OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cardiovascular Ultrasound 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Artificial intelligence in echocardiography: detection, functional evaluation, and disease diagnosis	46
A review of current trends in three-dimensional analysis of left ventricular myocardial strain	29
Left atrial reservoir strain combined with E/E' as a better single measure to predict elevated LV filling pressures in patients with coronary artery disease	25
Usefulness of speckle-tracking echocardiography for early detection in children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis	16
Myocarditis successfully diagnosed and controlled with speckle tracking echocardiography	15
Left atrial longitudinal strain as a predictor of Cancer therapeutics-related cardiac dysfunction in patients with breast Cancer	14
Evaluation of prenatal changes in fetal cardiac morphology and function in maternal diabetes mellitus using a novel fetal speckle-tracking analysis: a prospective cohort study	12
Prognostic implications of tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion/pulmonary arterial systolic pressure ratio in septic shock patients	12
Assessment of left ventricular systolic function by non-invasive pressure-strain loop area in young male strength athletes	10
Global and regional right ventricular mechanics in repaired tetralogy of Fallot with chronic severe pulmonary regurgitation: a three-dimensional echocardiography study	9
Left ventricular global longitudinal strain predicts elevated cardiac pressures and poor clinical outcomes in patients with non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy	9
Comparison of left atrial and left atrial appendage mechanics in the risk stratification of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation	9
Contribution of sarcomere gene mutations to left atrial function in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy	9
Comparison of global and regional myocardial strains in patients with heart failure with a preserved ejection fraction vs hypertension vs age-matched control	8
Feasibility of focused cardiac ultrasound during cardiac arrest in the emergency department	8
Commercial 4-dimensional echocardiography for murine heart volumetric evaluation after myocardial infarction	8
Acute changes of global and longitudinal right ventricular function: an exploratory analysis in patients undergoing open-chest mitral valve surgery, percutaneous mitral valve repair and off-pump coron	8
Post Procedural Peak Left Atrial Contraction Strain Predicts Recurrence of Arrhythmia after Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation	8
Fragmented QRS as an early predictor of left ventricular systolic dysfunction in healthy individuals: a nested case-control study in the era of speckle tracking echocardiography	7
Improved diagnosis of pulmonary embolism causing cardiac arrest by combined endobronchial ultrasound and echocardiography	7
A multicentric quality-control study of exercise Doppler echocardiography of the right heart and the pulmonary circulation. The RIGHT Heart International NETwork (RIGHT-NET)	7
Quantification of left ventricular mass by echocardiography compared to cardiac magnet resonance imaging in hemodialysis patients	7
2D-echocardiography vs cardiac MRI strain: a prospective cohort study in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer undergoing trastuzumab	7
Usefulness of speckle tracking echocardiography and biomarkers for detecting acute cellular rejection after heart transplantation	7
Myocardial contrast echocardiography assessment of perfusion abnormalities in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy	6

Speckle tracking echocardiographically-based analysis of ventricular strain in children: an intervendor comparison	6
Left atrial morpho-functional remodeling in atrial fibrillation assessed by three dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography and its value in atrial fibrillation screening	6
Association between multi-site atherosclerotic plaques and systemic arteriosclerosis: results from the BEST study (Beijing Vascular Disease Patients Evaluation Study)	5
Ultrasonography to detect cardiovascular damage in children with essential hypertension	5
Afterload-related reference values for myocardial work indices	5
Predictors of worsening TR severity after right ventricular lead placement: any added value by post-procedural fluoroscopy versus three –dimensional echocardiography?	5
Diastolic function and its association with diabetes, hypertension and age in an outpatient population with normal stress echocardiography findings	5
Left atrial spontaneous echo contrast occurring in patients with low CHADS2 or CHA2DS2-VASc scores	5
Evaluation of intraventricular flow by multimodality imaging: a review and meta-analysis	5
Usefulness of tissue Doppler-derived atrial electromechanical delay for identifying patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation	5
Blood speckle imaging compared with conventional Doppler ultrasound for transvalvular pressure drop estimation in an aortic flow phantom	5
Galectin-3 and sST2: associations to the echocardiographic markers of the myocardial mechanics in systemic sclerosis – a pilot study	5
Associations of 2D speckle tracking echocardiography-based right heart deformation parameters and invasively assessed hemodynamic measurements in patients with pulmonary hypertension	5
Left atrial functional assessment and mortality in patients with severe aortic stenosis with sinus rhythm	5
Cardiac amyloidosis screening using a relative apical sparing pattern in patients with left ventricular hypertrophy	5
Feasibility and accuracy of a novel automated three-dimensional ultrasonographic analysis system for abdominal aortic aneurysm: comparison with two-dimensional ultrasonography and computed tomography	5
Incremental prognostic value of echocardiography of left ventricular remodeling and diastolic function in STICH trial	5
Local myocardial stiffness variations identified by high frame rate shear wave echocardiography	5
Three-dimensional intracardiac echocardiography and pulmonary embolism	4
Impact of concomitant tricuspid annuloplasty on right ventricular remodeling in patients with rheumatic mitral valve disease	4
Characteristics and prognosis of patients with cryptogenic stroke and suggestive of patent foramen ovale	4
Comparison of left atrial deformation parameters between renal transplant and hemodialysis patients	4
A novel method of calculating stroke volume using point-of-care echocardiography	4
Layer‐specific strain echocardiography may reflect regional myocardial impairment in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy	4
Emergency cardiac imaging for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in practice: a case of takotsubo stress cardiomyopathy	4
Pre- and postoperative left atrial and ventricular volumetric and deformation analyses in severe aortic regurgitation	4
Prognostic effect of increased left ventricular wall thickness in severe aortic stenosis	4
The effectiveness of a blended POCUS curriculum on achieving basic focused bedside transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) proficiency. A formalized pilot study	4
Two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography in assessing the subclinical myocardial dysfunction in patients with gestational diabetes mellitus	3
Effect of kidney transplantation on right ventricular function, assessment by 2- dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography	3
Preoperative false-negative transthoracic echocardiographic results in native valve infective endocarditis patients: a retrospective study from 2001 to 2018	3
Fetal cardiac function at intrauterine transfusion assessed by automated analysis of color tissue Doppler recordings	3
Left ventricular high frame rate echo-particle image velocimetry: clinical application and comparison with conventional imaging	3
The feasibility, reliability, and incremental value of two-dimensional speckle-tracking for the detection of significant coronary stenosis after treadmill stress echocardiography	3
In-vitro sonothrombolysis using thick-shelled polymer microbubbles - a comparison with thin-shelled microbubbles	3
Safety and effects of volume loading during transesophageal echocardiography in the pre-procedural work-up for left atrial appendage closure	3
Left atrial contraction strain and controlled preload alterations, a study in healthy individuals	3
Peak left atrial longitudinal strain is associated with all-cause mortality in patients with ventricular functional mitral regurgitation	3
Echocardiographic assessment of diastolic dysfunction in elderly patients with severe aortic stenosis before and after aortic valve replacement	3
Assessment of normal hemodynamic profile of mechanical pulmonary prosthesis by doppler echocardiography: a prospective cross-sectional study	3
Mitral early-diastolic inflow peak velocity (E)-to-left atrial strain ratio as a novel index for predicting elevated left ventricular filling pressures in patients with preserved left ventricular ejec	3
Mid-term effect of balloon aortic valvuloplasty on mitral regurgitation in aortic stenosis	3