Association of Mycoplasma pneumoniae coinfection with adenovirus pneumonia severity in children

Between the winter of 2018 and the end of 2019, there has been an epidemic of adenovirus infection in southern China, including Zhejiang Province. The number of children suffering from adenovirus pneumonia (AP) has significantly increased. AP can be accompanied by Mycoplasma pneumoniae in children. This study aimed to investigate the association of M. pneumoniae and identify the risk factors for coinfection on hospitalized patients with AP. The patients were classified into two groups by etiologic analysis (single AP and AP with M. pneumoniae coinfection groups). The clinical manifestations, clinical medication, and laboratory and imaging findings of the two groups were compared and analyzed. The coinfection group (n = 125) had a significantly longer duration of fever than the single AP group (n = 171; P = 0.03). Shortness of breath (P = 0.023) and pulmonary imaging findings, such as pulmonary consolidation, atelectasis, pleural effusion, and multilobe lesions (P < 0.05), were more common in the coinfection group. The patients with coinfection had more severe symptoms, significantly longer hospitalization time and an increased proportion of using glucocorticoids and/or immunoglobulin needing oxygen inhalation (P < 0.05). The incidence of AP with M. pneumoniae coinfection is high. The prolonged fever duration and pulmonary imaging findings could be used as prediction factors to predict M. pneumoniae coinfection in children with AP. Patients with AP coinfected with MP may easily develop severe illness. Hence, a reasonable change in the treatment is necessary (AU)

Epidemiological survey of childhood asthma in Wuxi and its relation to outdoor environmental factors / 中华实用儿科临床杂志

Objective:To investigate the incidence of asthma and the characteristics of acute attacks in children aged 3-14 in different administrative areas of Wuxi, and to analyze the correlation of asthma with the outdoor environmental factors.Methods:A total of 10 175 children aged 3-14 were randomly selected from 5 different administrative regions in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province for childhood asthma epidemiological survey from January to December in 2017.Results:The complete questionnaires were collected from 8 318 children with a response rate of 81.70%.There were 6 734 valid questionnaires.Asthma occurred to 259 children, and the prevalence rate was 3.84%.The prevalence of asthma in male and female children was 4.89% (163 cases) and 2.82% (96 cases), respectively.The ratio of male patients to female patients was 1.70∶1.00, and the difference was significant ( χ2=19.72, P<0.01). Children were most prone to suffer from asthma attacks at the turn of seasons (87/259 cases, 33.59%). The frequency of asthma was the lowest from June to August (9/259 cases, 3.47%). Among 244 cases attacked by acute asthma, the prevailing time period of acute attacks was irregular in 88 patients (36.07%), bedtime in 64 cases (26.23%). In different regions of the city, the lowest prevalence rate of asthma was found in Binhu District (50/1 830 cases, 2.73%), the highest prevalence rate of asthma was found in Xinwu District (71/1 502 cases, 4.72%), the difference between the highest and lowest prevalence rates of asthma was significant ( χ2=13.19, P<0.05). In terms of the air quality in different admi-nistrative regions of Wuxi, the nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) concentration, the carbon monoxide (CO) concentration, PM 10 and PM 2.5 in Binhu District were lower than other 4 regions.In different seasons in Wuxi city, the sulfur dioxide(SO 2) concentration, the NO 2 concentration, the CO concentration, PM 10 and PM 2.5 from June to August were significantly lower than those in other months.The prevalence of asthma in children in different administrative districts of Wuxi was weakly positively correlated with the SO 2 concentration, the NO 2 concentration and PM 10 ( r=0.10, P<0.01; r=0.22, P<0.01; r=0.06, P<0.01, respectively). The prevalence of asthma was weakly negatively associated with the ozone(O 3) concentration ( r=-0.06, P<0.01). Acute asthma attacks were weakly positively correlated with the SO 2 concentration ( r=0.22, P<0.01), the NO 2 concentration ( r=0.28, P<0.01), the CO concentration ( r=0.23, P<0.01), PM 10 ( r=0.18, P<0.01) and PM 2.5 ( r=0.18, P<0.01), and weakly negatively correlated with the O 3 concentration ( r=-0.40, P<0.01). Conclusions:The prevalence of asthma in Wuxi is higher in boys than in girls, and the frequency of asthma attacks is related to the season.The SO 2, NO 2, CO, PM 10, PM 2.5 and O 3 concentration affect the prevalence and acute attacks of asthma.

