Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy

Article	Citations
Curcumin suppresses doxorubicin-induced cardiomyocyte pyroptosis via a PI3K/Akt/mTOR-dependent manner	91
Pathophysiology of heart failure	87
Cardiovascular/stroke risk predictive calculators: a comparison between statistical and machine learning models	46
Assessing the impact of PCSK9 inhibition on coronary plaque phenotype with optical coherence tomography: rationale and design of the randomized, placebo-controlled HUYGENS study	40
Carotid plaque imaging and the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease	33
Mechanics of right ventricular dysfunction in pulmonary arterial hypertension and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction	32
Automated detection of cardiovascular disease by electrocardiogram signal analysis: a deep learning system	31
May-Thurner syndrome	30
A glimpse of hope: cardiac surgery in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)	28
An overview of heart failure in low- and middle-income countries	28
Contrast imaging ultrasound for the detection and characterization of carotid vulnerable plaque	26
Vessel wall MR imaging for the detection of intracranial inflammatory vasculopathies	26
MR imaging of vulnerable carotid plaque	24
Rheumatic heart disease: current status of diagnosis and therapy	23
Overview of the socio-economic consequences of heart failure	23
Molecular mechanisms of right ventricular dysfunction in pulmonary arterial hypertension: focus on the coronary vasculature, sex hormones, and glucose/lipid metabolism	22
Nutcracker syndrome: diagnosis and therapy	22
Identification of characteristics of overt myocarditis in adult patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies	21
Insight from imaging on plaque vulnerability: similarities and differences between coronary and carotid arteries—implications for systemic therapies	20
Cardiac computed tomography radiomics: an emerging tool for the non-invasive assessment of coronary atherosclerosis	19
Treatment of right ventricular dysfunction and heart failure in pulmonary arterial hypertension	19
Checkpoint inhibitor-induced fulminant myocarditis, complete atrioventricular block and myasthenia gravis—a case report	18
4D flow imaging of the thoracic aorta: is there an added clinical value?	18
Exosomes derived from human amniotic fluid mesenchymal stem cells alleviate cardiac fibrosis via enhancing angiogenesis in vivo and in vitro	18
Implications of gut microbiome on coronary artery disease	17

Pulmonary hypertension in low- and middle-income countries with focus on sub-Saharan Africa	17
When to use intravascular ultrasound or optical coherence tomography during percutaneous coronary intervention?	17
PET/MRI of atherosclerosis	16
Median arcuate ligament syndrome (Dunbar syndrome)	16
Tuberculous pericardial disease: a focused update on diagnosis, therapy and prevention of complications	16
The pro-apoptosis and pro-inflammation role of LncRNA HIF1A-AS1 in Coxsackievirus B3-induced myocarditis via targeting miR-138	16
MiR-181c protects cardiomyocyte injury by preventing cell apoptosis through PI3K/Akt signaling pathway	16
Machine learning-based CT fractional flow reserve assessment in acute chest pain: first experience	16
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging for structural heart disease	15
Update on noninvasive imaging of right ventricle dysfunction in pulmonary hypertension	15
Cardiac CT perfusion and FFRCTA: pathophysiological features in ischemic heart disease	15
The use of cardiovascular magnetic resonance as an early non-invasive biomarker for cardiotoxicity in cardio-oncology	15
Multimorbidity and cardiovascular disease: a perspective on low- and middle-income countries	15
Ultrasound-based stroke/cardiovascular risk stratification using Framingham Risk Score and ASCVD Risk Score based on “Integrated Vascular Age” instead of “Chronological Age”: a multi-ethnic study of A	15
Detection and management of arrhythmias in peripartum cardiomyopathy	15
Infective endocarditis and oral health—a Narrative Review	14
LncRNA XIST serves as a diagnostic biomarker in gestational diabetes mellitus and its regulatory effect on trophoblast cell via miR-497-5p/FOXO1 axis	14
Carotid plaque imaging profiling in subjects with risk factors (diabetes and hypertension)	14
Vessel wall MR imaging of intracranial atherosclerosis	14
Left ventricular dysfunction in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction—molecular mechanisms and impact on right ventricular function	14
Artificial intelligence in personalized cardiovascular medicine and cardiovascular imaging	14
Cuproptosis, the novel therapeutic mechanism for heart failure: a narrative review	14
