シュウキョウガ ノ カンショウ キョウイク カツドウ ニ ノゾム : ソノ ケイカク ウンエイ ト タントウ ガクセイ ノ ヘンカ

In 2009, we held an educational art workshop on stories from the Old Testament at the Otsuka Museum of Art in Naruto City. This workshop is one of the activities of N＊CAP（Naruto Children’s Art Park）. The purpose is for local children to become more familiar with and appreciate the art. During this activity, children showed interest towards the paintings related to biblical stories and showed no reluctance towards them, which was our initial concern. However there is some room for improvement such as increasing the motivation of the university students and allocating time properly for children to be focused throughout the workshop. These are the main points that can be improved. Using the improvement points from the 2010 workshop, we held another activity using the theme of the New Testament. This time, our coordinator only gave the university students the theme and let them delegate the activities. They let two students who were in charge of organizing the event handle all matters. These students improved the plan with their classmates taking into consideration previous workshops and carried out the plan on their own. They held a craft workshop making pseudo stained glass using vinyl sheets which is safer and easier for children to use. In this workshop, children showed no sign of fatigue, and enjoyed doing the crafts very much while completing work of their own. The high motivation of the students led to the success of this workshop. One of the benefits of this workshop is that the students were able to appreciate the paintings with a deeper perception. They are now able to seek out small details of biblical paintings of the Medieval Gothic Period and cherish the meanings of them.

Quantitative analysis and characteristics of the electrograms recorded within the non-coronary aortic sinus of Valsalva.

Background: Some supraventricular tachycardias could be ablated from the non-coronary sinus of Valsalva (NSV). However, the characteristics of the NSV electrograms have not been clarified. Methods and Results: A quantitative analysis of the NSV electrograms was performed in 5 patients with tachycardias arising from near the atrioventricular node (AVN) and the His-bundle region, and in 20 control subjects. In another 7 control subjects, the NSV electrograms were compared with those recorded at the left and right sinus of Valsalva (LSV and RSV). The NSV electrograms during sinus rhythm had a larger atrial amplitude than ventricular amplitude, and the ratio of the atrial amplitude to the ventricular amplitude was usually >1, which was apparently different from the LSV and RSV electrograms. A tiny but distinct His-bundle deflection was sometimes recorded at the NSV during sinus rhythm while it was not during the tachycardia. The distance to the His-bundle region in the anteroseptal right atrium was shorter from the NSV than from the RSV or LSV. Conclusions: The precise identification of the catheter position at the NSV is possible using the characteristics of the electrograms. Much attention should be paid during ablation to the NSV because of its vicinity to the AVN and His-bundle region. (Circ J 2009; 73: 838 - 845)出版者照会後に全文公