Supravital staining: It's role in detecting early malignancies

The efficacy of supravital staining in the detection of malignancies in oro and oropharyngeal lesions and its role in the detection of malignant changes in premalignant lesions were studied. This prospective study comprises 90 cases of clinically suspicious lesions and it was done over a period of 3 years. Most of the patients had multiple risk factors for the development of malignancy. All underwent staining with a modified solution of 1% toluidine blue (TB). In our study the overall sensitivity was 97.29% and the specificity was 62.5%.     

生命探测仪电池容量检测电路的设计

介绍了基于bq2050电池容量检测电路的设计，实测结果表明此电池容量检测电路设计合理，实用有效，且精度高、体积小、功耗低，适合生命探测仪使用。     

The effect of mental countermeasures on a novel brain‐based feedback concealed information test

The feedback concealed information test (fCIT) is a novel form of the CIT, providing participants with feedback regarding their memory concealment performance. The fCIT utilizes event‐related potentials (recognition‐P300 and feedback‐related event‐related potentials) and has been shown to provide high efficiency in detecting information concealment. However, it is unclear how well the fCIT performs in the presence of mental countermeasures. To address this question, participants were trained to use countermeasures during fCIT. Results showed that the recognition‐P300 efficiency decreased when participants used countermeasures. However, the efficiencies of feedback‐related negativity and feedback‐P300 were unchanged, with feedback‐P300 still showing a high detection efficiency (AUC = 0.86) during countermeasures. These findings demonstrate the potential of fCIT for subverting countermeasures.     

Software-Automated Implant Detection for Intraoperative 3D Imaging—First Clinical Evaluation on 214 Data Sets

Previous studies have demonstrated a frequent occurrence of screw/K-wire malpositioning during surgical fracture treatment under 2D fluoroscopy and a correspondingly high revision rate as a result of using intraoperative 3D imaging. In order to facilitate and accelerate the diagnosis of implant malpositioning in 3D data sets, this study investigates two versions of an implant detection software for mobile 3D C-arms in terms of their detection performance based on comparison with manual evaluation. The 3D data sets of patients who had received surgical fracture treatment at five anatomical regions were extracted from the research database. First, manual evaluation of the data sets was performed, and the number of implanted implants was assessed. For 25 data sets, the time required by four investigators to adjust each implant was monitored. Subsequently, the evaluation was performed using both software versions based on the following detection parameters: true-positive-rate, false-negative-rate, false-detection-rate and positive predictive value. Furthermore, the causes of false positive and false negative detected implants depending on the anatomical region were investigated. Two hundred fourteen data sets with overall 1767 implants were included. The detection parameters were significantly improved (p<.001) from version 1 to version 2 of the implant detection software. Automatic evaluation required an average of 4.1±0.4 s while manual evaluation was completed in 136.15±72.9 s (p<.001), with a statistically significant difference between experienced and inexperienced users (p=.005). In summary, version 2 of the implant detection software achieved significantly better results. The time saved by using the software could contribute to optimizing the intraoperative workflow.     

局部脑组织氧饱和度监测在新生儿生后早期的应用价值

局部脑组织氧饱和度(regional cerebral oxygenation,rSO2)监测的应用范围很广,不受温度和搏动血流影响,是一种监测脑组织氧合状态的新方式,但目前在新生儿方面的研究较少.本文针对不同病理状况对新生儿生后早期rSO2的影响进行综述,阐明新生儿rSO2监测的重要临床意义并对其未来应用范围进行展望.     

Early pregnancy losses in in vitro fertilization and oocyte donation

Objective: To evaluate prospectively the incidence of early pregnancy losses (before menstruation occurs) in IVF and ovum donation cycles.

Design: Prospective case-control study.

Setting: Tertiary care, university-associated center.

Patient(s): One hundred forty-five patients undergoing IVF and 92 undergoing oocyte donation were recruited. The control group for IVF consisted of 15 ovum donors who had no ET and were instructed to avoid intercourse. The control group for oocyte donation included 10 women undergoing a mock cycle of steroid replacement.

Intervention(s): Starting on day 6 after ET, the women were instructed to collect the first urine sample of the day every 2 days. Each patient collected six different specimens of urine (days 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16 after ET for cases or the same days without ET for controls.

Main Outcome Measure(s): β-HCG was measured with a standardized microparticle enzyme immunoassay, and IVF reproductive outcome was assessed.

Result(s): For IVF, positive implantation was registered in 88 of 145 cycles of embryo replacement (60.7%). Only 30 (20.7%) resulted in viable pregnancies, whereas the remaining 58 miscarried. Forty-two of these miscarriages (72.4%) were early pregnancy losses and 13 (22.4%) were classified as clinical abortions. In ovum donation, positive implantation was recorded in 64 of 92 cycles of ET (69.6%). A total of 30 (32.6%) ended in viable pregnancies, whereas the remaining 34 (37.0%) were miscarriages. Early pregnancy loss accounted for 70.6% of pregnancy losses, whereas biochemical pregnancies and clinical abortions accounted for 11.8% and 17.6%, respectively.

Conclusion(s): Our results demonstrate that patients undergoing assisted reproductive technology have an increased rate of early pregnancy loss compared with fertile patients. In addition, these data indicate that implantation is more frequently impaired in IVF than in oocyte donation cycles, resulting in a high incidence of early pregnancy loss. This suggests that implantation may be subjected to abnormal conditions in assisted reproduction.     

炔诺酮肟对大鼠抗着床抗早孕作用机理的形态学研究

大鼠从妊娠第一天开始每日灌服炔诺酮肟4mg/kg,共3天。结果能引起早孕大鼠黄体细胞滑面内质网减少;脂滴大量积贮;抑制卵巢3β-羟基甾体脱氢酶活性,从而使卵巢孕酮生物合成受阻。药物还能引起早孕大鼠子宫蜕膜的病理改变,蜕膜细胞出现变性,坏死,宫腔内大量出血,白细胞浸润,胚胎发育不良,蜕膜细胞内糖原及碱性磷酸酶含量均下降。本文还讨论了药物引起卵巢孕酮生物合成受阻与蜕膜变化的关系。