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TUESDAY, 30 JUNE, 2009

 

8:30 AM  -  10:35 AM
Ballroom 2

Valve Repair IV

Key Note Lecture – William Northrup III

 

 

C92

Effects Of Mitral Valve Repair Versus Prosthetic Replacement on Long-term Survival After Isolated Mitral Valve Surgery
Mani A. Daneshmand1; Carmelo A. Milano1;  J Rankin2; Emily Honeycutt1; Linda K. Shaw1; R D. Davis1; Donald D. Glower1; Peter K. Smith1
1Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States;   2Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States

 

C93

Feasibility Of Mitral Valve Repair For Degenerative Insufficiency Involving Both Leaflets
Marco Diena; Guido Lanzillo; Gheorghe Cerin; Diana Benea; Eugenio Novelli; Ugo F. Tesler
Cardioteam, Clinica San Gaudenzio, Novara, Italy

 

C94

Early And Late Results Of An Aggressive Approach To Mitral Reconstruction
Cary W. Akins; Jerene M. Bitondo
Massachusetts General Hospital
, Boston, MA, United States

 

C95

Echo Based Classification Of The Mitral Valve Pathology With Relevance To Valve Repair
Pravin M. Shah;  Aidan A. Raney
Hoag Memorial Hospital Heart Valve Center, Newport Beach, California, United States

 

C96

High Risk Patients With Type-111b Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation Undergoing Repair With Asymmetric E T Logix Ring: Short & Long-term Outcomes
 Faisal Cheema1; Mansoor Mehmood4; Veli K. Topkara3; Ghulam Murtaza2; Belinda Kimbro4; Harold G. Roberts4
1College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and New York Presbyterian Hospital, New york, New York, United States;   2Harlem Hospital, New york, New York, United States;   3Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States;   4Aegis Cardiovascular Research Foundation, Plantation, FL, United States

 

C97

Assessing Human Mitral Valve Stress Using Three-dimensional Echocardiography And Finite Element Analysis
Chun Xu; Benjamin Jackson; Mathieu Vergnat; Liam P. Ryan; Landi M. Parish; Thomas Eperjesi;  Robert C. Gorman;  Joseph H. Gorman
Gorman Cardiovascular Research Group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States

 

C98

Mitral Valve Surgery Using Port Access Technique: The Updated Dallas Experience
William H. Ryan2; Todd M. Dewey3; Michael J. Mack3; William T. Brinkman3; Syma L. Prince1; Morley A. Herbert3
1Cardiopulmonary Research Science and Technology Institute, Dallas, Texas, United States;   2Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States;   3Medical City Dallas Hospital, Dallas, Texas, United States

 

8:30 AM  -  10:35 AM
Ballroom 3

Anti-Thrombotic Therapy & Inflammatory Heart Disease

Key Note Lecture – Dieter Horstkotte

 

 

C99

The Influence Of Platelet Reactivity In Patients With St. Jude Aortic Mechanical Prostheses Treated With Clopidogrel & Aspirin Thromboprophylaxis
 Raul F. Garcia-Rinaldi1; Carlos Carro1; J F Rodriguez1;  Hartzell Schaff2; Stephen McKellar2
1Advanced Cardiolgy Center, Mayaguez, PR, Puerto Rico;   2Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States

 

C100

Postoperative Bridging Therapy With Low-molecular-weight-heparin Causes A Higher Rate Of Late Tamponades - Results From A Postoperative Observational Study
Stefan Brose1; Marcela Duranova1; Susanne Schal1; Katrin Ploetze1; Habsch Raico1; Sebastian Schellong2; Klaus Matschke1
1Heart Center Dresden, Dresden, Germany;   2Krankenhaus Dresden Friedrichstadt, Dresden, Germany

 

C101

Fifteen Years Single Centre Experience With The ATS Bi-leaflet Valve
Guido J. Van Nooten; Frank Caes; Katrien Francois; Yves Van Belleghem; Thierry Bové; Guy Vandenplas; Yves Taeymans; Michel De Pauw
University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

