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Volume 21 Number 5 September 2012

MITRAL VALVE DISEASE
Factors Predicting Emergency Surgery in Severe Mitral Regurgitation Following Mitral Balloon Valvotomy Shantanu Pande, Surendra K. Agarwal, Sudeep Kumar, Ram K. Shukla, Nishant Tripathy, Ravi K. Singh, Nakul Sinha	551
Mitral Annuloplasty with IMR ETlogix® Ring for Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation and Left Ventricular Dysfunction Giuseppe Gatti, Bruno Pinamonti, Luca Dell’Angela, Francesco Antonini-Canterin, Bernardo Benussi, Gianfranco Sinagra, Aniello Pappalardo	556
The Impact of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention on Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation Anna M. Booher, Stanley J. Chetcuti, David S. Bach	564
Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Levels are Correlated with Mitral Valve Calcification Score in Patients with Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis Bunyamin Yavuz, Omer Sen, Onur Sinan Deveci, Kadir Okhan Akin, Kursat Dal, Naim Ata, Derun Taner Ertugrul	570
AORTIC VALVE DISEASE
Aortic Valve Replacement in Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Patients with Preserved Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Olaf Schulz, Debora Brala, Ricarda Bensch, Jochen Krämer, Jeanette Schulz-Menger, Gunnar Berghoefer, Ingolf Schimke	576
Reduction Aortoplasty: Safe and Durable Treatment for Borderline Dilatation in Selected Patients Lars Niclauss, Dominique Delay, Patrick Ruchat, Ludwig Karl von Segesser	584
Aortic Annulus Diameter and Valve Design Each Determine the Valve Size Implanted Ulrich O. von Oppell, Leidulf Segadal, Rolf Busund, G. Gilbert Johnston, George Dimitrakakis, Navroz Masani, Te-Hsin Lung	591
One-Year Observation of Inflammatory Markers in Patients with Aortic Valve Stenosis who Expressed High or Low Chlamydia pneumoniae Antibody Titers Jolanta Świerszcz, Jacek. S. Dubiel, Tomasz Milewicz, Józef Krzysiek, Krystyna Sztefko, Danuta Galicka-Latała	599
Abnormal Left Ventricular Mechanics in isolated Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease may be independent of aortic distensibility: 2D Strain Imaging Study Mustafa Kurt, Ibrahim Halil Tanboga, Emine Bilen, Turgay Isik, Ahmet Kaya, Mehmet Fatih Karakaş, Eyup Büyükkaya	608
Outcomes after Valve-Preserving Root Surgery for Patients with Marfan Syndrome Takashi Kunihara, Diana Aicher, Svetlana Rodionycheva, Mitsuru Asano, Masato Tochii, Fumihiro Sata, Hans-Joachim Schäfers	615
Effect of Concomitant Asymmetric Septal Hypertrophy when Assessing the Severity of Aortic Valve Stenosis: An In-Vitro Study Emmanuel Gaillard, Lyes Kadem, Philippe Pibarot , Louis-Gilles Durand	623
THROMBOSIS, EMBOLISM AND BLEEDING
The Combined Effects of Clinical Factors and CYP2C9 and VKORC1 Gene Polymorphisms on Initiating Warfarin Treatment in Patients after Cardiac Valve Surgery Vacis Tatarūnas, Vaiva Lesauskaitė, Audronė Veikutienė, Pranas Grybauskas, Povilas Jakuška, Rimantas Benetis	628
Management of Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia during Thrombolytic Therapy for Prosthetic Valve Thrombosis Mehmet Özkan, Ali E. Oğuz, Ozan M. Gürsoy, Sabahattin Gündüz, Çağrı A. Aykan, Mehmet A. Astarcıoğlu, Mustafa Yıldız	636
TRIPLE VALVE SURGERY
Advanced Age: A Contraindication for Triple-Valve Surgery? Sven Peterss, Caroline Fortmann, Maximilian Pichlmaier, Erik Bagaev, Malakh Lal Shrestha, Christian Hag, Axel Haverich, Nawid Khaladj	641
Triple Valve Repair in Children with Rheumatic Heart Disease: Long-Term Experience Patrick O. Myers, Mustafa Cikirikcioglu, Cécile Tissot, Jan T. Christenson, Maurice Beghetti, Afksendiyos Kalangos	650
REPLACEMENT DEVICES
Reduction in Platelet Count after Aortic Valve Replacement: Comparison of Three Bioprostheses Giacomo Ravenni, Michele Celiento, Gabriele Ferrari, Aldo Milano, Giovanni Scioti, Stefano Pratali, Uberto Bortolotti	655
Hemodynamic Characteristics of Edwards Sapien Aortic Valve Prosthesis Assessed with Transesophageal Echocardiography Marian Kukucka, Miralem Pasic, Axel Unbehaun, Stephan Dreysse, Alexander Mladenow, Helmut Habazettl, Roland Hetzer	662
Trans-Apical versus Surgical Implantation of Autologous Ovine Tissue-Engineered Heart Valves Petra E. Dijkman, Anita Driessen-Mol, Linda M. de Heer, Jolanda Kluin, Lex A. van Herwerden, Berhard Odermatt, Frank P. T. Baaijens, Simon P. Hoerstrup	670
CASE REPORTS
Favorable Evolution of a 43-Year-Old Starr-Edwards Valve in the Tricuspid Position Chadi Aludaat, Arnaud Gay, Amina Guetlin, Catherine Nafeh-Bizet, Jean-Paul Bessou, Fabien Doguet	679
Bartonella henselae Endocarditis of Percutaneously Implanted Pulmonary Valve Iryna Atamanyuk, Shahzad G. Raja, Martin Kostolny	682
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Re: Alfieri O, DeBonis MJ. Invited Comment. J Heart Valve Dis 2011;20:415-416 Gerald M Lawrie	686
IMAGES OF THE MONTH
A Blood Cyst on the Anterior Mitral Valve Leaflet Complicated by Cerebrovascular Stroke Nicolas Combaret, Kasra Azarnoush, Xavier Marcaggi, Jean Louis Kemeny, Georges Amat, Charles de Riberolles, Lionel Camilleri	688
A Case of Angina from a Pseudoaneurysm after Aortic Root Replacement Sanjay Chaubey, Habib Khan, Jatin Desai	689

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