OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cardiovascular Pathology is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The spectrum of macrophage-predominant inflammatory myocardial disease presenting as fulminant heart failure	60
Isolated cardiac valve involvement in smoldering adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma	35
COVER 3: Editorial Board	33
Intracardiac echocardiography-guided endomyocardial biopsy for the early detection of giant cell myocarditis causing recurrent ventricular tachycardia	32
Characterization of heart disease in mucopolysaccharidosis type II mice	20
Rapid versus slow degeneration and complications of biomaterials in patients with congenital heart disease	18
Diagnosing myocarditis in endomyocardial biopsies: survey of current practice	17
Necrotizing plasma cell-rich aortitis and sudden cardiac death: Late sequelae of COVID-19?	16
Cardiac pathology in COVID-19: a single center autopsy experience	13
COVER 4: Table of Contents/Barcode PMS 200	13
Ruptured pulmonary artery aneurysm with prior dissection and persistent ductus arteriosus: Autopsy case report	12
Primary myocardial fibrosis — a distinct entity characterized by heterogeneous histology	12
Exploring the role of pericardial miRNAs and exosomes in modulating cardiac fibrosis	12
Unexpected case of chagas disease reactivation in endomyocardial biopsy for evaluation of cardiac allograft rejection	10
Response to Commentary on development of the “molecular microscope (MMDx) assay for heart transplant rejection surveillance: SCVP journal club”	10
Reply to: “Analysis of the association of clinical, surgical and genetic factors with aneurysm sac remodeling after endovascular repair” by Martins et al.	10
Ultra-rapid regrowth of urothelial cardiac metastasis after debulking surgery	10
Diagnosis, treatment and predictors of prognosis of myocarditis. A narrative review	10
The pathology of early failure in Mitroflow pericardial valve bioprosthesis (12A/LX)	10
A case of endomyocardial biopsy-proven early stage cardiac involvement in heterozygous Fabry disease	10
Commentary on the spectrum of cardiopulmonary pathology in COVID-19	10
A case with two faces: noncompaction or phospholamban cardiomyopathy?	10
Electron microscopic identification of SARS-CoV-2	9
Commentary on development of the “molecular microscope (MMDX)” assay for heart transplant biopsy rejection surveillance: SCVP journal club	9
Valve-in-valve prosthesis—late morphological findings	9

COVER 3: Editorial Board	8
Effect of sex, age and body measurements on heart weight, atrial, ventricular, valvular and sub-epicardial fat measurements of the normal heart	8
The role of adiponectin in cardiovascular disease	8
Commentary on an inflammatory discussion: Society for Cardiovascular Pathology journal club	6
COVER 3: Editorial Board	6
COVER 3: Editorial Board	6
An autopsy case of sudden unexpected death with Barlow's disease	6
Recurrent arrhythmic storms and unsuccessful catheter ablation in chronic ischemic heart disease	6
Frequent protein kinase A regulatory subunit A1 mutations but no GNAS mutations as potential driver in sporadic cardiac myxomas	5
A fetal rat model of ventricular noncompaction caused by intrauterine hyperglycemia	5
Pathology Musings - Society for Cardiovascular Pathology Distinguished Achievement awardee lecture 2023	5
Primary diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of the heart: A rare case of heart failure	5
Right atrial cardiac myxoma with malignant transformation to undifferentiated sarcoma: A case report	5
Unusual cardiac aneurysms: a surgical pathology experience	5
Seeing beyond apoptosis: ultrastructural aspects of necrosis in human atherosclerosis	5
Digital pathology in cardiac transplant diagnostics: from biopsies to algorithms	4
3D models of the cardiac conduction system in healthy neonatal human hearts	4
Histopathological evaluation of chronic rheumatic mitral valve stenosis: the association with clinical presentation, pathogenesis, and management at a National Cardiac Institute, Tanzania.	4
COVER 3: Editorial Board	4
Intravenous leiomyomatosis in the inferior vena cava and right atrium with pulmonary benign metastasizing leiomyoma secondary to a pelvic arteriovenous fistula: A case report and literature review	4
The application of autopsy and explanted heart samples in scientific research	4
