Public Attitudes Toward Incentives for Organ Donation: A National Study of Different Racial/Ethnic and Income Groups

Attitudes toward monetary and nonmonetary incentives for living (LD) and deceased donation (DD) among the U.S. general public and different racial/ethnic and income groups have not been systematically studied. We studied attitudes via a telephone questionnaire administered to persons aged 18-75 in the continental United States. Among 845 participants (85% of randomized households), less than one-fifth participants were in favor of incentives for DD (range 7-17%). Most persons were in favor of reimbursement of medical costs (91%), paid leave (84%) and priority on the waiting list (59%) for LD. African Americans and Hispanics were more likely than Whites to be in favor of some incentives for DD. African Americans were more likely than Whites to be in favor of monetary incentives for LD. Whites with incomes less than $20 000 were more likely than Whites with greater incomes to be in favor of reimbursement for deceased donors' funeral expenses or medical expenses. The U.S. public is not generally supportive of incentives for DD, but is supportive of limited incentives for LD. Racial/ethnic minorities are more supportive than Whites of some incentives. Persons with low income may be more accepting of certain monetary incentives.     

SPECT探头系统的校正与调试

本文阐明了对SPECT探头校正与调试的重要性,特别是对探头校正与调试的具体方法与步骤作了详细介绍.     

蛋白酶对降低异常精液粘稠度的实验对比研究

目的通过不同蛋白酶类对降低高粘稠度精液的粘稠度效果对比,寻找理想的降低精液粘稠度的药物。方法将高粘稠度精液标本分为两组,A组:31例采用α-糜蛋白酶降低精液粘稠度:B组:32例采用尿激酶降低精液粘稠度;两组均观察用药前后的精子活动力。采用配对t检验和单因素方差分析对所得数据作统计学处理。结果高粘稠度精液用药物(α-糜蛋白酶或者尿激酶)液化精液后,精子的活动力较用药前有明显提高(P<0．001);用药前后精液的粘稠度都存在着明显的差异,精液的粘稠度分别下降44．83％和55．45％(P<0．001);在A组和B组的对比研究中,单因素方差分析检验提示:用药后两组间粘稠度数据有显著的差异(P<0．001￡(?)。结论蛋白酶可以有效地降低异常精液粘稠度的精液,从实验结果提示尿激酶降低精液粘稠度的效果优于α-糜蛋白酶,这有助于临床开展应用性研究和治疗。     

Acetylcholine induces contractile and relaxant effects in canine nasal venous systems.

Acetylcholine (ACh) induces nasal congestion at low doses but decongestion at high doses. The current study investigated the vascular mechanisms underlying this biphasic nasal airway response in dogs. Collecting and outflow veins from anterior and posterior nasal venous systems and the septal mucosa (containing sinusoidal venous plexuses) were isolated. The in vitro isometric tension of the vascular segments was monitored to reflect vascular reactivity. Immunohistochemical localisation of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH)-diaphorase and endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) was performed. ACh did not affect the venous plexuses but contracted the anterior collecting vein and the outflow veins of both systems in a concentration-dependent manner; the responses were unaffected by nitro-L-arginine-methyl-ester (L-NAME). ACh relaxed posterior collecting veins at low concentrations but contracted them at higher concentrations; L-NAME enhanced the contractions but inhibited the relaxations, with the inhibition reversed by L-arginine. NADPH-diaphorase and eNOS were located predominantly in the posterior collecting veins. The fact that acetylcholine at low concentrations relaxes posterior collecting veins but contracts other collecting and outflow veins implies that the agonist in vivo may induce nasal congestion by increasing posterior blood volume. At higher concentrations, acetylcholine contracts posterior collecting veins as well, implying diminished blood volume in both venous systems, and consequently nasal decongestion. The induced contraction in posterior collecting veins is nitric oxide-independent, while the induced relaxation is nitric oxide-dependent.     

