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Ex vivo liver resection combined with autologous liver transplantation offers the opportunity to treat otherwise unresectable hepatobiliary malignancies and has been applied in clinic. The implementation of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) program improves the outcome of surgical procedures. This is a retrospective single-center study including 11 cases of patients with liver cancer that underwent autologous liver transplantation and received ERAS: cholangiocarcinoma of the hilar region (n = 5), intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (n = 3), gallbladder cancer (n = 1), liver metastasis from colorectal cancer (n = 1), and liver metastasis from gastrointestinal mesenchymal tumor (n = 1). There were no deaths within 30 days and major complications occurred in two patients, and four patients were readmitted upon the first month after the surgery. Median hospital stay was 20 days (range 13–44) and median open diet was Day 4 (range 2–9) after surgery and median early post-operative activity was Day 5 (range 2–9) after surgery. In conclusion, autologous liver transplantation is feasible in the treatment of otherwise unresectable hepatobiliary malignancies, and our study showed favorable results with autologous liver transplantation in ERAS modality. ERAS modality provides a good option for some patients whose tumors cannot be resected in situ and offers a chance for rapid recovery.

The upper airway cough syndrome (UACS) is a common chronic cough in children, and it has gradually increased in recent years. Chinese medicine believes that the main location of the disease is nasopharynx, which is closely related to the spleen and kidney. The most common pathological factor is wind, phlegm, deficiency and stasis, and the basic pathogenesis is upward inversion of lung Qi. Chinese medicine treatment mainly focuses on the combination of disease and syndrome differentiation, the combination of body and syndrome differentiation, staged Chinese medicine differentiation and treatment, cold and heat syndrome differentiation, viscera syndrome differentiation, Chinese medicine external treatment and combination of Chinese medicine and western medicine in order to regulate lung Qi. This article mainly elaborates on the differentiation and treatment of Chinese medicine for pediatric UACS, as well as its clinical treatment effects to provide some reference for further research on the treatment of pediatric UACS with Chinese medicine.

In this paper, the strain energy density (SED) is used to study the over-examination to tire in flywheel test induced by pressure correction process. Flywheel test is the main method for evaluating tire durability, which cannot be measured on flat ground due to the variable road conditions. "Pressure Correction" is a necessary step in flywheel tests, but this process can lead to an over-examination of tire durability, which means the tire durability will be underestimated. However, it is impossible to obtain the tire durability from ideal flat ground test, so this paper utilizes the finite element method (FEM) to simulate the tire rolling condition on flat ground and differently sized flywheels, and the SED is used to evaluate the over-examination of tire durability in flywheel test. According to the results, a flywheel with too small diameter has a large amount of over-examination, and the amount caused by a large flywheel is acceptable. This methodology can be a guideline to assess the over-examination on different sized flywheel tests relative to the flat ground, and for the certain tire in this study, flywheels with 3–5 times the tire diameter appear to have an acceptable over-examination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]