The Journal of Heart Valve Disease
Volume 17 Number 3 May 2008
CONTENTS
| MITRAL VALVE DISEASE | |
| Review
The Mitral Annulus Area: A Useful Tool for the Surgeon
Richard Isnard MD, Christophe Acar MD |
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| Mitral Regurgitation Surgery in Heart Failure due to Ischemic Cardiomyopathy: A 24-Year Experience Dumbor L. Ngaage FRCS, Richard C. Daly MD, Gabriella Rosales, Thoralf M. Sundt III, MD, Joseph A. Dearani MD, Charles J. Mullany MB, Christopher G. McGregor MD, Thomas A. Orszulak MD, Francisco J. Puga MD, Hartzell V. Schaff MD |
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| Commissural Closure for the Treatment of Commissural Mitral Valve Prolapse or Flail Elisabetta Lapenna MD, Michele De Bonis MD, Flavia Sorrentino MD, Giovanni La Canna MD, Antonio Grimaldi MD, Lucia Torracca MD, Francesco Maisano MD, Ottavio Alfieri MD |
261 |
| What Forces Act on a Flat Rigid Mitral Annuloplasty Ring?
Morten Ø. Jensen MS, Henrik Jensen MD, Sten L. Nielsen MD, Morten Smerup MD, Peter Johansen PhD, Ajit P. Yoganathan PhD, Hans Nygaard DMSc, J. Michael Hasenkam MD |
267 |
| Maintenance of Geometric Alterations Associated with Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair: Real-Time Three-Dimensional Echocardiographic Assessment in an Ovine Model Shota Fukuda MD, A. Marc Gillinov MD, John R. Liddicoat MD, Giuseppe Saracino MS, Motoya Hayase MD, William E. Cohn MD, Christopher W. Schneider BSE, Takahiro Shiota MD |
276 |
| Chronic Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation Induced in Pigs by Catheter-Based Coronary Artery Occlusion
Marianne Bjerre MS, Henrik Jensen MD, Jane Dahl Andersen MS, Steffen Ringgaard PhD, Morten Smerup MD, Per Wierup MD, J. Michael Hasenkam MD, Sten Lyager Niels |
283 |
| AORTIC VALVE DISEASE | |
| Age-Related Changes in the Aortic Valve Affect Leaflet Stress Distributions: Implications for Aortic Valve Degeneration
Reetu Singh MS, Joel A. Strom MD, Leo Ondrovic PhD, Babu Joseph PhD, Michael D. VanAuker PhD |
290 |
| Early Left Ventricular Remodeling in Acute Severe Aortic Regurgitation: Insights from an Animal Model Dominic Lachance MSc, Éric Plante MSc, Élise Roussel MSc, Marie-Claude Drolet MSc, Jacques Couet PhD, Marie Arsenault MD |
300 |
| DEVICE EVALUATION | |
| The Effect of Gap Width on Viscous Stresses within the Leakage across a Bileaflet Valve Pivot Brandon R. Travis PhD, Morten E. Andersen MS, Ernst Torben Fründ PhD |
309 |
| Hemodynamic Performance of Fresh and Calcified Aortic Valve Prostheses in Critical Low Stroke Volume Omer Dzemali MD, Farhad Bakhtiary MD, Ulrich Steinseiffer PhD, Christof Schmitz PhD, Brigit Glasmacher PhD, Anton Moritz MD, Peter Kleine MD |
317 |
| Ex-Vivo Characterization of Three Björk-Shiley Delrin Heart Valves Silvia Farè PhD, Maria F. Brunella PhD, Giuseppe Bruschi MD, Ettore Vitali MD |
325 |
| ANTICOAGULATION | |
| Editorial: Antithrombotic management early after mechanical heart valve replacement Detlef Hering MD, Cornelia Piper MD, Dieter Horstkotte MD |
332 |
| A Practical Approach for Bridging Anticoagulation after Mechanical Heart Valve Replacement Volker Steger MD, Dorothee H. Bail MD, Daniela Graf, Tobias Walker MD, Kilian Rittig MD, Gerhard Ziemer MD |
335 |
| CASE REPORTS | |
| Acute Aortic Valve Insufficiency and Cardiogenic Shock due to an Isolated Giant Cell Inflammation of the Aortic Valve Leaflets: Case Report and Review of the Literature
Lars Niclauss, Igor Letovanec, Pierre G. Chassot, Philippe A. Gersbach, Ludwig K. von Segesser |
343 |
| Primary Undifferentiated Sarcoma of the Mitral and Aortic Valves Ruben B. Ramos MD, Luísa M. Branco MD, Ana I. Galrinho MD, Jorge Cunha, Mário F. Oliveira MD, José Fragata PhD, Rui C. Ferreira MD |
348 |
| ETHICS STATEMENT | |
| A Statement on Ethics From the HEART Group
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