Aortic Root Surgery

1. Perioperative imaging for assessing aortic and mitral valve diseases and surgical procedures
Marian Kukucka

2. The aortic root
Charles A. Yankah, M. Pasic, E. Ivanitskaia-Kühn, Jörg Kempfert, Thomas Walther, Friedrich-Wilhelm Mohr, Roland Hetzer

3. Percutaneous transluminal aortic valve replacement: The CoreValve prosthesis
U. Gerckens, L. Büllesfeld, G. Latsios, R. Müller, B. Sauren, S. Iversen, Eberhard Grube

4. Transapical aortic valve implantation — A truly minimally invasive option for high-risk patients
Jörg Kempfert, Friedrich-Wilhelm Mohr, Thomas Walther

5. From minimally invasive to percutaneous aortic valve replacement
Lenard Conradi, H. Treede, H. Reichenspurner

6. Sutureless equine aortic valve replacement
Sven Martens

7. Pulmonary autograft or aortic allograft for surgical treatment of active infective aortic valve endocarditis: a review of the literature
Charles A. Yankah

8. The Ross operation: two decades of clinical experience
J. F. Matthias Bechtel, Hans-H. Sievers, T. Hanke, U. Stierle, A. J. J. J. C. Bogers, W. Hemmer, J. O. Böhm, J. G. Rein, C. A. Botha, R. Lange, J. Hörer, A. Moritz, T. Wahlers, U. F. W. Franke, M. Breuer, K. Ferrari-Kühne, Roland Hetzer, M. Hübler, G. Ziemer, A. W. Gorski, J. J. M. Takkenberg, M. Misfeld

9. The bicuspid aortic valve
J. F. Matthias Bechtel, M. Misfeld, C. Schmidtke, Hans-H. Sievers

10. From dynamic anatomy to conservative aortic valve surgery: the tale of the ring
Emmanuel Lansac, I. Centa

11. Yacoub/David techniques for aortic root operation: success and failures
J. F. Matthias Bechtel, Hans-H. Sievers, T. Hanke, E. I. Charitos, C. Schmidtke, E. G. Kraatz, U. Stierle, M. Misfeld

12. Aortic annuloplasty
William F. Northrup, S. D. Rollins

13. Correction of aortic valve incompetence combined with ascending aortic aneurysm by relocation of the aortic valve plane through a short-length aortic graft replacement
Roland Hetzer, N. Solowjowa, Marian Kukucka, C. Knosalla, R. Röttgen

14. Using BioGlue to achieve hemostasis in aortic root surgery
Scott A. LeMaire, J. S. Coselli

15. Challenges in the surgical management of infective endocarditis
Carlos-A. Mestres, J. M. Miró

16. Clinical results of the Shelhigh® stentless bioprosthesis in patients with active infective endocarditis:
Michele Musci, Y. Weng, Henryk Siniawski, S. Kosky, M. Pasic, M. Hübler, A. Amiri, J. Stein, R. Meyer, Roland Hetzer

17. Double valve endocarditis and evolving paraannular abscess formation
Henryk Siniawski, M. Dandel, H. B. Lehmkuhl, C. A. Yankah, Roland Hetzer

18. Aortic root abscess: reconstruction of the left ventricular outflow tract and allograft aortic valve and root replacement
Charles A. Yankah, M. Pasic, Henryk Siniawski, Y. Weng, Roland Hetzer

19. Implantation techniques of freehand subcoronary aortic valve and root replacement with a cryopreserved allograft for aortic root abscess
Charles A. Yankah, M. Pasic, Y. Weng, Roland Hetzer

20. Cryoablation for the treatment of atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing minimally invasive mitral valve surgery
Jürgen Passage, Michael A. Borger, J. Seeburger, A. Rastan, Thomas Walther, N. Doll, Friedrich-Wilhelm Mohr

