Now that ventricular septal defect is amenable to surgical repair it is most important to define the indications for surgical intervention. In this paper the natural history of the disease and its clinical and physiologic characteristics are carefully detailed. These observations permit better recognition and understanding of the condition and offer a basis for comparison with results after sur...

Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs) are increasingly used to treat advanced heart failure. While most patients with an LVAD have implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD) in situ, there limited data on the frequency and causes of ICD therapies LVADs. To define incidence, programming patient characteristics associated appropriate inappropriate shocks persons ICDs We performed a retrospective r...

This paper describes a simulation system for human extremities that uses haptic interaction in order to provide the user with an additional sensory channel of information for the presented data. The main focus lies on the haptic modeling of the human upper limb. The properties that can be explored haptically include kinesiologic parameters, physiologic attributes and tissue characteristics.

A case of subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis caused by Cladophialophora sp. is reported. The patient, an immunosuppressed host presented a nodule on the dorsum of the right hand which relapsed four months after excision. Dematiaceous septate hyphal and yeast like elements were seen in mycological and histological examination. The isolated fungus was identified on the basis of micro-macromorphologic...