Published in Circulation on July 04, 2006
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Long-term survival, modes of death, and predictors of mortality in patients with Fontan surgery. Circulation (2007) 4.36
Kepler-9: a system of multiple planets transiting a Sun-like star, confirmed by timing variations. Science (2010) 2.87
Early postoperative outcomes in a series of infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome undergoing stage I palliation operation with either modified Blalock-Taussig shunt or right ventricle to pulmonary artery conduit. Pediatr Crit Care Med (2006) 2.77
Predictors of long-term survival after coronary artery bypass grafting surgery: results from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database (the ASCERT study). Circulation (2012) 2.54
Synthesis, characterization, and cytocompatibility of elastomeric, biodegradable poly(ester-urethane)ureas based on poly(caprolactone) and putrescine. J Biomed Mater Res (2002) 2.49
Design and analysis of tissue engineering scaffolds that mimic soft tissue mechanical anisotropy. Biomaterials (2006) 2.40
Successful linking of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons adult cardiac surgery database to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Medicare data. Ann Thorac Surg (2010) 2.24
Differential case ascertainment in clinical registry versus administrative data and impact on outcomes assessment for pediatric cardiac operations. Ann Thorac Surg (2012) 2.22
Analysis of the US Food and Drug Administration Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience database for adverse events involving Amplatzer septal occluder devices and comparison with the Society of Thoracic Surgery congenital cardiac surgery database. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2009) 2.17
Preparation and characterization of highly porous, biodegradable polyurethane scaffolds for soft tissue applications. Biomaterials (2005) 2.08
Guidelines for reporting mortality and morbidity after cardiac valve interventions. Ann Thorac Surg (2008) 2.04
From stem cells to viable autologous semilunar heart valve. Circulation (2005) 1.94
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Saddle shape of the mitral annulus reduces systolic strains on the P2 segment of the posterior mitral leaflet. Ann Thorac Surg (2009) 1.81
Finite element implementation of a generalized Fung-elastic constitutive model for planar soft tissues. Biomech Model Mechanobiol (2005) 1.76
Report of the 2010 society of thoracic surgeons congenital heart surgery practice and manpower survey. Ann Thorac Surg (2011) 1.76
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Correlation between heart valve interstitial cell stiffness and transvalvular pressure: implications for collagen biosynthesis. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol (2005) 1.73
Modification of infarct material properties limits adverse ventricular remodeling. Ann Thorac Surg (2011) 1.72
The effects of aneurysm on the biaxial mechanical behavior of human abdominal aorta. J Biomech (2006) 1.71
On the biaxial mechanical properties of the layers of the aortic valve leaflet. J Biomech Eng (2007) 1.71
The influence of hemodilution on outcome after hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass: results of a randomized trial in infants. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2003) 1.69
Randomized trial of hematocrit 25% versus 35% during hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass in infant heart surgery. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2008) 1.69
Do you need to clamp a patent left internal thoracic artery-left anterior descending graft in reoperative cardiac surgery? Ann Thorac Surg (2009) 1.63
Late pulmonary valve replacement in patients with pulmonary atresia and intact ventricular septum: a case-matched study. Ann Thorac Surg (2011) 1.60
Biaixal stress-stretch behavior of the mitral valve anterior leaflet at physiologic strain rates. Ann Biomed Eng (2006) 1.60
β-arrestin1-biased β1-adrenergic receptor signaling regulates microRNA processing. Circ Res (2013) 1.59
Tissue-engineered microvessels on three-dimensional biodegradable scaffolds using human endothelial progenitor cells. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol (2004) 1.59
Successful linking of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons database to social security data to examine survival after cardiac operations. Ann Thorac Surg (2011) 1.58
Biodegradable poly(ether ester urethane)urea elastomers based on poly(ether ester) triblock copolymers and putrescine: synthesis, characterization and cytocompatibility. Biomaterials (2004) 1.57
Effects of decellularization on the mechanical and structural properties of the porcine aortic valve leaflet. Biomaterials (2008) 1.57
The effect of hematocrit during hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass in infant heart surgery: results from the combined Boston hematocrit trials. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2008) 1.56
Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection: an analysis of current management strategies in a single institution. Ann Thorac Surg (2005) 1.55
Bioengineering challenges for heart valve tissue engineering. Annu Rev Biomed Eng (2009) 1.54
Characterization of the complete fiber network topology of planar fibrous tissues and scaffolds. Biomaterials (2010) 1.51
Prediction of long-term mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention in older adults: results from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. Circulation (2012) 1.50
Congenital heart surgery databases around the world: do we need a global database? Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Pediatr Card Surg Annu (2010) 1.50
Variation in outcomes for risk-stratified pediatric cardiac surgical operations: an analysis of the STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database. Ann Thorac Surg (2012) 1.46
Quality measures for congenital and pediatric cardiac surgery. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg (2012) 1.45
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot trial of triiodothyronine in neonatal heart surgery. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2005) 1.45
Public reporting of healthcare data: a new frontier in quality improvement. Bull Am Coll Surg (2012) 1.45
An elastic, biodegradable cardiac patch induces contractile smooth muscle and improves cardiac remodeling and function in subacute myocardial infarction. J Am Coll Cardiol (2007) 1.44
