Plasma gelsolin levels and 1-year mortality after first-ever ischemic stroke.

Purpose: Plasma gelsolin depletion has been associated with poor outcome of critically ill patients. We sought to investigate change in plasma gelsolin level after ischemic stroke and to evaluate its relation with disease outcome.

Materials And Methods: Fifty healthy controls and 172 patients with first-ever ischemic stroke were included.

The prevalence of microalbuminuria and its relationships with the components of metabolic syndrome in the general population of China.

Background: Few studies have examined the relationships between the prevalence of microalbuminuria and the metabolic risk factors in the general population of China. We performed a population based study to investigate the prevalence of microalbuminuria and its relationships with the components of the metabolic syndrome in Hangzhou, China.

Methods: The subjects of this cross-sectional study were the individuals from 19 to 87 y.

[Application of a calling and queuing system in blood sampling in the clinical laboratory].

This paper introduces the application of a calling and queuing system for blood sample collection in a large hospital in China. Besides the basic function, it has following functions. (a) A real name system: get the number according to the laboratory application form to prevent the phenomena of buying a number and an empty number.

[Research and development of a clinical laboratory information system].

A clinical laboratory information system consists of two parts--the information system and the management system. Its development is based on scientific and rational lab-workflow, consulting the international standard HL7 Protocol, and combined with barcode technique and instrument communication. The information system mainly manages the data which come from the whole lab testing process while the management system is dominating the lab office work and management decisions.