Curtis Kennedy

Decades of research have uncovered how plants respond to two environmental variables that change across latitudes and over seasons: photoperiod and temperature. However, a third such variable, twilight length, has...

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In order to mitigate the effects of a changing climate, agriculture requires more effective evaluation, selection, and production of crop cultivars in order to accelerate genotype-to-phenotype connections and the selection...

Background: In children with biliary atresia (BA), pathologic structural changes within the heart, which define cirrhotic cardiomyopathy, are associated with adverse perioperative outcomes. Despite their clinical relevance, little is known...

Background: Dysnatremia is a common disorder in critically ill surgical children. The study's aim is to determine the prevalence of dysnatremia and its association with outcomes after surgery for congenital...

Background: Children with end-stage liver disease and multi-organ failure, previously considered as poor surgical candidates, can now benefit from liver transplantation (LT). They often need prolonged mechanical ventilation (MV) post-LT...

Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy (CCM), a comorbidity of end-stage cirrhotic liver disease, remains uncharacterized in children, largely because of a lack of an established pediatric definition. The aim of this retrospective cohort...

Objective: The term ventilator-associated events includes ventilator-associated condition, infection-related ventilator-associated complication, and ventilator-associated pneumonia. We sought to identify potential new risk factors for ventilator-associated condition and infection-related ventilator-associated complication in...

Objectives: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shifted the focus of surveillance paradigm for adult patients receiving mechanical ventilation, moving from the current standard of ventilator-associated pneumonia to broader...

Background & Aims: Cirrhotic liver diseases are associated with abnormalities in cardiac geometry and function in adults (cirrhotic cardiomyopathy) but rarely explored in cirrhotic infants or children. We proposed that...