The Journal of Heart Valve Disease
Volume 8 Number 1; January 1999
CONTENTS
| PORCINE BIOPROSTHETIC VALVES | |
| Editorial: The Hancock II Xenograft: A Step Forward in Bioprosthetic Valve Longevity? Gaetano Thiene MD, Uberto Bortolotti MD, Marialuisa Valente MD |
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| Morphologic
Findings in Explanted Hancock II Porcine Bioprostheses Jagdish Butany MD, Weimin Yu MD, Malcolm D. Silver MD, Tirone E. David MD |
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| Eighteen-year
Follow Up after Hancock II Bioprosthesis Insertion Juan J. Legarra MD, Rafael Llorens MD, Mercedes Catalan MD, Ignacio Segura MD, Alejandro M. Trenor MD, Jose S. de Buruaga MD, Gregorio Rabago MD, Aurelio Sarralde MD |
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| Fatigue-Induced
Changes in Bioprosthetic Heart Valve Three-Dimensional Geometry and the Relation to Tissue
Damage David B. Smith PhD, Michael S. Sacks PhD, Pradip M. Pattany MD, Richard Schroeder BS |
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| Distortion of
the Stentless Porcine Valve Induces Accelerated Leaflet Fibrosis and Calcification in Juvenile Sheep Guido van Nooten MD, Shygeyuki Ozaki MD, Paul Herijgers MD, Patrick Segers MD, Pascal Verdonck MD, Wim Flameng MD |
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| MITRAL VALVE DISEASE | |
| Editorial: Chordal Sparing Mitral Valve Replaement Robert W. M. Frater MD |
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| Mitral Valve
Replacement with Complete Mitral Leaflet Retention: Operative Techniques Yifei Yu MD, Changqing Gao MD, Gongsong Li MD, Langbiao Zhu MD, Dongqing Wang MD, Minghui Liu MD |
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| Reversal of
Increased Diastolic Stiffness in Mitral Stenosis after Successful Balloon Valvuloplasty Isabella V. Mayer MD, Markus Jakob MD, Lazar Mandinov MD, Rosy Hug, Giuseppe Vassalli MD, Otto M. Hess MD |
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| Tricuspid
Regurgitation Late after Mitral Valve Replacement: Clinical and Echocardiographic Evaluation Avital Porter MD, Yaron Shapira MD, Mordehay Wurzel MD, Jaqueline Sulkes PhD, Mordehay Vaturi MD, Yehuda Adler MD, Gideon Sahar MD, Alex Sagie MD |
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| Left Atrial Thrombus
Detection with Multiplane Transesophageal Echocardiography: An Echocardiographic Study with Surgical Verification Vedat Koca MD, Tahsin Bozat MD, Vakur Akkaya MD, Cetin Sarikamis MD, Tamer Turk MD,Hakan Vural MD, Ayhan Ozdemir MD |
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Isolated Congenital Anterior Mitral Leaflet Cleft: A Rare Cause of
Mitral Insufficiency |
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| Mitral Valve
Homograft for Mitral Valve Replacement in Acute Bacterial Endocarditis Michael J. Reardon MD, Anders Vinnerkvist MD, Scott A. LeMaire MD |
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| DEVICE EVALUATION | |
| Mechanical
Valve Replacement in Congenital Heart Disease in Children B. Lubiszewska MD, J. Rozanski MD, M. Szufladowicz MD, W. Szaroszyk MD, P. Hoffman MD, E. Ksiezycka MD, W. Rydlewska-Sadowska MD, W. Ruzyllo MD |
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| Early Results with
the Carbo-sealR Composite Valve Conduit for Aortic Root Replacement Nicola Vitale MD, Andrew Owens MD, J.R. Leslie Hamilton MD, Jonathan Forty MD, John H. Dark FRCS, Asif Hasa MD |
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| NON-INVASIVE EVALUATION | |
| A New Flow Model for
Doppler Ultrasound Study of Prosthetic Heart Valves Louis-Gilles Durand, Damien Garcia, Frederic Sakr, Herkole Sava, Richard Cimon, Philippe Pibarot1,2, Aaron Fenster, Jean G. Dumesnil |
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| High-Resolution
Assessment of Velocity Fields and Shear Stresses Distal to Prosthetic Heart Valves Using
High-Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging Steffen Ringgaard MSc, Rene M. Botnar PhD, Christian Djurhuus MS, Hans Stodkilde-Jorgensen DMSc, J. Michael Hasenkam DMSc, Peter Boesiger PhD, Erik M. Pedersen PhD |
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| Clinical
Usefulness of the Proximal Isovelocity Surface Area Method using Echocardiography in Patients with Eccentric Aortic Regurgitation Yoshihiro Sato MD, Kohei Kawazoe MD, Masataka Nasu MD, Katsuhiko Hiramori MD |
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| CASE REPORT | |
| Double Valve Repair
and Maze Procedure for Degenerative Valvular Disease and Chronic Atrial Fibrillation Hiroshi Izumoto MD, Yoshihiro Sato MD, Masaaki Ogawa MD, Junya Kamata MD, Kiyoyuki Eishi MD, Kohei Kawazoe MD |
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| Moraxella
catarrhalis Endocarditis: Report of a Case and Literature Review Ulrike Neumayer MD, Henning K. Schmidt MD, Klaus-P. Mellwig MD, Georg Kleikamp MD |
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