Cause of death for heart transplant patients, an autopsy study	4
Racially related risk factors for cardiovascular disease: society for cardiovascular pathology symposium 2022	4
Unfavorable left ventricular remodeling due to experience of chronic sleep restriction after myocardial infarction: The role of matrix metalloproteinases & oxidative stress	4
Rare primary cardiac myxofibrosarcoma in adolescence: Diagnostic challenges and surgical insights.	4
An effective rehydrating formula for reconditioning dried, irreplaceable heart specimens for teaching	3
Post-treatment bacterial endocarditis mimicking fungal organisms: a morphologic comparison and tips for avoiding this diagnostic pitfall	3
Peer-review of “A history of cardiac surgery: an adventurous voyage from antiquity to the artificial heart” by Ugo Filippo Tesler	3
Detailed study of collagen, vasculature, and innervation in the human cardiac conduction system	3
Senescence, immune microenvironment, and vascularization in cardiac myxomas	3
Myocarditis and endomyocardial biopsy: achieving consensus diagnosis on 100 cases	3
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with a complex clinical course leading to heart transplantation	3
Cellular senescence evaluated by P16INK4a immunohistochemistry is a prevalent phenomenon in advanced calcific aortic valve disease	3
Takayasu arteritis with medio-medial intussusception?	3
COVER 4: Table of Contents/Barcode PMS 200	3
COVER 3: Editorial Board	3
Intimal sarcoma of the lower pulmonary vein diagnosed by Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration (EBUS-FNA): A case report and comprehensive literature review	3
COVER 3: Editorial Board	3
Glandular cardiac myxoma with intraepithelial ductal neoplasia features: Report of the first case	3
Cardiac sarcoidosis diagnosed after orthotopic heart transplantation and clinically mimicking arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy	3
A case presenting as fatal subarachnoid hemorrhage due to segmental arterial mediolysis associated with Crohn's disease	3
COVER 4: Table of Contents/Barcode PMS 200	2
A novel coronavirus meets the cardiovascular system: Society for Cardiovascular Pathology Symposium 2021	2
Age-related histologic features of the sinoatrial node from normal human hearts during the first 10 decades of life: a study of 200 cases	2
Insights from autopsy-initiated pathological studies of the pathogenesis and clinical manifestations of atherosclerosis and ischemic heart disease: Part I. Atherosclerosis	2
COVER 3: Editorial Board	2
Quantitative assessment of myocardial fibrosis by digital image analysis: An adjunctive tool for pathologist “ground truth”	2
Decreased smooth muscle cells and fibrous thickening of the tunica media in peripheral pulmonary artery stenosis in Alagille syndrome	2
Cardiac myxoma with atypical cell population mimicking malignancy – a diagnostic pitfall	2
COVER 4: Table of Contents/Barcode PMS 200	2

COVER 4: Table of Contents/Barcode PMS 200	2
The role of the bicuspid aortic valve in sudden cardiac death–findings at cardiac autopsy	2
The influence of glutaraldehyde on the microscopic structure of human pericardium	2
PD-1 and PD-L1 expression in cardiac transplantation	2
Cardiovascular pathologists in translation research	2
Reply to Halloran and Madill-Thomsen letter to editor	2
COVER 3: Editorial Board	2
An overview of human pericardial space and pericardial fluid	2
The cardiovascular pathologist in the aortic team	2
Corrigendum to “Comparative evaluation of local and downstream responses in two commercially available paclitaxel-coated balloons in healthy peripheral arteries of a swine model”	2
COVER 3: Editorial Board	2
COVER 4: Table of Contents/Barcode PMS 200	2
Electron microscopy identification of SARS-COV-2: what is the evidence?	2
COVER 3: Editorial Board	2
Current concepts in the epigenetic regulation of cardiac fibrosis	2
Pericardial lymphangioma: a rare benign albeit variably symptomatic tumefactive lesion	2
Cardiac fibroma: A clinicopathologic study of a series of 12 cases	2
Sanfilippo syndrome type A: early cardiac involvement of two patients with cardiac manifestations	2
Extracellular vesicles and atherosclerotic peripheral arterial disease	2
The mitochondrial uncoupler 2,4-dinitrophenol modulates inflammatory and oxidative responses in Trypanosoma cruzi-induced acute myocarditis in mice	2