21. Minimally invasive endoscopic ablation on the beating heart in patients with lone atrial fibrillation
Ulrich Rosendahl, Jürgen Ennker

22. Evaluation of bioprosthetic valve performance as a function of geometric orifice area and space efficiency— A reliable alternative to effective orifice area
Joe Sauter

23. Stented and stentless aortic bioprostheses: competitive or complimentary?
W. R. Eric Jamieson

24. Edwards Prima Plus Stentless Bioprosthesis: Long-term clinical and hemodynamic results
Alessandro Fabbri, A. D’Onofrio, S. Auriemma, G. D. Cresce, C. Piccin, A. Favaro, P. Magagna

25. The Cryo-Life O’Brien stentless valve: 1991–2008
Ulrik Hvass, T. Joudinaud

26. Medtronic stentless Freestyle® porcine aortic valve replacement
Jürgen Ennker, A. Albert, I. Florath

27. The ATS 3f Aortic Bioprosthesis
James L. Cox

28. The Vascutek Elan stentless porcine prosthesis — The Glasgow experience
Geoffrey A. Berg, P. Sonecki, R. B. S. Berg, K. J. D. MacArthur

29. Sorin pericardial valves
Sven Beholz, S. Meyer, N. Wasielewski, Wolfgang F. Konertz

30. The changing role of pericardial tissue in biological valve surgery: 22 years’ experience with the Sorin Mitroflow stented pericardial valve
Charles A. Yankah, M. Pasic, J. Stein, C. Detschades, Henryk Siniawski, Roland Hetzer

31. 20 years’ durability of Carpentier-Edwards Perimount stented pericardial aortic valve
Eric Bergoënd, M. R. Aupart, A. Mirza, Y. A. Meurisse, A. L. Sirinelli, P. H. Neville, M. A. Marchand

32. Twenty-year experience with the St. Jude Medical Biocor bioprosthesis in the aortic position
Walter Eichinger

33. 20-Year durability of bioprostheses in the aortic position
W. R. Eric Jamieson

34. Clinical results including hemodynamic performance of the Medtronic Mosaic porcine bioprosthesis up to ten years
Friedrich-Christian Riess, R. Bader, E. Cramer, L. Hansen, B. Kleijnen, G. Wahl, J. Wallrath, S. Winkel, N. Bleese

35. Aortic root replacement with the BioValsalva prosthesis
Davide Pacini, R. Bartolomeo

36. Valve replacement in renal dialysis patients: bioprostheses versus mechanical prostheses
W. R. Eric Jamieson, V. Chan

37. Replacement of bioprostheses after structural valve deterioration
Charles A. Yankah, M. Pasic, Henryk Siniawski, J. Stein, C. Detschades, A. Unbehaun, N. Solowjowa, S. Buz, Y. Weng, Roland Hetzer

38. Predicted outcomes after aortic valve replacement in octogenarians with aortic stenosis
Cornelia Piper, D. Hering, G. Kleikamp, R. Körfer, D. Horstkotte

39. Predicted patient outcome after bioprosthetic AVR and the Ross operation
J. J. M. Takkenberg, M. W. A. Geldorp

40. Anticoagulation and self-management of INR: mid-term results
Heinrich Körtke, J. Gummert

41. Biomatrix-polymer hybrid material for heart valve tissue engineering
Christof Stamm, N. Grabow, G. Steinhoff

42. Standards for the in vitro fabrication of heart valves using human umbilical cord cells
Cora Lüders-Theuerkauf, Roland Hetzer

43. Tissue engineering with a decellularized valve matrix
Wolfgang F. Konertz, S. Holinski, S. Dushe, A. Weymann, W. Erdbrügger, S. Posner, M. Stein-Konertz, P. Dohmen

44. Human tissues for cardiovascular surgery: regulatory requirements
David M. Fronk, J. D. Ferros

45. Concluding remarks
Charles A. Yankah

46. Atlas of biological valves
Charles A. Yankah

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