OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Pathophysiology of heart failure	97
Curcumin suppresses doxorubicin-induced cardiomyocyte pyroptosis via a PI3K/Akt/mTOR-dependent manner	93
Cardiovascular/stroke risk predictive calculators: a comparison between statistical and machine learning models	48
Assessing the impact of PCSK9 inhibition on coronary plaque phenotype with optical coherence tomography: rationale and design of the randomized, placebo-controlled HUYGENS study	42
Carotid plaque imaging and the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease	34
Mechanics of right ventricular dysfunction in pulmonary arterial hypertension and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction	33
May-Thurner syndrome	32
Vessel wall MR imaging for the detection of intracranial inflammatory vasculopathies	28
Nutcracker syndrome: diagnosis and therapy	26
Contrast imaging ultrasound for the detection and characterization of carotid vulnerable plaque	26
Overview of the socio-economic consequences of heart failure	25
Molecular mechanisms of right ventricular dysfunction in pulmonary arterial hypertension: focus on the coronary vasculature, sex hormones, and glucose/lipid metabolism	24
MR imaging of vulnerable carotid plaque	24
Insight from imaging on plaque vulnerability: similarities and differences between coronary and carotid arteries—implications for systemic therapies	22
Identification of characteristics of overt myocarditis in adult patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies	22
4D flow imaging of the thoracic aorta: is there an added clinical value?	21
Exosomes derived from human amniotic fluid mesenchymal stem cells alleviate cardiac fibrosis via enhancing angiogenesis in vivo and in vitro	20
When to use intravascular ultrasound or optical coherence tomography during percutaneous coronary intervention?	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
Median arcuate ligament syndrome (Dunbar syndrome)	18
Checkpoint inhibitor-induced fulminant myocarditis, complete atrioventricular block and myasthenia gravis—a case report	18
MiR-181c protects cardiomyocyte injury by preventing cell apoptosis through PI3K/Akt signaling pathway	17
Cuproptosis, the novel therapeutic mechanism for heart failure: a narrative review	17
Implications of gut microbiome on coronary artery disease	17

PET/MRI of atherosclerosis	17
The pro-apoptosis and pro-inflammation role of LncRNA HIF1A-AS1 in Coxsackievirus B3-induced myocarditis via targeting miR-138	16
The assessment of intermediate coronary lesions using intracoronary imaging	16
Contemporary narrative review on left atrial strain mechanics in echocardiography: cardiomyopathy, valvular heart disease and beyond	16
Machine learning-based CT fractional flow reserve assessment in acute chest pain: first experience	16
Infective endocarditis and oral health—a Narrative Review	15
MicroRNA-363-3p serves as a diagnostic biomarker of acute myocardial infarction and regulates vascular endothelial injury by targeting KLF2	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
The use of cardiovascular magnetic resonance as an early non-invasive biomarker for cardiotoxicity in cardio-oncology	15
Fundamentals and role of intravascular ultrasound in percutaneous coronary intervention	15
Left ventricular dysfunction in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction—molecular mechanisms and impact on right ventricular function	15
Medical management of pediatric heart failure	15
Systematic assessment of health care perception in adults with congenital heart disease in Germany	15
Update on noninvasive imaging of right ventricle dysfunction in pulmonary hypertension	15
LncRNA XIST serves as a diagnostic biomarker in gestational diabetes mellitus and its regulatory effect on trophoblast cell via miR-497-5p/FOXO1 axis	15
Cardiac CT perfusion and FFRCTA: pathophysiological features in ischemic heart disease	15
Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome	15
Vessel wall MR imaging of intracranial atherosclerosis	15
Incidence of myocardial injury in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a pooled analysis of 7,679 patients from 53 studies	14
MicroRNA-374 is a potential diagnostic biomarker for atherosclerosis and regulates the proliferation and migration of vascular smooth muscle cells	14
Artificial intelligence in personalized cardiovascular medicine and cardiovascular imaging	14
Cardiac multi-scale investigation of the right and left ventricle ex vivo: a review	14
Carotid plaque imaging profiling in subjects with risk factors (diabetes and hypertension)	14
Left and right ventricular myocardial deformation and late gadolinium enhancement: incremental prognostic value in amyloid light-chain amyloidosis	14
Pyrroloquinoline quinone can prevent chronic heart failure by regulating mitochondrial function	13
Emerging therapies for right ventricular dysfunction and failure	13
Safety and efficacy of the endothelin receptor antagonist macitentan in pediatric pulmonary hypertension	13
Comparison of clinical outcomes between robotic and thoracoscopic mitral valve repair	12
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	12
Animal models of right heart failure	12
Can COVID19 trigger the plaque vulnerability—a Kounis syndrome warning for “asymptomatic subjects”	12
Valvular heart disease in congenital heart disease: a narrative review	12
Optical coherence tomography: fundamentals and clinical utility	12
Diagnosis and treatment of right ventricular dysfunction in congenital heart disease	12
Long non-coding RNA SENCR alleviates hypoxia/reoxygenation-induced cardiomyocyte apoptosis and inflammatory response by sponging miR-1	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
Non-invasive investigation of myocardial energetics in cardiac disease using 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy	11
Pulmonary vascular endothelial injury and acute pulmonary hypertension caused by COVID-19: the fundamental cause of refractory hypoxemia?	11
Intracoronary near-infrared spectroscopy—role and clinical applications	11
The frozen elephant trunk procedure: indications, outcomes and future directions	11
Development of machine learning models for mortality risk prediction after cardiac surgery	11
Right ventricular dysfunction and long-term risk of death	11
Pulmonary vascular disease in Fontan circulation—is there a rationale for pulmonary vasodilator therapies?	11
Technical development in cardiac CT: current standards and future improvements—a narrative review	11
