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Insight into heart regeneration
PublicationThe mammalian heart is thought to be incapable of regeneration because of the limited ability of cardiomyocytes. to proliferate. However, it has been recently shown that the neonatal murine heart is able to restore its normal function after coronary artery ligation or even partial resection. Unfortunately, this feature is lost in a few days after birth, although lower vertebrates as zebrafish or newt, retain this ability until adulthood. Therefore,...
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A System for Heart Sounds Classification
PublicationThe future of quick and efficient disease diagnosis lays in the development of reliable non-invasive methods. As for the cardiac diseases – one of the major causes of death around the globe – a concept of an electronic stethoscope equipped with an automatic heart tone identification system appears to be the best solution. Thanks to the advancement in technology, the quality of phonocardiography signals is no longer an issue. However,...
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Ordinal pattern statistics for the assessment of heart rate variability
PublicationThe recognition of all main features of a healthy heart rhythm (the so-called sinus rhythm) is still one of the biggest challenges in contemporary cardiology. Recently the interesting physiological phenomenon of heart rate asymmetry has been observed. This phenomenon is related to unbalanced contributions of heart rate decelerations and accelerations to heart rate variability. In this paper we apply methods based on the concept...
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Entropy Measures of heart rate variability for short ECG datasets in patients with congestive heart failure
PublicationWe investigated the usefulness of entropy measures calculated for short ECG series in distinguishing healthy subjects from patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). Four entropy measures were tested: Approximate Entropy (ApEn), Sample Entropy (SampEn), Fuzzy Entropy (Fuzzy En) and Permutation Entropy (PE), each computed for ECG series of 1000, 500, 250 and 100 RR intervals. We found that with a reduction of the data set length...
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Entropy measures of heart rate variability for short ECG datasets in patients with congestive heart failure
PublicationWe investigated the usefulness of entropy measures calculated for short ECG series in distinguishing healthy subjects from patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). Four entropy measures were tested: Approximate Entropy (ApEn), Sample Entropy (SampEn), Fuzzy Entropy (FuzzyEn) and Permutation Entropy (PE), each computed for ECG series of 1000, 500, 250 and 100 RR intervals. We found that with a reduction of the data set length...
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Cross-talk Between the Heart and Arteries in Older 65+ Adults
PublicationRegulatory synchronization between the heart and the arterial walls is essential for optimal blood delivery to tissues. We investigated functional coherence between heart rhythm and aortic wall compliance in 30 volunteers aged 65 – 74. ECG and carotid and iliac pulse-wave were recorded and digitized at 2 kHz. Carotid-femoral pulse-wave transit time (cfTT) which reflex aortic compliance was assessed using the intersecting tangent...
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Generalised heart rate statistics reveal neurally mediated homeostasis transients
PublicationDistributions of accelerations and decelerations, obtained from increments of heart rate recorded during a head-up tilt table (HUTT) test provide short-term characterization of the complex cardiovascular response to a rapid controlled dysregulation of homeostasis. A generalised statistic is proposed for evaluating the neural reflexes responsible for restoring the homeostatic dynamics. An evaluation of the effects on heart rate...
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Chronographic Imprint of Age-Induced Alterations in Heart Rate Dynamical Organization
PublicationBeat-to-beat changes in the heart period are transformed into a network of increments between subsequent RR-intervals, which enables graphical descriptions of short-term heart period variability. Three types of such descriptions are considered: (1) network graphs arising from a set of vertices and directed edges, (2) contour plots of adjacency matrices A, representing the networks and transition matrices T, resulting from A, and (3)...
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Visualization of short-term heart period variability with network tools as a method for quantifying autonomic drive
PublicationWe argue that network methods are successful in detecting nonlinear properties in the dynamics of autonomic nocturnal regulation in short-term variability. Two modes of visualization of networks constructed from RR-increments are proposed. The first is based on the handling of a state space. The state space of RR-increments can be modified by a bin size used to code a signal and by the role of a given vertex as the representation...
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Entropy Measures in the Assessment of Heart Rate Variability in Patients with Cardiodepressive Vasovagal Syncope
PublicationSample entropy (SampEn) was reported to be useful in the assessment of the complexity of heart rate dynamics. Permutation entropy (PermEn) is a new measure based on the concept of order and was previously shown to be accurate for short, non-stationary datasets. The aim of the present study is to assess if SampEn and PermEn obtained from baseline recordings might differentiate patients with various outcomes of the head-up tilt test...
