Published in Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg on April 01, 2007
Development of a novel drive mode to prevent aortic insufficiency during continuous-flow LVAD support by synchronizing rotational speed with heartbeat. J Artif Organs (2013) 1.01
Alteration of LV end-diastolic volume by controlling the power of the continuous-flow LVAD, so it is synchronized with cardiac beat: development of a native heart load control system (NHLCS). J Artif Organs (2011) 0.97
A novel counterpulsation mode of rotary left ventricular assist devices can enhance myocardial perfusion. J Artif Organs (2011) 0.93
A novel counterpulse drive mode of continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices can minimize intracircuit backward flow during pump weaning. J Artif Organs (2011) 0.88
Neointima-inducing inflow cannula with titanium mesh for left ventricular assist device. J Artif Organs (2011) 0.85
Change in myocardial oxygen consumption employing continuous-flow LVAD with cardiac beat synchronizing system, in acute ischemic heart failure models. J Artif Organs (2013) 0.83
Cardiac rehabilitation and artificial heart devices. J Artif Organs (2009) 0.83
A case of conversion of a NIPRO ventricular assist system to an EVAHEART left ventricular assist system. J Artif Organs (2012) 0.80
Cell membrane-inspired phospholipid polymers for developing medical devices with excellent biointerfaces. Sci Technol Adv Mater (2012) 0.77
Computational fluid dynamic analysis of the flow field in the newly developed inflow cannula for a bridge-to-decision mechanical circulatory support. J Artif Organs (2011) 0.77
The influence of pump rotation speed on hemodynamics and myocardial oxygen metabolism in left ventricular assist device support with aortic valve regurgitation. J Artif Organs (2017) 0.75
Artificial hearts-recent progress: republication of the article published in the Japanese Journal of Artificial Organs. J Artif Organs (2017) 0.75
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
Identification of a novel non-coding RNA, MIAT, that confers risk of myocardial infarction. J Hum Genet (2006) 2.41
Effect of type 2 diabetes on risk for malignancies includes hepatocellular carcinoma in chronic hepatitis C. Hepatology (2013) 2.36
Nomenclature for congenital and paediatric cardiac disease: historical perspectives and The International Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Code. Cardiol Young (2008) 2.10
Early outcome of folding mitral valve repair technique without resection for mitral valve prolapse in 60 patients. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2012) 2.06
Endothelial cell coculture within tissue-engineered cardiomyocyte sheets enhances neovascularization and improves cardiac function of ischemic hearts. Circulation (2008) 1.95
Hyperglycemia alters PI3k and Akt signaling and leads to endothelial cell proliferative dysfunction. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol (2005) 1.94
HLA DRB10405-DQB10401 haplotype is associated with autoimmune pancreatitis in the Japanese population. Gastroenterology (2002) 1.92
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
Acute type A dissection: conservative methods provide consistently low mortality. Ann Thorac Surg (2002) 1.75
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
MDCT detection of double right coronary artery arising from a single ostium in the right sinus of Valsalva: report of 2 cases. Int J Cardiol (2006) 1.62
Qualitative and quantitative changes in coronary plaque associated with atorvastatin therapy. Circ J (2009) 1.56
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
Complement 3 is involved in the synthetic phenotype and exaggerated growth of vascular smooth muscle cells from spontaneously hypertensive rats. Hypertension (2004) 1.51
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
Comparison of coronary sinus morphology in patients with and without atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia by intracardiac echocardiography. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol (2004) 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
Effect of fluvastatin on progression of coronary atherosclerotic plaque evaluated by virtual histology intravascular ultrasound. JACC Cardiovasc Interv (2009) 1.43
Isolated noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium in a 94-year-old patient: depiction at echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging. Int J Cardiol (2007) 1.41
Rupture of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm associated with Behcet's disease. Ann Thorac Surg (2007) 1.40
Development of gene silencing pyrrole-imidazole polyamide targeting the TGF-beta1 promoter for treatment of progressive renal diseases. J Am Soc Nephrol (2005) 1.39
Intravascular ultrasound evaluation of ruptured plaque in the left main coronary artery misinterpreted as an aneurysm by angiography. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv (2004) 1.38
Is extracorporeal life support contraindicated in elderly patients? Ann Thorac Surg (2007) 1.38
Prevalence of hepatitis C virus variants resistant to NS3 protease inhibitors or the NS5A inhibitor (BMS-790052) in hepatitis patients with genotype 1b. J Clin Virol (2012) 1.35
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
Surgical treatment of aortic regurgitation due to Takayasu arteritis: long-term morbidity and mortality. Circulation (2005) 1.25
Safety and feasibility of an intravascular optical coherence tomography image wire system in the clinical setting. Am J Cardiol (2008) 1.24
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
Double left anterior descending artery arising from the left and right coronary arteries: depiction at multidetector-row computed tomography. Int J Cardiol (2007) 1.18
Evaluation of tissue-engineered vascular autografts. Tissue Eng (2006) 1.16
Endothelial Rho and Rho kinase regulate neutrophil migration via endothelial myosin light chain phosphorylation. J Leukoc Biol (2002) 1.14
Influence of ITPA polymorphisms on decreases of hemoglobin during treatment with pegylated interferon, ribavirin, and telaprevir. Hepatology (2011) 1.12
Dedifferentiated fat cells convert to cardiomyocyte phenotype and repair infarcted cardiac tissue in rats. J Mol Cell Cardiol (2009) 1.12
