Volume 22 Number 1 January 2013

Editorial: The 7th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Heart Valve Disease Gino Gerosa MD	1
MITRAL VALVE DISEASE
Determinants of Left Atrial Reverse Remodeling after Valve Surgery for Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation Snejana Hyllén, Shahab Nozohoor, Carl Meurling, Per Wierup, Johan Sjögren	2
Minimally Invasive Transaortic Edge-to-Edge Repair of the Mitral Valve Joseph Lamelas, Christos G. Mihos, Orlando Santana	11
Mitral Valve Procedure Selection and Outcomes in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Christina M. Vassileva, Kathleen Kwedar, Theresa Boley, Stephen Markwell, Stephen Hazelrigg	14
Tissue Doppler-Derived Isovolumic Acceleration Parameters in Organic Mitral Regurgitation Erkan İlhan, Tolga Sinan Güvenç, Murat Biteker, Ahmet Ekmekçi, Gülşah Tayyareci	20
Mitral Valve Mechanics Following Posterior Leaflet Patch Augmentation Azadeh Rahmani, Ann Q. Rasmussen, Jesper L. Honge, Bjorn Ostli, Robert A. Levine, Albert Hagège, Hans Nygaard, Sten L. Nielsen, Morten O. Jensen	28
Antiphospholipid Antibody-Associated Non-Infective Mitral Valve Endocarditis Successfully Treated with Medical Therapy Tahmeed Contractor, Adrian Bell, Atul Khasnis, Bruce J. Silverberg, Matthew W. Martinez	36
Posterior Leaflet P2-P1 Transposition for Mitral Repair in a Case of Infective Endocarditis Vito Giovanni Ruggieri, Andreas Paramythiotis, Herve Corbineau, Alain Leguerrier	39
AORTIC VALVE DISEASE
Etiology Impacts Survival in Patients with Severe Aortic Regurgitation: Results from a Cohort of 756 Patients Padmini Varadarajan, Reena Patel, Rami Turk, Ashvin R. Kamath, Unnati Sampath, Sumit Khandhar, Ramdas G. Pai	42
Outcomes of Reoperative Aortic Valve Replacement via Right Mini-Thoracotomy versus Median Sternotomy Andrés M. Pineda, Orlando Santana, Javier Reyna, Alejandro Sarria, Gervasio A. Lamas, Joseph Lamelas	50
Impact of Patient-Prosthesis Mismatch in the Aortic Position: Twenty-Year Experience with Korean Patients Dong Seop Jeong, Hyoung Woo Chang, Kyung-Hwan Kim, Hyuk Ahn	56
Silent Aortic Regurgitation in Systemic Hypertension Keyvan Ravakhah, Mazda Motallebi	64
Two-Year Mortality after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Versus Medical Therapy for High-Surgical Risk or Inoperable Aortic Stenosis Patients Rainer Hoffmann, Bader Almutairi, Ralf Herpertz, Sara Lotfipour, Robert Stöhr, Ömer Aktug, Kathrin Brehmer, Emilia Stegemann, Rüdiger Autschbach, Nikolaus Marx, Guido Dohmen	71
Cerebral Embolization during Percutaneous Valve Implantation does not Occur during Balloon Inflation Valvuloplasty: Prospective Diffusion-Weighted Brain MRI Study Parla Astarci, Joel Price, David Glineur, William D’Hoore, Joelle Kefer, Gébrine Elkhoury, Cécile Grandin, Jean-Louis Vanoverschelde	79
Transaortic Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation for Failed Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement due to ‘Porcelain Aorta’ Rizwan Q. Attia, Sara Jamel, James C. Roxburgh, Martyn Thomas, Vinnie N. Bapat	85
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation with a CoreValve™ Bioprosthesis in a 57-Year-Old Man Mehmet Bilge, Hatice Tolunay, Ayse Saatci Yasar, Recai Alemdar, Sina Ali, Ozge Kurmus	89
MISCELLANEOUS
Mortality Risk Model for Heart Valve Surgery in China Zhe Zheng, Hongguang Fan, Huawei Gao, Xi Li, Xin Yuan, Jian Meng, Jianping Xu, Yunhu Song, Hansong Sun, Shengshou Hu	93
Adequate Intensity of Warfarin Therapy for Korean Patients with Mechanical Cardiac Valves In Kyung Yoon, Kyung Eun Lee, Jin Koo Lee, Byung Chul Chang, Hye Sun Gwak	102
Valve Surgery for Infective Endocarditis is Associated with High Hospital Charges Clinton D. Kemp, George J. Arnaoutakis, Timothy J. George, Maurice A. Smith, Nishant D. Patel, Duke E. Cameron, Ashish S. Shah	110
Regulatory T-Cell Deficiency in Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Preliminary Observational Study Saibal Mukhopadhyay, Saurabh Varma, Sandeep Gade, Jamal Yusuf , Vijay Trehan, Sanjay Tyagi	118
Recurrent Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis with Aortic-Ventricular Disruption: A Surgical Challenge Basel Ramlawi, Laura E. White, Rachel J. Santora, Michael J. Reardon	126
GPIb VNTR C/C Genotype May Predict Embolic Events in Infective Endocarditis Shruti Daga, James G. Shepherd, Rachel K. Y. Hung1, J. Garreth S. Callaghan, Dana K. Dawson, Gareth J. Padfield, J. Ross Fitzgerald, David E. Newby	133

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