The Journal of Heart Valve Disease
Volume 8 Number 2; March 1999
CONTENTS
| MYOCARDIAL PROTECTION
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118 |
| Relationship Between Position of the Coronary
Sinus Catheter and Distribution of Cardioplegia R. Tosson MD, F. Kuschkowitz MD, G. Dasbach MD, A. Laczkovics MD |
120 |
| Effectiveness of Continuous Warm Blood
Cardioplegia in Cardiac Valve Re-replacement Hideo Nagaoka MD, Kazunobu Hirooka MD, Masahiro Ohnuki MD, Naoyuki Fujiwara MD
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124 |
| Artificial Valve Endocarditis Reduction Trial
(AVERT): Protocol of a Multicenter Randomized Trial Hartzell Schaff MD, Thierry Carrel MD, James M. Steckelberg MD, Gary L. Grunkemeier PhD, Richard Holubkov MD for the AVERT Investigators |
131 |
| Recurrent Endocarditis in Silver-Coated Heart
Valve Prosthesis Henrik K. Kjaergard MD, Jens Tingleff MD, Ulrik Abildgaard MD, Gösta Pettersson MD |
140 |
| AORTIC VALVE DISEASE | |
| Heart Rate Variability in Severe Aortic
Stenosis Jose L. Vukasovic MD, Fernando Florenzano MD, Patricia Adriazola MD, Edgardo Escobar MD |
143 |
| Mechanisms of Aortic Valve Incompetence in
Aging: A Finite Element Model K. Jane Grande PhD, Richard P. Cochran MD, Per G. Reinhall PhD, Karyn S. Kunzelman PhD |
149 |
| Spontaneous Native Aortic Valve Thrombosis
Massimo Massetti MD, Gerard Babatasi MD, Eric Saloux MD, Satar Bhoyroo MD, Gilles Grollier MD, Andre Khayat MD |
157 |
| CONCOMITANT CORONARY HEART DISEASE | |
| Editorial: Detecting coronary artery stenosis before surgery in patients with valvular heart disease Jean Acar MD |
160 |
| Outcome and Risk Factors in Octogenarians
Undergoing Open-Heart Surgery Gideon Sahar MD, Dan Abramov MD, Eldad Erez MD, Alex Sagie MD, Jacob Barak MD, Ehud Raanani MD, Jacqueline Sulkes PhD, Bernardo A. Vidne MD |
162 |
| PROSTHETIC VALVE THROMBOSIS | |
| Thrombolysis is Superior to Heparin for
Non-obstructive Mitral Mechanical Valve Thrombosis Maria Lengyel MD, Gizella Vegh MD, Laszlo Vandor MD |
167 |
| NEW DEVICE EVALUATION | |
| The Stentless Quadrileaflet Bovine Pericardial
Mitral Valve: Early Clinical Results Shirley J. Middlemost MD, Martin Sussman MD, Atul Patel MD, Pravin Manga MD |
174 |
| The Stentless Quadrileaflet Bovine Pericardial
Mitral Valve: Echocardiographic Assessment Shirley J. Middlemost MD, Pravin Manga MD |
180 |
| MECHANICAL VALVE STUDIES | |
| In Vitro Studies of Gas Bubble Formation by
Mechanical Heart Valves Brian A. Biancucci MS, Steven Deutsch PhD, David B. Geselowitz PhD, John M. Tarbell PhD |
186 |
| Pressure and Flow Fields in the Hinge Region
of Bileaflet Mechanical Heart Valves Zhi B. Gao PhD, Nadeen Hosein PhD, Frank F. Dai PhD, Ned H. C. Hwang PhD |
197 |
| Strut Fracture Mechanisms of the Björk-Shiley
Convexo-Concave Heart Valve David W. Wieting PhD, Allen C. Eberhardt PhD, Helmut Reul PhD, Eugene M. Breznock DVM, Stefan G. Schreck PhD, James G. Chandler MD |
206 |
| Welding
Metallurgy's Putative Influence on Björk-Shiley Convexo-Concave Valve Outlet Strut Failures Thomas C. Wenzel MS, Charles R. Manning PhD, James G. Chandler MD, David F. Williams DSc |
218 |
| LETTERS TO THE EDITOR | |
| Virus-like particles in the mitral and
tricuspid valves explanted from a patient reated with Fenfluramine-Phentermine Claude F. Garon PhD,James H. Oury MD, Carlos M. G. Duran MD Low-dose anticoagulation 232 |
232 |
| Juan Sierra-Quiroga MD, Jose Rubio-Alvarez
MD, Dario Duran-Munoz MD, Jose B. Garcia-Bengochea MD |
232 |
| Reply S. F. Katircioglu MD, B. Yamak MD, A. T. Ulus MD |
233 |