OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cardiovascular Ultrasound is 6. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Artificial intelligence in echocardiography: detection, functional evaluation, and disease diagnosis	68
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	17
Contribution of sarcomere gene mutations to left atrial function in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy	11
Comparison of global and regional myocardial strains in patients with heart failure with a preserved ejection fraction vs hypertension vs age-matched control	11
Global and regional right ventricular mechanics in repaired tetralogy of Fallot with chronic severe pulmonary regurgitation: a three-dimensional echocardiography study	11
Assessment of left ventricular systolic function by non-invasive pressure-strain loop area in young male strength athletes	10
Left ventricular global longitudinal strain predicts elevated cardiac pressures and poor clinical outcomes in patients with non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy	10
Pre- and postoperative left atrial and ventricular volumetric and deformation analyses in severe aortic regurgitation	9
Post Procedural Peak Left Atrial Contraction Strain Predicts Recurrence of Arrhythmia after Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation	9
Comparison of left atrial and left atrial appendage mechanics in the risk stratification of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation	9
Left atrial functional assessment and mortality in patients with severe aortic stenosis with sinus rhythm	8
Feasibility of focused cardiac ultrasound during cardiac arrest in the emergency department	8
A multicentric quality-control study of exercise Doppler echocardiography of the right heart and the pulmonary circulation. The RIGHT Heart International NETwork (RIGHT-NET)	8
Layer‐specific strain echocardiography may reflect regional myocardial impairment in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy	8
Usefulness of speckle tracking echocardiography and biomarkers for detecting acute cellular rejection after heart transplantation	8
Left atrial morpho-functional remodeling in atrial fibrillation assessed by three dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography and its value in atrial fibrillation screening	8
Cardiac amyloidosis screening using a relative apical sparing pattern in patients with left ventricular hypertrophy	8
Myocardial contrast echocardiography assessment of perfusion abnormalities in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy	8
Peak left atrial longitudinal strain is associated with all-cause mortality in patients with ventricular functional mitral regurgitation	7
Evaluation of intraventricular flow by multimodality imaging: a review and meta-analysis	7
Afterload-related reference values for myocardial work indices	7
Diastolic function and its association with diabetes, hypertension and age in an outpatient population with normal stress echocardiography findings	7
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	7
Blood speckle imaging compared with conventional Doppler ultrasound for transvalvular pressure drop estimation in an aortic flow phantom	7
2D-echocardiography vs cardiac MRI strain: a prospective cohort study in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer undergoing trastuzumab	7

Galectin-3 and sST2: associations to the echocardiographic markers of the myocardial mechanics in systemic sclerosis – a pilot study	6
Left atrial contraction strain and controlled preload alterations, a study in healthy individuals	6
Ultrasonography to detect cardiovascular damage in children with essential hypertension	6
Reduced left atrial contractile strain with speckle tracking analysis predicts abnormal plasma NTproBNP in an asymptomatic community population	6