The Journal of Heart Valve Disease
Volume 11 Number 4 July 2002
CONTENTS
| TISSUE ENGINEERING AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | |
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Tissue Engineering of Cardiac Valve Prostheses I: Development and Histological Characterization of an Acellular Porcine Scaffold Catherine Booth PhD, Sotiris A. Korossis MSc, Helen E. Wilcox PhD, Kevin G. Watterson FRCS, John N. Kearney PhD, John Fisher DEng, Eileen Ingham PhD |
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Tissue Engineering of Cardiac Valve Prostheses II: Biomechanical Characterization
of Decellularized Porcine Aortic Heart Valves Sotiris A. Korossis MSc, Catherine Booth PhD, Helen E. Wilcox PhD, Kevin G. Watterson FRCS, John N. Kearney PhD, John Fisher DEng, Eileen Ingham PhD |
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Localization of Immunoreactive Endothelin and Characterization of its
Receptors in Aortic Cusps Martin Misfeld, Karen Morrison, Hans-H. Sievers, Magdi H. Yacoub, Adrian H. Chester |
472 |
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Lack of Association between Transforming Growth Factor-b1 Gene Polymorphisms
and Mitral Valve Prolapse in Taiwan Chinese Hsiang-Tai Chou MD, Yi-Ru Shi MS, Yuan Hsu BS, Fuu-Jen Tsai MD |
478 |
| AORTIC VALVE DISEASE | |
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Long-Term Results of the Bentall Operation versus Separate Replacement
of the Ascending Aorta and Aortic Valve Rémi Houël MD, Céline Soustelle MS, Matthias Kirsch MD, Marie Line Hillion MD, Carlos Renaut MD, Daniel Y. Loisance MD |
485 |
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Is there an Advantage in Using Homografts in Patients with Acute Infective
Endocarditis of the Aortic Valve? Helmut Gulbins MD, Eckehard Kilian MD, Severine Roth MD, Antje Uhlig MD, Eckart Kreuzer MD, Bruno Reichart MD |
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Parsonnet¹s Risk Score Predicts Late Survival but not Late Functional Results
after Aortic Valve Replacement in Octogenarians Thierry Caus MD, Daphnée Calon MD, Frédéric Collart MD, Pablo Marin MD, Yves Serre MD, Thierry Mesana MD |
498 |
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Valve-Sparing Aortic Root Remodeling for Pulmonary Autograft Aneurysm Claudia Schmidtke MD, Ulrich Stierle MD, Hans-H. Sievers MD |
504 |
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Quadricuspid Aortic Valve: A Rare Cause of Aortic Insufficiency Pramod Bonde FRCS, Anand Sachithanandan MB, Brian McClements MD, Dennis J. Gladstone FRCS |
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| MITRAL VALVE DISEASE | |
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Late Results of Percutaneous Balloon Mitral Commissurotomy in Patients with
Restenosis after Surgical Commissurotomy Compared to Patients with ‘De-Novo’ Stenosis Zbigniew Chmielak MD, Witold Ruzyllo MD, Marcin Demkow MD, Magdalena Soroka MD, Maciej Karcz MD, Marek Konka MD, Pawel Bekta MD, Cezary Kepka MD |
509 |
| DEVICE EVALUATION | |
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Long-Term Outcome after Valve Replacement with the Omnicarbon Prosthesis Michele di Summa MD, Giuseppe Poletti MD, Lidia Brero MD, Paolo Centofanti MD, Michele La Torre MD, Francesco Patanè MD, Jose M. Caffarena Raggio MD, Francisco García Sanchez MD, Jose M. Maroñas MD, Salvador Torregrosa MD, Francisco J. Valera MD, Jose Caffarena, Jr. MD |
517 |
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Nine-Year Follow Up of the Omnicarbon Prosthesis in the Aortic Position Aquilino Hurlé PhD, Jesús Gómez-Plana MD, Juan Meseguer MD, M. Angeles Juan SRN, Patricio Llamas PhD |
524 |
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Left Ventricular Mass Regression after Aortic Valve Replacement with the
Mosaic Bioprosthesis Walter B. Eichinger MD, Florian Botzenhardt MD, Ralf Günzinger MD, Bernhard M. Kemkes MD, Niels Bleese MD, Andrzej Sosnowski MD, Dominique Maïza MD, Eduardo Otero Coto MD, Robert Bauernschmitt MD, Rüdiger Lange MD |
529 |
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Medtronic Intact Porcine Bioprosthesis in the Aortic Position: 13-Year Results Hervé Corbineau MD, Jean-Philippe Verhoye MD, Arnaud Tauran MD, Thierry Langanay MD, Pascal Ménestret MD, Alain Leguerrier MD |
537 |
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Influence of Patient-Prosthesis Mismatch on Long-Term Results after Aortic Valve
Replacement with a Stented Bioprosthesis Jean M. Frapier MD, Philippe Rouvière MD, Franck Razcka MD, Thierry Aymard MD, Bernard Albat MD Paul A. Chaptal MD |
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The Bovine Jugular Vein: A Totally Integrated Valved Conduit to Repair the Right Ventricular Outflow Thierry Carrel MD, Pascal Berdat MD, Mladen Pavlovic MD, Jean-Pierre Pfammatter MD |
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| HEMODYNAMICS AND ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY | |
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In-Vivo Analysis of the Instantaneous Transvalvular Pressure Difference-Flow
Relationship in Aortic Valve Stenosis: Implications of Unsteady Fluid-Dynamics
for the Clinical Assessment of Disease Severity Javier Bermejo MD, J. Carlos Antoranz PhD, Ian G. Burwash MD, Jose L. Rojo Alvarez PhD, Mar Moreno MD, Miguel A. García-Fernández MD, Catherine M. Otto MD |
557 |
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Determination of Vena Contracta and its Value in Evaluating Severity of
Aortic Regurgitation Mehmet Eren MD, Abdurrahman Eksik MD, Sevket Gorgulu MD, Tugrul Norgaz MD, Bahadir Dagdeviren MD, Osman Bolca MD, Tuna Tezel MD |
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Feasibility of Two-Dimensional Bileaflet Valve Imaging: A Prospective Transthoracic Echocardiographic Study Yaron Shapira MD, Mordehay Vaturi MD, Michal Perlmuter RDCS, Alex Sagie MD |
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| ANTICOAGULATION MANAGEMENT | |
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Fixed-Dose Versus Adjusted-Dose Warfarin in Patients with Prosthetic Heart Valves
in a Peri-Urban Impoverished Population Biddy Buchanan-Lee MRCP (UK), Basil N. Levetan FCP (SA), Carl J. Lombard PhD (SA), Patrick J. Commerford FCP (SA) |
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Role of Oral Anticoagulation and Inoue Balloon Mitral Valvuloplasty in Presence of
Left Atrial Thrombus: A Prospective Serial Transesophageal Echocardiographic Study Bhuwanesh Kandpal MD, Naveen Garg MD, K. V. Anand MD, Aditya Kapoor MD, Nakul Sinha MD |
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| CASE REPORT | |
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Right Atrial Myxoma Arising from the Eustachian Valve in a Patient
with Colonic Polyposis Pramod Bonde FRCS, Anand Sachithanandan AFRCSI, Alastair N. J. Graham FRCS, S. Geoffery Richardson FRCP, Dennis J. Gladstone FRCS |
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| LETTER TO THE EDITOR | |
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In response to Repossini A, Kotelnikov IN, Parenzan L, Arena V. Left-side approach to the mitral valve J Heart Valve Disease 2001;10:591-595 |
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