Tenting Volume: Three-Dimensional Assessment of Geometric Perturbations in  Functional Mitral Regurgitation and Implications for Surgical Repair
Frederick A. Tibayan MD, Ariane Wilson BA, David T. M. Lai MD, Tomasz A. Timek MD, Paul Dagum MD, Filiberto Rodriguez MD, Mary K. Zasio BA, David Liang MD, George T. Daughters MS, Neil B. Ingels, Jr. PhD, D. Craig Miller MD

Left Atrial Volume: Predictor of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Degenerative  Mitral Regurgitation
Kazuaki Tanabe MD, Kazuto Yamaguchi RDCS, Tomoko Tani MD, Toshikazu Yagi RDCS, Minako Katayama MD, Koichi Tamita MD, Makoto Kinoshita MD, Shuichiro Kaji MD, Atsushi Yamamuro MD, Shigefumi Morioka MD, Yukikatsu Okada MD, Yasuki Kihara MD

Improvement of Quality of Life after Percutaneous Balloon Mitral Valvuloplasty in Patients with Mitral Stenosis: Does Rhythm Matter?
Rungroj Krittayaphong MD, Chunhakasem Chotinaiwatarakul MD, Charuwan Kangkagate MS

Determinants of Ascending Aortic Dimensions after Aortic Valve Replacement with a Stented Bioprosthesis
Florian Botzenhardt MD, Ellen Hoffmann MD, Bernhard M. Kemkes MD, Brigitte Gansera MD

Review
Current Outcomes of Ross Operation for Pediatric and Adolescent Patients
Shahzad G. Raja MRCS, James C. Pollock FRCS

Silzone-Coated St. Jude Medical Valves: Six-Year Experience in 46 Patients
Uday P. Dandekar FRCS, Max Baghai FRCS, Maninder Kalkat FRCS, Paul D. Ridley FRCS

Aortic Valve Replacement with the Sorin Pericarbon Freedom Stentless Valve: Five-Year Follow Up
Brian Nyawo FRCS, Richard Graham MRCP, Steve Hunter FRCS

The Freedom SOLO Valve: Superior Hemodynamic Results with a New Stentless Pericardial Valve for Aortic Valve Replacement
Sven Beholz MD, Simon Dushe MD, Wolfgang Konertz MD

Characterization of Structural and Signaling Molecules by Human Valve Interstitial Cells and Comparison to Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Najma Latif, Padmini Sarathchandra, Penny S. Thomas, Joe Antoniw, Puspa Batten, Adrain H. Chester, Patricia M. Taylor, Magdi H. Yacoub

Increased Nitric Oxide Release and Expression of Endothelial and Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthases in Mildly Changed Porcine Mitral Valve Leaflets
Sophia G. Moesgaard DVM, Lisbeth H. Olsen DrVetSci, Birgitte M. Viuff PhD, Ulrik Baandrup PhD, Lotte G. Pedersen DVM, Preben D. Thomsen DrVetSci, Henrik D. Pedersen DrVetSci, Adrian P. Harrison DPhil

Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation in Valvular Heart Surgery: Are Results Determined by Underlying Valve Disease?
Herko Grubitzsch MD, Sven Beholz MD, Pascal M. Dohmen MD, Simon Dushe MD, Jianshi Liu MD, Wolfgang Konertz MD

Maximizing Prosthetic Valve Size with the Top Hat^® Supra-Annular Aortic Valve
Jan Aagaard MD, Alexander S. Geha MD

Massive Mitral and Pulmonary Valve Incompetence in a Patient with Left Ventricular, Non-Compacted Myocardium
Tomaso Bottio MD, Davide Farina MD, Paolo Piccoli MD, Luigi Muzzi MD, Alberto Negri MD, Gianluigi Bisleri MD, Nicola Berlinghieri MD, Claudio Muneretto MD

Quadrivalvular Heart Disease: Transition from Congenital Pulmonic Stenosis to Rheumatic Disease
Michael G. Katz MD, Arie Schachner MD, David Harpaz MD, Vladimir Kravtsov MD, Yoseph Rozenman MD, Lior Sasson MD

Nanobacteria-Associated Calcific Aortic Valve Stenosis
Tomislav M. Jelic, Ho-Huang Chang, Rod Roque, Amer M. Malas, Stafford G. Warren, Andrei P. Sommer

In response to

Wilhelmi MH, Bara C, Kofidis T, Wilhelmi M, Pichlmaier M, Haverich A.
Long-term cardiac allograft valves after heart transplant are functionally and structurally preserved in contrast to homografts and bioprostheses. J Heart Valve Dis 2006;15:777-782