BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Heart failure occurs frequently in end-stage renal disease patients. However, there are no prospective, longitudinal follow-up data on its prevalence, severity, and risk factors in long-term peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS A prospective observational study was conducted in 220 long-term PD patients followed up for 4 ye...

SUMMARY The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of repetitive ventricular responses caused by non-bundle-branch re-entry and bundle-branch re-entry in 47 patients with and in 50 patients without ventricular tachycardia. We also compared the prevalence of repetitive ventricular responses using two types of electrophysiological stimulation: single premature ventri-cular stimulat...

Abstract Introduction Transposition of the great artery is one most common congenital heart anomalies [1]. One surgical techniques to correct this anomaly Rastelli procedure [2]. After correction, right and left ventricular outflow obstruction are late complications [3]. In grown–up disease (GUCH) surgery a high risk and, repeated sternotomy may be associated with adverse injuries mediastinal s...

In this paper, we introduce a novel health and sleep nursing assistant called “Helena” for real-time, contactless, non-invasive monitoring that can be mounted on bed frame to continuously monitor activities (entry/exit of bed, movement, posture changes), vital signs (heart rate respiration rate), falls from in pervasive computing manner. The smart sensor senses vibrations generated by body move...

The heart makes its living by liberating energy from a variety of oxidizable substrates, either simultaneously or vicariously.1 Because of built-in mechanisms that choose the most efficient substrate for a given physiological environment, the heart is a true metabolic omnivore.2 The link between metabolism and function of the heart was discovered by Langendorff3 when he demonstrated that the ma...

Ventricular tachycardia (VT) most commonly develops in patients with structural heart disease. Myocardial infarction results in collagen replacement interspersed with surviving myocardium, which alters impulse propagation, facilitating re-entry.1 Aside from the postinfarction substrate, scar-mediated VT occurs in patients with nonischemic cardiomyopathy, Chagas disease, sarcoidosis, arrhythmoge...

Shesop is an integrated system to make human lives more easily and to help people in terms of healthcare. Stress and influenza classification is a part of Shesop’s application for a healthcare devices such as smartwatch, polar and fitbit. The main objective of this paper is to create a proper application to implement the stress and influenza classification. The application use Android studio, X...

The work presented here applies deep learning to the task of automated cardiac auscultation, i.e. recognizing abnormalities in heart sounds. We describe an automated heart sound classification algorithm that combines the use of time-frequency heat map representations with a deep convolutional neural network (CNN). Given the cost-sensitive nature of misclassification, our CNN architecture is tra...