 

C102

Self-management Of Oral Anticoauglation Therapy Improves Long-term Survival In Patients With Mechanical Heart Valve Replacement
Heinrich Koertke; Lech Paluszkiewicz; Kavous Hakim-Meibodi; Nikolas Mirow; Thomas Eitz; Jochen Boergermann; Reiner Koerfer; Jan Gummert
Heart and Diabetescenter Northrhine Westphalia, 32545 Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

 

C103

Results Of Mitral Valve Repair Versus Mitral Valve Replacement For Isolated Active Infective Mitral Valve Endocarditis: 22-year Single Center Experience
Michele Musci; Michael Hübler; Aref Amiri; Miralem Pasic; Susanne Kosky; Henryk Siniawski; Yuguo Weng; Roland Hetzer
Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Dept. of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

 

C104

Surgical Treatment For Active Infective Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis: 22-year Single Center Experience
Michele Musci; Yuguo Weng; Miralem Pasic; Michael Hübler; Susanne Kosky; Julia Stein; Henryk Siniawski; Roland Hetzer
Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Dept. of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

 

C105

Prosthetic Aortic Valve Endocarditis: Early And Late Outcome In 152 Patients
Sergey Leontyev; Christian Binner;  Michael A. Borger;  Sven Lehmann; Jörg Kempfert;  Friedrich W. Mohr;  Thomas Walther
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heart Center, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

 

8:30 AM  -  10:35 AM
Marriott Hotel

Valve Biology I

Key Note Lecture – Adrian Chester

 

 

C106

Role Of The MAPK/ERK Pathway In Valvular Interstitial Cell Calcification
Xiaoxiao Gu; Kristyn S. Masters
University of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI, United States

 

C107

Molecular Mechanisms Underlying The Early Onset Of Bicuspid Aortic Valve Stenosis
Elias A. Zias; Meerarani Purushothaman; Purushothaman K-Raman; John T. Fallon; Valentin Fuster;  David H. Adams; Pedro R. Moreno
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States

 

C108

Pravastatin Inhibition Of Valvular Interstitial Cell Calcific Nodule Formation Is Mediated Through Prevention Of Myofibroblastic Differentiation
Julie A. Benton1; Hanna B. Kern1; Peter D. Mariner2; Kristi S. Anseth2
1University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States;   2Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boulder, CO, United States

 

C109

Reduced Circulating Endothelial Progenitor Cells In Patients With Aortic Valve Stenosis: A Novel Concept For Valve Repair
 Yasuharu Matsumoto; Volker Adams; Claudia Walther; Axel Linke;  Thomas Walther;  Friedrich W. Mohr; Gerhard Schuler
University Leipzig – Heart Center Leipzig, Department of Cardiology and Department of Cardiac Surgery, Leipzig, Germany, Leipzig, Germany

 

C110

Apelin And Its Receptor APJ In Human Aortic Valve Stenosis
Tuomas O. Peltonen1; Juha Näpänkangas2; Pasi Ohtonen4;  Jari Satta3;  Tatu Juvonen3; Ylermi Soini2; Heikki Ruskoaho1;  Panu Taskinen3
1Department of Pharmacology and toxicology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland;   2Department of Pathology, University of Oulu, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland;   3Department of Thorax Surgery, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland;  4Department of Surgery and Anaesthesiology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland

 

C111

A Loose Meshwork Of Special Connections: The Adhering Junctions Of Mammalian Valvular Interstitial Cells
Mareike Barth1;  Payam Akhyari2;  Artur Lichtenberg2; Werner W. Franke1
1Helmholtz Professor Group for Cell Biology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany;   2Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany

 

C112

The Role Of Human Cathelicidin Antimicrobial Peptide Ll-37 In Calcific Aortic Valve Disease
Wen-fang Meng1; Padmini Sarathchandra2;  Patricia M. Taylor2;  Magdi H. Yacoub2; Adrian H. Chester2
1Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China;   2Imperial College London, Harefield, Middlesex, United Kingdom