多发性骨髓瘤合并肾功能不全38例临床和预后分析

目的研究多发性骨髓瘤合并肾功能不全的临床特点及肾功能可逆性的相关因素和生存相关因素。方法回顾性分析1999-01~2003-12北京协和医院收治的91例初治多发性骨髓瘤及其中38例多发性骨髓瘤合并肾功能不全患者的临床资料。结果91例初治多发性骨髓瘤中有38例(41·8%)合并肾功能不全。合并肾功能不全的患者病程进展更快,贫血更严重,血乳酸脱氢酶(LDH)和β2-微球蛋白(β2-MG)质量浓度更高,以及尿蛋白量更多,同时对化疗的反应更差及生存时间更短。其中34·2%的患者肾功能不全是可逆的,血肌酐和LDH是肾功能可逆的独立预测因素。肾功能可逆患者的生存时间与肾功能正常患者的生存时间比较差异无显著性意义。Cox生存多因素分析发现肾功能可逆性(B=1·294,EXP(B)=3·647,P=0·001)是与生存惟一相关的因素。结论肾功能不全是多发性骨髓瘤常见并发症,相当一部分患者的肾功能可以恢复正常,血肌酐水平和LDH水平是肾功能可逆的重要因素,肾功能可逆性是独立的生存预后因素。     

Related factors of cognitive impairment after stroke

BACKGROUND: Cognitive impairment after stroke associates with various factors, such as age, educational years, etc. Besides concerning about the recovery of limb function after stroke, we should also focus on the rehabilitation of cognition. Moreover, we'd better pay attention to the control of all the risk factors of stroke, and improve the quality of life in stroke patients. OBJECTIVE: To analyze the factors that affect cognitive impairment after stroke. DESIGN: A related factors analysis. SETTINGS: Department of Neurology of Dalian Port Hospital and Dalian Second People's Hospital. PARTICIPANTS: Totally 148 stroke inpatients were selected from Department of Neurology, Dalian Port Hospital and Dalian Second People's Hospital from April 2004 to December 2005, including 100 males and 48 females, aging 45-75 years with an average age of (67±8) years; Their educational years ranged 2-10 years with an average of (6.1±3.7) years; The disease course ranged 15-30 days; All were right-handed. Inclusive criteria: All were accorded with the diagnostic standard set by the Fourth National Academic Meeting for Cerebrovascular Disease; Confirmed by CT or MRI; Informed consents were obtained from all the subjects. METHODS: After the disease conditions were stable, the patients were assessed with Wechsler memory scale (WMS) and Wisconsin card sorting test (WCST). WMS included forward and backward recitation of numbers and short-term memory (verbal memory, visual recognition). The number of times for correct and wrong classifications in WCST and the time to complete the trail making tests A and B were recorded. The focal volume, area and layer were recorded at 24 hours after admission. The general data of the patients were recorded, including name, sex, age, educational years, history of hypertension, history of diabetes mellitus. Electroencepalograph (EEG) was examined to record the wave shape, blood lipids were detected, and the cognition related indexes were analyzed with the Pearson correlation analysis. The correlation between cognitive indexes after stroke and the influencing factors were analyzed with multiple linear regression analysis. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: ① Correlation between cognitive indexes and imaging indexes; ② Influencing factors for cognitive indexes after stroke. RESULTS: All the 148 stroke patients were involved in the analysis of results. ① Correlation between cognitive indexes and CT indexes: There were obvious negative correlations between numerical symbol and focal layer (r =-0.234, P < 0.05), as well as between verbal memory and the focal area and volume (r =-0.363, -0.279, P < 0.05); Trail making test A had obvious positive correlation with focal area and volume (r =0.256, 0.256, P < 0.05). Results of multiple linear regression analysis: Correct classification was correlated with triglyceride (partial wave and θ wave (partial regression coefficient=0.231-0.908, P < 0.05); Verbal memory was correlated with EEG α wave, focal volume, sex, educational years and diabetes mellitus (partial regression coefficient=0.219-1.017, P < 0.05-0.01). Visual recognition had correlation with educational years and hypertension (partial regression coefficient=0.326, -1.163, P < 0.01). Trail making tests A and B were correlated with focal volume (partial regression coefficient=4.680, -18.561, P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: The factors that affect the cognitive function after stroke include sex, age, educational years, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, triglyceride, EEG wave shape, and the focal area, volume and layer     

