Published in J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg on April 01, 2005
Evaluation of variables responsible for hospital mortality in patients with rheumatic heart disease undergoing double valve replacement. Rev Bras Cir Cardiovasc (2015) 0.77
Midterm clinical result of tissue-engineered vascular autografts seeded with autologous bone marrow cells. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2005) 2.83
What is operative mortality? Defining death in a surgical registry database: a report of the STS Congenital Database Taskforce and the Joint EACTS-STS Congenital Database Committee. Ann Thorac Surg (2006) 2.59
Nomenclature for congenital and paediatric cardiac disease: historical perspectives and The International Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Code. Cardiol Young (2008) 2.10
Differences in neurogenic potential in floor plate cells along an anteroposterior location: midbrain dopaminergic neurons originate from mesencephalic floor plate cells. Development (2007) 2.01
Endothelial cell coculture within tissue-engineered cardiomyocyte sheets enhances neovascularization and improves cardiac function of ischemic hearts. Circulation (2008) 1.95
EVAHEART: an implantable centrifugal blood pump for long-term circulatory support. Jpn J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2002) 1.90
The nomenclature, definition and classification of cardiac structures in the setting of heterotaxy. Cardiol Young (2007) 1.83
First evidence that bone marrow cells contribute to the construction of tissue-engineered vascular autografts in vivo. Circulation (2003) 1.69
Databases for assessing the outcomes of the treatment of patients with congenital and paediatric cardiac disease--the perspective of cardiac surgery. Cardiol Young (2008) 1.63
Initial application in the EACTS and STS Congenital Heart Surgery Databases of an empirically derived methodology of complexity adjustment to evaluate surgical case mix and results. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2012) 1.56
Congenital heart surgery databases around the world: do we need a global database? Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Pediatr Card Surg Annu (2010) 1.50
Aortic valve replacement in Behcet's disease: surgical modification to prevent valve detachment. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2009) 1.48
Successful application of tissue engineered vascular autografts: clinical experience. Biomaterials (2003) 1.46
Multiple papillary fibroelastoma in left ventricle associated with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg (2009) 1.45
Long-term prognosis of double-switch operation for congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2012) 1.43
Rupture of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm associated with Behcet's disease. Ann Thorac Surg (2007) 1.40
Reversal of oxidant-mediated biochemical injury and prompt functional recovery after prolonged single-dose crystalloid cardioplegic arrest in the infantile piglet heart by terminal warm-blood cardioplegia supplemented with phosphodiesterase III inhibitor. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2012) 1.38
The tissue-engineered vascular graft using bone marrow without culture. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2005) 1.34
Characterization of long-term cultured c-kit+ cardiac stem cells derived from adult rat hearts. Stem Cells Dev (2010) 1.31
The nomenclature, definition and classification of hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Cardiol Young (2006) 1.31
Nomenclature and databases - the past, the present, and the future : a primer for the congenital heart surgeon. Pediatr Cardiol (2007) 1.20
Cardiac valvular surgery in dialysis patients: comparison of surgical outcome for mechanical versus bioprosthetic valves. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2009) 1.19
Evaluation of tissue-engineered vascular autografts. Tissue Eng (2006) 1.16
Prevalence of pannus formation after aortic valve replacement: clinical aspects and surgical management. J Artif Organs (2006) 1.11
MAGI1 recruits Dll1 to cadherin-based adherens junctions and stabilizes it on the cell surface. J Biol Chem (2005) 1.11
Nomenclature and databases for the surgical treatment of congenital cardiac disease--an updated primer and an analysis of opportunities for improvement. Cardiol Young (2008) 1.11
Completely pulsatile high flow circulatory support with a constant-speed centrifugal blood pump: mechanisms and early clinical observations. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2007) 1.10
Successful clinical application of tissue-engineered graft for extracardiac Fontan operation. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2003) 1.06
Update from the International Working Group for Mapping and Coding of Nomenclatures for Paediatric and Congenital Heart Disease. Cardiol Young (2004) 1.06