 

10:35 AM  -  11:20 AM
Grand Ballroom Foyer

 

Refreshment Break

10:35 AM  -  11:20 AM
Ballroom 1

Poster Session V

 

P141

Predictors Of Exacerbation Of Mitral Regurgitation and Reverse Remodeling After Operation For Post-infarction Left Ventricular Remodeling
Tetsuya  Ueno1,  Ryuzo  Sakata1,  Yoshifumi  Iguro1,  Hiroyuki  Yamamoto1,  Masahiro  Ueno1,  Yosuke  Hisashi1,  Hironori  Inoue1,  Koji  Tao1,  Chuwa  Tei2

1Dept of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Pref., Japan;  21st Dept of Medicine, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Pref, Japan 

 

P142

Ischemic Mitral Valve Regurgitation And Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Independent Impact Of Segmental Myocardial Vitality
Giuseppe D'Ancona1; Giuseppe Mamone2; Gianluca Marrone2; Francesco Pirone1; Gianluca Santise1; Sergio Sciacca1; Marco Turrisi1; Michele Pilato1
1Department of CT Surgery, Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and Advanced Specialized Therapies (ISMETT), Palermo, Italy;   2Department of Radiology, Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and Advanced Specialized Therapies (ISMETT), Palermo, Italy

 

P143

Functional Mitral Regurgitation Is A Main Determinant Of Adverse Outcome In Patients With Heart Failure Due To Non-ischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Andrea Rossi; Mariantonietta Cicoira; Corinna Bergamini; Mauro Toniolo; Luisa Zanolla; Corrado Vassanelli
Department of Biomedical and Surgical Sciences, Section of Cardiology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

 

P144

The Predictor Of Progression Of Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation After Off-pump Coronary Revascularization In Patients With Poor Left Ventricular Function
Kozo Morita; Junjiro Kobayashi; Hiroyuki Nakajima; Toshikatsu Yagihara
National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan

 

P145

Non-severe Mitral Regurgitation Undergoing Isolated Aortic Valve Replacement
Rafael Martinezsanz1; Ramiro de la LLana2; Pilar Garrido1; Ibrahim M. Nassar1; Jose L. Iribarren1; Juan J. Jimenez1; Alejandro Lacruz2; Carlos Vaquero3
1Hospital Universitario de Canarias La Laguna University, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain;   2Instituto Canario Cardiovascular, Tenerife, Tenerife, Spain;   3Hospital Universitario Valladolid University, Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

 

P146

When Repair, When Rather Replacement for Chronic Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation-medium Term Results Of Undersized Ring Annuloplasty With Echocardiographic Follow-up
Dariusz Puszczewicz; Jerzy Pacholewicz; Roman Przybylski; Boguslaw Ryfinski; Jacek Wojarski; Micha Zembala; Tomasz Kukulski;  Marian Zembala
Silesian Center for Heart Disease, Zabrze, Silesia, Poland

 

P147

Epicardial Treatment Of Functional Mitral Regurgitation With Bace Device In Experimental Animals
Jaishankar Raman1; Megumi Mathison2; Arthur Hill3; Thomas M. Beaver4; Lishan Aklog5
1University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States;   2St Josephs Translational Research Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, United States;   3University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States;   4University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States;   5St Josephs Hospital, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

 

P148

Predictors Of Outcome Post Valve Repair In Patients With Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation. The Importance Of Left Ventricular Regional Deformation Analysis
Tomasz Kukulski2; Anna Leopold2; Maciej Raczak2; Tomasz Niklewski1; Andrzej Kubicius1; Dariusz Puszczewicz1; Marian Zembala1; Zbigniew Kalarus2
1Silesian Center for Heart Disease, Zabrze, Poland;   2Silesian Medical University, Katowice, Poland

 

