The Journal of Heart Valve Disease
Volume 18 Number 1 January 2009
CONTENTS
| AORTIC VALVE DISEASE | |
| Survival and Reoperation Risk Following Bicuspid Aortic Valve-Sparing Root Replacement
Basar Sareyyupoglu MD, Rakesh M. Suri MD, Hartzell V. Schaff MD, Joseph A. Dearani MD, Richard C. Daly MD, Thomas A. Orszulak MD, Thoralf M. Sundt MD |
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| Disproportionate Shortening of Diastolic Time and Cardiac Performance in Asymptomatic Patients with Aortic Regurgitation
Gunnar Plehn, Julia Vormbrock, Sebastian Machnick, Axel Meissner, Hans-Joachim Trappe |
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| Effects of Patient-Prosthesis Mismatch on Postoperative Early Mortality in Isolated Aortic Stenosis Murat B. Rabus, Kaan Kirali, Nihan Kayalar, Ilker Mataraci, Mehmet Yanartas, Nilgun Ulusoy-Bozbuga, Cevat Yakut |
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| MITRAL VALVE DISEASE | |
| Percutaneous Mitral Valve Dilatation: Single Balloon versus Double Balloon. A Finite Element Study Silvia Schievano, Karyn Kunzelman, Mark A. Nicosia, Richard P. Cochran, Daniel R. Einstein, Sachin Khambadkone, Philipp Bonhoeffer |
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| Early Hazards of Mitral Ring Annuloplasty in Patients with Moderate to Severe Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation Undergoing Coronary Revascularization: The Importance of Preoperative Myocardial Viability Jean-Benoît le Polain de Waroux, Anne-Catherine Pouleur, David Vancraeynest, Agnès Pasquet, Bernhard L. Gerber, Gébrine El Khoury, Philippe Noirhomme, Annie Robert, Jean-Louis J. Vanoverschelde |
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| Autocrine Serotonin and Transforming Growth Factor β1 Signaling Mediates Spontaneous Myxomatous Mitral Valve Disease Sirilak Disatian, E. Christopher Orton |
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| EPIDEMIOLOGY | |
| Calcification of Left-Sided Valvular Structures: Evidence of a Pro-Inflammatory Milieu Hisham M. F. Sherif |
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| Natural History of Aortic Valve Disease Following Intervention for Rheumatic Mitral Valve Disease Narayanan Namboodiri, Krishnan Remash, Jaganmohan A. Tharakan, Othayoth Shajeem, Krishnakumar Nair, Thomas Titus, Valaparambil K. Ajitkumar, Sivasubramonian Sivasankaran, Kavassery M. Krishnamoorthy, Sivadasan P. Harikrishnan, Madhavankutty S. Harikrishnan, Sasidharan Bijulal |
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| The Spectrum of Rheumatic Heart Disease in the Southeastern Anatolia Endemic Region: Results from 1,900 Patients Orhan Ozer, Vedat Davutoglu, Ibrahim Sari, Dursun C. Akkoyun, Murat Sucu |
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| Taking Patient Mortalities into Account when Assessing Change in NYHA Classification from Baseline Cody Hamilton |
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| PULMONARY AUTOGRAFTS | |
| Ross and Ross-Konno Procedures in Infants, Children and Adolescents: A 13-Year Experience Alessandro Piccardo, Olivier Ghez, Vlad Gariboldi, Alberto Riberi, Frederic Collart, Bernard Kreitmann, Dominique Metras |
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| Thirteen Years’ Experience with the Ross Operation Francisco D. A. da Costa, Lúcia R. Santos, Claudinei Collatusso, Camila N. Matsuda, Sérgio A. V. Lopes, Sanderson Cauduro, João G. Roderjan, Eileen Ingham |
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| PERICARDIAL BIOPROSTHESES | |
| Hemodynamic Characterization of the Sorin Mitroflow Pericardial Bioprosthesis at Rest and Exercise Sabine Bleiziffer, Walter B. Eichinger, Ina M. Hettich, Daniel Ruzicka, Catalin C. Badiu, Ralf Guenzinger, Robert Bauernschmitt, Ruediger Lange |
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| Does Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate Wash Out of Detergent-Treated Bovine Pericardium at Cytotoxic Concentrations? Samira Caamaño, Shiori Arai DVM, Steven H. Strauss, E. Christopher Orton |
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| HOW TO DO IT | |
| Echocardiographic Measurement of Mitral Intertrigonal Distance is an Adjunct to Annuloplasty Ring Sizing Shamil D. Cooray, Elli Tutungi, Joseph P. Mezzatesta, Randall Moshinsky, Aubrey A. Almeida |
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| Clinical Outcome of a Simplified Technique for Aortic Valve Replacement with Stentless Bioprostheses Gerardo Di Matteo, Nicola Masala, Justiaan Swanevelder, Joan Davies, Manuel Galiñanes, Andrzej W. Sosnowski |
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| Triangular Resection for Posterior Mitral Prolapse: Rationale for a Simpler Repair Kristopher M. George, Tomislav Mihaljevic, A. Marc Gillinov |
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| CASE REPORTS | |
| Aortic Valve Regurgitation in a Patient Affected by KBG Syndrome Francesco Nicolini, Cesare Beghi, Tiziano Gherli |
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| Aortic Stenosis Five Years after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in a Young Patient with Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia Mohammad Hassan Nemati |
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