OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cardiovascular Pathology is 3. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Myocarditis is rare in COVID-19 autopsies: cardiovascular findings across 277 postmortem examinations	234
MicroRNAs: roles in cardiovascular development and disease	104
Analysis of cardiopulmonary findings in COVID-19 fatalities: High incidence of pulmonary artery thrombi and acute suppurative bronchopneumonia	104
COVID-19 myocarditis: quantitative analysis of the inflammatory infiltrate and a proposed mechanism	57
Current state of vaccine development and targeted therapies for COVID-19: impact of basic science discoveries	53
The pathobiology of perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT), the fourth layer of the blood vessel wall	22
Sudden cardiac death in the young: A consensus statement on recommended practices for cardiac examination by pathologists from the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology	19
Cardiac pathology in COVID-19: a single center autopsy experience	18
The role of adiponectin in cardiovascular disease	18
Fatal Takotsubo syndrome in critical COVID-19 related pneumonia	16
An overview of human pericardial space and pericardial fluid	15
PD-1 and PD-L1 expression in cardiac transplantation	15
Accessory mitral valve tissue: anatomical and clinical perspectives	14
Prevention of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF): reexamining microRNA-21 inhibition in the era of oligonucleotide-based therapeutics	13
The history, science, and art of wine and the case for health benefits: perspectives of an oenophilic cardiovascular pathologist	13
A novel coronavirus meets the cardiovascular system: Society for Cardiovascular Pathology Symposium 2021	13
Structural abnormalities in the non-dilated ascending aortic wall of bicuspid aortic valve patients	13
Cardiovascular factors predicting poor outcome in COVID-19 patients	13
Cardiac tumors: three decades of experience from a tertiary center: are we changing diagnostic work-up with new imaging tools?	12
The pathology of Kawasaki disease aortitis: a study of 37 cases	12
Accelerated miniature swine models of advanced atherosclerosis: A review based on morphology	11
Myocardial fibrosis: morphologic patterns and role of imaging in diagnosis and prognostication	11
Cardiac macrophage density in Covid-19 infection: relationship to myocyte necrosis and acute lung injury	10
Diagnosis, treatment and predictors of prognosis of myocarditis. A narrative review	10
Sudden death by massive systemic embolism from cardiac myxoma. Role of the clinical autopsy and review of literature	10

Sengers syndrome: a rare case of cardiomyopathy combined with congenital cataracts in an infant: post-mortem case report	10
Electrocardiographic changes are strongly correlated with the extent of cardiac inflammation in mice with Coxsackievirus B3-induced viral myocarditis	9
Histological features of endomyocardial biopsies in patients undergoing hemodialysis: Comparison with dilated cardiomyopathy and hypertensive heart disease	9
Comparison of the damage to aorta wall in aortitis versus noninflammatory degenerative aortic diseases	9
Primary cardiac synovial sarcoma: a clinicopathological, immunohistochemical, and molecular genetics study of five clinical cases	9
Microthrombosis as a cause of fulminant myocarditis-like presentation with COVID-19 proven by endomyocardial biopsy	8
Remodeling of abdominal aortic aneurysm sac following endovascular aortic repair: association with clinical, surgical, and genetic factors	8
Correlation between SHP-1 and carotid plaque vulnerability in humans	8
Commentary on the enigma of small vessel disease in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: is invasive assessment of microvascular resistance a novel independent predictor of prognosis?	8
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	8
CARD9 mediates T cell inflammatory response in Coxsackievirus B3-induced acute myocarditis	7
Cellular senescence evaluated by P16INK4a immunohistochemistry is a prevalent phenomenon in advanced calcific aortic valve disease	7
Inflow cannula obstruction of the HeartWare left ventricular assist device: what do we really know?	7
Immunosuppressive therapy of biopsy proved immune-mediated lymphocytic myocarditis in the virus-negative and virus-positive patients.	7
The role of endocarditis in sudden cardiac death: highlighting the value of the autopsy, pathological features and cardiac complications	7
The effect of olmesartan on aortic intimal thickening after balloon injury through Apelin/APJ	6
Improving effects of eplerenone on atrial remodeling induced by chronic intermittent hypoxia in rats	6
