The Journal of Heart Valve Disease
Volume 10 Number 1 January 2001
CONTENTS
| AORTIC VALVE DISEASE | ||
| Stress Analysis of the Aortic Valve with and without the Sinuses of Valsalva André Beck MS, Mano J. Thubrikar PhD, Francis Robicsek MD, PhD |
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| Comparison of Cardiovascular Risk and Lipid Profiles in Patients Undergoing
Aortic Valve Surgery versus those Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Gian M. Novaro MD, Gregory L. Pearce MS, Dennis L. Sprecher MD, Brian P. Griffin MD |
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| Aortic Surgery in Patients with Marfan Syndrome:
Long-term Survival, Morbidity and Function
Vincenzo Lepore MD, Anders Jeppsson MD, Göran Rådberg MD, Vittorio Mantovani MD, Mogens Bugge MD |
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| Influence of Transesophageal Echocardiography on Intraoperative Decision Making for Toronto Stentless Prosthetic Valve Implantation Fabio Guarracino MD, Claudio Zussa MD, Elvio Polesel MD, Fausto Rigo MD, Daniele Penzo MD, Domenico De Cosmo MD |
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| Medium-term Follow Up of Pulmonary Autograft Aortic Valve Replacement: Technical Advances and Echocardiographic Follow Up Philip A. Linden MD, Lawrence H. Cohn MD |
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| Left Ventricular Remodeling after Pulmonary Autograft Replacement of the Aortic Valve (Ross Operation) Juan J. Legarra PhD, Manuel Concha PhD, Jaime Casares MD, Carlos Merino PhD, Ignacio Muñoz MD, Pedro Alados MD |
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| MITRAL VALVE DISEASE | ||
| Effect of Cardiac Output on Mitral Valve Area in Patients with Mitral Stenosis: Validation and Pitfalls of the Pressure Half-time Method Michael S. Firstenberg MD, David L. Prior PhD, Neil L. Greenberg PhD, Sudhir Wahi MD, Agnes Pasquet MD, Mario J. Garcia MD, James D. Thomas MD |
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| Relationship Between Papillary Muscle Size and Benefit to Cardiac Function in Mitral Valve Replacement with Chordal Preservation Chisato Izumi MD, Yoshihiro Himura MD, Kanji Iga MD, Hiromitsu Gen MD, Masashi Komeda MD, Yuichi Ueda MD, Takashi Konishi MD |
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| Transesophageal Echocardiography as Predictor of Mitral Valve Repair M. Muratori MD, M. Berti MD, E. Doria MD, C. Antona MD, F. Alamanni MD, E. Sisillo MD, L. Salvi MD, M. Pepi MD |
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| Mitral Valve Repair and Transesophageal Echocardiographic Findings in a High-Risk Subgroup of Patients with Active, Acute Infective Endocarditis Michele Senni MD, Maurizio Merlo MD, Giuseppe Sangiorgi MD, Amando Gamba MD, Annamaria Procopio MD, Mattia Glauber MD, Paolo Ferrazzi MD |
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| Mechanical versus Biological Valve Prosthesis in the Mitral Position: A 10-Year Follow Up of St. Jude Medical and Biocor Valves
Mustafa Demirag, Kaan Kirali, Suat Nail Ömeroglu, Denyan Mansuroglu, Esat Akinci, Gökhan Ipek, Turan Berki, Ali Gürbüz, Ömer Isik, Cevat Yakut |
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| Mitral Valve Replacement with Chordal Preservation in a Rheumatic Population Harpreet Wasir MCh, Shiv Kumar Choudhary MCh, Balram Airan MCh, Sushant Srivastava MCh, A. Sampath Kumar MCh |
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| Case Report: Outer Sheath Rupture may Precede Complete Chordal Rupture in Fibrotic Mitral Valve Disease
K. Jane Grande-Allen PhD, Norman B. Ratliff MD, Brian P. Griffin MD, Delos M. Cosgrove, III MD, Ivan Vesely PhD |
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| REPLACEMENT VALVES
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| Early Clinical Experience with the On-X, Prosthetic Heart Valve A. Laczkovics, M. Heidt, H. Oelert, G. Laufer, H. Greve, J. L. Pomar, F. W. Mohr, A. Haverich, D. Birnbaum, D. Regensburger, G. Palatianos, E. Wolner |
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| Hemodynamic Assessment of the Medtronic Mosaic, Bioprosthesis in the Aortic Position Carmela Nardi, Giovanni Scioti, Aldo D. Milano, Marco De Carlo, Uberto Bortolotti |
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| A New Design for Polyurethane Heart Valves Maya Butterfield PhD, David J. Wheatley FRCS, David F. Williams DSc, John Fisher DSc |
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| BIOLOGICAL VALVE PRESERVATION | ||
| Harvested Porcine Mitral Xenograft Fixation: Impact on Fluid Dynamic Performance Morten Ø. J. Jensen PhD, Jack D. Lemmon PhD, Valeria C. Gessaghi PhD, Christopher P. Conrad PhD, Robert A. Levine MD, Ajit P. Yoganathan PhD |
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| Structural Modification and Cryopreservation of Porcine Heart Valves for Xenotransplantation with Reduced Immunity
Eldad Erez MD, Judith Sandbank MD, Alon Stamler MD, Ehud Raanani MD, Erez Sharoni MD, Bernardo A. Vidne MD, Jacob Barak MD |
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| INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS
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| Diagnostic Value of Intraoperative Swabs of Heart Valves in Infective Endocarditis Holger Thiele MD, Rainer Hambrecht MD, Bernward Lauer MD, Matias Weinert MS, Friedrich W. Mohr MD, Gerhard Schuler MD |
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| CASE REPORTS
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| Fractured Occluder Disc: A Previously Unrecognized Complication of the Starr-Edwards Disc Prosthesis Joseph F. Malouf MD, Hwaida M. Hannoush MD, John A. Odell MD |
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| Long-term Pathological Changes of Expanded Polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) Suture in the Human Heart Kenji Minatoya MD, Junjiro Kobayashi MD, Yoshikado Sasako MD, Hatsue Ishibashi-Ueda MD, Chikao Yutani MD, Soichiro Kitamura MD |
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