Exploring the anatomical factors influencing testes elasticity via ultrasound shear wave elastography: Preliminary results.

Purpose: The aim of this study is to evaluate the anatomical factors influencing elasticity values of normal testicular parenchyma using shear wave elastography (SWE).

Methods: This study examined 68 healthy male volunteers (117 testes in which standard transverse axis ultrasonography views could be obtained) via conventional scrotal ultrasonography and SWE. Both the mean (E) and standard deviation (E) elasticity values were acquired.

Serum MOTS-C Levels are Decreased in Obese Children and Associated with Vascular Endothelial Function.

Purpose: The increasing prevalence of obesity in children and its associated risk with cardiovascular diseases demand more discovery of the novel biomarkers for developing new treatment options for this complex disease. This study aimed to investigate the association of serum MOTS-C (a peptide encoded in the mitochondrial genome) levels and vascular endothelial function in obese children.

Patients And Methods: A total of 225 obese children (aged 8.

[Analysis of clinical use of shuxuening injection in treatment of cerebral infarction based on real world].

To know the characteristics of Shuxuening injection used on cerebral infarction patients in clinical practice, 6 053 cases of Hospital information system (HIS) data from 20 hospitals were analyzed. Using the basic description method and association rules to analysis the data. By analysis the data we found that the average age of cerebral infarction patients who used Shuxuening injection is 67.

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy in a 90-year-old Chinese man.

A 90-year-old Chinese man was transferred to the Emergency Department of the Affiliated Shantou Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University for treatment of an acute myocardial infarction. He suffered chest pain with three days of cough, dyspnea and fever. A diagnosis of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy was made in normal coronary arteries from urgent coronary angiography and characteristic apical dyskinesis and basal hyper contractility in left ventriculography.

[Changes of electroencephalographic background patterns and serum neuron specific enolase levels in neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy].

Objective: To examine electroencephalographic (EEG) background patterns and serum neuron specific enolase (NSE) levels in neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) in order to study their roles in assessing clinical progress, severity and prognosis in children with HIE.

Methods: A total of 58 neonates with HIE, including 38 cases of mild, 12 cases of moderate and 8 cases of severe HIE, were enrolled. Thirty normal neonates were used as the control group.

[Correlation between pressure-derived coronary collateral flow and Rentrop grade after primary percutaneous intervention of acute myocardial infarction].

Objective: To analyze the correlation between pressure-derived collateral coronary flow (PDCF) and Rentrop grade of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI).

Methods: PDCF, determined by the ratio of P(w)/P(a), was measured in 29 patients with AMI of the first onset who received primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) within 12 h after the onset. Sufficient collateral flow (group A, n=19) was defined as PDCF>0.