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Kevin Y Chu

Fellow, University of Miami
Verified email at miami.edu
Cited by 1231

Emergency department anaphylaxis: a review of 142 patients in a single year

AFT Brown, D McKinnon, K Chu - Journal of Allergy and Clinical …, 2001 - Elsevier
Background: There are few data on the incidence, clinical features, and management of
patients with acute anaphylaxis presenting to the emergency department. We investigated …

Coriolus versicolor: A Medicinal Mushroom with Promising Immunotherapeutic Values

KKW Chu, SSS Ho, AHL Chow - The Journal of Clinical …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Coriolus versicolor (CV) is a medicinal mushroom widely prescribed for the prophylaxis and
treatment of cancer and infection in China. In recent years, it has been extensively …

An introduction to sensitivity, specificity, predictive values and likelihood ratios

K Chu - Emergency Medicine, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: To assist clinicians and other health‐care providers to understand the terms used
to describe the accuracy of diagnostic tests. Methodology: This paper reviews the calculation …

CONGA: Distributed congestion-aware load balancing for datacenters

M Alizadeh, T Edsall, S Dharmapurikar… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of CONGA, a network-based
distributed congestion-aware load balancing mechanism for datacenters. CONGA exploits …

CPR training and CPR performance: do CPR‐trained bystanders perform CPR?

R Swor, I Khan, R Domeier, L Honeycutt… - Academic …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives: To determine factors associated with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
provision by CPR‐trained bystanders and to determine factors associated with CPR …

Current-voltage relations for electrochemical thin films

MZ Bazant, KT Chu, BJ Bayly - SIAM journal on applied mathematics, 2005 - SIAM
The DC response of an electrochemical thin film, such as the separator in a microbattery, is
analyzed by solving the Poisson--Nernst--Planck equations, subject to boundary conditions …

Validation of high-sensitivity troponin I in a 2-hour diagnostic strategy to assess 30-day outcomes in emergency department patients with possible acute coronary …

L Cullen, C Mueller, WA Parsonage, K Wildi… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - jacc.org
Objectives: The study objective was to validate a new high-sensitivity troponin I (hs-TnI)
assay in a clinical protocol for assessing patients who present to the emergency department …

Systemic inflammatory response syndrome, quick sequential organ function assessment, and organ dysfunction: insights from a prospective database of ED patients …

JM Williams, JH Greenslade, JV McKenzie, K Chu… - Chest, 2017 - Elsevier
Background A proposed revision of sepsis definitions has abandoned the systemic
inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), defined organ dysfunction as an increase in total …

[HTML][HTML] BIN1 localizes the L-type calcium channel to cardiac T-tubules

TT Hong, JW Smyth, D Gao, KY Chu, JM Vogan… - PLoS …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
The BAR domain protein superfamily is involved in membrane invagination and
endocytosis, but its role in organizing membrane proteins has not been explored. In …

[PDF][PDF] Commensal microbes and hair follicle morphogenesis coordinately drive Treg migration into neonatal skin

TC Scharschmidt, KS Vasquez, ML Pauli, EG Leitner… - Cell host & …, 2017 - cell.com
Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are required to establish immune tolerance to commensal
microbes. Tregs accumulate abruptly in the skin during a defined window of postnatal tissue …