OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cardiovascular Pathology is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The emerging spectrum of cardiopulmonary pathology of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): Report of 3 autopsies from Houston, Texas, and review of autopsy findings from other United States cities	306
Myocarditis is rare in COVID-19 autopsies: cardiovascular findings across 277 postmortem examinations	217
Analysis of cardiopulmonary findings in COVID-19 fatalities: High incidence of pulmonary artery thrombi and acute suppurative bronchopneumonia	102
MicroRNAs: roles in cardiovascular development and disease	89
Pathophysiological characteristics and therapeutic approaches for pulmonary injury and cardiovascular complications of coronavirus disease 2019	83
COVID-19 myocarditis: quantitative analysis of the inflammatory infiltrate and a proposed mechanism	51
Fatal Pulmonary Thromboembolism in SARS-CoV-2-Infection	51
Current state of vaccine development and targeted therapies for COVID-19: impact of basic science discoveries	51
STEMI during the COVID-19 Pandemic - An Evaluation of Incidence	39
Comparative pathology of human and canine myxomatous mitral valve degeneration: 5HT and TGF-β mechanisms	33
Immunomodulatory treatment of immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced myocarditis: Pathway toward precision-based therapy	31
Acute fatal myocarditis after a single dose of anti-PD-1 immunotherapy, autopsy findings: a case report	21
The pathobiology of perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT), the fourth layer of the blood vessel wall	19
Morphometric characterization of collagen and fat in normal ventricular myocardium	17
Fatal Takotsubo syndrome in critical COVID-19 related pneumonia	16
Cardiac pathology in COVID-19: a single center autopsy experience	16
Syphilitic aortitis: still a current common cause of aneurysm of the tubular portion of ascending aorta	15
Cardiovascular factors predicting poor outcome in COVID-19 patients	13
Sudden cardiac death in the young: A consensus statement on recommended practices for cardiac examination by pathologists from the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology	13
Relationships between visceral/subcutaneous adipose tissue FABP4 expression and coronary atherosclerosis in patients with metabolic syndrome	12
A novel coronavirus meets the cardiovascular system: Society for Cardiovascular Pathology Symposium 2021	12
Structural abnormalities in the non-dilated ascending aortic wall of bicuspid aortic valve patients	12
Isomerism of the atrial appendages: morphology and terminology	12
Prevention of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF): reexamining microRNA-21 inhibition in the era of oligonucleotide-based therapeutics	12
Accessory mitral valve tissue: anatomical and clinical perspectives	11

An overview of human pericardial space and pericardial fluid	10
Multiple ulcerations and perforation in the small intestine after steroid treatment in eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis: a case report and literature review	10
Cardiac tumors: three decades of experience from a tertiary center: are we changing diagnostic work-up with new imaging tools?	10
Induction of aortic valve calcification by celecoxib and its COX-2 independent derivatives is glucocorticoid-dependent	10
Accelerated miniature swine models of advanced atherosclerosis: A review based on morphology	10
PD-1 and PD-L1 expression in cardiac transplantation	9
The pathology of Kawasaki disease aortitis: a study of 37 cases	9
The role of adiponectin in cardiovascular disease	9
MiR-29a in mesenchymal stem cells inhibits FSTL1 secretion and promotes cardiac myocyte apoptosis in hypoxia-reoxygenation injury	9
Myocardial fibrosis: morphologic patterns and role of imaging in diagnosis and prognostication	9
Diagnosis, treatment and predictors of prognosis of myocarditis. A narrative review	9
Histological features of endomyocardial biopsies in patients undergoing hemodialysis: Comparison with dilated cardiomyopathy and hypertensive heart disease	8
Electrocardiographic changes are strongly correlated with the extent of cardiac inflammation in mice with Coxsackievirus B3-induced viral myocarditis	8
The history, science, and art of wine and the case for health benefits: perspectives of an oenophilic cardiovascular pathologist	8
Cardiac macrophage density in Covid-19 infection: relationship to myocyte necrosis and acute lung injury	8
