[Mental health status of infertility patients with varicocele].

Objective: To study the mental health status of infertility patients with varicocele and its relationship with infertility.

Methods: Using Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (HAD), we assessed the psychological status of 110 infertility patients with varicocele, identified the risk factors of anxiety and depression in these patients, and analyzed the correlation among psychological and other relevant factors. Meanwhile, we recruited 61 age-matched normal fertile men as controls for comparative analysis.

[Regulatory effects of cyclosporin A and tacrolimus on the immunological gene expressions in renal transplant recipients].

Objective: To observe the change of Th immunological gene in renal transplant recipients after the treatment of cyclosporine (CsA) and tacrolimus (FK506).

Methods: The peripheral blood lymphacytes just before and 24 hours after CsA and FK506 treatment were isolated. The total RNA of them were reverse-transcripted and examined by real-time quantity PCR array.

Status and change pattern of kidney transplantation: one center research.

Objective: To retrospectively investigate the distribution in kidney transplantation for fifteen years in Peking Union Medical College Hospital.

Methods: We conducted a descriptive research counting up the number of patients who received kidney transplantation each year in our hospital during 1995 and 2010.

Results: The first kidney transplantation in our hospital occurred in the 1960s.

Open partial nephrectomy in solitary kidney with multiple renal cell carcinoma: a case report.

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in a solitary kidney presents a unique clinical challenge to urological surgeons. Partial nephrectomy (PN) or nephron-sparing surgery in this condition provides good oncological and renal functional outcomes with an acceptable complication rate. Long-term renal function remains stable in most patients with solitary kidneys after a reduction of more than 50% in renal mass.