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Invasive Assessment of the Myocardial Microcirculation during Beating Heart Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
PublicationCoronary artery bypass grafting may be associated with several cardiac complications, including ischemia, acute myocardial infarction, arrhythmias, or hemodynamic instability. Accumulating evidence suggests that well-developed coronary collateral circulation may protect against adverse effects, including myocardial ischemia. Assessment of myocardial microvascular perfusion is, therefore, of great clinical interest in beating heart...
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Persistent homology as a new method of the assessment of heart rate variability
PublicationHeart rate variability (hrv) is a physiological phenomenon of the variation in the length of the time interval between consecutive heartbeats. In many cases it could be an indicator of the development of pathological states. The classical approach to the analysis of hrv includes time domain methods and frequency domain methods. However, attempts are still being made to define new and more effective hrv assessment tools. Persistent...
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Independent Association Between Plasma Leptin Levels and Heart Rate in Heart Transplant Recipients
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Photoplethysmographic Time-Domain Heart Rate Measurement Algorithm for Resource-Constrained Wearable Devices and its Implementation
PublicationThis paper presents an algorithm for the measurement of the human heart rate, using photoplethysmography (PPG), i.e., the detection of the light at the skin surface. The signal from the PPG sensor is processed in time-domain; the peaks in the preprocessed and conditioned PPG waveform are detected by using a peak detection algorithm to find the heart rate in real time. Apart from the PPG sensor, the accelerometer is also used to...
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The PARAGON-Heart failure trial – another disappointment for heart failure patients with hypertension and preserved ejection fraction
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Partitioning total heart rate variability
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Relationship between heart rate variability, blood pressure and arterial wall properties during air and oxygen breathing in healthy subjects
PublicationPrevious studies reported that normobaric hyperoxia influences heart rate, arterial pressure, cardiac output and systemic vascular resistance, but the mechanisms underlying these changes are still not fully understood. Several factors are considered including degeneration of endothelium-derived nitric oxide by reactive oxygen species, the impact of oxygen-free radicals on tissues and alterations of autonomic nervous system function....
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Hyperventilation alters arterial baroreflex control of heart rate and muscle sympathetic nerve activity
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Rationale and design of Mind-HF: randomized trial of the original Mindfulness-Based Heart Training for patients with heart failure
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APPLICATION OF ENTROPY-BASED METHODS TO DISTINGUISH HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS WITH NORMAL SINUS RHYTHM FROM PATIENTS WITH CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE
PublicationIn this paper, we examined whether entropy-based methods are able to differentiate healthy individuals from patients with congestive heart failure. To this aim, we applied two methods: Permutation Entropy and Block Entropy. Long-term ECG recordings (75 000 RR intervals) were analyzed. The results proved that both methods can distinguish those groups on condition that the parameters are appropriately chosen.
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Wavelet Transform Analysis of Heart Rate to Assess Recovery Time for Long Distance Runners
PublicationThe diagnostics of the condition of athletes has become a field of special scientific interest and activity. The aim of this study was to verify the effect of a long (100 km) run on a group of runners, as well as to assess the recovery time that is required for them to return to the pre-run state. The heart rate (HR) data presented were collected the day before the extreme physical effort, on the same day as, but after, the physical...
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Statistical and fractal analysis of human heart dynamics.
PublicationPrzedstawiono sposób obliczania podstawowych i bardziej zaawansowanych (dyskrepancja) wielkości statystycznych do analizy dynamiki ludzkiego serca. Oprócz analizy statystycznej pokazano elementy analizy fraktalnej (wykresy Poincare). Przedstawiona analiza umożliwia wykrywanie patologicznych sytuacji i jest pomocna lekarzom w diagnostyce.
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Temporal Changes in Complexity of Cardiovascular Regulation during Head-Up Tilt Test by Entropic Measures of Fluctuations of Heart Period Intervals and Systolic Blood Pressure
PublicationTemporal changes in complexity of cardiovascular regulation during head-up tilt test by entropic measures of fluctuations of heart period intervals and systolic blood pressure
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Clinical characteristics and medical therapy in randomized clinical trial eligible-and-enrolled vs. eligible-but-not enrolled patients with ischaemic heart failure
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Heart Rate Asymmetry, Its Compensation, and Heart Rate Variability in Healthy Adults during 48-h Holter ECG Recordings
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The non-invasive evaluation of heart function in patients with an acute myocardial infarction: The role of impedance cardiography
PublicationBackground: The purpose of this study was to analyze hemodynamic changes in patients treated with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) at an early stage of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and at one-month follow-up. Methods: Patients with AMI (n = 27) who underwent PCI were analyzed using impedance cardiography (ICG). ICG data were collected continuously (beat by beat) during the whole PCI procedure and thereafter at every...
