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Objective We evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of computed tomography (CT)-guided transthoracic core needle biopsy (TCNB) for small (≤20-mm) lung nodules and identified predictive factors for true negatives among benign biopsy results. Methods From March 2010 to June 2015, 222 patients with small lung nodules underwent CT-guided TCNB. We retrospectively analysed data regarding technical success, diagnostic accuracy, and predictors of true negatives. Results The technical success rate was 100%. The TCNB results of the 222 lung nodules included malignancy (n = 136), suspected malignancy (n = 8), specific benign lesion (n = 17), and nonspecific benign lesion (n = 61). The final diagnosis of 222 lung nodules included malignant (n = 160), benign (n = 60), and nondiagnostic lesions (n = 2). The sensitivity, specificity, and overall diagnostic accuracy of CT-guided TCNB for small lung nodules were 90.0%, 100%, and 92.7%, respectively. Pneumothorax and haemoptysis occurred in 23 and 41 patients, respectively. Based on the Cox regression analysis, the significant independent predictive factor for true negatives was a biopsy result of chronic inflammation with fibroplasia. Conclusions CT-guided TCNB offers high diagnostic accuracy for small lung nodules, and a biopsy result of chronic inflammation with fibroplasia can predict a true-negative result.

Objective: To investigate the effect of safflower yellow pigment sodium chloride injection on hemorheology and coagulation function in patients with hip replacement surgery. Methods: A total of 80 cases of hip joint replacement were divided into two groups according to the random number table method, 40 cases in each group. Patients in two groups were conducted with regular hip replacement, postoperative conventional symptomatic treatment. Based on it, patients of the observation group started to get the safflower yellow pigment and sodium chloride injection in the first week after operation, intravenous injection. A total of 3 weeks of treatment. blood rheological index were compared including plasma viscosity, whole blood viscosity at high shear, low shear whole blood viscosity, red blood cell hematocrit and blood coagulation indexes: prothrombin time (PT), activation activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT), thrombin time (TT), D-Dimer (D-D), fibrinogen (FIB) between the two groups postoperative 1 week, postoperative 2 weeks and postoperative 4 weeks. Results: The plasma viscosity, high shear viscosity of whole blood, low shear viscosity of whole blood, D-D in control group postoperative 2 week and 4 week were significantly higher than that of preoperative 1 week; while red blood cell volume, PT, APTT, TT, Fib were significantly lower than preoperative 1 week (P0.05). The PT, APTT in observation group postoperative 2 week and 4 week were significantly increased compared with preoperative 1 week, and the TT in observation group postoperative 4 week was significantly increased compared with preoperative 1 week (P

Since the equipment early fault signal is very weak and unstable, it is very difficult to judge the fault type and fault degree through the traditional method of fault diagnosis .For this reason, this paper presents an effective method. Firstly, the fault signal is decomposed into a number of intrinsic mode functions (IMF) by Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) method, then the IMF’s energy entropy is calculated, the AR model is established, and the auto-regressive parameters are extracted. At the same time, the residual variance of the model is taken as the fault feature vector, which can be used as input parameters of SVM classifier to distinguish working state and fault types of the equipment. Finally, the validity of the proposed method is verified by taking the rolling bearing fault diagnosis as an example.

To evaluate the effects of transrectal ultrasound-guided trocar catheter transurethral botulinum toxin A (BTX-A) injection into the external urethral sphincter (EUS) for treating detrusor external sphincter dyssynergia (DESD) in men with spinal cord injury (SCI).Descriptive study.Hospital rehabilitation department.Patients (N=15; mean age, 40.5y; range, 22-64y) with suprasacral SCI with confirmed DESD determined by urodynamic study.A single dose of 100U BTX-A was injected into the EUS via transrectal ultrasound-guided trocar catheter transurethral injection.Maximal detrusor pressure, detrusor leak point pressure, maximal pressure on static urethral pressure profilometry, postvoid residual volume, and maximal flow rate.After BTX-A transurethral injection, 4 (28.5%) patients showed an excellent result and 7 (46.7%) patients showed an improved result, whereas 4 (28.5%) patients experienced treatment failure. The overall success rate was 75.2%. We observed a significant decrease in static urethral pressure (P.05) and detrusor leak point pressure after treatment (P.05), but not in detrusor pressure. The postvoid residual volume were significantly decreased in the fourth week after treatment (P.05).Transrectal ultrasound-guided trocar catheter transurethral BTX-A injection into the EUS effectively suppresses or ameliorates DESD. A potential advantage of the method is that ultrasound guidance may not be necessary in the next injection.