Strokes

Systematic Review of Appropriate Robotic Intervention for Gait Function in Subacute Stroke Patients.

The purpose of this study was to critically evaluate the effects of robot-assisted gait training (RAGT) on gait-related function in patients with acute/subacute stroke. We conducted a systematic review of randomized controlled trials published between May 2012 and April 2016. This search included 334 articles (Cochrane, 51 articles; Embase, 175 articles; PubMed, 108 articles). Based on the inclusi...

Comparison of proximal versus distal upper-limb robotic rehabilitation on motor performance after stroke: a cluster controlled trial.

This study examined the treatment efficacy of proximal-emphasized robotic rehabilitation by using the InMotion ARM (P-IMT) versus distal-emphasized robotic rehabilitation by using the InMotion WRIST (D-IMT) in patients with stroke. A total of 40 patients with stroke completed the study. They received P-IMT, D-IMT, or control treatment (CT) for 20 training sessions. Primary outcomes were the Fugl-M...

Prediction of Incident Hypertension Within the Next Year: Prospective Study Using Statewide Electronic Health Records and Machine Learning.

BACKGROUND: As a high-prevalence health condition, hypertension is clinically costly, difficult to manage, and often leads to severe and life-threaten...

Risk-Predicting Model for Incident of Essential Hypertension Based on Environmental and Genetic Factors with Support Vector Machine.

Essential hypertension (EH) has become a major chronic disease around the world. To build a risk-predicting model for EH can help to interpose people'...

Predicting non-melanoma skin cancer via a multi-parameterized artificial neural network.

Ultraviolet radiation (UVR) exposure and family history are major associated risk factors for the development of non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC). The ...

Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone Secretion (SIADH) Associated with Mediastinal Schwannoma.

Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH) is the most common cause of euvolemic hypo-osmotic hyponatremia. There are several et...

Changes in glomerular filtration rate and outcomes in patients with atrial fibrillation.

BACKGROUND: Patients with kidney disease are more likely to develop atrial fibrillation (AF) than individuals with normal renal function, and more lik...

Reactive balance control in older adults with diabetes.

Diabetes mellitus is a major health problem for older adults worldwide and could be associated with impaired ability to recover balance after postural...

Serum Troponin I levels among hypertensive Military Service Personnel at a Military Health Facility in Abuja, Nigeria.

Hypertension constitutes one of the major metabolic disease in Nigeria especially among military personnel and their families. Myocardial infarction a...

Combining robotic training and inactivation of the healthy hemisphere restores pre-stroke motor patterns in mice.

Focal cortical stroke often leads to persistent motor deficits, prompting the need for more effective interventions. The efficacy of rehabilitation ca...

Simultaneous quantitative determination of bioactive terpene indole alkaloids in ethanolic extracts of Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don by ultra high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.

A rapid, sensitive and reproducible method using ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with electrospray ionization hybrid triple quadr...

Mild troponin elevation in patients admitted to the emergency department with atrial fibrillation: 30-day post-discharge prognostic significance.

Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) often undergo troponin (Tn) testing in the emergency department (ED), but the clinical significance of mildly e...

Double hit! A unique case of resistant hypertension.

A middle-aged woman with obesity, hyperlipidaemia and diet-controlled diabetes was referred for resistant hypertension. Her blood pressure (BP) was un...

Robotic exoskeleton assessment of transient ischemic attack.

We used a robotic exoskeleton to quantify specific patterns of abnormal upper limb motor behaviour in people who have had transient ischemic attack (T...

Improving Arterial Spin Labeling by Using Deep Learning.

Purpose To develop a deep learning algorithm that generates arterial spin labeling (ASL) perfusion images with higher accuracy and robustness by using...

Sacubitril/Valsartan in an Elderly Patient with Heart Failure: A Case Report.

Sacubitril/valsartan has recently been approved for the treatment of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. Given its recent introduction in th...

Prediction of Hemorrhagic Transformation Severity in Acute Stroke From Source Perfusion MRI.

OBJECTIVE: Hemorrhagic transformation (HT) is the most severe complication of reperfusion therapy in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients. Management ...

Enhancing interpretability of automatically extracted machine learning features: application to a RBM-Random Forest system on brain lesion segmentation.

Machine learning systems are achieving better performances at the cost of becoming increasingly complex. However, because of that, they become less in...

White matter hyperintensity and stroke lesion segmentation and differentiation using convolutional neural networks.

White matter hyperintensities (WMH) are a feature of sporadic small vessel disease also frequently observed in magnetic resonance images (MRI) of heal...

Spontaneous Intraventricular Hemorrhage: When Should Intraventricular tPA Be Considered?

Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is the most common cause of intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) in adults. Complicating approximately 40% of ...