Objectives. Ninety-one fetuses with dilated or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (DCM, HCM) and myocarditis were studied. Results. Group 1 "DCM" included 19 fetuses: 13 with hydrops (FH) and 5 with associated extracardiac anomalies (ECAs) (15.8%). Group 2 "Myocarditis" included twelve fetuses, having 11 with FH. Group 3 "HCM" included sixty fetuses: 26 had associated ECAs, 17 had maternal diabetes, a...

Type 2 diabetes causes structural and functional changes in the myocardium, which is called cardiomyopathy. Diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a distinct primary disorder process, independent of coronary artery disease, which leads to heart failure in diabetic patients. Also, DCM is a multifaceted disorder that is one of the leading causes of death in elderly and postmenopausal women. Menopause i...

In this issue of the Netherlands Heart Journal, van der Linde et al. describe a novel Dutch founder mutation (MYH7p.Asn1918Lys) in MYH7, the gene encoding myosin heavy chain 7, leading to cardiomyopathy and congenital heart defects [1]. Van der Linde et al. showed that the MYH7p.Asn1918Lys mutation resulted in predominantly dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) but was also present in patients suffering...

The trajectory planning method with dynamics is the key to improving motion performance of manipulators. optimal control (OCM) a technology solve problems dynamics. There are direct and indirect methods in OCM; difficult apply engineering applications, so widely applied instead. collocation (DCM) OCM transform an problem (OCP) nonlinear (NLP), that plenty solvers can be used directly. However, ...

Parsing strategies in temporarily ambiguous sentences were investigated in readers with different sentence memory capacities using event-related brain potentials (ERPs). Readers with a high memory span as well as readers with a low memory span were required to read subject and object relative sentences which were either ambiguous until the last word (late disambiguation) or were disambiguated b...

Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death in both humans and dogs. Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) accounts for a large number of these cases, reported to be the third most common form of cardiac disease in humans and the second most common in dogs. In human studies of DCM there are more than 50 genetic loci associated with the disease. Despite canine DCM having similar disease progressio...

Recent work has shown the benefit of using proportional feedback in TCP/AQM networks. By proportional feedback we mean the marking probability is proportional to the instantaneous queue length. Our earlier work relied on linearization of nonlinear fluidflow models of TCP. In this work we address these nonlinearities directly and establish some stability results when the marking is proportional....

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) constitutes one of the most important unsolved challenges in the practice of forensic medicine. Most SCD are caused by hereditary conditions, of which hereditary cardiovascular diseases are the most frequent. More than 20 different pathological entities have been identified as a cause of SCD. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the major contributor to overall mortal...