**Meet the editor**

Professor Motomura is an Associate Professor at the Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Tokyo, who graduated from Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine in 1985. Following the training in National Cardiovascular and Research Center in Osaka, Georgetown University in Washington DC, and St. George Hospital in Sydney, he was appointed staff surgeon at

the University of Tokyo.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Intraoperative Imaging in** 

Kazumasa Orihashi

**Part 2 Selection of Prosthesis 33** 

Chapter 3 **Which Valve to Who: Prosthetic** 

**Part 3 Aortic Root Replacement 85** 

Chapter 6 **Aortic Valve Sparing Operations 105** 

**Part 4 Aortic Valve Allograft 121** 

Chapter 4 **Prosthetic Aortic Valves:** 

Chapter 5 **Valve-Sparing Aortic Root** 

**Part 1 Anatomy and Preoperative Estimation 1** 

Chapter 2 **Revealing of Initial Factors Defining Results** 

**Aortic Valve Surgery as a Safety Net 3** 

**of Operation in Patients with Aortic Valve Replacement and Coronary Artery Disease 19**  A.M. Karaskov, F.F. Turaev and S.I. Jheleznev

**Valve Selection for Aortic Valve Surgery 35** 

**A Surgical and Bioengineering Approach 57** 

**Replacement and Aortic Valve Repair 87** 

Bradley G. Leshnower and Edward P. Chen

Chapter 7 **Clinical Outcome of Aortic Root Replacement** 

Aya Saito and Noboru Motomura

William Y. Shi, Michael O' Keefe and George Matalanis

**With Cryopreserved Aortic Valve Allografts 123** 

Bilal Kaan Inan, Mustafa Saçar, Gökhan Önem and Ahmet Baltalarli

Dimosthenis Mavrilas, Efstratios Apostolakis and Petros Koutsoukos
