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Irene Mendez Guerra

PhD candidate, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London
Verified email at imperial.ac.uk
Cited by 220

The reno-protective effect of hydration with sodium bicarbonate plus N-acetylcysteine in patients undergoing emergency percutaneous coronary intervention: the …

…, M Chaparro, B Prado, R Cózar, I Méndez… - Journal of the American …, 2007 - jacc.org
Objectives : This study was designed to determine the effectiveness of a protocol for rapid
intravenous hydration to prevent contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) in patients undergoing …

Evaluation of the Myo armband for the classification of hand motions

I Mendez, BW Hansen, CM Grabow… - 2017 International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pattern recognition-based control systems have been widely investigated in prostheses and
virtual reality environments to improve amputees' quality of life. Most of these systems use …

Clinical Features and Natural History of PRKAG2 Variant Cardiac Glycogenosis

…, D Bento, MK Jensen, I Méndez… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - jacc.org
Background PRKAG2 gene variants cause a syndrome characterized by cardiomyopathy,
conduction disease, and ventricular pre-excitation. Only a small number of cases have been …

Association of genetic variants with outcomes in patients with nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy

…, E Gonzalez-Lopez, I Méndez… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - jacc.org
Background The clinical relevance of genetic variants in nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy
(DCM) is unsettled. Objectives The study sought to assess the prognostic impact of disease…

Extensive antimicrobial resistance mobilization via multicopy plasmid encapsidation mediated by temperate phages

…, C Bernabe-Balas, EF Wedel, IS Mendez… - Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
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Wedel, Irene S Mendez, Maite Muniesa, Bruno Gonzalez-Zorn, Extensive antimicrobial resistance …

Clinical perspectives in upper limb prostheses: An update

AD Roche, B Lakey, I Mendez, I Vujaklija… - Current Surgery …, 2019 - Springer
Purpose of Review This paper aims to summarise the development trends in upper limb
bionics over the past 5 years. Recent Findings Increasingly pattern recognition and regression …

Natural History of MYH7-Related Dilated Cardiomyopathy

…, A Baas, JV Bjerre, E Zorio, I Méndez… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - jacc.org
Background Variants in myosin heavy chain 7 (MYH7) are responsible for disease in 1% to
5% of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM); however, the clinical characteristics and …

[HTML][HTML] Additional value of screening for minor genes and copy number variants in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

…, A Pérez-Serra, AI Fernandez-Avila, M Coll, I Méndez… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most prevalent inherited heart disease.
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is the preferred genetic test, but the diagnostic value …

On the robustness of real-time myoelectric control investigations: A multiday Fitts' law approach

A Waris, I Mendez, K Englehart, W Jensen… - Journal of neural …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Real-time myoelectric experimental protocol is considered as a means to quantify
usability of myoelectric control schemes. While usability should be considered over time to …

Increased Chamber Resting Tone Is a Key Determinant of Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction

…, MÁ Espinosa, A Lyon, I Méndez… - Circulation: Heart …, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
BACKGROUND: Twitch-independent tension has been demonstrated in cardiomyocytes, but
its role in heart failure (HF) is unclear. We aimed to address twitch-independent tension as …