| AORTIC VALVE DISEASE |
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Surgical Management of Aortic Valve Disease in the Elderly: A Retrospective Comparative Study of Valve Choice using Propensity Score Analysis
Kevin D. Accola MD, Meredith L. Scott MD, George J. Palmer MD, Paul A. Thompson MD, Mark E. Sand MD, Jorge E. Suarez-Cavalier MD, Jeffrey N. Bott MD, George Ebra EdD
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355 |
Perioperative Dynamic Morphological Changes of the Aortic Annulus during Aortic Root Remodeling with Aortic Annuloplasty at Systolic and Diastolic Phases
Toshinobu Kazui MD, Hajime Kin MD, Junichi Tsuboi MD, Kunihiro Yoshioka MD, Hitoshi Okabayashi MD, Kohei Kawazoe MD
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366 |
Serum Gamma-Glutamyltransferase Activity is Increased in Patients with Calcific Aortic Valve Stenosis
Huseyin Bozbas MD, Aylin Yildirir MD, Ozlem Demir MD, Abdulkadir Cakmak MD, Emir Karacaglar MD, Mustafa Yilmaz MD, Serpil Eroglu MD, Bahar Pirat MD, Bulent Ozin MD, Haldun Muderrisoglu MD
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371 |
Does Exercise Echocardiography Have an Added Value Over Exercise Testing Alone in Asymptomatic Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis?
Daniel Weisenberg MD, Yaron Shapira MD, Mordehay Vaturi MD, Daniel Monakier MD, Zaza Iakobishvili MD, Alexander Battler MD, Alex Sagie MD
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376 |
Development of aortic valve sclerosis or stenosis in rabbits: role of cholesterol and calcium
M.C. Drolet MSc, J. Couet PhD, M. Arsenault MD
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381 |
Soluble Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1 (sICAM-1) and Aortic Valve Calcification in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)
David M. Shavelle MD, Ronit Katz PhD, Junichiro Takasu MD, Joao A. Lima MD, Nancy S. Jenny PhD, Matthew J. Budoff MD, Kevin D. O’Brien MD |
388 |
| MITRAL VALVE DISEASE |
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Early and Long-Term Outcome of Mitral Valve Repair with a Cosgrove Band Combined with Coronary Revascularization in Patients with Ischemic Cardiomyopathy and Moderate-Severe Mitral Regurgitation
Bruno Chiappini MD, PhD, Ugo Minuti MD, Renato Gregorini MD, Licia Petrella MD, Franco De Remigis MD, Raffaele Giancola MD, Carmine Villani MD, Alessandro Mazzola MD |
396 |
Interstitial Cells from Dogs with Naturally Occurring Myxomatous Mitral Valve Disease Undergo Phenotype Transformation
Sirilak Disatian DVM, E. J. Ehrhart III, DVM, Sarah Zimmerman DVM, E. Christopher Orton DVM |
402 |
| THROMBOSIS, EMBOLISM AND BLEEDING |
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Etiology of Stroke after Mechanical Heart Valve Replacement – Results from a Ten-Year Prospective Study
Cornelia Piper MD, Detlef Hering MD, Christoph Langer MD, Dieter Horstkotte MD
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413 |
Early Anticoagulation after Mechanical Valve Implantation, and Related Complications
Deepak Puri MS, Arun Kumar MD, Reshma Basu MD, Ambuj Chaudhary MS, Virender Sarwal MS, Manoranjan Sahoo MD, Tek Singh Mahant MS |
418 |
| DEVICE EVALUATION |
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Hemodynamic Performance of the New St. Jude Medical Epic Supra Porcine Bioprosthesis in Comparison to the Medtronic Mosaic on the Basis of Patient Annulus Diameter
Daniel J. Ruzicka MD, Walter B. Eichinger MD, Ina M. Hettich MD, Sabine Bleiziffer MD, Robert Bauernschmitt MD, Ruediger Lange MD |
426 |
Role of Vortices in Cavitation Formation in the Flow Across a Mechanical
Heart Valve
Chi-Pei Li MS, Po-Chien Lu PhD, Jia-Shing Liu PhD, Chi-Wen Lo MS, Ned H. Hwang PhD |
435 |
| TISSUE ENGINEERING |
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Cryopreserved Amniotic Fluid-Derived Cells: A Life-Long Autologous Fetal Stem Cell Source for Heart Valve Tissue Engineering
Dörthe Schmidt MD, Josef Achermann PhD, Bernhard Odermatt MD, Michele Genoni MD, Gregor Zund MD, Simon P. Hoerstrup MD |
446 |
Enhanced Biostability and Biocompatibility of Decellularized Bovine Pericardium, Crosslinked with an Ultra-Low Concentration Monomeric Aldehyde and Treated with ADAPT®
William M. L. Neethling, Sumit Yadav, Andrew J. Hodge, Ross Glancy |
456 |
Oral Everolimus Inhibits Neointimal Proliferation in Prosthetic Pulmonary Valved Stents in Pigs
Titus Kühne MD, Klaus Pietzner MD, Hans B. Lehmkuhl MD, Dinah Gelernter MD, Björn Peters MD, Julia J. Krueger MD, Carolin Meinus MD, Katrin Klimes MD, Florian Brinkert MD, Peter Ewert MD, Felix Berger MD |
465 |
| LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
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Re: Hosono M, Shibata T, Saski Y, et al. Left ventricular rupture after mitral valve replacement: Risk factor analysis and outcome of resuscitation. J Heart Valve Dis 2008;17:42-47
Francis Robicsek MD |
473 |
Reply
Mitshuharu Hosono MD |
473 |
Re: Nemes A, Anwar AM, Caliskan K, et al. Non-compaction cardiomyopathy is associated with mitral annulus enlargement and functional impairment: a real-time three-dimensional echocardiographic study. J Heart Valve Dis 2008;17:31-35
Fazio Giovanni MD
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474 |
Reply
Attila Nemes MD |
475 |