P149

Secondary Chordal Cutting For Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation: 3D Echocardiographic Guidance By Comprehensive Leaflet Geometric Analysis
Mathieu Vergnat1; Benjamin M. Jackson1; Clayton Brinster1; Stuart J. Weiss3; Albert T. Cheung3; Michael A. Acker2; Joseph H. Gorman
III2; Robert C. Gorman1
1Gorman Cardiovascular Research Group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States;   2Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States;   3Department of Anesthesia, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States

 

P150

Anti-calcification Modification Of GA-fixed Bovine Jugular Wall With Tannic Acid
Jianye Zhou; De Wang; Hong Jiang; sheng Wang; Jun Li; Shengshou Hu
Fu Wai Hospital, Beijing, China

 

P151

Early Antiplatelet Therapy And Aortic Valve Bioprostheses: Porcine Versus Pericardial Valve Freedom From Thrombosis
Tomaso Bottio; Vincenzo Tarzia; Jonida Bejko; Monica Moz;  Giulio Rizzoli;  Gino Gerosa
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua, Padova, Italy

 

P152

Extracellular Matrix For In-vivo Tissue Engineered Valve Repair And Reconstruction
 Marc W. Gerdisch;  Akindolapo O. Akinwande; Robert G. Matheny
St. Francis Heart Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

 

P153

Electrospinning Of Scaffolds For Heart Valve Tissue Engineering From Protein / Polymer Blends
Andreas Szentivanyi1; Ruediger Autschbach2;  Birgit Glasmacher1
1Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany;   2University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

 

P154

Repopulation Of Gamma-radiated Aortic Valve Matrices
Pamela Somers1; Filip De Somer1; Bart Van de Kerckhove2;  Guido Van Nooten1
1Heart Center, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium;   2Clinical Biology, Microbiology and Immunology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

 

P155

Growth Of Valve Interstitial Cells On Aligned And Randomly Oriented Electrospun Nanofibres
Elena Filova1; Frantisek Straka2; Lucie Bacakova1; Marcela Munzarova3; Jana Svobodova3
1Institute of Physiology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic;   2Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic;   3ELMARCO s.r.o., Czech Republic

 

P156

Bilayer Of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells (SMC) And Endothelial Cells (EC) On A Nanofibre Mesh In A Pulse Bioreactor
Frantisek Straka2; Elena Filova1; Jaroslav Chlupac2; Lucie Bacakova1; Jan Pirk3
1Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic,Prague Czech Republic;   2Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic;   3Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic

 

P157

Biomechanical Testing Of Low Concentration SDS Decellularised Porcine Pulmonary Valves
Ji Luo;  John Fisher; Zhongmin Jin; Eileen Ingham; Sotirios Korossis
Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

 

P158

Percutaneous Pulmonary Valve Replacement: Implantation Of Tissue Engineered Valved Stent
Anja Metzner1;  Ulrich A. Stock3; Kenji Iino1; René Quaden1; Jessica Boldt1; Jochen Cremer1; Thomas Jahnke2; Georg Lutter1
1University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kiel, Germany;   2University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Department of Radiology, Kiel, Germany;   3University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Department of Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, Tuebingen, Germany

 

P159

Recellularization And Calcification In Decellularized Mitral Heart Valves In A Chronic Porcine Model
Jesper L. Hoenge1; Henrik Jensen1; Jonas A. Funder1;  Pascal M. Dohmen2; Wolfgang F. Konertz2; J M. Hasenkam1
1Dept. of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Aarhus, Denmark;   2Dept. of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Charité, Berlin, Germany

 

P160

Results Of Pediatric RVOT Reconstruction With Decellularized Porcine Pulmonary Valves
Christina Koch1; Johannes Kroll2; Gaetano Gargiulo3; Otto Krogmann2; Emanuela Angeli3; Gleb Tarusinov2;  Wolfgang Konertz1
1Cardiovascular Surgery Charité, Berlin, Germany;   2Heart Centre Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany;   3SantOrsola Hospital, Bologna, Italy

 

P161

The Development Of Novel Biologically Inspired Scaffolds For Heart Valve Tissue Engineering
Meghan E. Smith1; Linghui Meng1; Chelsae Poelking1; Qi Jia1; Brian Cmolik2; Gary Wnek1; Yakov Elgudin2
1Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States;   2Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States

