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Volume 22 Number 4 July 2013

AORTIC VALVE DISEASE
Comparison Between Transcatheter and Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement: A Single-Center Experience Shuli Silberman, Firas Abu Akr, Daniel Bitran, Yaron Almagor, Jonathan Balkin, Rachel Tauber, Ofer Merin	448
Advanced Age Per Se Should not be an Exclusion Criterion for Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement Giuseppe Santarpino, Steffen Pfeiffer, Ferdinand Vogt, Martin Hinzmann, Giovanni Concistrè, Theodor Fischlein	455
Percutaneous Temporary Aortic Valve: A Proof-of-Concept Animal Model Paul C. Ho, Marie E. Nguyen, Patrick J. Golden	460
Optimal Results of Aortic Valve Replacement with SmallMechanical Valves (<19 mm) Yasuyuki Kato, Koji Hattori, Manabu Motoki, Yosuke Takahashi, Shinsuke Kotani, Shinsuke Nishimura, Toshihiko Shibata	468
Relationship between Morphologic Features of Myocardial Tissue and Left Ventricular Function in Patients with Aortic Valve Disease and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Hyoung Woo Chang, Kyung-Hwan Kim, Jun Sung Kim, Kyung-Hee Kim, Yong-Jin Kim	476
Aortic Valve Leaflet Glycosaminoglycans Composition and Modification in Severe Chronic Valve Regurgitation Luca Dainese, Anna Guarino, Barbara Micheli, Viviana Biagioli, GianLuca Polvani, Francesca Maccari, Nicola Volpi	484
Evaluation of Cardiac Valvular Regurgitant Lesions by Cardiac MRI Sequences: Comparison of a Four-Valve Semi-Quantitative versus Quantitative Approach Sahadev T. Reddy , Moneal Shah, Mark Doyle, Diane V. Thompson, Ronald B. Williams, June Yamrozik , Robert W. W. Biederman	491
Aortic Root Replacement with a Stented Bioprosthetic Valved Conduit: Mid-Term Results Giuseppe Gatti, Luca Dell’Angela, Bruno Pinamonti, Alessandro Moncada, Alessandro Minati, Bernardo Benussi, Gianfranco Sinagra, Aniello Pappalardo	500
Impact of Postoperative Cusp Configuration on Mid-Term Durability after Aortic Root Reimplantation Shunsuke Miyahara, Atsushi Omura, Toshihito Sakamoto, Yoshikatsu Nomura, Takeshi Inoue, Hitoshi Minami, Kenji Okada, Yutaka Okita	509
Predictive Value of Five Risk Scores to Predict Outcomes after Aortic Valve Replacement in Octogenarians Fabrice Vanhuyse, Pablo Maureira, Thierry Folliguet, Jean Pierre Villemot	517
MITRAL VALVE DISEASE
Surgical Relocation of the Papillary Muscles in Functional Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation: What are the Forces of the Relocation Stitch Acting on the Myocardium? Henrik Jensen, Morten O. Jensen, Stefan Vind-Kezunovic, Rikke Vestergaard, Steffen Ringgaard, Morten H. Smerup, Jesper L. Hønge, J. Michael Hasenkam, Sten L. Nielsen	524
Mitral Valve Resistance Correlates More Closely with Left Atrial Deformation than with Conventional Indices of Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis Mustafa Kurt, Ibrahim Halil Tanboga, Mehmet Fatih Karakas, Eyup Buyukkaya, Alper Buğra Nacar, Adnan Burak Akcay, Enbiya Aksakal, Nihat Sen	532
Mitral Subvalvular Plasty for Chronic Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation: A Preliminary Experimental Model Alexey V. Evtushenko, Vladimir V. Evtushenko, Konstantin A. Petlin, Valery Kh. Vaizov, Alexander V. Petlin, Christina M. Vassileva	538
Three-Dimensional Echocardiographic Assessment Before and After Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy in Patients with Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis Chunduri Shashanka, Durgaprasad Rajasekhar, Velam Vanajakshamma, Muppirala Lakshmi, Sreenivasa Kumar	543
Impact of Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis on Aortic Elastic Properties Suleyman Ercan, Gokhan Altunbas, Vedat Davutoglu, Fethi Yavuz, Ökkeş Uku, Fuat Basanalan, Mehmet Kaplan Hayri Alici	550
Symmetrical Papillary Muscle Approximation for Functional Mitral Regurgitation with Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy Takehiro Inoue, Kosuke Fujii, Shintaro Yugami, Hitoshi Kitayama, Toshihiko Saga	556
INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS
Fresh Autologous Pericardium for Leaflet Perforation Repair in Mitral Valve Infective Endocarditis Charles F. Evans, Christopher R. DeFilippi, Eric Shang, Bartley P. Griffith, James S. Gammie	560
Comparison Between Early and Late Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis: Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes Michihito Nonaka, Takayoshi Kusuhara, Kenta An, Daisuke Nakatsuka, Yuji Sekine, Atsushi Iwakura, Kazuo Yamanaka	567
Technique to Treat Extensive Abscesses in Double Valve Replacement for Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis Michihito Nonaka, Atsushi Iwakura, Kazuo Yamanaka	575
Surgical Management of Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis in Systemically Infected Patients Sharven Taghavi, Rachael Clark, Senthil N. Jayarajan, John Gaughan, Stacey H. Brann, Abeel A. Mangi	578
MISCELLANEOUS
Valvular Calcification, Inflammation, and Mortality in Dialysis Patients Bonita A. Mohamed, Wei Yang, Harold Litt, Sylvia E. Rosas	584
Reoperation for Non-Structural Valvular Dysfunction Caused by Pannus Ingrowth in Aortic Valve Prosthesis Se Jin Oh, Samina Park, Jun Sung Kim, Kyung-Hwan Kim, Ki Bong Kim, Hyuk Ahn	591
CASE REPORT
Diagnosis and Surgical Management of Subaortic Stenosis and Mitral Valve Systolic Anterior Motion Andrew D. Choi, Soha Ahmad, Martin Mathias, Steven Boyce, Steven Goldstein, Richard Morrissey	599
Mechanical Heart Valve Thrombosis in Pregnancy Shmuel Schwartzenberg, Sharon Perlman, Rony Levy, Uri Elkayam, Sorel Goland	603
CORRESPONDENCE
Letter to the Editor: Renal Cell Carcinoma with Extensive Cavoatrial Involvement Suresh Keshavamurthy, Jose L. Navia, Venkatesh Krishnamurthi, Nicolas A. Brozzi, Martin G. Sinkewich, Eugene H. Blackstone, Bruce W. Lytle	607

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