Reduced Stroke Risk among Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Receiving Chinese Herbal Medicines Treatment: Analysis of Domestic Data in Taiwan.

Unlabelled: Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) reportedly have a much higher risk of death due to stroke. Faced with this heavy burden, it remains unclear if the Chinese herbal medicines (CHMs), the most common form complementary and alternative medicine, can lower the risk of stroke for them. This study aimed to evaluate the association of CHMs use with stroke risk among them.

Etomidate Suppresses Invasion and Migration of Human A549 Lung Adenocarcinoma Cells.

Background/aim: Etomidate, an intravenous anesthetic, has been shown to have anticancer effects, including induction of cell-cycle arrest and apoptosis. However, to our knowledge, there are no reports about the anti-metastasis effects of etomidate on A549 human lung adenocarcinoma cells.

Materials And Methods: The cell viability, cell adhesion, gelatin zymography assay, transwell migration and invasion assay, and western blotting analysis were used to investigate the effects of etomidate on A549 cells.

Norcantharidin-induced Apoptosis of AGS Human Gastric Cancer Cells Through Reactive Oxygen Species Production, and Caspase- and Mitochondria-dependent Signaling Pathways.

Norcantharidin (NCTD) was purified from mylabris, the dried body of the Chinese blister beetle. NCTD has been shown to exhibit anticancer activities in many human cancer cell lines, but there are no reports to show whether it induces apoptosis of human gastric cancer cells. Therefore, in the present study, we investigated NCTD-induced cell death and associated protein expression in human gastric cancer AGS cells in vitro.

[Effective analysis of percutaneous reduction and Kirschner pin fixation for the treatment of intraarticular fractures of the calcaneus in children].

Objective: To introduce and evaluate the clinical effects of percutaneous reduction and Kirschner pin fixation for the treatment of intraarticular fractures of the calcaneus in children.

Methods: From March 2001 to February 2009,12 patients with intraarticular calcaneal fractures were treated by percutaneous reduction and Kirschner pin fixation (13 feet). There were 8 males and 4 females,ranging in age from 3 to 14,with an average of 8.

[Internal fixation with AO distal humerus plates for the treatment of distal humeral fractures in elderly osteoporotic patients].

Objective: To study the clinical effects of AO distal humerus plate (DHP) for the treatment of distal humeral fractures in elderly osteoporotic patients.

Methods: From September 2008 to January 2010, 18 elderly osteoporotic patients with distal humeral fractures were treated with open reduction and internal fixation with DHP. There were 3 males and 15 females, ranging in age from 62 to 83 years (averaged, 71.

Morphometric comparisons between the pedicle and the pedicle rib unit in the immature Chinese thoracic spine: a computed tomographic assessment.

Study Design: Morphology comparisons between the pedicle and pedicle rib unit in the immature spine were conducted through computed tomographic scans.

Objective: To establish reference data concerning the dimensions of the pedicle rib unit for normal children.

Summary Of Background Data: Until recently, studies on extrapedicular fixation were mostly based on adults.