 

P162

Effects Of Decellularization (tri-col/tri-doc) On The Hydrodynamic Performance Of Porcine Aortic Valve: Considerations On In-vitro Testing
 Tomaso Bottio1; Vincenzo Tarzia1;  Giulio Rizzoli2;  Michele Spina2; Alessandro Gandaglia2; Filippo Naso2;  Gino Gerosa1
1Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiologic, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, Padua University Medical School, Padova, Italy;   2Department of Experimental Biomedical Sciences, Padua University, Padova, Italy

 

P163

Growth Potential Of A Decellularized Xenogenic Heart Valve?
 Pascal M. Dohmen1;  Francisco D. da Costa2; Sergio V. Lopes2; Felipe P. da Souza3; Ricardo Vilani3; Sergio Yoschi4;  Wolfgang Konertz1
1Dept. of Cardiovascular Surgery, Charité Hospital, Medical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany;   2Dept. of Cardiac Surgery, Santa Casa Hospital, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana, Curitiba, Brazil;   3Dept. of Vetrinairy Medicin, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana, Curitiba, Brazil;   4Dept. of Pathology, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana, Curitiba, Brazil

 

P164

Tissue Engineering Of Stentless Pulmonary Valve Using Mesenchymal Stem Cell-endothelial Progenitor Cell Co-culture On A Fibronectin-coated Poly-4-hydroxybutyrate biodegradable Scaffold
Eva Maria Delmo Walter1,2; Virna Liza Sales1; David Martin3; Sirisha Emani1; Moritz Wyler von Ballmoos1; Grace Kim4;  Roland Hetzer2;  John Mayer1
1Childrens Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States;   2Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany;   3Tepha Inc, Cambridge, United States;   4Harvard University, Cambridge, United States

 

P165

Ultrastructural Analysis Of 3-dimensional Extracellular Matrix Structure Of Different Decelluarization Protocols Of Heart Valve Tissues
Jianye Zhou1; Olaf Fritze1; Martina Schleicher1; Ilka Degenkolbe1; Birsen Yurbas1; Gerhard Ziemer1; Shengshou Hu2;  Ulrich Stock1
1Thoracic-, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany;   2Laboratory of Regenerative Cardiovascular Medicine, Fu Wai Hospital, Beijing, China

 

P166

Total Mitigation Of Calcification And Cytotoxicity Of A Glutaraldehyde-preserved Bovine Pericardial Matrix - Extended Implantation Time In The Rat Model
William M. Neethling1; Ross Glancy2; Andrew J. Hodge3
1Fremantle Heart Institute, University of Western Australia, Fremantle, Australia;   2Histopathology, Fremantle Hospital, Fremantle, Australia;   3Cardiothoracic Surgery, Fremantle Hospital, Fremantle, Australia

 

P167

Designing Cardiac Jelly Based Tissue Engineered Pulmonary Valves In Congenital Heart Disease
Virna L. Sales1; Grace Kim1; Brian D. Plouffe2; Shashi K. Murthy2; Yadong Wang3;  Eva Maria BJ Delmo Walter1;  John E. Mayer, Jr.1
1Childrens Hospital Boston, Boston, United States;   2Northeastern University, Boston, United States;   3McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Pittsburgh, United States

 

P168

Solid Freeform Fabrication Of Spatially Heterogeneous Patient Specific Aortic Valves Using Hydrogels
Philip Y. Cheung; Nicholas Colangelo; Heeyong Kang; Laura A. Hockaday; James R. Brennan; Hod Lipson; Chih-Chang Chu;  Jonathan T. Butcher
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States

 

P169

On The Influence Of Scaffold Anisotropy On Engineered Heart Valve Function
David E. Schmidt;  Michael S. Sacks
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

 

P170

A Physiologically Scaled Flow-stretch-flexure Bioreactor For Mechanistic Studies For Valvular Tissue Development
Sharan Ramaswamy;  Michael S. Sacks
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