Corl1, a novel neuronal lineage-specific transcriptional corepressor for the homeodomain transcription factor Lbx1. J Biol Chem (2004) 1.05
The improvement of care for paediatric and congenital cardiac disease across the World: a challenge for the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery. Cardiol Young (2008) 1.04
A novel method to reduce pericardial adhesion: a combination technique with hyaluronic acid biocompatible membrane. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2008) 1.04
Outcomes of definitive surgical repair for congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries or double outlet right ventricle with discordant atrioventricular connections: risk analyses in 189 patients. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2007) 1.03
Identification of activity-regulated proteins in the postsynaptic density fraction. Genes Cells (2002) 1.02
One-stage intracardiac repair in combination with external stenting of the trachea and right bronchus for tetralogy of Fallot with an absent pulmonary valve and tracheobronchomalacia. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2005) 1.01
Electrochemically grown Pd nanoparticles used for synthesis of carbon nanotube by microwave plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. J Nanosci Nanotechnol (2007) 0.98
In vivo evaluation of a MPC polymer coated continuous flow left ventricular assist system. Artif Organs (2003) 0.98
Clinical results of staged repair with complete unifocalization for pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect and major aortopulmonary collateral arteries. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2007) 0.96
Classification of the functionally univentricular heart: unity from mapped codes. Cardiol Young (2006) 0.96
Repair of mitral periprosthetic leak secondary to severe annular calcification. J Heart Valve Dis (2007) 0.93
Long-term histologic findings in pulmonary arteries reconstructed with autologous pericardium. N Engl J Med (2003) 0.93
Surgery for unilateral absence of pulmonary artery using autologous tissue. Ann Thorac Surg (2003) 0.92
Long-term assessment of mitral valve reconstruction with resection of the leaflets: triangular and quadrangular resection. Ann Thorac Surg (2005) 0.89
Transatrial repair of submitral left ventricular pseudoaneurysm. Ann Thorac Surg (2008) 0.88
Novel high-speed real-time PCR method (Hyper-PCR): results from its application to adenovirus diagnosis. Jpn J Infect Dis (2010) 0.88
Hemodilutional anemia impairs neurologic outcome after cardiopulmonary bypass in a piglet model. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2007) 0.88
Congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries with coexisting aortic valve stenosis in a 77-year-old woman. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2012) 0.87
Helt, a novel basic-helix-loop-helix transcriptional repressor expressed in the developing central nervous system. J Biol Chem (2004) 0.87
Depressed Frank-Starling mechanism in the left ventricular muscle of the knock-in mouse model of dilated cardiomyopathy with troponin T deletion mutation ΔK210. J Mol Cell Cardiol (2013) 0.87
Rapid typing of influenza viruses using super high-speed quantitative real-time PCR. J Virol Methods (2011) 0.87
Prevention of primary nonfunction of canine islet autografts by treatment with pravastatin. Transplantation (2002) 0.86
Giant saccular aneurysm of coronary arteriovenous fistula to the main pulmonary artery: intraoperative assessment by using fluorescent imaging. Ann Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2010) 0.86
Comparative study of regulatory T cell function of human CD25CD4 T cells from thymocytes, cord blood, and adult peripheral blood. Clin Dev Immunol (2008) 0.86
Severe nemaline myopathy caused by mutations of the stop codon of the skeletal muscle alpha actin gene (ACTA1). Neuromuscul Disord (2006) 0.85
Extracardiac total cavopulmonary connection using a tissue-engineered graft. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2003) 0.85
Report from The International Society for Nomenclature of Paediatric and Congenital Heart Disease: cardiovascular catheterisation for congenital and paediatric cardiac disease (Part 1 - Procedural nomenclature). Cardiol Young (2011) 0.85
Prevalence and avoidance of patient-prosthesis mismatch in aortic valve replacement in small adults. Ann Thorac Surg (2006) 0.84
Migrating postmitotic neural precursor cells in the ventricular zone extend apical processes and form adherens junctions near the ventricle in the developing spinal cord. Neurosci Res (2005) 0.84
Surface-enhanced resonance Raman scattering and background light emission coupled with plasmon of single Ag nanoaggregates. J Chem Phys (2006) 0.84
Video-assisted thoracoscopy to treat atrial tachycardia arising from left atrial appendage. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol (2006) 0.84
A novel synthetic tissue-adhesive hydrogel using a crosslinkable polymeric micelle. J Biomed Mater Res A (2007) 0.83
