Integrating spheres are often used as calibration sources providing uniform radiance within a solid angle and/or uniform irradiance at a distance. The best performance in such a system can be achieved if one is able to evaluate as well as predict the important characteristics of the sphere system’s output, such as the spatial and angular distributions of radiance over the exit port, or the dist...

An unusual case of anomalous drainage of the right lung is described. The right superior pulmonary vein drained into the superior vena cava, and the middle and lower pulmonary veins drained into the inferior vena cava. Repair was achieved by creating a pericardial baffle that drained the inferior vein and the orifice of the superior vena cava through a surgically created atrial septal defect. T...

A 7-year-old boy developed increasing cyanosis after a total cavopulmonary connection with a 3 mm fenestration in the baffle. Catheterisation performed 4 years and 7 months after the operation showed reopening of a left superior caval vein draining into the pulmonary venous atrium. Due to the large size of the left superior caval vein, and the absence of intrinsic stenosis, we chose to use an A...

Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease continue to baffle us with regard to their aetiology and pathogenesis. Indeed, our understanding has increased little since the early days of ulcerative colitis when the major debate concerned the role of the intestinal flora and the host's response to it. It seems well established that the familial incidence is about 10-15% and recent studies from Sweden,...

Platypnea orthodeoxia is a rare syndrome that describes breathlessness on standing that resolves on lying flat. We present a previously healthy patient who developed platypnea orthodeoxia in her eighth decade of life. Cardiovascular imaging demonstrated an atrial septal defect, extensive Chiari network and atrial septal hypertrophy. We propose the development of lipomatous atrial septal hypertr...

Postoperative data were obtained at cardiac catheterization in twelve patients studied 6-29 months following Mustard's operation for transposition of the great arteries (TGA) to assess the incidence and severity of abnormalities of right ventricular (RV) function. Age at operation was 5-13 months in seven patients (infant group) and 19-25 months in the remaining five patients. RV end-diastolic ...

Case report The patient was initially palliated with balloon atrial septostomy before undergoing Mustard repair at age 1. The subsequent course was complicated by both inferior vena cava baffle stenosis and obstruction to pulmonary venous flow requiring surgical correction. Following these procedures, a dual-chamber permanent pacemaker was implanted for bradycardia at age 22 owing to presumed s...

One hundred and twenty patients with transposition of the great arteries (TGA) were encountered over a decade. Survivors have been followed until after definitive repair, and 39% were alive when reviewed. The majority (69%) had no significant communication between the pulmonary and systemic circulations. Of 48 patients in this poor-mixing group who had an atrial septectomy, 23 (48%) survived to...

Ogee spillway is the most important structure used to get rid of excess water during flood. Scouring phenomenon occurring in downstream region due high energy dissapation an envitable. This study aims reduce amount scour occurred at stilling basin ogee by using three dissipation blocks namely as baffle, triangle and stepped blocks. A new distribution was proposed for each type dissipated block,...