previous history of quinolones and macrolides were 60.9% (28/46) and 63.4% (83/131), respectively; which were higher than those of patients who had not used corresponding drugs (41.8%, 59/141 and 39.3%, 22/56), and the differences were statistically significant ( χ2=5.05 and 9.23, P=0.023, 0.002). The drug resistance rates of metronidazole of ≤44, 45 to 59, and ≥60 years old group were 94.2% (163/173), 95.5% (231/242) and 97.6% (120/123), respectively, and the differences were not significant ( P>0.05). The single drug resistance rates of levofloxacin of ≤44, 45 to 59, and ≥60 years old group were 34.7% (60/173), 48.3% (117/242) and 54.5% (67/123), respectively, and the differences were statistically significant ( χ2=12.95, P=0.002). The levofloxacin resistance rate of ≤44 years old group was lower than that of 45 to 59, and ≥60 years old group, and the differences were statistically significant ( χ2=7.70 and 11.49, P=0.006, 0.001). The single drug resistance rates of clarithromycin of ≤44, 45 to 59, and ≥60 years old group were 36.4% (63/173), 50.4% (122/242) and 44.7% (55/123), respectively, and the differences were statistically significant ( χ2=8.00, P=0.018). The clarithromycin resistance rate of ≤44 years old group was lower than 45 to 59 years old group, and the difference was statistically significant ( χ2=8.00, P=0.005). Dual drug resistance rates of levofloxacin and clarithromycin of ≤44, 45 to 59 and ≥60 years old group were 49.7%(86/173), 70.2%(170/242), 45.5%(56/123), and the difference was statistically significant( χ2=27.63, P<0.001). The resistance rate of clarithromycin and levofloxacin in 45 to 59 years old group was higher than that in ≤44 and ≥60 years old group, and the difference was statistically significant ( χ2=18.00 and 21.13, both P<0.001). Conclusions:Primary drug resistance rates to metronidazole, levofloxacin and clarithromycin are high in patients with H. pylori infection of different ages in Ningxia. Individualized eradication therapy guided by drug resistance test is recommended.

Advances of cortical damage in multiple sclerosis / 中华神经科杂志

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is typically considered to be a chronic inflammatory-demyelinating disease of central nervous system white matter, and less attention is paid to its cortical damage. With the application of immunohistochemical and imaging techniques that are more sensitive to cortical demyelination, more and more evidence has shown that lesions are also often located in the cortex of MS patients. As research progresses, the mechanisms of cortical damage are more likely associated with meningeal inflammation, and the extent of cortical lesion involvement becomes more widespread with disease progression, and cortical lesion burden positively correlates with the severity of physical and cognitive impairments. In recent years, a new subtype of MS, with lesions involving only the cerebral cortex and spinal cord, has been reported in Lancet through pathological study of 100 autopsy cases of MS, which is different from classical MS with white matter lesions, and enriches the connotation of cortical damage of MS.

The Progress of Decellularized Scaffold in Stomatology

The oral and maxillofacial region contains oral organs and facial soft tissues. Due to the complexity of the structures and functions of this region, the repair of related defects is complicated. Different degrees of defects require different repair methods, which involve a great combination of medicine and art, and the material requirements are extremely high. Hence, clinicians are plagued by contemporary oral repair materials due to the limitations of bone harvesting, immune rejection, low osteogenic activity and other problems. Decellularized extracellular matrix has attracted much attention as a bioactive scaffold material because of its nonimmunogenic properties, good osteogenic properties, slow release of growth factors, promotion of seed cell adhesion and maintenance of stem cell characteristics. This article reviews the sources, preparation methods, application and research progress of extracellular matrix materials in the repair of oral and maxillofacial defects to provide an overview for fundamental research and clinical development.

Ceria nanorods as highly stable free radical scavengers for highly durable proton exchange membranes.

