Published in Ann Thorac Surg on October 01, 2007
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Vascular surgery in Behcet's disease. Ann Thorac Surg (2008) 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
Angiographic findings and surgical treatments of coronary artery involvement in Takayasu arteritis. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2003) 1.54
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
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
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
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
An elastomeric patch derived from poly(glycerol sebacate) for delivery of embryonic stem cells to the heart. Biomaterials (2010) 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
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
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
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
A 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitor, cerivastatin, suppresses production of matrix metalloproteinase-9 in human abdominal aortic aneurysm wall. J Vasc Surg (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
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
In vivo evaluation of a MPC polymer coated continuous flow left ventricular assist system. Artif Organs (2003) 0.98
Magnetic resonance imaging evaluation of remodeling by cardiac elastomeric tissue scaffold biomaterials in a rat model of myocardial infarction. Tissue Eng Part A (2010) 0.97
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
Classification of the functionally univentricular heart: unity from mapped codes. Cardiol Young (2006) 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
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
An angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor, not an angiotensin II type-1 receptor blocker, prevents beta-aminopropionitrile monofumarate-induced aortic dissection in rats. J Vasc Surg (2002) 0.94
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
Implant technique for the Jarvik 2000 Heart. Ann Thorac Surg (2002) 0.93
Sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis: regional changes of peritoneum. Nephron (2002) 0.93
Long-term histologic findings in pulmonary arteries reconstructed with autologous pericardium. N Engl J Med (2003) 0.93
Prognostic value of non-obstructive CT low-dense coronary artery plaques detected by multislice computed tomography. Circ J (2007) 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
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
Serum apolipoprotein j in health, coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus. J Atheroscler Thromb (2006) 0.92
Surgery for unilateral absence of pulmonary artery using autologous tissue. Ann Thorac Surg (2003) 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
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
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
Double chambered right ventricle: depiction at three-dimensional whole heart magnetic resonance imaging. Int J Cardiol (2007) 0.90
Efficacy of continuous low-dose hANP administration in patients undergoing emergent coronary artery bypass grafting for acute coronary syndrome. Circ J (2007) 0.89
Lipomatous hypertrophy of the interatrial septum presenting as sick sinus syndrome. Int J Cardiol (2006) 0.89
Long-term assessment of mitral valve reconstruction with resection of the leaflets: triangular and quadrangular resection. Ann Thorac Surg (2005) 0.89
Right ventricular involvement in a patient with isolated noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium. Cardiovasc Revasc Med (2007) 0.89
Transatrial repair of submitral left ventricular pseudoaneurysm. Ann Thorac Surg (2008) 0.88
Hepatocellular carcinoma with direct invasion to the stomach causing gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Intern Med (2008) 0.88
A strategy of retrograde injection of bone marrow mononuclear cells into the myocardium for the treatment of ischemic heart disease. J Mol Cell Cardiol (2005) 0.88
Sigmoid-shaped ventricular septum causing mid-ventricular obstruction: report of 2 cases. Int J Cardiol (2007) 0.88
Hemodilutional anemia impairs neurologic outcome after cardiopulmonary bypass in a piglet model. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2007) 0.88
Whole heart coronary magnetic resonance angiography for the detection of coronary artery stenosis and atherosclerotic coronary artery plaque in a patient with unstable angina. Int J Cardiol (2006) 0.87