Journal of Heart Valve Disease September 2007

The Journal of Heart Valve Disease

MITRAL VALVE DISEASE
Seventeen Years’ Clinical and Echocardiographic Follow Up of Mitral Balloon Valvuloplasty in 520 Patients, and Predictors of Long-Term Outcome Mohamed Eid Fawzy MD, Mohamed Shoukri MD, Jehad Al Buraiki MD, Walid Hassan MD, Hassan El Widaa MD, Suleiman Kharabsheh MD, Aly Al Sanei MD, Charles Canver MD	454
Circulating CD4+CD25+ T Cells in Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis Ali Yildiz MD, Ozcan Ozeke MD, Dursun Aras MD, Mustafa Balci MD, Bulent Deveci MD, Kumral Ergun MD, Serkan Topaloglu MD, Mehmet Dogan MD, Firat Ozcan MD, Yeliz Sokmen MD, Ali Sasmaz, Sule Korkmaz	461
Relationship Between Inflammation and Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Isolated Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis M. Timur Selcuk MD, Hatice Selcuk MD, Orhan Maden MD, Ahmet Temizhan MD, Tolga Aksu MD, Mehmet Dogan MD, Ali Sasmaz MD	468
AORTIC VALVE DISEASE
The Influence of Patient-Prosthesis Mismatch on In-Hospital Complications and Early Mortality after Aortic Valve Replacement Shahab Nozohoor MD, Johan Nilsson MD, Carsten Lührs MD, Anders Roijer MD, Johan Sjögren MD	475
Cardiovascular Risk Factors as Predictors of Early and Late Survival after Bioprosthetic Valve Replacement for Aortic Stenosis Thierry Le Tourneau MD, Sylvestre Marechaux MD, André Vincentelli MD, Pierre Vladimir Ennezat MD, Thomas Modine MD, Anne-Sophie Polge MD, Georges Fayad MD, Alain Prat MD, Henri Warembourg MD, Ghislaine Deklunder	483
Prediction of Pressure Recovery Location in Aortic Valve Stenosis: An In-Vitro Validation Study Katherine D. Rhodes MS, Joel A. Strom MD, Muhammad M. Rahman PhD, Michael D. VanAuker PhD	489
Can Angiotensin II +1675 G/A Type 2 Receptor Gene Polymorphism be a Marker of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Patients with Aortic Stenosis? Ewa Orlowska-Baranowska MD, Grzegorz Placha MD, Rafal Baranowski MD, Piotr Michalek MD, Jaroslaw Gora MD, Zbigniew Gaciong MD, Janina Stepinska MD	495
Torsade de Pointes in Severe Aortic Stenosis: Case Report Jui-Peng Tsai MD, Ping-Ying Lee MD, Kuang-Te Wang MD, Charles Jia-Yin Hou MD	504
TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE
The Double-Orifice Tricuspid Valve: A Review Oktay Tutarel MD, Mechthild Westhoff-Bleck MD	508
Further Information from a Sonometric Study of the Normal Tricuspid Valve Annulus in Sheep: Geometric Changes during the Cardiac Cycle Jerome Jouan MD, Matthew R. Pagel MS, Matthew E. Hiro MD, Khee Hiang Lim PhD, Emmanuel Lansac MD, Carlos M. G. Duran MD	511
DEVICE EVALUATION
Doppler Echocardiography in Normally Functioning Replacement Aortic Valves: A Review of 129 Studies Ronak Rajani BM, Dayal Mukherjee, John B. Chambers MD	519
Long-Term Outcomes after Mitral Ring Annuloplasty for Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation: Duran Ring versus Carpentier-Edwards Ring Cheol Hyun Chung, Joon Bum Kim, Suk Jung Choo, Kyung Sun Kim, Hyun Song, Meong Gun Song, Jae-Kwan Song, Duk-Hyun Kang, Jae Won Lee	536
Short-Term Hemodynamic Performance of the Sorin Freedom SOLO Stentless Valve Uberto Da Col, Isidoro Di Bella, Giuliana Bardelli, Enrico Ramoni, Alessandro Affronti, Angela Vidili, Temistocle Ragni	546
Single-Center Experience with the On-X Prosthetic Heart Valve between 1996 and 2005 Paschalis Tossios MD, Delawer Reber MD, Maria Oustria, Tim Holland-Letz PhD, Alfried Germing MD, Dirk Buchwald, Axel Laczkovics MD	551
FOLLOW UP STUDIES
Patient Self-Monitoring of Prosthetic Heart Valve Function Dirk Fritzsche, Soren Schenk, Thomas Eitz, John Mantas, Dieter Horstkotte, Reiner Koerfer	558
TISSUE ENGINEERING
Tissue Engineering of Heart Valves: Biomechanical and Morphological Properties of Decellularized Heart Valves Igor Tudorache, Serghei Cebotari MD, Gerrit Sturz, Ludger Kirsch, Christof Hurschler PhD, Andres Hilfiker PhD, Axel Haverich MD, Artur Lichtenberg MD	567