Published in Surg Today on January 01, 2006
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Tracheal release and thymus wrapping of the tracheoplasty anastomosis through mini-sternotomy. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2004) 1.63
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Consumption of dietary supplements in a liver transplant population. Liver Transpl (2004) 1.43
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Effectively treating ischemic mitral regurgitation with chordal cutting in combination with ring annuloplasty and left ventricular reshaping approach. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2005) 1.43
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Preoperative chronic kidney disease as a strong predictor of postoperative infection and mortality after coronary artery bypass grafting. Circ J (2014) 1.43
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Infrahepatic vena cavocavostomy, a modification of the piggyback technique for liver transplantation. Am Surg (2009) 1.40
Analysis of vascular access in intestinal transplant recipients using the Miami classification from the VIIIth International Small Bowel Transplant Symposium. Transplantation (2005) 1.40
Topical application of a biodegradable disc with amiodarone for atrial fibrillation. Ann Thorac Surg (2011) 1.38
Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery in Japan during 2009: annual report by the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2011) 1.35
100 multivisceral transplants at a single center. Ann Surg (2005) 1.34
Induction and enhancement of cardiac cell differentiation from mouse and human induced pluripotent stem cells with cyclosporin-A. PLoS One (2011) 1.33
Alemtuzumab (Campath-1H) combined with tacrolimus in intestinal and multivisceral transplantation. Transplantation (2003) 1.28
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Left-sided acute appendicitis with intestinal malrotation. Radiat Med (2005) 1.27
Surgical treatment of coronary artery aneurysm with coronary artery fistula. Ann Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2009) 1.26
Intestinal and multivisceral transplantation in children. Ann Surg (2006) 1.22
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Mechanism of persistent ischemic mitral regurgitation after annuloplasty: importance of augmented posterior mitral leaflet tethering. Circulation (2005) 1.19
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The efficacy of whole-body FDG-PET or PET/CT for autoimmune pancreatitis and associated extrapancreatic autoimmune lesions. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging (2007) 1.13
Congenital quadricuspid aortic valve: report of nine surgical cases. Ann Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2003) 1.09
Angiogenic properties of sustained release platelet-rich plasma: characterization in-vitro and in the ischemic hind limb of the mouse. J Vasc Surg (2009) 1.09
Central pontine myelinolysis (CPM) associated with tacrolimus (FK506) after liver transplantation. Ann Transplant (2011) 1.08
FDG PET/CT and diffusion-weighted imaging for breast cancer: prognostic value of maximum standardized uptake values and apparent diffusion coefficient values of the primary lesion. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging (2010) 1.07
First detection of Rickettsia in soft-bodied ticks associated with seabirds, Japan. Microbiol Immunol (2006) 1.07
Characterization of adrenal tumors by chemical shift fast low-angle shot MR imaging: comparison of four methods of quantitative evaluation. AJR Am J Roentgenol (2003) 1.06
Graft-versus-host disease after intestinal and multivisceral transplantation. Transplantation (2011) 1.06
Intrahepatic biliary strictures after liver transplantation. J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg (2006) 1.05
Impact of occult renal impairment on early and late outcomes following coronary artery bypass grafting. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg (2013) 1.03
Donor intracaval thrombus formation and pulmonary embolism after simultaneous piggyback liver transplantation and aortic valve replacement. Clin Transplant (2003) 1.02
Intestinal transplantation in children: a summary of clinical outcomes and prognostic factors in 108 patients from a single center. J Gastrointest Surg (2005) 1.01
The role of donor bone marrow infusions in withdrawal of immunosuppression in adult liver allotransplantation. Am J Transplant (2005) 1.01
Embolization for spontaneous retroperitoneal hemorrhage from adrenal myelolipoma. Radiat Med (2003) 1.01
Autoimmune pancreatitis associated with idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis. AJR Am J Roentgenol (2003) 1.01
