A Robot-Assisted Framework for Rehabilitation Practices: Implementation and Experimental Results.

One of the most interesting characteristics of collaborative robots is their ability to be used in close cooperation scenarios. In industry, this facilitates the implementation of human-in-loop workflows. However, this feature can also be exploited in different fields, such as healthcare.

An online method to monitor hand muscle tone during robot-assisted rehabilitation.

Robot-assisted neurorehabilitation is becoming an established method to complement conventional therapy after stroke and provide intensive therapy regimes in unsupervised settings (e.g., home rehabilitation).

Relevance of coronary microvascular flow impairment to long-term remodeling and systolic dysfunction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Objectives: This study sought to evaluate whether the entity of microvascular dysfunction, assessed by positron emission tomography (PET), predicts the long-term development of left ventricular (LV) remodeling and systolic dysfunction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).

Background: A subgroup of patients with HCM developed LV dilation and systolic impairment. A causal role of coronary microvascular dysfunction has been suggested as the underlying pathophysiological mechanism.

Coronary microvascular dysfunction and prognosis in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Background: Microvascular dysfunction, reflected by an inadequate increase in myocardial blood flow in response to dipyridamole infusion, is a recognized feature of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Its long-term effect on the prognosis is unknown. We prospectively evaluated a cohort of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy after they had undergone quantitative assessment of myocardial blood flow by positron-emission tomography (PET).