The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon

Loukanov, T.; Uhl, S.; Fonseca, E.; Springer, W.; Rauch, H.; Ziesenitz, V.; Gorenflo, M.:

Surgery in Patients with Obstructive Airway Disease Due to Intrinsic Tracheal Malformation and/or Vascular Ring: Long-Term Results in 114 Single-Centre Patients

Klusmeier, E.; Körperich, H.; Knyphausen, E.; Racolta, A.; Barth, P.; Kececioglu, D.; Burchert, W.; Laser, K.T.:

Extracellular Volume by T1 Mapping Is Elevated after Pediatric Heart Transplantation

Glezou, S.; Herberg, U.; Körperich, H.; Barth, P.; Burchert, W.; Kececioglu, D.; Dalla, R. Pozza; Laser, K.T.:

Pediatric Left Ventricular Volumetry Using Real-time Three-dimensional Echocardiography: Validation and Multicenter Reference Values Based on High Sample Size

Pieles, G.; Grosse-Wortmann, L.; Hader, M.; Fatah, M.; Chungsomprasong, P.; Sloarach, C.; Mertens, L.; Hamilton, R.; Friedberg, M.:

Association of Echocardiographic Parameters of Right Ventricular Remodeling and Myocardial Performance with Modified Task Force Criteria in Adolescents with Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC)

Alkassar, M.; Dittrich, S.; Stegmann, H.; Bäuerle, T.:

Comparison of Four-dimensional Echocardiographic Imaging to Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Rats

Wiegand, G.; Schlensak, C.; Mustafi, M.; Schneider, W.; Sieverding, L.; Hofbeck, M.:

Hybrid-implantation of a Pulmonary Valve Avoiding Cardiopulmonary Bypass

Happel, C.M.; Tiedge, S.; Horke, A.; Köditz, H.; Beerbaum, P.:

Balloon Dilatation of Critical Aortic Stenosis through ECMO Cannula in a Newborn

Hummel, J.; Stiller, B.; Kroll, J.; Siepe, M.; Grohmann, J.:

Right Ventricular Coiling to Limit Right Ventricle to Coronary Artery Connections in Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum following Stage 2 Palliation

Kitzmüller, E.; Zimpfer, D.; Schweigmann, U.; Michel-Behnke, I.:

Bilaterales Pulmonalarterien Banding und Ductusstenting - Chirurgisch-Interventionelles Konzept bei neonataler DCMP

Rentzsch, A.; Abd, M. El Rahman; Fries, P.; Abdul-Khaliq, H.:

Right Coronary Artery Aneurysms in Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum

Zimmer, M.; Bergdolt, M.; Follmann, P.; Pohler, J.; Schumacher, B.; Kriebel, T.:

Isolated Left Ventricular Apical Hypoplasia in a 9-Year-old Girl: A Rare Differential Diagnosis for Dilatated Cardiomyopathy

Gasser, S.; von Stumm, M.; Buchholz, C.; Reichenspurner, H.; Riso, A.; Biermann, D.; Sachweh, J.:

When to Do It from the Front: Surgical Closure of a Patent Ductus Arteriosus in a Patient with Alpha-actin2 Mutation

Hanser, A.; Hornung, A.; Sieverding, L.; Wiegand, G.; Schäfer, J.; Tsiflikas, I.; Hofbeck, M.:

Anomalous Origin of the Left Coronary Artery from the Right Aortic Sinus with a Subpulmonic Intramyocardial Course: Malignant Anomaly or Benign Variant?

Böhmer, J.; Hormann, S.:

Mixed-type Cardiomyopathy with Severe Systolic Dysfunction: An Uncommon Presentation of Pompe Disease

von Stumm, M.; Gasser, S.; Buchholz, C.; Riso, A.; Müller, G.; Kozlik-Feldmann, R.; Reichenspurner, H.; Biermann, D.; Sachweh, J.S.:

A Novel Technique to Repair Absence of Right Pulmonary Artery

Kuhn, M.; Hornung, A.; Sieverding, L.; Schlensak, C.; Hofbeck, M.; Wiegand, G.:

Comparative Noninvasive Measurement of Cardiac Output Based on the Inert Gas Rebreathing Method (Innocor^®) and MRI in Patients with Univentricular Hearts

Pfitzer, C.; Helm, P.C.; Ferentzi, H.; Rosenthal, L.M.; Bauer, U.M.M.; Berger, F.; Schmitt, K.R.L.:

Changing Prevalence of Severe Congenital Heart Disease: Results from the National Register for Congenital Heart Defects in Germany