Hypermethylation of miR-181b in monocytes is associated with coronary artery disease and promotes M1 polarized phenotype via PIAS1-KLF4 axis	10
Heart applications of 4D flow	10
Uses of ultrasound in stroke prevention	10
Cardiac magnetic resonance derived left atrial strain after ST-elevation myocardial infarction: an independent prognostic indicator	10
Evolution of heart transplantation since Barnard’s first	10

Diagnostic efficacy of 2-shot compressed sensing cine sequence cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging for left ventricular function	10
Prevalence and real-world management of NSTEMI with multivessel disease	10
The prognostic value of transesophageal echocardiography after transvenous lead extraction: landscape after battle	10
Performance of cardiovascular magnetic resonance strain in patients with acute myocarditis	9
Dual-energy CT and coronary imaging	9
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging for inflammatory heart diseases	9
Advance ultrasound techniques for the assessment of plaque vulnerability in symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid stenosis: a multimodal ultrasound study	9
Characteristics of spontaneous coronary artery dissection on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging	9
Use of cardiac magnetic resonance to detect changes in metabolism in heart failure	9
Therapy of supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias in adults with congenital heart disease—narrative review	9
MicroRNA-532-5p protects against atherosclerosis through inhibiting vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation and migration	9
Weaning from ventricular assist device support after recovery from left ventricular failure with or without secondary right ventricular failure	9
Quantification of myocardial deformation in patients with Fabry disease by cardiovascular magnetic resonance feature tracking imaging	8
Determining the thresholds for abnormal left ventricular strains in healthy subjects by echocardiography: a meta-analysis	8
Systemic sclerosis-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension in children	8
Obesity-related ventricular remodelling is exacerbated in dilated and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy	8
Normothermic frozen elephant trunk: our experience and literature review	8
A guide to echocardiographic assessment in children and adolescents with pulmonary hypertension	8
Comparing the efficacy of angiotensin receptor-neprilysin inhibitor and enalapril in acute anterior STEMI patients after primary percutaneous coronary intervention: a prospective randomized trial	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
Plaque imaging volume analysis: technique and application	8
A machine learning-based approach for the prediction of periprocedural myocardial infarction by using routine data	8
Correlation between the elevated uric acid levels and circulating renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system activation in patients with atrial fibrillation	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
The role of intravascular ultrasound in percutaneous coronary intervention of complex coronary lesions	8
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
Personalized antihypertensive treatment guided by pharmacogenomics in China	7
Angiotensin II and hypoxia induce autophagy in cardiomyocytes via activating specific protein kinase C subtypes	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
Quality of life in patients with Marfan syndrome: a cross-sectional study of 102 adult patients	7
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
Cardiac CT angiography: normal and pathological anatomical features—a narrative review	7
Downstream thoracic endovascular aortic repair following the frozen elephant trunk procedure	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
Treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension in children	7
The incidence, prevalence, and survival rate of thromboangiitis obliterans in Korea: a retrospective population-based study	7
Metabolic syndrome and coronary artery disease in adults with congenital heart disease	7
Diagnostic performance of contemporary transesophageal echocardiography with modern imaging for infective endocarditis	7
Narrative review of portal vein thrombosis in cirrhosis: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management from an interventional radiology perspective	6
MicroRNA-221 promotes proliferation and migration of pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells (PASMCs) by targeting tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-3 (TIMP3)	6
Distal transradial access for coronary procedures: a prospective cohort of 3,683 all-comers patients from the DISTRACTION registry	6
New insights on potential permanent pacemaker predictors in TAVR using the largest self-expandable device	6
Exogenous endothelial progenitor cells reached the deficient region of acute cerebral ischemia rats to improve functional recovery via Bcl-2	6
Venous popliteal entrapment syndrome	6
Obstructive sleep apnea versus central sleep apnea: prognosis in systolic heart failure	6
Mechanical circulatory support systems: evolution, the systems and outlook	6
Medical treatment of pulmonary hypertension in adults with congenital heart disease: updated and extended results from the International COMPERA-CHD Registry	6
Implantable loop recorder for monitoring patients with congenital heart disease	6
Machine learning-based long-term outcome prediction in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention	6
Analysis of influencing factors related to elevated serum troponin I level for COVID-19 patients in Yichang, China	6
The role of imaging in pulmonary hypertension	6
Impact of coronary plaque morphology on the precision of computational fractional flow reserve derived from optical coherence tomography imaging	6
Current diagnosis and management of late complications in adult congenital heart disease	6
Arterial thoracic outlet syndrome	6
Fabry disease—what cardiologists can learn from the nephrologist: a narrative review	6
Heart failure in the young: Insights into myocardial recovery with ventricular assist device support	6
Early clinical outcomes of thoracoscopic mitral valvuloplasty: a clinical experience of 100 consecutive cases	6
Congenital heart disease-associated liver disease: a narrative review	6
Acupuncture as an adjunctive therapy for arrhythmia: a Delphi expert consensus survey	6