Area of research
Surgery · Biomaterials
Research interest
Research interests include Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications, Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments, and Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches.
Optimal reperfusion strategy in acute high-risk pulmonary embolism requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support: a systematic review and meta-analysis
5-Year results from the prospective European multi-centre study on decellularized homografts for pulmonary valve replacement ESPOIR Trial and ESPOIR Registry data
Surgery for infective endocarditis following low-intermediate risk transcatheter aortic valve replacement—a multicentre experience
Targeting muscle-enriched long non-coding RNA <i>H19</i> reverses pathological cardiac hypertrophy
Early results from a prospective, single-arm European trial on decellularized allografts for aortic valve replacement: the ARISE study and ARISE Registry data
Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension Perioperative Monitoring Using Phase‐Resolved Functional Lung (PREFUL)‐MRI
A European study on decellularized homografts for pulmonary valve replacement: initial results from the prospective ESPOIR Trial and ESPOIR Registry data†
Decellularization combined with enzymatic removal of N‐linked glycans and residual DNA reduces inflammatory response and improves performance of porcine xenogeneic pulmonary heart valves in an ovine in vivo model
Vilnius Declaration on chronic respiratory diseases: multisectoral care pathways embedding guided self-management, mHealth and air pollution in chronic respiratory diseases
Early Insight Into In Vivo Recellularization of Cell-Free Allogenic Heart Valves
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and surgical embolectomy for high-risk pulmonary embolism
Incidence and characteristics of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension in Germany
Balloon pulmonary angioplasty for inoperable patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: the initial German experience
Single-centre experience with the frozen elephant trunk technique in 251 patients over 15 years†
Valve-sparing David I procedure in acute aortic type A dissection: a 20-year experience with more than 100 patients†
In vivo performance of freeze-dried decellularized pulmonary heart valve allo- and xenografts orthotopically implanted into juvenile sheep
Elective David I Procedure Has Excellent Long-Term Results: 20-Year Single-Center Experience
Long-term results of the Mitroflow aortic pericardial bioprosthesis in over 800 patients: limited durability and mechanisms of dysfunction†
Decellularized fresh homografts for pulmonary valve replacement: a decade of clinical experience
Decellularized aortic homografts for aortic valve and aorta ascendens replacement
MR Imaging–derived Regional Pulmonary Parenchymal Perfusion and Cardiac Function for Monitoring Patients with Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension before and after Pulmonary Endarterectomy
Aortic valve replacement with sutureless prosthesis: better than root enlargement to avoid patient–prosthesis mismatch?
Right-Sided Heart Failure and Extracorporeal Life Support in Patients Undergoing Pericardiectomy for Constrictive Pericarditis: A Risk Factor Analysis for Adverse Outcome
Successful matrix guided tissue regeneration of decellularized pulmonary heart valve allografts in elderly sheep
Decellularized aortic allografts versus pulmonary autografts for aortic valve replacement in the growing sheep model: haemodynamic and morphological results at 20 months after implantation
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
Performance of perfusion-weighted Fourier decomposition MRI for detection of chronic pulmonary emboli
Early Systemic Cellular Immune Response in Children and Young Adults Receiving Decellularized Fresh Allografts for Pulmonary Valve Replacement
Orthotopic Replacement of Aortic Heart Valves with Tissue-Engineered Grafts
Heart valve engineering: decellularized allograft matrices in clinical practice