To Egypt--with my defibrillator

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator in a patient with dextrocardia situs inversus

Background: Dextrocardia is a congenital anomaly, which may have coexistent coronary artery disease (CAD), arrhythmias and conventional indications for device therapy. However, the implantation of transvenous leads can be technically challenging and the approach needs to be tailored to the patient's individual anatomy. Case presentation: A 54-year-old male with dextrocardia situs inversus and i...

Dedicated to My Whole Family, Especially My Mother, My Husband and My Children

To My Dear Parents , & To My Lovely Mahsa

Acknowledgement Although developing Aryan was my dissertation project, I had the advantage of having many people by my side without whom this wouldn't have been possible. Hereby, I would like to acknowledge each of their contributions in the process. Professor Cynthia Breazeal is the first person I owe my deepest appreciation to. She had a major role to get this project up and running. When I f...

My child needs or has an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator: what should I do?

The identification of a heart problem in a child can create fear and uncertainty for parents. This patient page will address some common questions from parents of school-age children who require therapy with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD). It is intended to be a parental resource to promote understanding and confidence in children and young adults to live successfully with an ICD.

To my dear parents and to my lovely wife

The research reported in this thesis proposes, designs and tests the Quality-Oriented Adaptation Scheme (QOAS), an application-level adaptive scheme that offers high quality multimedia services to home residences and business premises via local broadband IP-networks in the presence of other traffic of different types. QOAS uses a novel client-located grading scheme that maps some network-relate...