Fahr Syndrome: When Dysarthria Doesn't Mean a Stroke.

Fahr syndrome is a rare neurodegenerative disorder, characterized by calcium deposition in the brain. It is usually associated with phosphocalcium metabolism disorders, like hypoparathyroidism, or with genetical predisposition, as seen in Fahr disease. Given the wide array of differential diagnoses medical awareness should be emphasized to prompt diagnosis and management.

Spinal Cord Infarction Presenting as Right-Sided Upper Back Pain: A Case Report.

Spinal cord infarction is a very rare event with a wide variety of symptoms at presentation. We describe the case of a 39-year-old man who presented to the emergency department with atypical chest pain. The initial investigations were non-diagnostic, and the patient was admitted for surveillance.

Design and Evaluation of Novel Textile Wearable Systems for the Surveillance of Vital Signals.

This article addresses the design, development, and evaluation of T-shirt prototypes that embed novel textile sensors for the capture of cardio and respiratory signals. The sensors are connected through textile interconnects to either an embedded custom-designed data acquisition and transmission unit or to snap fastener terminals for connection to external monitoring devices. The performance of the T-shirt prototype is evaluated in terms of signal-to-noise ratio amplitude and signal interference caused by baseline wander and motion artefacts, through laboratory tests with subjects in standing and walking conditions.

Novel textile systems for the continuous monitoring of vital signals: design and characterization.

In this article we present a smart textile system for the continuous monitoring of cardiorespiratory signals, produced and integrated with an industrial embroidery unit. The design of a T-shirt system, having embedded textile sensors and interconnects and custom designed circuit for data collection and Bluetooth transmission is presented. The performance of skin-contact textile electrodes, having distinctive electrical characteristics and surface morphologies, was characterized by measurements of signal to noise ratio, under dry and moisture conditions.

[COPD exacerbation or something else? Clinical case].

The authors present the case of a 45 -year -old female patient with Down syndrome, and known past medical history of COPD with multiple hospital admissions in the context of exacerbation of his lung disease. The facts refer to his latest hospitalization, whose motive, prior interpreted as a further exacerbation episode, after careful clinical reassessment and use of appropriate additional means of diagnosis, appeared to be due to an unusual cause. By presenting this case, the authors call the attention to the difficulty presented by particular situations, as well as to the risks of uncritical acceptance of common diagnoses.