Effect of fathers'' age and birth order on occurrence of congenital heart disease.

STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to examine if there is an effect of fathers' age and of birth order on the occurrence of congenital heart disease. DESIGN--This was a hospital based case-referent study including use of birth defects surveillance data. SUBJECTS--Subjects were 497 cases of congenital heart disease aged between 3 months and 5 years, born in Beijing and Hebei Province, China; 6222 children without congenital heart disease serve as reference baseline. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS--With stratified analysis and logistic regression analyses, congenital heart disease was found to be associated with fathers' age less than 25 years (odds ratio 2.63), independent of mothers' age and of birth order. There was also evidence to show a higher birth order effect on the occurrence of congenital heart disease independent of parental ages. CONCLUSION--Higher birth order and fathers aged less than 25 years were both independently associated with some categories of congenital heart disease and with congenital heart disease overall.     

Nebivolol induces endothelium-dependent relaxations of canine coronary arteries.

Nebivolol is a new beta 1-antagonist that acutely reduces arterial blood pressure without depressing cardiac function. The present study was designed to determine the effect of nebivolol on coronary arteries. Rings of canine left anterior descending coronary (LAD) artery with or without endothelium were suspended in organ chambers and the isometric tension was recorded. In some experiments, the transmembrane potential of the smooth muscle cells was recorded by electrophysiological methods. During contractions to prostaglandin F2 alpha, nebivolol induced concentration-dependent relaxations of the coronary arteries. The enantiomer, l-nebivolol, also induced comparable relaxations; however, d-nebivolol induced smaller relaxations. The relaxations induced by nebivolol and its enantiomer were significantly larger in tissues with than in those without endothelium. The differences between tissues with and without endothelium were abolished by nitro-L-arginine (3 x 10(-5) M) or methylene blue (10(-5) M). The nebivolol-induced relaxations were not affected by indomethacin (10(-5) M), phentolamine (5 x 10(-6) M), propranolol (5 x 10(-6) M), or methysergide (3 x 10(-6) M). Nebivolol at a subthreshold concentration for inducing relaxation (3 x 10(-7) M) did not significantly affect endothelium-dependent relaxations to acetylcholine but potentiated ADP-induced endothelium-dependent relaxations. The potentiation is stereoselective for l-nebivolol. Nebivolol induced a small hyperpolarization of the coronary smooth muscle with endothelium (1 mV).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)     

几种杀虫剂对印鼠客蚤的毒力测定

本文报告用罐头瓶药膜法和点滴法对实验室饲养的3日龄未吸血印鼠客蚤为试验对象,测试了溴氰菊酯、滴滴畏、久效磷、磷胺、喹硫磷、倍硫磷半数致死量(LD_(50))和半数致死浓度(LC_(50))。结果以溴氰菊酯和喹硫磷的LC_(50)值较低,磷胺和滴滴畏的数值较高,LD_(50)以溴氰菊酯和倍硫磷毒力较强,磷胺和久效磷次之,雌雄个体差异不明显。     

老年病人鼻饲营养调查

对11名69～83岁不能自然进食的男性鼻饲病人进行了全面的营养调查,平均每人每日热能摄取为1722kcal,而热能消耗在1300～1700kcal之间。蛋白质、脂肪和碳水化物每人每日平均摄入82.4、72.5、185.0g,分别占总产热量19.1、37.9、和43.0％。动物蛋白质和动物脂肪分别占总蛋白和总脂肪的71.9和69.3％,蛋白质量较优。脂肪总量虽不太高,但占总产热量偏大,碳水化物嫌少,而(?)(?)(?)投入939mg,摄入过多。钙、磷、铁摄入充裕,可满足需要。维生素A、核黄素也可满足需要,但硫胺素、尼克酸和抗坏血酸摄入量不足。这些都还需要改进。     

肠腔侧侧分流术治疗门静脉高压症的体会

本文报道了肠系膜上静脉与下腔静脉侧侧分流术7例,并介绍了手术的体会,认为应解剖、暴露肠系膜上静脉“外科干”与相应平面的下腔静脉,清除两者间的增生组织,缩短两者的间距,才易取得手术成功。本术既可使门静脉压下降适中,又对门静脉向肝血流干扰较小,且对组织损伤较轻。     

Tooth-brushing epilepsy with ictal orgasms.

We report a 41-year-old woman with complex reflex epilepsy in which seizures were induced exclusively by the act of tooth brushing. All the attacks occurred with a specific sensation of sexual arousal and orgasm-like euphoria that were followed by a period of impairment of consciousness. Ictal EEG demonstrated two events of epileptic seizure that were provoked after tooth brushing for 38 and 14 seconds, respectively. The interictal EEG showed epileptiform discharges over the right anterior temporal region and interictal single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scan showed relative hypoperfusion in the uncus of right temporal lobe. Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed right hippocampal atrophy. We suggest that tooth-brushing epilepsy, especially with sexual ictal manifestations, may provide insight into the cerebral pathophysiology at the right temporolimbic structure.     

选择性靶动脉栓塞在骶骨肿瘤切除术中的价值

目的 探讨和评估选择性靶动脉栓塞骶骨肿瘤后对外科切除肿瘤的价值和方法。方法 运用Seldinger技术，对9例骶骨肿瘤患者进行肿瘤供血动脉及肿瘤内血管全部彻底栓塞，栓塞材料应用明胶海绵，栓塞后1周内行手术切除术。结果 彻底的术前栓塞手术中失血量明显减少，9例骶骨肿瘤均得到彻底切除，平均失血量为1090ml。术后平均随访15个月，未见肿瘤局部复发。结论 骶骨肿瘤切除术前选择性靶动脉栓塞可有效减少术中出血，有利于肿瘤的彻底切除，为顺利切除骶骨肿瘤提供了有价值的方法。     

通脉养心口服液与通脉养心丸药理作用比较

对通脉养心口服液及丸剂进行了药理作用的比较，结果表明，２种剂型基本具有相同的心血管药理作用，但在作用强度上不完全相同，在抑制心肌缺血猎ＳＴ段抬高及提高减压缺氧耐力上，口服液较丸剂作用稍强，在抑制大鼠实验性血栓形成上，丸剂比口服液作用稍强。