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
Tumor-derived TGFbeta-1 induces dendritic cell apoptosis in the sentinel lymph node. J Immunol (2006) 1.07
Efficacy of multislice computed tomography for the detection of acute coronary syndrome in the emergency department. Circ J (2005) 1.07
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
Cooled-tip ablation results in increased radiofrequency power delivery and lesion size in the canine heart: importance of catheter-tip temperature monitoring for prevention of popping and impedance rise. J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2002) 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
Early outcome of a randomized comparison of off-pump and on-pump multiple arterial coronary revascularization. Circulation (2005) 1.03
Impact of preoperative and postoperative atrial fibrillation on outcome after mitral valvuloplasty for nonischemic mitral regurgitation. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2005) 1.03
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
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
More intensive lipid lowering is associated with regression of coronary atherosclerosis in diabetic patients with acute coronary syndrome--sub-analysis of JAPAN-ACS study. J Atheroscler Thromb (2010) 0.99
Myocardial fibrosis in a patient with apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy detected by delayed-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging. Int J Cardiol (2007) 0.99
Sustained virological response in a patient with chronic hepatitis C treated by monotherapy with the NS3-4A protease inhibitor telaprevir. J Clin Virol (2009) 0.99
Anomalous subaortic left brachiocephalic vein in surgical cases and literature review. Clin Anat (2010) 0.99
Early and late stroke after mitral valve replacement with a mechanical prosthesis: risk factor analysis of a 24-year experience. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2003) 0.98
In vivo evaluation of a MPC polymer coated continuous flow left ventricular assist system. Artif Organs (2003) 0.98
Diagnosis of anomalous origin of the right coronary artery using multislice computed tomography: evaluation of possible causes of myocardial ischemia. Heart Vessels (2005) 0.96
Multislice computed tomographic findings of the anomalous origins of the right coronary artery: evaluation of possible causes of myocardial ischemia. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging (2006) 0.96
Classification of the functionally univentricular heart: unity from mapped codes. Cardiol Young (2006) 0.96
Competitive flow in arterial composite grafts and effect of graft arrangement in Off-Pump coronary revascularization. Ann Thorac Surg (2004) 0.96
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
Infective tricuspid valve endocarditis with pulmonary emboli caused by Campylobacter fetus after tooth extraction. Intern Med (2005) 0.96
Unusual appearance of mitral annular calcification mimicking intracardiac tumor prompting early surgery. Cardiology (2006) 0.95
Coronary vein infusion of multipotent stromal cells from bone marrow preserves cardiac function in swine ischemic cardiomyopathy via enhanced neovascularization. Lab Invest (2011) 0.94
Successful treatment of primary cardiac B-cell lymphoma: depiction at multislice computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. Int J Cardiol (2006) 0.94
Impact of immediate aortic repair on early and midterm neurologic status in patients with acute type a aortic dissection complicated by cerebral malperfusion. Ann Thorac Surg (2011) 0.94
The effect of cryo-maze procedure on early and intermediate term outcome in mitral valve disease: case matched study. Circulation (2002) 0.93
Implant technique for the Jarvik 2000 Heart. Ann Thorac Surg (2002) 0.93
Long-term histologic findings in pulmonary arteries reconstructed with autologous pericardium. N Engl J Med (2003) 0.93
Durability and outcome of aortic valve replacement with mitral valve repair versus double valve replacement. Ann Thorac Surg (2003) 0.93
Prognostic value of non-obstructive CT low-dense coronary artery plaques detected by multislice computed tomography. Circ J (2007) 0.93
Sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis: regional changes of peritoneum. Nephron (2002) 0.93
Stabilization and regression of coronary plaques treated with pitavastatin proven by angioscopy and intravascular ultrasound--the TOGETHAR trial. Circ J (2010) 0.92
Serum apolipoprotein j in health, coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus. J Atheroscler Thromb (2006) 0.92
Acute myocardial infarction in a patient with anomalous origin of the right coronary artery: depiction at whole-heart coronary magnetic resonance angiography and delayed-enhanced imaging. Int J Cardiol (2007) 0.92
Surgery for unilateral absence of pulmonary artery using autologous tissue. Ann Thorac Surg (2003) 0.92
The impact of mitral valve surgery combined with maze procedure. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2006) 0.92
Effect of maze procedure in patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing valve replacement. J Heart Valve Dis (2002) 0.92
Coronary artery dissection after blunt chest trauma: depiction at multidetector-row computed tomography. Int J Cardiol (2006) 0.91
Postauricular percutaneous power delivery for permanent mechanical circulatory support. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2002) 0.90
A novel missense mutation of exon 3 in the type A human natriuretic peptide receptor gene: possible association with essential hypertension. Hypertens Res (2002) 0.90
High HbA1c levels correlate with reduced plaque regression during statin treatment in patients with stable coronary artery disease: results of the coronary atherosclerosis study measuring effects of rosuvastatin using intravascular ultrasound in Japanese subjects (COSMOS). Cardiovasc Diabetol (2012) 0.90
Functional angiographic evaluation of individual, sequential, and composite arterial grafts. Ann Thorac Surg (2006) 0.90
Double chambered right ventricle: depiction at three-dimensional whole heart magnetic resonance imaging. Int J Cardiol (2007) 0.90