OBJECTIVE The Arkansas Prescription Monitoring Program (AR PMP) was implemented in 2013 to combat prescription drug abuse. All enrollees were invited to participate in a user survey available in February 2014, to identify makeup of users, utilization of the program, and changes made to health care practices after implementation of the program. METHODS Of the 3,694 individual enrollees invited...

INTRODUCTION Spain has been showing the highest rate of deceased donor organ recovery in the world for a whole country, namely, 33-35 donors per million population (pmp) during the last years. This activity is attributed to the so-called Spanish Model of organ donation, an integrated approach to improve organ donation since the start of the Organización Nacional de Trasplantes (ONT) in 1989. Ho...

A previous study of prokaryotic genomes identified large reservoirs of putative mobile promoters (PMPs), that is, homologous promoter sequences associated with nonhomologous coding sequences. Here we extend this data set to identify the full complement of mobile promoters in sequenced prokaryotic genomes. The expanded search identifies nearly 40,000 PMP sequences, 90% of which occur in noncodin...

Objective: Pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) is a rare, chronic, relapsing, diagnostically challenging, and poorly understood disease characterized by disseminated mucinous ascites and peritoneal implants. PMP usually develops secondary to mucinous neoplasms of the appendix and/or the ovary. Only few reports of limited PMP were published. Case Report: We describe the case of a 53-year-old woman who ...

In most mobile video encoding systems, long battery life and high performance video encoding are competing design goals. This paper proposed a Macroblock (MB) level perceptual energy scalable video encoding method noted as PMP-ESVE, in which just noticeable distortion (JND) model is introduced as the perceptual cue. PMP-ESVE includes three parts, first, PMP-ESVE can dynamic adapt the variable e...

BACKGROUND Platelet microparticles (PMPs) are platelet-derived membrane vesicles involved in cardiovascular diseases and atherosclerosis. Chronic hepatitis C (CHC) is associated with increased atherosclerosis, but the effect of therapy on its atherogenic potential has not been adequately studied. METHODS We evaluated PMP levels before and after treatment with pegylated-interferon-alfa and rib...

OBJECTIVE To elucidate the mechanisms of thrombocytopenia in alcoholic liver diseases, we investigated activation status of platelets in patients with alcoholic fatty liver (Al-FL), alcoholic liver cirrhosis (Al-LC) or hepatitis-C liver cirrhosis C (C-LC). METHODS Platelet activation was evaluated by flow cytometry using monoclonal antibodies against P-selectin (CD62P) and the fibrinogen rece...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has made it possible for clinicians to measure the peripapillary choroidal thickness (ppCT) noninvasively in various ocular diseases. However, the ocular factors associated with the ppCT have not been conclusively determined. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the local ppCT and the axial length, optic disc tilt, and the angle ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate outcome and prognostic factors in patients with pesudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) treated by complete cytoreduction and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy. BACKGROUND After comprehensive treatment, prognosis of PMP is predominantly dependent on the completeness of cytoreduction. Once complete cytoreduction is achieved, additional factors predicting long-term outcome...