Background: The use of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) has increased over the last two decades with variations in frequency reconstruction. objective this cohort study is to elucidate CPM and reconstruction among underrepresented racial ethnic groups women 65 years.

BACKGROUND Chronic postsurgical pain, a significant public health problem, occurs in 10 to 50% of patients undergoing major surgery. Acute pain induces endogenous analgesia termed conditioned pain modulation (CPM), and the strength of CPM preoperatively predicts the likelihood of chronic postsurgical pain. The relation between CPM and recovery from surgery has not been examined in preclinical m...

The effect of cross-phase modulation (CPM) on the soliton switching in fiber nonlinear couplers is analyzed by studying the evolution of the soliton parameters at different values of the ratio sigma between the CPM and self-phase modulation contributions. It is shown that the CPM effect may sufficiently modify the switching characteristics, and perfect switching is always achieved for sigma ? 1...

In this paper, we study the performance of the Digital Video BroadcastingTerrestrial (DVB-T) system with Continuous Phase Modulation Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (CPM-OFDM). The proposed structure combines the advantage of mitigating the Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) problem in the Power Amplifier (PA)in addition to exploiting the channel frequency diversity and power efficie...

BACKGROUND Therapeutic options are limited in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS). Open-label studies suggested efficacy of monthly IV cyclophosphamide (CPM) without induction for delaying progression but no randomized trial was conducted so far. OBJECTIVE To compare CPM to methylprednisolone (MP) in SPMS. METHODS Randomized, double-blind clinical trial on two parallel groups. P...

OBJECTIVE To compare third-trimester size trajectory prediction errors (average transformed percent deviations) for three individualized fetal growth assessment methods. METHODS This study utilized longitudinal measurements of nine directly measured size parameters in 118 fetuses with normal neonatal growth outcomes. Expected value (EV) function coefficients and variance components were obtai...

In this thesis, we present a reduced-complexity decision-directed joint timing and phase recovery method for continuous phase modulation (CPM). Using a simple linear modulation—pulse amplitude modulation (PAM)—representation of CPM, more popularly known as the Laurent representation of CPM, we develop formulations of a PAM based joint timing error detector (TED) and a phase error detector (PED)...

OBJECTIVE Among rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients, the intensity of pain may be out of proportion to the severity of peripheral inflammation. This observation suggests that mechanisms of central nervous system pain amplification, such as diminished conditioned pain modulation (CPM), may play a role in enhancing pain perception among some RA patients. This study was undertaken to examine the le...

192 Background: Rates of unilateral (UM) and contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) for early-stage breast cancer (ESBC) have been increasing. To understand this increase we sought the perspectives of patients who chose UM+/-CPM and treating surgeons. METHODS Applying the Health-Belief Model, we completed a qualitative study examining the surgeon's practice and patient's decision-making ...

Central pontine myelinolysis (CPM) is a rare neurologic entity of varied etiology characterized by the destruction of the myelin sheath in pontine structures. Initially described in chronic alcohol abuse and malnourished patients, CPM has also been associated with the rapid correction of hyponatremia and alterations in blood glucose homeostasis. Here we present a case of a man experiencing CPM ...