OBJECTIVES Rhythm disturbances are an important cause of morbidity in Fontan patients. Currently, the total cavopulmonary connection is performed by using the intra-atrial lateral tunnel (ILT) ('baffle ILT' or 'prosthetic ILT'), or the extracardiac conduit (ECC). The aim of the study was to evaluate rhythm abnormalities and compare the surgical techniques in a contemporary cohort. METHODS In ...

The transition to Advanced LIGO introduces new sensitivity requirements for the LIGO interferometers. When light scatters away from the main laser beam, then scatters off the beam tube and returns to the main beam, noise is introduced into the phase of the laser. The Auxiliary Optics Support subsystem uses baffles and beam dumps to control this scatter, but the baffle material and shape contrib...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the parental relationship of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) from an extended pedigree with extensive genealogical information up to the middle of the 18th century. DESIGN Multiple sclerosis is a complex disease resulting from genetic and environmental factors. Parent-of-origin effect, a phenomenon when the same allele may express differently depending on the se...

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 ...

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is defined as sudden, usually unilateral, severe, brief, stabbing, lancinating, paroxysmal, recurring pain in the distribution of one or more branches of 5th cranial nerve. „Tic Douloureux‟ and „Fothergill‟s disease „are the synonyms used to describe the same disease. In spite of the condition being known since centuries, it still continues to baffle the clinician and ...

Fatigue tests are a very time consuming process in engineering, in which also a lot of energy is required. Speeding up fatigue tests and making them less energy consuming, would lead to major profits. The aim of this study is to obtain these profits by the development of a new bending fatigue test. In addition, the objective is to apply this new method to the bending fatigue test of rings from ...

A 35 year old woman with clinically definite early relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis was readmitted for the second acute relapse within four weeks. Since her recent admission there had been worsening of right facial sensory loss, she had developed a hemiparesis on the right, and complained of an alteration of her vision. On examination there was bilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia with ...