Effectiveness and safety of electroacupuncture for insomnia: A protocol for an overview of systematic reviews and meta-analysis.

Background: Insomnia is a common disease characterized by difficulty falling and/or staying asleep, and accompanied by irritability or fatigue during wakefulness. It is widely reported that insomnia is one of the most extensive mental disorders which the incidence rate is estimated to be about 10%. Insomnia can have serious influences on patients health and quality of life.

Development of strategies for screening, predicting, and diagnosing intrauterine HBV infection in infants born to HBsAg positive mothers.

This study aimed at developing strategies for screening, predicting, and diagnosing intrauterine HBV infection in infants born to HBsAg positive mothers. A total of 1,360 infants born to 1,355 HBsAg positive mothers were followed for 1 year. All newborn infants received active and passive immunization within 24 hr after birth.

Clinical characteristics of fulminant hepatitis in pregnancy.

Aim: To investigate the clinical characteristics of fulminant hepatitis in pregnancy.

Methods: We compared and analyzed the etiology, clinical characteristics, and laboratory examinations of 25 cases of fulminant hepatitis in pregnancy and 30 cases of fulminant hepatitis not in pregnancy.

Results: HBV infection and chronic fulminant hepatitis were most common both in the pregnant and in the non-pregnant groups.

Analyses of prognostic indices of chronic liver failure caused by hepatitis virus.

Aim: To analyze the related indices about the prognoses of chronic liver failure caused by hepatitis virus.

Methods: Retrospectively reviewed 320 cases of chronic liver failure caused by hepatitis viruses. An improved group and an ineffective group (IG) were made to compare and analyze their clinical manifestations, laboratory examination indices and complications.

[Relations of pre-pregnant weight and weight gain during pregnancy with pregnancy-induced hypertension and birth weight].

Objective: To determine the influence of pre-pregnant body mass index (BMI) and weight gain during pregnancy on the occurrence of pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) and birth weight.

Methods: Pre-pregnant BMI and pregnancy weight gain of 769 mothers giving full-term birth to a single baby for the first time were measured and the pregnancy outcomes were followed up.

Results: (1) The incidence of PIH and fetal macrosomia was significantly higher in the overweight group than in the normal weight and underweight groups (P<0.

[Clinical analysis and treatment of hypospadias accompanied by associated anomalies in urogenital system].

Objectives: To study the occurrence of different anomalies associated with hypospadias and to instruct relevant treatment in clinical practice.

Methods: Three hundred and forty-one cases of hypospadias were investigated, all treated respectively corresponding to their specific anomalies.

Results: The morbidity of associated anomalies in cases of hypospadias was as high as 21.

[Papillary cystadenoma of the epididymis accompanied by testicular atrophy: one case report].

Papillary cystadenoma of the epididymis is a rare benign tumor, accounting for only 4 per cent of all epididymal tumors. Histologically, it can be confused with metastatic renal cell carcinoma. This extremely rare lesion may occur sporadically or as a manifestation of von Hippel-Lindau(VHL) disease.