T he debate about the advantages of fibrinolytic therapy or primary percutaneous coronary angioplasty (PCI) as a superior reperfusion strategy for ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) has continued for 30 years. In the first decade, primary PCI was limited by first-generation equipment, inadequate radiographic imaging systems, suboptimal adjunctive antithrombotic therapy, and delays in ti...

Trauma to the chest may result in rupture of the interventricular septum (Cary, Hurst, and Arentzen, 1958). Disturbances of conduction, including complete heart block, may follow (Dolara, 1964), or they may arise in the presence of an intact septum (Levine, Roberts, and Morrow, 1962). In the case to be reported, non-penetrating trauma produced structural cardiac damage, associated with the deve...

Aneurysm of the sinus of Valsalva is a rare cardiac abnormality. Unruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm is usually asymptomatic, however, a ruptured aneurysm typically leads to an aortocardiac shunt and progressively worsening heart failure. We report a case of a 17-year-old male who suffered an aneurysm of the sinus of Valsalva rupture into the right atrium who manifested sudden dyspnea and acu...

Heart failure is one of the real cardio-vascular ailments influencing the center matured and the matured. It happens because of diminished cardiovascular yield. It can be both right-sided and left-sided failure of heart. This research study proposes a bio-inspired computing paradigm called particle swarm optimization shortly termed as PSO towards the prediction of heart failure. The implementat...

Correspondence: E. Michael Molnar Bio-Cellular Research Organization, 113 Barksdale Professional Center, Newark, DE 19711, USA E-mail:[email protected] Cardiomyocytes lose their ability to proliferate after birth and so heart muscle fibers cannot regenerate. For that reason myocardial injury, such as myocardial infarction (MI), heals by replacement of contractile heart musc...

This paper proposes an X-band Doppler radar system to detect heart and respiration of human far away. Through the idea of a reverse sense of rotation when the reflecting surface is perfectly conducting, it is shown that the detecting property of the system can be effectively improved by using antennas that have a reverse polarization. This bistatic radar system can be used in non-invasively sen...