A rare case of gastric lipoma with early gastric cancer. Intern Med (2004) 1.01
Preliminary experience with alemtuzumab (Campath-1H) and low-dose tacrolimus immunosuppression in adult liver transplantation. Transplantation (2004) 0.99
18F-FDG PET/CT findings of a right subphrenic foreign-body granuloma. Ann Nucl Med (2006) 0.99
Pulmonary paragonimiasis mimicking lung cancer on FDG-PET imaging. Anticancer Res (2003) 0.98
Polymorphisms of cytochrome b gene in Leishmania parasites and their relation to types of cutaneous leishmaniasis lesions in Pakistan. J Dermatol (2008) 0.98
Intraosseous epidermal cyst of the distal phalanx of the thumb: radiographic and magnetic resonance imaging findings. Radiat Med (2005) 0.98
Cyclosporin-A potently induces highly cardiogenic progenitors from embryonic stem cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun (2008) 0.98
Comparison of regional cerebral blood flow in patients with anorexia nervosa before and after weight gain. Psychiatry Res (2005) 0.98
Thoracolithiasis--a mobile calcified nodule in the intrathoracic space: radiographic, CT, and MRI findings. Radiat Med (2002) 0.98
FDG PET/CT and diffusion-weighted imaging of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: comparison of prognostic significance between primary tumor standardized uptake value and apparent diffusion coefficient. Clin Nucl Med (2012) 0.98
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma: variability of diffusion-weighted MR imaging findings. Radiology (2012) 0.96
Effect of protocol Doppler ultrasonography and urgent revascularization on early hepatic artery thrombosis after pediatric liver transplantation. Arch Surg (2002) 0.95
Enhanced multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT) in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis and its severity. Radiat Med (2005) 0.95
Appraisal of surgical treatment for pulmonary metastasis from hepatocellular carcinoma. World J Surg (2005) 0.95
Association between donor-specific antibodies and acute rejection and resolution in small bowel and multivisceral transplantation. Transplantation (2011) 0.95
Piggyback technique in adult orthotopic liver transplantation: an analysis of 1067 liver transplants at a single center. HPB (Oxford) (2006) 0.95
Aldosteronomas: experience with superselective adrenal arterial embolization in 33 cases. Radiology (2003) 0.95
Particle size of tin and phytate colloid in sentinel node identification. J Surg Res (2004) 0.94
Choriocarcinoma in the pulmonary artery treated with emergency pulmonary embolectomy. Chest (2002) 0.94
Influence of preoperative administration of omega-3 fatty acid-enriched supplement on inflammatory and immune responses in patients undergoing major surgery for cancer. Nutrition (2005) 0.94
Treatment of established recurrent hepatitis C in liver-transplant recipients with pegylated interferon-alfa-2b and ribavirin therapy. Transplantation (2004) 0.94
Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 HBZ protein bypasses the targeting function of ubiquitination. J Biol Chem (2008) 0.94
Preliminary experience with campath 1H (C1H) in intestinal and liver transplantation. Transplantation (2003) 0.93
¹⁸FDG PET for grading malignancy in thymic epithelial tumors: significant differences in ¹⁸FDG uptake and expression of glucose transporter-1 and hexokinase II between low and high-risk tumors: preliminary study. Eur J Radiol (2010) 0.93
FDG PET findings of chronic myeloid leukemia in the chronic phase before and after treatment. Clin Nucl Med (2007) 0.92
Benefits of off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting in high-risk patients. Circulation (2012) 0.92
Use of older controlled non-heart-beating donors for liver transplantation. Transplantation (2003) 0.92
Cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania (L.) major infection in Sindh province, Pakistan. Acta Trop (2009) 0.92
Liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma in the model for end-stage liver disease era. J Am Coll Surg (2010) 0.92
Rim enhancement of breast cancers on contrast-enhanced MR imaging: relationship with prognostic factors. Breast Cancer (2006) 0.92
Effects of atorvastatin and aspirin combined therapy on inflammatory responses in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting. Cytokine (2007) 0.92
Carcinosarcoma of the extrahepatic bile duct. J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg (2005) 0.92
The vaccination potential of EMY162 antigen against Echinococcus multilocularis infection. Biochem Biophys Res Commun (2007) 0.92
Partial abdominal evisceration, ex vivo resection, and intestinal autotransplantation for the treatment of pathologic lesions of the root of the mesentery. J Am Coll Surg (2003) 0.92