The Journal of Heart Valve Disease
Volume 15 Number 6 November 2006
CONTENTS
MITRAL VALVE DISEASE |
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| Editorial:
How can we best describe the components of the mitral valve? Robert H. Anderson MD, Robert W. M. Frater MD |
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| Steps,
Arches, and Struts Supporting the Aortic Leaflet of the Mitral Valve Vijaya M. Nayak MS, Solomon Victor FRCP |
740 |
| The Impact of Unrepaired versus Repaired Mitral Regurgitation on Functional Status of Patients with Ischemic Cardiomyopathy at One Year after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Jolanta Vaskelyte MD, Neris Stoskute MD, Egle Ereminiene MD, Remigijus Zaliunas MD, Rimantas Benetis MD, Edmundas Sirvinskas MD |
747 | AORTIC VALVE DISEASE |
| The Influence of Prosthesis Size and Design on Exercise Dynamics after Aortic Valve Replacement Niaz F. Ali FRCS, Vinod S. Mahadevan MRCP, Andrew Muir FRCS, David Young PhD, Gianfranco Campalani MD, Norman P. S. Campbell FRCP, Mark H. D. Danton MD |
755 | BIOPROSTHETIC VALVES |
| Long-Term Follow-up of the Biocor Porcine Bioprosthesis in the Mitral Position Pablo M. A. Pomerantzeff MD, Carlos M. A. Brandão MD; João M. A. C. Albuquerque MD, Noedir A. G. Stolf MD, Max Grinberg MD, Sérgio A Oliveira MD |
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| Perimount Pericardial Bioprosthesis for Aortic Calcified Stenosis A 20-Year-Experience with 1,133 Patients Michel R. Aupart MD, Alain Mirza MD, Yvon A. Meurisse MD, Agnes L. Sirinelli MD, Paul H. Neville MD, Michel A. Marchand MD |
768 |
| Long-Term Cardiac Allograft Valves after Heart Transplant are Functionally and Structurally Preserved, in Contrast to Homografts and Bioprostheses Mathias H. Wilhelmi MD, Christoph Bara MD, Theo Kofidis MD, Michaela Wilhelmi MD, Maximilian Pichlmaier MD, Axel Haverich MD |
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| Annuloplasty for Valve Repair with a New Biodegradable Ring: An Experimental Study Afksendiyos Kalangos MD, Jorge Sierra MD, Dominique Vala MD, Mustafa Cikirikcioglu MD, Beat Walpoth MD, Xavier Orrit MD, José Pomar MD, Carlos Mestres MD, Sonia Albanese MD, Dhanjay Jhurry PhD |
783 |
| MECHANICAL VALVES | |
| In-Vivo Experience with the Triflo Trileaflet Mechanical Heart Valve Robert P. Gallegos, Andrew L. Rivard, Phillip T. Suwan, Sylvester Black, Stefan Bertog, Uli Steinseifer, Anibal Armien, Matthew Lahti, Richard W. Bianco |
791 |
| Effect of Hinge Gap Width on the Microflow Structures in 27-mm Bileaflet Mechanical Heart Valves Hwa-Liang Leo, Hélène A. Simon, Lakshmi P. Dasi, Ajit P. Yoganathan |
800 |
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Comparison of Fondaparinux, Low Molecular-Weight Heparin and Unfractionated Heparin in Preventing Thrombus Formation on Mechanical Heart Valves: Results of an In-Vitro Study Axel Schlitt, Kathrin Hamilton, Lars Maegdefessel, Manfred Dahm, Cathrin Theis, Michael Eichler, Olaf Brockmann, Ulrich Steinseifer, Baerbel Hauroeder, Walter E. Hitzler, Hans J. Rupprecht |
809 |
| TISSUE ENGINEERING | |
| Phenotypic Characterization of Isolated Valvular Interstitial Cell Subpopulations Tracy L. Blevins PhD, Joshua L. Carroll, Alina M. Raza, K. Jane Grande-Allen PhD |
815 |
| Histological Evaluation of Tissue-Engineered Heart Valves Implanted in the Juvenile Sheep Model: Is There a Need for In-Vitro Seeding? Pascal M. Dohmen, Francisco da Costa, Sergio Yoshi, Sergio V. Lopes, Filipe P. da Souza, Ricardo Vilani, Antonio F. Wouk, Marine da Costa, Wolfgang Konertz |
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| CASE REPORTS | |
| Severity of Mitral Regurgitation may be Underestimated in the Presence of a Left Atrial Myxoma Alfried Germing MD, Michael Lindstaedt MD, Andreas Mügge MD, Axel Laczkovics MD, Markus Fritz MD |
830 |
| Gemella Endocarditis: Consider the Colon Susan F. FitzGerald MD, Anne C. Moloney MD, Brian J. Maurer MD, William W. Hall MD |
833 |
| Native Double-Valve Endocarditis by Mycobacterium fortuitum following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Sathiakar Paul Collison DNB, Naresh Trehan MD |
836 |
| Morquio’s Syndrome: Severe Aortic Regurgitation and Late Pulmonary Autograft Failure Michael O. Barry MD, Michael A. Beardslee MD, Alan C. Braverman MD |
839 | LETTER TO THE EDITOR |
| In response to Kazui T, Izumoto H, Yoshioka K, Kawazoe K. Dynamic morphologic changes in the normal aortic annulus during systole and diastole. J Heart Valve Dis 2006;15:617-21 Christophe Acar, Shaida Varnous. |
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