The Journal of Heart Valve Disease
Volume 9 Number 1; January 2000
CONTENTS
| AORTIC VALVE | |
| The Aortic Valve
Blood Supply Kirsten L. Weind BSc, Christopher G. Ellis PhD, Derek R. Boughner MD |
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| Significant Increase of
Aortic Root Volume and Commissural Area Occurs prior to Aortic Valve Opening David C. Pang, Suk Jung Choo, Hong He Luo, Y. U. Shomura, Suresh Daniel,Srdjan Nikolic, David T. Cheung, James H. Oury, Carlos M. G. Duran |
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| Aortic Root Dilation prior to Valve
Opening: Explained by Passive Hemodynamics Ivan Vesely PhD |
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| Decalcification of the
Aortic Valve does not Prevent Early Recalcification Manfred Dahm MD PhD, Guido Dohmen MD, Elke Groh BS, Frank Krummenauer PhD, Gerd Hafner MD, Eckhard Mayer MD PhD,Ullrich Hake MD PhD, Helmut Oelert MD |
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| Mechanics of Cryopreserved
Aortic and Pulmonary Homografts Ivan Vesely PhD, Dino C. Casaratto MD, Gino Gerosa MD |
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| Results of the Ross Operation
in Rheumatic versus Non-rheumatic Aortic Valve DiseaseFrans A. A. Pieters MD, Zohair Al-Halees MD, Liv Hatle MD, Maie S. Shahid MD,Mohamed Al-Amri MD |
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| Comparative
Analysis of Left Ventricular Hemodynamics and Hypertrophy after Aortic Valve Replacement
with Homografts or Mechanical Valves Sevket Basarir MD, Fatih Islamoglu MD, Erdem Ozkisacik MD, Yüksel Atay,Mehmet Boga MD, Tamer Bakalim MD, Mustafa Ozbaran MD, Ali Telli MD |
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| MITRAL VALVE Wound Healing in the Mitral Valve Koichi Tamura MD, Michael Jones MD, Izumi Yamada MD, Victor J. Ferrans MD |
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| Ischemic Mitral Valve Repair Surgery Ulrich O. von Oppell MBChB, Francois Stemmet MBChB, Johan Brink MBChB, Patrick J. Commerford MBChB, Sylvia A. M. Heijke MBChB |
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| Surgical Repair of
the Degenerative Prolapsing Anterior Leaflet in Degenerative Mitral Valve Disease Gebrine El Khoury MD,Philippe Noirhomme MD, Robert Verhelst MD, Jean Rubay MD Robert Dion MD |
75 |
| Influence of Valve Replacement
on Plasma Endothelin-1 Level in Mitral Stenosis Grazyna Snopek MD, Hanna Pogorzelska PhD, Jerzy Korewicki PhD |
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| BIOPROSTHETIC VALVES | |
| Structural Changes in
Porcine Bioprosthetic Heart Valves of Left Ventricular Assist System in Human
Patients Madeleine Moczar PhD, Remi Houel MD, Maryvonne Ginat, Valerie Clerin PhD, Dereck Wheeldon MD,Daniel Loisance MD |
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| A Quantitative Study of
Calcium Deposition in the Aortic Wall following Medtronic Freestyle Compared with
Homograft Aortic Root Replacement. A Prospective Randomized Trial Giovanni Melina MD, Michael B. Rubens FRCR, Emma J. Birks MRCP, Federico Bizzarri MD, Asghar Khagani FRCS,Magdi H. Yacoub FRS |
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| Different Modes of
Degeneration in Autologous and Heterologous Heart Valve Prostheses Martin Grabenwöger MD, Christoph Gross MD, Paul Simon MD, Florian Fitzal MD, Doris Hutschala MD, Peter Böck MD, Peter Brücke MD, Ernst Wolner MD |
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| Mitroflow Pericardial Valve
Prosthesis in the Aortic Position: An Analysis of Long-Term Outcome and Prognostic Factors Kazutomo Minami MD, Dietrich Boethig MD, Nicolas Mirow MD, Georg Kleikamp MD, Heinrich Koertke MD, Erhard Godehardt PhD,Reiner Koerfer MD |
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| MECHANICAL VALVES | |
| First Clinical Experience with a
Mechanical Valve with Silver Coating Aart Brutel de la Riviere MD, Karl M. E. Dossche MD, Dietrich E. Birnbaum MD,Robert Hacker MD |
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| Preliminary Experience
with SilzoneTM-Coated St. Jude Medical Valves in Acute Infective Endocarditis Silvia Bertrand MD, Remi Houel MD, Emmanuelle Vermes MD, Celine Soustelle MD,Maryline L. Hillion MD,Daniel Loisance MD |
131 |
| In Vivo Efficacy of Silver-Coated Fabric
against Staphylococcus epidermidis Barbara Illingworth MS, Richard W. Bianco MS, Sanford Weisberg PhD |
135 |
| Examination of Hemolytic Potential
with the On-XR Prosthetic Heart Valve Dietrich Birnbaum MD, Axel Laczkovics MD, Martin Heidt MD, Hellmut Oelert MD,Günther Laufer MD, Hans Greve MD, Jose L. Pomar MD, Friedrich Mohr MD,Axel Haverich MD, Dieter Regensburger MD |
142 |
| Repeated Thrombolysis in Multiple Episodes
of Thrombosed Prosthetic Heart Valves: A Report of Three Cases and Review of the Literature Yaron Shapira MD, Itzhak Herz MD, Yochai Birnbaum MD, Eitan Snir MD,Bernardo Vidne MD, Alex Sagie MD |
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| BASIC SCIENCE | |
| Phenotypic and
Functional Characterization of Interstitial Cells from Human Heart Valves, Pericardium and
Skin Patricia M. Taylor PhD, Sean P. Allen PhD, Magdi H. Yacoub FRS |
150 |
| The Dilemma of Accelerated Bioprosthetic
and Polymeric Valve Testing Helmut Reul, Karl Potthast |
159 |
| Fatigue
Analysis of Clinical Bioprosthetic Heart Valves Manufactured using Photooxidized Bovine
Pericardium Maya Butterfield PhD, John Fisher D Eng |
161 |
| LETTERS TO THE EDITOR | |
| In response to Schoen FJ. Future directions in tissue heart valves: impact of recent insights from biology and pathology Jack W. Love MD |
168 |
| In response to Kabbani SS, Ross DN, Jamil H et al. Mitral valve replacement with a pulmonary autograft: Initial experience Carlos-A. Mestres MD, Jose L. Pomar MD |
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