Contents July 2001

The Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volume 10 Number 4 July 2001

CONTENTS

	MITRAL PARAVALVULAR LEAK

	Paravalvular Leakage after Mitral Valve Replacement: Is Left Atrial Enlargement an Additional Indication for Reoperation? Kaan Kirali MD, Denyan Mansuroglu MD, Bengi Yaymaci MD, Suat Nail Ömeroglu MD, Yelda Basaran MD, Gökhan Ipek MD, Cevat Yakut MD	418
	Does the Morphology of Mitral Paravalvular Leaks Influence Symptoms and Hemolysis? Michele Genoni MD, Daniel Franzen MD, Reza Tavakoli MD, Burkardt Seiffert MD, Kirk Graves MD, Rolf Jenni MD, Marko Turina MD	426
	Erythropoietin can Obviate the Need for Repeated Heart Valve Replacement in High-Risk Patients with Severe Mechanical Hemolytic Anemia: Case Reports and Literature Review Yaron Shapira MD, Osnat Bairey MD, Mordehay Vatury MD, Hila Magen-Nativ MD, Miron Prokocimer MD, Alex Sagie MD	431
	DEVICE EVALUATION
	Hemodynamics and Early Performance of the St. Jude Medical Regent^TM Aortic Valve Prosthesis David S. Bach MD, Martin Goldbach MD, Marc P. Sakwa MD, Michael Petracek MD, Lee Errett MD, Friedrich Mohr MD	436
	Structural Durability in Carpentier Edwards Standard Bioprosthesis in the Mitral Position: A 20-Year Experience Hervé Corbineau MD, François Bernard Du Haut Cilly MD, Thierry Langanay MD, Jean-Philippe Verhoye MD, Alain Leguerrier MD	443
	BIOLOGICAL AND BIOPROSTHETIC VALVE FAILURE
	Aortic Valve Reoperation after Homograft or Autograft Replacement John G. Byrne MD, Alexandros N. Karavas MD, Lishan Aklog MD, David H. Adams MD, Arnold C. Cheung BA, Lawrence H. Cohn MD, Sary F. Aranki MD	451
	Editorial: Are immune mechanisms important in tissue heart valve failure? A debate Frederick J. Schoen MD	458
	The Possible Role of Immune Responses in Bioprosthetic Heart Valve Failure Paul Human MD, Peter Zilla MD	460
	Don’t Blame the Lymphocyte: Immunologic Processes are NOT Important in Tissue Valve Failure Richard N. Mitchell MD	467
	Tissue Damage and Calcification may be Independent Mechanisms of Bioprosthetic Heart Valve Failure Ivan Vesely, J.Edward Barber, Norman B. Ratliff	471
	INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS
	Infective Endocarditis of Native Cardiac Valves: 22 Years’ Surgical Experience Maurizio Cotrufo MD, Antonio Carozza MD, Gianpaolo Romano MD, Marisa De Feo MD, Alessandro Della Corte MD	478
	Brucella Endocarditis: Case Report and Review of the Literature Serdar Kula MD, Dilek Erer MD, Mustafa Büyükate MD, F. Sedef Tunaoglu MD, Rana Olguntürk MD, M. Emin Özdogan	486
	EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES
	Antimineralization Treatments in Stentless Porcine Bioprostheses: An Experimental Study Willem Flameng MD, Shigeyuki Ozaki MD, Bart Meuris MD, Paul Herijgers MD, Jessa Yperman, Alfons Van Lommel PhD, Erik Verbeken MD	489
	A General Method for Estimating Deformation and Forces Imposed In Vivo on Bioprosthetic Heart Valves with Flexible Annuli: In Vitro and Animal Validation Studies Robin Shandas PhD, Max Mitchell MD, Clayton Conrad BSc, Ole Knudson RDCS, Jason Sorrell MSc, Shankar Mahalingam PhD, Miguel Fragoso MD, Lilliam Valdes-Cruz MD	495
	A Juvenile Sheep Model for the Long-Term Evaluation of Stentless Bioprostheses Implanted as Aortic Root Replacements John F. Grehan MD, Ivan Casagrande MD, Elaine L. Oliveira DVM, Paulo C. Santos MD, Clodualdo J. Pessa MD, Luis R. Gerola MD, Enio Buffolo MD, John Mrachek BA, Margaret E. Norris MLAS, Matthew T. Lahti, Richard W. Bianco BS	505
	Is the Tricuspid Position Suitable for Testing Replacement Bioprosthetic Valves in the Sheep Model? Elena Pettenazzo PhD, BSc, Gaetano Thiene MD, Antonietta M. Gatti BSc, Enrico Pasquino BSc, Enrico Talenti MD, Giorgio Noera MD, Tomaso Bottio MD, Marialuisa Valente MD	513
	ATRIOVENTRICULAR VALVULOPLASTY
	De Vega Annuloplasty and Carpentier-Edwards Ring Annuloplasty for Secondary Tricuspid Regurgitation Katsuhiko Matsuyama MD, Masahiko Matsumoto MD, Takaaki Sugita MD, Jyunichiro Nishizawa MD, Yoshiyuki Tokuda MD, Takehiko Matsuo MD, Yuichi Ueda MD	520
	Results of Surgical Repair of Ostium Primum Atrial Septal Defect in Adult Patients Marek Jemielity MD, Bartoomiej Perek MD, Lech Paluszkiewicz MD, Wojciech Dyszkiewicz MD	525
	The Predictive Value of Chronic Atrial Fibrillation for the Short- and Long-Term Outcome after Percutaneous Mitral Balloon Valvotomy Jorina Langerveld MD, Norbert M. v. Hemel MD, Sjef M. P. G. Ernst MD, H. W. Thijs Plokker MD, Johannes C. Kelder MD, Wybren Jaarsma MD	530
	CASE REPORTS
	Aortic Valve Repair of Congenital Bicuspid Aortic Valve Associated with Aneurysm of the Ascending Aorta Hajime Kin MD, Takayuki Nakajima MD, Shingo Ohuchi MD, Takanori Oka MD, Hiroshi Izumoto MD, Junya Kamata MD, Yoshihiro Sato MD, Yasuyo Taniguchi MD, Kohei Kawazoe MD	539
	Right Atrial Thrombus Associated with Combined Valvular Disease: Case Report Shigeaki Aoyagi MD, Masaru Nishimi MD, Ryoichi Hiratsuka MD, Toru Takaseya MD, Hideki Teshima MD	542
	Traumatic Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency: Case Report Przemyslaw Leszek MD, Tomasz Zielinski MD, Jacek Rúzanski MD, Anna Klisiewicz MD, Jerzy Korewicki MD	545
	Thirty Years Survival without Anticoagulation after Aortic Valve Replacement with a Björk-Shiley Prosthesis Deniz Suha Kücükaksu MD, Ahmet Akgül MD, Alper Uzun MD, Onurcan Tarcan MD, Kerim Çagli MD, Erol Sener MD, Oguz Tasdemir MD, Kemal Bayazit MD	548
	SOCIETY NEWS
	SHVD Working Group Forum	550