The Journal of Heart Valve Disease
Volume 18 Number 4 July 2009
CONTENTS
| MITRAL VALVE DISEASE | |
| Editorial:Natural Selection and National Trends in Mitral Repair Vinay Badhwar MD, Kristopher M. George MD |
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| Trends in Mitral Valve Surgery: A Single Practice Experience J. Scott Rankin MD, Calvin A. Burrichter MD, Melissa K. Walton-Shirley MD, James H. Whiteside MD, Stephen M. Teague MD, Victor W. McLaughlin MD, Mukesh K. Sharma MD, Thomas S. Johnston MD,A. Thomas McRae MD, Paul R. Myers MD |
359 |
| AORTIC VALVE DISEASE | |
| Aortic Valve-in-Valve Implantation: Impact of Transcatheter- Bioprosthesis Size Mismatch Ali N. Azadani PhD, Nicolas Jaussaud MD, Peter B. Matthews BS, Timothy A.M. Chuter MD, Liang Ge PhD, T. Sloane Guy MD, Julius Guccione PhD, Elaine E. Tseng MD |
367 |
| Pulmonary Function and Immediate Outcome of Patients Undergoing Aortic Valve Replacement
Juha Nissinen MD, Fausto Biancari MD, Jan-Ola Wistbacka MD, Risto Niemi MD, Pertti Loponen MD, Pekka Tarkiainen, Matti Tarkka MD |
374 |
| The Role of the Sinuses of Valsalva in Aortic Root Flow Dynamics and Aortic Root Surgery: Evaluation by Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Florian S. Schoenhoff MD, Christos Loupatatzis MD, Franz F. Immer MD, Christoforos Stoupis MD, Thierry P. Carrel MD, Friedrich S. Eckstein MD |
380 |
| INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS | |
| Infective Endocarditis: A Continuous Challenge. The Recent Experience of a European Tertiary Center
Jane B. Knudsen MD, Kurt Fuursted DMSc, Eskild Petersen DMSc, Per Wierup DMSc, Henning Mølgaard DMSc, Steen H. Poulsen DMSc, Henrik Egeblad DMSc |
386 |
| Infective Endocarditis in the Czech Republic: Eight Years of Experience at One of the Country’s Largest Medical Centers
Michal Pazdernik, Larry M. Baddour MD, Radek Pelouch MD |
395 |
| Non-Typhoid Salmonellae and Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis: More Than a Rare Coincidence? A Review of the Literature
Hagen Gorki MD, Nils H. Nicolay MD, Didier F. Loulmet MD, Nirav C. Patel MD, Giovanni B. Ciuffo MD, Valavanur A. Subramanian MD, Klaus D. Lessnau MD |
401 |
| Pathogen Burden in Degenerative Aortic Valves is Associated with Inflammatory and ImmuneReactions Dirk Skowasch MD, Izabela Tuleta MD, Martin Steinmetz MD, Stefan Pabst MD, Claus J. Preusse MD, Armin Welz MD, Georg Nickenig MD, Gerhard Bauriedel MD |
411 |
| Extracorporeal Support in a Patient with Cardiogenic Shock due to Aerococcus urinae
Endocarditis Dirk Bruegger MD, Andres Beiras-Fernandez MD, Florian Weis MD, Marion Weis MD, Felix Kur MD |
418 |
| CALCIFICATION | |
| Interstitial Cells from Left-Sided Heart Valves Display More Calcification Potential than from Right-Sided Valves: An In-Vitro Study of Porcine Valves Joanie Bouchard-Martel, Élise Roussel, Marie-Claude Drolet, Marie Arsenault, Jacques Couet |
421 |
| Valvular Calcification and its Relationship to Atherosclerosis in Chronic Kidney Disease
Yrjö Leskinen, Tuomas Paana, Heikki Saha, Kaj Groundstroem, Terho Lehtimäki, Sanna Kilpinen, Heini Huhtala, Juhani Airaksinen |
429 |
| Immunoblot Detection of Soluble Protein Antigens from Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate- and Sodium Deoxycholate-Treated Candidate Bioscaffold Tissues
Shiori Arai DVM, E. Christopher Orton DVM |
439 |
| DEVICE EVALUATION | |
| Fifteen Years’ Single-Center Experience with the ATS Bileaflet Valve Guido J. Van Nooten MD, Frank Caes MD, Katrien François MD, Yves Van Belleghem MD, Thierry Bové MD, Guy Vandenplas MD, Michel De Pauw MD, Yves Taeymans MD |
444 |
| Four Decades with a Starr-Edwards Ball Valve in the Aortic Position Oktay Tutarel MD, Arnd Schaefer MD, Martin Fuchs MD |
453 |
| HEART VALVE DISEASE AND ADDITIONAL PATHOLOGY | |
| Screening Coronary Angiography Prior to Surgery in Rheumatic Valvular Heart Disease: A Study of 2,188 Patients Rajiv Narang MD, Davinder S. Chadha MD, Kashish Goel MBBS, Sandeep Mishra MD, Naveen Bajaj MBBS, Sanjeev Sharma MD, Nidhi Gupta MBBS, Vinay K. Bahl MD |
455 |
| Heart Abnormalities in Parkinson Patients after Discontinuation or Continuation of Ergot-Derived Dopamine Agonists: A Treatment-Blinded Echocardiographic Study Vibeke G. Rasmussen MD, Steen H. Poulsen DMSci, Erik Dupont MD, Karen Østergaard DMSci, Gholamhossein Safikhany MD, Henrik Egeblad DMSci |
463 |
| IMAGE OF THE MONTH | |
| An Intra-Left Ventricular Varicosity Annaik Bellouin, Issam Abouliatim, Robert Sal, Erwan Donal |
470 |
| LETTERS TO THE EDITOR | |
| Endocarditis of Mitral Annuloplasty Ring due to Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci
Mehmet Kayrak, Ahmet Bacaksiz, Cüneyt Narin |
471 |
| Aspergillus fumigatus Mitral Native Valve Endocarditis G. Fayad, L. Legout, V. Colombie, T. Modine1, E. Senneville, O. Leroy |
472 |
| Successful Repair of a Periannular Tear Complicated by Aortic Valve Replacement
Using a Dacron Patch Takeshi Shimamoto MD, Tomohiro Nakamura MD |
473 |
| Polyvalvular Disease Associated with Multiple Congenital Anomalies and Pericentric Inversion of Chromosome 1 (p32q25)
Marcello Marcì MD, Nicola Sanfilippo MD |
474 |