 

P171

Mesenchymal Stem Cells And Endothelial Progenitor In Tissue Engineering Of Heart Valves Can Respond Distinctively And Selectively To Biomechanical Signals
Virna L. Sales1; John A. Johnson, Jr1; David M. Hoganson3;  Eva Maria BJ Delmo Walter1; Grace Kim1; David P. Martin2; Bret A. Mettler1;  John E. Mayer, Jr.1
1Childrens Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, United States;   2Tepha, Inc, Lexington, United States;   3Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States

 

P172

Stenotic Bicuspid Aortic Valve Lesions Are Associated With Increased Inflammation And Neovascularization
 Elias A. Zias; Purushothaman K-Raman; Luis Astudillo; Meerarani Purushothaman; John T. Fallon;  David H. Adam; Valentin Fuster; Pedro R. Moreno
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States

 

P173

Elastin Haploinsufficiency Results In Latent Aortic Valve Disease
Robert B. Hinton1; Jennifer Adelman-Brown1; Sandra Witt1; Varun Krishnamurthy2; Hanna Osinska1; Daria Narmoneva2; Robert P. Mecham3; D Woodrow Benson1
1Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States;   2University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States;   3Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, United States

 

11:20 AM  -  1:05 PM
Ballroom 2

Valve Repair V

 

C113

Triple Valve Surgery: Mechanical Valves For Everyone?
Hadewich Hermans; Markus Tjahjono; Dirk Faes; Ann Belmans; Bart Meuris; Paul Herijgers; Willem Flameng; Marie-Christine Herregods
University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

 

C114

Mitral Valve Replacement: Off-pump Valved Stent Implantation
Georg Lutter1; Kenji Iino1; René Quaden1; Angelika Hagemann1; Wiebke de Buhr1; Anja Metzner1; Jochen Cremer1; Lucian Lozonschi2
1University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kiel, Germany;   2Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA., Madison, United States

 

C115

Update On The Mitral Pulmonary Autograft
 Sami S. Kabbani; Nada Sabbagh; 
Abir Kudsi
Damascus University
, Damascus, Syria

 

C116

Mitral Valve Growth After Stabilization Of Posterior Annulus With Untreated Autologus Pericardial Strip In Children With Congenital Mitral Valve Insufficiency
Eva Maria Delmo Walter; Henryk Siniawski; Nicole Nagdymann;  Roland Hetzer
Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany

 

C117

Stable Sinus Rhythm Following The Maze Procedure With Valve Surgery Results In Significant Improvement In Health Related Quality Of Life
Linda Henry; Sharon Hunt;  Niv Ad
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Falls Church, VA, United States

 

C118

Mitral Valve Repair In Rheumatic Patients. Long-Term Results
 Pablo M. Pomerantzeff; Carlos M. Brandão; Osanam A. Filho; Noedir A. Stolf
Heart Institute - University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil

 

C119

Mitral Valve Hemodynamics Following Repair Of Anterior Leaflet Prolapse: Edge-to-edge Vs. Neochordoplasty Vs. Triangular Resection
Muralidhar Padala1; Michael Sweet1; Vinod H. Thourani2;  David H. Adams3;  Ajit P. Yoganathan1
1Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States;   2Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United States;   3Mt.Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States

 

11:20 AM  -  1:05 PM
Ballroom 3

Devices II

 

C120

Clinical And Hemodynamic Outcomes After Aortic Valve Replacement With Stented And Stentless Pericardial Xenografts: A Propensity Matched Analysis
Augusto D'Onofrio; Giovanni D. Cresce; Stefano Auriemma; Paolo Magagna; Caterina Piccin; Irene Bolgan; Alessandro Fabbri
Division of Cardiac Surgery San Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy

 

C121

Impact Of Patient-prosthesis Mismatch After Aortic Valve Replacement With Small Prosthesis Size
Tommaso Regesta; Angelo Dell'Aquila; Stefano Pansini; Biagino Corsini; Tiziano Costigliolo; Giovanni Concistrè;  Alessandro Piccardo; Giancarlo Passerone
San Martino University Hospital, Genova, Italy

