Advancing the Technology of Bileaflet Mechanical Heart Valves

Anticoagulation problems.- Optimization of oral anticoagulation: solved and unsolved problems with mechanical heart valve prostheses.- ESCAT- Early self-controlled anticoagulation trial.- Anticoagulation revised for mechanical ATS heart valve implants.- Clinical results and surgical techniques.- Ministry of health and welfare study for the ATS medical bileaflet valve in Japan.- Clinical evaluation of the ATS Medical valve.- Clinical results of a large series of ATS valve implants.- The Oxford experience with the ATS valve.- Queensland/Australian experience with the ATS mechanical valve November 1996.- Our experience with the ATS Medical mechanical valve prosthesis in the tricuspid position.- The ATS valve in children.- ATS Medical mechanical valve prosthesis in reoperations.- Echocardiographic evaluations.- ATS prosthetic valves AP series: echocardiographic evaluation.- Echo and doppler controlled behavior of aortic ATS valve comparison with the aortic SJM.- ATS valve: Early experience and comments on the significance of "HITS" in patients with prosthetic heart valves.- Special techniques.- Minimally invasive direct coronary artery grafting (MIDCAB).