The Journal of Heart Valve Disease
Volume 17 Number 5 September 2008
CONTENTS
| MITRAL VALVE DISEASE | |
| Edge-to-Edge Repair for Mitral Regurgitation: A Clinical and Exercise Echocardiographic Study Hidetsugu Hori MD, Shuji Fukunaga MD, Koichi Arinaga MD, Kazuhiro Yoshikawa MD, Eiki Tayama MD, Shigeaki Aoyagi MD |
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| Immediate and Long-Term Results of Mitral Balloon Valvuloplasty in Patients with Severe Pulmonary Hypertension Mohamed Eid Fawzy MBBCh, Adil Osman MD, Vijayaraghavan Nambiar MD, Omar Nowayhed MD, Abdulmoniem El Dali MSc, Amr Badr MD, Charles C. Canver MD |
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| Left and Right Atrial Function after Percutaneous Mitral Valvuloplasty in Mitral Stenosis and Sinus Rhythm
Tomás F. Cianciulli MD, María C. Saccheri MD, Jorge A. Lax MD, Ricardo A. Sarmiento MD, Alejandra M. Bermann MD, Juan A. Gagliardi MD, Juan J. Cirio MD, Adriana N. Dorelle RDCS, Horacio A. Prezioso MD, Luis A. Vidal MD |
492 |
| AORTIC VALVE DISEASE | |
| Aortic Valve Replacement: Ten-Year Follow Up of the Ross Procedure
Roberto R. Favaloro MD, Pablo Roura MD, Carmen Gomez MD, Carolina Salvatori MD |
501 |
| Early Outcome after Surgery for Active Native and Prosthetic Aortic Valve Endocarditis Davide Gabbieri MD, Pascal M. Dohmen MD, Jörg Linneweber MD, Herko Grubitzsch MD, Christian von Heymann MD, Konrad Neumann PhD, Elke Halle MD, Wolfgang F. Konertz MD |
508 |
| THROMBOSIS, EMBOLISM AND BLEEDING | |
| Anticoagulant Management of Pregnancy following Heart Valve Replacement in the United Kingdom, 1986-2002
Muriel S. Shannon FRCPath, Maria-Benedicta Edwards MPhil, Fiona Long, Kenneth M. Taylor FRCS, Jans Peder Bagger MD, Michael De Swiet FRCOG |
526 |
| Prolonged Heparin and Vitamin K Antagonist Regimen for Early Non-Obstructive Thrombosis of Mechanical Mitral Valve Prostheses Marcel Laurent MD, Bernard Lelong MD, Jean-Philippe Verhoye MD, Claire Khattar MD, Christian de Place MD, Pierre Matali MD, Celine Chabanne MD, Guillaume Leurent MD, Thierry Langanay MD, Alain Leguerrier MD |
533 |
| Prevalent Platelet Dysfunction in Patients with Aortic Valve Disease
Wolfgang Prohaska, Armin Zittermann, Jan U. Lüth, Kazuo Inoue, Wilhelm Köster-Eiserfunke, Detlev Baller, Reiner Körfer, Knut Kleesiek |
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| MISCELLANEOUS | |
| Independent Predictors for Early and Long-Term Mortality after Heart Valve Surgery Ioannis K. Toumpoulis MD, Themistocles P. Chamogeorgakis MD, Dimitrios C. Angouras MD, Daniel G. Swistel MD, Constantine E. Anagnostopoulos MD, Chris K. Rokkas MD |
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| Association of NT-proBNP with Severity of Heart Valve Disease in a Medical Patient Population Presenting with Acute Dyspnea or Peripheral Edema Michael Behnes MS, Siegfried Lang PhD, Ole-A. Breithardt MD, Jens J. Kaden MD, Dariusch Haghi MD, Parviz Ahmad-Nejad MD, Elif Elmas MD, Christian Wolpert MD, Martin Borggrefe MD, Michael Neumaier MD, Martina Brueckmann MD |
557 |
| In-Vitro Hemodynamics of Stented Bioprosthetic Heart Valves in the Tilted Implantation Position
Joerg Babin-Ebell, Hans-H. Sievers, Martin Misfeld, Maike Runge, Paul Robert Vogt, Michael Scharfschwerdt |
566 |
| Cyclic Strain Regulates Pro-Inflammatory Protein Expression in Porcine Aortic Valve
Endothelial Cells Scott A. Metzler, Carol A. Pregonero, Jonathan T. Butcher PhD, Shane C. Burgess PhD, James N. Warnock PhD |
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| Are Sounds from Mechanical Heart Valves Equal for Different Valve Types? Thais A. L. Pedersen MD, Peter Johansen PhD, J. Michael Hasenkam DMSc, Reiner Koerfer DMSc, Heinrich Koertke DMSc, Hans Nygaard DMSc |
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| CASE REPORTS | |
| Medtronic Hall Valve Malfunction due to Pannus Formation in the Aortic Position
with Peculiar Movement of the Leaflet: A Case Report Masahide Horiguchi MD, Tetsuya Seko MD, Takahiro Yazu MD, Masaki Takeuchi MD, Takehiko Ichikawa MD |
583 |
| Traumatic Aortic Valve Rupture after a High-Speed Motor Vehicle Accident Mari-Liis Kaljusto MD, Řystein A. Vengen MD, Theis Třnnessen MD |
586 |
| Identification of Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. macedonicus as the Etiological Agent in a Case of Culture-Negative Multivalve Infective Endocarditis by 16S rDNA PCR Analysis of Resected Valvular Tissue Joanne Malkin MBChB, Patrick T. Kimmitt PhD, Hong-Yu Ou PhD, Pretti S. Santi Bhasker MSc, Milind Khare MRCPath, Zixin Deng PhD, Iain Stephenson MRCP, Andrew W. Sosnowski FRCS, Nelun Perera MRCPath, Kumar Rajakumar FRCPA |
589 |
| Cardiogenic Shock due to Partial Occlusion of the Left Coronary Ostium in Infective Endocarditis: A Case Report
Mariano E. Brizzio MD, Alex Zapolanski MD, Jason S. Sperling MD |
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