BACKGROUND Little is known about the status of renal replacement therapy (RRT) in the post-Soviet countries. We therefore investigated the epidemiology and treatment outcomes of RRT in Ukrainian patients and put the results into an international perspective. METHODS Data from the Ukrainian National Renal Registry for patients on RRT between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2012 were selected. W...

Chronic kidney disease is at least 3-4 times more frequent in Africa than in developed countries. Hypertension affects approximately 25% of the adult population and is the cause of chronic kidney failure in 21% of patients on renal replacement therapy in the South African Registry. The prevalence of diabetic nephropathy is estimated to be 14%-16% in South Africa, 23.8% in Zambia, 12.4% in Egypt...

One of the reasons for inadequate pain treatment in hospitalized patients is that nurses have insufficient knowledge about pain and pain management. To address this problem, a Pain Monitoring Program (PMP) for nurses was developed, implemented, and evaluated. The PMP consisted of two components: educating nurses about pain, pain assessment, and pain management, and implementing daily pain asses...

We describe a case of pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) successfully managed with intraperitoneal hyperthermic chemoperfusion. This case is unique due to the concurrent presence of intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN) of the pancreas. The patient presented with abdominal fullness. Abdominal computed tomography revealed massive ascites, thickened peritoneum, and a cystic lesion of the pancr...

Alimentary tract duplications are rare congenital anomalies. They most often become symptomatic in childhood and rarely undergo malignant transformation. Pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) is an equally uncommon condition, most frequently originating from a primary appendiceal mucinous neoplasm. We report an extremely unusual case of PMP arising from an intestinal duplication. A 67-year-old woman pre...

Since the late 1980s, studies have shown that plants can manufacture functional transgenic pharmaceutical compounds. Advantages attributed to plant-made pharmaceutical (PMP) approaches are compelling, and PMP production continues to attract interest from investors and the biopharmaceutical industry (Table 1). Proposed PMP benefits include proven scalability, high production capacity, limited ex...

Abstract Pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) refers to a growth disorder characterized by glycoprotein neoplasm in the peritoneum, where mucin oversecretion occurs. The tumors of appendix region are well associated with PMP; however, ovarian, colon, stomach, pancreas, and urachus have also been linked PMP. Other mucinous pelvis, paracolic gutters, greater omentum, retrohepatic space, Treitz ligament c...

In this paper we are concerned with the elimination of gamma related errors by employing a simple and direct approach, specifically, for phase measuring profilometry (PMP) methods. The harmonic structure of a gamma distorted fringe is investigated and the implications of j for the PMP algorithm is studied. The minimum requirements in terms of number of Steps for appropriate elimination of j rel...

Matching pursuit (MP), particularly using the Gammatones dictionary, has become a popular tool in sparse representations of speech/audio signals. The classical MP algorithm does not however take into account psychoacoustical aspects of the auditory system. Recently two algorithms, called PAMP and PMP have been introduced in order to select only perceptually relevant atoms during MP decompositio...

The socially optimal power market clearing problem with diverse, complex-utility-structure participants at the distribution level, poses computational challenges that are exacerbated by the associated non-convex load flow constraints. We investigate variations and extensions of Proximal Message Passing algorithms proposed in the literature and implemented on similar, though simpler, social welf...