Chemically durable proton exchange membranes containing free radical scavengers have technically matured in recent years, and commercial products have come into the market. The most general type of free radical scavenger is ceria, which has been proven in many studies. However, the migration of cerium is inevitable in raw ceria particles, and the migrated cerium species can aggregate in catalyst layers, causing performance loss of fuel cells. In this work, the morphology of ceria was changed from conventional nanoparticles to nanorods, and the migration of cerium was mitigated significantly. Both ex situ Fenton's degradation tests and in situ fuel cell accelerated degradation tests (ADTs) indicated that ceria nanorods have free radical scavenging properties comparable to those of ceria nanoparticles. Moreover, the immobilization of ceria particles and antidissolving properties have been verified by Fenton's degradation tests, electric field tests and fuel cell ADTs.

Discussion on teaching reform of biomaterials science in medical schools / 中华医学教育探索杂志

The teaching content of biomaterials science is of boundness and vapidity, in additional, there is alack of interaction between teachers and students. The teaching efficiency of the biomaterials science is greatly reduced. In this paper, combining with the current research hotspots in biomaterials science, we put forward the reform of the teaching knowledge, teaching methods and teaching evaluation. By introducing the scientific research achievements and academic innovations of teachers, integrating Seminar teaching with flipped mode, combining with the characteristics of colleges and universities, from in-class to out-of-class, setting up the course for different specialties, establishing teaching evaluation with new network information, this paper discusses the teaching reform of biomaterials course, and puts forward new requirements and challenges.

Anti-metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 antibodies associated encephalitis: a case report / 中华神经科杂志

Objective:To establish a tissue based assay and in-house cell based assay combined system to screen anti-metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 antibodies in a case of previously idiopathic encephalitis with prominent cerebellar ataxia and make the final diagnosis, and to summarize and analyze clinical characteristics and treatment response of the disease.Methods:A middle-aged woman admitted to Department of Neurology, People's Liberation Army General Hospical Accredited to the Sixth Medical Center in January 9, 2020, who presented with acute dizziness, unsteady gait and developed head titubation, repeated language and calculation impairment was reported. The patient′s serum and cerebrospinal fluid were firstly tested with commercial kits for conventional neural antibodies.Then samples were incubated with rat hippocampus, cerebellum and human embryonic kidney 293 cells transfected with metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 plasmid to screen extra antibodies by indirect immunofluorescence method. By reviewing literature, physical functions of metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 and clinical features of anti-metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 antibodies associated encephalitis were summarized.Results:The patient was neural antibodies negative with commercial kits. Further investigation showed neuropil staining pattern after her serum and cerebral spinal fluid were incubated with rat brain slices. The characteristic "Medusa head" staining pattern of Purkinje cells in cerebellum was also noticed. Along with her previous head titubation symptom, an in-house cell based assay using human embryonic kidney 293 cells transfected with metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 plasmid was developed and proved the existence of anti-metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 antibodies. The final diagnosis of anti-metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 antibodies associated encephalitis was made. One-year follow-up revealed her serum antibodies titers dramatically decreased and cerebrospinal fluid antibodies were negative after using steroids and intravenous immunoglobulin, but still left prominent cerebellum atrophy and severe ataxia.Conclusions:Anti-metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 antibodies may cause acute encephalitis. Cerebellar ataxia and head titubation are characteristic symptoms of metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 autoimmunity. The response to immunotherapies is limited and patients may have severe neurological deficits.

Risk factors and clinical manifestations of head-neck wear in artificial hip joints / 中华骨科杂志

At present,total hip arthroplasty (THA) is the primary treatment for hip diseases such as femoral head necrosis and developmental dysplasia of the hip.It has good effects in reducing pain and improving joint function.The appearance of modular hip prosthesis facilitates adjustment of limb length and femoral offset.However,the wear between the interface of hip prosthesis can lead to inflammatory pseudotumor,osteolysis and other adverse reactions.To explore the risk factors of wear between hip prosthesis interface is helpful to improve the design and manufacturing concept of the product,improve the product performance,help surgeons optimize the operation technology and reduce the impact of human factors on the wear of the prosthesis.Many literatures have reported the mechanism of wear between the head-acetabula interface of prosthesis.The mechanism of wear between the interfaces has been described relatively clearly.In addition to the head-acetabula interface,the wear between the head-neck interface is another major cause of unexplained pain around the joint and prosthesis loosening after hip replacement.Many factors affect head-neck wear.The design of prosthesis (such as prosthesis material and prosthesis taper),surgical technology (such as impact strength and prosthesis mismatch) and patient factors (such as age,gender and activity) have important impact on head-neck wear.Adverse reactions caused by head-neck wear have also been widely concerned.However,there is no considerable solution for wear prevention.Thus,we should optimize the design of prosthesis,improve the surgical technology,and guide the rehabilitation of patients to prevent wear.In order to improve the attention of joint surgeons,the present paper reviews the literatures and analyzes the risk factors of head-neck interface wear and the clinical manifestations caused by head-neck wear.

