Contents November 2001

The Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volume 10 Number 6 November 2001

CONTENTS

INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS
Long-Term Results and Determinants of Mortality after Surgery for Native and Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis Jürg Grünenfelder MD, Cary W. Akins MD, Alan D. Hilgenberg MD, Gus J. Vlahakes MD, David F. Torchiana MD, Joren C. Madsen MD, Thomas E. MacGillivray MD	694
Stroke is not a Contraindication for Urgent Valve Replacement in Acute Infective Endocarditis Cornelia Piper MD, Marcus Wiemer MD, Hagen D. Schulte MD, Dieter Horstkotte MD	703
Silzone^TM Coating and Paravalvular Leak: An Independent, Randomized Study Paul Herijgers MD, Marie-Christine Herregods MD, Anna Vandeplas MD, Bart Meyns MD, Willem Flameng MD	712
Early Investigation of Silver-coated Silzone^TM Heart Valves Prosthesis in 126 Patients Johann Auer MD, Robert Berent MD, Choi-Keung Ng MD, Christian Punzengruber MD, Herbert Mayr MD, Elisabeth Lassnig MD, Christian Schwarz MD, Rudolf Puschmann MD, Peter Hartl MD, Bernd Eber MD	717
Silzone^TM-coated St. Jude Medical Valve: A Safe Valve Remi Houël MD, Mathias Kirsch MD, M.L. Hillion MD, Daniel Y. Loisance MD	724
HOMOGRAFTS AND AUTOGRAFTS
A New Method for the Preservation of Aortic Valve Homografts David T. Cheung PhD, Patricia A. Weber DrPH, Albert C. Grobe MS, Yu Shomura MD, Suk Jung Choo MD, Hong He Luo MD, Douglas C. Marchion MS, Carlos M. G. Duran MD	728
Ross Operation in Children: Late Results Ronald C. Elkins MD, Mary M. Lane PhD, Carolyn McCue RN	736
The Ross Operation in 225 Patients: A Five-Year Experience in Aortic Root Replacement Jürgen O. Böhm MD, Cornelius A. Botha MD, Wolfgang Hemmer MD, Detlef Roser MD, Christoph T. Starck MD, Joachim-Gerd Rein MD	742
Saccular Aneurysm of Pulmonary Autograft after the Ross Procedure Tomohiro Harada MD, Eiji Ohtaki MD, Jun Kitamura MD, Ryuta Asano MD, Hitoshi Kasegawa MD, Toshiya Koyanagi MD, Tetsuya Sumiyoshi MD, Saichi Hosoda	750
MITRAL VALVE DISEASE
Ischemic Mitral Valve Regurgitation Grade II-III Correction in Patients with Impaired Left Ventricular Function undergoing Simultaneous Coronary Revascularization Edvin Prifti MD, Massimo Bonacchi MD, Giacomo Frati MD, Gabriele Giunti MD, Piero Proietti MD, Massimo Massetti MD, Marzia Leacche MD, Gerard Babatasi MD, Guido Sani MD	754
Impact of Atrial Fibrillation on Clinical Status, Atrial Size and Hemodynamics in Patients after Mitral Valve Replacement Mordehay Vaturi MD, Alex Sagie MD, Yaron Shapira MD, Anat Feldman MD, Noam Fink MD, Boris Strasberg MD, Yehuda Adler MD	763
Three-Dimensional In-vivo Dimensions of ‘He’s Triangle’ during Acute Left Ventricular Ischemia David T. Lai FRACS, Frederick A. Tibayan MD, Tomasz A. Timek MD, David Liang MD, George T. Daughters MS, Neil B. Ingels, Jr. PhD, D. Craig Miller MD	767
Accessory Mitral Valve Tissue causing Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction: Case Reports and Literature Review Edvin Prifti MD, Giacomo Frati MD, Massimo Bonacchi MD, Vittorio Vanini MD, Sylvain Chauvaud MD	774
AORTIC VALVE DISEASE
Aortic Valve Preservation in Acute Type A Dissection: Mid-Term Results Wlodzimierz Kuroczynski MD, Guido Dohmen MD, Ulrich Hake MD, Michael Hilker MD, Yeong-Hoon Choi MD, Susanne Anaraki MD, Susanne Mohr-Kahaly MD, Markus Heinemann MD, Hellmut Oelert MD	779
Traumatic Aortic Regurgitation: Aortic Valvuloplasty Controlled by Aortoscopy Jean-Pierre Meunier MD, Nathalie Berkane MD, Stéphane Lopez MD, Tamer El Ghobary MD, Jacques Teboul MD, Bruno Malzac MD, Christian Isetta MD, Jacques Jourdan MD	784
DEVICE EVALUATION
Long-Term Results with the Xenomedica® Porcine Bioprosthesis in the Mitral Position Francesco Santini MD, Stefano Auriemma MD, Gianluca Casali MD, Andrea Rossi MD, Mario Lusini MD, Alessandro Mazzucco MD	789
Evaluation of Valve-Related Complications in Patients with Sorin Bicarbon Prosthesis: A Seven-year Experience Uberto Bortolotti MD, Aldo Milano MD, Alessandro D’Alfonso MD, Caterina Piccin MD, Gianclaudio Mecozzi MD, Paolo Magagna MD, Alessandro Fabbri MD, Alessandro Mazzucco MD	795
Comparative Hydrodynamic Evaluation of Bioprosthetic Heart Valves Salvador Marquez MBA, Raphael T. Hon MS, Ajit P. Yoganathan PhD	802
BALLOON VALVULOTOMY
Long-Term Results of Pulmonary Balloon Valvuloplasty in Adult Patients Mohamed E. Fawzy FRCP, Mahmoud Awad MD, Omar Galal MD, Mohamed Shoukri PhD, Hesham Hegazy MD, Bruce Dunn MD, L. Mimish MD, Zohair Al Halees FRCSC	812
Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy in a Patient with Prosthetic Aortic Valve Ali Faizal DM, C. V. Umesan DM, N. Radhakrishnan MVS, V. Lakshmi M Phil, R. Hemalatha M Phil	819
LABORATORY STUDIES
Influence of 5-Hydroxytryptamine on Aortic Valve Competence In Vitro Adrian H. Chester PhD, Martin Misfeld MD, Hans-H. Sievers MD, Magdi H. Yacoub FRS	822
Cell Proliferation in Carcinoid Valve Disease: A Mechanism for Serotonin Effects Nalini M. Rajamannan MD, Noel Caplice MD, Fenny Anthikad MD, Thomas J. Sebo MD, Thomas A. Orszulak MD, William D. Edwards MD, Jamil Tajik MD, Robert S. Schwartz MD	827
CASE REPORT
Hypersensitivity to Warfarin in a Patient with a Mechanical Aortic Prosthesis Tahir Tak MD, J. Flynt Smith MD	832
Author index	835
Subject index	840