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Echocardiographic recognition of a criss-cross heart with double outlet right ventricle
Crisscross heart (CCH) is a rare cardiac malformation characterized by crossing of the inflow
streams of the two ventricles due to an apparent twisting of the heart about its long axis. The
developmental mechanisms and causes of CCH are remaining unknown. Neonates mainly presents
with cyanosis and a systolic murmur. This article presents a case of CCH with concordant
atrioventriculo connections with double outlet right ventricle (DORV), which was diagnosed by
echocardiography.peer-reviewe
Time integration and steady-state continuation for 2d lubrication equations
Lubrication equations allow to describe many structurin processes of thin
liquid films. We develop and apply numerical tools suitable for their analysis
employing a dynamical systems approach. In particular, we present a time
integration algorithm based on exponential propagation and an algorithm for
steady-state continuation. In both algorithms a Cayley transform is employed to
overcome numerical problems resulting from scale separation in space and time.
An adaptive time-step allows to study the dynamics close to hetero- or
homoclinic connections. The developed framework is employed on the one hand to
analyse different phases of the dewetting of a liquid film on a horizontal
homogeneous substrate. On the other hand, we consider the depinning of drops
pinned by a wettability defect. Time-stepping and path-following are used in
both cases to analyse steady-state solutions and their bifurcations as well as
dynamic processes on short and long time-scales. Both examples are treated for
two- and three-dimensional physical settings and prove that the developed
algorithms are reliable and efficient for 1d and 2d lubrication equations,
respectively.Comment: 33 pages, 16 figure
Double orifice mitral valve associated with Ventricular Septal Defect in an infant : case report
Double orifice mitral valve (DOMV) is an uncommon anomaly characterized by a
mitral valve with a single fibrous annulus with two orifices opening into the left
ventricle. Here we present a rare case of DOMV with ventricular septal defect (VSD)
which was detected by 2-D echocardiography.peer-reviewe
Cell motility: a viscous fingering analysis of active gels
The symmetry breaking of the actin network from radial to longitudinal
symmetry has been identified as the major mechanism for keratocytes (fish
cells) motility on solid substrate. For strong friction coefficient, the two
dimensional actin flow which includes the polymerisation at the edge and
depolymerisation in the bulk can be modelled as a Darcy flow, the cell shape
and dynamics being then modelled by standard complex analysis methods. We use
the theory of active gels to describe the orientational order of the filaments
which varies from the border to the bulk. We show analytically that the
reorganisation of the cortex is enough to explain the motility of the cell and
find the velocity as a function of the orientation order parameter in the bulk.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in EPJ - Plu
Asymptotic Capture-Number and Island-Size Distributions for One-Dimensional Irreversible Submonolayer Growth
Using a set of evolution equations [J.G. Amar {\it et al}, Phys. Rev. Lett.
{\bf 86}, 3092 (2001)] for the average gap-size between islands, we calculate
analytically the asymptotic scaled capture-number distribution (CND) for
one-dimensional irreversible submonolayer growth of point islands. The
predicted asymptotic CND is in reasonably good agreement with kinetic
Monte-Carlo (KMC) results and leads to a \textit{non-divergent asymptotic}
scaled island-size distribution (ISD). We then show that a slight modification
of our analytical form leads to an analytic expression for the asymptotic CND
and a resulting asymptotic ISD which are in excellent agreement with KMC
simulations. We also show that in the asymptotic limit the self-averaging
property of the capture zones holds exactly while the asymptotic scaled gap
distribution is equal to the scaled CND.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Cor triatriatum sinister with situs inversus totalis in an infant.
Cor triatriatum sinister is a rare congenital cardiac malformation characterized by a membrane in
the left atrium which separates the left atrium into the proximal and distal chambers.Association of
cor triatriatum is extremely rare with situs inversus totalis. This article reports a rare case of cor
triatriatum sinister with situs inversus totalis in a 5 month old female infantpeer-reviewe
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