Published in Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg on January 05, 2010
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A New Prognostic Score Supporting Treatment Allocation for Multimodality Therapy for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: A Review of 12 Years' Experience. J Thorac Oncol (2015) 1.99
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Differential effects of 17beta-estradiol on function and expression of estrogen receptor alpha, estrogen receptor beta, and GPR30 in arteries and veins of patients with atherosclerosis. Hypertension (2007) 1.64
In vitro factor XIII supplementation increases clot firmness in Rotation Thromboelastometry (ROTEM). Thromb Haemost (2010) 1.63
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The effect of hydroxyethyl starches (HES 130/0.42 and HES 200/0.5) on activated renal tubular epithelial cells. Anesth Analg (2009) 1.51
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Discrimination between invasive pulmonary aspergillosis and pulmonary lymphoma using CT. Eur J Radiol (2009) 1.49
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Negative microbiological results are not mandatory in deep sternal wound infections before wound closure. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2012) 1.48
An Anesthesia Preinduction Checklist to Improve Information Exchange, Knowledge of Critical Information, Perception of Safety, and Possibly Perception of Teamwork in Anesthesia Teams. Anesth Analg (2015) 1.46
Immunohistochemical differentiation and localization analysis of sweat glands in the adult human axilla. Plast Reconstr Surg (2006) 1.46
Sinus node disease and arrhythmias in the long-term follow-up of former professional cyclists. Eur Heart J (2007) 1.42
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Disappointing Success of Electrical Cardioversion for New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation in Cardiosurgical ICU Patients. Crit Care Med (2015) 1.42
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HIV-specific differences in outcome of squamous cell carcinoma of the anal canal: a multicentric cohort study of HIV-positive patients receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy. J Clin Oncol (2008) 1.35
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F-18 FDG whole-body PET for the assessment of disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Clin Nucl Med (2006) 1.26
How good patient blood management leads to excellent outcomes in Jehovah's witness patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg (2010) 1.26
Image quality and reconstruction intervals of dual-source CT coronary angiography: recommendations for ECG-pulsing windowing. Invest Radiol (2007) 1.25
Pre- and postoperative evaluation of congenital heart disease in children and adults with 64-section CT. Radiographics (2007) 1.24
The impact of radiotherapy in the treatment of desmoid tumours. An international survey of 110 patients. A study of the Rare Cancer Network. Radiat Oncol (2007) 1.24
Achilles tendons: clinical relevance of neovascularization diagnosed with power Doppler US. Radiology (2003) 1.22
Radiation dose of cardiac dual-source CT: the effect of tailoring the protocol to patient-specific parameters. Eur J Radiol (2008) 1.19
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Respiration-induced attenuation artifact at PET/CT: technical considerations. Radiology (2003) 1.16
Lymph node surgery in papillary thyroid carcinoma. J Am Coll Surg (2003) 1.14
Kinetics of D-dimer after general surgery. Blood Coagul Fibrinolysis (2009) 1.13
Chronic cervical spinal cord injury: DTI correlates with clinical and electrophysiological measures. J Neurotrauma (2012) 1.12
Anatomic variants associated with peroneal tendon disorders: MR imaging findings in volunteers with asymptomatic ankles. Radiology (2007) 1.12
Large annuloplasty rings facilitate mitral valve repair in Barlow's disease. Ann Thorac Surg (2006) 1.11
The CentriMag: a new optimized centrifugal blood pump with levitating impeller. Heart Surg Forum (2004) 1.11
Temporal trends in treatment of ST-elevation myocardial infarction among men and women in Switzerland between 1997 and 2011. Eur Heart J Acute Cardiovasc Care (2012) 1.11
Rupture of the device landing zone during transcatheter aortic valve implantation: a life-threatening but treatable complication. Circ Cardiovasc Interv (2012) 1.10
