Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a worldwide epidemic and a major public health problem and the mortality of diabetic patients is twice higher than that of with non-diabetic patients. The in-hospital outcomes in diabetic patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are le...
Purpose: To determine the prevalence of Left Atrial Septal Pouch (LASP) and assess the association with Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO). Materials and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 275 cardiac-gated CT examinations at Indiana University from January 2010 to June 2012, 160 cardi...
This paper present several signal processing tools for the analysis of heart sounds. Cardiac auscultation is noninvasive, low-cost and accurate to diagnose some heart diseases. A new module for the segmentation of heart sounds based on S-Transform is presented. The heart sound se...
Aggelos G. Ioannidis, Athanasia K. Papazafeiropoulou, Alexios Sotiropoulos, Athanasia Kokkinari, Ourania Apostolou, Maria Stefanidou & Stavroula A. Papadodima·Cardiology and Angiology: An International Journal·2014
Aims: The scope of this study is to investigate zinc levels in type 2 diabetic subjects with and without coronary artery disease (CAD). Place and Duration of Study: This study was performed in outpatient clinic of General Hospital of Nikaia between December 2009 and May 2010. Met...
Aortic dissection is defined as separation of the layers within the aortic wall. An acute aortic dissection is associated with high morbidity and mortality rates, indeed, many patients die before presentation to the emergency department (ED) or before diagnosis is made in the ED....
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Cardiac imaging plays an important role in diagnosis and risk stratification of various cardiac diseases. Cardiac computed tomography added a major diagnostic value and led to reducing the need fo...
The treatment of ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) has undergone significant advances over the past three decades. Current practice guidelines raise the importance of promptly restoring normal coronary blood flow and myocardial perfusion in the infarct zone after the ons...
Objective: To examine the relationship between left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and the incidence of acute coronary heart disease (CHD) and mortality in the modern era. Methods: We studied 16, 390 black and white participants free of clinical CHD from a US national sample. The...
Background: The prevalence of carotid disease in patients with heart failure (HF) has not been described. This may be of importance for the implementation of novel interventions for heart failure that require surgery close to the carotid artery. Objective: The aim of this study w...
Aims: To identify Cardiac Autonomic Neuropathy (CAN) from a range of measures extracted from Heart Rate Variability (HRV), including higher moments of RR intervals and a spectrum of entropy measures of RR intervals. Study Design: Analysis of HRV measured from participants at a di...