Left and right ventricular myocardial deformation and late gadolinium enhancement: incremental prognostic value in amyloid light-chain amyloidosis	14
Medical management of pediatric heart failure	14
Incidence of myocardial injury in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a pooled analysis of 7,679 patients from 53 studies	14
Cardiac multi-scale investigation of the right and left ventricle ex vivo: a review	14
MicroRNA-363-3p serves as a diagnostic biomarker of acute myocardial infarction and regulates vascular endothelial injury by targeting KLF2	13
An ‘asymptomatic’ driver with COVID-19: atypical suspected myocarditis by SARS-CoV-2	13
Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome	13
Pyrroloquinoline quinone can prevent chronic heart failure by regulating mitochondrial function	13
The assessment of intermediate coronary lesions using intracoronary imaging	13
Safety and efficacy of the endothelin receptor antagonist macitentan in pediatric pulmonary hypertension	13
Emerging therapies for right ventricular dysfunction and failure	13
Systematic assessment of health care perception in adults with congenital heart disease in Germany	13
Fundamentals and role of intravascular ultrasound in percutaneous coronary intervention	13
Ginsenoside Rg3 protects heart against isoproterenol-induced myocardial infarction by activating AMPK mediated autophagy	12
In vivo imaging of vulnerable plaque with intravascular modalities: its advantages and limitations	12
A randomized controlled trial of brain and heart health manager-led mHealth secondary stroke prevention	12
Can COVID19 trigger the plaque vulnerability—a Kounis syndrome warning for “asymptomatic subjects”	12
Animal models of right heart failure	12
Cardiac arrhythmias in low- and middle-income countries	12
Contemporary narrative review on left atrial strain mechanics in echocardiography: cardiomyopathy, valvular heart disease and beyond	12
Right ventricular dysfunction and long-term risk of death	11
Diagnostic efficiency of quantification of myocardial blood flow and coronary flow reserve with CZT dynamic SPECT imaging for patients with suspected coronary artery disease: a comparative study with	11
MicroRNA-374 is a potential diagnostic biomarker for atherosclerosis and regulates the proliferation and migration of vascular smooth muscle cells	11
Diagnosis and treatment of right ventricular dysfunction in congenital heart disease	11
Valvular heart disease in congenital heart disease: a narrative review	11
Non-invasive investigation of myocardial energetics in cardiac disease using 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy	11
Long non-coding RNA SENCR alleviates hypoxia/reoxygenation-induced cardiomyocyte apoptosis and inflammatory response by sponging miR-1	11
Technical development in cardiac CT: current standards and future improvements—a narrative review	11

Cardiac magnetic resonance derived left atrial strain after ST-elevation myocardial infarction: an independent prognostic indicator	10
The prognostic value of transesophageal echocardiography after transvenous lead extraction: landscape after battle	10
Diagnostic efficacy of 2-shot compressed sensing cine sequence cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging for left ventricular function	10
Comparison of clinical outcomes between robotic and thoracoscopic mitral valve repair	10
Development of machine learning models for mortality risk prediction after cardiac surgery	10
Optical coherence tomography: fundamentals and clinical utility	10
Pulmonary vascular endothelial injury and acute pulmonary hypertension caused by COVID-19: the fundamental cause of refractory hypoxemia?	10
The prognostic value of right ventricular deformation derived from cardiac magnetic resonance tissue tracking for all-cause mortality in light-chain amyloidosis patients	10
Is spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) related to vascular inflammation and epicardial fat? —insights from computed tomography coronary angiography	9
Hypermethylation of miR-181b in monocytes is associated with coronary artery disease and promotes M1 polarized phenotype via PIAS1-KLF4 axis	9
Prevalence and real-world management of NSTEMI with multivessel disease	9
Evolution of heart transplantation since Barnard’s first	9
Uses of ultrasound in stroke prevention	9
Use of cardiac magnetic resonance to detect changes in metabolism in heart failure	9
Performance of cardiovascular magnetic resonance strain in patients with acute myocarditis	9
Dual-energy CT and coronary imaging	9
MicroRNA-532-5p protects against atherosclerosis through inhibiting vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation and migration	9