Clinically occult amyloidosis derived from leukocyte chemotactic factor 2 (ALECT 2) with cardiac involvement complicating renal transplantation: case report and literature review	6
Endomyocardial biopsy with co-localization of a lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma and AL amyloidosis	6
Autonomic nerves in myocardial sleeves around caval veins: Potential role in cardiovascular mortality?	6
Fibrin-associate diffuse large B-Cell lymphoma arising in a left atrial myxoma: A case report and literature review✰,✰✰	6
Fatal rupture of pseudoaneurysm following angioplasty	6
A case of surgically resected cardiac rhabdomyoma with progressive left ventricular outflow tract obstruction	6
Is carotid web an arterial wall dysplasia? A histological series	5
Kinins and nitric oxide in patients with chronic chagas disease and systemic arterial hypertension	5
Effect of sex, age and body measurements on heart weight, atrial, ventricular, valvular and sub-epicardial fat measurements of the normal heart	5
Combined valve replacement and aortocoronary bypass in an adult mucopolysaccharidosis type VII patient	5
Structural valve deterioration and mode of failure of stentless bioprosthetic valves	5
Atrial inflammation and microvascular thrombogenicity are increased in deceased COVID-19 patients	5
Inflammation and fibrosis characterize different stages of myocardial remodeling in patients after stereotactic body radiotherapy of ventricular myocardium for recurrent ventricular tachycardia	5
Review on multifaceted involvement of perivascular adipose tissue in vascular pathology	5
Histopathologic features of alveolar capillary dysplasia with misalignment of pulmonary veins with atypical clinical presentation	5
Cardiac fibroma: A clinicopathologic study of a series of 12 cases	5
Unexpected case of chagas disease reactivation in endomyocardial biopsy for evaluation of cardiac allograft rejection	5
The pathology of early failure in Mitroflow pericardial valve bioprosthesis (12A/LX)	5
Adipocytes and membranous fat necrosis within native cardiac valves: Clinicopathologic characterization of histologic constituents	4
Pathologist's role in identifying cardiac defects—a fetal autopsy series	4
Rac1 mediates cadherin-11 induced cellular pathogenic processes in aortic valve calcification	4
Commentary on the spectrum of cardiopulmonary pathology in COVID-19	4
Implication of inflammation on Coxsackie virus and Adenovirus receptor expression on cardiomyocytes and the role of platelets in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy	4
Age-related histologic features of the sinoatrial node from normal human hearts during the first 10 decades of life: a study of 200 cases	4
The microenvironment of the atheroma expresses phenotypes of plaque instability	4
Consensus statement on the processing, interpretation and reporting of temporal artery biopsy for arteritis	4
Efficacy of bilateral temporal artery biopsies and sectioning of the entire block of tissue for the diagnosis of temporal arteritis	4
Multiorgan emboli due to an intraluminal thrombus from frozen elephant trunk	4
Infective endocarditis caused by Chaetomium globosum	4
Gravitational ischemia in the brain—may contribute to delirium and mortality in the intensive care unit	4
Diagnosing myocarditis in endomyocardial biopsies: survey of current practice	3
Stone heart syndrome after prolonged cardioplegia induced cardiac arrest in open-heart surgery – a pilot study on pigs	3
Recurrent pulmonary embolization of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor: a case report	3

Quantitative assessment of myocardial fibrosis by digital image analysis: An adjunctive tool for pathologist “ground truth”	3
Myocarditis and endomyocardial biopsy: achieving consensus diagnosis on 100 cases	3
Senescence, immune microenvironment, and vascularization in cardiac myxomas	3
Morphology of the papillary muscles and the chordae tendineae of the ventricles of adult human hearts	3
Coexistence of amyloidosis and light chain deposition disease in the heart	3
Etiologies of pericarditis in hospital and forensic autopsies	3
The role of the bicuspid aortic valve in sudden cardiac death–findings at cardiac autopsy	3
The role of endomyocardial biopsy in suspected myocarditis in the contemporary era: a 10-year National Transplant Centre experience	3
Molecular genetic characterization of sudden deaths due to thoracic aortic dissection or rupture	3
Hamartoma of mature cardiac myocytes: systematic review	3
Isolated subclavian or brachiocephalic arteries with tetralogy of Fallot, left retro-aortic brachiocephalic vein	3
The comeback of syphilitic aortitis	3
Extracellular vesicles and atherosclerotic peripheral arterial disease	3