Journal of Heart Valve Disease January 2008

The Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Small Steps in Large Shoes Robert W. Emery	140
MITRAL VALVE DISEASE
Impact of Atrial Fibrillation on Immediate and Long-Term Results of Mitral Balloon Valvuloplasty in 531 Consecutive Patients Mohamed Eid Fawzy MD, Mohamed Shoukri PhD, Adil Osman MD, Souad El Amraoui MD, Shabir Shah MD, Omar Nowayhed MD, Charles Canver MD	141
Effect of Semi-Rigid or Flexible Mitral Ring Annuloplasty on Anterior Leaflet Three-Dimensional Geometry Tomasz A. Timek MD, David Liang MD, George T. Daughters MS, Neil B. Ingels, Jr. PhD3, D. Craig Miller MD	149
Restrictive Annuloplasty to Treat Functional Mitral Regurgitation: Optimize the Restriction to Improve the Results? Pasquale Totaro MD, Nicola Adragna MD, Vincenzo Argano MD	155
Long-Term Echocardiography Results of Mitral Valve Repair for Mitral Valve Prolapse Hitoshi Kasegawa MD, Tomoki Shimokawa MD, Tetsuya Horai MD, Susumu Takeuchi MD, Kenji Nishimura MD, Naomi Ozawa MD, Shuichiro Takanashi MD	162
Functional Uncoupling of the Mitral Annulus and Left Ventricle with Mitral Regurgitation and Dopamine Tom C. Nguyen, Akinobu Itoh, Carl J. Carlhäll, Robert A. Oakes, David Liang, Neil B. Ingels, Jr., D. Craig Miller	168
AORTIC VALVE DISEASE
A 'Hemispherical' Model of Aortic Valvar Geometry J. Scott Rankin MD, Arthur F. Dalley, II PhD, Philip S. Crooke PhD, Robert H. Anderson MD	179
Differential Profile of the OPG/RANKL/RANK-System in Degenerative Aortic Native and Bioprosthetic Valves Martin Steinmetz, Dirk Skowasch, Nicolas Wernert, Ulrich Welsch, Clauss J. Preusse, Armin Welz, Georg Nickenig, Gerhard Bauriedel	187
Native Aortic Valve Endocarditis caused by Candida sake Neera Aggarwal MD, Harshbir S. Pannu MCh, Puneet Verma DM, Davinder M. Saini MCh	194
Aortic Root Replacement with a Stentless Bioprosthesis in Osteogenesis Imperfecta Hidetaka Wakiyama MD, Yukikatsu Okada MD, Aki Kitamura MD, Yukihiro Imai MD	197
DEVICE EVALUATION
Aortic Valve Replacement: Is There an Implant Size Variation across Europe? Emmanouil I. Kapetanakis, Thanos Athanasiou, Carlos A. Mestres, Samer A. M. Nashef, Jan Aagaard, Anton Moritz, Gerrit Van Ingen, Fany Chronidou, George Palatianos, Peter A. Alivizatos, George T. Stavridis	200
Valve Replacement with Bileaflet HP-Biplus Mechanical Prostheses versus Standard Prostheses: Long-Term Results Tomás F. Cianciulli MD, Jorge A. Lax MD, Martín A. Beck MD,Robert Guidoin PhD, María C. Saccheri MD, Lucas A. Cosarinsky MD, Francisco J. Gadea MD, Adriana N. Dorelle RDCS, Horacio A. Prezioso MD, Luis A. Vidal MD	206
Aortic Valve Replacement with 19-mm Bileaflet Prostheses in the Elderly: Left Ventricular Mass Regression and Quality of Life Mariano Vicchio MD, Luca Salvatore De Santo MD, Alessandro Della Corte MD, Marisa De Feo MD, Raffaella Provenzano MD, Maurizio Miraglia MD, Michelangelo Scardone MD, Maurizio Cotrufo MD	216
In-Vitro Testing of Three Totally Supra-Annular Bileaflet Mechanical Valves: Hydrodynamics in the Sheffield Pulse Duplicator Tomaso Bottio MD, Vincenzo Tarzia MD, Giulio Rizzoli MD, Gino Gerosa MD	222
MISCELLANEOUS
Are Initial Valve Operations in Octogenarians Still High-Risk in the Current Era? Dumbor L. Ngaage FRCS, Michael E. Cowen FRCS, Steven Griffin FRCS, Levant Guvendik FRCS, Alexander R. Cale FRCS	227
Individual Patient Meta-Analysis of Self-Monitoring of an Oral Anticoagulation Protocol Rafael Perera DPhil, Carl Heneghan MA, David Fitzmaurice MD, and the Self Monitoring Trialists (SMT) collaboration	233
Left Thoracotomy for Aortic and Mitral Valve Surgery in a Case of Mediastinal Displacement due to Pneumonectomy Theodoro Barreda MD, Mojgan Laali MD, Richard Dorent MD, Christophe Acar MD	239