Contents March 2001

The Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volume 10 Number 2 March 2001

CONTENTS

	MITRAL VALVE DISEASE


	Editorial: Echocardiographic Assessment of the Normal Mitral Annular Size Michael S. Firstenberg MD, James D. Thomas MD	143
	Major and Minor Axes of the Normal Mitral Annulus Anna Fyrenius, Jan Engvall MD PhD, Birgitta Janerot-Sjöberg MD PhD	146
	Long-Term Outcome of Mitral Balloon Valvotomy in Pregnant Women Mohamed E. Fawzy FRCP, Abdulhalim J. Kinsara MRCP, Miltiadis Stefadouros MD, Hesham Hegazy MD, Hoda Kattan MD, Ashraf Chaudhary PhD, Ella Williams RN, Zohair Al Halees MD	153
	Beneficial Effects of Nicorandil versus Enalapril in Chronic Rheumatic Severe Mitral Regurgitation: Six Months Follow Up Echocardiographic Study Deepak Kumar Gupta MD, Aditya Kapoor DM, Naveen Garg DM, Satyendra Tewari DM, Nakul Sinha DM	158
	HEMODYNAMIC ASSESSMENT
	Hemodynamics of Semilunar Valves at Rest and Exercise at an Average of More than Two Years after the Ross Procedure Hans-H. Sievers MD, Claudia Schmidtke MD, Bernhard Graf MD	166
	Echocardiographic Assessment and Preliminary Clinical Results after Aortic Valve Replacement with the Medtronic Mosaic® Bioprosthesis Hervé Corbineau MD, Bernard Lelong MD, Thierry Langanay MD, Jean-Philippe Verhoye MD, Alain Leguerrier MD	171
	MECHANICAL REPLACEMENT VALVES
	Twelve Years’ Clinical Experience with the CarboMedics Prosthetic Heart Valve Jan Aagaard MD, Jens Tingleff MD, Christel N. Hansen MD, Martin A. Noergaard MD, Christian E. Rasmussen MD	177
	Long-term Results with St. Jude Medical and CarboMedics Prosthetic Heart Valves Byung-Chul Chang MD, Sang Hyun Lim MD, Dong Ki Kim PhD, Ji Youn Seo, Seung Yun Cho MD, Won Heum Shim MD, Namsik Chung MD, Sung Soon Kim MD, Bum Koo Cho MD	185
	The CarboMedics Supraannular Top Hat Valve Improves Prosthesis Size in the Aortic Root Runar Lundblad MD, Ole M. Hagen MD, Gunnar Smith MD, Knut Kvernebo MD	196
	Risks of Fracture of Björk-Shiley 60 Convexo-concave Prosthetic Heart Valves: Long-Term Cohort Follow Up in the UK, Netherlands and USA William J.Blot, Rumana Z. Omar, Marjon Kallewaard, Linda S. Morton, Jon P. Fryzek, Michel A. Ibrahim, Donald Acheson, Kenneth M. Taylor, Yolanda van der Graaf	202
	Self-Reported Quality of Life and Health among Björk-Shiley Convexo-Concave Prosthetic Heart Valve Patients Lisa B. Signorello ScD, John A. Kennedy MD, Rebecca Ann Richmond BA, Katherine L. Sieu RN, William J. Blot PhD, Donald C. Harrison MD	210
	Fracture Embolization of a Tekna Mitral Prosthesis: Case Report Saed Jazayeri MD, Jean Pierre Meunier MD, Etienne Tatou MD, Isabelle L’Huillier MD, Olivier Bouchot MD, Christine Toulouse MD, Roger Brenot MD, Michel David MD	219
	LOW-DOSE APROTININ
	Low-Dose Aprotinin in Heart Valve Reoperations Carlos F. Kirzner MD, Ahilson R. Correia MD, Orlando M. Azevedo, Jr. MD, Marcius V. Maranhão MD, João R. C. Gonçalves MD, Márcia S. M. Kirzner MD, Ana P. R. Xavier MD, José N. Figueiroa MD	222
	LABORATORY STUDIES
	The Sensitivity of Indicators of Thrombosis Initiation to a Bileaflet Prosthesis Leakage Stimulus Brandon R. Travis BS, Ulla M. Marzec MS, Jeffrey T. Ellis PhD, Puya Davoodi BS, Takki Momin BS, Stephen R. Hanson PhD, Laurence A. Harker MD, Ajit P. Yoganathan PhD	228
	Digital Particle Image Velocimetry Investigation of the Pulsating Flow around a Simplified 2-D Model of a Bileaflet Heart Valve J. B. Zhao PhD, Y. B. Shi PhD, Tony J. H. Yeo PhD, Ned H. C. Hwang PhD	239
	Computational Fluid Dynamics Study of a Protruded-Hinge Bileaflet Mechanical Heart Valve Junhong Wang MEng, Hai Yao PhD, Tony J. H. Yeo PhD, Ned H. C. Hwang PhD	254
	In-Vitro Measurements of the Regurgitation of Mechanical Mitral Heart Valve Prostheses in Case of Atrial Fibrillation Frederic Mouret PhD, Vincent Garitey PhD, Jean Fuseri, Regis Rieu PhD	264
	The Influence of Ventricular Input Impedance on the Hydrodynamic Performance of Bioprosthetic Aortic Roots In Vitro Louise M. Jennings MEng, Maya Butterfield PhD, Peter G. Walker PhD, Kevin G. Watterson FRACS, John Fisher DEng	269
	CASE REPORT
	Native Valve Salvage for Post-Traumatic Tricuspid Regurgitation Yoshikazu Hachiro MD, Satoru Sugimoto MD, Nobuyuki Takagi MD, Hisayoshi Osawa MD, Kiyofumi Morishita MD, Tomio Abe MD	276