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A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis On The Effectiveness Of An Invasive Strategy Compared To A Conservative Approach In Patients > 65 Years Old With Non-St Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome, Joan Dymphna P. Reaño, Louie Alfred B. Shiu, Karen V. Miralles, Maria Grethel C. Dimalala, Noemi S. Pestaño, Felix Eduardo R. Punzalan, Bernadette Tumanan-Mendoza, Michael Joseph T. Reyes, Rafael R. Castillo

Pathology Research and Scholarship

BACKGROUND: Patients 65 years old and older largely represent (>50%) hospital-admitted patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Data are conflicting comparing efficacy of early routine invasive (within 48-72 hours of initial evaluation) versus conservative management of ACS in this population.

OBJECTIVE: We aimed to determine the effectiveness of routine early invasive strategy compared to conservative treatment in reducing major adverse cardiovascular events in patients 65 years old and older with non-ST elevation (NSTE) ACS.

DATA SOURCES: We conducted a systematic review of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) through PubMed, Cochrane, and Google Scholar database.

STUDY SELECTION: The studies included were …

Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia Associated With Collection Of Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells By Apheresis, Jay S. Raval, Yara A. Park, Irina Perjar, Marshall A. Mazepa, Benjamin G. Vincent, Alice D. Ma, Marian A. Rollins-Raval

Pathology Research and Scholarship

Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) can occur following exposure to heparin and is characterized by thrombocytopenia with increased risk for thrombosis. This condition is mediated by formation of immunoglobulin G antibodies against platelet factor 4/heparin complexes that can subsequently lead to platelet activation. Herein, we detail the clinical and laboratory findings, treatments, and outcomes of two patients who developed HIT and thrombosis after undergoing collection of hematopoietic progenitor cells by apheresis (HPC-A) for autologous HPC transplant. Given that heparin may be used during HPC-A collections, these cases emphasize the importance of prompt consideration of HIT in patients that develop thrombocytopenia and thrombosis …

A Multicenter Evaluation Of A Sample To Answer Real-Time Pcr Assay For Toxigenic C. Difficile In Symptomatic Subjects, Preeti Pancholi, Steve Young, R Widen, Suzane Silbert, B Schmitt, R Dunn, A Drain, S A. Weissfeld

Pathology Research and Scholarship

We evaluated the performance of the Luminex ARIES® C. difficile Assay on 984 stool specimens prospectively collected from patients being tested for CDI at 4 clinical laboratories in the United States. Results were compared to direct and enriched toxigenic culture. Positive percent agreement (PPA) of the ARIES® C. difficile Assay was 98.1% versus direct toxigenic culture, and sensitivity versus direct plus enriched toxigenic culture was 90.5%. Negative percent agreement (NPA) of the ARIES® C. difficile Assay against direct culture was 92.6%, and specificity versus direct plus enriched toxigenic culture was 95.8%. The ARIES® C. difficile Assay was also compared to …

Tetraspanin Scaffold Proteins Function As Key Regulators Of Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Victoria D. Balise, Chelsea A. Saito-Reis, Jennifer M. Gillette

Pathology Research and Scholarship

Hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) are responsible for the development, maintenance, and regeneration of all the blood forming cells in the body, and as such, are critical for a number of patient therapies. For successful HSPC transplantation, stem cells must traffic through the blood and home to the bone marrow (BM) microenvironment or "niche," which is composed of soluble factors, matrix proteins, and supportive cells. HSPC adhesion to, and signaling with, cellular and extracellular components of the niche provide instructional cues to balance stem cell self-renewal and differentiation. In this review, we will explore the regulation of these stem …

12-01-2020 Hsc Committee Meeting Minutes, Hsc Committee

HSC Committee (A subcommittee of the UNM Board of Regents)

No abstract provided.

Instructional And Institutional Planning Guide For Online And Blended Instruction, Stephanie L. Moore Phd

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

This job aid is designed to support programs, universities, and schools in developing quality online learning and engage in online or blended program and institutional planning. Part 1 is a Planning Guide for Institution / District level planning. Part 2 is a worksheet for online and blended instructional design and planning. It includes sections on teamwork and collaboration online, interaction and engagement, materials, technology selection, assessment, and development and implementation checklists to facilitate the design and development process. Part 3 is a coordination guide to help align instructional and institutional planning. This is a companion to workshops where material is …

Environmental Standards And International Trade In Automobiles And Copper: The Case For A Social Tariff, Duane Chapman

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Water Resources Planning And Management In The United States Federal System: Long Term Assessment And Intergovernmental Issues, Leonard B. Dworsky, David J. Allee, Ronald M. North

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

05-05-2020 Hsc Committee Minutes, Hsc Committee

HSC Committee (A subcommittee of the UNM Board of Regents)

No abstract provided.

07-07-2020 Hsc Committee Meeting Minutes, Hsc Committee

HSC Committee (A subcommittee of the UNM Board of Regents)

No abstract provided.

