Owing to the recent trends in remote health monitoring,real-time appli-cations for measuring Heartbeat Rate and Respiration Rate(HARR)from video signals are growing rapidly.Photo Plethysmo Graphy(PPG)is a method that ...
AIM: To investigate the effects of different methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase(MTHFR) 677C>T gene polymorphism and hyperhomocysteinemia for the development of renal failure and cardiovascular events, which are contr...
AIM: To investigate the added value of myocardial perfusion scintigraphy imaging (MPI) in consecutive patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) and a recent, normal exercise electrocardiography (ECG). METH...
AIM:To assess if performance of 12-lead exercise tolerance testing(ETT) can be improved by simultaneous acoustic cardiography and to compare the diagnostic performances of electrocardiography(ECG) during ETT and acous...
Variations in fetal heart rate (FHR) is a potential indicator of stress on unborn in the womb of mother. In hospitals, FHR surveillance is performed by ultrasound based Doppler equip-ments. However, recent studies sho...
supported by a grant from the Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau(No.054041)
BACKGROUND: Portopulmonary hypertension (PPH) is difficult to recognize in the early and middle stages because it is frequently asymptomatic. As right ventricular function is impaired in patients with moderate and sev...
the National"Eleventh-five"Scientific Item(No.2006BAI01A06);Shen-zhen City Luohu District Foundation(No.2007029)
To analyze the value of CT pulmonary angiography(CTPA) in assessing right ventdcular dysfunction(RVD) after acute pulmonary embolism. Methods:Thirty-six patients with CTPA-confirmed PE who underwent ultrasonic ca...
This work was supported by a grant from China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2004036113).
Background Real-time three-dimensional echocardiography (RT-3DE) has made revolutionized improvements of cardiac imaging during the past few years. However, there is no standard examination method for RT-3DE so far....
This study compared the hemodynamic changes during acupuncture anesthesiaand N2O-O2-enflurane inhalating anesthesia for craniotomy with impedance cardiography.