Journal of Heart Valve Disease September 2009

The Journal of Heart Valve Disease

MITRAL VALVE DISEASE
Review: Mitral Valve Aneurysms in Infective Endocarditis: Mechanisms, Clinical Recognition and Treatment Jeffrey J. Silbiger MD	476
Role of Annulus Tension in Annular Dilatation Shamik Bhattacharya, Zhaoming He	481
Characterization of Mitral Valve Anterior Leaflet Perfusion Patterns Julia C. Swanson MD, Lauren R. Davis BA, Koji Arata CCP, Eleazar P. Briones BA, Wolfgang Bothe MD, Akinobu Itoh MD, Neil B. Ingels PhD, D. Craig Miller MD	488
Architecture of Intra-Atrial Thrombi in Patients with Severe Mitral Stenosis Anetta Undas MD, Maria Rózanska MD, Ewa Stepien PhD, Roman Pfitzner MD, Jerzy Sadowski MD	496
AORTIC VALVE DISEASE
A Method for the Measurement of Left Ventricular Overload for Combined Aortic Valve Pathology Brandon R. Travis PhD, Brett L. Fowler BSc, Francis Robicsek MD	499
Fate of the Aortic Valve after Root Reconstruction in Type A Aortic Dissection: A 20-Year Follow Up Alessandro Piccardo MD, Tommaso Regesta MD, Stefano Pansini MD, Angelo Maria Dell’Aquila MD, Giovanni Concistrè MD, Luigi Martinelli MD, Giancarlo Passerone MD	507
Outcome of Aortic Valve Replacement with Bioprostheses in the Elderly Raili T. Suojaranta-Ylinen MD, Sari Soisalon-Soininen MD, Maija Kaartinen MD, Paula K. Maasilta MD, Tiina L. Vainikka MD, Antti E. Vento MD, Ulla-Stina Salminen MD	514
Gender-Related Dimorphism in Aortic Insufficiency in Murine Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I Jakub Tolar MD, Elizabeth Braunlin MD, Megan Riddle, Brandon Peacock, Ron T. McElmurry, Paul J. Orchard MD, Bruce R. Blazar MD	524
DEVICE EVALUATION
How Reliable is an Effective Orifice Area Indexed Chart? Chad M. House BS, William B. Nelson MD, Goya V. Raikar MD, Imdad Ahmed MD, Ranjan Dahiya MD	530
Impact of Design Parameters on Bileaflet Mechanical Heart Valve Flow Dynamics Vijay Govindarajan, Holavanahalli S. Udaykumar, Luke. H. Herbertson, Steven Deutsch, Keefe B. Manning, Krishnan B. Chandran	535
HEART VALVE DISEASE AND ADDITIONAL PATHOLOGY
Predictors of Ineffectual Radial Arterial Pressure Monitoring in Valvular Heart Surgery Seong Wook Hong, Jae Kwang Shim, Yong Seon Choi, Duk-Hee Chun, Jong Chan Kim, Bum Su Kim, Young Lan Kwak	546
Complex Valve Disease: Pre-Surgical Functional Capacity Evaluation Using Peak Oxygen Consumption Naylin Bissessor MBChB, Ralph Stewart MD, Yong Shen Wee MBBS, Irene Zeng MSc, Rohan Jayasinghe PhD, Laurence Howes PhD, John Kolbe MBBS, Andrew Kerr MD, Boris Lowe MD, Kevin Ellyett PhD, Harvey White MD	554
Editorial: New Understanding about Brain Natriuretic Peptide and Exercise Testing in Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis Luis M. Moura MD	562
B-Type Natriuretic Peptide and Tissue Doppler for Predicting Symptoms on Treadmill Exercise in Apparently Asymptomatic Aortic Stenosis Ronak Rajani MD, Helen Rimington PhD, John Chambers MD	565
CASE REPORTS
Septic Coronary Embolism in Aortic Valvular Endocarditis Anitha Kessavane MD, Paul Marticho MD, Elie Zogheib MD, Emmanuel Lorne MD, Hervé Dupont MD, Christophe Tribouilloy PhD, Jean Paul Remadi MD	572
Multiple Papillary Fibroelastomas in Rare Locations of Aortic Valve and Left Ventricular Outflow Tract: A Case Report Masataka Yoda MD, Hiroaki Tanabe MD, Hiroto Kanou MD, Hitoshi Sawada MD, Hisayoshi Suma MD	575
Development of Mature Lamellar Bone with a Hematopoietic Compartment in an Aortic Valve Homograft Grzegorz J. Lis MD, Jan A. Litwin MD, Boguslaw Kapelak MD, Alicja Furgal-Borzych MD, Mariusz Gajda MD, Tadeusz Cichocki MD, Jerzy Sadowski MD	578
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Aortic Valve Prolapse and Insufficiency Due to Elongation of a Fibrous Strand Yuki Okamoto MD, Masahiko Matsumoto MD	581
Valve Repair for Traumatic Tricuspid Insufficiency Xin-wei Yang, Jing Du, Zhi-nong Wang, Bao-ren Zhang, Zhi-yun Xu	582
Quadricuspid Aortic Valve: The Four-Leaf Clover Discovered by Cardiac MRI Ankur Gulati, Cheuk Chan, Achim Viertel, Peter Drivas, Sanjay Prasad	583
Acute Infero-Posterior Myocardial Infarction after Intravenous Thrombolytic Treatment of Prosthetic Mitral Valve Thrombosis Mehmet Gulcan MD, Ercan Varol MD, M. Koray Adali MD, Mehmet Ozaydin MD	584