The nomenclature, definition and classification of discordant atrioventricular connections. Cardiol Young (2006) 0.83
A technique for the prevention of hoarseness during surgery for distal aortic arch aneurysm. Ann Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2002) 0.83
Microflora profiling of infected root canal before and after treatment using culture-independent methods. J Microbiol (2012) 0.83
Images in cardiovascular medicine. Mitral valve prolapse associated with accessory mitral valve. Circulation (2005) 0.83
Cultivable anaerobic microbiota of infected root canals. Int J Dent (2012) 0.83
Active infective endocarditis: management and risk analysis of hospital death from 24 years' experience. Circ J (2008) 0.82
A simple hemostasis model for the quantitative evaluation of hydrogel-based local hemostatic biomaterials on tissue surface. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces (2008) 0.82
The influence of pH strategy on cerebral and collateral circulation during hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass in cyanotic patients with heart disease: results of a randomized trial and real-time monitoring. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2004) 0.81
Effects of dilutional and modified ultrafiltration in plasma endothelin-1 and pulmonary vascular resistance after the Fontan procedure. Ann Thorac Surg (2002) 0.81
Mechanical support for patients with fulminant acute myocarditis: strategy for biventricular failure and respiratory failure. J Card Surg (2008) 0.81
Report from the international society for nomenclature of paediatric and congenital heart disease: creation of a visual encyclopedia illustrating the terms and definitions of the international pediatric and congenital cardiac code. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg (2010) 0.81
Midterm results of surgical treatment of systemic ventricular outflow obstruction in Fontan patients. Ann Thorac Surg (2002) 0.81
Chronic expanding intrapericardial hematoma after pericardial paracentesis. J Card Surg (2006) 0.81
Assessing qualitative changes in simulated periodontal ligament and alveolar bone using a non-contact electromagnetic vibration device. Clin Oral Investig (2011) 0.80
Successful extracardiac total cavo pulmonary connection (TCPC) after external tracheobronchial stenting for tracheobronchomalacia. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg (2006) 0.80
Scimitar syndrome in an infant with right lung hypoplasia, ventricular septal defect, and severe pulmonary hypertension. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2010) 0.80
Long-term results of triple-valve procedure. Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann (2006) 0.80
Therapeutic angiogenesis using tissue engineered human smooth muscle cell sheets. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol (2008) 0.80
Prevention of ischemia/reperfusion-induced pulmonary dysfunction after cardiopulmonary bypass with terminal leukocyte-depleted lung reperfusion. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2009) 0.80
Ultrasonic irrigation of a maxillary lateral incisor with perforation of the apical third of the root. J Oral Sci (2010) 0.80
Closure of the Left Atrial Appendage During Cardiac Surgery - Why, When and How? Circ J (2015) 0.79
Remarkable giant right atrial diverticulum in asymptomatic patient. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg (2009) 0.79
The current status and future directions of efforts to create a global database for the outcomes of therapy for congenital heart disease. Cardiol Young (2005) 0.79
Ischemic postconditioning promotes left ventricular functional recovery after cardioplegic arrest in an in vivo piglet model of global ischemia reperfusion injury on cardiopulmonary bypass. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2011) 0.79
Matrix metalloproteinase 2 is suppressed by trapidil, a CD40-CD40 ligand pathway inhibitor, in human abdominal aortic aneurysm wall. J Vasc Surg (2004) 0.79
Reconsideration of patient-prosthesis mismatch definition from the valve indexed effective orifice area. Ann Thorac Surg (2010) 0.79
Three novel NY-ESO-1 epitopes bound to DRB1*0803, DQB1*0401 and DRB1*0901 recognized by CD4 T cells from CHP-NY-ESO-1-vaccinated patients. Vaccine (2010) 0.79
Carpentier-Edwards pericardial aortic valve in middle-aged patients: comparison with the St. Jude Medical valve. Jpn J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2005) 0.78
A case of mitral valve plasty for Libman-Sacks endocarditis mimicking a cardiac tumor. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2006) 0.78
Progressive hearing loss in an infant in a neonatal intensive care unit as revealed by auditory evoked brainstem responses. Auris Nasus Larynx (2002) 0.78
Anatomic correction of congenitally corrected transposition and its close cousins. Cardiol Young (2006) 0.78