The Journal of Heart Valve Disease
Volume 12 Number 3 May 2003
CONTENTS
| MITRAL VALVE DISEASE | |
| Moderate Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation and Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: Effect of Mitral Repair on Clinical Outcome Marisa Di Donato MD, Alessandro Frigiola MD, Lorenzo Menicanti MD, Ahmed Boghdabi MD, Toni Badia MD, Anna Neagu MD, Vincenzo Montericcio MD, Marco Ranucci MD |
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| Edge-to-Edge Repair for Functional Mitral Regurgitation: An Echocardiographic Study of the Hemodynamic Consequences Tim D. Kinnaird MRCP, Bradley I. Munt MD, Andrew P. Ignaszewski MD, James G. Abel MD, Christopher R. Thompson MD |
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| Decreased Plasma Brain Natriuretic Peptide Levels after a Successful Maze Procedure Masazumi Watanabe MD, Mikiko Murakami MD, Hitoshi Furukawa MD, Hideki Nakahara MD, Hiroyuki Tanaka MD, Makoto Sunamori MD |
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| Alterations in Left Ventricular Curvature and Principal Strains in Dilated Cardiomyopathy with Functional Mitral Regurgitation Frederick A. Tibayan, David T. M. Lai, Tomasz A. Timek, Paul Dagum, David Liang, Mary K. Zasio, George T. Daughters, D. Craig Miller, Neil B. Ingels, Jr. |
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| Mitral Leaflet Geometry Perturbations with Papillary Muscle Displacement and Annular Dilatation: An In-Vitro Study of Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation
Shengqiu He, Jorge Jimenez, Zhaoming He, Ajit P. Yoganathan |
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| Mitral Complex Lesions following Vagal Stimulation in Rabbits: Relationship between the Direction of Mitral Regurgitation Jet and the Site of Mitral Complex Lesions Terunao Ashida MD, Shigeru Okuno MD, Aya Ebihara MD, Takao Sugiyama MD, Jun Fujii MD |
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| AORTIC VALVE DISEASE | |
| Gender Differences in Left Ventricular Function in Patients with Isolated Aortic Stenosis Luca Favero MD, Massimo Giordan MD, Giuseppe Tarantini MD, Angelo Bruno Ramondo MD, Paolo Cardaioli MD, Giambattista Isabella MD, Raffaello Chioin MD, Mario Lupia MD, Renato Razzolini MD |
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| QT Interval Dispersion Analysis in Patients with Aortic Valve Stenosis: A Prospective Study Ewa Orlowska-Baranowska MD, Rafal Baranowski MD, Dariusz Zakrzewski MD, Beata Kusmierczyk MD, Irena Rawczynska-Englert MD |
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| Pressure-Volume Loops in Patients with Aortic Stenosis André L. A. J. Dekker MSc, Paul J. C. Barenbrug MD, Frederik H. van der Veen PhD, Paul Roekaerts MD, Bas Mochtar MD, Jos G. Maessen MD |
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| Plasma Levels of Brain Natriuretic Peptide in Various Forms of Obstruction to the Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Nobuo Fukuda MD, FESC, Hisanori Shinohara MD, Koichi Sakabe MD, Teru Nada MD, Yoshiyuki Tamura MD |
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| REPLACEMENT VALVE EVALUATION | |
| Prospective Study of Hemodynamic Performances of Standard ATS and AP-ATS valves Louis M. Labrousse MD, Emmanuel Choukroun MD, Donato Serena MD, Marc-Alain Billes MD, Francesco Madonna MD, Claude Deville MD |
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| Hemodynamic Performance of the Medtronic ADVANTAGE™ Prosthetic Heart Valve in the Aortic Position: Echocardiographic Evaluation at One Year Heinrich Koertke MD, Dirk Seifert MD, Sylvia Drewek-Platena MD, Reiner Koerfer MD |
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| The Mosaic Bioprosthesis in the Aortic Position: Seven Years’ Results Brigitte Gansera MD, Florian Botzenhardt, Ralf Günzinger MD, Kyriakos Spiliopoulos MD, Ilias Angelis MD, Bernhard M. Kemkes MD |
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| ANTITHROMBOTIC TREATMENT | |
| Reduction of Mechanical Heart Valve Thrombosis through a Clinical Audit V. Bharat MD, N. K. Das MD, B. Mohanty MD, A. C. Jha MD, S. C. Chawla MD, B. Dash MD, R. Mohanty MD |
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| Pregnancy after Mechanical Mitral Valve Replacement Kerem M. Vural MD, M. Ali Özatik MD, Hasan Uncu MD, Mustafa Emir MD, Okan Yurdagök MD, Erol Sener MD, Oiuz Tasdemir MD |
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| Thrombolytic Treatment of Right Atrial Thrombus in Behçet’s Disease under Guidance of Serial Transesophageal Echocardiography Nihal Özdemir MD, Cihangir Kaymaz MD, Mehmet Özkan MD |
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| STRUCTURAL VALVE DEGENERATION | |
| Aortic Valve Allograft Structural Deterioration is Associated with a Subset of Antibodies to Human Leukocyte Antigens
Rebecca Dignan MD, Mark O’Brien FRACS, Patrick Hogan FRCPA, Alycia Thornton BSc, Kirsten Fowler BSc, Daniel Byrne MS, Fiona Stephens B App Sci, Susan Harrocks RN |
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| Bioprosthetic Tissue Calcification: Influence of Blood Contact and Arterial Pressure. An Experimental Study in Rats and Sheep Bart Meuris MD, Shigeyuki Ozaki MD, Paul Herijgers MD, Erik Verbeken MD, Willem Flameng MD |
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| LABORATORY STUDIES | |
| Paravalvular Leaks around Prosthetic Valves Implanted in the Mitral Position: Technical Refinements of the Ovine Model Bradley C. Linden MD, Clark W. Schumacher MD, Robroy H. MacIver MD, John P. Mrachek MD, Richard W. Bianco BSBradley C. Linden MD, Clark W. Schumacher MD, Robroy H. MacIver MD, John P. Mrachek MD, Richard W. Bianco BS |
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| Bubble Formation on St. Jude Medical Mechanical Heart Valves: An In-Vitro Study Simcha Milo MD, Chaim Gutfinger PhD, Gina Yu-chi Chu, Morteza Gharib PhD |
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| CASE REPORT | |
| Endocarditis due to Peptostreptococcus anaerobius: Case Report and Literature Review of Peptostreptococcal Endocarditis Lawrence A. Cone MD, DSc, Betty A. Battista RN, BSN, Charlie W. Shaeffer Jr. MD |
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