Prof. Dr.-Ing. Helmut “Paul” Reul 1942-2004

Recommendations for Reporting Morbid Events after Heart Valve Surgery
Dieter Horstkotte, Maria Lengyel, Wilhelm P. Mistiaen, Cornelia Piper, Heinz Völler, on behalf of the Working Group ‘Infection, Thrombosis, Embolism and Bleeding’ of the Society of Heart Valve Disease

Editorial: Chronic Hemodialysis: High Risk for Manifestation of Infective Endocarditis with Poor Outcome
Dieter Horstkotte, Cornelia Piper

Infective Endocarditis in Patients Receiving Chronic Hemodialysis: Clinical Features and Outcome
Martin Ruiz, Manuel P. A. Sánchez, Juan C. C. Domínguez, Soledad O. Pineda, Elías R. Peñas, María D. M. Rubio, Mónica D. Ortega, Federico V. Belsué

Predictors of Mortality in Early Surgical Intervention for Active Native Valve Endocarditis and Significance of Antimicrobial Therapy: A Single-Center Experience
Sendhil K. Balasubramanian, Ali Behranwala, Mohan Devbhandari, Onyekwelu Nzewi, William S. Walker, Sai U. Prasad, Pankaj S. Mankad

Importance of Transesophageal Echocardiography in the Evaluation of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia
A. Lance Sullenberger, Lena S. Avedissian, Steven M. Kent

The Ultimate Development of Mitral Valve Endocarditis: Atrioventricular Separation, Atrioventricular Groove Abscess and Hemorrhagic Pericarditis
Fernando A. Atik, Gosta B. Pettersson, Gardar Sigurdsson, Gonzalo V. Gonzalez-Stawinski, Ellen Mayer Sabik, Alice Kim, Lars G. Svensson

Infective Endocarditis due to Abiotrophia defectiva: A Report of Two Cases
Mitja Lainscak, Tatjana Lejko-Zupanc, Iztok Strumbelj, Ivan Gasparac, Manica Mueller-Premru, Mateja Pirs

Fatal Bacillus cereus Endocarditis Masquerading as an Anthrax-like Infection in a Patient with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Case Report
Lawrence A. Cone, Luke Dreisbach, Barbara E. Potts, Barbara E. Comess, William A. Burleigh

Prospective Evaluation of Aortic Valve Replacement in Young Adults and Middle-aged Patients: Mechanical Prosthesis versus Pulmonary Autograft
Manuel Concha, Pedro J. Aranda, Jaime Casares, Carlos Merino, Pedro Alados, Ignacio Muñoz, Rafael Villalba, Javier Ariza

Aspire Porcine Bioprosthesis: Ten Years’ Experience
Leonidas Hadjinikolaou, Maria C. Boehm, Catherine Ganner, Simon W. Kendall, Michael D. Rosin, Ira R. Goldsmith, Tom J. Spyt

Medtronic Mosaic Porcine Bioprosthesis: Investigational Center Experience to Six Years
W. R. Eric Jamieson, Guy J. Fradet, Joan S. MacNab, Lawrence H. Burr, Elizabeth A Stanford, Michael T. Janusz, James G. Abel, Eva Germann, Anson Cheung

Is Routine Use of Stentless Aortic Prostheses Justified in an Elderly (aged ≥75 Years) Population?
Ayyaz Ali, Pankaj Kumar, Thanos Athanasiou, James Halstead, Hutan Ashrafian, Ziad Ali, Sanjay Kumar, Panagiotis Theodorou, John R. Pepper

Three Years’ Experience with the Sorin Pericarbon Stentless Prosthesis: Mid-Term Results with Three Different Implantation Techniques
Zsolt L. Nagy, Annamaria Bodi, Andras Len, Irma Balogh, Arpad Peterffy

Hemodynamic Characteristics of the Matrix P Decellularized Xenograft for Pulmonary Valve Replacement during the Ross Operation
Wolfgang Konertz, Pascal M. Dohmen, Jianshi Liu, Sven Beholz, Simon Dushe, Steffen Posner, Alexander Lembcke, Wilhelm Erdbrügger

Fifteen Years’ Clinical Experience with the CarboMedics Prosthetic Heart Valve
Jan Aagaard, Jens Tingleff

Psychoacoustic Quantification of Mechanical Heart Valve Noise
Thomas Nielsen, Torben V. Nielsen, Peter Johansen, J. Michael Hasenkam, Hans Nygaard

Mechanical Valve Thrombosis in a Chronic Animal Model: Differences between Monoleaflet and Bileaflet Valves
Bart Meuris, Erik Verbeken, Willem Flameng

Prospective Study of Mitral Valve Repair with the CarboMedics AnnuloFlex™ Annuloplasty System: Effectiveness and Safety after One Year
Vibhu R. Kshettry, Louis T. Kanda

Valve Opening and Closing Dynamics after Different Aortic Valve-Sparing Operations
Tayfun Aybek, Markus Sotiriou, Till Wöhleke, Alexandra Miskovic, Andreas Simon, Mirko Doss, Selami Dogan, Gerhard Wimmer-Greinecker, Anton Moritz

Surgical Management of the Aortic Root in Patients with Marfan Syndrome
Kenton J. Zehr, Alireza Matloobi, Heidi M. Connolly, Thomas A. Orszulak, Francisco J. Puga, Hartzell V. Schaff

Superior Left Atrial Approach to the Mitral Valve: Incidence of Postoperative Arrhythmia
Peter Bergmann, Stefan Huber, Ronald Hödl, Heinrich Mächler, Peter Oberwalder, Daniela Martin, Bruno Rigler

Multiple Cardiac Papillary Fibroelastoma and Transient Left Ventricular Apical Ballooning Syndrome in an Elderly Woman: Case Report
Khung-Keong Yeo, Osamu Fukuyama

Aortic Valve Papillary Fibroelastoma
Wlodzimierz Kuroczynski, Ulrich Hake, Diethard Pruefer, Ali Peivandi, Markus Heinemann, Hellmut Oelert

Iatrogenic Leaflet Perforations in a Carpentier-Edwards Bioprosthesis
Antonino M. Grande,  Mauro Rinaldi, Fabrizio Gazzoli, Mario Viganò