OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Pathophysiology of heart failure	140
Assessing the impact of PCSK9 inhibition on coronary plaque phenotype with optical coherence tomography: rationale and design of the randomized, placebo-controlled HUYGENS study	44
May-Thurner syndrome	40
Nutcracker syndrome: diagnosis and therapy	34
Overview of the socio-economic consequences of heart failure	31
Exosomes derived from human amniotic fluid mesenchymal stem cells alleviate cardiac fibrosis via enhancing angiogenesis in vivo and in vitro	25
Artificial intelligence in personalized cardiovascular medicine and cardiovascular imaging	22
Cuproptosis, the novel therapeutic mechanism for heart failure: a narrative review	22
Cardiac computed tomography radiomics: an emerging tool for the non-invasive assessment of coronary atherosclerosis	22
Median arcuate ligament syndrome (Dunbar syndrome)	22
Medical management of pediatric heart failure	21
Cardiac CT perfusion and FFRCTA: pathophysiological features in ischemic heart disease	20
Contemporary narrative review on left atrial strain mechanics in echocardiography: cardiomyopathy, valvular heart disease and beyond	19
Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome	18
Technical development in cardiac CT: current standards and future improvements—a narrative review	18
Checkpoint inhibitor-induced fulminant myocarditis, complete atrioventricular block and myasthenia gravis—a case report	17
LncRNA XIST serves as a diagnostic biomarker in gestational diabetes mellitus and its regulatory effect on trophoblast cell via miR-497-5p/FOXO1 axis	16
Infective endocarditis and oral health—a Narrative Review	16
Systematic assessment of health care perception in adults with congenital heart disease in Germany	15
Development of machine learning models for mortality risk prediction after cardiac surgery	15
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	15
Valvular heart disease in congenital heart disease: a narrative review	13
Pulmonary vascular disease in Fontan circulation—is there a rationale for pulmonary vasodilator therapies?	12
Evolution of heart transplantation since Barnard’s first	12
Correlation between the elevated uric acid levels and circulating renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system activation in patients with atrial fibrillation	12

Cardiac magnetic resonance derived left atrial strain after ST-elevation myocardial infarction: an independent prognostic indicator	12
Long non-coding RNA SENCR alleviates hypoxia/reoxygenation-induced cardiomyocyte apoptosis and inflammatory response by sponging miR-1	12
The frozen elephant trunk procedure: indications, outcomes and future directions	11
Prevalence and real-world management of NSTEMI with multivessel disease	11
Advance ultrasound techniques for the assessment of plaque vulnerability in symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid stenosis: a multimodal ultrasound study	10
Downstream thoracic endovascular aortic repair following the frozen elephant trunk procedure	10
The prognostic value of transesophageal echocardiography after transvenous lead extraction: landscape after battle	10
Therapy of supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias in adults with congenital heart disease—narrative review	10
Congenital heart disease-associated liver disease: a narrative review	10
Normothermic frozen elephant trunk: our experience and literature review	10
Diagnostic performance of contemporary transesophageal echocardiography with modern imaging for infective endocarditis	10
Quality of life in patients with Marfan syndrome: a cross-sectional study of 102 adult patients	10
Weaning from ventricular assist device support after recovery from left ventricular failure with or without secondary right ventricular failure	10
Venous popliteal entrapment syndrome	9
Narrative review of portal vein thrombosis in cirrhosis: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management from an interventional radiology perspective	9
Comparing the efficacy of angiotensin receptor-neprilysin inhibitor and enalapril in acute anterior STEMI patients after primary percutaneous coronary intervention: a prospective randomized trial	9
Addressing kidney health disparities with new national policy: the time is now	9
Ventricular assist devices implantation: surgical assessment and technical strategies	9
Mechanical circulatory support systems: evolution, the systems and outlook	9
Systemic sclerosis-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension in children	9
The role of imaging in pulmonary hypertension	9
Acupuncture as an adjunctive therapy for arrhythmia: a Delphi expert consensus survey	9
Cardiac CT angiography: normal and pathological anatomical features—a narrative review	9
Antithrombotic therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention, including compliance with current guidelines—data from the POLish Atrial Fibrillation (POL-AF	9
A guide to echocardiographic assessment in children and adolescents with pulmonary hypertension	8
Medical treatment of pulmonary hypertension in adults with congenital heart disease: updated and extended results from the International COMPERA-CHD Registry	8
