Volume 21 Number 2 March 2012

AORTIC VALVE DISEASE
Computational Finite Element Analyses to Optimize Graft Sizing During Aortic Valve-Sparing Procedure Pasquale Totaro, Simone Morganti, Carole L. Ngo Yon, Roberto Dore, Michele Conti, Ferdinando Auricchio, Mario Vigano	141
Conventional Aortic Valve Replacement Remains a Safe Option in Patients Aged ≥70 Years: A 20-Year Experience Michael H. Yamashita, Jian Ye, W. R. Eric Jamieson, Anson Cheung, Samuel V. Lichtenstein	148
Editorial: Critical Aortic Stenosis: One More Vulnerable Group for Patient-Prosthesis Mismatch Ramdas G. Pai	156
Impact of Aortic Stenosis Severity and its Interaction with Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch on Operative Mortality Following Aortic Valve Replacement Nicolas Girerd, Patrick Mathieu, Jean G. Dumesnil, Julien Magne, Éric Charbonneau, François Dagenais, Éric Dumont, Pierre Voisine, Richard Baillot,Philippe Pibarot	158
Sutureless Aortic Valve Replacement Through a Right Minithoracotomy Alfredo Giuseppe Cerillo, Stefano Bevilacqua, Pier Andrea Farneti, Giovanni Concistrè, Mattia Glauber	168
An Acute Animal Model of Aortic Stenosis: Initial Attempts at Leaflet Modification Curtis A. Anderson, W. Chadwick Wood, Louis DiBernardo, Mary Erdmann, Alan P. Kypson	172
Valve-Sparing Aortic Root Replacement for Patients with a Fontan Circulation Eldad Erez, Vincent K. H. Tam, Carlos Galliani, Andrew Lashus, Nancy A. Doublin, Jana Peretti	175
Aortic Root Distensibility after Subcoronary Stentless Valve Implantation Jonas A. Funder, Markus W. Frost, Kaj-Erik Klaaborg, Per Wierup, Vibeke Hjortdal, Hans Nygaard, J. Michael Hasenkam	181
Aortic Elastic Properties and Left Ventricular Diastolic Function in Patients with Isolated Bicuspid Aortic Valve Emine Bilen, Murat Akcay, Nihal A. Bayram, Omran Kocak, Mustafa Kurt	189
Mid-Term Results of Different Aortic Valve-Sparing Procedures in Marfan Syndrome Claudia Schmidtke, Antje Karluss, Holger Sier, Michael Hüppe, Kirk Brauer, Hans-H. Sievers	195
MITRAL VALVE DISEASE
Hemodynamic Assessment of Mitral Stenosis: Mitral Valve Resistance as an Echocardiographic Index Ibrahim Halil Tanboga, Mustafa Kurt, Mehmet Ekinci, Turgay Isik, Ahmet Kaya, Emine Bilen, Enbiya Aksakal	203
Percutaneous Closure of Mitral Paravalvular Leaks: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Farouk Mookadam, Serageldin F. Raslan, Panupong Jiamsripong, Uzma Jalal, Mohammad Hassan Murad	208
Persistence of Mitral Regurgitation Following Ring Annuloplasty: Is the Papillary Muscle Outside or Inside the Ring? Judy Hung, Jorge Solis, Mark D. Handschumacher, J. Luis Guerrero, Robert A. Levine	218
The Effects of Dynamic Saddle Annulus and Leaflet Length on Transmitral Flow Pattern and Leaflet Stress of a Bileaflet Bioprosthetic Mitral Valve Arash Kheradvar, Ahmad Falahatpisheh	225
MISCELLANEOUS
Valvular Heart Diseases in the Developing World: Developmental Biology Takes Center Stage Emily J. Farrar, Jonathan T. Butcher	234
The Pathology of TRI-Tech Valve Leaflet Escape Mila Della Barbera, Tomaso Bottio, Annalisa Angelini, Giovanni Domenico Cresce, Massimo Montisci, Gino Gerosa, Marialuisa Valente, Gaetano Thiene	241
An Ovine Model of Pulmonary Insufficiency and Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Dilatation J. Daniel Robb, Matthew A. Harris, Masahito Minakawa, Evelio Rodriguez, Kevin J. Koomalsingh, Takashi Shuto, Yoav Dori, Robert C. Gorman, Joseph H. Gorman, III, Matthew J. Gillespie	247
The Role of the Sewing Ring in Tissue Healing: A Pathologic Study of Explanted Mechanical Heart Valves Mathew V. Kurian, Arumugam Sabareeswaran, Muniraj Kanchanamala, Seetharaman Balachandran, Dhananjayan Mogileswari, Vijayakumar Subban	253
Pasteurella multocida Endocarditis Muhammad F. Khan, Mohammad Reza Movahed, Jiyeon Jung	260
HOW TO DO IT
An Interrupted Suture Technique for Ascending Aortic Replacement Concomitant to Aortic Valve Repair J. Scott Rankin	263
CASE REPORTS
Double Freestyle Valve Replacement in a Patient with a Prior Ross Procedure Aaron H. Healy, John R. Doty	267
Tricuspid Valvar Regurgitation in Congenital Absence of the Pericardium Ricardo Petraco, Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Michael A. Gatzoulis	270
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Mitral Regurgitation as a Late Complication of Stroke Prevention by the WATCHMAN-Device Claudia Stöllberger MD, Josef Finsterer PhD, MD, Aileen Hanafin, Birke Schneider MD	272
Lambl’s Excrescence: Recapitulation of a Human Phenotype in a Mouse Ramzi N. El Accaoui, Jian Q. Shao, Donald D. Lund, Robert M. Weiss	273

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