The affinity of some chromosomal anomalies for certain types of congenital heart disease is well known, e.g. atrioventricular defects in Down's syndrome and coarctation of the aorta in Turner's syndrome. Many reports on several types of congenital heart disease in close or more distant family relationships have aroused suspicion that genetic factors may be important also in other patients. Repo...

Linear photonic crystal waveguides with different channel widths realized in silicon membranes are investigated by means of attenuated-total-reflectance ATR measurements. The dispersion of line-defect modes with both parities with respect to a vertical plane bisecting the waveguide channel is determined, thereby allowing one to distinguish between multimode and single-mode behavior. The presenc...

Loss of Achilles tendon combined with overlying soft tissue loss is a challenging problem. Multiple techniques like tendon graft with coverage by soft tissue flap or composite flaps have been used. All these options are technically demanding. Reports do exist whereby muscle flaps bridging the defect used as cover in course of time could transmit the tendon force across the defect. We are presen...

Visual pseudohallucinations are reported on in a patient with a left lower quadrantanopia due to a right parietotemporal surgical defect after tumour removal. Besides metamorphopsia, he hallucinated the lower half of human figures which were limited to within the borders of the anopic defect and appeared “amputated” at the hip with one forearm and hand appearing from above in correct anatomical...

Diaphragmatic injuries are relatively rare and as such frequently missed, particularly if they occur as a rare event on the right-sided dome. Even if detected in the early phase, the concomitant injury of other organs may delay the time to repair. The delay in surgical correction may aggravate additional adherences between thoracic and abdominal organs and cause the diaphragmatic muscle to retr...

In this work, we explore the possibility of designing photonic crystals to act as magnetic metamaterials: structures that exhibit magnetic properties despite the nonmagnetic character of their constituents. The building blocks of a magnetic material are microscopic magnetic dipoles, and to create a synthetic analog we employ point-defect modes in a photonic crystal. We begin by identifying a po...

Visual pseudohallucinations are reported on in a patient with a left lower quadrantanopia due to a right parietotemporal surgical defect after tumour removal. Besides metamorphopsia, he hallucinated the lower half of human figures which were limited to within the borders of the anopic defect and appeared "amputated" at the hip with one forearm and hand appearing from above in correct anatomical...