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging for inflammatory heart diseases	9
Weaning from ventricular assist device support after recovery from left ventricular failure with or without secondary right ventricular failure	9
Pulmonary vascular disease in Fontan circulation—is there a rationale for pulmonary vasodilator therapies?	9
Heart applications of 4D flow	9
Advance ultrasound techniques for the assessment of plaque vulnerability in symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid stenosis: a multimodal ultrasound study	8
A longitudinal 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) and 18F-sodium fluoride (18F-NaF) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) study in apolipoprotein E (ApoE) knockout rats fed with a We	8
Obesity-related ventricular remodelling is exacerbated in dilated and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy	8
A guide to echocardiographic assessment in children and adolescents with pulmonary hypertension	8
Therapy of supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias in adults with congenital heart disease—narrative review	8
Characteristics of spontaneous coronary artery dissection on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging	8
Circulating biomarkers in the early detection of hypertensive heart disease: usefulness in the developing world	8
Quantification of myocardial deformation in patients with Fabry disease by cardiovascular magnetic resonance feature tracking imaging	8
Antithrombotic therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention, including compliance with current guidelines—data from the POLish Atrial Fibrillation (POL-AF	8
COVID-19 pandemic and stent thrombosis in a post percutaneous coronary intervention patient-a case report highlighting the selection of P2Y12 inhibitor	8
Intracoronary near-infrared spectroscopy—role and clinical applications	8
Ventricular assist devices implantation: surgical assessment and technical strategies	7
MicroRNA-126 promotes endothelial progenitor cell proliferation and migration ability via the Notch pathway	7
Metabolic syndrome and coronary artery disease in adults with congenital heart disease	7
The frozen elephant trunk procedure: indications, outcomes and future directions	7
Up-regulation of PERK/Nrf2/HO-1 axis protects myocardial tissues of mice from damage triggered by ischemia-reperfusion through ameliorating endoplasmic reticulum stress	7
Treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension in children	7
The role of intravascular ultrasound in percutaneous coronary intervention of complex coronary lesions	7
Challenges in addressing the knowledge gap on endomyocardial fibrosis through community-based studies	7
Determining the thresholds for abnormal left ventricular strains in healthy subjects by echocardiography: a meta-analysis	7
Comparing the efficacy of angiotensin receptor-neprilysin inhibitor and enalapril in acute anterior STEMI patients after primary percutaneous coronary intervention: a prospective randomized trial	7
A comparison of artificial intelligence-based algorithms for the identification of patients with depressed right ventricular function from 2-dimentional echocardiography parameters and clinical featur	7
Plaque imaging volume analysis: technique and application	7
A machine learning-based approach for the prediction of periprocedural myocardial infarction by using routine data	7
Correlation between the elevated uric acid levels and circulating renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system activation in patients with atrial fibrillation	7
Prognostic value of CT-derived myocardial blood flow, CT fractional flow reserve and high-risk plaque features for predicting major adverse cardiac events	7
Angiotensin II and hypoxia induce autophagy in cardiomyocytes via activating specific protein kinase C subtypes	6
Intra- and inter-observer reproducibility of multilayer cardiac magnetic resonance feature tracking derived longitudinal and circumferential strain	6
MicroRNA-221 promotes proliferation and migration of pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells (PASMCs) by targeting tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-3 (TIMP3)	6
Systemic sclerosis-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension in children	6
Exogenous endothelial progenitor cells reached the deficient region of acute cerebral ischemia rats to improve functional recovery via Bcl-2	6
Early clinical outcomes of thoracoscopic mitral valvuloplasty: a clinical experience of 100 consecutive cases	6