Occupational activity disorders of extremely severe mass burn patients in recovery period after injury: a cross-sectional survey / 中华烧伤杂志

Objective@#To observe the distribution of occupational activity disorders of extremely severe mass burn patients in recovery period after injury.@*Methods@#From December 2014 to December 2015, 65 extremely severe burn patients conforming to the inclusion criteria involved in August 2 Kunshan factory aluminum dust explosion accident were admitted to Kunshan Rehabilitation Hospital. They received comprehensive rehabilitation treatment after burns, including wearing pressure clothes, ultrasound treatment, semiconductor laser and red light irradiation, motor function training, and so on. Over 2 years after injury, a cross-sectional survey was conducted on the patients′ occupational activity disorders. Modified Barthel index (MBI) was used to assess the degree of activities of daily living (ADL) disorder of patients and to grade the independent level of completing each item of MBI, and then the independent level of patients completing self-care MBI items (bathing, dressing, grooming, eating, going to the toilet, urine control, and stool control) was compared with that of mobility items (going up and down stairs, bed and chair transfer, and walking). The Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) was used to assess the distribution of occupational activity disorders of patients. The distribution of the five most serious occupational activity disorders was counted, then the frequency and probability of which with frequency greater than or equal to 16 times were calculated. Data were processed with Pearson Chi-square test.@*Results@#Over 2 years after injury, the MBI score of patients was (76±22) points, and the ADL of 83.08% (54/65) patients reached completely self-care or light ADL disorder level. The MBI items arranged according to the completing independent level of patients from high to low were urine control/stool control, walking, bed and chair transfer, going up and down stairs, going to the toilet, eating, grooming, dressing, and bathing. The independent level of patients completing self-care MBI items was lower than that of mobility items (χ2=62.298, P<0.001). Over 2 years after injury, the five most serious occupational activity disorders in COPM dimension were mainly concentrated in the self-care dimension, accounting for 55.38% (180/325), followed by 22.46% (73/325) of production activities and 22.15% (72/325) of recreational activities, and the centrally distributed item was the personal self-care item under self-care dimension, accounting for 42.46% (138/325). Over 2 years after injury, the five most serious occupational activity disorders with frequency greater than or equal to 16 times were dressing and undressing, bathing, perineal cleaning, wearing pressure clothes, caring for children, visiting relatives and friends, 31, 25, 16, 17, 18, and 22 times respectively, with a probability of 47.69%, 38.46%, 24.62%, 26.15%, 27.69%, and 33.85% respectively.@*Conclusions@#Over 2 years after injury, most of the patients with extremely severe burns caused by the aluminum dust explosion were completely or basically self-care in their daily life. The disorder of self-care ADL was more serious than that of mobility, and the disorder of individual self-care activity was still the most serious occupational activity disorder of patients in this stage.@*Clinical trial registration@#Chinese clinical trial registry, ChiCTR-OOC-16009188.

The synergistic mechanism of hospital scientific research management and ethical review / 中华医学科研管理杂志

Objective To explore the cooperative mechanism of hospital research management and ethics review.Methods Through the analysis of current ethical conditions,as well as the relationship between hospital research management and ethical review,study on how to integrate them during the management of scientific research project.Results Research management and ethical review have different emphasis from different perspectives,however,both of them serve for research projects which makes inseparable connections.Conclusions Hospital research management and ethical review can be synergistic,according to which the management of scientific research projects will be more reasonable and scientific.

Inhibition of gallnut extract on MRSA β-lactamase / 中国生化药物杂志

Objective Study on the inhibitory effect of gallnut extract extract on MRSA β-lactamase. Methods Determination of inhibitory effect of gallnut extract on MRSA3002 by TTC method. β-lactamase was repeated by freezing and thawing method . Synergistic effect of gallnut extract and gentamicin was detected by TTC. Results The MIC and MBC of MRSA3002 by gallnut extract were 8mg/mL and 32mg/mL.Gallnut extract can reduce strains of β-lactamase activity,the MRSA300224h 1/2MIC after the effect of gallnut extract, beta lactam enzyme activity inhibition compared with the control group there were significant differences (P<0.01),compared with the positive control group, the difference was not significant. Synergistic effect of gallnut extract and gentamicin can significantly reduce the MIC of MRSA3002. Conclusion Gallnut extract can reduce β-lactamase activity recovery sensitivity of drug-resistant bacteria.

Investigation on reference values of whole blood trace elements among pregnant women in Hangzhou area / 国际检验医学杂志

Objective To establish the normal reference intervals of whole blood trace elements among pregnant women in Han‐gzhou area to provide the clinical diagnostic basis for ensuring the health of pregnant women and their fetuses .Methods A total of 122 whole blood samples in pregnant awaiting delivery in a general hospital of Hangzhou City during 2015 were collected randomly . The levels of lead(Pb) ,cadmium(Cd) ,copper(Cu) ,zinc(Zn) ,nickel(Ni) ,chromium(Cr) ,beryllium(Be) ,manganese(Mn) ,cobalt (Co) ,arsenic(As) ,molybdenum(Mo) ,thallium(Ti) and thallium(Tl) were determined with ICP‐MS .And the results were statisti‐cally analyzed .Results The detection results of whole blood Cu ,Cr ,Mn and Ti showed a normal distribution .The 5% -95% refer‐ence interval was determined according to x ± 1 .96s ,the normal reference intervals for these 4 elements were 255 .37 -668 .23 , 56 .09-151 .93 ,18 .46-54 .60 and 800 .90 -2 632 .02 μg/L respectively .Conclusion Formulating the normal reference values of whole blood microelements levels has an important significance for clinical doctors to provide the nutritional health care guidance and master the heavy metal pollution level .

