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Volume 26 Number 2 March 2017

AORTIC VALVE DISEASE
Endoscopic Port Access Surgery for Late Orthotopic Cardiac Transplantation Atrioventricular Valve Disease Johan van der Merwe, Filip Casselman, Bernard Stockman, Yvette Vermeulen, Ivan Degrieck, Frank Van Praet	124
Automatic Estimation of Optimal Deployment of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Using Computed Tomography Arthur Kerner, Sobhi Abadi, Roy Dotan, Marcia Javitt, Doron Aronson, Jonathan Lessick	130
Efficacy and Complications of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation With and Without Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty Kuljit Singh, Kristin Carson, Onn Akbar Ali, Rohan Jayasinghe, Alexander Dick, Christopher Glover, Marino Labinaz	139
Minimally Invasive Versus Transcatheter and Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement: A Propensity Matched Study Matthew D. Terwelp, Vinod H. Thourani, Yelin Zhao, Prakash Balan, Catalin Loghin, Daniel Ocazionez, Anthony Estrera, Carson T. Hoffmann, Vasilis C. Babaliaros, Joseph Lamelas, Tom C. Nguyen	146
Use of Adjuncts Reduces Cardiopulmonary Bypass Time During Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement Alice Wang, Sharon L. McCartney, Judson B. Williams, Asvin Ganapathi, Donald D. Glower, Alina Nicoara, Jeffrey G. Gaca	155
MITRAL VALVE DISEASE
Assessment and Management of Acute Severe Mitral Regurgitation in the Intensive Care Unit Marina Leitman, Vladimir Tyomkin, Ehud Raanani, Ram Sharony, Ludmila Tzatskin, Eli Peleg, Alex Blatt, Zvi Vered	161
Initial Results of Combined MitraClip^® Implantation and Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Xavier Freixa, Rodrigo Estévez-Loureiro, Fernando Carrasco-Chinchilla, Dabit Arzamendi, Pilar Jiménez-Quevedo, Luis Nombela-Franco, Ignacio Cruz-González, Ignacio J. Amat-Santos, Manel Sabaté	169
Incidence and Clinical Impact of Cerebral Lesions after the MitraClip^® Procedure Sebastian Barth, Karsten Hamm, Stefan Fodor, Wilko Reents, Sebastian Kerber, Philipp Halbfass, Martina B. Hautmann, Bernhard Schieffer, Hassan Soda	175
BASIC SCIENCE
Extraction of Total RNA from Calcified Human Heart Valves for Gene Expression Analysis Ana Cecília Valadares, Hagen Gorki, Andreas Liebold, Markus Hoenicka	185
QishenYiqi Dripping Pill Improves Heart Failure by Up-Regulation of β2-Adrenergic Receptor Expression Junfeng Sun, Hua Qian, Xiaoguang Li, Xianling Tang	193
Is Fasting for Ramadan Safe in Patients with Mechanical Cardiac Valves? Ersin Yildirim, Ozlem Secen, Okkes Uku, Mehmet Nail Bilen, Makbule Kutlu Karadag	200
INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS
Fungal Endocarditis Due to Aspergillus oryzae: The First Case Reported in the Literature Andrea Mazza, Nicola Luciani, Marco Luciani, Federico Cammertoni, Alessia Giaquinto, Natalia Pavone, Piergiorgio Bruno, Massimo Massetti	205
(1→3)-β-D-Glucan Assay in Monitoring Response to Anti-Fungal Therapy in Fungal Endocarditis Jihad Slim, Christopher Saling, Maria Szabela, Melinda Brown, Tamara Johnson, Irvin Goldfarb	208
THROMBOSIS, EMBOLISM AND BLEEDING
Is Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve-In-Valve Implantation Feasible in the Presence of Right Atrial Thrombus? Jan Henzel, Zofia Dzielińska, Marek Konka, Maciej Dąbrowski, Marcin Protasiewicz, Adam Witkowski, Marcin Demkow	211
Warfarin Therapy After Mechanical Valve Replacement: A Tool for Predicting Bleeding Events Insil Jang, Sukjung Choo, Kyunghee Kim	215
CASE REPORTS
Satellite Atrial Septal Vegetations Secondary to Mitral Valve Endocarditis Germán Cediel, Marta Guillen Marzo, Ramón de Castro Aritmendiz, Jairo Toro Gil, Alfredo Bardají	224
Unusual Locations for Cardiac Papillary Fibroelastomas Davide Carino, Francesco Nicolini, Alberto Molardi, Clara Indira Dadamo, Tiziano Gherli	226
Papillary Muscle Rupture in an Adolescent with No Coronary Lesions Tomoki Sakata, Hiroki Kohno, Togo Iwahana, Satoshi Ota, Hatsue Ishibashi-Ueda, Yoshio Kobayashi, Goro Matsumiya	231
Young Patient with Advanced Heart Failure No Longer a Candidate for Heart Transplantation after MitraClip^® Procedure Cosmo Godino, Andrea Scotti, Eustachio Agricola, Carlo A. Pivato, Mauro Chiarito, Stefano Stella, Massimo Maccherini, Alberto Margonato, Antonio Colombo	234
Percutaneous Mitral Balloon Valvuloplasty in a Pregnant Patient Under Guidance of Three-Dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiography and Right Atrial Mapping, without Using Fluoroscopy Begum Uygur, Hamdi Pusuroglu, Aydin Yildirim	237
Severe Valvular Aortic Stenosis and Fixed Subvalvular Aortic Stenosis: A Rare and Challenging Combination Ayman Elbadawi, Marwan Saad, Islam Y. Elgendy, Basarat Baig, Farhad Abtahian	240
Quadricuspid Aortic Valve Associated with Aortic Regurgitation, Mitral Regurgitation, and Aortic Dilatation Serkan Sivri, Serdal Bastug, Murat Can Guney, Yakup Alsancak, Elcin Ozdemir, Engin Bozkurt	243

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