Volume 24 Number 1 January 2015

AORTIC VALVE DISEASE
The Konno Procedure in Redo Aortic Valve Replacemen after the Nicks Procedure Kanji Matsuzaki, Yohei Kudo, Akihiko Ikeda, Taisuke Konishi, Tomoaki Jikuya, Yuji Hiramatsu	1
Long-Term Results after Aortic Valve-Sparing- Reimplantation Operation (David) in Bicuspid Aortic Valve Doreen Richardt, Ulrich Stierle, Hans-Hinrich Sievers	4
Prosthesis-Specific Predictors of Paravalvular Regurgitation after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Impact of Calcification and Sizing on Balloon-Expandable versus Self-Expandable Transcatheter Heart Valves Barbara E. Stähli, Thi Dan Linh Nguyen-Kim, Cathérine Gebhard, Ladina Erhart, Thomas Frauenfelder, Felix C. Tanner, Volkmar Falk, Ulf Landmesser, Fabian Nietlispach, Thomas F. Lüscher, Willibald Maier, Ronald K. Binder	10
High Transcatheter Valve Replacement May Reduce Washout in the Aortic Sinuses: An In-Vitro Study Gautam Kumar, Vrishank Raghav, Stamatios Lerakis, Ajit P. Yoganathan	22
MITRAL VALVE DISEASE
Surgical Treatment of Functional Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation Henrik Jensen, Morten O. Jensen, Sten L. Nielsen	30
Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Replacement and Transfemoral Aortic Valve Implantation Christian Rustenbach, Hardy Baumbach, Stephan Hill, Ulrich F. W. Franke	43
Mitral Valve Repair is Feasible Following Extensive Decalcification and Reconstruction of the Atrioventricular Groove Joel Price, David Glineur, Laurent De Kerchove, Gebrine El Khoury	46
A New Type of Mitral Valve Operation Using a Novel Stentless Mitral Valve made from Autologous Pericardium for Unrepairable Valve Hitohsi Kasegawa, Minoru Tabata, Atsushi Shimizu, Kazuhiro Naito, Toshihiro Fukui, Shuichiro Takanashi	53
Simultaneous Double Clipping Delivery Guide Strategy in Complex Mitral Regurgitation Ulrich Schaefer, Christian Frerker, Felix Kreidel, Karl-Heinz Kuck	57
DEVICE EVALUATION
Long-Term Clinical Outcomes of Silzone Era St. Jude Medical Mechanical Heart Valves J. Matthew Brennan, Yue Zhao, Judson Williams, Sean O’Brien, Rachel Dokholyan, James Gammie, Fred Edwards, Nilsa Loyo-Berrios, Daniel Canos, Thomas Gross, Danica Marinac-Dabic, Eric Peterson	66
Cryoprotective Effect and Optimal Concentration of Trehalose on Aortic Valve Homografts Qing Chang, C. Chen Cheng, Hui Jing, C. Jian Sheng, T. Yi Wang	74
Outcome of Standard and Bicuspidalized Cryopreserved Homografts for Primary Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Reconstruction Gianluigi Perri, Angelo Polito, Fabrizio Gandolfo, Sonia B. Albanese, Adriano Carotti	83
MISCELLANEOUS
Trans-Septal Approach for Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy Yasunobu Konishi, Yu Shomura, Naoto Fukunaga, Tadaaki Koyama, Yukikatsu Okada	89
Non-Cytotoxic Crosslinkers for Heart Valve Tissue Engineering Pamela Somers, Annelies Roosens, Filip De Somer, Maria Cornelissen, Guido Van Nooten	92
Advanced Integrity Preservation Technology Reduces Bioprosthesis Calcification While Preserving Performance and Safety Angela B. de la Fuente, Gregory A. Wright, Jane M. Olin, Francis G. Duhay, Boguslaw Kapelak, Maciek Bochenek, Krzysztof Bartus, Jerzy Sadowski	101
Carcinoid Heart Valve Disease: Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve-In-Valve Implantation in Failing Biological Xenografts Lenard Conradi, Andreas Schaefer, Goetz C. Mueller, Moritz Seiffert, Helmut Gulbins, Stefan Blankenberg, Hermann Reichenspurner, Hendrik Treede, Patrick Diemert	110
Generation of Simulated Calcific Lesions in Valve Leaflets for Flow Studies Clara Seaman, Andrew McNally, Stephen Biddle, Lauren Jankowski, Philippe Sucosky	115
CASE REPORT
Osteopetrosis: A Case of ‘Hostile Chest’ Associated with Symptomatic Aortic Valve Stenosis Emmanuel Villa, Giuseppe Lauria, Antonio Messina, Andrea Rizzi, Angela D’Ambrosio, Ornella Leonzi, Tony Sabatini, Giovanni Troise	126
A Fatal Case of Endocarditis on CoreValve ReValving System Caused by Enterococcus faecium Complicated by Iatrogenic Pancytopenia and Subacute Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation Giovanni Cimmino, Giovanni Ciccarelli, Marco Golino, Chiara D’Amico, Paolo Golino	130
A Case of Iatrogenic Chordal Rupture after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Procedure Requiring a SecondValve Altug Cincin, Kursat Tigen, Ibrahim Sari, Murat Sunbul, Fatih Kartal, Yelda Basaran	133

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