Arterial thoracic outlet syndrome	8
Machine learning-based long-term outcome prediction in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention	8
Treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension in children	8
Choosing the right treatment for the right lesion, part I: a narrative review of the role of plain balloon angioplasty in dialysis access maintenance	8
Current diagnosis and management of late complications in adult congenital heart disease	8
The clinical effects of a new management mode for hypertensive patients: a randomized controlled trial	8
Galectin-3 promotes calcification of human aortic valve interstitial cells via the NF-kappa B signaling pathway	8
ATF3 and its emerging role in atherosclerosis: a narrative review	8
Long term mortality and readmissions after transcatheter aortic valve replacement	8
Quantification of myocardial deformation in patients with Fabry disease by cardiovascular magnetic resonance feature tracking imaging	8
Metabolic syndrome and coronary artery disease in adults with congenital heart disease	8
Determining the thresholds for abnormal left ventricular strains in healthy subjects by echocardiography: a meta-analysis	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
Prognostic value of CT-derived myocardial blood flow, CT fractional flow reserve and high-risk plaque features for predicting major adverse cardiac events	8
Personalized antihypertensive treatment guided by pharmacogenomics in China	8
Angiotensin II and hypoxia induce autophagy in cardiomyocytes via activating specific protein kinase C subtypes	7
Guide to functional mitral regurgitation: a contemporary review	7
Thrombectomy approach for access maintenance in the end stage renal disease population: a narrative review	7
New insights on potential permanent pacemaker predictors in TAVR using the largest self-expandable device	7
TXNIP knockout improves cardiac function after myocardial infarction by promoting angiogenesis and reducing cardiomyocyte apoptosis	7
Heart failure in the young: Insights into myocardial recovery with ventricular assist device support	7
Impact of coronary plaque morphology on the precision of computational fractional flow reserve derived from optical coherence tomography imaging	7
Narrative review on Morbus Fabry: diagnosis and management of cardiac manifestations	6
Research trends of acupuncture therapy for hypertension over the past two decades: a bibliometric analysis	6

Cardiovascular disease/stroke risk stratification in deep learning framework: a review	6
Venous thoracic outlet syndrome	6
Plaque microstructures during metformin therapy in type 2 diabetic subjects with coronary artery disease: optical coherence tomography analysis	6
Heart failure in adults with congenital heart disease: a narrative review	6
Distal transradial access for coronary procedures: a prospective cohort of 3,683 all-comers patients from the DISTRACTION registry	6
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)	6
Prevalence and characteristics of coronary microvascular dysfunction in post-percutaneous coronary intervention patients with recurrent chest pain	6
Surgical treatment of ascending aorta floating thrombus in a patient with recent SARS-CoV-2 infection	6
Early risk stratification of acute type A aortic dissection: development and validation of a predictive score	6
Implantable loop recorder for monitoring patients with congenital heart disease	6
Fabry disease—what cardiologists can learn from the nephrologist: a narrative review	6
Comparing patient outcomes following minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting surgery vs. coronary artery bypass grafting: a single-center retrospective cohort study	6
Extrinsic compression of coronary and pulmonary vasculature	6
Echocardiographic changes in elderly patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction after sacubitril-valsartan treatment	5
A narrative review of low-dose rivaroxaban in patients with atherothrombotic cardiovascular disease: vascular protection beyond anticoagulation	5
Organ-saving surgical alternatives to treatment of heart failure	5
The association between the extent of lipidic burden and delta-fractional flow reserve: analysis from coronary physiological and near-infrared spectroscopic measures	5
Hybrid transcatheter left ventricular reconstruction for the treatment of ischemic cardiomyopathy	5
The role of ventricular assist device in children	5
“Body modification: piercing and tattooing in congenital heart disease patients”, decoration or disaster?—a narrative review	5
Sex related difference in cardiac output during neonatal transition in term neonates	5
Myocardial extracellular volume fraction analysis in doxorubicin-induced beagle models: comparison of dual-energy CT with equilibrium contrast-enhanced single-energy CT	5
Distal stent graft-induced new entry (dSINE) after frozen elephant trunk: a scoping review	5
A multi-center trial on efficacy and safety of the LifeTech CeraFlexTM ASD occluder for transcatheter closure in patients with secundum atrial septal defects	5
Celastrol attenuates the remodeling of pulmonary vascular and right ventricular in monocrotaline-induced pulmonary arterial hypertension in rats	5
