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    Artificial Organs: Volume 26, Issue 5

    399-487
    May 2002
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Guest Editorial

Asymptomatic Prosthetic Valve Dysfunction: Pannus?

Eiki Tayama,  Shigeaki Aoyagi, 
  • Pages: 399-401
  • First Published: 22 May 2002

Original Articles

Tissue Engineered Heart Valves: Autologous Cell Seeding on Biodegradable Polymer Scaffold

Toshiharu Shinoka, 
  • Pages: 402-406
  • First Published: 22 May 2002

Histological and Immunohistological Study of Cryopreserved Aortic Valve Grafts: The Possibility of a Clinical Application for Cryopreserved Aortic Valve Xenograft

Shogo Yokose,  Shuji Fukunaga,  Eiki Tayama,  Seiya Kato,  Shigeaki Aoyagi, 
  • Pages: 407-415
  • First Published: 22 May 2002

Experimental Evaluation and Early Clinical Results of a New Low-Profile Bileaflet Aortic Valve

Thomas Walther,  Sven Lehmann,  Volkmar Falk,  Josef Köhler,  Nico Doll,  Jan Bucerius,  Jan Gummert,  Friedrich W. Mohr, 
  • Pages: 416-419
  • First Published: 22 May 2002

Implications for the Establishment of Accelerated Fatigue Test Protocols for Prosthetic Heart Valves

Kiyotaka Iwasaki,  Mitsuo Umezu,  Kazuo Iijima,  Kou Imachi, 
  • Pages: 420-429
  • First Published: 09 October 2008

Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery by the Port-Access Method

Ryohei Yozu,  Hankei Shin,  Tadaaki Maehara, 
  • Pages: 430-437
  • First Published: 22 May 2002

Review Article

Is Low-Intensity Anticoagulant Therapy Possible with an Open Pivot Valve?: Analysis of Its Development

Demetre M. Nicoloff,  H. David Friedberg,  Manuel A. Villafaña, 
  • Pages: 438-443
  • First Published: 22 May 2002

Clinical Reviews

Left Ventricular Remodeling After Pulmonary Autograft Aortic Valve Replacement: Evaluation with Color-Doppler Echocardiography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Franz X. Schmid,  Andreas Keyser,  Behrus Djavidani,  Johann Link,  Stefan Holmer,  Dietrich E. Birnbaum, 
  • Pages: 444-448
  • First Published: 22 May 2002

Short-Term Result of Aortic Valve Replacement with Cryopreserved Homograft Valve in the University of Tokyo Tissue Bank

Noboru Motomura,  Shinichi Takamoto,  Tomohiro Murakawa,  Noriko Yoneda,  Sakiko Shibusawa,  Katsuhide Maeda,  Yoshihiro Suematsu,  Arata Murakami,  Jun Nakajima,  Yutaka Kotsuka, 
  • Pages: 449-452
  • First Published: 22 May 2002

Intensive Imaging Assessment for Successful Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery

Masaya Kitamura,  Osamu Namura,  Kazuhiko Hanzawa,  Takashi Nakayama,  Atsushi Meguro,  Jun-ichi Hayashi, 
  • Pages: 453-459
  • First Published: 22 May 2002

Thrombolytic Therapy with Tissue Plasminogen Activator for the Treatment of Nonstructural Malfunction of Bileaflet Cardiac Valve Prostheses

Hideki Teshima,  Nobuhiko Hayashida,  Masaru Nishimi,  Eiki Tayama,  Shuji Fukunaga,  Hiroshi Tomoeda,  Shingo Chihara,  Naofumi Enomoto,  Takemi Kawara,  Shigeaki Aoyagi, 
  • Pages: 460-466
  • First Published: 22 May 2002

Aortic Root Replacement Using Composite Valve Graft in Patients with Aortic Valve Disease and Aneurysm of the Ascending Aorta: Twenty Years' Experience of Late Results

Shigeyuki Aomi,  Masato Nakajima,  Masaki Nonoyama,  Hideyuki Tomioka,  Yukihiro Bonkohara,  Wataru Satou,  Yosihito Kunii,  Masahiro Endo, 
  • Pages: 467-473
  • First Published: 22 May 2002

Long-Term Results for Aortic Valve Replacement with Small Aortic Annulus

Motoshige Yamasaki,  Shiro Sasaguri,  Yasuyuki Hosoda,  Kenji Takazawa,  Taira Yamamoto,  Akifusa Hariya, 
  • Pages: 474-478
  • First Published: 22 May 2002

Long-Term Results of Valve Replacement with the CarboMedics Prosthetic Heart Valve

Koji Onoda,  Tomoaki Suzuki,  Naoki Kanemitsu,  Uhito Yuasa,  Motoshi Takao,  Takatsugu Shimono,  Kuniyoshi Tanaka,  Hideto Shimpo,  Isao Yada, 
  • Pages: 479-482
  • First Published: 22 May 2002

Aortic Valve Replacement in the Calcified Small Aortic Root by Hemitranslocation of the Valve

Masahiro Endo,  Hiroshi Nishida,  Genta Chikazawa,  Yasuko Tomizawa, 
  • Pages: 483-486
  • First Published: 22 May 2002

Communications

Upcoming Meetings

  • Page: 487
  • First Published: 22 May 2002