Kley, A.; Dalla-Pozza, R.; Fischer, M.; Heineking, B.; Jacob, A.; Schulze-Neick, I.; Haas, N.A.:

Pediatric Organ Donation in Bavaria

Kis, E.; Gabbert, D.D.; Kheradvar, A.; Wegner, P.; Scheewe, J.; Kramer, H.H.; Rickers, C.:

Remodelling of Right Ventricular Compartments after Pulmonary Valve Replacement or Reconstruction in Patients with Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot

Merbecks, M.B.; Ziesenitz, V.C.; Balß, D.; Rubner, T.; Schmitt, S.; Klein, B.; Loukanov, T.; Gorenflo, M.; Gorenflo, AG:

The Expression of Pattern-Recognition Receptors Is Diminished after Paediatric Cardiopulmonary Bypass and Increased 48 Hours Later

Grommes, S.; Ziesenitz, V.C.; Burhenne, J.; Uhl, S.; Mikus, G.; Haefeli, W.E.; Gorenflo, M.:

Sildenafil Plasma Concentrations during Routine Treatment of Children with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Nieschke, K.; Lurz, P.; Vollroth, M.; Maier, S.; Kostelka, M.; Dähnert, I.; Wagner, R.:

Untersuchungen zum Einfluss gängig genutzter Implantationsmaterialien auf die Zellvitalität humaner Leukozyten

Degener, F.; Al-Wakeel-Marquard, N.; Schmitt, B.; Kelm, M.; Kühne, T.; Messroghli, D.; Berger, F.; Klaassen, S.:

The RIKADA-Study: Risk Stratification in Pediatric Patients with Primary Inherited Cardiomyopathies

Kiski, D.; Kintrup, S.; Schmidt, C.; Brünen, A.; Kleinerüschkamp, F.; Kehl, H.G.; Uebing, A.; Malec, E.; Januszewska, K.:

Extubation in the Operating Room after Fontan Operation

Meuwly, E.; Feldmann, M.; von Rhein, M.; Dave, H.; Tuura, R.; Latal, B.; Jakab, A.; Knirsch, W.:

Regional Brain Volumes Predict One-Year Neurodevelopmental Outcome in Children with Severe Congenital Heart Disease

Ulrich, S.; Lehner, A.; Fernandez, S. Rodriguez; Birnbaum, J.; Hakami, L.; Fischer, M.; Dalla, R. Pozza; Haas, N.:

Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy Is Reversible: Also in Higher Stages

Lammers, A.E.; Orwat, S.; Stegger, J.; Lebherz, C.; Bauer, U.; Uebing, A.:

Coronary Artery Complications Following Arterial Switch Operation: A Registry Analysis of the German Competence Network Congenital Heart Defects

Schulz, A.; Cho, M.Y.; Murin, P.; Miera, O.; Schmitt, K.; Ovroutski, S.; Sinzobahamvya, N.; Berger, F.; Photiadis, J.:

High-Risk Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome or Complex: Midterm Survival after Initial Bilateral Pulmonary Artery Banding Followed by Early Norwood Procedure

Simmelbauer, A.; Bär, S.; Starystach, S.; Elsässer, M.; Sohn, C.; Müller, A.; Gorenflo, M.; Kovacevic, A.:

Assessment of Needs for Counselling after Prenatal Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease: Development and Evaluation of a Questionnaire

Tarusinov, G.; Koenig, S.; Ben, L. Mime; Scheid, M.; Krogmann, O.N.:

Primary Stent Implantation for Coarctation in Neonates: Going beyond Emergency Palliation to a Definitive Coarctation Repair?

Stark, V.C.; Olfe, J.; Doering, K.; Kozlik-Feldmann, R.; Mueller, G.C.; Seggewies, F.; von Kodolitsch, Y.; Mir, T.S.:

From Neonates to Adults in Marfan Syndrome: Diagnosis, Progress and Transition to Adult Care

Hornung, A.; Krumm, P.; Hanser, A.; Martirosian, P.; Zitzelsberger, T.; Grosse, U.; Schäfer, J.; Hofbeck, M.; Sieverding, L.:

How to Accelerate Cardiac MRI Examination: Cine-Sequences with Compressed Sensing (CS) Technology (Preliminary Results)

Nordmeyer, S.; Kelm, M.; Goubergrits, L.; Hellmeier, F.; Bruening, J.; Falk, V.; Berger, F.; Kühne, T.:

Impact of Aortic Valve Replacement on Flow Profiles in the Ascending Aorta

Latus, H.; Kruppa, P.; Reich, B.; Rupp, S.; Apitz, C.; Voges, I.; Jux, C.; Schranz, D.; Khalil, M.; Gummel, K.:

