Surgical repair of an anomalous right pulmonary artery arising from the ascending aorta is rare. Angiocardiography is the procedure of choice in establishing the diagnosis. Surgical correction of the defect is mandatory; otherwise most of these children die in refractory heart failure. The present paper reports the first successful anatomic repair without a graft in a 2-month-old baby. Five mon...

Analysis of IC technology trends indicates that Iddq testing may be approaching its limits of applicability. The new concept of the current signature may expand this limit under the condition that an appropriate current-signature-based test methodology is developed. This paper is a first step toward such a goal. It is focused on current signature step detection in a noisy test environment. Appl...

Background: Congenital heart disease is the most common type of maternal abnormality and is the leading cause of mortality in the first year of life. The aim of this study was to determine the epidemiological and related factors of congenital heart disease (CHD) in children referred to the pediatric heart clinic of Vali-e-Asr Hospital of Birjand, Iran. <e...