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Valvular heart disease

• Original article: Cardiac magnetic resonance versus transthoracic echocardiography for the assessment and quantification of aortic regurgitation in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (14 August, 2014)

  Henrique B Ribeiro, Florent Le Ven, Éric Larose, Abdellaziz Dahou, Luis Nombela-Franco, Marina Urena, Ricardo Allende, Ignacio Amat-Santos, Maria de la Paz Ricapito, Christophe Thébault, Marie-Annick Clavel, Robert Delarochelliére, Daniel Doyle, Éric Dumont, Jean G Dumesnil, Philippe Pibarot, Josep Rodés-Cabau
• Original article: Aortic regurgitation severity after transcatheter aortic valve implantation is underestimated by echocardiography compared with MRI (24 July, 2014)

  Stefan Orwat, Gerhard-Paul Diller, Gerrit Kaleschke, Gregor Kerckhoff, Aleksander Kempny, Robert M Radke, Boris Buerke, Matthias Burg, Christoph Schülke, Helmut Baumgartner
• Original article: Device-dependent association between paravalvar aortic regurgitation and outcome after TAVI (22 July, 2014)

  Rafal Dworakowski, Olaf Wendler, Brian Halliday, Peter Ludman, Mark DeBelder, Simon Ray, Neil Moat, Jan Kovac, Tomasz Spyt, Uday Trivedi, David Hildick-Smith, Dan Blackman, Damian Marlee, David Cunningham, Philip A MacCarthy
• Original article: Velocity ratio predicts outcomes in patients with low gradient severe aortic stenosis and preserved EF (12 September, 2014)

  Nikolaus Jander, Willibald Hochholzer, Beat A Kaufmann, Edda Bahlmann, Eva Gerdts, Kurt Boman, John B Chambers, Christoph A Nienaber, Simon Ray, Anne Rossebo, Terje R Pedersen, Kristian Wachtell, Christa Gohlke-Bärwolf, Franz-Josef Neumann, Jan Minners