Influence of Angiotensin-converting Enzyme Gene Insertion/Deletion Polymorphism on Rheumatic Valve Involvement, Valve Severity and Subsequent Valve Calcification
Vedat Davutoglu MD, Muradiye Nacak MD

‘Frozen’ Posterior Mitral Leaflet in Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis: Incidence and Impact on Outcome of Balloon Mitral Commissurotomy
Yoav Turgeman MD, Shaul Atar MD, Alexander Feldman MD, Mohamed Jabaren MD, Khaled Suleiman MD, Lev Bloch MD, Tiberio Rosenfeld MD

Altered Mitral Valve Kinematics with Atrioventricular and Ventricular Pacing
Frank Langer MD, Frederick A. Tibayan MD, Filiberto Rodriguez MD, Tomasz Timek MD, Mary K. Zasio BA, David Liang MD2, George T. Daughters MS, Neil B. Ingels PhD, D. Craig Miller MD

Effects of Papillary Muscle Position on Chordal Force Distribution: An In-vitro Study
Jorge Hernan Jimenez, Dennis Dam Soerensen, Zhaoming He, Jennifer Ritchie, Ajit P. Yoganathan

Infective Endocarditis Mid-Term Prognosis in Patients with Good In-Hospital Outcome
Yavuz Enç MD, Bayer Çinar MD, Cüneyt Konuralp MD, Serap Simsek Yavuz MD, Soner Sanioglu MD, Fuat Bilgen MD

Peripheral Mycotic Aneurysms in Infective Endocarditis
Ewa Orlowska-Baranowska MD, Rafal Baranowski MD, Beata Kulmierczyk MD, Janina Stpilska MD

An Unusual Bacterium, Aerococcus viridans, and Four Cases of Infective Endocarditis
Gabriel-Adrian Popescu MD1 , Elisabeta Benea MD1, Elena Mitache MD1, Cornelia Piper MD, Dieter Horstkotte MD

Mitro-Aortic Infective Endocarditis Produced by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae: Case Report and Review of the Literature
Ibrahim M. Nassar MD, Ramiro de la Llana MD, Pilar Garrido MD, Rafael Martinez-Sanz MD

Impact of Intraoperative Echocardiography/Surgery Team on Successful Mitral Valve Repair: A Community Hospital Experience
Akira Matsunaga MD, Pravin M. Shah MD, Aidan A. Raney, Jr. MD

High Concordance of Invasive and Echocardiographic Mean Pressure Gradients in Patients with a Mechanical Aortic Valve Prosthesis
Fabian Knebel MD, Volker Gliech MD, Torsten Walde MD, Stephan Eddicks MD, Wolfgang Konertz MD, Gert Baumann MD, Adrian C. Borges MD

Neuropsychological Deficits after Mechanical Aortic Valve Replacement
Jennifer Uekermann PhD, Boris Suchan PhD, Irene Daum, Samer Kseibi MD, Mathias Perthel MD, Joachim Laas

Can Regurgitant Flow Damage the Left Atrial Endothelium in Patients with Prosthetic Mechanical Heart Valves?
Simcha Milo MD, Mehrdad Zarandi PhD, Chaim Gutfinger PhD, Morteza Gharib PhD

Calcification of Human Valve Interstitial Cells is Dependent on Alkaline Phosphatase Activity
Patrick Mathieu, Pierre Voisine, Andrée Pépin, Rahoul Shetty, Nadia Savard, François Dagenais

Prevention of Porcine Aortic Wall Calcification by Acellularization: Necessity for a Non-Glutaraldehyde-Based Fixation Treatment
Bart Meuris MD, Erik Verbeken MD, Willem Flameng MD

Development of Aortic Valve Sclerosis in a Rabbit Model of Atherosclerosis: An Immunohistochemical and Histological Studyt
Massimo Cimini BSc, Derek R. Boughner MD, John A. Ronald MSc, Lori Aldington BSc, Kem A. Rogers PhD

Non-Linear Fluid-Coupled Computational Model of the Mitral Valve
Daniel R. Einstein PhD, Karyn S. Kunzelman PhD, Per G. Reinhall PhD, Mark A. Nicosia PhD, Richard P. Cochran MD

Three-Dimensional Asymmetrical Modeling of the Mitral Valve: A Finite Element Study with Dynamic Boundaries
Khee Hiang Lim PhD, Joon Hock Yeo PhD, Carlos M. G. Duran MD

Predicting ATS Open Pivot™ Heart Valve Performance with Computational Fluid Dynamics
Kris Dumont, MScCivEng, Jan A. M. Vierendeels, Patrick Segers, Guido J. Van Nooten, Pascal R. Verdonck

Aortic Root Dynamics are Asymmetric
Emmanuel Lansac MD, Hou-Sen Lim MEng, Yu Shomura MD, Khee Hiang Lim PhD, Nolan T. Rice MA, Wolfgang A. Goetz MD, Carlos M. G. Duran MD

In-Vitro Assessment of the Functional Performance of the Decellularized Intact Porcine Aortic Root
Sotirios A. Korossis PhD, Helen E. Wilcox PhD, Kevin G. Watterson FRCS, John N. Kearney PhD, Eileen Ingham PhD, John Fisher DEng

The Current State of In-vivo Pre-clinical Animal Models for Heart Valve Evaluation
Robert P. Gallegos, Pavel J. Nockel, Andrew L. Rivard, Richard W. Bianco

Clinical and Hemodynamic Performance of the 19-mm Medtronic Mosaic Bioprosthesis
Matthias E. W. Kirsch MD, Boyan Tzvetkov MD, Emmanuelle Vermes MD, Bruno Pouzet MD, Stéphane Sauvat MD, Daniel Loisance MD