Expanding Access To Medications For Opioid Use Disorder In Primary Care: An Examination Of Common Implementation Strategies, Lauren Caton, Hanyang Shen, Mehret T. Assefa, Tammy Fisher, Mark P. Mcgovern

Project ECHO Bibliography

Objective: Buprenorphine, a medication for opioid use disorder, remains vastly underutilized despite its proven efficacy. This study sought to evaluate which strategies, within a system that employed a variety of concurrent strategies, effectively increased access to buprenorphine.

Methods: Over the course of 15 months, 25 federally qualified health centers were invited to participate in four commonly used implementation strategies. This study examines the impact of clinic attendance at strategy events on change in numbers of patients prescribed buprenorphine and numbers of buprenorphine-waivered providers by clinic.

Results: There was a nearly three-fold increase (2.84) in patients on buprenorphine and two-fold increase …

Echo Care: Providing Multidisciplinary Specialty Expertise To Support The Care Of Complex Patients, Miriam Komaromy, Judy Bartlett, Andrea Zurawski, Sarah R. Gonzales-Van Horn, Summers G. Kalishman, Venice Ceballos, Xi Sun, Martin Jurado, Sanjeev Arora

Project ECHO Bibliography

BACKGROUND: Programs for high-need, high-cost (HNHC) patients can improve care and reduce costs. However, it may be challenging to implement these programs in rural and underserved areas, in part due to limited access to specialty consultation.

AIM: Evaluate the feasibility of using the Extension for Community Health Outcomes (ECHO) model to provide specialist input to outpatient intensivist teams (OITs) dedicated to caring for HNHC patients.

SETTING: Weekly group videoconferencing sessions that connect multidisciplinary specialists with OITs.

PARTICIPANTS: Six OITs across New Mexico, typically consisting of a nurse practitioner or physician assistant, a registered nurse, a counselor or social worker, and …

Information Resources Valued By Medical Students In A Clinical Reasoning Course: A Cross Sectional Study, Jonathan Eldredge, Laura J. Hall, Sumit J. Patel

Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center

Table 1: Resources Students Found Useful

Table 2: Students' Ranked Preferences

Table 3: Useful Textbooks

Please follow this link for the original article:

https://doi.org/10.1080/15424065.2020.1847230

Fifteenth Annual Himalayan Policy Research Conference (2020) Full Issue, Nepal Study Center

Himalayan Policy Research Conference

PROCEEDINGS AND PAPER ABSTRACTS OF THE Himalayan Policy Research Conference (Fifteenth Annual) Nepal Study Center Saturday, December 5, 2020, Virtual

A Short Remark On Multipurpose Laser Therapy “Helios” In Ukraine And Its Potential Application For Treatment Of Neurology Disorders, Florentin Smarandache, Volodymyr Krasnoholovets, Victor Christianto, Rizha Vitania, The Houw Liong

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

However, a truly multipurpose laser therapy method is very rarely available. Here we introduce a multipurpose laser therapy device in Ukraine, which is capable to take care a multitude of diseases. It is called “Helios”, by one of us (VK). We also give a case where a patient who suffered from Covid-19 has been treated successfully until he is recovered to healthy condition. In the last section we also discuss potential future application of Helios for other fields; i.e. neurology disorders.

Plithogenic N- Super Hypergraph In Novel Multi -Attribute Decision Making, Florentin Smarandache, Nivetha Martin

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

An optimal decision-making environment demands feasible Multi-Attribute Decision-Making methods. Plithogenic n – Super Hypergraph introduced by Smarandache is a novel concept and it involves many attributes. This article aims to bridge the concept of Plithogenic n-Super Hypergraph in the vicinity of optimal decision making. This research work introduces the novel concepts of enveloping vertex, super enveloping vertex, dominant enveloping vertex, classification of the dominant enveloping vertex (input, intervene, output dominant enveloping vertices), plithogenic connectors. An application of Plithogenic n-super hypergraph in making optimum decisions is discussed under various decision-making scenarios. Several insights are drawn from this research work and will …

A Short Remark On Bong Han Duct System (Pvs) As A Neutrosophic Bridge Between Eastern And Western Medicine Paradigms, Victor Christianto, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

In a previous paper in this journal (IJNS), it is mentioned about a possible approach of “curemony” as a middle way in order to reconcile Eastern and Western’s paradigms of medicine [1]. Although it is known in literature that there are some attempts to reconcile between Eastern and Western medicine paradigms, known as “integrative medicine,” here a new viewpoint is submitted, i.e. Bong Han duct system (PVS), which is a proof of Meridian system, can be a bridge between those two medicine paradigms in neutrosophic sense. This can be considered as a Neutrosophic Logic way to bridge or reconcile the …

Spring 2020_95.2_Full Issue

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Voces Nuevo Mexicanas: Power, Gender, And Recovery Of “El Corrido De La Votación” For The Centennial Celebration Of New Mexico’S Suffrage Movement, Carmella Scorcia Pacheco

