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Volume 23 Number 2 March 2014

AORTIC VALVE DISEASE
Reinforcement of the Pulmonary Artery Autograft with a Polyglactin and Polydioxanone Mesh in the Ross Operation: Experimental Study in Growing Lamb Francesco Nappi, Cristiano Spadaccio, Clotilde Castaldo, Franca Di Meglio, Daria Nurzynska, Stefania Montagnani, Massimo Chello, Christophe Acar	145
Aortic Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch Strongly Affects Early Results of Double Valve Replacement Andrei George Iosifescu, Horaţiu Moldovan, Vlad Anton Iliescu	149
Aortic Valve Regurgitation Secondary to Ectopia and Atresia of the Left Main Coronary Artery Francesco Nicolini, Domenico Corradi, Andrea Agostinelli, Bruno Borrello, Tiziano Gherli	158
Does a Minimally Invasive Approach Increase the Incidence of Patient-Prosthesis Mismatch in Aortic Valve Replacement? Ihsan Bakir, Filip P. Casselman, Burak Onan, Frank Van Praet, Yvette Vermeulen, Ivan Degrieck	161
MITRAL VALVE DISEASE
Recurrent Native and Prosthetic Mitral Valve Thrombosis in Idiopathic Hypereosinophilic Syndrome Lilia Zakhama, Iskander Slama, Elhem Boussabah, Basma Harbegue, Majdi Mimouni, Nabil Abdelaali, Sana Sioua, Moez Thameur, Soraya Benyoussef	168
Hemodynamic Comparison of Mitral Valve Repair: Techniques for a Flail Anterior Leaflet Muralidhar Padala, Michael Sweet, Sarah Hooson, Vinod H. Thourani, Ajit P. Yoganathan	171
Contractile Reserve Induced with Dobutamine Echocardiography Predicts Outcome in Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction and Mitral Regurgitation Robert R. Moss, Simona L. Bar, Mann Chandavimol, Bradley Munt, Christopher R. Thompson, James G. Abel, Karin Humphries, Andrew P. Ignaszewski	177
Spatial Relationship of Coronary Sinus-Great Cardiac Vein with Adjoining Anatomic Structures: A Key Element in Predicting the Success of Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Annuloplasty Daisy Sahni, Arpandeep Randhawa, Anjali Aggarwal, Manoj K. Rohit	184
Mitral Annular Morphology in Mitral Valve Disease with Three-Dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiography Tomoko Tani, Junichi Kawai, Takeshi Kitai, Kitae Kim, Yukikatsu Okada, Toru Kita, Yutaka Furukawa	193
TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE
Evidence of Tricuspid Valve Remodelling in Patients with Severe Mitral Regurgitation Independently of Degree of Functional Tricuspid Regurgitation: A Two- and Three-Dimensional Echocardiographic Study Eustachio Agricola, Giacomo Ingallina, Massimo Slavich, Vincenzo Tufaro1, Luigi Badano, Michele Oppizzi, Andrea Fisicaro, Alberto Margonato	200
Tricuspid Valve Replacement: The Effect of Gender on Operative Results Dror Ben Leviner, Benjamin Medalion, Inbal Baruch, Alex Sagie, Erez Sharoni, Avi Fuks, Dan Aravot, Ram Sharony	209
IATROGENIC DAMAGE
An Iatrogenic Atrioventricular Septal Defect that Developed Following Transfemoral TAVI Stefano Salizzoni, Walter Grosso Marra, Claudio Moretti, Maurizio D’Amico, Michele William La Torre, Mauro Rinaldi	216
Ceftaroline for the Treatment of Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis due to Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Leonardo Pagani, Pierre Bonnin, Cécile Janssen, Emmanuel Desjoyaux, Virginie Vitrat, Jean-Pierre Bru	219
MISCELLANEOUS
Value of Serum Fibrinogen Levels in the Assessment of Mechanical Prosthetic Valve Thrombosis Ahmet C. Aykan, Tayyar Gökdeniz, Sabahattin Gündüz, Mehmet A. Astarcýoðlu, Ozan M. Gürsoy, Emre Ertürk, Ali E. Oðuz, Zübeyde Bayram, Süleyman Karakoyun, Macit Kalçýk, Mehmet Özkan	222
Redo Valvular Surgery in Elderly Patients Aged >75 Years Naoto Fukunaga, Yukikatsu Okada, Yasunobu Konishi, Takashi Murashita, Hideo Kanemitsu, Tadaaki Koyama	228
Subclinical Rheumatic Heart Disease in an Eritrean High-School Population, Detected by Echocardiography Elisabetta Rossi, Anna Rita Felici, Leul Banteyrga	235
The Outcomes of Triple-Valve Surgery: Eleven Years’ Experience From a Single Center Nicolas Nikolaidis, Apostolos Roubelakis, Dimos Karangelis, Mary Hanratty, Clifford W. Barlow, Geoffrey M. K. Tsang, Steve A. Livesey, Sunil K. Ohri	240
Function and Expression Differences Between Ergot and Non-Ergot Dopamine D2 Agonists on Heart Valve Interstitial Cells Fumiki Oana, Hiroshi Onozuka, Akihiro Tsuchioka, Takayuki Suzuki, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Kouichi Kaidoh, Yuji Hoyano, Masahiro Hiratochi, Shinji Kikuchi, Yasuo Takehana, Nobuo Shibata	246
Sutureless Perceval Aortic Valve in Comparison with the Stented Carpentier-Edwards Perimount Aortic Valve Karl Christian König, Thorsten Wahlers, Maximilian Scherner, Jens Wippermann	253

Volume 23 Number 2 March 2014

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