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Tag: Echocardiogram
Heart Checkups Advised for Kids Who Play Sports
Key Takeaways:Sudden cardiac arrest is a leading cause of death among young athletes.Pre-participation heart screenings are advised for athletes ages 12 and above.Cardiac tests can detect 99% of abnormalities.Heart defects don’t prohibit kids from playing sports.The fact that sudden cardiac arrest is a leading cause of death in young athletes seems illogical, provoking an obvious question: “That’s the point,” says Children’s Hospital Los Angeles cardiologist Paul Kantor, MBBCh, MSc, FRCPC.
Why Do Some Long Covid Patients Continue to Have Difficulty Exercising?
In a study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, a team of researchers from UC San Francisco found that lower than expected exercise capacity was common among people with Long COVID and chronotropic incompetence (inadequate heart rate increase during exercise) was the most common reason. They also found reduced exercise capacity to be correlated with early post-Covid elevations of inflammatory biomarkers. In addition, they found that reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) may be related to reduced heart rate while exercising.
Is Artificial Intelligence Better at Assessing Heart Health?
Who can assess and diagnose cardiac function best after reading an echocardiogram: artificial intelligence (AI) or a sonographer?
Wearable Sensor Uses Ultrasound to Provide Cardiac Imaging On the Go
Engineers and physicians have developed a wearable ultrasound device that can assess both the structure and function of the human heart. The portable device, which is roughly the size of a postage stamp, can be worn for up to 24 hours and works even during strenuous exercise.
From Severe Ebstein Anomaly to a Normal Heart
How an intraoperative decision to do a cone procedure gave a 13-day-old neonate a normal heart
AI transforms smartwatch ECG signals into a diagnostic tool for heart failure
A study published in Nature Medicine reports the ability of a smartwatch ECG to accurately detect heart failure in nonclinical environments. Researchers at Mayo Clinic applied artificial intelligence (AI) to Apple Watch ECG recordings to identify patients with a weak heart pump. Participants in the study recorded their smartwatch ECGs remotely whenever they wanted, from wherever they were. Periodically, they uploaded the ECGs to their electronic health records automatically and securely via a smartphone app developed by Mayo Clinic’s Center for Digital Health.
Post-surgery Echocardiography Better Predicts Injury Severity, Scar Size in Mouse Model of Heart Disease
Article title: Post-surgery echocardiography can predict the amount of ischemia-reperfusion injury and the resultant scar size Authors: Yijun Yang, Giana J. Schena, Tao Wang, Steven R. Houser From the authors: “This improvement to study design could reduce the sample sizes…