**Meet the editor**

Professor Kırali, Director of Koşuyolu Heart and Research Hospital, is specialized in heart valve pathologies and focuses his scientific interests on surgical treatments requiring experience. With his expertise in coronary bypass surgery, congenital cardiac surgery, minimal invasive cardiac surgery, valve repair and aortic root surgery, he also has an interest in heart failure surgery.

He has developed a new aortotomy incision for aortic valve surgery, a new measuring method for aortic valve sparing procedures, and a new approach for awake *coronary artery bypass* grafting surgery. He has published numerous SCI journal papers and book chapters and edited/reviewed many academic journals. He is a member of several international and national scientific societies.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**and Disease 1** Sotirios Korossis

Jindong Liu

Chapter 5 **Bicuspid Aortic Valve 99**

Chapter 7 **Ebstein's Anomaly 133**

and Kaan Kırali

Chapter 1 **Structure-Function Relationship of Heart Valves in Health**

Chapter 3 **Cardiac Dyssynchrony as a Pathophysiologic Factor of Functional Mitral Regurgitation: Role of Cardiac**

Barbara Brzezińska and Krystyna Łoboz-Grudzień

Chapter 4 **Mitral Valve Prolapse in Pregnancy: Modern Concept 79**

Ayşe Inci Yıldırım and Aysu Türkmen Karaağaç

Chapter 6 **Contemporary Surgical Options for the Aortic Root 121**

Ziv Beckerman and Edward P. Chen

Ignatko Irina Vladimirovna, Strizhakov Leonid Alexandrovich, Rodionova Alexandra Mihailovna and Martirosova Alina Lorisovna

Sinem Altunyuva Usta, Ayşe Inci Yıldırım, Aysu Türkmen Karaağaç

**Resynchronization Therapy 57**

Chapter 2 **Mitral Valve Insufficiency, a Constituent of Left Atrial Myxoma:**

**Pathobiology, Physiopathology, and Pathophysiology of Left Atrial Myxoma; Are Long-Term Results Still Feasible? 39** Iroegbu Chukwuemeka Daniel, Zhongxin Zhou, Zhang Hao and
