Labor epidural analgesia and risk of autism Spectrum disorders in offspring: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: The effect of labor epidural anesthesia (LEA) on the risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in offspring has been investigated recently, and available results are inconsistent.

Methods: We searched the PubMed and EMBASE databases for relevant studies and performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature. Subgroup analyses were conducted to assess the sources of heterogeneity.

Evaluation of left ventricular myocardial mechanics by three-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography in the patients with different graded coronary artery stenosis.

To investigate the relationship between left ventricular (LV) myocardial mechanics evaluated by three-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (3D-STE) and degree of coronary artery stenosis in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). Ninety-seven suspected CAD patients without LV regional wall motion abnormality (RWMA) observed visually form traditional echocardiography were divided into four groups according to coronary artery angiography (CAG): 23 patients in slight stenosis group [stenosis rate (SR) ≤25%], 26 patients in mild stenosis group (25< SR ≤50%), 28 patients in moderate stenosis group (50< SR ≤75%), and 20 patients in severe stenosis group (SR >75%). Global longitudinal strain (GLS), circumferential strain (GCS), radial strain (GRS), area strain (AS) and three dimensional strain (3D-Strain) were obtained.

Complete feminization of catfish by feeding Limnodilus, an annelid worm collected in contaminated streams.

Background: Feminization of animals derived from areas polluted by endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) has been observed in all classes of vertebrates. However, feminization of artificially reared offspring by feeding of specific living organisms has never been reported.

Methods: Different food (including Limnodilus spp collected from the wild) and time treatment were applied to southern catfish.

[Viable myocardium evaluation by two dimensional speckle tracking imaging combined with adenosine stress echocardiography].

Objective: Regional left ventricular (LV) function could be detected by measuring peak-systolic strain by speckle tracking imaging (STI). We evaluated the value of STI combined with adenosine stress echocardiography on assessing myocardial viability in patients with myocardial infarction (MI).

Methods: Two dimensional echocardiography was performed at rest and after adenosine stress echocardiography (infused at 140 µg×kg(-1)×min(-1) over a period of 6 min) in 39 stable patients with previous MI.

Clinic value of two-dimensional speckle tracking combined with adenosine stress echocardiography for assessment of myocardial viability.

Background: To evaluate whether myocardial strain under adenosine stress calculated from two-dimensional echocardiography by automatic frame-by-frame tracking of natural acoustic markers enables objective description of myocardial viability in clinic.

Methods And Results: Two-dimensional echocardiography and two-dimensional speckle tracking imaging (2D STI) at rest were performed first and once again after adenosine was infused at 140 ug/kg/min over a period of 6 minutes in 36 stable patients with previous myocardial infarction. Then radionuclide myocardial perfusion/metabolic imaging served as the "gold standard" to define myocardial viability was given in all patients within 1 day.

Two-dimensional strain combined with adenosine stress echocardiography assessment of viable myocardium.

The objective of this study was to explore a new method for the identification of viable myocardium by means of two-dimensional (2D) strain imaging combined with adenosine stress echocardiography. A total of 15 anesthetized open-chest healthy mongrel dogs underwent left anterior descending coronary artery occlusion for 90 min followed by 120-min reperfusion. Adenosine was infused at 140 μg kg(-1) min(-1) over a period of 6 min.

[Evaluation of viable myocardium by two-dimensional strain imaging combined with adenosine stress echocardiography in dogs underwent experimental ischemia/reperfusion injury].

Objective: to explore the feasibility of evaluating viable myocardium with two-dimensional strain imaging combined with adenosine stress echocardiography.

Methods: acute myocardial infarction and reperfusion model was made by ligating anterior descending coronary artery for 90 minutes followed by 120-minute reperfusion in 15 healthy mongrel dogs. Images were acquired at baseline and after reperfusion.

Immunologic changes to autologous transfusion after operational trauma in malignant tumor patients: neopterin and interleukin-2.

Objective: To estimate the impact of autologous transfusion on the status of perioperative immune activation in malignant tumor patients. The Serum Neopterin and Interleukin-2 (IL-2) were measured.

Methods: Sixty patients undergoing elective radical resection for malignant stomach tumor were enrolled in the prospective study and assigned to the following groups: (1) Group A received autologous transfusion.