Medium-term Follow-up of the Intravaginal Slingplasty Operation Indicates Minimal Deterioration of Urinary Continence With Time

An assessment of the medium term efficacy of stress incontinence cure in a group of patients who had undergone the intravaginal slingplasty (IVS) operation is presented. Eighty-five unselected patients, aged 27 to 83 years at the time of surgery, 12 with pure stress symptoms, and 73 with mixed incontinence symptoms underwent the IVS procedure between 31 and 57 months previously (mean 3.9 years). The patients were assessed with the same self-administered semiquantitative questionnaire used in the initial assessment. The results were compared with the original cure rate which was 88% at 1.75 years with another 2.5% more than 70% improved (total 90.5%). The cure rate in the 75 patients assessed at 3.9 years was 81%, with another 8% reporting more than 70% improvement (total 89%). Included in the latter were 2 patients who, though originally designated as failures, gradually achieved almost 100% continence within 2 years of surgery. Deterioration of continence following the IVS operation appears more like the Burch colposuspension than needle suspensions. It is possible to explain deterioration of continence with time in terms of age-related connective tissue laxity of the vaginal hammock. Improvement in 2 women with time can be explained by tightening of the hammock via paraurethral scar contraction with time. Whether the IVS operation improves or deteriorates in the longer term may depend on which process predominates.     

丹参注射液与异甘草酸镁抗肝纤维化的临床对比研究

目的 观察慢性乙型肝炎患者应用丹参注射液和异甘草酸镁治疗后肝功能和肝纤维化指标的改善情况.方法 将80例慢性乙型肝炎患者,随机分为丹参组40例,异甘草酸镁组40例,在常规保肝治疗基础上,两组分别加用丹参注射液和异甘草酸镁注射液治疗,疗程均为30 d.观察两组患者治疗前、后的肝功能和肝纤维化指标[血清透明质酸酶(HA)、层黏连蛋白(LN)、Ⅳ型胶原(Ⅳ-C)]的变化.结果 治疗后丹参注射液和异甘草酸镁均可明显改善慢性乙型肝炎患者的肝功能,异甘草酸镁组较丹参组为优(P<0.05).丹参组肝纤维化指标较治疗前有下降(P<0.05);异甘草酸镁组肝纤维化指标与治疗前比较差异无统计学意义(P>0.05);两组治疗后的肝纤维化指标比较,差异有统计学意义(P<0.05).结论 丹参注射液改善肝纤维化的疗效优于异甘草酸镁,而异甘草酸镁改善肝功能的疗效优于丹参注射液.     

广防己致大鼠慢性肾小管-间质损伤的实验研究Ⅰ

目的:　观察广防己醇提取物(RAFE)急性以及不同剂量的RAFE对肾脏慢性毒性。方法:采用常规的急性毒性实验方法和用不同剂量的RAFE(2 5 . 0 ,12 .0 0 ,2 0 0. 0mg·kg^-1·d^-1)以及马兜铃总酸(10. 0mg·kg^-1·d^-1)给大鼠间断灌胃13周,分别于给药第4 ,8,13周留取血、尿和肾组织标本,检测相关肾功能和组织学变化。结果:RAFE的LD50 为36. 8g·kg^-1,LD50 95 %可信限为38 .8～2 .8 .9g·kg^-1;不同剂量的RAFE作用早期,大鼠肾功能改变为氮质血症、大量蛋白尿以及尿NAG酶升高。肾脏组织形态学:中、大剂量和总酸组给药早期主要表现以皮髓质交界为主的急性肾小管坏死,而后可见部分动物肾间质纤维化。结论:NAG可作为大鼠早期肾功能损伤的观测指标之一;RAFE中、大剂量间断灌胃13周均可导致大鼠肾小管功能损害。     

Long-term results of ventricular assist pumping in postcardiotomy cardiogenic shock

A series of experiments were conducted to assess the possibility of revascularizing tracheal homografts with an omental pedicle flap. Three different experiments were performed. In Group I (N = 4) a ten-ring tracheal allograft was embedded into the greater omentum of a recipient animal for 30 days. At reexploration these four allografts were found to have been transformed into a tube consisting mainly of connective tissue. To provide more collateral circulation, we immediately reanastomosed an eight-ring tracheal autograft in Group II animals (N = 7). Collateral blood supply was possibly available from the surrounding mediastinal tissues, the recipient trachea, and the transposed omental graft. Tracheal malacia and loss of rings 4,5, and 6 was a consistent finding and cause of death. A third group of animals (Group III) underwent a similar operation with the addition of free bone grafts being applied to the external surface of the autograft to impede significant tracheal stenosis. The long-term results and the findings when the animals were put to death were the same as in Group II. We conclude that the omental pedicle graft cannot sustain chondrocyte viability. Thus a reliable method for revascularization of a tracheal transplant remains to be found.     

