Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations

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Journal of the American Statistical Association

EngineeringAgingLife PredictionRare Event EstimationMortality Rates +19

Cardiac valve surgery—the “French correction”

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Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Adult Cardiac SurgeryCardiovascular DiseaseValve DiseaseSurgeryValvular Heart Disease +4

Fibrillin, a new 350-kD glycoprotein, is a component of extracellular microfibrils.

Lynn Y. Sakai, Douglas R. Keene, Eva Engvall

The Journal of Cell Biology

Tissue EngineeringEngineeringCollagen FibersCell AdhesionBacterial Collagenase +20

Life Expectancy and Causes of Death in the Marfan Syndrome

J. Lamont Murdoch, Bryan A. Walker, Barry L. Halpern, +2

New England Journal of Medicine

HypertensionHeart FailurePathologyStructural Heart DiseaseLongevity +14

The Decomposition of Time-Varying Hazard into Phases, Each Incorporating a Separate Stream of Concomitant Information

Eugene H. Blackstone, David C. Naftel, Malcolm E. Turner

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Heart FailureEngineeringPrognosisSeparate StreamNatural Hazard Assessment +17

Durability of mitral valve repair for degenerative disease

A. Marc Gillinov, Delos M. Cosgrove, Eugene H Blackstone, +7

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Heart FailureValve DiseaseSurgeryValvular Heart DiseaseMedicine +3

TGF-β–dependent pathogenesis of mitral valve prolapse in a mouse model of Marfan syndrome

Connie M. Ng, Alan Cheng, Loretha Myers, +8

Journal of Clinical Investigation

ImmunologyPathologyMyxomatous Valve DiseaseCongenital Heart AnomalyCellular Physiology +15

TGF-β–dependent pathogenesis of mitral valve prolapse in a mouse model of Marfan syndrome

Connie M. Ng, Alan Cheng, Loretha Myers, +8

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Targetting of the gene encoding fibrillin–1 recapitulates the vascular aspect of Marfan syndrome

Lygia V. Pereira, Konstantinos S. Andrikopoulos, Jenny Tian, +9

Nature Genetics

Vascular AspectMarfan SyndromeDevelopmental BiologyDisease MechanismGenetic Disorder +7

Long-term results of mitral valve reconstruction for regurgitation of the myxomatous mitral valve

Lawrence H. Cohn, Gregory S. Couper, Sary F. Aranki, +3

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery