Background: "Carney Complex (CNC) is a familial lentiginosis syndrome, caused by mutations that lead to cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) signaling pathway abnormalities, predisposing to a variety of skin tumors, myxomas and endocrine tumors.
Methods/results: We describe a Greek family diagnosed with CNC after recurrent embolic strokes, secondary to left-sided atrial myxomas. There are limited cases in the literature describing this type of presentation for CNC; typically, most cases present with an endocrine syndrome.
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
July 2020
Parkinson's Disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder with the non-motor symptoms preceding the motor impairment that is needed for clinical diagnosis. In the current study, an angle-based analysis that processes activity data during sleep from a smartwatch for quantification of sleep quality, when applied on controls and PD patients, is proposed. Initially, changes in their arm angle due to activity are captured from the smartwatch triaxial accelerometry data and used for the estimation of the corresponding binary state (awake/sleep).
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July 2019
Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that manifests through slowly progressing symptoms, such as tremor, voice degradation and bradykinesia. Automated detection of such symptoms has recently received much attention by the research community, owing to the clinical benefits associated with the early diagnosis of the disease. Unfortunately, most of the approaches proposed so far, operate under a strictly laboratory setting, thus limiting their potential applicability in real world conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFParkinson's Disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder worldwide, causing both motor and non-motor symptoms. In the early stages, symptoms are mild and patients may ignore their existence. As a result, they do not undergo any related clinical examination; hence delaying their PD diagnosis.
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