Health care-associated infections (HAIs) occur in ∼1.7 million patients annually, and 100,000 die, at a cost of $147 billion.1Marchetti A. Rossiter R. Economic burden healthcare-associated infection US acute care hospitals: societal perspective.J Med Econ. 2013; 16: 1399-1404Crossref PubMed Scopus (61) Google Scholar Overall, 85% stethoscopes (the physician’s third hand) are contaminated with t...

Heart murmurs are typically detected in newborns, in many cases due to the patent ductus arteriosus condition. Hence, providing an automatic tool for heart sound analysis can be helpful to physicians in the diagnosis of heart murmurs in newborns. In this paper we propose a novel method that performs segmentation and feature extraction, aimed at separating heart sound signals in two parts: innoc...

Heart murmurs are the first signs of cardiac valve disorders. Several studies have been conducted in recent years to automatically differentiate normal heart sounds, from heart sounds with murmurs using various types of audio features. Entropy was successfully used as a feature to distinguish different heart sounds. In this paper, new entropy was introduced to analyze heart sounds and the feasi...

Myocardial sarcoidosis is not a rare disease in the UK and it is still probably under-diagnosed. A high index of suspicion in necessary for diagnosis of myocardial sarcoidosis, which should be thought of in any unusual form of heart disease for which there is no adequate explanation, particularly if there are serious rhythm changes or unexplained heart failure. Mitral systolic murmurs occur fre...

Duplex ultrasound is widely used to detect vascular dysfunction after kidney transplantation. We describe musical murmurs found in renal allografts. A 29-year-old man with an increase in serum creatinine 1 month after cadaveric kidney transplantation was referred for duplex ultrasound to exclude perfusion dysfunction. Renal arterial and venous circulation was normal. However, during Doppler spe...