ESC Journals top-cited articles 2023

European Heart Journal (EHJ)

• Mendelian randomization for cardiovascular diseases: principles and applications
  Stephen Burgess et al.  - British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular, United Kingdom 
  
  
• Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation for coronary heart disease: a meta-analysis
  Grace Dibben et al. - University of Glasgow, United kingdom 
  
  
• 2023 Update on European Atherosclerosis Society Consensus Statement on Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolaemia: New Treatments and Clinical Guidance
  Marina Cuchel et al. - University of Pennsylvania, USA
  
  
• SCORE2-Diabetes: 10-year cardiovascular risk estimation in type 2 diabetes in Europe
  Emanuele Di Angelantonio et al. - University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  
  
• Anthropometric Measures and Adverse Outcomes in Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction: Revisiting the Obesity Paradox
  John JV McMurray et al. - University of Glasgow, United kingdom
  
  
• Renal denervation in the management of hypertension in adults. A clinical consensus statement of the ESC Council on Hypertension and the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI)
  Felix Mahfoud et al. - University Hospital Basel, Switzerland

EHJ Supplements 

• Diagnostic and prognostic role of late gadolinium enhancement in cardiomyopathies
  Giovanni Donato Aquaro et al. - Toscana Gabriele Monasterio Foundation, Pisa (Italy) 
  
  
• The impact of COVID-19 and COVID vaccination on cardiovascular outcomes
  Zubair Akhtar et al. - St George's University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London (United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland) 
  
  
• Influenza and cardiovascular disease pathophysiology: strings attached
  Kristoffer Grundtvig Skaarup et al. - Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen (Denmark)
  
  
• Monoclonal antibodies and amyloid removal as a therapeutic strategy for cardia amyloidosis
  Michele Emdin et al. - Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa (Italy)
  
  
• Electrical storm management in structural heart disease
  Veronica Dusi et al. - University of Turin, Turin (Italy) 

Cardiovascular Research (CVR)

• Fibrin clot properties in cardiovascular disease: from basic mechanisms to clinical practice
   Michal Zabczyk et al. - Jagiellonian University, Krakow (Poland)
  
  
• Association of COVID-19 with short- and long-term risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality: a prospective cohort in UK Biobank 
  Eric Yuk Fai Wan et al. - University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
  
  
• Cardiovascular complications in chronic kidney disease: a review from the European Renal and Cardiovascular Medicine Working Group of the European Renal Association Read
  Carmine Zoccali et al. - Reggio Cal (Italy) 
  
  
• Heart-gut microbiota communication determines the severity of cardiac injury after myocardial ischaemia/reperfusion
  Jinxuan Zhao et al. - Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing (China) 
  
  
• Empagliflozin inhibits excessive autophagy through the AMPK/GSK3β signalling pathway in diabetic cardiomyopathy
  Rosalinda Madonna et al. - University of Pisa, Pisa (Italy) 

EHJ Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes (EHJ-QCCO)

• Representativeness in randomised clinical trials supporting acute coronary syndrome guidelines
  Caterina Mas-Llado et al. - Son Espases University Hospital, Palma (Spain) 
  
  
• European Society of Cardiology quality indicators for the prevention and management of cancer therapy-related cardiovascular  - in cancer treatment
  G A Lee et al. - National University of Singapore, Singapore (Singapore) 
  
  
• Sex differences in the etiology and burden of heart failure across country income level: analysis of 204 countries and territories 1990-2019
  Sunny Wei et al. - Chong Hua Hospital, Cebu (Philippines) 
  
  
• A hidden problem: peripheral artery disease in women
  Mary M. Kavurma et al. - Heart Research Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia 
  
  
• Machine-learning versus traditional approaches for atherosclerotic cardiovascular risk prognostication in primary prevention cohorts: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  Clara K Chow et al. - University of Sydney, Sydney (Australia) 
  
  

EHJ - Case Reports (EHJ-CR)

• Flowerpower: pulsed field ablation of ventricular tachycardia in a patient with Ebstein's anomaly 
  Ulrich Krause et al. - Georg-August-University Göttingen (Germany)  
  
  
• Successful treatment of refractory chylothorax with MEK inhibitor trametinib in a child with Noonan syndrome: case report
  Ines Hribernik et al. - Yorkshire Heart Centre (United Kingdom) 
  
  
• Safety and utility of CardioMEMS device for remote pulmonary artery monitoring in paediatric Fontan patients: a case series
  Deepti P. Bhat et al.
  
  
• Case Report: tacrolimus toxicity in the setting of concurrent Paxlovid use in a heart-transplant recipient
  Sujal Modi et al. 
  
  
• Surgical resection and epicardial lead implantation for primary cardiac lymphoma with a complete atrioventricular block: a case report
  Ryo Shigeno et al. 

EHJ - Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy ( EHJ-CVP)

• Statins to prevent early cardiac dysfunction in cancer patients at increased cardiotoxicity risk receiving anthracyclines
  

  Paaladinesh Thavendiranathan et al. - University Health Network of Toronto, Toronto (Canada) 

• Antithrombotic treatment strategies in patients with established coronary atherosclerotic disease
  Marco Valgimigli et al. - Cardiocentro Ticino Institute, Lugano (Switzerland)
  
  
• FLOW trial stopped early due to evidence of renal protection with semaglutide
  Felice Gragnano et al. - Clinical and Interventional Cardiology, Sassari University Hospital, Sassari (Italy) 
  
  
• Within and beyond 12-month efficacy and safety of antithrombotic strategies in patients with established coronary artery disease: two companion network meta-analyses of the 2022 joint clinical consensus statement of the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI), European Association for Acute CardioVascular Care (ACVC), and European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC)
  Eliano Pio Navarese et al. - Clinical and Interventional Cardiology, Sassari University Hospital, Sassari (Italy) 
  
