The Journal of Heart Valve Disease
Volume 9 Number 2 March 2000CONTENTS
| Editorial: The SilzoneÒ Dilemma – What Did We Learn? Endre Bodnar MD |
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| PULMONARY AUTOGRAFTS | |
| Editorial: The Pulmonary Autograft: The Ross Principle (or Ross Procedural Confusion) Donald N. Ross FRCS |
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| Pulmonary Autograft versus Aortic
Homograft for Aortic Valve Replacement: Interim Results from a Prospective Randomized Trial Lishan Aklog MD, Gerald S. Carr-White MD, Emma J. Birks MD, Magdi H. Yacoub FRS |
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| Does the Ross Operation fulfil the
Objective Performance Criteria Established For New Prosthetic Heart Valves? Reinhard Moidl MD, Paul Simon MD, Christiane Aschauer MD, Orest Chevtchik MD,Natascha Kupilik MD, Susanne Rödler MD, Ernst Wolner MD, Günther Laufer MD |
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| Annuloplasty and Aortoplasty as
Modifications of the Ross Procedure for the Correction of Geometric Mismatch James W. Klena MD, Ehyal Shweiki MD, H. William Mahaffey PA-C, Edward L. Woods MD, Charles H. Benoit MD, Christian L. Gilbert MD |
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| HOMOGRAFTS | |
| Interstitial Ice Formation in
Cryopreserved Homografts: A Possible Cause of Tissue Deterioration and Calcification In Vivo Kelvin G. M. Brockbank PhD, Fred G. Lightfoot BA, Ying C. Song MD, PhD, Michael J. Taylor PhD |
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| Banking of Cryopreserved Heart
Valves in Europe: Assessment of a 10-year Operation in the European Homograft Bank (EHB) Yves A. Goffin PhD, Beatrice Van Hoeck Lic Sc, Ramadan Jashari MD, Georges Soots PhD, Peter Kalmar MD[n] |
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| Results of Aortic Valve Replacement with
Pulmonary and Aortic Homografts Herbert Naegele, Michael Bohlmann, Volker Döring, Peter Kalmar, Wilfried Rödiger |
215 |
| Mitral
Valve Surgery Utilizing Homografts: Early Results Helmut Gulbins MD, Eckart Kreuzer MD, Antje Uhlig, Bruno Reichart MD |
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| BASIC SCIENCE | |
| Glutaraldehyde Detoxification in
Addition to Enhanced Amine Cross-Linking Dramatically Reduces Bioprosthetic Tissue
Calcification in the Rat Model Christoph Weissenstein MD, Paul Human MD, Deon Bezuidenhout MD, Peter Zilla MD |
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| Glutaraldehyde-Induced Cross-Links: A
Study of Model Compounds and Commercial Bioprosthetic Valves Lisa J. Southern PhD, Herbert Hughes PhD, Patricia V. Lawford PhD, Malcolm R. Clench PhD, Nigel J. Manning PhD |
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| Receptor-Mediated Contraction of Aortic Valve
Leaflets Adrian H. Chester PhD, Martin Misfeld MD, Magdi H. Yacoub FRS |
250 |
| Expression of 5-Hydroxytryptamine Receptor
Subtype Messenger RNA in Interstitial Cells from Human Heart Valves Anjana Roy PhD, Nigel J. Brand PhD, Magdi H. Yacoub FRS |
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| MITRAL VALVE | |
| Mitral Regurgitation Following
Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy: A Single-Center Experience Upkar A. Kaul DM, Sandeep Singh DM, Gurcharan S. Kalra DM, Mohan Nair DM, Jagdish C. Mohan DM, Madhuri Nigam Mch, Ramesh Arora DM |
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| Transient Mitral Regurgitation following Vagal
Stimulation-induced Ventricular Arrhythmia in Rabbits: A Color Doppler Echocardiographic Study Terunao Ashida MD, Shigeru Okuno MD, Aya Ebihara MD, Takao Sugiyama MD, Jun Fujii MD |
269 |
| Worsening of Mitral
Regurgitation Secondary to Ventricular Pacing Stephen R. Hanna MD, Eugene S. Chung MD, Gerard P. Aurigemma MD,Theo E. Meyer MD |
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| TRICUSPID VALVE | |
| Tricuspid Valve Repair: A Rational
Alternative Pitambar Shatapathy MCh, Bhuvnesh Kumar Aggarwal MCh, Sevagur Ganesh Kamath MCh |
276 |
| Idiopathic Annular Dilation: A
Rare Cause of Isolated Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation Steven E. Girard MD, Rick A. Nishimura MD, Carole A. Warnes MD, Joseph A. Dearani MD, Francisco J. Puga MD |
283 |
| Myxoma of the Tricuspid
Valve Ali Asghar Bolourian MD, Modjtaba Karimi MD, Asadollah Mirzaie MD |
288 |
| ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY | |
| Simultaneous Doppler/Catheter Measurements
of Pressure Gradients in Aortic Valve Disease: A Correction to the Bernoulli Equation Based on Velocity Decay in the Stenotic Jet Michael D. VanAuker PhD, Aung Hla MD, Jay S. Meisner MD, Joel A. Strom MD |
291 |
| A Comparison of the
Classical and Modified Forms of the Continuity Equation in the On-XR
Prosthetic Heart Valve in the Aortic Position John Chambers MD, John Ely PhD and members of the On-X Prosthetic Heart Valve Trial |
299 |
| MECHANICAL VALVES | |
| CarboMedics and Monostrut
Valves: Clinical and Hemodynamic Outcomes in a Randomized Study Anselmo de la Fuente MD, Ramon Sanchez MD, Javier Romero MD, Jesus Berjon MD, Miguel Angel Imizcoz MD, Juan Luis Fernandez MD, Ignacio Moriones MD |
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| Tilting
Disc versus Bileaflet Aortic Valve Substitutes: Intraoperative and Postoperative Hemodynamic Performance in Humans Peter Kleine MD, Michael J. Hasenkam MD, Hans Nygaard DSc, Mathias Perthel MD, Dirck Wesemeyer MD, Joachim Laas MD |
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