Toll-like receptor and airway remodeling in asthma / 国际儿科学杂志

Bronchial asthma is one of the most common chronic respiratory diseases in children.Airway remodeling that makes asthma difficult to control is an important pathological progress of asthma.Toll-like receptors (TLR), a kind of pattern recognition receptors, are expressed in a variety of human airway structure cells, such as airway epithelial cells, smooth muscle cells, mucus gland cells, etc.It is reported that TLRs play important roles in the regulation of airway remodeling in asthma.This article briefly summarizes the role of TLR in airway remodeling of asthma.

Effect of Exercise Preconditioning on the Expression of Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide in the Dorsal Root Ganglion of Rats / 中国运动医学杂志

Objective The goal of this study was to explore the effect of exercise preconditioning on the expression of calcitonin gene-related peptide(CGRP)in the dorsal root ganglion of rats.Methods Fifty healthy male SD rats were randomly divided into control group (C) and exercise preconditioning group(EP).Group EP performed intervial treadmill exercise for 3 weeks for establishing exercise preconditioning animal model.The expression of CGRP mRNA in dorsal root ganglion was investigated by real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR.The immunoreaetion of CGRP in dorsal root ganglion was shown by immunohistochemistry.Results There was no significant difference in the expression of CGRP mR.NA in two groups(P>0.05).As compared with the group C,the immunoreaction of CGRP was increased in group EP,and the positive area and mean optical density of CGRP immunoreaction in group PE were significant higher than that in group C(P<0.05).Conclusion Exercise preconditioning does not change the expression of CGRP mRNA in dorsal root ganglion,but enhances the expression of CGRP in dorsal root ganglion to promote the reserve and release of CGRP in peripheral nerve endings and has the same endogenous protection as ischemie preconditioning.

Effect of exercise on gene expression of atrial natriuretic peptide receptor of kidney.

To study the effect of exercise on gene expression of natriuretic peptide receptors (NPRs) in the kidney, with in situ hybridization and the computerized image analysis, we investigated the alterations of gene expression of NPRs on the animal model of exercise training of different intensity. We found that after exercise training of different intensity, renal NPR-A mRNA and NPR-C mRNA expression showed different changes, the expression of NPR-A mRNA upregulated and NPR-C mRNA downregulated in the kidney. With the increase exercise intensity, change in NPR-A mRNA expression was insignificant, but downregulation in NPR-C mRNA expression was more significant. The result suggested that the effect of exercise on renal NPRs mRNA expression was mainly on the modulation level of NPR-C mRNA, it could reduce the clearance rate of ANP, increase the level of ANP, and enhance the biological effect of ANP on the kidney and regulative action of kidney in exercise.

Effect of Different Exercise Intensities on Cardiac Endocrine Function / 中国运动医学杂志

To study the effect of different exercise intensities on cardiac endocrine function, with radioimmunoassay, immunohistochemistry and the technique of computer image analysis, the level of plasma ANP and the expression of ANP in myocardial cells of rats with different training intensities were investigated. The result showed that with the increasing of exercise intensity,the level of ANP in plasma increased progressively, the expression of ANP in myocardial cells increased remarkably after moderate and heavy exercise training while it decreased remarkably after exhaustive exercise training. Results suggested that different exercise intensities revealed different effects on adaptation of cardiac endocrine function.

Effect of Exercise on Gene Expression of Natriuretic Peptide Receptors in the Heart / 中国运动医学杂志

To study the effect of exercise on gene expression of natriuretic peptide receptors (NPRs) in the heart, using immunofluorescent method, in situ hybridization, laser confocal scanning microscopy and the technique of computer image analysis, the distribution of NPRs in the heart and the alterations of gene expression of NPRs on the animal model of different training intensity were investigated. The result showed that NPRs located mainly in the endocardium, the sarcolemma of myocardial fiber, the connective tissue around myocardial fiber and the wall of coronary artery branch. After moderate and heavy exercise training, the gene expression of natriuretic peptide receptor-A (NPR-A) upregulated and natriuretic peptide clearance receptor (NPR-C) downregulated, whereas the gene expression of NPR-A downregulated and NPR-C upregulated after exhaustive exercise.

Effect of Exercise Intensity on Cardiac Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide in Rats / 中国运动医学杂志

To study the effect of exercise on cardiac calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) using immunnohistochemistry and the technique of computer image analysis, the expression and mechanism of cardiac CGRP on the animal model trained with different exercise intensities were investigated. The result showed that long-term low intensity of exercise was not able to induce obvious change in cardiac CGRP. After long-term moderate intensity of exercise, the expression of cardiac CGRP increased so as to improve blood supply and protect myocardium. Long-term high intensity of exercise decreased expression of cardiac CGRP and weakened the protection of myocardium which could be a chief cause of myocardial ischemia.