Publications related to Pulmonary heart disease

Multi-site, Multi-domain Airway Tree Modeling

Jiancheng Yang, Yi Wu, Ying Zhu, Boyu Zhang

Open international challenges are becoming the de facto standard for assessing computer vision and image analysis algorithms. In recent years, new methods have extended the reach of pulmonary airway segmentation that is closer to the limit of image resolut ...

Elsevier2023

Topology Repairing of Disconnected Pulmonary Airways and Vessels: Baselines and a Dataset

Jiancheng Yang

Accurate segmentation of pulmonary airways and vessels is crucial for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary diseases. However, current deep learning approaches suffer from disconnectivity issues that hinder their clinical usefulness. To address this cha ...

Springer International Publishing Ag2023

Effect of the structural modification of Candesartan with Zinc on hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Augusto Martins Lima, Valeria Romina Martinez

Hypertension is the most common cause of left ventricular hypertrophy, contributing to heart failure progression. Candesartan (Cand) is an angiotensin receptor antagonist widely used for hypertension treatment. Structural modifications were previously perf ...

ELSEVIER2023

Assessing real-world gait with digital technology? Validation, insights and recommendations from the Mobilise-D consortium

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu, Abolfazl Soltani, Francesca Salis

Background: Although digital mobility outcomes (DMOs) can be readily calculated from real-world data collected with wearable devices and ad-hoc algorithms, technical validation is still required. The aim of this paper is to comparatively assess and validat ...

BioMed Central2023

Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Agents Based on Multivalent Inhibitors of Viral Infectivity

Francesco Stellacci

The ongoing pandemic of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), caused by the spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS CoV-2), highlights the need for broad-spectrum antiviral drugs. In this Essay, it is argued that such agents alrea ...

WILEY2021

Methods to Enhance Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Sensitivity at High Magnetic Field

Claudia Christina Zanella

MR is a well-established technique routinely used in preclinical and clinical studies. This thesis focussed on the improvement of sensitivity of different methods in MR. Hyperpolarized 129Xe gas is used for studying pulmonary disease or cerebral perfusion ...

EPFL2021

A Machine-Generated View of the Role of Blood Glucose Levels in the Severity of COVID-19

Henry Markram, Emmanuelle Logette, Samuel Claude Kerrien, Enrico Scantamburlo, Daniel Keller, Jay Coggan, Cyrille Pierre Henri Favreau, Francesco Casalegno, Mohameth François Sy, Anna-Kristin Kaufmann, Pierre-Alexandre Fonta, Marine Laure Bertschy

SARS-CoV-2 started spreading toward the end of 2019 causing COVID-19, a disease that reached pandemic proportions among the human population within months. The reasons for the spectrum of differences in the severity of the disease across the population, an ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2021

Micrometer-resolution X-ray tomographic full-volume reconstruction of an intact post-mortem juvenile rat lung

Goran Lovric, Marco Stampanoni, Anders Larsson

In this article, we present an X-ray tomographic imaging method that is well suited for pulmonary disease studies in animal models to resolve the full pathway from gas intake to gas exchange. Current state-of-the-art synchrotron-based tomographic phase-con ...

SPRINGER2021

Increasing heart vascularisation after myocardial infarction using brain natriuretic peptide stimulation of endothelial and WT1(+) epicardial cells

Na Li, Alexia Laurie Carboni

Brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) treatment increases heart function and decreases heart dilation after myocardial infarction (MI). Here, we investigated whether part of the cardioprotective effect of BNP in infarcted hearts related to improved neovascularis ...

2020

Relative Effects of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program on Hospitals That Serve Poorer Patients

Yun Wang, Christine Choirat

Importance: Hospitals that serve poorer populations have higher readmission rates. It is unknown whether these hospitals effectively lowered readmission rates in response to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP). Objective: To compare pre-post ...

2019

FIBCD1 Binds Aspergillus fumigatus and Regulates Lung Epithelial Response to Cell Wall Components

Lalit Kumar Dubey

Aspergillus fumigatus (A. fumigatus) is a ubiquitous fungus of clinical importance associated with development of various pulmonary diseases and allergic hypersensitivity reactions. It is protected against environmental stress by a cell wall that contains ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2018

Submaximal exercise testing at low altitude for prediction of exercise tolerance at high altitude

Johannes Burtscher

Annually, thousands of air travellers visit high altitude destinations to enjoy hiking tours to attractions in surrounding areas. However, many of them are not adequately trained, not sufficiently acclimatized and/or may suffer from pre-existing diseases. ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC2018

Designing Safer Analgesics via mu-Opioid Receptor Pathways

Shuguang Yuan, Jianing Li

Pain is both a major clinical and economic problem, affecting more people than diabetes, heart disease, and cancer combined. While a variety of prescribed or over-the-counter (OTC) medications are available for pain management, opioid medications, especial ...

Elsevier Science London2017

Enteric helminth-induced type I interferon signaling protects against pulmonary virus infection through interaction with the microbiota

Nicola Harris, Eva Sabrina Gollwitzer, Benjamin John Marsland

BACKGROUND: Helminth parasites have been reported to have beneficial immunomodulatory effects in patients with allergic and autoimmune conditions and detrimental consequences in patients with tuberculosis and some viral infections. Their role in coinfectio ...

Elsevier2017

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

Touch-Based System for Beat-to-Beat Impedance Cardiogram Acquisition and Hemodynamic Parameters Estimation

David Atienza Alonso, Francisco Javier Rincon Vallejos, Srinivasan Murali, Dionisije Sopic

Among all cardiovascular diseases, congestive heart failure (CHF) has a very high rate of hospitalization and mortality. In order to prevent hospitalization, there is a strong need to identify patients at risk of a CHF event by estimating a set of relevant ...

IEEE/ACM Press2016

Ultrafast laser ablation for targeted atherosclerotic plaque removal

Laurent Descloux, Demetri Psaltis, Donald Benjaman Conkey, Thomas Jean Victor Marie Lanvin

Coronary artery disease, the main cause of heart disease, develops as immune cells and lipids accumulate into plaques within the coronary arterial wall. As a plaque grows, the tissue layer (fibrous cap) separating it from the blood flow becomes thinner and ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015

Thymic stromal lymphopoietin plays divergent roles in murine models of atopic and nonatopic airway inflammation

Nicola Harris, Benjamin John Marsland, Ilaria Mosconi

BackgroundThymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) is a cytokine primarily produced by epithelial cells, which has been shown to be a potent inducer of T-helper 2 (Th2)-type responses. However, TSLP has pleiotropic effects upon immune cells, and although extens ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Identification of airway bacterial colonization by an electronic nose in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Background: Airway bacterial colonization by potentially pathogenic microorganisms occurs in a proportion of patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). It increases airway inflammation and influences outcomes negatively. Yet, its diagnosis ...

Elsevier2014

Artificial Muscle for End-Stage Heart Failure

Alexandre Michalis, Didier Locca, Ludwig Von Segesser

We describe a device made of artificial muscle for the treatment of end-stage heart failure as an alternative to current heart assist devices. The key component is a matrix of nitinol wires and aramidic fibers called Biometal muscle (BM). When heated elect ...

2012