The Journal of Heart Valve Disease
Volume 18 Number 6 November 2009
CONTENTS
| MITRAL VALVE DISEASE | |
| Regional Mitral Leaflet Opening During Acute Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation Wolfgang Bothe, Daniel B. Ennis, Carl Johan Carlhäll, Tom C. Nguyen, Tomasz A. Timek, David T. Lai, Akinobu Itoh, Neil B. Ingels, Jr., D. Craig Miller |
586 |
| Regurgitant Flow in Ischemic and Dilative Mitral Regurgitation Gregor Poglajen, Matevž Harlander, Borut Geršak |
598 |
| Results of Atrial Fibrillation Ablation during Mitral Surgery in Patients with Poor Electro-Anatomical Substrate Francesco Onorati, Antonino S. Rubino, Giovanni Mariscalco, Filiberto Serraino, Andrea Sala, Attilio Renzulli |
607 |
| MISCELLANEOUS | |
| Initial Experience with Dual Antiplatelet Thromboprophylaxis Using Clopidogrel and Aspirin in Patients with Mechanical Aortic Prostheses Raúl García-Rinaldi, Carlos Carro-Pagán, Hartzell V. Schaff, Stephen H. McKellar, Jess L. Thompson III, Jeannette Quiñones, Juan F. Rodríguez-Acosta |
617 |
| Association Between Mitral and Aortic Valve Calcification and Preferential Left or Right Coronary Artery Disease Chaim Yosefy, Ariela Malushitsky, Jafary Jamal, Gideon Sahar, Amos Katz |
627 |
| AORTIC VALVE DISEASE | |
| Evaluation of Aortic Valve Stenosis by Cardiac Multi-Slice Computed Tomography Compared with Echocardiography: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Jawdat Abdulla, Jacob Sivertsen, Klaus Fuglsang Kofoed, Hatem Alkadhi, Troy LaBounty, Steen Z. Abildstrom, Lars Kober, Erik Christensen, Christian Torp-Pedersen |
634 |
| Apelin and its Receptor APJ in Human Aortic Valve Stenosis
Tuomas Peltonen, Juha Näpänkangas, Olli Vuolteenaho, Pasi Ohtonen, Ylermi Soini, Tatu Juvonen, Jari Satta, Heikki Ruskoaho, Panu Taskinen |
644 |
| P38 MAP Kinase in Valve Interstitial Cells is Activated by Angiotensin II or Nitric Oxide/Peroxynitrite, but Reduced by Toll-Like Receptor-2 Stimulation Simon W. Rabkin, Parth Lodhia, Michael W. Luong |
653 |
| Evaluation of Aortic Root and Valve Calcifications by Multi-Detector Computed Tomography Andrew L. Rivard, Thomas Bartel, Richard W. Bianco, Kasia Simura O’Donnell, Johannes Bonatti, Wolfgang Dichtl, Ricardo C. Cury, Gudrun M. Feuchtner |
662 |
| DEVICE EVALUATION | |
| Commentary:
How Important is the Anti-Gal Antibody Response Following the Implantation of a Porcine Bioprosthesis? David K. C. Cooper |
671 |
| Anti-HLA Antibodies and Pulmonary Valve Allograft Function after the Ross Procedure J. F. Matthias Bechtel, Anja Marquardt, Michael Müller-Steinhardt, Thorsten Hanke, Ulrich Stierle, Hans-Hinrich Sievers |
673 |
| Biomechanical Perspective on the Porcine Pulmonary Root Prior to Ross Remodeling
Peter B. Matthews, Brian Kim, Ali N. Azadani, T. Sloane Guy, Julius M. Guccione, Liang Ge, Elaine E. Tseng |
682 |
| An Alternative Option for Elderly Patients with a Small Aortic Annulus: The 16 mm ATS valve
Yoshitsugu Nakamura, Kiyoharu Nakano, Osamu Tagusari, Go Kataoka, Yoshimasa Seike, Satoru Domoto, Yujiro Ito |
691 |
| Sutureless Perceval S Aortic Valve Replacement:
A Multicenter, Prospective Pilot Trial
Malakh Shrestha, Thierry Folliguet, Bart Meuris, Alain Dibie, Christoph Bara, Marie-Christine Herregods, Nawid Khaladj, Christian Hagl, Willem Flameng, Francois Laborde, Axel Haverich |
698 |
| Results of a Propensity Score-Matched Comparison of the Perimount Magna and Mosaic Ultra Aortic Valve Prostheses
Daniel Wendt, Thomas Buck, Rolf Alexander Jánosi, Matthias Thielmann, Uensal Pul, Markus Neuhäuser, Jarowit Adam Piotrowski, Parwis Massoudy, Markus Kamler, Raimund Erbel, Heinz Jakob |
703 |
| Successful Catheter-Based Valve-in-Valve Implantation for a Regurgitant Stentless Bioprosthesis
Steffen Hofmann, Norbert Franz, Michael Billion, Marek Kowalski, Christoph Glauner, Uwe Christmann, Joachim Thale |
713 |
| CASE REPORTS | |
| Delayed Aortic Regurgitation Caused by a Right Coronary Stent Protruding into the Aorta
Eduard Quintana, Carlos-A. Mestres, Stefano Congiu, Miguel Josa, Ramon Cartañá |
717 |
| Lipomatous Tumor of the Tricuspid Valve: Report of a Rare Case
Hakimeh Sadeghian, Bahareh Eslami, Shapour Shirani, Afsaneh Sadeghian |
720 |
| Eustachian Valve Endocarditis: A Rare Complication of Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Placement
Malini Venkatram, Naga V. A. Kommuri, Sri Lakshmi S. Kollepara, Venkataramu N. Krishnamurthy, Ramegowda Rajagopal, Rajika Munasinghe |
723 |
| Imaging of Caseous Calcification of the Mitral Annulus
Enrico Vizzardi, Antonio D’Aloia, Davide Farina, Gregoriana Zanini, Roberto Cabras, Ermanna Chiari, Livio Dei Cas |
726 |
| LETTERS TO THE EDITOR | |
| Tricuspid Valve Replacement for Carcinoid Heart Disease to Allow Liver Transplantation Nicolas Jaussaud MD, Vlad Gariboldi MD, Franck Thuny MD, Antoine Camerlo MD, Dominique Grisoli MD, Frederic Collart MD, Yves Patrice Le Treut MD, Alberto Riberi MD |
728 |
| A Normally Functioning Caged-Ball Mitral Prosthesis after 37 Years Without Warfarin Therapy Gonenc Kocabay, Mustafa Yildiz, Mehmet Ozkan |
729 |
| Beating-Heart Aortic Valve Replacement Following Total Arterial Revascularization
Markus Thalmann MD, Gottfried H. Sodeck MD, Martin Grabenwöger MD |
730 |
| Unicuspid Aortic Valve in a Patient with Streptococcus bovis Endocarditis
Nelson Chavarria MD, George Kozeski DO, Jean Luo MD, Vivian Lim MD |
731 |