Published in Cardiovasc Res on October 01, 1969
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Left ventricular aneurysmectomy in a 4-month-old infant. Alternative method of treatment of anomalous left coronary artery. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (1974) 0.96
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Cardiac bioprostheses in the 1990s. Circulation (1993) 0.95
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Orally administered isosorbide dinitrate in patients with and without left ventricular failure due to acute myocardial infarction. Am J Cardiol (1977) 0.93
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[Methodology of myocardial scintigraphy with thallium 201: limits of pathological findings]. Schweiz Med Wochenschr (1977) 0.89
Hemodynamic performance and myosin light chain-1 expression of the hypertrophied left ventricle in aortic valve disease before and after valve replacement. Circ Res (1992) 0.89
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Echocardiographic evaluation of left ventricular wall motion before and after heart transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant (1992) 0.88
Steal syndrome after internal mammary artery bypass grafting--an entity with increasing significance. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (1993) 0.88
Regression of coronary artery dimensions after successful aortic valve replacement. Circulation (1992) 0.88
Toxoplasmosis in heart transplant recipients. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis (1996) 0.88
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Optimal cell source for cardiovascular tissue engineering: venous vs. aortic human myofibroblasts. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2001) 0.87
[Percutaneous transluminal dilatation of chronic coronary stenoses. First experiences]. Schweiz Med Wochenschr (1978) 0.87
Evidence that the nonstructural protein of Tomato spotted wilt virus is the avirulence determinant in the interaction with resistant pepper carrying the TSW gene. Mol Plant Microbe Interact (2007) 0.87
Asymmetric septal hypertrophy should be resected during aortic valve replacement. Z Kardiol (1986) 0.87
Genetic predisposition in patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass surgery is associated with an increase of inflammatory cytokines. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2001) 0.87
Pretransplant malignancy in candidates and posttransplant malignancy in recipients of cardiac transplantation. Ann Oncol (1996) 0.87
Left ventricular assist device as bridge to heart transplantation--lessons learned with the MicroMed DeBakey axial blood flow pump. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2003) 0.87
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