胰岛素强化治疗在2型糖尿病骨折患者围手术期的应用

Objective To investigate the best way to control the blood sugar level during the perioperation of bone fracture patients with type 2 diabetes(T2DM).Methods Bone fracture patients with T2DM were randomly divided into three groups:continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion group(insulin aspart,group CSII,n=20),glargine treatment group(insulin aspart+insulin glargine,group GA,n=20),and NPH treatment(insulin aspart+rh-insulin,group NA,n=20).The levels of fasting plasma glucose(FPG)and the 2 hours postprandial glucose(2h PG),blood glucose fluctuation(BGF),insulin dosage(ID),good effective time(GET),incidence of hypoglycemia,dawn phenomenon and infection,average time of stitches removal(ATSR),average hospitalized length(AHL)of three groups were compared.Results FPG and 2hPG,ID in group CSII[(6.32±1.18)mmol/L,(7.72±1.53)mmol/L,(35.40±1.60)IU]and group GA [(6.25±0.88)mmol/L,(7.32±1.17)mmol/L,(36.20±0.80)IU]were significantly lower than those of group NA [(7.44±1.36)mmol/L,(8.52±0.76)mmol/L,(40.50±2.40)IU,all P<0.05],simulaneously,BGF,GET incidence of complications,ATSR,AHL of group CSII and GA were significantly lower than those of group NA(all P<0.05).There were not significant difference between group CSII and group GA.Compared with group CSII,group GA had less costs in-hospital and better practicability.Conclusion Both CSII and insulin glargine combined with insulin aspart can effectively,safely,rapidly and stablely control hyperglycemia.and might be the first choice to control blood sugar for bone fracture patients with T2DM in perioperation.     

胰岛素强化治疗在2型糖尿病骨折患者围手术期的应用

Objective To investigate the best way to control the blood sugar level during the perioperation of bone fracture patients with type 2 diabetes(T2DM).Methods Bone fracture patients with T2DM were randomly divided into three groups:continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion group(insulin aspart,group CSII,n=20),glargine treatment group(insulin aspart+insulin glargine,group GA,n=20),and NPH treatment(insulin aspart+rh-insulin,group NA,n=20).The levels of fasting plasma glucose(FPG)and the 2 hours postprandial glucose(2h PG),blood glucose fluctuation(BGF),insulin dosage(ID),good effective time(GET),incidence of hypoglycemia,dawn phenomenon and infection,average time of stitches removal(ATSR),average hospitalized length(AHL)of three groups were compared.Results FPG and 2hPG,ID in group CSII[(6.32±1.18)mmol/L,(7.72±1.53)mmol/L,(35.40±1.60)IU]and group GA [(6.25±0.88)mmol/L,(7.32±1.17)mmol/L,(36.20±0.80)IU]were significantly lower than those of group NA [(7.44±1.36)mmol/L,(8.52±0.76)mmol/L,(40.50±2.40)IU,all P<0.05],simulaneously,BGF,GET incidence of complications,ATSR,AHL of group CSII and GA were significantly lower than those of group NA(all P<0.05).There were not significant difference between group CSII and group GA.Compared with group CSII,group GA had less costs in-hospital and better practicability.Conclusion Both CSII and insulin glargine combined with insulin aspart can effectively,safely,rapidly and stablely control hyperglycemia.and might be the first choice to control blood sugar for bone fracture patients with T2DM in perioperation.     

Insertion of a Permanent Electrode for Intractable Detrusor Instability

EDITORIAL COMMENT: We accepted this case report for publication because of the miseries or urinary incontinence in elderly women, and because this problem is so common. Any method of cure or control merits consideration. Also urinary incontinence is often the reason why women with their intellectual facilities apparently intact become institutionalized. The woman portrayed in this report was made of stern stuff So too were her medical attendants, since urinary incontinence resulting from a motor vehicle accident (details of injuries not provided) would be treated by conservative means alone by many practitioners, including the writer of this comment, who would have prescribed the vaginal application of dienoestrol cream, which improves symptoms in many women with urinary incontinence and renders other therapies unnecessary in some (A). In less than 2 years this woman was investigated and treated with urodynamic study x 4, drug regimens x 5 and surgical procedures x 4. The takeaway message is that her urinary incontinence was controlled.
(A) Beischer N A, Grant FT. Management of gynaecological disorders in older women. Update in Geriatric Medicine. Part 2. Merck Sharp and Dohme University Program for General Practitioners pl-12.     

A thin-plate spline analysis of the face and tongue in obstructive sleep apnea patients

The shape characteristics of the face and tongue in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients were investigated using thin-plate (TP) splines. A relatively new analytic tool, the TP spline method, provides a means of size normalization and image analysis. When shape is one's main concern, various sizes of a biologic structure may be a source of statistical noise. More seriously, the strong size effect could mask underlying, actual attributes of the disease. A set of size normalized data in the form of coordinates was generated from cephalograms of 80 male subjects. The TP spline method envisioned the differences in the shape of the face and tongue between OSA patients and nonapneic subjects and those between the upright and supine body positions. In accordance with OSA severity, the hyoid bone and the submental region positioned inferiorly and the fourth vertebra relocated posteriorly with respect to the mandible. This caused a fanlike configuration of the lower part of the face and neck in the sagittal plane in both upright and supine body positions. TP splines revealed tongue deformations caused by a body position change. Overall, the new morphometric tool adopted here was found to be viable in the analysis of morphologic changes. Received: 4 April 1997 / Accepted: 15 September 1997