Remote engineering (also known as online engineering) may be defined as a combination of control engineering and telematics. In this area, specific activities require computacional skills in order to develop projects where electrical devives are monitored and / or controlled, in an intercative way, through a distributed network (e.g. Intranet or Internet). In our specific case, we will be deali...

INTRODUCTION Among long term athletes there is always present hypertrophy of the left ventricle walls as well as increased cardiac mass. These changes are the result of the heart muscle adaptation to load during the years of training, which should not be considered as pathology. In people suffering from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), there is also present hypertrophy of the left ventricle w...

There is limited experience in lung transplantation. The indications of lung transplantation in children are different compared with adults. There are some special problems in pediatric lung transplantation such as donor shortage, size discrepancy, growth potential of transplanted lung and hemodynamic problems. Although some of these problems have been solved, only 2% of lung and hearth-lung tr...