Journal of Heart Valve Disease May 2009

The Journal of Heart Valve Disease

AORTIC VALVE DISEASE
Exercise Stress Testing in Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis Mazen Awais MD, David S. Bach MD	235
Valve Replacement in Octogenarians: Arguments for an Earlier Surgical Intervention Cornelia Piper MD, Detlev Hering MD, Georg Kleikamp MD, Reiner Körfer MD, Dieter Horstkotte MD	239
Editorial: Live Longer and Better Without Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch Philippe Pibarot MD, Jean G. Dumesnil MD	245
Patient-Prosthesis Mismatch in Elderly Patients Undergoing Aortic Valve Replacement: Impact on Quality of Life and Survival Stefano Urso MD, Rafael Sadaba MD, Manuel Vives MD, John Trujillo MD, Sergio Beltrame MD, Beatriz Soriano MD, Lucia Piqueras MD, Gonzalo Aldamiz-Echevarria MD	248
Risk of Reoperation for Aortic Bioprosthesis Dysfunction Nicolas Jaussaud MD, Vlad Gariboldi MD, Roch Giorgi MD, Dominique Grisoli MD, Virginie Chalvignac MD, Franck Thuny MD, Alberto Riberi MD, Frederic Collart MD	256
Parathyroid Hormone Gene Variant and Calcific Aortic Stenosis Fabian Schmitz MD, Silke Ewering MD, Klaus Zerres MD, Sebastian Klomfaß MD, Rainer Hoffmann MD, Jan R. Ortlepp MD	262
MITRAL VALVE DISEASE
Predictors of the Outcome of Thrombolytic Therapy in Prosthetic Mitral Valve Thrombosis: A Study of 62 Events András Nagy MD, Mónika Dénes MD, Mária Lengyel MD	268
Editorial: Mitral Regurgitation Reduces Systemic Coagulation Activity in Rheumatic Heart Disease: Using Fibrin D-Dimer as a Biomarker of Thrombogenesis Kok Hoon Tay MD, Chee Wah Khoo MD, Gregory Y. H. Lip MD	276
Mitral Regurgitation Reduces Systemic Coagulation Activity in Patients with Rheumatic Heart Disease Cihan Cevik MD, Mohammad Otahbachi MD, Kenneth Nugent MD, Mehmet Ozkan MD	278
Pure Annular Dilation as a Cause of Mitral Regurgitation: A Clinically Distinct Entity of Female Heart Disease Donald D. Glower MD, Thomas M. Bashore MD, J. Kevin Harrison MD, Andrew Wang MD, Thomas Gehrig MD, J. Scott Rankin MD	284
Invited commentary Robert W. Frater MD	288
Gaping Cleft or Commissure - An Under-Rated Cause of Residual Mitral Insufficiency Following Valve Repair: Case Reports Stéphane Aubert MD, Christophe Acar MD	290
Ultrastructure of Porcine Mitral Valve Chordae Tendineae Jun Liao PhD, Lauren B. Priddy PhD, Bo Wang PhD, Joseph Chen PhD, Ivan Vesely PhD	292
Mitral Web: A New Concept For Mitral Valve Repair - Improved Engineering Design and In Vitro Studies Ersin Erek, Muralidhar Padala, Kerem Pekkan, Jorge Jimenez, Yusuf K. Yalç?nbas, Ece Salihoglu, Tayyar Sar?oglu, Ajit P.Yoganathan	300
Editorial: Management of Submitral Anomalies during Complex Mitral Valve Repair: A Discussion of Techniques J. Scott Rankin MD, David D. Alfery MD	307
INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS
Editorial: Guidelines for the Prevention of Infective Endocarditis Revised: A Critical Appraisal of the AHA Recommendations and Call for an Individual Approach Dieter Horstkotte MD, Cornelia Piper MD	309
Invited Commentary Shahbudin H. Rahimtoola MD	313
Results of Annular Reconstruction with a Pericardial Patch in Active Infective Endocarditis Sung Ho Shinn, Kiick Sung, Pyo Won Park, Young Tak Lee, Wook Sung Kim, Ji-Hyuk Yang,Tae-Gook Jun, Sang-Chol Lee, Seung Woo Park	315
Editorial: An Alternative Surgical Approach to Infective Mitral Endocarditis Marco Ricci MD, Maria R. Suarez MD, Francisco Igor B. Macedo MD, Julia Alba MD, Michael Brown MD, Tomas A. Salerno MD	321
Invited Commentary A. Marc Gillinov MD, Tomislav Mihaljevic MD	323
A Postoperative Gerbode Defect in Aortic Prosthesis Endocarditis with Non-Typhoid Salmonella Hagen Gorki, Didier F. Loulmet, Klaus D. Lessnau	325
EPIDEMIOLOGY
High Prevalence of Rheumatic Heart Disease by Clinical and Echocardiographic Screening among Children in Fiji Andrew C. Steer, Joseph Kado, Nigel Wilson, Timaima Tuiketei, Michael Batzloff, Lepani Waqatakirewa, E. Kim Mulholland, Jonathan R. Carapetis	327
Invited Commentary Johanna J. M. Takkenberg MD	336
The Incidence of Congenital Bicuspid or Bileaflet and Quadricuspid or Quadrileaflet Arterial Valves in 3,861 Donor Hearts in the European Homograft Bank Ramadan Jashari MD, Beatrice Van Hoeck MD, Yves Goffin MD, Alain Vanderkelen MD	337
CASE REPORTS
Traumatic Aortic Valve Rupture after a High-Speed Motor-Vehicle Accident: Case Report Mari-Liis Kaljusto MD, Øystein A. Vengen MD, Theis Tønnessen MD	345
Supravalvular Aortic Membrane with Severe Aortic Regurgitation: An Unusual Presentation in Adults Rammohan Marla MD, Timothy Woods MD, R. Eric Lilly MD, Alfred C. Nicolosi MD, Saqib Masroor MD	347
Idiopathic Mitral Valve Disease in a Patient Presenting with Axenfeld-Rieger Syndrome Jared Antevil MD, Ramanan Umakanthan MD, Marzia Leacche MD, Zachary Brewer MD, Natalia Solenkova MD, John G. Byrne MD, James P. Greelish MD	349
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
In response to Mitsuharu Hosono, Toshihiko Shibata, Yasuyuki Sasaki, Hidekazu Hirai, Yasuyuki Bito, Yosuke Takahashi, Shigefumi Suehiro. Left ventricular rupture after mitral valve replacement: Risk factor analysis and outcome of resuscitation. J Heart Valve Dis 2008;17:42-47 Francis Robicsek MD	352
World’s First Implant of a 23-mm Carpentier-Edwards Perimount Magna Mitral Bioprosthesis Markus Thalmann MD, Michael Gorlitzer MD, Martin Grabenwöger MD, Rienhard Moidl MD	352
Mitral Acute Bacterial Endocarditis Caused by HACEK Microorganisms S. Nguyen MD, G. Fayad MD, T. Modine MD, O. Leroy MD	353