Journal of Heart Valve Disease November 2003

The Journal of Heart Valve Disease

AORTIC VALVE DISEASE
Editorial: Understanding the Structure of the Unicuspid and Unicommissural Aortic Valve Robert H. Anderson MD	670
Incidence and Echocardiographic Features of Congenital Unicuspid Aortic Valve in an Adult Population Gian M. Novaro(1), Micky Mishra(2), Brian P. Griffin(3)	674
Aortic Valve Repair versus Replacement in Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease Piroze M. Davierwala, Tirone E. David, Susan Armstrong, Joan Ivanov	679
Editorial: Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Polymorphisms and their Potential Impact on Left Ventricular Myocardial Geometry after Aortic Valve Surgery Igor Knez MD, Wilfried Renner MD, Robert Maier MD, Peter Rehak MD, Rainer Rienmüller MD, Martin Pilsl MD, Olaf Stanger MD, Aleksandar Mircic MD, Drago Dacar MD, Zoltan Szalay MD, Ivo Martinovic MD, Paul R. Vogt MD, Bruno Rigler MD	687
Transient Dynamic Mid-Left Ventricular Obstruction following Aortic Valve Replacement Taha M. BinEsmael, Ulrich O. von Oppell, John Dunnel, Navroz Masani, Michael Frenneaux	696
MITRAL VALVE DISEASE
Morbidity and Mortality of a Failed Attempt at Mitral Valve Repair Converted to Replacement at the Same Operation William F. Northrup III, Karen A. DuBois, Vibhu R. Kshettry	700
Percutaneous Mitral Balloon Valvuloplasty in Rheumatic Mitral Stenosiswithout Heparin Tahsin Bozat, Vedat Koca, Vakur Akkaya	707
Editorial: Risk and Benefit of Sinus Rhythm Restoration by Ablation Techniques Dieter Horstkotte MD, Juergen Vogt MD	712
Left Atrial Thrombosis following Mitral Valve Repair and Maze Procedure: Case Report Shigeaki Aoyagi, Eiki Tayama, Shuji Fukunaga, Kei-ich Akaiwa, Kazuyushi Takagi, Takahiro Shojima	714
Left Surgical Management of Mitral Regurgitation in Patients with Marfan Syndrome Nilgün Bozbuga MD, Vedat Erentug MD, Kaan Kirali MD, Esat Akinci MD, Cevat Yakut MD	717
Left Atrial Thrombosis following Mitral Valve Repair and Maze Procedure Martina Harth MD, Petra Ruemmele MD, Ruth Knuechel-Clarke MD, Dietmar Elsner MD, Guenter Riegger MD	722
DEVICE EVALUATION
The Sinotubular Junction does not Progressively Dilate Four Years after Modified Subcoronary Freestyle Stentless Tissue Aortic Valve Replacement Julie W. Martin MD, G. Michael Deeb MD, David S. Bach MD	726
Evaluation of the Decellularized Pulmonary Valve Homograft (SynerGraft™)n J. F. Matthias Bechtel MD, Michael Müller-Steinhardt MD, Claudia Schmidtke MD, Anja Brunswik, Ulrich Stierle MD, Hans-Hinrich Sievers MD	734
Mineralization and Organic Phase Modifications as Contributory Factors of Accelerated Degeneration in Homograft Aortic Valves Grzegorz J. Lis MD, Eugeniusz Rokita PhD, Piotr Podolec MD, Roman Pfitzner MD, Antoni Dziatkowiak MD, Tadeusz Cichocki MD	741
Aortic Root Replacement with a New Stentless Aortic Valve Xenograft Conduit: Preliminary Hemodynamic and Clinical Results Thierry P. Carrel MD, Pascal Berdat MD, Lars Englberger MD, Friedrich Eckstein MD, Franz Immer MD, Christian Seiler MD, Beat Kipfer MD, Jürg Schmidli MD	752
The Quattro Valve in Rheumatic Mitral Valve Disease: Four-Year Follow Up Shirley J. Middlemost MD, Pravin Manga MD	758
LABORATORY STUDIES
Noise Levels of Closing Sounds In Vivo are Equal for Different Bileaflet Mechanical Heart Valves Peter Johansen MSc, Søren Berndt Hansen MD, J. Michael Hasenkam MD, Hans Nygaard DMSc	764
Two-Dimensional Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulation of Bileaflet Mechanical Heart Valve Flow Dynamics Rui Cheng MS, Yong Gen Lai PhD, Krishnan B. Chandran DSc	772
A Coupled Fluid-Structure Finite Element Model of the Aortic Valve and Root Mark A. Nicosia PhD, Richard P. Cochran MD, Daniel R. Einstein MS, Christopher J. Rutland PhD, Karyn S. Kunzelman PhD	781
Indication of Cavitation in Mechanical Heart Valve Patients Tina S. Andersen MD, Peter Johansen MSc, Peter K. Paulsen DMSc, Hans Nygaard DMSc, J. Michael Hasenkam DMSc	790
CASE REPORT
Double-Valve Libman-Sacks Endocarditis: An Entity that Demands Special Consideration Georgios P. Georghiou MD, Yaron Shapira MD, Tamara Drozd MD, Eldad Erez MD, Ehud Raanani MD, Bernardo A. Vidne MD, Gideon Sahar MD	797
VOLUME 12, 2003 INDICES
Author index	802
Subject index	808