Modification to the Fontan procedure for the prophylaxis of intra-atrial reentrant tachycardia: short-term results of a prospective randomized blinded trial. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2004) 1.44
Synergistic effects of cyclic tension and transforming growth factor-beta1 on the aortic valve myofibroblast. Cardiovasc Pathol (2007) 1.41
Simulated bioprosthetic heart valve deformation under quasi-static loading. J Biomech Eng (2005) 1.40
Right ventricle to pulmonary artery conduit augmentation compared with replacement in young children. Ann Thorac Surg (2009) 1.39
Physician payment for 2007: a description of the process by which major changes in valuation of cardiothoracic surgical procedures occurred. Ann Thorac Surg (2007) 1.39
Surgical management of neonatal atrioventricular septal defect with aortic arch obstruction. Ann Thorac Surg (2013) 1.39
Cyclic flexure and laminar flow synergistically accelerate mesenchymal stem cell-mediated engineered tissue formation: Implications for engineered heart valve tissues. Biomaterials (2006) 1.38
Age dependency of the biaxial biomechanical behavior of human abdominal aorta. J Biomech Eng (2004) 1.36
The independent role of cyclic flexure in the early in vitro development of an engineered heart valve tissue. Biomaterials (2005) 1.36
Regional low-flow perfusion versus circulatory arrest in neonates: one-year neurodevelopmental outcome. Ann Thorac Surg (2006) 1.36
A novel bioreactor for the dynamic flexural stimulation of tissue engineered heart valve biomaterials. Biomaterials (2003) 1.34
Early repair of hemitruncus: excellent early and late outcomes. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2007) 1.33
The effects of cellular contraction on aortic valve leaflet flexural stiffness. J Biomech (2005) 1.33
Dynamic simulation of bioprosthetic heart valves using a stress resultant shell model. Ann Biomed Eng (2007) 1.32
Measurement of technical performance in congenital heart surgery: a pilot study. Ann Thorac Surg (2007) 1.27
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome with intact or highly restrictive atrial septum: surgical experience from a single center. Ann Thorac Surg (2007) 1.27
Guidelines for reporting mortality and morbidity after cardiac valve interventions. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2008) 1.26
Factors associated with prolonged recovery after the fontan operation. Circulation (2008) 1.25
Development of microfluidics as endothelial progenitor cell capture technology for cardiovascular tissue engineering and diagnostic medicine. FASEB J (2009) 1.23
Protein kinase Cepsilon interacts with cytochrome c oxidase subunit IV and enhances cytochrome c oxidase activity in neonatal cardiac myocyte preconditioning. Biochem J (2006) 1.23
Variation in congenital heart surgery costs across hospitals. Pediatrics (2014) 1.22
An experimentally derived stress resultant shell model for heart valve dynamic simulations. Ann Biomed Eng (2006) 1.22
A planar biaxial constitutive relation for the luminal layer of intra-luminal thrombus in abdominal aortic aneurysms. J Biomech (2006) 1.21
Stability and function of glycosaminoglycans in porcine bioprosthetic heart valves. Biomaterials (2005) 1.21
Fiber kinematics of small intestinal submucosa under biaxial and uniaxial stretch. J Biomech Eng (2006) 1.20
In vitro dynamic strain behavior of the mitral valve posterior leaflet. J Biomech Eng (2005) 1.19
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Collagen fiber alignment and biaxial mechanical behavior of porcine urinary bladder derived extracellular matrix. Biomaterials (2008) 1.19
Cytochrome c oxidase subunit IV as a marker of protein kinase Cepsilon function in neonatal cardiac myocytes: implications for cytochrome c oxidase activity. Biochem J (2004) 1.18
Advanced material strategies for tissue engineering scaffolds. Adv Mater (2009) 1.18
Tissue-to-cellular level deformation coupling in cell micro-integrated elastomeric scaffolds. Biomaterials (2008) 1.18
Outcomes after bidirectional Glenn operation: Blalock-Taussig shunt versus right ventricle-to-pulmonary artery conduit. Ann Thorac Surg (2007) 1.17
Planar biaxial creep and stress relaxation of the mitral valve anterior leaflet. Ann Biomed Eng (2006) 1.17
In vivo dynamic deformation of the mitral valve annulus. Ann Biomed Eng (2009) 1.16
A novel flex-stretch-flow bioreactor for the study of engineered heart valve tissue mechanobiology. Ann Biomed Eng (2008) 1.15
Time-dependent biaxial mechanical behavior of the aortic heart valve leaflet. J Biomech (2007) 1.14
Effects of collagen fiber orientation on the response of biologically derived soft tissue biomaterials to cyclic loading. J Biomed Mater Res A (2007) 1.14
Incorporation of the hepatic veins into the cavopulmonary circulation in patients with heterotaxy and pulmonary arteriovenous malformations after a Kawashima procedure. Ann Thorac Surg (2005) 1.14
Effects of boundary conditions on the estimation of the planar biaxial mechanical properties of soft tissues. J Biomech Eng (2005) 1.13
Mass-spring model for simulation of heart valve tissue mechanical behavior. Ann Biomed Eng (2011) 1.13
Heart valve regeneration. Adv Biochem Eng Biotechnol (2005) 1.13
Evolution of cell phenotype and extracellular matrix in tissue-engineered heart valves during in-vitro maturation and in-vivo remodeling. J Heart Valve Dis (2002) 1.13
The effects of anisotropy on the stress analyses of patient-specific abdominal aortic aneurysms. Ann Biomed Eng (2008) 1.13
On the in vivo deformation of the mitral valve anterior leaflet: effects of annular geometry and referential configuration. Ann Biomed Eng (2012) 1.13
Surgical outcome for patients with the mitral stenosis-aortic atresia variant of hypoplastic left heart syndrome. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2007) 1.13
Long-term outcome of surgically treated patients with corrected transposition of the great arteries. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2005) 1.12
Coarctectomy reduces neoaortic arch obstruction in hypoplastic left heart syndrome. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2007) 1.12
In-situ deformation of the aortic valve interstitial cell nucleus under diastolic loading. J Biomech Eng (2007) 1.12
Design and hydrodynamic evaluation of a novel pulsatile bioreactor for biologically active heart valves. Ann Biomed Eng (2004) 1.11