MISCELLANEOUS

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