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

A Road Map To Restoring Rivers: How The Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement Might Influence Future Dam Removal And River Restoration Projects, James C. Ish

Natural Resources Journal

Throughout the United States dams are approaching the terminus of their original licensing periods and are undergoing re-licensing by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. This period of review has prompted extensive studies in these basins to determine the cost-benefits associated with keeping these dams, versus removing and restoring the natural ecosystems that are currently inundated. In situations where a dam is deemed to be no longer economically relevant, and/or a detriment to endangered species or their critical habitat, an agreement for removal and restoration is often proposed as the next step in the management of that basin’s water resources. However, …

Climate Perspectives Across The Generations, Dan Farber

Natural Resources Journal

Climate change is a multi-generational problem, but it does not impact all generations in the same way. Correspondingly, older Americans and younger ones differ greatly in how they perceive the issue and how they respond. The wave of youth activism epitomized by Greta Thunburg is on one side of this generation gap. Donald Trump’s climate skepticism is on the other. We’re talking about large groups of people, so there is a range of attitudes on both sides, but these two individuals represent the generational differences in dramatic form. My goal today is to explore these generational differences. I want to …

Risk Factors Prioritization For Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Lester Wong Vázquez, María Fernanda Cueva Moncayo, Laura Paola Advendaño Castro

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Multicriteria Approach To Calculate The Index Of Promotion Of Legal Culture Using Neutrosophic Numbers, Rosa Leonor Maldonado Manzano, Marcia Esther Spain Herrería, Julián Santillán Andrade, Elsa Barrientos

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Neutrosophic Evaluation Of Depression Severity, Carlos Castañeda Guillot, Doris Raquel Medina Medina, María Alejandra Benítez Ávalos

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Full Issue, Florentin Smarandache, Mohamed Abdel-Basset, Maikel Leyva Vazquez, Said Broumi

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Overlapping Roles Of Nadph Oxidase 4 (Nox4) For Diabetic And Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agent-Induced Systemic Fibrosis-Animal Equivalent Dosing Of Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents Supplementary Figure 1, Francesca Bruno, Joshua Deaguero, Catherine Do, Doug Yoon Lee, Chunyan Tan, G Patricia Escobar, Brent Wagner

The Kidney Institute of New Mexico

This is supplementary material for the forthcoming publication entitled “Overlapping roles of NADPH Oxidase 4 (Nox4) for diabetic and gadolinium-based contrast agent-induced systemic fibrosis”. This supplementary material utilizes a model for gadolinium retention and renal elimination of pharmaceuticals, interspecies allometric scaling to determine animal equivalent dosing, label dosing and published studies of varying and repetitive dosing of gadolinium-based contrast agents used to determine dosing of gadolinium-based contrast agents in our preclinical model. Supplementary Figure 1 demonstrates modeling plasma gadolinium-based contrast agent concentrations based on the Hirano Suzuki equation.

Greening The Old New Deal: Strengthening Rural Electric Cooperative Supports And Oversight To Combat Climate Change, Gabriel Pacyniak

Faculty Scholarship

New Deal cooperatives succeeded in electrifying rural America when for-profit utilities would not. Today, however, rural electric cooperatives are lagging behind when it comes to meeting the challenge of climate change. Cooperatives have collectively been slower to embrace the shift to low-carbon electricity than for-profit and municipal utilities and have served as a drag on state and federal clean energy and climate policies. This is partially because of the structural differences between cooperatives and other utilities, but also because of a weak and under-determined federal and state regulatory structure. A few cooperatives in Colorado and New Mexico are seeking to …

West Virginia's Model Of Buprenorphine Expansion: Preliminary Results, Erin L Winstanley, Laura R Lander, James H Berry, James J Mahoney, Wanhong Zheng, Jeremy Herschler, Patrick Marshalek, Sheena Sayres, Jay Mason, Marc W Haut

Project ECHO Bibliography

West Virginia (WV) is situated at the epicenter of the opioid epidemic with the highest rates of overdose deaths and some of the lowest rates of access to life saving evidence-based medication assisted treatment (MAT) for patients with opioid use disorder (OUD). WV used a modified hub-and-spoke model to build organizational capacity for facilities to use buprenorphine to treat patients with OUD and to provide ongoing case consultation. The purpose of this study is to 1) describe the group-base model of buprenorphine treatment and the model used to build organizational capacity, 2) to describe the preliminary results of buprenorphine expansion …

University Of New Mexico School Of Medicine Trained Mds Location Report 2020, University Of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, School Of Medicine, Office Of The Dean

University of New Mexico School of Medicine Location Report

No abstract provided.

03-02-2020 Hsc Committee Meeting Minutes, Hsc Committee

HSC Committee (A subcommittee of the UNM Board of Regents)

No abstract provided.