Impact of Aortopulmonary Collateral Flow on Single Ventricle Function and Blood Flow Hemodynamics in Patients after the Fontan Procedure: A Longitudinal CMR Study

Jakab, A.; Meuwli, E.; von Rhein, M.; Tuura, R.; Scheer, I.; Latal, B.; Knirsch, W.:

Longitudinal MRI Portrays Impaired Cerebral Growth and Its Association to Neurodevelopmental Outcome in Newborns with Congenital Heart Disease Undergoing Cardiopulmonary Bypass Surgery

Al-Wakeel-Marquard, N.; Degener, F.; Kelm, M.; Schmitt, B.; Kühne, T.; Klaassen, S.; Messroghli, D.; Berger, F.:

Noninvasive Quantification of Diffuse Myocardial Fibrosis with Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance T1 Mapping in Pediatric Primary Inherited Cardiomyopathy

Buddhe, S.; Sarikouch, S.; Schuster, A.; Beerbaum, P.; Kutty, S.:

Differences in Right Ventricular-Pulmonary Vascular Coupling between Standard Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) vs. TOF with Pulmonary Atresia: Association with Other CMR and Clinical Indices

Kretschmar, O.; Grohmann, J.; Bertram, H.; Jux, C.; Wiegand, G.; Tarusinov, G.; Dittrich, S.; Dähnert, I.; Bangen, U.; Fakler, U.; Moysich, A.; Schubert, S.; Knirsch, W.:

New-Onset of Migraine and Nonmigraine Headache Attacks after Percutaneous Device-Closure of Atrial Septal Defect in Children: A Prospective Multicenter Trial

Kozlik-Feldmann, R.; Le, T.P.; Lorber, A.; Sievert, H.; Ewert, P.; Jux, C.; Müller, G.; Dalla, R. Pozza; Yigitbasi, M.; Schranz, D.; Lindinger, A.; Galal, O.; Meinertz, T.:

Safety and Effectiveness of the Nit-Occlud Lê VSD Coil System for VSD Occlusion: Long-term Outcome in 93 Patients

Lehner, A.; Flaig, M.; Fernandez, S. Rodriguez; Ulrich, S.; Kanaan, M.; Dalla-Pozza, R.; Haas, N.A.:

The Impact of Improved Percutaneous Pulmonary Valve Design on Patient Characteristics: Smaller, Younger, and More Complex

Eicken, A.; Tanase, D.; Georgiev, S.; Meierhofer, C.; Ewert, P.:

More than Ten Years of Experience with Percutaneous Pulmonary Valve Implantation

Hosny, M. Fayed; Tanase, D.; Georgiev, S.; Genz, T.; Hager, A.; Ewert, P.; Abdellatef, A.; Ahmed, A.; Bambul, P. Heck; Eicken, A.:

Acute and Long-term Outcomes for Recoarctation and Arterial Hypertension in Patients with Stent Therapy of the Aortic Coarctation

Linden, K.; Winkler, C.; Breuer, J.; Herberg, U.:

Pressure-Volume Relations in Patients with Single Ventricle: Feasibility and Comparison of Obtainment by 3D-Real Time Echocardiography and Mini Pressure-Wire with Conductance Technology

Müller, M.; Backhoff, D.; Dieks, J.K.; Schneider, H.; Ruschewski, W.; Paul, T.; Krause, U.:

Extracardiac Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators in Infants and Children: Is Routine Defibrillation Threshold Testing Appropriate?

Kovacevic, A.; Kölker, S.; Hoffmann, G.F.; Gorenflo, M.; Garbade, S.F.; Staufner, C.:

Cardiac Manifestation in Propionic Acidemia: A 30-Year Single-Center Experience

Horstmann, J.; Obermeier, V.; von Kries, R.; Hufnagel, M.; Stiller, B.; Berner, R.; Schachinger, E.; Meyer, K.; Jakob, A.:

Can Resistance to I.V. Immunoglobulin Therapy and Development of Coronary Artery Aneurysms Predicted in a German Population-based Study Cohort on Kawasaki Disease

Bruder, L.; Spriestersbach, H.; Bartosch, M.; Brakmann, K.; Sanders, B.; Loerakker, S.; Baaijens, F.; Dijkmann, P.E.; Frese, L.; Emmert, M.; Hoerstrup, S.; Berger, F.; Schmitt, B.:

Breakthrough One-Year functionality of Transvenously Implanted, Decellularized Tissue-Engineered Pulmonary Heart Valves (dTEHV) in a Sheep Model

