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Hemodynamic effects of a dielectric elastomer augmented aorta on aortic wave intensity: An in-vivo study

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Thomas Guillaume Martinez, Armando Matthieu Walter, Francesco Clavica, Silje Ekroll Jahren

Dielectric elastomer actuator augmented aorta (DEA) represents a novel approach with high potential for assisting a failing heart. The soft tubular device replaces a section of the aorta and increases its diameter when activated. The hemodynamic interactio ...

2023

Detection of myocardial medium‐chain fatty acid oxidation and tricarboxylic acid cycle activity with hyperpolarized [1– 13 C]octanoate

Arnaud Comment, Josefina Adriana Maria Bastiaansen, Hikari Ananda Infinity Yoshihara

Under normal conditions, the heart mainly relies on fatty acid oxidation to meet its energy needs. Changes in myocardial fuel preference are noted in the diseased and failing heart. The magnetic resonance signal enhancement provided by spin hyperpolarizati ...

2020

Methods for reliable estimation of pulse transit time and blood pressure variations using smartphone sensors

David Atienza Alonso, Srinivasan Murali, Francisco Javier Rincon Vallejos, Alair Dias Junior

Hypertension is known to affect around one third of adults globally and early diagnosis is essential to reduce the effects of this affliction. Today’s Blood Pressure (BP) monitoring cuffs are obtrusive and in- convenient for performing regular measurements ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Identification of Abnormal Heart Sounds

Jean-Marc Vesin, Sasan Yazdani, Silas Schlatter, Seyyed Abbas Atyabi

As a part of 2016 Physionet/CinC callenge, this work aims at the detection of abnormal phonocardiogram (PCG) recordings. Heart sound signal analysis has been an active research topic over the past decades with various studies such as heart sound segmentati ...

2016

Estimation of Blood Pressure and Pulse Transit Time Using Your Smartphone

David Atienza Alonso, Srinivasan Murali, Francisco Javier Rincon Vallejos, Alair Dias Junior

It is widely recognized today that there is an alarming rise of lifestyle-induced chronic diseases (e.g., type II diabetes) in our society. Therefore, a strong need exists for cost-effective and non-invasive devices that can measure blood pressure (BP) to ...

IEEE Computer Society Press2015

Real-Time Probabilistic Heart Beat Classification and Correction for Embedded Systems

David Atienza Alonso, Srinivasan Murali, Francisco Javier Rincon Vallejos, Grégoire Casimir Joseph Surrel

With the emergence of wearable and non-intrusive med- ical devices, one major challenge is the real-time analysis of the acquired signals in real-life and ambulatory con- ditions. This paper presents a lightweight algorithm for on-line heart beat classific ...

2015

High bi-atrial organization in patients with long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation terminated within the left atrium

Jean-Marc Vesin, Etienne Pruvot, Andréa Buttu

Sustained atrial fibrillation (AF) is maintained by sites displaying high dominant frequency (DF). In patients (pts) with long-standing persistent AF (LS-pAF), their spatial distribution and the presence of a left-to-right atrial DF gradient remain poorly ...

2013

Embedded Real-Time ECG Delineation Methods: a Comparative Evaluation

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Francisco Javier Rincon Vallejos, Ruben Braojos Lopez

Wireless sensor nodes (WSNs) have recently evolved to include a fair amount of computational power, so that advanced signal processing algorithms can now be embedded even in this extremely low-power platforms. An increasingly successful field of applicatio ...

IEEE Press2012