Volume 21 Number 6 November 2012

MITRAL VALVE DISEASE
Current Trends in Mitral Valve Repair Techniques in North America Vibhu R. Kshettry, Sary F. Aranki	690
Changes in Mitral Annular Geometry after Aortic Valve Replacement: A Three-Dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiographic Study Feroze Mahmood, Haider J. Warraich, Joseph H. Gorman III, Robert C. Gorman, Tzong-Huei Chen, Peter Panzica, Andrew Maslow, Kamal Khabbaz	696
Intra-Atrial Placement of a Mitral Prosthesis in Patients with Severe Mitral Annular Calcification Christos G. Mihos, Orlando Santana, Julio Peguero, Joseph Lamelas	702
AORTIC VALVE DISEASE
Echocardiographic Surveillance of Aortic Valve Stenosis: Towards a Standardized Approach Abbas Zaidi, Adrian Ionescu, Rajan Sharma, Martyn Heatley	707
Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension in Patients with Bicuspid Aortic Valve Wouter I. Schievink, Sharo S. Raissi	714
Aortic Valve Hydrodynamics: Considerations on the Absence of Sinuses of Valsalva Tomaso Bottio, Edward Buratto, Carlo Dal Lin, Alban Lika, Vincenzo Tarzia, Giulio Rizzoli, Gino Gerosa	718
The Impact of Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty on Aortic Regurgitation in Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis Manuel A. Gonzalez, Itsik Ben-Dor, Gabriel Maluenda, Augusto D. Pichard, Lowell F. Satler, Ron Waksman	724
Aortic Cross-Clamp Time, New Prostheses, and Outcome in Aortic Valve Replacement Marco Ranucci, Alessandro Frigiola, Lorenzo Menicanti, Serenella Castelvecchio, Carlo de Vincentiis, Valeria Pistuddi, for the Surgical and Clinical Outcome Research (SCORE) Group	732
Repair of Quadricuspid Aortic Valve Associated with Ascending Aorta Dilatation Elsayed M. Elmistekawy, Tarek Malas, Mark Hynes, Munir Boodhwani	740
TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE
Pulmonary Arterial Pressure and Right Ventricular Dilatation Independently Determine Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency Severity in Pre-Capillary Pulmonary Hypertension Pieter De Meester, Alexander Van De Bruaene, Marion Delcroix, Ann Belmans, Paul Herijgers, Jens-Uwe Voigt, Werner Budts	743
Robot-Assisted Repair of Tricuspid Leaflet Prolapse Using Standard Valvuloplasty Techniques Christopher W. Seder, Rakesh M. Suri, Kent Rehfeldt, Sorin Pislaru, Harold M. Burkhart	749
DEVICE EVALUATION
Mid-Term Follow Up of a Novel Bioprosthesis in Aortic Valve Surgery Mirko Doss, Sami Sirat, Arndt H. Kiessling, Stephanie Jaenicke, Anton Moritz	753
Sutureless Aortic Valve Replacement: Catheter-Based Transapical versus Direct Transaortic Implantation Mirko Doss, Estelle Buhr, Anton Moritz, Sven Martens	758
Elliptical Shape of a SAPIEN XT Prosthesis Deployed in a Patient with Bicuspid Aortic Valve Stenosis Rachid Zegdi, Didier Blanchard, Arschid Azarine, Thierry Folliguet, Jean-Noël Fabiani	764
MISCELLANEOUS
The Impact of Pulmonary Hypertension on Outcomes of Patients with Low Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction: A Propensity Analysis Changyong Yang, Dadong Li, Roger Mennett, Jonathan Hammond, Gong Zhang, Donghui Chen, Justin Lundbye, Robert Gallagher	767
Surgical Treatment of Infective Endocarditis in Patients Undergoing Chronic Hemodialysis Kentaro Yamane, Hitoshi Hirose, Linda J. Bogar, Nicholas C. Cavarocchi, James T. Diehl	774
A Case of Starr-Edwards Valve Thrombosis in Pregnancy Margot Davis, Marla Kiess, Valerie Rychel, Doreen Fofonoff, Jasmine Grewal	783
Left Ventricular Mass Regression is Independent of Gradient Drop and Effective Orifice Area after Aortic Valve Replacement with a Porcine Bioprosthesis Justo Rafael Sádaba, Marie-Christine Herregods, Jan Bogaert, Wolfgang Harringer, Gino Gerosa	788

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