The Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volume 17 Number 1 January 2008

CONTENTS

 

The Last Word
Endre Bodnar
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MITRAL VALVE DISEASE
Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension after Mitral Valve Surgery: Does Surgical Procedure Affect Outcome?
Michael C. Walls MD, Nina Cimino, Steven F. Bolling MD, David S. Bach MD
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Long-Term Results of Mitral Valve Repair using Autologous Pericardium Annuloplasty
David J. De La Zerda MD, Oved Cohen MD, Daniel Marelli MD, Fardad Esmailian MD, Diana Hekmat BA, Hillel Laks MD
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Geometric Determinants of Chronic Functional Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation: Insights from Three-Dimensional Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Henrik Jensen, Morten Ø. Jensen, Steffen Ringgaard, Morten H. Smerup, Thomas S. Sorensen, Won Y. Kim, Erik Sloth, P. Wierup, J. Michael Hasenkam, Sten L. Nielsen
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Hemolysis after Mitral Valve Repair: A Report of Five Cases and Literature Review
E. Demirsoy, O. Yilmaz MD, G. Sirin MD, T. Baran MD, S. Tekin MD, D. Sener MD, B. Sonmez
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Non-Compaction Cardiomyopathy is Associated with Mitral Annulus Enlargement and Functional Impairment: A Real-Time Three-Dimensional Echocardiographic Study
Attila Nemes MD, Ashraf M. Anwar MD, Kadir Kaliskan MD, Osama I. I. Soliman MD, Marcel L. Geleijnse MD, Bas M. van Dalen MD, Folkert J ten Cate MD
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Preoperative Advanced Left Ventricular Remodeling Predisposes to Recurrence of Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation with Less Reverse Remodeling
Tetsuya Ueno MD, Ryuzo Sakata MD, Yoshifumi Iguro MD, Hiroyuki Yamamoto MD, Masahiro Ueno MD, Takayuki Ueno MD
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Left Ventricular Rupture after Mitral Valve Replacement: Risk Factor Analysis and Outcome of Resuscitation
Mitsuharu Hosono MD, Toshihiko Shibata MD, Yasuyuki Sasaki MD, Hidekazu Hirai MD, Yasuyuki Bito MD, Yosuke Takahashi MD, Shigefumi Suehiro MD
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Video-Assisted Mitral Surgery through a Micro-Access: A Safe and Reliable Reality in the Current Era
Ernesto Greco MD, Juan M. Zaballos MD, Luis Alvarez MD, Stefano Urso MD, Ivana Pulitani MD,Rafael Sàdaba MD, Arantxa Juaristi MD, Juan J. Goiti MD
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Transection of Anterior Mitral Basal Stay Chords Alters Left Ventricular Outflow Dynamics and Wall Shear Stress
Fangli Xiong PhD, Joon Hock Yeo PhD, Chuh Khiun Chong PhD, Yeow Leng Chua MD, Khee Hiang Lim PhD, Ean Tat Ooi PhD, Wolfgang A. Goetz MD
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AORTIC VALVE DISEASE
Review: Mechanobiology of the Aortic Heart Valve
Jonathan T. Butcher PhD, Craig A. Simmons PhD, James N. Warnock PhD
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Integrating Resuspension with Remodeling: Early Results with a New Valve-Sparing Aortic Root Reconstruction Technique
Andras C. Kollar MD, Scott D. Lick MD, Vincent R. Conti MD
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Severe Isolated Aortic Stenosis with Normal Left Ventricular Systolic Function and Low Transvalvular Gradients: Pathophysiologic and Prognostic Insights
Eddy Barasch MD, Dali Fan MD, Ebere O. Chukwu MD, Jing Han PhD, Michael Passick RDCS, Florentina Petillo BS, Aracely Norales RN, Nathaniel Reichek MD
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Mechanism of Increasing Systolic Coronary Flow Velocity in Patients with Aortic Regurgitation
Teruyoshi Kume MD, Takahiro Kawamoto MD, Hiroyuki Okura MD, Nozomi Watanabe MD, Eiji Toyota MD, Yoji Neishi MD, Renan Sukmawan MD, Ryotaro Yamada MD, Takashi Akasaka MD, Kiyoshi Yoshida MD
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Resuspension of the Aortic Valve in Acute Type A Dissection: Long-Term Results
Franz F. Immer MD, Rahel Aeschimann MD, Lars Englberger MD, Friedrich S. Eckstein MD, Hendrik Tevaearai MD, Jürg Schmidli MD, Thierry P. Carrel MD
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DEVICE EVALUATION
Fifty-Two Months’ Mean Follow Up of Decellularized SynerGraft™-Treated Pulmonary Valve Allografts
J. F. Matthias Bechtel MD, Ulrich Stierle MD, Hans-Hinrich Sievers MD
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In-Vivo Evaluation of the BioPhysio™ Valve Prosthesis in the Aortic Position
Mirko Doss MD, Petar Risteski MD, Jeffrey P. Wood MD, Gerhard Wimmer-Greinecker MD, Anton Moritz MD
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In-Vivo Motion of Mitral Valve Annuloplasty Devices
Jerald Redmond PhD, Dean Christiansen AA, Cathy Bergin MS, Lenny Leuer BS, Tim Ryan BS, Nancy Rakow DVM, Noah Barka DVM, Tina Billstrom AA, John A. St. Cyr MD, Linda M. Shecterle PhD, Eugene Grossi MD
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Reoperative Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Conduit Reconstruction: Risk Analyses at Follow Up
Mark D. Rodefeld MD, Mark Ruzmetov MD, PhD, Mark W. Turrentine MD, John W. Brown MD
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CASE REPORTS
Aortic Valve Stenosis due to Alkaptonuria
Martin Brueck MD, Dirk Bandorski MD, Wilfried Kramer MD, Markus Schoenburg MD, Susanne von Gerlach MD, Harald Tillmanns MD
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Aortic Valve Lymphoma Presenting as Acute Coronary Syndrome
Ozan Yazar MD, Thomas Muyldermans BSc, Urbain Mees MD, Ruth Achten MD, Robert Geukens MD, Marc Hendrikx MD
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Acute Thrombosis of a Prosthetic Mitral Valve in Pregnancy in Spite of Adjusted-Dose Low
Molecular-Weight Heparin and Aspirin Stephanie L. Curtis MD, Johanna Trinder MRCOG, A. Graham Stuart FRCP
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SHVD WORKING GROUP STATEMENT
The Need For A Global Perspective On Heart Valve Disease Epidemiology: The SHVD Working Group on Epidemiology of Heart Valve Disease Founding Statement
Johanna J.M. Takkenberg, Nalini M. Rajamannan, Raphael Rosenhek, Arkalgud S Kumar, Jonathan R. Carapetis, Magdi H. Yacoub
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