BACKGROUND Prolonged pleural effusion following Fontan operation is common and increases morbidity and hospital length of stay. Vasopressin (VP), a neurohypophysial hormone, has numerous effects on the cardiovascular system. The most notable is increased peripheral vascular resistance, but it may also reduce capillary leakage by tightening endothelial intercellular junctions and reducing capill...

BACKGROUND The reliability of dialysis venous pressure (VP) in detecting stenosis is controversial. A mathematical model may help to resolve the controversy by providing insight into the factors that influence static VP. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, AND MEASUREMENTS This study used inflow artery and outflow vein luminal diameters from duplex ultrasound studies of 94 patients. These diameter...

The ventral pallidum (VP) is posited to contribute to reward seeking by conveying upstream signals from the nucleus accumbens (NAc). Yet, very little is known about how VP neuron responses contribute to behavioral responses to incentive cues. Here, we recorded activity of VP neurons in a cue-driven reward-seeking task previously shown to require neural activity in the NAc. We find that VP neuro...

In this work we investigate how the introduction of the Verified Purchase (VP) badge on Amazon.com affected both the review helpfulness and the product ratings. We first conduct a propensity score matching study and find that all else equal, camera reviews are on average ranked 7 positions higher than non-VP reviews, while book VP reviews are on average ranked 11 positions higher than non-VP re...

Arylsulfonamides bearing (aza)norbornane and related motifs were evaluated for: (1) antimicrobial activity toward five key ESKAPE pathogenic bacteria, one Gram‐positive bacteria methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA, ATCC 43300), four Gram‐negative Escherichia coli (ATCC 25922), Klebsiella pneumonia 700603), Acinetobacter baumannii 19606), Pseudomonas aeruginosa 27853), (2) antifung...

Purpose Total hip arthroplasty (THA) is a successful surgery for the treatment of hip osteoarthritis; however, the risk of a post-operative prosthetic joint infection (PJI) remains at 1% to 2%. The purpose of this study was to investigate the safety profile of using vancomycin powder (VP) to reduce infection rates by reviewing acute postoperative complications. Materials and Methods A retrosp...