Recommendations for the Management of Prosthetic Valve Thrombosis
Maria Lengyel MD, Dieter Horstkotte MD, Heinz Völler MD, Wilhelm P. Mistiaen MD, on behalf of the Working Group ‘Infection, Thrombosis, Embolism and Bleeding of the Society for Heart Valve Disease’

An Audit of Anticoagulation Practice among UK Cardiothoracic Consultant Surgeons following Valve Replacement/Repair
Paul Vaughan MRCS Ed, Paul D. Waterworth FRCS(CTh)

Mitral Valve Re-repair
Prem S. Shekar FRCS, Gregory S. Couper MD, Lawrence H. Cohn MD

Mechanism of Hemolysis after Mitral Valve Repair and New Surgical Management: Prosthetic Annuloplasty Ring Covered with Autologous Pericardium
Nobuyuki Ishibashi MD, Hitoshi Kasegawa MD, Toshiya Koyanagi MD, Takao Ida MD

Effect of Cutting Second-Order Chordae on In-Vivo Anterior Mitral Leaflet Compound Curvature
Filiberto Rodriguez MD, Frank Langer MD, Katherine B. Harrington BA, Frederick A. Tibayan MD, Mary K. Zasio BA, David Liang MD, George T. Daughters MS, Neil B. Ingels PhD, D. Craig Miller MD

The Role of Chordae Tendineae in Mitral Valve Competence
Daniel M. Espino BSc, Duncan E. T. Shepherd PhD, David W. L. Hukins DSc,
Keith G. Buchan FRCSC/Th

Are There Surgical Implications to Aortic Root Motion?
Carsten J. Beller MD, Michel R. Labrosse PhD, Mano J. Thubrikar PhD, Gabor Szabo MD, Francis Robicsek MD, Siegfried Hagl MD

Review: Current Status of the Contegra Conduit for Pediatric Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Reconstruction
Shahzad G. Raja MRCS, Faisal Rasool MBBS, Shaik Yousufuddin MBBS, Mark D. Danton FRCS, Kenneth J. MacArthur FRCS, James C. S. Pollock FRCS

Aortic Valve Replacement with New-Generation Stentless Pericardial Valves: 623 Short-Term Clinical and Hemodynamic Results
Herko Grubitzsch MD, Jörg Linneweber MD, Christopher Kossagk, Elif Sanli MD, Sven Beholz MD, Wolfgang F. Konertz MD

Mid-term Results of Freestyle Aortic Stentless Bioprosthetic Valve: Clinical Impact of Quantitative Analysis of In-vivo Three-dimensional Flow Velocity Profile by Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Hajime Matsue MD, Yoshiki Sawa MD, Goro Matsumiya MD, Hikaru Matsuda MD, Seiki Hamada MD

Three Years’ Experience with the On-X Conform-X Bileaflet Prosthesis for ‘Atrialized’ Mitral Valve Replacement: A Preliminary Report
Jens Wippermann MD, Johannes M. Albes MD, Navid Madershahian MD, Martin Breuer MD, Ulrich Franke MD, Thorsten Wahlers MD

In-Vivo Turbulent Stresses of Bileaflet Prosthesis Leakage Jets
Brandon R. Travis PhD, Thomas D. Christensen MD, Morten Smerup MD,
Morten S. Olsen MS, J. Michael Hasenkam MD, Hans Nygaard DMSc

Digital Frequency Analysis of Valve Sound Phenomena in Patients after Prosthetic Valve Surgery: Its Capability as a True Home Monitoring of Valve Function
Dirk Fritzsche MD, Thomas Eitz MD, Kazutomo Minami MD, Delewar Reber MD, Axel Laczkovics MD, Uwe Mehlhorn MD, Dieter Horstkotte MD, Reiner Körfer MD

Cinefluoroscopic Assessment of Mechanical Disc Prostheses: Its Value as a Complementary Method to Echocardiography
Tomás F. Cianciulli MD, Jorge A. Lax MD, Martín A. Beck MD, Fausto E. Cerruti MD, Gerardo E. Gigena MD, María C. Saccheri MD, Eduardo Fernández RDCS, Adriana N. Dorelle RDCS, Jorge H. Leguizamón MD, Horacio A. Prezioso MD

Bone Marrow-Derived Myofibroblasts are Present in Adult Human Heart Valves
Arjun Deb MD, Shao Hua Wang MD, Kimberly Skelding MD, Dylan Miller MD, David Simper MD, Noel Caplice MD

Mesostructures of the Aortic Valve
Todd C. Doehring PhD, Michael Kahelin PhD, Ivan Vesely PhD

Successful Thrombolytic Therapy for Prosthetic Mitral Valve Thrombosis with Hemodynamic Obstruction: Case Report and Review of the Literature
Bahri Akdeniz MD, Nezihi Baris MD, Ozer Badak MD, MS, Ozgür Aslan MD

A Novel Helcococcus-like Organism Causing Endocarditis in an Injecting Drug User
Susan F. FitzGerald, Mary J. Crowe, Barbara Cassidy, Jiru Xu, Beverly C. Millar, John E. Moore

Valve-sparing Root Replacement after Prior Starr-Edwards Aortic Valve Replacement
Clifton C. Reade MD, Alan P. Kypson MD, J. Mark Williams MD

Iatrogenic Left Atrioventricular Fistula after Aortic Valve Re-replacement
Kenan Iltumur MD, Aziz Karabulut MD, Aziz Karadede MD, Nizamettin Toprak MD

Libman-Sacks Endocarditis and Primary Antiphospholipid Syndrome
Carlos Gonzalez-Juanatey MD, Miguel A. Gonzalez-Gay MD

A Quadricuspid Aortic Valve in a Patient with Neurofibromatosis Type 1
James Coulston MB, Joyce Thekkudan FRCS, Mohamed F. Ibrahim FRCS(Edin)

In response to
Gonçalves AC, Griffiths LG, Anthony RV, Orton EC. J Heart Valve Dis 2005;14:212-217