Effects of electroacupuncture combined with clean intermittent catheterization on urinary retention after spinal cord injury: a single blind randomized controlled clinical trial.

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the therapeutic effects of electroacupuncture (EA) combined with clean intermittent catheterization (CIC) on spinal cord injury (SCI) induced urinary retention.

Methods: A total of 107 patients with SCI induced urinary retention were randomly divided into 3 groups, including group 1 (CIC treatment), group 2 (EA combined with CIC treatment), and group 3 (sham acupuncture combined with CIC treatment). After different treatments, the residual urine volume, voided volume (each time), number of bladder balance patients, and frequency of CIC were recorded and compared.

HIV DNA and immune alteration during successful HAART.

Background: Highly Active Antiretroviral therapy (HAART) can effectively reduce the viral load to undetectable levels in most HIV-infected patients. However, some patients may still experience impaired immunologic response associated with increased risk of disease progression and death.

Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the impact of the HIV DNA load on the immune alteration during successful HAART.

[Effects of rehabilitation robot for lower-limb on motor function in hemiplegic patients after stroke].

Objective: To explore the effects of rehabilitation robot for lower-limb on motor function in hemiplegic patients after stroke.

Methods: Forty-eight hemiplegic patients were divided randomly into treatment (n = 24) and control (n = 24) group. The neuro-facilitation technique was applied for both groups.

Interleukin-21 plays an important role in CD8 T-cell activation and poor outcome in HIV infection.

To present the relationship between high CD8+ T-cell activation and poor outcome in HIV-1 pathogenesis. We hypothesized that the decrease of interleukin-21 (IL-21) levels would lead to alterations in survival of elevated immune activation with disease progress. Fifty-eight HIV-1-seropositive subjects and 21 uninfected healthy control volunteers were recruited in this study.

[Cellular HIV DNA quantitative testing and its significance in Chinese AIDS patients during 48 weeks' highly-active antiretroviral treatment].

Objective: To observe the dynamic changes of peripheral blood T lymphocytes and monocytes, which serve as HIV-1 viral reservoirs, in Chinese HIV-infected patients receiving highly-active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) for 48 weeks and its clinical significance.

Methods: A total of 35 chronic HIV-1 infected adults initial received HAART. The peripheral blood T lymphocyte subsets counts were determined by flux cytometry at week 0, 24 and 48.

Prospective observation for seven-year's highly active antiretroviral therapy in Chinese HIV-1 infected patients.

To prospectively observe the efficacy, tolerability, immune reconstitution and toxicity of long-term highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in Chinese patients infected HIV. 437 cases originally received two nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) and one non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) during a mean period of 4.3 years (3.