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Cited 32 times since 2003 (1.5 per year)
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The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery,
Volume 126, Issue 4, 1 1 2003, Pages 1053-1060
Pulmonary artery remodeling in transposition of the great arteries: relevance for neoaortic root dilatation.
Lalezari S, Hazekamp MG, Bartelings MM, Schoof PH, Gittenberger-De Groot AC
Objective: Transposition of the great arteries is currently treated by performing the arterial switch operation. Dilatation of the neoaortic root is a late complication with unknown cause. Samples of patients with untreated transposition of the great arteries and patients with normally related great arteries were compared to investigate a possible role for vascular remodeling in the dilatation process. Methods: Aortic and pulmonary artery vessel wall and sinus samples were taken from 20 untreate...
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Cited 61 times since 2003 (2.8 per year)
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Circulation,
Volume 108, Issue 17, 29 5 2003, Pages 2099-2106
Voltage and activation mapping: how the recording technique affects the outcome of catheter ablation procedures in patients with congenital heart disease.
de Groot NM, Schalij MJ, Zeppenfeld K, Blom NA, Van der Velde ET, Van der Wall EE
Background: Endocardial mapping is mandatory before radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA). Mapping can be performed with either unipolar or bipolar recordings. Impact of the recording technique used was studied in patients with and without structural heart disease using the 3D electroanatomic CARTO mapping system. Methods and results: Patients (n=44; 16 males; age 43+/-16 years) referred for RFCA of atrial flutter (AFL, n=18), focal atrial tachycardia (FAT, n=4), AV nodal reentrant tachycardia...
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Cited 4 times since 2003 (0.2 per year)
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Radiology,
Volume 228, Issue 3, 1 1 2003, Pages 834-841
Vein graft function improvement after percutaneous intervention: evaluation with MR flow mapping.
Langerak SE, Vliegen HW, Jukema JW, Zwinderman AH, Lamb HJ, de Roos A, van der Wall EE
Purpose: To provide functional reference values in single and sequential vein grafts by using magnetic resonance (MR) flow mapping and to examine the effect of percutaneous intervention (PCI) on coronary artery bypass graft function. Materials and methods: Fast MR flow mapping at baseline and during adenosine-induced stress was performed in 39 nonstenotic single vein grafts and 20 nonstenotic sequential vein grafts, as well as in 15 stenotic vein grafts before and 7.3 weeks +/- 1.5 after success...
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Cited 38 times since 2003 (1.8 per year)
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Circulation,
Volume 108 Suppl 1, 1 1 2003, Pages II39-42
Early versus delayed revascularization in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy and substantial viability: impact on outcome.
Bax JJ, Schinkel AF, Boersma E, Rizzello V, Elhendy A, Maat A, Roelandt JR, van der Wall EE, Poldermans D
Background: Patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy and viable myocardium may improve in function and prognosis following revascularization. Delayed revascularization may result in less favorable outcome, and therefore the impact of timing of revascularization on long-term outcome was evaluated. Methods and results: Patients (n=85) with ischemic cardiomyopathy and substantial viability (>or=25% of the left ventricle) on dobutamine stress echocardiography underwent surgical revascularization. Ba...
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Cited 11 times since 2003 (0.5 per year)
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The American journal of cardiology,
Volume 92, Issue 5, 1 1 2003, Pages 613-616
Effect of atorvastatin on myocardial contractile reserve assessed by tissue Doppler imaging in moderately hypercholesterolemic patients without heart disease.
Bountioukos M, Rizzello V, Krenning BJ, Bax JJ, Kertai MD, Vourvouri EC, Schinkel AF, Biagini E, Boersma E, Roelandt JR, Poldermans D
An improvement in myocardial longitudinal systolic velocities, assessed by pulsed-wave tissue Doppler imaging during low-dose dobutamine infusion, was observed at 6-month follow-up after 6 months of treatment with atorvastatin. Our findings indicate a favorable effect of atorvastatin on contractile reserve, possibly through an enhancement of flow-dependent coronary dilatation during stress.
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Cited 4 times since 2003 (0.2 per year)
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European heart journal,
Volume 24, Issue 17, 1 1 2003, Pages 1541-1542
Dobutamine echocardiography: a diagnostic tool comes of age.
Poldermans D, Bax JJ
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Cited 8 times since 2003 (0.4 per year)
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The American journal of cardiology,
Volume 92, Issue 6, 1 1 2003, Pages 712-715
Relation between QT dispersion and myocardial viability in ischemic cardiomyopathy.
