Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg
January 2021
Objectives: Our goal was to investigate the safety and feasibility of triport periareolar thoracoscopic surgery (TPTS) and its advantages in repairing adult atrial septal defect.
Methods: Between January 2017 and January 2020, a total of 121 consecutive adult patients underwent atrial septal defect closure in our institution. Of these, 30 patients had TPTS and 31 patients had a right minithoracotomy (RMT).
Cell Physiol Biochem
February 2017
Background/aims: Previous studies revealed that circulating (either from plasma or serum) long non-coding RNA may predict the occurrence or prognosis of multiple human malignant tumors. In this study, we mainly explored whether circulating lncRNAs can be utilized as biomarkers predicting the development of human esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC).
Methods: LncRNA microarray was applied to screen the potential biomarkers for ESCC.
Sewage sludge from 21 representative sewage treatment plants of Jiangsu Provice were measured for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) using HPLC. Results showed that PAHs were widely distributed in municipal sewage sludges. Total amount of PAHs (sigma PAHs, 16 PAHs in the priority contaminants of US EPA )ranged from 11.
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