Effect of methylene diphosphate combined with strontium chloride in the treatment of bone pain caused by multiple bone metastases / 中国基层医药

Objective:To investigate the clinical efficacy of Yunke(99TC-MDP) combined with strontium 89SrCl2 in the treatment of bone pain in patients with multiple bone metastases.Methods:The clinical data of 95 patients with multiple bone metastases admitted to the General Hospital of Datong Coal Group from August 2014 to July 2019 were retrospectively analyzed.According to the different treatment methods, they were divided into three groups: 37 patients in Yunke group were treated with Yunke alone, 29 patients in 89SrCl2 group were treated with 89SrCl2 alone, 29 patients in combination group were treated with Yunke combined with 89SrCl2.All patients were treated for 5 days, with a course of treatment per month.The clinical efficacy, analgesic time and adverse reactions of the three groups were compared.Results:After treatment, the pain relief rates of the Yunke group, the 89SrCl2 group and the combination group were 67.6%(25/37), 69.0%(20/29) and 79.3%(23/29), respectively.The pain relief rate of the combined group was higher than that of the Yunke group(χ 2=4.25, P<0.05). The effective rate of bone metastases in the combined group was 41.4%(12/29), which was higher than that in the Yunke group[0.0%(0/37)], the 89SrCl2 group[17.2%(5/29)], the differences were statistically significant(χ 2=13.09, 10.54, all P<0.01). No serious adverse reactions were found in the three groups. Conclusion:Yunke combined with 89SrCl2 is superior to 89SrCl2 alone, and it is safe in the treatment of bone metastases.

Some experiences in the teaching of basic medical comprehensive experimental techniques / 中华医学教育探索杂志

The experimental class is a very important part of medical research graduate students in teaching practice. The lack of attention to experimental teaching, the unclear teaching purpose, and the disconnection between teaching content and practical application are the most important problems in current teaching practice. In this study, we propose to emphasize the experimental teaching objectives and experimental records to enhance students' initiative and standardize rigor; increase the training of advanced experimental equipment to improve students' hands-on ability; enrich teaching methods and means to improve teaching conditions; cultivate students' scientific thinking to enhance Student's experimental operating skills. The measures help comprehensively cultivate postgraduates' innovation and practical ability, and have great significance for medical research work.

Role of FAM3 gene family in tumor / 国际肿瘤学杂志

Family with sequence similarity 3 (FAM3) gene family is closely related to human tumors, and plays an important role in glucose and lipid metabolism and angiogenesis, and it is related to the occurrence and development of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, gastric cancer, colon cancer, pancreatic cancer, oral squamous cell carcinoma and breast cancer. Analysis of the role of the FAM3 gene family in glycolipid metabolism and tumors may be of great significance for understanding the occurrence and development of human tumors.

Risk factors and clinical manifestations of head-neck wear in artificial hip joints / 中华骨科杂志

At present, total hip arthroplasty (THA) is the primary treatment for hip diseases such as femoral head necrosis and developmental dysplasia of the hip. It has good effects in reducing pain and improving joint function. The appearance of modular hip prosthesis facilitates adjustment of limb length and femoral offset. However, the wear between the interface of hip prosthesis can lead to inflammatory pseudotumor, osteolysis and other adverse reactions. To explore the risk factors of wear between hip prosthesis interface is helpful to improve the design and manufacturing concept of the product, improve the product performance, help surgeons optimize the operation technology and reduce the impact of human factors on the wear of the prosthesis. Many literatures have reported the mechanism of wear between the head-acetabula interface of prosthesis. The mechanism of wear between the interfaces has been described relatively clearly. In addition to the head-acetabula interface, the wear between the head-neck interface is another major cause of unexplained pain around the joint and prosthesis loosening after hip replacement. Many factors affect head-neck wear. The design of prosthesis (such as prosthesis material and prosthesis taper), surgical technology (such as impact strength and prosthesis mismatch) and patient factors (such as age, gender and activity) have important impact on head-neck wear. Adverse reactions caused by head-neck wear have also been widely concerned. However, there is no considerable solution for wear prevention. Thus, we should optimize the design of prosthesis, improve the surgical technology, and guide the rehabilitation of patients to prevent wear. In order to improve the attention of joint surgeons, the present paper reviews the literatures and analyzes the risk factors of head-neck interface wear and the clinical manifestations caused by head-neck wear.

