Chlorin e6-loaded sonosensitive magnetic nanoliposomes conjugated with the magnetic field for enhancing anti-tumor effect of sonodynamic therapy.

In sonodynamic therapy (SDT), when Chlorin e6 (Ce6) accumulates in tumor tissues, its anti-tumor effect can be achieved by ultrasound activation. To increase the local drug concentration of Ce6 in tumor cells, we had established a novel drug delivery system, Ce6-loaded sonosensitive magnetic nanoliposome (Ce6/SML), which realized the targeting delivery by the external magnetic field. It was worth mentioning that the targeting release of Ce6/SML and the activation on Ce6 could be achieved simultaneously by ultrasound of SDT.

Medial Compartment Decompression by Fibular Osteotomy to Treat Medial Compartment Knee Osteoarthritis: A Pilot Study.

Compared with high tibial osteotomy and total knee arthroplasty, the authors found a simpler surgical procedure, partial fibular osteotomy, could effectively relieve knee pain and also correct the varus deformity for patients with medial compartment knee osteoarthritis (OA). From January 1996 to April 2012, a total of 156 patients with medial compartment OA were treated by proximal fibular osteotomy in the authors' hospital. A 2-cm-long section of fibula was resected 6 to 10 cm below the fibular head.

[Value of preventive tracheotomy in patients with acute cervical spinal cord injury].

Objective: To evaluate the value of preventive tracheotomy in patients with acute cervical spinal cord injury.

Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed on 54 cases of severe C4-C8 cervical spinal cord injury patients undergoing anterior fixation. They were classified as A and B according to the criteria of American Spinal Injury Association.

Application of triangular vector to functionally reconstruct the medial collateral ligament with double-bundle allograft technique.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to present a novel medial collateral ligament (MCL) reconstruction technique and investigate the clinical outcomes of this surgical procedure.

Methods: From July 2006 to June 2009, 56 patients with medial instability of the knee were treated with MCL reconstruction and followed up for 33 months on average. These patients were divided into 2 groups based on whether anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury was present: 27 patients had isolated MCL injury, whereas 29 patients had combined MCL-ACL injury.

Poly[diaqua-μ-oxalato-μ-pyrazine-2-carbox-yl-ato-lanthanum(III)].

In the title complex, [La(C(5)H(3)N(2)O(2))(C(2)O(4))(H(2)O)(2)](n), the La(III) ion is coordinated by one N and three O atoms from two pyrazine-2-carboxylate ligands, by four O atoms from two oxalate ligands and by two O atoms of two water molecules, displaying a distorted bicapped square-anti-prismatic geometry. The carboxyl-ate groups of pyrazine-2-carboxyl-ate and oxalate ligands link the lanthanum metal centres, forming layers parallel to (10). The layers are further connected by inter-molecular O-H⋯O and N-H⋯O hydrogen-bonding inter-actions, forming a three-dimensional supra-molecular network.