Risk Factors for Lower Limb Deep Vein Thrombosis in Patients With Single-Level Lumbar Fusion: A Prospective Study of 710 Cases.

Lower limb deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is not an uncommon postoperative complication of spinal fusion surgery. However, the related risk factors identified in previous studies remain controversial. This study aimed to investigate risk factors for lower limb DVT in patients with single-level lumbar fusion surgery.

[Diversity of bacterial aerosols in precipitation of Shanghai area].

In the present study, 16S rRNA gene sequencing based approaches were used to analyze the bacterial communities and diversity in the precipitation samples from Shanghai city, which were carried out in different months in 2012. Five clone libraries were established based on the rainwater samples collected during 5 different precipitation periods. The results showed that Proteobacteria (alpha-, beta-, gamma-) (32.

Two novel mutations of the LDL receptor gene associated with familial hypercholesterolemia in a Chinese family.

Background: Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a type of dominant autosomal disease that causes high levels of plasma low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). In the past years, molecular data related to FH were limited in China. Now, to gain more information about FH, we analyzed one proband with a severe FH phenotype as well as his relatives.