Sameh Ibrahim Sersar, Usama Ali Hamza, Wael AbdelAziz AbdelHameed, Reda Ahmed AbulMaaty, NourEldean Noaman Gowaeli, Sherif Abdou Moussa, Shawki Mahmoud AlMorsi, and Muna Mohammed Hafez
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Gonca Tuncel, Gulcin Ozalp, Serpil Savli, Ozgur Canoler, Mensure Kaya, and Nihal Kadiogullari
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Hidehito Matsuoka, Morihito Okada, Toshihiko Sakamoto, and Noriaki Tsubota
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Takekazu Iwata, Yasuo Sekine, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Akira Iyoda, Toshihiko Iizasa, Yukio Saito, and Takehiko Fujisawa
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Hisaichi Tanaka, Akihide Matsumura, Meinoshin Okumura, and Keiji Iuchi
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Jacek Kolcz and Christian Pizarro
	Neonatal repair of tetralogy of Fallot results in improved pulmonary artery development without increased need for reintervention (ORIGINAL ARTICLES) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2005;28:394-399. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Bohdan Maruszewski, Francois Lacour-Gayet, James L. Monro, Bruce E. Keogh, Zdzislaw Tobota, and Andrzej Kansy
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Marshall L. Jacobs
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Bodil Ivarsson, Sylvia Larsson, Carsten Lührs, and Trygve Sjöberg
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Victor Aboyans, Jérôme Guilloux, Philippe Lacroix, Cengiz Yildiz, Annabel Postil, and Marc Laskar
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Murat Ikizler, Serhat Ozkan, Sadettin Dernek, Coskun Ozdemir, Oguz O. Erdinc, Behcet Sevin, Gazi Ozdemir, and Tugrul Kural
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Russell E. Anderson, Kerstin Brismar, Gunilla Barr, and Torbjörn Ivert
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Hiromichi Fujii, Shigefumi Suehiro, Hiroshi Kumano, Toshihiko Shibata, Koji Hattori, Hidekazu Hirai, and Takanobu Aoyama
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Yoshimori Araki, Akihiko Usui, Osamu Kawaguchi, Shunei Saito, Min-Ho Song, Toshiaki Akita, and Yuichi Ueda
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Stéphane Aubert, Théodoro Barreda, Christophe Acar, Pascal Leprince, Nicolas Bonnet, René Ecochard, Alain Pavie, and Iradj Gandjbakhch
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Arne Olsson, Fredrik Bredin, and Anders Franco-Cereceda
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Gregor Warnecke, Murat Avsar, Thomas Steinkamp, Renate Reinhard, Jost Niedermeyer, André R. Simon, Axel Haverich, and Martin Strüber
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Theo Kofidis, Jorg Lucas deBruin, Masashi Tanaka, Monika Zwierzchoniewska, Irving Weissman, Eugenia Fedoseyeva, Axel Haverich, and Robert Clayton Robbins
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Murat Basaran, Eylul Kafali, Omer Sayin, Murat Ugurlucan, Melih Hulusi Us, Cicek Bayindir, Ahmet Turan Yilmaz, and Enver Dayioglu
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Kaoru Matsuura, Hitoshi Ogino, Hitoshi Matsuda, Kenji Minatoya, Hiroaki Sasaki, Toshikatsu Yagihara, and Soichiro Kitamura
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Patrizio Castelli, Roberto Caronno, Gabriele Piffaretti, Matteo Tozzi, Chiara Lomazzi, Domenico Laganà, Gianpaolo Carrafiello, and Salvatore Cuffari
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Ganesh Shanmugam
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Aman Coonar
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Sylvain Rubin, Olivier N. Pages, François Bonnet, and Bernard Baehrel
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Kunihiro Yoshioka, Hiroyuki Niinuma, Kohei Kawazoe, and Shigeru Ehara
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Giuseppe Tavilla
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Joseph Jacob, Ranjit Deshpande, and Jatin Desai
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Mohan P. Devbhandari, Tahir Mirza, Michael Hartley, and Andrew J. Duncan
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Matej Nosál', Ikenna Chima Omeje, and Rudolf Poruban
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Narendra Kuber Bodhey, Arun K. Gupta, Kurur Sankaran Neelakandhan, and Madathipat Unnikrishnan
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Sabine Elisabeth Gabor, Heiko Renner, Alfred Maier, and Freyja Maria Smolle Jüttner
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Marcin Zielinski and Jaroslaw Kuzdzal
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Ahmad Boseila
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Doriana Spina, Luigi Ferri, Alfredo Cesario, and Pierluigi Granone
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Angel López-Encuentra
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C.S. Pramesh and Rajesh C. Mistry
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Pascal Alexandre Thomas and Xavier Benoit D'Journo
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Duccio Di Carlo, Antonella Santilli, Antonio Amodeo, and Luigi Ballerini
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Toru Ishizaka
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Nawwar Al-Attar, Rémi Nottin, Ramzi Ramadan, and Alexandre Azmoun
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Henryk Siniawski, Miralem Pasic, and Roland Hetzer
	Reply to Al-Attar et al.Risk factors influencing outcome after surgical treatment of destructive endocarditis (LETTERS TO THE EDITOR) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2005;28:510. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Anoar Zacharias, Robert H. Habib, Thomas A. Schwann, and Christopher J. Riordan
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Brian F. Buxton and Ian Gordon
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Robert H. Habib, Anoar Zacharias, Thomas A. Schwann, and Christopher J. Riordan
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Manoj Kuduvalli, Antony D. Grayson, Michael J. Desmond, and Brian M. Fabri
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Selim Isbir, Koray Ak, and Nazan Aksoy
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Robert Poston and Bartley Griffith
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Shahzad G. Raja
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