Eating an appropriate food volume, maintaining the required calorie count, and making good nutritional choices are key factors for reducing risk of obesity, which has many consequences such as Osteoarthritis (OA) that affects patient’s knee. In this paper, we present a wearable sensor in form necklace embedded with piezoelectric sensor, detects skin movement from lower trachea while eating. con...

To the Editor: I read with interest the recent paper by Hawkins et al1 in which they investigated the prevalence and clinical features of the coronary slow flow phenomenon (CSFP). They identified 1,714 consecutive patients who underwent coronary angiography and included 158 patients with normal coronary arteries and normal left ventricular function. Of this subgroup, 96 subjects had CSF in at l...

The coronary slow flow phenomenon is an angiographic finding characterized by delayed distal vessel opacification in the absence of significant epicardial coronary disease. Extensively studied both in the experimental and clinical setting, it was clearly associated with unfavourable clinical outcome and prognosis. Several hypotheses, including embolization of platelet-rich thrombi or atheroscle...

BACKGROUND Different grading systems of arterial recanalisation have never been compared in large series of stroke patients treated with intra-arterial thrombolysis (IAT). METHODS Clinical and angiographic findings and outcome were analysed in 147 patients with M1 or M2 segment occlusion of the middle cerebral artery treated with IAT. Associations of the thrombolysis in myocardial infarction ...

The study aim was to compare two different stress echocardiography interpretation techniques based on the correlation with thrombosis in myocardial infarction (TIMI ) flow grading from acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients. Forty-one patients with suspected ACS were studied before diagnostic coronary angiography with myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) at rest and at stress. The correla...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the value of non-invasive reperfusion indices in acute myocardial infarction, avoiding the possible need for acute coronary angiography and subsequent angioplasty. DESIGN In a prospective angiographic study, seven potential ECG or clinical markers of reperfusion were analysed in 230 patients with acute myocardial infarction. In all patients two 12 lead ECGs were used:...

INTRODUCTION AND AIM The monocyte to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio (MHR) has recently been proposed as a new predictor and prognostic indicator in cardiovascular disease. The TIMI risk score predicts short-term mortality in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients. However, there have been no studies regarding the association between MHR and TIMI score in patients with S...

Previous studies have shown that intracoronary (IC) nitroprusside (NTP) injection is a safe and effective strategy for the treatment of no-reflow (NR) during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The present study tested the hypothesis that, on the basis of thrombus aspiration for the treatment of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), the selective IC administration of a fixed...

BACKGROUND The objectives of the present investigation were to validate the prognostic role of a proposed Clinical Classification [CC], to evaluate the TIMI risk score [RS] and to establish whether the TIMI-RS should incorporate points for patients with acute right ventricular infarction [TIMI-RS-RVI]. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 523 RVI patients were classified on clinical and functional ...