Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Northwestern University

Chicago Community Foundation

Debra E Weese-Mayer

Matthew R Glucksberg

Kirby D Gong

Emma S Cripe

Anthony Chin

Michelle Wang

Alexey Revinski

Lili Zhou

Michael S Carroll

Elizabeth M Berry-Kravis

A system for electrical ventilation stimulation of a patient including an implantable nerve stimulator including a stimulation circuit and a pulse generator that produces biphasic charge-balanced pulses to stimulate a phrenic nerve, an external digital programming device having near field communication transmission and a digital interface, and wherein the external digital programming device is used to control settings of the implantable nerve stimulator.

Digitally adjustable phrenic nerve stimulator system

A system for thermoregulatory sweat testing of a subject includes a chamber for accommodating the subject, the chamber having a heating device for operably elevating the core body temperature of the subject to a target temperature so as to induce sweating over a skin surface of the subject; a cooling device for operably creating forced evaporative cooling of the skin surface of the subject after the core body temperature of the subject is elevated to the target temperature; an imaging device for acquiring images of the subject at different times, each image having imaged pixels, the imaging device including one or more infrared cameras, one or more infrared sensors, or a combination of them; and a controller coupled with the chamber and the imaging device for controlling operations of the chamber and the imaging device and processing the acquired images to determine skin surface sweat distributions of the subject.

Systems and methods for thermoregulatory sweat testing

The present invention provides assays and kits for diagnosing idiopathic congenital central hypoventilation syndrome. The present assays and kits focus on the second polyalanine repeat of the PHOX2b gene or gene product, which is normally 20 residues in length. A polyalanine repeat 25 to 33 residues in length is strongly correlated with idiopathic congenital central hypoventilation syndrome.

Methods and primers for diagnosing idiopathic congenital central hypoventilation syndrome

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Chicago, IL, United States of America

Debra E Weese-Mayer