Myocardial bridging: depiction rate and morphology at CT coronary angiography--comparison with conventional coronary angiography. Radiology (2008) 1.10
Combined effect of 25-OH vitamin D plasma levels and genetic vitamin D receptor (NR 1I1) variants on fibrosis progression rate in HCV patients. Liver Int (2011) 1.10
Electrocardiographically gated multi-detector row CT for assessment of valvular morphology and calcification in aortic stenosis. Radiology (2002) 1.09
Cortical and trabecular bone density and structure in anorexia nervosa. Osteoporos Int (2004) 1.08
Functional growth in tissue-engineered living, vascular grafts: follow-up at 100 weeks in a large animal model. Circulation (2006) 1.08
Early and late outcome of cardiac surgery in patients with liver cirrhosis. Liver Transpl (2007) 1.08
Early bypass occlusion in patients with the St Jude Medical Symmetry connector. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2003) 1.07
Accuracy of image coregistration of pulmonary lesions in patients with non-small cell lung cancer using an integrated PET/CT system. J Nucl Med (2002) 1.07
Left atrial appendage clip occlusion: early clinical results. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2009) 1.07
Diffusion-weighted MR imaging of upper abdominal organs: field strength and intervendor variability of apparent diffusion coefficients. Radiology (2013) 1.07
Superficial radiotherapy for patients with basal cell carcinoma: recurrence rates, histologic subtypes, and expression of p53 and Bcl-2. Cancer (2003) 1.06
Comparative analysis and physiological impact of different tissue biopsy methodologies used for the genotyping of laboratory mice. Lab Anim (2007) 1.06
Value of retrospective fusion of PET and MR images in detection of hepatic metastases: comparison with 18F-FDG PET/CT and Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI. J Nucl Med (2010) 1.06
Influence of inflow cannula length in axial-flow pumps on neurologic adverse event rate: results from a multi-center analysis. J Heart Lung Transplant (2008) 1.06
Aortic valve replacement through a minimally invasive approach: preoperative planning, surgical technique, and outcome. Ann Thorac Surg (2009) 1.05
Modified Blalock Taussig shunt: a not-so-simple palliative procedure. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2013) 1.05
Preoperative breast cancer staging: MR imaging of the axilla with ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide enhancement. Radiology (2002) 1.04
Engineering of biologically active living heart valve leaflets using human umbilical cord-derived progenitor cells. Tissue Eng (2006) 1.04
Epicardial left atrial appendage clip occlusion also provides the electrical isolation of the left atrial appendage. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg (2012) 1.04
Prognostic significance of epithelial-mesenchymal transition in malignant pleural mesothelioma. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2009) 1.04
Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Device Societal Overview: The Surgeon's Comment. J Am Coll Cardiol (2016) 1.04
C-MAC videolaryngoscope compared with direct laryngoscopy for rapid sequence intubation in an emergency department: A randomised clinical trial. Eur J Anaesthesiol (2016) 1.04
Predictive factors for morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing laparoscopic paraesophageal hernia repair: age, ASA score and operation type influence morbidity. World J Surg (2009) 1.02
Accuracy of 64-slice computed tomography for the preoperative detection of coronary artery disease in patients with chronic aortic regurgitation. Am J Cardiol (2007) 1.02
Living autologous heart valves engineered from human prenatally harvested progenitors. Circulation (2006) 1.02
NY-ESO-1 protein expression in primary breast carcinoma and metastases: correlation with CD8+ T-cell and CD79a+ plasmacytic/B-cell infiltration. Int J Cancer (2007) 1.02
Osteoporosis before lung transplantation: association with low body mass index, but not with underlying disease. Am J Transplant (2002) 1.02
Follow-up of women with breast cancer: comparison between MRI and FDG PET. Eur Radiol (2002) 1.02
Aortoiliac and renal arteries: prospective intraindividual comparison of contrast-enhanced three-dimensional MR angiography and multi-detector row CT angiography. Radiology (2003) 1.02
Right-sided univentricular cardiac assistance in a failing Fontan circulation. Ann Thorac Surg (2008) 1.01
Gold-coated pacemaker implantation after allergic reactions to pacemaker compounds. Europace (2009) 1.00