OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Percutaneous treatment of torrential tricuspid regurgitation with prior dehisced tricuspid annuloplasty ring	62
Appropriate use criteria implementation with modified Haller index for predicting stress echocardiographic results and outcome in a population of patients with suspected coronary artery disease	25
Cardiac magnetic resonance left atrial volumes and function to predict appropriate device therapy and death	24
Enlarged left atrium and decreased left atrial strain are associated with atrial fibrillation in patients with hyperthyroidism irrespective of conventional risk factors	21
Editor’s choice to the november 2021 issue	21
Adoption of a new automated optical coherence tomography software to obtain a lipid plaque spread-out plot	21
Two-year change in 18F-sodium fluoride uptake in major arteries of healthy subjects and angina pectoris patients	19
Implementation of zero or near-zero fluoroscopy catheter ablation for idiopathic ventricular arrhythmia originating from the aortic sinus cusp	18
Predictors of pacemaker implantation after TAVI in a registry including self, balloon and mechanical expandable valves	18
Usefulness of a multiparametric evaluation including global longitudinal strain for an early diagnosis of acute myocarditis	18
Role of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in early detection and treatment of cardiac dysfunction in oncology patients	17
Pericardial effusion in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients: increased right atrial pressure as a common denominator	17
Myocardial area at risk and salvage in reperfused acute MI measured by texture analysis of cardiac T2 mapping and its prediction value of functional recovery in the convalescent stage	15
3D-printed visualization of a double right coronary artery with intra-atrial course	14
Gender differences in primary mitral regurgitant volumes at specific regurgitant fractions as assessed by magnetic resonance imaging	14
New approach of contrast echocardiography: differential diagnosis between pulmonary thrombi and tumors in the pulmonary arteries	14
Reference values for left and right ventricular systolic-to-diastolic duration ratio (SDR) found using both spectral and tissue Doppler of fetal heart between 20 and 36+6 weeks of gestation	13
The predictive value of left ventricular and left atrial mechanics for atrial fibrillation and heart failure in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a prospective cohort study	13
Comparing left ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony between diabetic and non-diabetic patients with normal gated SPECT MPI	12
Characteristic localization patterns of thrombus on various brands of bileaflet mitral mechanical heart valves as assessed by three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography and their relationship	12
Prognostic values of coronary artery calcium score and 123I-BMIPP SPECT in patients with non-ischemic heart failure with preserved ejection fraction	11
Impaction of regurgitation jet on anterior mitral leaflet is associated with diastolic dysfunction in patients with bicuspid aortic valve and mild insufficiency: a cardiovascular magnetic resonance st	11
Evaluation of complex congenital heart disease with prospective ECG-gated cardiac CT in a single heartbeat at low tube voltage (70 kV) and adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction in infants: a s	11
Optical coherence tomography tissue coverage and characterization at six months after implantation of bioresorbable scaffolds versus conventional everolimus eluting stents in the ISAR-Absorb MI trial	11
Value of echocardiography using knowledge-based reconstruction in determining right ventricular volumes in pulmonary sarcoidosis: comparison with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging	11

Coronary CT angiography derived FFR in patients with left main disease	11
Do we need cardiovascular computed tomography angiography in the setting of acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction?	10
Determinants of exercise intolerance symptoms considered non-specific for heart failure in patients with stage A and B: role of the left atrium in the transition phase to overt heart failure	10
Prediction of stroke risk based on left atrial appendage morphology: from pareidolia to artificial intelligence	10
Prevalence and clinical correlates of exercise-induced ventricular arrhythmias in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy	9
Atrial strain: an important addition to the armamentarium of non-invasively assessing Fontan function?	9
Advanced imaging improves detection of baffle leaks and stenoses after atrial switch compared with transthoracic echocardiography	9
Association between exposure to heavy occupational lifting and cardiac structure and function: a cross-sectional analysis from the Copenhagen City Heart Study	9
Looking to the femoral rather than the carotid bifurcation to predict obstructive coronary artery disease?	9
Effect of contrast medium versus low-molecular-weight dextran for intracoronary optical coherence tomography in renal insufficiency	9
Sex differences in the manifestation and evolution of coronary artery plaques	9
Major adverse cardiac events in symptomatic women with non-obstructive CAD on coronary CTA: pooled analysis from PROMISE and SCOT-HEART	9
Long term effects of mild severity COVID‑19 on right ventricular functions	8
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance predicts all-cause mortality in pulmonary hypertension associated with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction	8
Global longitudinal strain (GLS)	8
Editor’s note to the June 2021 issue	8
Layer-specific and whole wall global longitudinal strain predict major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with stable angina pectoris	8
Implantation depth and its influence on complications after TAVI with self-expanding valves	8
Training, training and more training	8
Preoperative coupling between right ventricle and pulmonary vasculature is an important determinant of residual symptoms after the closure of atrial septal defect	8
The effect of external counterpulsation on intrinsic myocardial function evaluated by speckle tracking echocardiography in refractory angina patients: a randomized controlled trial	8
Feasibility of semi-recumbent bicycle exercise Doppler echocardiography for the evaluation of the right heart and pulmonary circulation unit in different clinical conditions: the RIGHT heart internati	8
Normal values of MAPSE and TAPSE in the paediatric population established by cardiovascular magnetic resonance	7
Giant blood cyst, isolated dysgenesia of pulmonary valve and pulmonary artery aneurysm: a rare combination	7
Role of myocardial strain and rotation for predicting prosthetic aortic valve stenosis	7
Does merged three-dimensional mapping improve contact force and long-term procedure outcome in atrial fibrillation ablation? (MICRO-AF study): a prospective randomized controlled study	7
Relationship between hemoglobin A1C and characteristics of plaque vulnerability in stable coronary disease: an optical coherence tomography study	7
Detection of severe pulmonary hypertension based on computed tomography pulmonary angiography	7
Left ventricular dyssynchrony in long-term childhood cancer survivors treated with anthracyclines: a retrospective cross-sectional study	7
Prospective analysis of myocardial strain through the evolution of Chagas disease in the hamster animal model	6
Comparison between myocardial function assessed by echocardiography during hospitalization for COVID-19 and at 4 months follow-up	6
Left ventricular global longitudinal strain in low cardiac risk outpatients who recently recovered from coronavirus disease 2019	6
Tricuspid annular dilation in patients undergoing early mitral valve surgery: is it an old story?	6
Is image integration with preprocedural CT a necessity?	6
The multiform sonographic spectrum of arterial duct in right aortic arch	6
Ventriculo-arterial coupling in patients with stable ischemic heart disease undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention	6
The incidence of stroke in patients with early echocardiography after acute myocardial infarction	6
Computed tomography derived left ventricular inward displacement as a novel tool for quantification of segmental wall motion abnormalities	6
Assessing left main disease with FFR-CT and its challenges	6
Cardiac remodeling induced by exercise in Caucasian male master athletes: a cross-sectional study	6
Multimodal echocardiography in the diagnosis of masses localized to the proximal portions of pulmonary arteries	6
Prognostic impact of non-improvement of global longitudinal strain in patients with revascularized acute myocardial infarction	6
Evaluation of ımpact of sigmoid septum on periprocedural outcomes following transcatheter aortic valve ımplantation	6
Atrial function in the Fontan circulation: comparison with invasively assessed systemic ventricular filling pressure	6