The Journal of Heart Valve Disease
Volume 8 Number 4 July 1999
CONTENTS
| JOINT EDITORIAL
STATEMENT BIOLOGICAL AND BIOPROSTHETIC VALVES |
349 |
| Future Directions in
Tissue Heart Valves: Impact of Recent Insights from Biology and Pathology Frederick J. Schoen MD |
350 |
| Mitral Valve Replacement with a Pulmonary
Autograft: Initial Experience Sami S. Kabbani MD, Donald N. Ross FRCS, Hisham Jamil MD, Abdo Hammoud MD, Fawzi Nabhani MD, Ryad Hariri MD, Loay S. Kabbani MD |
359 |
| Lack of Durability of the Mitroflow Valve Does
Not Affect Survival R. Houel MD, P. Le Besnerais MD, C. Soustelle, M. Kirsch MD, M. L. Hillion MD, Daniel Loisance MD |
368 |
| Multiple Valve Replacement Increases
the Risk of Reoperation for Structural Degeneration of Bioprostheses Thiery Caus MD, Jean-Noel Albertini MD, Yian Chi MD, Frederic Collart MD, Jean-Raoult Monties MD, Thiery Mesana MD |
376 |
| MECHANICAL PROSTHESES Inter-Laboratory Comparisons:
Approaching a New Standard for |
384 |
| Perioperative Bleeding and
Thromboembolic Risk during Non-Cardiac Surgery in Patients with Mechanical Prosthetic Heart Valves: An Institutional Review Thierry P. Carrel MD, Wulf Klingenmann MD, Paul J. Mohacsi MD, Pascal Berdat MD, Ulrich Althaus MD |
392 |
| Correlation of Valve Closing to
Visualization of Single-Leg Separation in Radiographic Images of Björk-Shiley
Convexo-Concave Heart Valves Kimerly A. Powell PhD, Nancy A. Obuchowski PhD, Alan C. Yeung MD, John A. Kennedy FRPC, J. Fredrick Cornhill DPhil |
399 |
| Videoassisted Thrombectomy of
Mechanical Prosthetic Heart Valves Michel Carrier MD, Michel Pellerin MD, Francois Dagenais MD, Louis P. Perrault MD, Robert Petitclerc MD, L. Conrad Pelletier MD |
404 |
| AORTIC VALVE DISEASE Aortic Root
Geometry: Pattern of Differences Between Leaflets and Sinuses of Valsalva |
407 |
| Aortic
Stenosis: An Atherosclerotic Disease? Anthony Wierzbicki DPhil, Chandrashekar Shetty MBBS |
416 |
| Surgical Repair in Ruptured Congenital
Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysms: A 13-Year Experience Kaan Kirali MD, Mustafa Güler MD, Bahadir Daglar MD, Necmettin Yakut MD, Denyan Mansuroglu MD, Mehmet Balkanay MD, Turan Berki MD, Ali Gürbüz MD, Omer Isik MD, Cevat Yakut MD |
424 |
| MITRAL VALVE DISEASE Exercise-induced
Hyperkalemia and Concentration of Na,K-pumps in |
430 |
| Extended Vertical Transseptal Approach
versus Conventional Left Atriotomy for Mitral Valve Surgery Paolo Masiello MD, Franco Triumbari MD, Rocco Leone MD, Francesco Itri MD, Gerardo Del Negro MD, Giuseppe Di Benedetto MD |
440 |
| CASE REPORTS Aortic
Stenosis in Endogenous Ochronosis |
445 |
| Combined Mitral and Tricuspid Valve
Repair in Acute Infective Endocarditis Stefano Pratali MD, Carmela Nardi MD, Omar Di Gregorio MD, Francesco Becherini MD, Aldo Milano MD, Uberto Bortolotti MD |
447 |
| Asymptomatic Left Ventricular Outflow
Tract Obstruction after Mitral Valve Replacement with Leaflet Preservation Zoran Popovic MD, Dejan Vukajlovic MD, Aleksandar D. Popovic MD |
450 |
| Successful
Cox-Maze III Procedure Combined with Mitral Valve Replacement in a Massively Thrombosed Left Atrium Yves Louagie MD, E. Rombaut MD, B. Marchandise MD |
453 |
| Isolated Tricuspid Valve Regurgitation
resulting from Severe Annular Dilatation: Case Report Shigeaki Aoyagi MD, Hiroshi Maruyama MD, Koji Akasu MD, Takemi Kawara MD |
457 |
| Conservative Surgery for
Atrioventricular Valve Myxoma F. Roques MD, B. Ulmer MD, B. Sanchez MD, J. Godreuil MD, F. Bernasconi MD, D. Smadja MD, B. Bucher MD |
460 |
| Ehlers-Danlos
Syndrome: Surgical Management of Mitral Regurgitation and Atrial Fibrillation Vassilios S. Avlonitis MD, Stephen R. Large FRCS |
463 |