Schinkel AF, Bountioukos M, Poldermans D, Elhendy A, Valkema R, Vourvouri EC, Biagini E, Rizzello V, Kertai MD, Krenning B, Krenning EP, Roelandt JR, Bax JJ
The aim of this study was to evaluate the relation between QT dispersion and myocardial viability as assessed by single-photon emission computed tomography. The study population included 97 consecutive patients with severely impaired left ventricular function secondary to chronic coronary artery disease. Patients with a low QT dispersion had a substantial amount of viable myocardium, whereas patients with a high QT dispersion had predominantly nonviable scar tissue.
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Cited 49 times since 2003 (2.3 per year)
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Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology,
Volume 10, Issue 5, 1 1 2003, Pages 543-556
PET myocardial glucose metabolism and perfusion imaging: Part 1-Guidelines for data acquisition and patient preparation.
Bacharach SL, Bax JJ, Case J, Delbeke D, Kurdziel KA, Martin WH, Patterson RE
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Cited 166 times since 2003 (7.7 per year)
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Arthritis and rheumatism,
Volume 48, Issue 9, 1 1 2003, Pages 2489-2500
Citrullination of synovial proteins in murine models of rheumatoid arthritis.
Vossenaar ER, Nijenhuis S, Helsen MM, van der Heijden A, Senshu T, van den Berg WB, van Venrooij WJ, Joosten LA
Objective: Antibodies directed to citrulline-containing proteins are highly specific for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and can be detected in up to 80% of patients with RA. Citrulline is a nonstandard amino acid that can be incorporated into proteins only by posttranslational modification of arginine by peptidylarginine deiminase (PAD) enzymes. The objective of this study was to investigate the presence of anticitrulline antibodies, PAD enzymes, and citrullinated antigens in mouse models of both acu...
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Cited 134 times since 2003 (6.2 per year)
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,
Volume 100, Issue 19, 28 4 2003, Pages 10989-10994
The EBV nuclear antigen 1 (EBNA1) enhances B cell immortalization several thousandfold.
Humme S, Reisbach G, Feederle R, Delecluse HJ, Bousset K, Hammerschmidt W, Schepers A
The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) nuclear antigen 1 (EBNA1) is one of the earliest viral proteins expressed after infection and is the only latent protein consistently expressed in viral-associated tumors. EBNA1's crucial role in viral DNA replication, episomal maintenance, and partitioning is well examined whereas its importance for the immortalization process and the tumorgenicity of EBV is unclear. To address these open questions, we generated, based on the maxi-EBV system, an EBNA1-deficient...
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Cited 121 times since 2003 (5.6 per year)
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Circulation,
Volume 108, Issue 11, 25 4 2003, Pages 1368-1374
Rosuvastatin reduces atherosclerosis development beyond and independent of its plasma cholesterol-lowering effect in APOE*3-Leiden transgenic mice: evidence for antiinflammatory effects of rosuvastatin.
Kleemann R, Princen HM, Emeis JJ, Jukema JW, Fontijn RD, Horrevoets AJ, Kooistra T, Havekes LM
Background: Statins can exert anti-inflammatory antiatherosclerotic effects through an anti-inflammatory action, independent of lowering cholesterol. We addressed the question whether the anti-inflammatory activities of statins can reduce atherosclerosis beyond the reduction achieved by cholesterol lowering per se. Methods and results: Two groups of 20 female APOE*3-Leiden mice received either a high-cholesterol diet (HC) or a high-cholesterol diet supplemented with 0.005% (wt/wt) rosuvastatin (...
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Cited 4 times since 2003 (0.2 per year)
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The international journal of cardiovascular imaging,
Volume 19, Issue 4, 1 1 2003, Pages 259-266
End-diastolic and end-systolic volume from the left ventricular angiogram: how accurate is visual frame selection? Comparison between visual and semi-automated comnputer-assisted analysis.
Staal EM, de Heer M, Jukema JW, Koning G, van der Wall EE, Reiber JH, Baan J, Steendijk P
Background: End-diastolic (ED), end-systolic (ES) left ventricular (LV) volumes and LV ejection fraction (LVEF) are important parameters for clinical decision making in heart disease. In clinical practice the frames from cine-angiography with the largest and smallest opacified LV areas are visually selected and the endocardial borders traced as LVED and LVES contours, respectively. We compared the accuracy of this visual method using two frames with a semi-automated computer assisted frame-by-fr...