Radloff, A.; Breckpot, J.; Hoff, K.; Kramer, H.H.; Panáková, D.; Mercks, A.; Devriendt, K.; Gewillig, M.; Sealy, I.; Collins, J.; Busch-Nentwich, E.; Kahlert, A.K.; Hitz, M.P.:

CAPZB: A Potential Novel Key Player in Cardiac Development and Congenital Heart Defects

Barron, L.C.; Gerstl, L.; Hakami, L.; Schulze-Neick, I.; Ulrich, S.; Lehner, A.; Heinen, F.; Haas, N.; Hagl, C.; Dalla-Pozza, R.:

Neurologic and Cognitive Assessment of Children after Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) and Heart Transplantation

Frede, W.; Medert, R.; Freichel, M.; Gorenflo, M.; Uhl, S.:

Cardiac Role of the Ion Channel TRPM4 under Right Ventricular Pressure Load in Rat

Brodkorb, S.; Mkrtchyan, N.; Shehu, N.; Latus, H.; Stern, H.; Ewert, P.; Meierhofer, C.:

Diffuse and Focal Myocardial Fibrosis Late after Norwood Procedure

Arenz, C.; Suchowerskyj, P.; Bierbach, B.; Blaschczok, H.C.; Sinzobahamvya, N.; Hraska, V.; Asfour, B.:

Very Promising Early Results with the New Valve Sparing Delamination Technique for Primary Repair of Tetralogy of Fallot

Dittrich, S.; Graf, E.; Neudorf, U.; Heilmann, A.; Schara, U.; Kirschner, J.; Stiller, B.:

Effect and Safety of Treatment with ACE-Inhibitor Enalapril and β-Blocker Metoprolol on the Onset of Left Ventricular Dysfunction in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: Results from a Six Years, Double-blind, Randomized Placebo-controlled Trial

Sauer, H.; Koster, S.; Wagenpfeil, S.; Abdul-Khaliq, H.:

Perioperative Infektionsprophylaxe mittels unterschiedlicher Antibiotikaregime nach kardiochirurgischen Eingriffen in der Pädiatrie: Ergebnisse einer randomisierten, prospektiven Pilotstudie

Degener, F.; Opgen-Rhein, B.; Böhne, M.; Weigelt, A.; Wagner, R.; Müller, G.; Racolta, A.; Rentzsch, A.; Papakostas, K.; Reineker, K.; Kiski, D.; Ruf, B.; Wiegand, G.; Hannes, T.; Khalil, M.; Fischer, M.; Kaestner, M.; Steinmetz, M.; Fischer, G.; Freudenthal, N.; Pickardt, T.; Messroghli, D.; Schubert, S.:

Four-Year Experience of the German Multicenter Registry for Pediatric Patients with Suspected Myocarditis: MYKKE

Salameh, A.; Dähnert, I.; Dhein, S.:

Olesoxime Inhibits Cardioplegia-Induced Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury: A Study in Langendorff-Perfused Rabbit Hearts

Gierten, J.; Loosli, F.; Gehrig, J.; Pylatiuk, C.; Fitzgerald, T.; Birney, E.; Wittbrodt, J.; Gorenflo, M.:

Systems Genetics Approach to Study Congenital Heart Disease in a Fish Model

Sigler, M.; Cho, M.Y.; Schulz, A.; Schmitt, K.; Berger, F.; Ovroutski, S.; Photiadis, J.; Nordmeyer, S.:

ADAPT Treated Pericardium for Aortic Valve Reconstruction in Congenital Heart Disease: Histology of a Series of Human Explants

Sandica, E.:

Reconstruction of the Dysfunctional Bicuspid Aortic Valve and a New Method for Aortic Valve Replacement

Nordmeyer, S.; Murin, P.; Nordmeyer, J.; Schmitt, K.; Miera, O.; Cho, M.Y.; Sinzobahamvya, N.; Berger, F.; Ovroutski, S.; Photiadis, J.:

Aortic Valve Repair Using Decellularized Bovine Pericardium Show Poor Results in Congenital Surgery

Vergnat, M.; Bierbach, B.; Arenz, C.; Suchowerskyj, P.; Schindler, E.; Schneider, M.; Hraska, V.; Asfour, B.:

Aortic Valve Disease in Children: Experience from Raising a Repair-Oriented Program

Poryo, M.; Shatat, M.; Gortner, L.; Abdul-Khaliq, H.; Meyer, S.:

The Role of EEG Recordings in Children undergoing Cardiac Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease