Browsing Vanderbilt University Medical Center by Author "Xu, Meng"

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    • Agreement Between Two Procalcitonin Assays in Hospitalized Children 
      Katz, Sophie E.; Sartori, Laura F.; Szeles, Andras; McHenry, Rendie; Stanford, J. Eric; Xu, Meng; Colby, Jennifer M.; Halasa, Natasha; Williams, Derek J.; Banerjee, Ritu (Infectious Diseases and Therapy, 2019-09)
      Introduction Agreement between available procalcitonin (PCT) assays is unclear. We sought to compare concordance between Roche and bioMerieux PCT assays using pediatric samples. Methods We evaluated 213 plasma samples from ...
    • Echocardiographic Detection of Occult Diastolic Dysfunction in Pulmonary Hypertension After Fluid Challenge 
      Agrawal, Vineet; (D'Alto, Michele; Naeije, Robert; Romeo, Emanuele; Xu, Meng; Assad, Tufik R.; Robbins, Ivan M.; Newman, John H.; Pugh, Meredith E.; Hemnes, Anna R.; Brittain, Evan L. (Journal of the American Heart Association, 2019-09-23)
      Background-Identification of occult diastolic dysfunction often requires invasive right heart catheterization with provocative maneuvers such as fluid challenge. Non-invasive predictors of occult diastolic dysfunction have ...
    • Serologic Detection of Antibodies Targeting the Leukocidin LukAB Strongly Predicts Staphylococcus aureus in Children With Invasive Infection 
      Wood, James B.; Jones, Lauren S.; Soper, Nicole R.; Xu, Meng; Torres, Victor J.; Creech, C. Buddy; Thomsen, Isaac P. (JOURNAL OF THE PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES SOCIETY, 2019-06)
      Background. Staphylococcus aureus is among the most commonly identified causes of invasive bacterial infection in children; however, reliable results from cultures of sterile-site samples often cannot be obtained, which ...