The Journal of Heart Valve Disease
Volume 12 Number 1 January 2003
CONTENTS
| EPIDEMIOLOGY | |
| Regional Differences in Surgical Heart Valve Disease in Europe: Comparison between Northern and Southern Subsets of the EuroSCORE Database François Roques MD, Samer A. M. Nashef FRCS, Philippe Michel MD, and the EuroSCORE Project Group |
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| Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Genotype Predicts Valve Damage in Acute Rheumatic Fever Enver Atalar MD, S. Lale Tokgözoglu MD, Mehmet Alikasifoglu MD, Kenan Övünç MD, Serdar Aksöyek MD, Syrry Kes MD, Ergül Tunçbilek MD |
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| MITRAL VALVE DISEASE | |
| Editorial: Assumptions and Realities of Mitral Valve Repair
Robert W. M. Frater MD |
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| Trends in Mitral Valve Surgery in a Large Multi-Surgeon, Multi-Hospital Practice, 1979-1999 William F. Northrup, III MD, Vibhu R. Kshettry MD, Karen A. DuBois RN |
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| Mitral Valve Replacement in Children Eldad Erez MD, Kirk R. Kanter MD, Elizabeth Isom PA, Willis H. Williams MD, Vincent K.H. Tam MD |
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| Effect of Atrial Fibrillation on the Dynamics of Mitral Annular Area Ramdas G. Pai MD, Padmini Varadarajan MD, Masato Tanimoto MD |
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| Lack of Association of Genetic Polymorphisms in the Interleukin-1β, Interleukin-1 Receptor Antagonist, Interleukin-4 and Interleukin-10 Genes with Mitral Valve Prolapse in Taiwan Chinese
Hsiang-Tai Chou MD, Yi-Ru Shi MS, Yuan Hsu BS, Fuu-Jen Tsai MD |
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| Mitral Valve Re-replacement for Impaired Bioprosthesis after 19 Years in a Patient Undergoing Steroid Treatment Yasuhisa Shimazaki, Setsuo Kuraoka, Fumihiro Takeda, Takao Watanabe, Kiyoshige Inui |
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| Huge Prosthetic Mitral Valve Thrombus: Use of Serial Transesophageal Echocardiography Guidance in Resolution Nihal Özdemir MD, Cihangir Kaymaz MD, Mehmet Özkan MD |
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| AORTIC VALVE DISEASE | |
| Editorial: Bicuspid versus Tricuspid Aortic Valves Francis Robicsek MD |
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| Histopathological Grading of Ascending Aortic Aneurysm: Comparison of Patients with Bicuspid versus Tricuspid Aortic Valve J. F. Matthias Bechtel MD, Frank Noack MD, Friedhelm Sayk MD, Armin W. Erasmi MD, Claus Bartels MD, Hans-Hinrich Sievers MD |
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| Valve-Preserving Aortic Root Reconstruction: A Comparison of Techniques Harold M. Burkhart MD, Kenton J. Zehr MD, Hartzell V. Schaff MD, Richard C. Daly MD, Joseph A. Dearani MD, Thomas A. Orszulak MD |
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| Persistence of Chlamydia pneumoniae in Degenerative Aortic Valve Stenosis Indicated by Heat Shock Protein 60 Homologues Dirk Skowasch MD, Kristina Yeghiazaryan PhD, Stephanie Schrempf BS, Olga Golubnitschaja PhD, Ulrich Welsch MD, Claus J. Preusse MD, James A. Likungu MD, Armin Welz MD, Berndt Lüderitz MD, Gerhard Bauriedel MD |
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| Minimally Invasive versus Conventional Aortic Valve Replacement: A Prospective Randomized Trial Selami Dogan MD, Omer Dzemali MD, Gerhard Wimmer-Greinecker MD, Patrick Derra, Mirko Doss MD, Mohammad F. Khan MD, Tayfun Aybek MD, Peter Kleine MD, Anton Moritz MD |
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| Fourteen Years’ Experience with the CarboMedics Prosthetic Heart Valve in Young Adults with Aortic Valve Disease Jan Aagaard MD, Jens Tingleff MD, Per V. Andersen MD, Christel N. Hansen MD |
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| EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES | |
| Cellular Expression of PCNA and Procollagen in Vital and Ethanol-treated Autologous Pericardial Implants in Sheep Douglas C. Marchion PhD, David T. Cheung PhD, Albert C. Grobe MS, Patricia A. Weber DrPH, Carlos M.G. Duran MD |
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| Detoxification on top of Enhanced, Diamine-Extended Glutaraldehyde Fixation Significantly Reduces Bioprosthetic Root Calcification in the Sheep Model
Ameli E. Trantina-Yates MD, Paul Human MD, Peter Zilla MD |
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| Dynamic Impact Stress Analysis of a Bileaflet Mechanical Heart Valve Qi Yuan PhD, Lijun Xu MS, Bryan Kok Ann Ngoi PhD, Tony J. H. Yeo PhD, Ned H. C. Hwang PhD |
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| Kinematics of Synthetic Flexible Leaflet Heart Valves during Accelerated Testing
Stephen S. D’Souza MSc, Maya Butterfield PhD, John Fisher DEng |
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| IMAGE OF THE MONTH | |
| Severe Bioprosthetic Mitral Valve Endocarditis due to Candida albicans Manfred Herrmann MD, Gerold Rodenbäck MD, Udo Bilkenroth MD, Claudia Schnürer MD, Ina Stabenow MD, Claudius Diez MD |
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| THE SOCIETY FOR HEART VALVE DISEASE | |
| Working Group News | 123 |