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Heart laceration during oesophagectomy for the treatment of oesophageal carcinoma
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Long-range dependencies in heart rate signals—revisited
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Analysis of correlation between heart rate and blood pressure
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono analizę korelacji pomiędzy częstością akcji serca (HR) i ciśnieniem krwi (BP). Wykorzystano rzeczywiste pomiary ciśnienia skurczowego i rozkurczowego krwi zmierzonego metodą inwazyjną w tętnicy promieniowej. Ze względu na możliwe zaszumienie sygnału przeanalizowano także dane po filtracji filttrem uśredniającycm oraz wykonano analizę trendów sygnałów. Wyniki analizy zarówno danych pomiarowych jak i filtrowanych...
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Acceptance of the disease and sexual functions of patients with heart failure
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EDITORIALHypertension and cardiovascular disease: Is arterial stiffness the heart of the matter?
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Heart rate variability and functional outcome in ischemic stroke
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Heart rate asymmetry by Poincaré plots of RR intervals
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Differentiating patients with obstructive sleep apnea from healthy controls based on heart rate-blood pressure coupling quantified by entropy-based indices
PublicationWe introduce an entropy-based classification method for pairs of sequences (ECPS) for quantifying mutual dependencies in heart rate and beat-to-beat blood pressure recordings. The purpose of the method is to build a classifier for data in which each item consists of two intertwined data series taken for each subject. The method is based on ordinal patterns and uses entropy-like indices. Machine learning is used to select a subset...
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Promising effects of xanthine oxidase inhibition by allopurinol on autonomic heart regulation estimated by heart rate variability (HRV) analysis in rats exposed to hypoxia and hyperoxia
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P774Transcoronary transfer of Wharton's jelly mesenchymal pluripotent stem cells in patients with chronic ischaemic heart failure shows safety and unprecedented high-grade myocardial uptake
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Cardiopoietic cell therapy for advanced ischemic heart failure: results at 39 weeks of the prospective, randomized, double blind, sham-controlled CHART-1 clinical trial
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Heart irradiation reduces microvascular density and accumulation of HSPA1 in mice
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The atherosclerotic heart disease and protecting properties of garlic: contemporary data
PublicationArtykuł jest pracą przeglądową zawierającą najnowsze dane dotyczące choroby serca w przebiegu miażdżycowym oraz ochonnych właściwości czosnku. Obecnie prowadzone badania wykazały fundamentalną rolę jaką odgrywa czosnek we wszystkich stadiach choroby. Liczne badania in-vitro potwierdzają zdolność czosnku do redukcji parametrów zachorowania na choroby serca w przebiegu miażdżycy: całkowity cholesterol, LDL, trigliceryny, utlenione...
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Disentangling respiratory sinus arrhythmia in heart rate variability records
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The PARAGON Heart Failure trial – ongoing investigation of the angiotensin receptor antagonist/neprilysin inhibitor sacubitril/valsartan in heart failure patients with hypertension and preserved ejection fraction
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Revitalizing the Sacral Complex of the Parish of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Gdynia: A Comprehensive Restoration Project in Alignment with Monument Conservator's Guidelines and Technical Prerequisites
PublicationReligiouscomplexes, due to their monumental character, belong to the group of facilities in which carrying out renovation works is difficult. Very often, construction works carried out as part of planned renovation work include not only modernization but also repair works, includingthose related to the reinforcement of structural elements. Renovation work in sacral buildings is particularly difficult when they...
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Multifractal estimates of monofractality in RR-heart series in power spectrum ranges
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Sympathetic Activation in Chronic Heart Failure: Potential Benefits of Interventional Therapies
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Effects of Peripheral Chemoreceptors Deactivation on Sympathetic Activity in Heart Transplant Recipients
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Enhanced Sympathetic and Ventilatory Responses to Central Chemoreflex Activation in Heart Failure
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Obstructive sleep apnea and heart rate asymmetry microstructure during sleep
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Serce nie sługa - przypadek gdański = Heart knows no master - Gdańsk case
PublicationBadanie przemieszczania się centrum miasta umożliwia syntaktyka przestrzeni i koncepcja rdzenia integracji. Przemieszczanie się centrum badano ta metodą na przykładzie Gdańska. Obszar rdzenia wyłoniony za pomocą modelu syntaktycznego odpowiada intensywności wynikającej z obecności poruszających się osób. Zjawisko transurbacji rejestruje się zazwyczaj ex post. Możliwe jest jednak modelowanie potencjalnych rozwiązań i testowanie...
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Evaluation of cardiac muscle microvessel density in children diagnosed with cyanotic heart defects
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Renal denervation reduces office and ambulatory heart rate in patients with uncontrolled hypertension
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