Nai-Kuan Chou

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1 Late initiation of renal replacement therapy is associated with worse outcomes in acute kidney injury after major abdominal surgery. Crit Care 2009 1.80
2 Comparing the survival between extracorporeal rescue and conventional resuscitation in adult in-hospital cardiac arrests: propensity analysis of three-year data. Resuscitation 2010 1.63
3 Preoperative proteinuria predicts adverse renal outcomes after coronary artery bypass grafting. J Am Soc Nephrol 2010 1.58
4 A wireless bio-MEMS sensor for C-reactive protein detection based on nanomechanics. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2009 1.53
5 Prognostic significance of adipocytokines and extracellular matrix activity in heart failure patients with high B-type natriuretic peptide. Clin Biochem 2009 1.50
6 Impact of timing of renal replacement therapy initiation on outcome of septic acute kidney injury. Crit Care 2011 1.47
7 Left ventricular extracellular matrix remodeling in dogs with right ventricular apical pacing. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2010 1.45
8 Kidney function decline after a non-dialysis-requiring acute kidney injury is associated with higher long-term mortality in critically ill survivors. Crit Care 2012 1.24
9 RTWPMS: a real-time wireless physiological monitoring system. IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed 2006 1.17
10 The cardiomyogenic differentiation of rat mesenchymal stem cells on silk fibroin-polysaccharide cardiac patches in vitro. Biomaterials 2009 0.96
11 Polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography for imaging human atherosclerosis. Appl Opt 2007 0.95
12 Cardiac repair achieved by bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells/silk fibroin/hyaluronic acid patches in a rat of myocardial infarction model. Biomaterials 2012 0.89
13 Assessment of arterial characteristics in human atherosclerosis by extracting optical properties from polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography. Opt Express 2008 0.87
14 Efficacy of a home-based exercise program for orthotopic heart transplant recipients. Cardiology 2008 0.87
15 Cardiac repair using chitosan-hyaluronan/silk fibroin patches in a rat heart model with myocardial infarction. Carbohydr Polym 2012 0.87
16 Out-of-center extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for adult cardiogenic shock patients. Artif Organs 2006 0.86
17 Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation rescue for cardiopulmonary collapse secondary to pheochromocytoma: report of three cases. Intensive Care Med 2008 0.85
18 Incidence, risk factors, and prognosis of postoperative hyperbilirubinemia after heart transplantation. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2007 0.84
19 Improved cost-effectiveness for management of chronic heart failure by combined home-based intervention with clinical nursing specialists. J Formos Med Assoc 2007 0.84
20 The influence of rat mesenchymal stem cell CD44 surface markers on cell growth, fibronectin expression, and cardiomyogenic differentiation on silk fibroin - Hyaluronic acid cardiac patches. Biomaterials 2009 0.83
21 Heart transplantation in patients with liver cirrhosis. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2008 0.82
22 Patients supported by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and acute dialysis: acute physiology and chronic health evaluation score in predicting hospital mortality. Artif Organs 2010 0.81
23 Infectious complications after heart transplantation in Chinese recipients. Am J Transplant 2005 0.80
24 Fatal bacteremic mycotic aneurysm complicated by acute renal failure caused by daptomycin-nonsusceptible, vancomycin-intermediate, and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Clin Infect Dis 2008 0.80
25 Prevalence of acute kidney injury and prognostic significance in patients with acute myocarditis. PLoS One 2012 0.79
26 Low incidence of malignancy in heart-transplant recipients in Taiwan: an update and comparison with kidney-transplant recipients. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009 0.79
27 Elevated blood urea nitrogen-to-creatinine ratio increased the risk of hospitalization and all-cause death in patients with chronic heart failure. Clin Res Cardiol 2009 0.78
28 The Associations Between the Religious Background, Social Supports, and Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders in Taiwan: An Observational Study. Medicine (Baltimore) 2016 0.78
29 Relationship between bone mineral density and serum osteoprotegerin in patients with chronic heart failure. PLoS One 2012 0.78
30 The t-PA-encapsulated PLGA nanoparticles shelled with CS or CS-GRGD alter both permeation through and dissolving patterns of blood clots compared with t-PA solution: an in vitro thrombolysis study. J Biomed Mater Res A 2009 0.78
31 Spatial heterogeneity of protein expression induced by dyssynchronous right ventricular pacing in the left ventricle of dogs with preserved systolic function. J Card Fail 2010 0.77
32 Residual urine output and postoperative mortality in maintenance hemodialysis patients. Am J Crit Care 2009 0.77
33 Usefulness of progressive inhomogeneity of myocardial perfusion and chronotropic incompetence in detecting cardiac allograft vasculopathy: evaluation with dobutamine thallium-201 myocardial SPECT. Cardiology 2005 0.77
34 Left ventricular assist for pediatric patients with dilated cardiomyopathy using the Medos VAD cannula and a centrifugal pump. Artif Organs 2009 0.77
35 Heart transplantation in endstage rheumatic heart disease-experience of an endemic area. Circ J 2014 0.77
36 Intravascular ultrasound correlates with coronary flow reserve and predicts the survival in angiographically normal cardiac transplant recipients. Cardiology 2007 0.76
37 Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation bridge to adult heart transplantation. Clin Transplant 2009 0.76
38 Outcome for pediatric cardiac transplantation with and without bridge methods. ASAIO J 2007 0.75
39 Diagnostic and prognostic value of dobutamine thallium-201 single-photon emission computed tomography after heart transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant 2005 0.75
40 Intravascular ultrasound evidence of angiographically silent allograft vasculopathy inversely correlates with circulating level of hepatocyte growth factor. J Heart Lung Transplant 2006 0.75
41 Cardiorespiratory function of pediatric heart transplant recipients in the early postoperative period. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 2012 0.75
42 Renal vascular perfusion index in a canine model. Ultrasound Med Biol 2008 0.75
43 99mTc-HL91 is inferior to 201Tl in scintigraphic detection of chronic myocardial ischaemia. Nucl Med Commun 2005 0.75
44 Successful Living-Donor Liver Transplant for Fulminant Hepatitis in a Heart Recipient. Exp Clin Transplant 2014 0.75
45 Isolated cardiac sarcoidosis: case experience in heart transplantation. J Formos Med Assoc 2012 0.75
46 Effect of simultaneous kidney transplantation on heart-transplantation outcome in recipients with preoperative renal dysfunction. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009 0.75
47 Increased dispersion of ventricular repolarization during head-up tilt test late after orthotopic heart transplantation in humans. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 2002 0.75
48 Delayed occurrence of cardiac allograft vasculopathy in Chinese heart transplant recipients compared with their western counterparts. Clin Transplant 2004 0.75
49 Low incidence of malignancy after transplantation in Chinese heart allograft recipients. Transpl Int 2005 0.75
50 Risk stratification and outcome of cardiac surgery for patients with body weight <2 ,500g in an Asian center. Circ J 2013 0.75
51 Late atrioventricular block after heart transplantation. J Formos Med Assoc 2003 0.75
52 Acute hemodynamic study of Tai-Ta left ventricular assist device in a canine model. Artif Organs 2004 0.75
53 Heart transplantation in patients with extreme right ventricular failure. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2007 0.75
54 Verrucous plaque in a cardiac transplant recipient. Arch Dermatol 2002 0.75
55 Renal dysfunction after heart transplantation: incidence, prognosis and risk factors. J Formos Med Assoc 2005 0.75