CircHSPG2 absence weakens hypoxia-induced dysfunction in cardiomyocytes by targeting the miR-25-3p/PAWR axis	5
Anticoagulation management in adult patients with congenital heart disease: a narrative review	5
Sacubitril/valsartan in everyday clinical practice: an observational study based on the experience of a heart failure clinic	5
Treatment of adults with Eisenmenger syndrome—state of the art in the 21st century: a short overview	5
Prevalence of obesity related hypertension among overweight or obese adults in River Nile State in Northern Sudan: a community based cross-sectional study	5
Protective effects of recombinant human brain natriuretic peptide on the myocardial injury induced by acute carbon monoxide poisoning	5
Dual energy CT based scoring in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension and correlation with clinical and hemodynamic parameters: a retrospective cross-sectional study	5
Outcome of pregnancy in a contemporary cohort of adults with congenital heart disease—a 10-year, single-center experience	5
Ethnic and sex-based differences in outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a glimpse of the largest municipal healthcare system in the United States	5
MiR-155 acts as an inhibitory factor in atherosclerosis-associated arterial pathogenesis by down-regulating NoxA1 related signaling pathway in ApoE−/− mouse	5
Prognostic value of N-terminal pro-form B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) in patients with congenital heart disease undergoing cardiac surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort stu	4
FUNDC1: a key mediator of adenosine A2BR activation-induced inhibition of cardiac mitophagy under ischemia/reperfusion conditions	4
Psychosocial well-being in postpartum women with congenital heart disease	4
Safety and effectiveness of introducing a robotic-assisted percutaneous coronary intervention program in a tertiary center: a prospective study	4
Factors affecting the efficacy of SGLT2is on heart failure events: a meta-analysis based on cardiovascular outcome trials	4
N6-methyladenosine (m6A) RNA modification in the pathophysiology of heart failure: a narrative review	4
Contemporary therapeutics and new drug developments for treatment of Fabry disease: a narrative review	4
Tricuspid annular abnormalities following different surgical strategies in adults with corrected tetralogy of Fallot (Results from the CSONGRAD Registry and MAGYAR-Path Study)	4
Narrative review of cardiac computed tomography perfusion: insights into static rest perfusion	4
Clinical aspects and targeted inspiratory muscle training in children and adolescents with Fontan circulation: a randomized controlled trial	4
Multimodality imaging evaluation of arteriovenous fistulas and grafts: a clinical practice review	4
Cardiac catheterization in pediatric pulmonary hypertension: a systematic and practical approach	4
Hemodynamic indices in pulmonary hypertension: a narrative review	4
The m6A demethylase fat mass and obesity-associated protein mitigates pyroptosis and inflammation in doxorubicin-induced heart failure via the toll-like receptor 4/NF-κB pathway	4
T1 mapping and feature tracking imaging of left ventricular extracellular remodeling in severe aortic stenosis	4
MicroRNA-155 inhibition attenuates myocardial infarction-induced connexin 43 degradation in cardiomyocytes by reducing pro-inflammatory macrophage activation	4
Early surgery determines prognosis in patients with infective endocarditis: outcome in patients managed by an Endocarditis Team—a prospective cohort study	4
Effect of combining sST2/HDL-C ratio with risk factors of coronary heart disease on the detection of angina pectoris in Chinese: a retrospective observational study	4
Development and validation of a prognostic prediction model for antithrombotic-related chronic subdural hematoma in patients with recent acute myocardial infarction	4
Demographic, clinical, electrocardiographic and echocardiographic characteristics of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and cardiac disease at a tertiary hospital, South Africa	4
Altitude exposure in pediatric pulmonary hypertension—are we ready for (flight) recommendations?	4
Quadrilateral space syndrome	4
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)	4
Left ventricular noncompaction: a disorder with genotypic and phenotypic heterogeneity—a narrative review	4
Choosing the right treatment for the right lesion, Part II: a narrative review of drug-coated balloon angioplasty and its evolving role in dialysis access maintenance	4
Angiographic quantitative flow ratio in acute coronary syndrome: beyond a tool to define ischemia-causing stenosis—a literature review	4
Long-term clinical outcomes of type 1 vs. type 2 myocardial infarction in patients who underwent angiography: data from the Korea acute myocardial infarction-national institute of health registry	4
Contemporary review in the multi-modality imaging evaluation and management of tricuspid regurgitation	4
Post-mortem cardiac magnetic resonance parameters in normal and diseased conditions	4
Thoracic central venous occlusion from the interventional radiology perspective	4