We measured central venous pressure (CVP); plasma volume (PV); urine volume rate (UVR); renal excretion of sodium (UNa); and renal clearances of creatinine, sodium, and osmolality before and after acute volume infusion to test the hypothesis that exposure to microgravity causes resetting of the CVP operating point. Six rhesus monkeys underwent two experimental conditions in a crossover counterb...

From July 1971 to August 1975, 63 previously untreated patients with stage IV non-Hodgkin's lymphomas with favorable histologies were prospectively randomized to three treatment programs: cyclophosphamide, vincristine, and prednisone alone (CVP); split course CVP and total lymphoid irradiation (CVP-TLI); or single alkylating agent (SA) therapy. More than 95% of all patients responded to therapy...

BACKGROUND Direct hemoperfusion with polymyxin B-immobilized fiber column (PMX-DHP) could improve the hemodynamic status of septic shock patients. As PMX-DHP is an invasive and costly procedure, it is desirable to estimate the therapeutic effect before performing the therapy. However, it is still unclear when this therapy should be started and what type of sepsis it should be employed for. In t...

We investigate the possibility of constructing a fully compositional concurrent process algebra (dubbed Communicating Visibly pushdown Processes or CVP for short) based on visibly pushdown automata. CVP is a superset of CSP, thus combining all the good properties of finite-state algebrae with context-free features. In particular, CVP includes support for parallel composition (which has however ...

Hemodynamic monitoring is needed in up to 58% of patients presented to the emergency department (1). Although central venous pressure (CVP) monitoring is generally useful to assess general volume status, its reliability as a guide to resuscitation in critically ill patients is a subject of debate (2, 3). Generally, there are several methods of CVP measurement, which can be categorized as invasi...

Introduction Central venous pressure (CVP) is frequently used to guide fluid therapy, although there are confounders of CVP like intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) and mechanical ventilation. Despite a large number of studies on the interactions of intra-abdominal pressure, mechanical ventilation and CVP there are few studies investigating the impact of both major confounders of CVP in the same set...

The Closest Vector Problem (CVP) is a computational problem on lattices closely related to SVP. (See Shortest Vector Problem.) Given a lattice L and a target point ~x, CVP asks to find the lattice point closest to the target. As for SVP, CVP can be defined with respect to any norm, but the Euclidean norm is the most common (see the entry lattice for a definition). A more relaxed version of the ...

The contractile vacuole pores (CVPs) in Tetrahymena pyriformis are usually found to the left of ciliary meridians (CVP meridians). When the CVP meridians are experimentally rotated 180 degrees ('inverted'), the CVPs are now found to the right of the rotated CVP meridians. In other words, the CVP is almost invariably found on the same side with respect to the CVP meridian. Thus, the 2 sides of t...