Optimizing tomato waste hydrolysate for enhanced fucoxanthin biosynthesis in mixotrophic cultivation of Isochrysis galbana.

Vegetable waste, rich in bioactive compounds, offers a promising resource for producing value-added products. This study explored the use of tomato waste, containing glucose (40 mg/g), lycopene (95.12 μg/g), and β-carotene (24.

Significance of laparoscopic cytoreductive surgery for appendiceal pseudomyxoma peritonei with limited disease and low tumor burden.

Objective: To investigate the clinical value of laparoscopic cytoreductive surgery (CRS) in treating of appendiceal pseudomyxoma peritonei with limited disease and low tumor burden.

Methods: The clinical data of patients with appendiceal pseudomyxoma peritonei treated by surgery with CRS at the Aerospace Center Hospital from January 2018 to December 2021 were retrospectively analyzed. The patients were divided into laparoscopic or open CRS groups according to the operation method.

Repair of Delayed Meningeal Cyst after Spinal Surgery with Paraspinal Muscle Flap under Microscope.

Background: Delayed meningeal cyst (DMC) is a rare complication after spinal surgery that is often ignored by clinicians, and its in-depth research is infrequent. In particular, no consensus has been reached about its surgical treatment. We found that patients with a DMC failed after conservative treatment, epidural blood patch, subarachnoid drainage, and initial attempts to eliminate the meningeal cyst.

Assessment of spino cranial angle of cervical spine sagittal balance system after multi-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion.

Background: To analyze the impact of spino cranial angle (SCA) on alteration of cervical alignment after multi-level anterior cervical discectomy fusion (ACDF) and explore the relationship between SCA and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) scores.

Material And Methods: In total, 49 patients following multi-level ACDF for multi-level cervical spondylotic myelopathy (MCSM) with more than 2 years follow-up period were enrolled. Radiographic data including SCA were measured.

Influence of SCA on clinical outcomes and cervical alignment after laminoplasty in patients with multilevel cervical spondylotic myelopathy.

Background: To study the impact of changes in spino-cranial angle (SCA) on sagittal alignment and to investigate the relationship between SCA and Neck Disability Index (NDI) scores after laminoplasty (LP) MATERIAL AND METHODS: In total, 72 patients with multilevel cervical spondylotic myelopathy (MCSM) after laminoplasty (LP) were retrospectively enrolled. Based on the optimal cut-off values of preoperative SCA, patients were classified into low SCA and high SCA groups. Radiographic data were measured, including spino-cranial angle (SCA), T1-slope (T1s), C2-7 lordosis (CA), T1s minus CA (T1sCA), and C2-7 sagittal vertical axis (cSVA).

Precise Surgical Treatment of Thoracic Ossification of Ligamentum Flavum Assisted by O-Arm Computer Navigation: A Retrospective Study.

Objective: O-arm computer navigation-assisted technology (OACNAT) has been widely used in the treatment of thoracic ossification of ligamentum flavum (TOLF) in recent years, but there are few in-depth studies on the safety and effectiveness of this approach. The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical effect of accurate surgical treatment for TOLF with OACNAT.

Methods: From January 2010 to January 2018, the clinical data of 64 patients with TOLF who underwent laminectomy and internal fixation in the Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University were retrospectively reviewed.

The change of cervical sagittal parameters plays an important role in clinical outcomes of cervical spondylotic myelopathy after multi-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion.

Background: Cervical sagittal parameters were closely related with clinical outcomes after multi-level ACDF. Our purpose was to evaluate the clinical outcomes and cervical sagittal parameters in patients with MCSM after ACDF and to identify the risk factors of poor clinical outcomes.

Material And Methods: ACDF was performed in 89 patients with MCSM.

Analyses of effect factors associated with the postoperative dissatisfaction of patients undergoing open-door laminoplasty for cervical OPLL: a retrospective cohort study.

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the effect factors associated with the postoperative dissatisfaction of patients undergoing open-door laminoplasty for cervical OPLL.

Methods: In this study, 194 patients, who underwent open-door laminoplasty for cervical OPLL from January 2009 to January 2016, were retrospectively reviewed. The Patient Satisfaction Index (PSI) was collected at discharge, 6 months, 1 year, and the last follow-up.

S-1 for treatment of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: a systematic review of the literature.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common liver neoplasm worldwide. Based on its potent inhibition of dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD), S-1 is expected to be more active than other fluoropyrimidines against HCC with DPD activity. This systematic review was aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of S-1 for treatment of advanced HCC.

Transcatheter arterial chemoembolisation (TACE) plus S-1 for the treatment of BCLC stage B hepatocellular carcinoma refractory to TACE.

Aim Of The Study: To assess the efficacy and safety of transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) plus S-1 for the treatment of Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) Stage B HCC refractory to TACE.

Material And Methods: 26 patients meeting the eligibility criteria were enrolled. TACE was given on day 1, and S-1 on days 2-15.

[Efficacy and safety of chemotherapy combined with interstitial (125)I seed implantation brachytherapy in unresectable stage IIIa/IIIb non-small cell lung cancer].

Objective: To compare the efficacy and toxicity of chemotherapy combined with insterstitial (125)I seed implantation brachytherapy in unresectable staged IIIa/IIIb non-small cell lung cancer.

Methods: Seventy six patients with staged IIIa/IIIb non-small cell lung cancer were included in this study. Among them 37 cases were of the study group, treated with NP/GP scheme synchronization chemotherapy combined with (125)I seed implantation brachytherapy, while 39 cases in the control group were given NP/GP scheme chemotherapy.

[Magnetic resonance imaging findings in children with cerebral palsy].

Objective: To study the clinical and neurological abnormalities in children with cerebral palsy (CP) and to attempt to correlate the types of CP and the gestational age at birth with radiological abnormalities detected by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain.

Methods: This is a hospital-based study, the subjects included 104 children with cerebral palsy who were hospitalized in the Qingdao Rehibilitation Center For Disabled Children. All the 104 hospitalized CP cases (47 with spastic diplegia, 9 with tetraplegia, 15 with hemiplegia, 22 with athetosis, and 11 with ataxia) were examined neurologically and their perinatal history was reviewed.

[Analysis of 187 children with enteroviral central nervous system infection in Shandong area].

Objective: To evaluate the diagnostic potential of previously published enterovirus (EV) reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay in detection of EV in CSF samples from children with a diagnosis of aseptic meningitis and to investigate the clinical characteristics of the patients seen in Shandong.

Methods: EV RNA was detected in 187 CSF samples and serum and/or urine samples of a part of patients by RT-PCR and viral culture technique.

Results: RT-PCR was positive in all 62 CSF specimens which were positive by cell culture (100%).