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Cited 12 times since 2003 (0.6 per year)
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Cardiology in the young,
Volume 13, Issue 4, 1 1 2003, Pages 364-366
Severe pulmonary hypertension secondary to a parachute-like mitral valve, with the left superior caval vein draining into the coronary sinus, in a girl with Turner's syndrome.
van Heerde M, Hruda J, Hazekamp MG
A 17-year-old girl with Turner's syndrome underwent two cardiac operations due to severe mitral stenosis with pulmonary hypertension, caused by a parachute-like mitral valve. The anomaly was associated with persistence of the left superior caval vein, which drained to the coronary sinus, and non-compaction of the left ventricular myocardium. The association of these lesions is rare in patients with Turner's syndrome.
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Cited 1 times since 2003 (0 per year)
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The international journal of cardiovascular imaging,
Volume 19, Issue 4, 1 1 2003, Pages 323-324
Tissue Doppler imaging for detection of myocardial ischemia: are we there yet?
Atsma DE
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Cited 2 times since 2003 (0.1 per year)
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Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde,
Volume 147, Issue 31, 1 1 2003, Pages 1513-1516
[Chylous ascites following surgical repair of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm].
Develing L, Hamming JF, Speelberg B
Two patients, a man aged 65 years and a woman aged 75 years, developed chylous ascites after emergency abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. Both patients were still on artificial ventilation at the time of diagnosis. The first symptoms were high ventilation pressure, elevated diaphragm and abdominal distension. The patients were treated conservatively with drainage, and the man was also given tube feeding without long-chain triglycerides. The man recovered, while the woman died of sepsis. Chylous a...
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Cited 20 times since 2003 (0.9 per year)
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Journal of virology,
Volume 77, Issue 15, 1 1 2003, Pages 8470-8480
Generation of a candidate live marker vaccine for equine arteritis virus by deletion of the major virus neutralization domain.
Castillo-Olivares J, Wieringa R, Bakonyi T, de Vries AA, Davis-Poynter NJ, Rottier PJ
Equine arteritis virus (EAV) is an enveloped plus-strand RNA virus of the family Arteriviridae (order Nidovirales) that causes respiratory and reproductive disease in equids. Protective, virus-neutralizing antibodies (VNAb) elicited by infection are directed predominantly against an immunodominant region in the membrane-proximal domain of the viral envelope glycoprotein G(L), allowing recently the establishment of a sensitive peptide enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) based on this partic...
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Cited 2 times since 2003 (0.1 per year)
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Journal of oral rehabilitation,
Volume 30, Issue 8, 1 1 2003, Pages 855-860
Clinical evaluation of class II Targis inlays: preliminary results after 1 year.
Yilmaz D, Gemalmaz D
The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical performance of a new generation of restorative resin, Targis (Vivadent), in class II inlay restorations. Forty class II Targis inlays were placed (18 premolars, 22 molars) in 26 patients (mean age=25.5). All test teeth were vital. All restorations were in occlusion and were placed adhesively using Variolink II high viscosity (Vivadent) in combination with Syntac adhesive system under rubber-dam by the same operator. The restorations were evaluat...
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Cited 4 times since 2003 (0.2 per year)
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Indian journal of pediatrics,
Volume 70, Issue 8, 1 1 2003, Pages 675-677
Single dose povidone-iodine on thyroid functions and urinary iodine excretion.
Yilmaz D, Teziç HT, Zorlu P, Firat S, Bilaloğlu E, Kutlu AO
The effect of single dose povidone-iodine on serum thyrotropin and thyroxine levels and urinary iodine excretion in 30 preterm, 40 full-term newborns and 50 infants at Dr. Sami Ulus Children's Hospital was studied. There was no significant change of thyroid function in any of the groups (p>0.05). Urinary iodine excretion in preterm and full-term groups elevated significantly (p
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Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation,
Volume 11, Issue 7-8, 1 1 2003, Pages 315-316
Cardiac tumour.
Scholte AJ, Laarman GJ
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Cited 4 times since 2003 (0.2 per year)
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Atherosclerosis,
Volume 169, Issue 2, 1 1 2003, Pages 309-315
Improvement of serum oxidation by pravastatin might be one of the mechanisms by which endothelial function in dilated coronary artery segments is ameliorated.
Mulder HJ, Schalij MJ, van der Laarse A, Hollaar L, Zwinderman AH, Bruschke AV
Background: Oxidation susceptibility of lipids in vitro is considered to reflect the exposure of lipids to oxidation stress in vivo which is related to cardiovascular morbidity. This study examined the effect of pravastatin therapy on serum oxidation susceptibility, particularly in relation to endothelial function of coronary arteries. Methods: The participants were recruited from the Pravastatin-Related Effects Following Angioplasty on Coronary Endothelium trial, a double-blinded, placebo-contr...
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