 

C122

Aortic Valve Replacement With The Sorin Pericarbon? Freedom: Midterm Results Up To Five Years
Susanne Meyer; Doreen Boettner;  Wolfgang Konertz; Sven Beholz
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Charite, Berlin, Germany

 

C123

Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Reconstruction With An Allograft Conduit After Correction Of Tetralogy Of Fallot. Long-term Follow-up
PC van de Woestijne; MM Mokhles;  JJM Takkenberg;  AJJC Bogers
Thoraxcenter Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands

 

C124

The Mosaic Porcine Bioprostheses In The Aortic Position At 10 Years
Rainald Seitelberger; Roman Gottardi; Jan Bialy
Department Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

 

C125

Mid-term Results Of The St. Jude Medical Toronto Root Bioprosthesis
Nimesh D. Desai1;  Thomas G. Gleason3;  Joseph S. Coselli4;  Tirone E. David2;  J. M. Smith,
III5;  Joseph E. Bavaria1
1Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States;   2Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada;   3University of Pittsburg Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, United States;   4Texas Heart Institute/Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States;   5TexSan Heart Hospital, San Antonio, TX, United States

 

C126

Early Failure Of Shelhigh Bioconduit In Aortic Position: An Underestimated Drawback
Eyal Calderon; Amedeo Spina; Nicola Camurri; Luca Bellieni; Corrado Bentini; Peppino Pugliese
Cardiac Surgery Dept, Villa Torri Hospital, Bologna, Italy

 

11:20 AM  -  1:05 PM
Marriott Hotel

Valve Biology II

 

C127

Ob-cadherin, A Novel Cell Surface Marker For Valvular Myofibroblasts
Huan Wang; Leslie A. Leinwand; Kristi S. Anseth
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States

 

C128

Valvular Interstitial Cell Myofibroblastic Differentiation Is Directed By Substrate Elasticity
Julie A. Benton1; April M. Kloxin1; Kristi S. Anseth2
1University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States;   2Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boulder, CO, United States

 

C129

Preventing Transforming Growth Factor - Beta1 Signaling In Aortic Valve Interstitial Cells With Serotonin Antagonists
 W. D. Merryman; Joshua D. Hutcheson
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States

 

C130

Functional Modeling Of Pressure Induced Differential Gene Expression Reveals Mechanosensitive Signaling Pathways And Tissue Remodeling Mechanisms
 James N. Warnock1; Carol A. Pregonero1; Juliet Tang1; Fiona M. McCarthy1; Bindu Nanduri1; Huaijun Zhou2; Shane C. Burgess1
1Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, United States;   2Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States

 

C131

Transient Tensing Of The Mitral Valve Anterior Leaflet In The Beating Ovine Heart
Gaurav Krishnamurthy1; Akinobu Itoh1; Julia C. Swanson1; Wolfgang Bothe1; Matts Karlsson1; Ellen Kuhl1; D. C. Miller1; Neil B. Ingels2
1Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States;   2Research Institute of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Palo Alto, California, United States

 

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Ice-free Cryopreservation Of Heart Valve Allografts: Better Extracellular Matrix Preservation, Facilitated Processing, Storage, Shipping And Preclinical Results
Kelvin G. Brockbank1; Milan Lisy2;  Katja Schenke-Layland3; Olaf Fritz2; Martina Schleicher2; Renate Kaulitz2; Gerhard Ziemer2;  Ulrich A. Stock2
1Cell & Tissue Systems, Inc, North Charleston, South Carolina, United States;   2University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany;   3University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States

 

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Beneficial Effects Of Replacing FBS With Platelet-rich Plasma (PRP) In Cell Culturing For Heart Valve Tissue Engineering
Paul W. Riem Vis1; Carlijn V. Bouten2; Joost P. Sluijter1; Lex A. van Herwerden1; Jolanda Kluin1
1University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands;   2University Of Technology Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands

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