The Journal of Heart Valve Disease
Volume 16 Number 6 November 2007
CONTENTS
| PATIENT FOLLOW UP | |
| Recommendations for Post-Discharge Patient Follow Up after Cardiac Valve Interventions: A Position Paper Dieter Horstkotte, Maria Lengyel, Wilhelm P. Mistiaen, Heinz Völler, Rona Reibis, Nikola Bogunovic, Lothar Faber, Detlef Hering, Cornelia Piper, on behalf of the Working Group 'Infection, Thrombosis, Embolism and Bleeding' of the Society of Heart Valve Disease |
575 |
| MITRAL VALVE DISEASE | |
| Floppy Mitral Valve/Mitral Valve Prolapse and Genetics
Chaim Yosefy MD, Asaf Ben Barak MD |
590 |
| Echocardiography-Guided Balloon Mitral Valvotomy: Transesophageal Echocardiography versus Intracardiac Echocardiography
Cheng-Wen Chiang MD, Han-Luen Huang MD, Yu-Shien Ko MD |
596 |
| Configurations of the Mitral Valve during Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Endoscopic and Three-Dimensional Analysis Shugo Koga MD, Yukio Okazaki MD, Hiromi Kataoka MD, Kazuyuki Ikeda MD, Kojiro Furukawa MD, Satoshi Ohtsubo MD, Tsuyoshi Itoh MD |
602 |
| Anomalous Papillary Muscle Causing Tethering of the Mitral Valve Masaru Yoshikai MD, Hiroyuki Ohnishi MD, Manabu Itoh MD, Ryou Noguchi MD |
608 |
| INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS | |
| Surgery for Infective Endocarditis on Mitral Annulus Calcification Nicola Vistarini MD, Cosimo d’Alessandro MD, Stéphane Aubert MD, Frédérique Jault MD, Christophe Acar MD, Alain Pavie MD, Iradj Gandjbakhch MD |
611 |
| The Risk of Valve Surgery for Endocarditis in Patients with Dialysis-Dependent Renal Failure J. Scott Rankin MD, Sarah Milford-Beland MS, Sean M. O’Brien PhD, Fred H. Edwards MD, Eric D. Peterson MD, Donald D. Glower MD, T. Bruce Ferguson MD, Charles W. Stratton IV MD |
617 |
| Valvular Chondromodulin-1 Expression is Down-Regulated in a Rabbit Model of Infective Endocarditis
Joachim B. Grammer PhD, Walter B. Eichinger MD, Sabine Bleiziffer MD, Matthias R. Benz MD, Rüdiger Lange MD, Robert Bauernschmitt MD |
623 |
| Fungal Endocarditis of the Eustachian Valve in Carcinoid Heart Disease: A Case Report Simond Jagernauth MBBS, Amit Patel MRCS, Kamran Baig MRCS, Anthony De Souza FRCS |
631 |
| DEVICE EVALUATION | |
| The St. Jude Medical Cardiac Valve Prosthesis: Long-Term Follow Up of Patients having Double Valve Replacement Robert W. Emery MD, Ann M. Emery RN, Christopher Krogh, Jay G. Shake MD, Arlen R. Holter MD, David P. Blake MD, Goya V. Raikar MD |
634 |
| Mid-Term Results after Epic™ Xenograft Implantation for Aortic, Mitral, and Double Valve Replacement
Sven Lehmann MD, Thomas Walther MD, Sergey Leontjev MD, Jörg Kempfert MD, Ardawan Rastan MD, Jens Garbade MD, Michael A. Borger MD, Volkmar Falk MD, Friedrich Wilhelm Mohr MD |
641 |
| Freedom from Structural Valve Deterioration Among Patients Aged ≤60 Years Undergoing Freestyle® Stentless Aortic Valve Replacement
David S. Bach MD, Jacques Metras MD, John R. Doty MD, Kwok L. Yun MD, Jean G. Dumesnil MD, Neal D. Kon MD |
649 |
| Single Leg Separation Prevalence among Explanted Björk-Shiley Prosthetic Heart Valves William J. Blot, Lisa B. Signorello, Sarah S. Cohen, Michel A. Ibrahim |
657 |
| Does Valve Design Impact the Maximum Implantable Bioprosthetic Diameter? A Prospective, Multicenter Observational Study
Irving B. David MD, Frank Catinella MD, Kenneth Herskowitz MD |
662 |
| Comparing Warfarin to Aspirin (WoA) after Aortic Valve Replacement with the St. Jude Medical Epic™ Heart Valve Bioprosthesis: Results of the WoA Epic Pilot Trial
Andrea Colli MD, Carlos A. Mestres MD, Manuel Castella MD, Tiziano Gherli MD |
667 |
| MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | |
| Age-Related Changes in Collagen Synthesis and Turnover in Porcine Heart Valves Elizabeth H. Stephens BS, K. Jane Grande-Allen PhD |
672 |
| Modulation of the p38MAPK Pathway in Failing Human Myocardium Secondary to Rheumatic Heart Disease
Qun Su MD, Jian Chen MD, Qiang Fang MD |
683 |
| CASE REPORTS | |
| Reoperative Quadrivalvular Surgery Including Ross Reversal for Complex Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction Kristopher M. George MD, Gösta B. Pettersson MD |
690 |
| Incidental Mobile Aortic Valve Lesion: A Case of Aortic Valve Fenestration Christine Bourgault MD, Christian Couture MD, André Martineau MD, François Dagenais MD, Paul Poirier MD, Mario Sénéchal MD |
692 |