The incidence, prevalence, and survival rate of thromboangiitis obliterans in Korea: a retrospective population-based study	6
Current diagnosis and management of late complications in adult congenital heart disease	6
Cardiac CT angiography: normal and pathological anatomical features—a narrative review	6
Fabry disease—what cardiologists can learn from the nephrologist: a narrative review	6
Machine learning-based long-term outcome prediction in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention	6
Downstream thoracic endovascular aortic repair following the frozen elephant trunk procedure	6
Quality of life in patients with Marfan syndrome: a cross-sectional study of 102 adult patients	6
Personalized antihypertensive treatment guided by pharmacogenomics in China	6
Infective endocarditis in South Africa	6
Genetics of inherited cardiomyopathies in Africa	6
Medical treatment of pulmonary hypertension in adults with congenital heart disease: updated and extended results from the International COMPERA-CHD Registry	6
New insights on potential permanent pacemaker predictors in TAVR using the largest self-expandable device	6
Heart failure in the young: Insights into myocardial recovery with ventricular assist device support	6
Analysis of influencing factors related to elevated serum troponin I level for COVID-19 patients in Yichang, China	6
Obstructive sleep apnea versus central sleep apnea: prognosis in systolic heart failure	6
Impact of coronary plaque morphology on the precision of computational fractional flow reserve derived from optical coherence tomography imaging	6
Current status on the ability of the elderly in rural China: implications for future nursing and policy	5
Comparison of surgical versus transcatheter aortic valve replacement for patients with aortic stenosis at low-intermediate risk	5
The role of ventricular assist device in children	5
Hybrid transcatheter left ventricular reconstruction for the treatment of ischemic cardiomyopathy	5
Pulmonary arterial hypertension and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: are they so discordant?	5
Implantable loop recorder for monitoring patients with congenital heart disease	5
Nomogram developed with selenoprotein S (SelS) genetic variation and clinical characteristics predicting risk of coronary artery disease in a Chinese population	5
Prevalence and characteristics of coronary microvascular dysfunction in post-percutaneous coronary intervention patients with recurrent chest pain	5
Long term mortality and readmissions after transcatheter aortic valve replacement	5
Normothermic frozen elephant trunk: our experience and literature review	5
Mechanical circulatory support systems: evolution, the systems and outlook	5

Protective effects of recombinant human brain natriuretic peptide on the myocardial injury induced by acute carbon monoxide poisoning	5
Peri-operative right ventricular dysfunction—the anesthesiologist’s view	5
Validation of black blood late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) for evaluation of myocardial infarction in patients with or without pathological Q-wave on electrocardiogram (ECG)	5
Arterial thoracic outlet syndrome	5
Distal transradial access for coronary procedures: a prospective cohort of 3,683 all-comers patients from the DISTRACTION registry	5
Echocardiographic changes in elderly patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction after sacubitril-valsartan treatment	5
Addressing kidney health disparities with new national policy: the time is now	5
A narrative review of low-dose rivaroxaban in patients with atherothrombotic cardiovascular disease: vascular protection beyond anticoagulation	5
A rare manifestation of extrapulmonary tuberculosis: left ventricular cardiac tuberculoma in an HIV infected male “case report”	5
Ephrin B2 mediates high glucose induced endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition in human aortic endothelial cells	5
The use of cardiovascular magnetic resonance for the assessment of left ventricular hypertrophy	5
The clinical effects of a new management mode for hypertensive patients: a randomized controlled trial	5
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation in the presence of an anomalous left circumflex coronary artery: a case report	5
Kallistatin correlates with inflammation in abdominal aortic aneurysm and suppresses its formation in mice	5
MiR-155 acts as an inhibitory factor in atherosclerosis-associated arterial pathogenesis by down-regulating NoxA1 related signaling pathway in ApoE−/− mouse	5
The role of imaging in pulmonary hypertension	5
Plaque microstructures during metformin therapy in type 2 diabetic subjects with coronary artery disease: optical coherence tomography analysis	5
