Accurate method for home-based diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea: a review [PDF]
Overnight polysomnography is the gold standard for the detection of obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAS). However, it is expensive and needs attending personnel.
Hosna Ghandeharioun +2 more
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Feasibility and performance of a device for automatic self-detection of symptomatic acute coronary artery occlusion in outpatients with coronary artery disease : a multicentre observational study [PDF]
Background Time delay between onset of symptoms and seeking medical attention is a major determinant of mortality and morbidity in patients with acute coronary artery occlusion. Response time might be reduced by reliable self-detection.
Coeman, Mathieu +11 more
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Sudden Death Documented During 24-hour Holter Monitoring
A 50-year-old female patient admitted for etiological syncope investigation. A 24-hour Holter was installed where the record showed the mechanism of sudden cardiac death.
Kárila Scarduelli Luciano +5 more
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Background Detection and treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) are important given the serious health consequences. AF may be silent or paroxysmal and remain undetected.
N. Verbiest - van Gurp +4 more
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ECG baseline wander reduction using linear phase filters [PDF]
The continuous real time reduction of baseline wander is a considerable problem in electrocardiography during exercises. Our solution consists of spectral filtering.
Alsté, J.A. van +2 more
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Andersen-Tawil syndrome: report of 3 novel mutations and high risk of symptomatic cardiac involvement. [PDF]
IntroductionAndersen-Tawil syndrome (ATS) is a potassium channelopathy affecting cardiac and skeletal muscle. Periodic paralysis is a presenting symptom in some patients, whereas, in others, symptomatic arrhythmias or prolongation of QT in ...
Bieganowska, Katarzyna +11 more
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The importance of sleep apnea index determination using 24h ECG analysis in patients with heart rhythm disorders [PDF]
Background/Aim. A possible cause of malignant heart rhythm disorders is the syndrome of sleep apnea (periodic cessation of breathing during sleep longer than 10 seconds). Recent 24h ECG software systems have the option of determination ECG apnea
Grdinić Aleksandra +12 more
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Quality predictors of abdominal fetal electrocardiography recording in antenatal ambulatory and bedside settings [PDF]
Background: Fetal electrocardiography using an abdominal monitor (Monica AN24™) could increase the diagnostic use of fetal heart rate (fHR) variability measurements.
Hoesli, I. +6 more
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Design and evaluation of a person-centric heart monitoring system over fog computing infrastructure [PDF]
Heart disease and stroke are becoming the leading cause of death worldwide. Electrocardiography monitoring devices (ECG) are the only tool that helps physicians diagnose cardiac abnormalities.
Akrivopoulos, Orestis +3 more
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Introduction: Conventional three-lead ambulatory electrocardiogram recording (3L-AECG) is used for the quantitative diagnosis of arrhythmias. However, the lack of crucial information, such as QRS morphology and orientation, renders the 3L-AECG incomplete
Carlos Arthur Hansel Diniz da Costa +5 more
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