Pathology of unexpected sudden cardiac death: Obstructive sleep apnea is part of the challenge	8
Mitochondria in aneurysms and dissections of the human ascending aorta	8
Primary cardiac synovial sarcoma: a clinicopathological, immunohistochemical, and molecular genetics study of five clinical cases	8
Correlation between SHP-1 and carotid plaque vulnerability in humans	7
Immunosuppressive therapy of biopsy proved immune-mediated lymphocytic myocarditis in the virus-negative and virus-positive patients.	7
CARD9 mediates T cell inflammatory response in Coxsackievirus B3-induced acute myocarditis	7
Sengers syndrome: a rare case of cardiomyopathy combined with congenital cataracts in an infant: post-mortem case report	7
Inflow cannula obstruction of the HeartWare left ventricular assist device: what do we really know?	7
Comparison of the damage to aorta wall in aortitis versus noninflammatory degenerative aortic diseases	7
Sudden death by massive systemic embolism from cardiac myxoma. Role of the clinical autopsy and review of literature	6
Cellular senescence evaluated by P16INK4a immunohistochemistry is a prevalent phenomenon in advanced calcific aortic valve disease	6
A case of surgically resected cardiac rhabdomyoma with progressive left ventricular outflow tract obstruction	6
The effect of olmesartan on aortic intimal thickening after balloon injury through Apelin/APJ	6
Cardiovascular ochronosis	6
Remodeling of abdominal aortic aneurysm sac following endovascular aortic repair: association with clinical, surgical, and genetic factors	6
Combined valve replacement and aortocoronary bypass in an adult mucopolysaccharidosis type VII patient	5
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy presenting with different morphological patterns in the same patient: a case report and review of the literature	5
Microthrombosis as a cause of fulminant myocarditis-like presentation with COVID-19 proven by endomyocardial biopsy	5
Endomyocardial biopsy with co-localization of a lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma and AL amyloidosis	5
Perfusion-distention fixation of heart specimens: a key step in immortalizing heart specimens for wax infiltration and generating 3D imaging data sets for reconstruction and printed 3D models	5
The pathology of early failure in Mitroflow pericardial valve bioprosthesis (12A/LX)	5
The role of endocarditis in sudden cardiac death: highlighting the value of the autopsy, pathological features and cardiac complications	5
Review on multifaceted involvement of perivascular adipose tissue in vascular pathology	5
Structural valve deterioration and mode of failure of stentless bioprosthetic valves	5
Fatal rupture of pseudoaneurysm following angioplasty	5
Is carotid web an arterial wall dysplasia? A histological series	4
Multiorgan emboli due to an intraluminal thrombus from frozen elephant trunk	4
Atrial inflammation and microvascular thrombogenicity are increased in deceased COVID-19 patients	4
Fibrin-associate diffuse large B-Cell lymphoma arising in a left atrial myxoma: A case report and literature review✰,✰✰	4
Cardiac AA amyloidosis in a patient with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy	4
Improving effects of eplerenone on atrial remodeling induced by chronic intermittent hypoxia in rats	4
Rac1 mediates cadherin-11 induced cellular pathogenic processes in aortic valve calcification	4
Clinically occult amyloidosis derived from leukocyte chemotactic factor 2 (ALECT 2) with cardiac involvement complicating renal transplantation: case report and literature review	4
Unexpected case of chagas disease reactivation in endomyocardial biopsy for evaluation of cardiac allograft rejection	4
Lysosomal storage disorders affecting the heart: a review	4

Gravitational ischemia in the brain—may contribute to delirium and mortality in the intensive care unit	4
Adipocytes and membranous fat necrosis within native cardiac valves: Clinicopathologic characterization of histologic constituents	4
Effect of sex, age and body measurements on heart weight, atrial, ventricular, valvular and sub-epicardial fat measurements of the normal heart	4
Cardiac fibroma: A clinicopathologic study of a series of 12 cases	4
Inflammation and fibrosis characterize different stages of myocardial remodeling in patients after stereotactic body radiotherapy of ventricular myocardium for recurrent ventricular tachycardia	4
Commentary on the spectrum of cardiopulmonary pathology in COVID-19	4