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AUTHOR
Qiao Li
Case report: Spontaneous coronary artery dissection in a man with Ehlers–Danlos syndrome
BackgroundSpontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD), as a medical emergency, represents one of the non-atherosclerotic causes of an acute coronary syndrome (ACS). It often occurs in young and middle-aged females and is a rarity among male patients. Yet, it is easily misdiagnosed or missed even though it has one of the highest in-hospital mortality rates.Case summaryHere, we present a young male patient admitted to the emergency department of our hospital due to a complaint of acute chest pain. During his hospitalization, we utilized several tools, including imaging modalities, genetic analyses, and clinical strategies, to ensure a proper diagnosis and management of the patient. The resu…
An open access database for the evaluation of heart sound algorithms
In the past few decades, analysis of heart sound signals (i.e. the phonocardiogram or PCG), especially for automated heart sound segmentation and classification, has been widely studied and has been reported to have the potential value to detect pathology accurately in clinical applications. However, comparative analyses of algorithms in the literature have been hindered by the lack of high-quality, rigorously validated, and standardized open databases of heart sound recordings. This paper describes a public heart sound database, assembled for an international competition, the PhysioNet/Computing in Cardiology (CinC) Challenge 2016. The archive comprises nine different heart sound databases…