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背景：利用血管紧张素转换酶抑制剂阻断肾素-血管紧张素系统可以改善心衰（HF）患者的预后和症状。在ELITEⅡ研究中，比较了氯沙坦和卡托普利对心衰患者死亡率、发病率以及功能状态方面的作用。方法和结果：总共3152例年龄≥60岁、NYHA心功能分级为Ⅱ-Ⅳ级、射血分数≤40％的HF患者入选研究，接受氯沙坦50mg1次／d或卡托普利50mg3次／d。判断预后的指标包括：全因或HF相关的死亡、住院和停止治疗；NYHA分级的变化；生活质量（QoL）。各治疗组问HF相关预后无显著性差异。两组的NYHA分级得到了相似的改善（P〈0．01）。观察1856例患者的QoL发现，1343例患者至少存活1年以上；两组中1年存活者的QoL均得到了改善（与基线相比，P〈0．001）。     

胆道癌ERCP诊断(附49例分析)

本文报道用ERCP诊断胆管癌24例、胆囊癌6例、壶腹癌19例、共49例,都经手术或病理证实,诊断符合率为85.7％。 文章描述了胆道癌ERCP的X线表现。依造影所见把胆管癌分为阻塞型、狭窄型和息肉型。狭窄型又分闭塞型、环型及弥漫型三个亚型。胆管癌以阻塞型和闭塞型狭窄多见。胆囊癌表现为胆囊内基底宽广固定不变的充盈缺损。壶腹癌为壶腹部边缘不整的占位病变,可阻塞胆管或胰管或同时阻塞胰胆管。肝内胆管的软藤状改变是胆道恶性肿瘤的特征性表现。     

调气活血汤治疗崩漏34例

崩漏是月经周期、经期、经量严重失常的病证，是指经血非时暴下不止或淋漓不尽而言。调气活血汤为韩百灵氏治疗崩漏之经验方，韩氏认为本方证多由情志不遂，积思郁怒，或经产后，余血未尽，感寒涉水，过食生冷，不禁房事，余血停滞，瘀阻冲任，心血不得归经，而致崩中漏下。临证时须审因论治，若气病及血者，以活血为主，调气为辅。笔者自2005年以来，运用本方治疗妇女崩漏病34例，取得满意疗效，现报道如下。     

Toxic effects of Fusarium mycotoxin butenolide on rat myocardium and primary culture of cardiac myocytes.

Mycotoxin toxicosis has been implicated in the etiopathogenesis of Keshan disease (KD), an endemic cardiomyopathy prevailing in some regions of China. Butenolide (4-acetamido-4-hydroxy-2-butenoic acid gamma-lactone, CAS No. 16275-44-8), a mycotoxin produced by several Fusarium species such as Fusarium tricinctum and Fusarium graminearum, is frequently detected from the cereals in the endemic areas of KD. The present study is undertaken to investigate whether this mycotoxin can induce myocardial damage. Exposure of primary culture of cardiac myocytes to butenolide resulted in significant cytotoxicity, manifested by changes in cell morphology and decreases in cell viability. Consistent with the in vitro findings, distinct myocardial toxicity in vivo was observed after administration of rats by gavage with butenolide (10 and 20 mg/kg/day) for 2 months, and the myocardial injuries were characterized by focal necrosis of myocardium and fragmentation of myofiber. Butenolide also induced significant oxidative damage to the myocardium in vitro evidenced by a concentration-dependent lipid peroxidation in the myocardial homogenates, whereas antioxidants superoxide dismutase (SOD), N-acetylcysteine (NAC) and glutathione (GSH) provided significant protections against this oxidative effect. Taken together, these results clearly reveal that butenolide possesses the potential to induce myocardial toxicity. The present findings may reinforce the hypothesis that toxicosis by mycotoxins is one of the etiological factors for KD.