Organ-saving surgical alternatives to treatment of heart failure	4
Congenital heart disease-associated liver disease: a narrative review	4
TXNIP knockout improves cardiac function after myocardial infarction by promoting angiogenesis and reducing cardiomyocyte apoptosis	4
A case of acute myelogenous leukemia characterized by arterial and venous thrombosis	4
Contemporary review in the multi-modality imaging evaluation and management of tricuspid regurgitation	4
Choosing the right treatment for the right lesion, part I: a narrative review of the role of plain balloon angioplasty in dialysis access maintenance	4
Dual energy CT based scoring in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension and correlation with clinical and hemodynamic parameters: a retrospective cross-sectional study	4
Prevalence and predictors associated with in-hospital mortality in acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction after reperfusion therapy in developing country	4
ATF3 and its emerging role in atherosclerosis: a narrative review	4
Psychosocial well-being in postpartum women with congenital heart disease	4
Robotic-assisted intervention strategy to minimize air exposure during the procedure: a case report of myocardial infarction and COVID-19	4
Venous popliteal entrapment syndrome	4
Cardiac catheterization in pulmonary hypertension: doing it right, with a catheter on the left	4
Guide to functional mitral regurgitation: a contemporary review	4
Should CMR be the default imaging modality in clinical trials for heart failure?	4
Post-mortem cardiac magnetic resonance parameters in normal and diseased conditions	4
Narrative review of portal vein thrombosis in cirrhosis: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management from an interventional radiology perspective	4
Narrative review on Morbus Fabry: diagnosis and management of cardiac manifestations	4
Research trends of acupuncture therapy for hypertension over the past two decades: a bibliometric analysis	4
Mineralocorticoid receptor blockade improves pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular function in bronchopulmonary dysplasia: a case report	4
Hemodynamic indices in pulmonary hypertension: a narrative review	4
Prenatal duct closure leading to severe pulmonary hypertension in a preterm neonate—a case report	4
Prevalence and risk factors of left atrial thrombus in patients with atrial fibrillation and lower class (IIa) recommendation to anticoagulants	4
Acupuncture as an adjunctive therapy for arrhythmia: a Delphi expert consensus survey	4
Factors affecting the efficacy of SGLT2is on heart failure events: a meta-analysis based on cardiovascular outcome trials	4
Surgical treatment of ascending aorta floating thrombus in a patient with recent SARS-CoV-2 infection	4
Left ventricular ischemia in pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension: a cardiovascular magnetic resonance study	4
Narrative review of cardiac computed tomography perfusion: insights into static rest perfusion	4
The association between the extent of lipidic burden and delta-fractional flow reserve: analysis from coronary physiological and near-infrared spectroscopic measures	4
Contemporary therapeutics and new drug developments for treatment of Fabry disease: a narrative review	4
Outcome of pregnancy in a contemporary cohort of adults with congenital heart disease—a 10-year, single-center experience	4
Galectin-3 promotes calcification of human aortic valve interstitial cells via the NF-kappa B signaling pathway	4
Heart failure in adults with congenital heart disease: a narrative review	4
Diagnostic performance of contemporary transesophageal echocardiography with modern imaging for infective endocarditis	4
Sacubitril/valsartan in everyday clinical practice: an observational study based on the experience of a heart failure clinic	4
Imaging of intracranial atherosclerotic plaques using 3.0 T and 7.0 T magnetic resonance imaging—current trends and future perspectives	4
Effectiveness of magnetocardiography to identify patients in need of coronary artery revascularization: a cross-sectional study	3
Patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy after alcohol septal ablation have favorable long-term outcome irrespective of their genetic background	3
The role of intracoronary imaging in translational research	3
Tricuspid annular abnormalities following different surgical strategies in adults with corrected tetralogy of Fallot (Results from the CSONGRAD Registry and MAGYAR-Path Study)	3
Celastrol attenuates the remodeling of pulmonary vascular and right ventricular in monocrotaline-induced pulmonary arterial hypertension in rats	3
