Neurobiologie angefertigt. " 'Hard-eyed' creatures and insects manifestly assume the posture of sleep; but the sleep of all such creatures is of brief duration, so that often it might well baffle one's observation to decide whether they sleep or not. " (Aristoteles, On Sleep and Sleeplessness 350 BC)

A five-year-old girl with partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection to the azygous vein with intact atrial septum is reported. The clinical and roentgenographic features suggested the correct diagnosis. Surgical correction of this previously unreported defect was accomplished by creating an atrial septal defect and constructing a baffle to direct the blood flow from the azygous vein to the ...

A young woman with congenital heart disease including dextrocardia presented to us following an out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation (VF) arrest. She had a dual-chamber pacemaker inserted already for bradycardia. Therewere concerns over the risk of baffle occlusion due to multiple transvenous wires. She received an entirely right-sided subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator wit...

A case of anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery in a patient with the origin of the coronary opposite to the aorta is reported. Between many surgical options we conclude to reestablish a double coronary system reconnecting the coronary through a conduit created with a pulmonary wall baffle and an autologous pericardial patch.

The strategy for the management of adult patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) often represents a challenge for cardiac surgeons and cardiologists due to complex anatomy, wide range of clinical presentations, and a high-risk profile. However, hybrid approach may represent an attractive solution. We report three cases of adult patients previously operated for CHD and recently treated with...

In order to establish an echocardiographic profile of patients with simple transposition after Mustard's operation, we examined the M-mode records of 10 patients who were found to be free of significant abnormalities at follow-up cardiac catheterization. When compared with established normals, right ventricular wall thicknesses and cavity dimensions were increased, while left ventricular wall t...

The step-type energy dissipator is widely used to construct small- and medium-sized reservoirs with its high dissipation rate. In order further improve air entrainment characteristics dissipation, reduce the influence of cavitation, in this paper, we added a trapezoidal baffle block at convex corner traditional step form block-step combination dissipator. We hydraulic model experiments numerica...