Published in Eur J Cardiothorac Surg on August 22, 2009
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Absence of pulmonary artery growth after fontan operation and its possible impact on late outcome. Ann Thorac Surg (2009) 1.55
Orthotopic heart transplantation in patients with Marfan syndrome. Ann Thorac Surg (2007) 1.53
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Cod liver oil, vitamin A toxicity, frequent respiratory infections, and the vitamin D deficiency epidemic. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol (2008) 1.53
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In vitro fabrication of a tissue engineered human cardiovascular patch for future use in cardiovascular surgery. Ann Thorac Surg (2006) 1.47
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Reoperation of the aortic valve in octogenarians. Ann Thorac Surg (2006) 1.42
Beneficial hemodynamic and renal effects of intravenous enalaprilat following coronary artery bypass surgery complicated by left ventricular dysfunction. Crit Care Med (2003) 1.42
Strain and strain rate imaging by echocardiography - basic concepts and clinical applicability. Curr Cardiol Rev (2009) 1.41
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Modified Nikaidoh procedure for the correction of complex forms of transposition of the great arteries with ventricular septal defect and left ventricular outflow tract obstruction: mid-term results. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2013) 1.40
Solid intracardiac mass complicating peritoneovenous shunting. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg (2006) 1.40
Left ventricular wall motion abnormality and myocardial dysfunction in stress cardiomyopathy: new pathophysiological aspects suggested by echocardiography. Int J Cardiol (2008) 1.40
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Overweight is advantageous for heart-transplant candidates to survive the period of critically ill status. ASAIO J (2012) 1.39
Circulating calcitriol concentrations and total mortality. Clin Chem (2009) 1.38
Genetic association study identifies HSPB7 as a risk gene for idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. PLoS Genet (2010) 1.37
CO(2) embolism during minimally invasive vein harvesting. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2007) 1.37
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Vitamin D and vascular calcification. Curr Opin Lipidol (2007) 1.32
European experience of DuraHeart magnetically levitated centrifugal left ventricular assist system. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2009) 1.32
Prevention of poststernotomy wound infections in obese patients by negative pressure wound therapy. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2012) 1.31
Homograft reconstruction of the aortic root for endocarditis with periannular abscess: a 17-year study. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2005) 1.30
Sexually dimorphic gene expression in the heart of mice and men. J Mol Med (Berl) (2007) 1.30
Successful use of bivalirudin as anticoagulant for ECMO in a patient with acute HIT. Ann Thorac Surg (2007) 1.28
Genome-wide array analysis of normal and malformed human hearts. Circulation (2003) 1.28
Surgical treatment of right-sided active infective endocarditis with or without involvement of the left heart: 20-year single center experience. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2007) 1.28
Estimated benefit of increased vitamin D status in reducing the economic burden of disease in western Europe. Prog Biophys Mol Biol (2009) 1.26
Experiences with surgical treatment of ventricle septal defect as a post infarction complication. J Cardiothorac Surg (2009) 1.26
Vitamin D, cardiovascular disease and mortality. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) (2011) 1.24
Autograft reinforcement to preserve autograft function after the ross procedure: a report from the german-dutch ross registry. Circulation (2009) 1.23
Biventricular circulatory support with two miniaturized implantable assist devices. Circulation (2011) 1.21
Vitamin D insufficiency in congestive heart failure: why and what to do about it? Heart Fail Rev (2006) 1.20
Destination therapy with a rotary blood pump and novel power delivery. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2009) 1.20
Tricuspid incompetence and geometry of the right ventricle as predictors of right ventricular function after implantation of a left ventricular assist device. J Heart Lung Transplant (2008) 1.20
Hemostatic activation and inflammatory response during cardiopulmonary bypass: impact of heparin management. Anesthesiology (2002) 1.18
Estrogen receptor alpha up-regulation and redistribution in human heart failure. FASEB J (2006) 1.18
Homograft aortic root replacement in native or prosthetic active infective endocarditis: twenty-year single-center experience. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2009) 1.17
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