Altitude exposure in pediatric pulmonary hypertension—are we ready for (flight) recommendations?	3
Impact of the revised hemodynamic definition on the diagnosis of precapillary pulmonary hypertension: a retrospective single-center study in China	3
Sex related difference in cardiac output during neonatal transition in term neonates	3
MRI-based comprehensive analysis of vascular anatomy and hemodynamics	3
Comparing patient outcomes following minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting surgery vs. coronary artery bypass grafting: a single-center retrospective cohort study	3
Acute cardiac injury in adult hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Zhuhai, China	3
Clinical findings, diagnosis and therapy of patent ductus venosus in children: a case series	3
Early risk stratification of acute type A aortic dissection: development and validation of a predictive score	3
MicroRNA-155 inhibition attenuates myocardial infarction-induced connexin 43 degradation in cardiomyocytes by reducing pro-inflammatory macrophage activation	3
The significance of an integrated management mode of prenatal diagnosis-postnatal treatment for critical congenital heart disease in newborns	3
Extrinsic compression of coronary and pulmonary vasculature	3
A multi-center trial on efficacy and safety of the LifeTech CeraFlexTM ASD occluder for transcatheter closure in patients with secundum atrial septal defects	3
Hemodynamic and prognostic impact of the diastolic pulmonary arterial pressure in children with pulmonary arterial hypertension—a registry-based analysis	3
Clinical factors associated with arrhythmia and short-term prognosis following mitral valve repair: a retrospective cohort study	3
Left ventricular noncompaction: a disorder with genotypic and phenotypic heterogeneity—a narrative review	3
Resting heart rate predicts all-cause mortality in sub-Saharan African patients with heart failure: a prospective analysis from the Douala Heart failure registry (Do-HF)	3
Venous thoracic outlet syndrome	3
Lipopolysaccharide induces pyroptosis through regulation of autophagy in cardiomyocytes	3
Diminished response to statins predicts the occurrence of heart failure after acute myocardial infarction	3
State-of-the-art narrative review: multimodality imaging in electrophysiology and cardiac device therapies	3
Development and validation of a prognostic prediction model for antithrombotic-related chronic subdural hematoma in patients with recent acute myocardial infarction	3
Thrombectomy approach for access maintenance in the end stage renal disease population: a narrative review	3
Combination of serum TIMP-3, CA125, and NT-proBNP in predicting ventricular remodeling in patients with heart failure following acute myocardial infarction	3
Clinical aspects and targeted inspiratory muscle training in children and adolescents with Fontan circulation: a randomized controlled trial	3
Effects of exercise training on heart rate variability in children and adolescents with pulmonary arterial hypertension: a pilot study	3
CircHSPG2 absence weakens hypoxia-induced dysfunction in cardiomyocytes by targeting the miR-25-3p/PAWR axis	3
Left ventricular rotational abnormalities in adult patients with corrected tetralogy of Fallot following different surgical procedures (Results from the CSONGRAD Registry and MAGYAR-Path Study)	3
Myocardial extracellular volume fraction analysis in doxorubicin-induced beagle models: comparison of dual-energy CT with equilibrium contrast-enhanced single-energy CT	3
Distal stent graft-induced new entry (dSINE) after frozen elephant trunk: a scoping review	3
Prevalence of obesity related hypertension among overweight or obese adults in River Nile State in Northern Sudan: a community based cross-sectional study	3
T1 mapping and feature tracking imaging of left ventricular extracellular remodeling in severe aortic stenosis	3
Inhibition of ERK or Akt ameliorates intimal hyperplasia via up-regulation of Cx37 and down-regulation of Cx43 in balloon injury rat model	2
N6-methyladenosine (m6A) RNA modification in the pathophysiology of heart failure: a narrative review	2
Interventional creation of an endogenous reverse Potts shunt in an infant with pulmonary hypertension and genetic surfactant disorder—a case report	2
Impact of intracoronary reteplase during primary percutaneous coronary intervention on infarct size in large anterior myocardial infarction: rationale and design of the RECOVER II trial	2
Detection of early signs of right ventricular systolic impairment in unoperated Ebstein’s anomaly by cardiac magnetic resonance feature tracking	2
Frozen elephant trunk: the gold standard	2