Research into the application of electrocardiography in buffaloes has been lacking when compared to other species. However, identification of altered health states, whether for identification of healthy animals or for the measurement of treatment effects is vital for research. Several electrocardiogram (ECG) changes were shown to occur in buffaloes naturally infected with Theileria annulata inc...

BACKGROUND Brugada Syndrome (BS) is an inherited ion channelopathy characterized by an electrocardiographic (ECG) pattern of a coved type ST segment elevation in right precordial leads with or without right bundle branch block. CASE PRESENTATION A 23-year old male presented with right lower quadrant abdominal pain. Further evaluation revealed a diagnosis of acute appendicitis. The patient dev...

The Letter uncovers an issue which is increasingly relevant in Community Hospital practice. The authors have highlighted the following points with an interesting case and adequate referencing, but the points are relatively well reported and not novel. There has been a clearly documented increase in the number of reported cases of loperamide abuse and toxicity in the literature in recent years. ...

Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is one of the atrial cardiac arrythmias with highest prevalence in the elderly. In order to use the electrocardiogram (ECG) as a noninvasive tool for AF analysis, we need to separate the atrial activity (AA) from other cardioelectric signals. In this matter, Blind Source Separation (BSS) techniques are able to perform a multi-lead analysis of the ECG with the aim to obt...

Heart disease is currently the number one cause of death for both men and women in the United States and in many other Western countries. Studies show that nine factors contribute to a significant percentage of heart attacks: smoking, abnormal lipoprotein ratios, high blood pressure, diabetes, abdominal obesity, low daily fruit and vegetable consumption, exercise and stress. Caffeine and coffee...

Infection with Bartonella spp may cause cardiac arrhythmias, myocarditis and endocarditis in humans. The aim of the present study was to evaluate a possible association between Bartonella spp bacteremia and endocarditis, arrhythmia and Chagas cardiomyopathy in patients from Brazil and Argentina. We screened for the presence of bacterial 16S rRNA in human blood by PCR using oligonucleotides to a...