Chromophoric dissolved organic matter influence correction of algal concentration measurements using three-dimensional fluorescence spectra.

In view of the adverse effects of CDOM (chromophoric or colored dissolved organic matter) on in vivo algal pigment concentration measurements in natural water bodies, a CDOM influence correction method for algal concentration measurements based on three-dimensional fluorescence spectra is investigated. The three-dimensional fluorescence spectra of five common species of algae belonging to five categories, HA (humic acid), and natural water sampled from the Dongpu reservoir, Hefei were analyzed, and the spectral similarity of endogenous/exogenous CDOM in the algal fluorescence spectra region was compared. HA was selected to represent the CDOM spectrum group. The CDOM modified algal pigment concentration measurement method was developed using three-dimensional fluorescence spectra coupled with non-negative weighted least squares linear regression analysis. The results show that under the presence of CDOM interference factors, the recognition accuracy rate of Pyrrophyta, Bacillariophyta, Cyanophyta, and Chlorophyta increased 100%, 100%, 40%, and 40%, respectively. The average recovery rate of Cryptomonas, Pyrrophyta, Bacillariophyta, and Chlorophyta increased 162.7%, 50.3%, 106.4%, and 19.1%, respectively. In addition, the classification accuracy of Pyrrophyta, Bacillariophyta, Cyanophyta, Chlorophyta increased 83.9%, 100%, 38.2%, and 48%, respectively. This was concluded by comparing these results with the results of the algal pigment concentration measurement method without the CDOM modification. This study provides an experimental basis for the development of accurate phytoplankton fluorescence classification monitoring technology.

Study on the correlation between oxidative stress and pain after laparoscopic myomectomy / 中国医师杂志

Objective To investigate the correlation between oxidative stress and pain after laparoscopie myomectomy.Methods 84 patients with uterine myoma who were treated in Changsha Hospital of traditional Chinese Medicine from March 2014 to March 2017 were enrolled in the study.The patients were divided into the control group (n =42) and the observation group (n =42) according to the random number table method.The patients in the control group were treated with conventional laparotomy hysteromyoma expetion,and the patients in the observation group were treated by laparoscopic myomectomy.The levels of oxidative stress indexes [reactive oxygen species (ROS),malondialdehyde (MDA),advanced oxidation protein products (AOPP)] and pain indexes [interleukin-6 (IL-6),substance P (SP),prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and visual analogue scale (VAS) score] were compared between two groups before operation,1 d after operation and 3 d after operation.Pearson correlation analysis was used to analyze the correlation between oxidative stress and pain.Results The levels of plasma ROS,MDA and AOPP in the two groups 1 d after operation and 3 d after operation were higher than those before operation (all P ＜ 0.05),the levels of plasma ROS,MDA and AOPP in observation group 1d after operation and 3 d after operation were significantly lower than in the control group (all P ＜ 0.05).The levels of serum IL-6,SP,PGE2 and VAS score in the two groups 1 d after operation and 3 d after operation were all higher than those before operation (all P ＜ 0.05),the levels of serum IL-6,SP,PGE2 and VAS score in observation group after 1 d and 3 d after operation were all lower than those in control group (all P ＜ 0.05).The results of Pearson correlation analysis showed that ROS,MDA and AOPP was positively correlated with PGE2 (P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions Laparoscopic myomectomy can effectively reduce the oxidative stress response to postoperative hysteromyoma and relieve postoperative pain,and oxidative stress is positively correlated with PGE2 after operation.