Non-Myxomatous Flail Mitral Valve: Clinical and Echocardiographic Characteristics and Long-Term Clinical Outcome
Salim Adawi MD, Doron Aronson MD, David A. Halon MB, Sigal Aviram, Basil S. Lewis MD, Avinoam Shiran MD

Myocardial Apoptosis Predicts Postoperative Course after Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients with Severe Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
Mario Gaudino MD, Amedeo Anselmi MD, Antonio Abbate MD, Leonarda Galiuto MD, Nicola Luciani MD, Franco Glieca MD, Gianfederico Possati MD

Undersized Mitral Annuloplasty Inhibits Left Ventricular Basal Wall Thickening but Does Not Affect Equatorial Wall Cardiac Strains
Allen Cheng MD, Tom C. Nguyen MD, Marcin Malinowski MD, David Liang MD2, George T. Daughters MS, Neil B. Ingels, Jr. PhD, D. Craig Miller MD

Atrioventricular Disruption Managed by Ex-Situ Repair and Autotransplantation
Aschraf El-Essawi MD, Christian Biancosino MD, Marcel Anssar MD, Ingo Kutschka MD, Ingo Breitenbach, Wolfgang Harringer MD

Prevalence, Referral Patterns, Testing, and Surgery in Aortic Valve Disease: Leaving Women and Elderly Patients Behind?
David S. Bach MD, Jasmina I. Radeva MA, Howard G. Birnbaum PhD, Andrée-Anne Fournier MA, Edward G. Tuttle MBA

Twenty-Seven-Year Experience with Composite Valve Graft Replacement of the Aortic Root
Michel Kindo MD, Philippe Billaud MD, Sébastien Gerelli MD, François Levy MD, Jean-Philippe Mazzucotelli MD, Bernard Eisenmann MD

Effect of Statin Treatment on Aortic Valve and Coronary Artery Calcification
Emile R. Mohler III MD, Hao Wang MS, Elizabeth Medenilla MD, Craig Scott MD

Effects of Serum Levels of Novel Atherosclerotic Risk Factors on Aortic Valve Calcification
Huseyin Bozbas MD, Aylin Yildirir MD, Ilyas Atar MD, Bahar Pirat MD, Serpil Eroglu MD, Alp Aydinalp MD, Bulent Ozin MD, Haldun Muderrisoglu MD

The Ross Operation for Aortic Valve Disease: Previous Sternotomy Results in Improved Long-Term Outcome
Christopher J. Knott-Craig MD, Steven P. Goldberg MD, Peter Pastuszko MD, Marvin D. Peyton MD, James K. Kirklin MD

Outcome of Pregnancy in Women after Pulmonary Autograft Valve Replacement for Congenital Aortic Valve Disease
Sing-Chien Yap MD, Willem Drenthen MD, Petronella G. Pieper MD, Philip Moons PhD, Barbara J. M. Mulder MD, Loes M. Klieverik MD, Hubert W. Vliegen MD, Arie P. J. van Dijk MD, Folkert J. Meijboom MD, Jolien W. Roos-Hesselink MD, on behalf of the ZAHARA investigators

Outcome after Aortic Valve Replacement: Comparison of Homografts with Mechanical Prostheses
Eckehard Kilian MD, Martin Oberhoffer MD, Ingo Kaczmarek MD, Daniel Bauerfeind MD, Eckart Kreuzer MD, Bruno Reichart MD

Non-Bacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis in an Adult 14 Months after Cryopreserved Aortic Allograft Valve Implantation
Mervyn B. Forman MD, James B. Atkinson MD, J. Alan Wolfe MD, Richard A. Hopkins MD

One Thousand Carpentier-Edwards Pericardial Valves in the Aortic Position: What has Changed in the Past 20 years, and What are the Effects on Hospital Complications?
Wilhelm Mistiaen MD, Philip Van Cauwelaert MD, Philip Muylaert MD, Erik De Worm MD

Predicted Patient Outcome after Aortic Valve Replacement with Medtronic Stentless Freestyle Bioprostheses
Pieter Kappetein MD, John P. A. Puvimanasinghe MD, Johanna J. M. Takkenberg MD, Ewout W. Steyerberg PhD, Ad J. J. C. Bogers MD

The Effect of Tip Angle on Cavitation Potential during Closure of a Bileaflet Prosthesis Model
Pei Zhang PhD, Joon Hock Yeo PhD, Ping Qian MS, Ned H. C. Hwang PhD

Force Generation of Different Human Cardiac Valve Interstitial Cells: Relevance to Individual Valve Function and Tissue Engineering
Sally Smith PhD, Patricia M. Taylor PhD, Adrian H. Chester PhD, Sean P. Allen PhD, Sally A. Dreger BSc, Mark Eastwood PhD, Magdi H. Yacoub FRS

In-Vivo Repopularization of a Tissue-Engineered Heart Valve in a Human Subject
Pascal M. Dohmen MD, Steffen Hauptmann MD, Alexander Terytze MD, Wolfgang F. Konertz MD

Subdural Hematoma after Open-Heart Surgery
Shigeaki Aoyagi MD, Tomokazu Kosuga MD, Shuji Fukunaga MD, Eiki Tayama MD, Tomohiro Ueda MD