  
• New pharmacological agents and novel cardiovascular pharmacotherapy strategies in 2022
  Juan Tamargo et al. - Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid (Spain) 
  
  

EHJ - Digital Health (EHJ-DH)

• ChatGPT takes on the European Exam in Core Cardiology: an artificial intelligence success story?
  Ioannis Skalidis et al. - University Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion (Greece) 
  
  
• Prediction of heart transplant rejection from routine pathology slides with self-supervised deep learning
  Jakob Nikolas Kather et al. - University Hospital RWTH Aachen (Germany) 
  
  
• Virtual healthcare solutions for cardiac rehabilitation: a literature review
  Seth Shay Martin et al - Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore, Baltimore (United States of America) 
  
  
• The effect of a game-based mobile app 'MyHeartMate' to promote lifestyle change in coronary disease patients: a randomized controlled trial
  Robyn Gallagher et al. - University of Sydney, Sydney (Australia) 
  
  
• International evaluation of an artificial intelligence-powered electrocardiogram model detecting acute coronary occlusion myocardial infarction
  Robert Herman et al. - Cardiovascular Research Center Aalst, Aalst (Belgium) 

EHJ Open 

• ChatGPT: the next frontier in academic writing for cardiologists or a pandora’s box of ethical dilemmas
  Benjamin Marchandot et al. - University Hospital of Strasbourg, Strasbourg (France)  
  
  
• Cardiac amyloidosis and aortic stenosis: a state-of-the-art review
  Vikash Jaiswal et al. - Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio, Pisa (Italy) 
  
  
• Sex differences in treatment and outcomes amongst myocardial infarction patients presenting with and without obstructive coronary arteries: a prospective multicentre study
  Michael Lawless et al. - Manchester (United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland) 
  
  
• In-stent restenosis after percutaneous coronary intervention: emerging knowledge on biological pathways 
  Francesco Pelliccia et al. - Sapienza University of Rome, Rome (Italy) 
  
  
• Adverse outcomes of atrial fibrillation ablation in heart failure patients with and without cardiac amyloidosis: a Nationwide Readmissions Database analysis (2015–2019)
  Waqas Ullah et al. University Hospital Southampton, Southampton (United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland) 

EP - Europace

• EHRA clinical consensus statement on conduction system pacing implantation: endorsed by the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS), Canadian Heart Rhythm Society (CHRS), and Latin American Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS)
  Haran Burri et al. - University hospitals of Geneva, Geneva (Switzerland) 
  
  
• EUropean real-world outcomes with Pulsed field ablatiOn in patients with symptomatic atRIAl fibrillation: lessons from the multi-centre EU-PORIA registry
  Boris Schmidt et al. - Cardioangiologisches Centrum Bethanien, Frankfurt (Germany) 
  
  
• EHRA clinical consensus statement on conduction system pacing implantation: executive summary. Endorsed by the Asia-Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS), Canadian Heart Rhythm Society (CHRS) and Latin-American Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS)
  Haran Burri et al. - University hospitals of Geneva, Geneva (Switzerland) 
  
  
• EHRA expert consensus document on the management of arrhythmias in frailty syndrome, endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS), Latin America Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS), and Cardiac Arrhythmia Society of Southern Africa (CASSA)
  Irina Savelieva et al. - St George's University of London, London (United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland) 
  
  
• Global burden of atrial fibrillation/atrial flutter and its attributable risk factors from 1990 to 2019
  Xin Jiang Dong et al. - Cardiovascular Hospital, Yifen Road, Wanbailin, China 

EHJ - Acute CardioVascular Care (EHJ-ACVC)

• 2023 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes: Developed by the task force on the management of acute coronary syndromes of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
  Robert A Byrne et al. - Mater Private Hospital, Dublin (Ireland) 
  
  
• Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation for refractory OHCA: lessons from three randomized controlled trials-the trialists' view
  Jan Belohlavek et al. - Charles University of Prague, Prague (Czechia) 
  
  
• Venous excess ultrasound score and acute kidney injury in patients with acute coronary syndrome
  Diego Araiza-Garaygordobil et al. - Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez, Ciudad de Mexico (Mexico)
   
• Smartphone-activated volunteer responders and bystander defibrillation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in private homes and public locations
  Linn Andelius et al. - University of Copenhagen, (Denmark)
  
  
• Step by step daily management of short-term mechanical circulatory support for cardiogenic shock in adults in the intensive cardiac care unit: a clinical consensus statement of the Association for Acute CardioVascular Care of the European Society of Cardiology SC, the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, the European branch of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization, and the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
  Jacob Eiffer Moller et al. - University Hospital, Copenhagen (Denmark) 

EHJ - Cardiovascular Imaging (EHJ-CI)

• Multimodality imaging in thoracic aortic diseases: a clinical consensus statement from the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging and the European Society of Cardiology working group on aorta and peripheral vascular diseases
  Artur Evangelista Masip et al. - Barcelona (Spain) 
  
  
• Prognostic implications of atrial vs. ventricular functional tricuspid regurgitation
  Nina Ajmone Marsan et al. - Leiden University Medical Center (The Netherlands) 
  
  
• Lung ultrasound in acute and chronic heart failure: a clinical consensus statement of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI)
  Luna Gargani et al. - University of Pisa, Pisa (Italy) 
  
  
• Resting global longitudinal strain and stress echocardiography to detect coronary artery disease burden
  Nicola Gaibazzi et al. - University Hospital of Parma, Parma (Italy) 
  
  
• Cardiac magnetic resonance in giant cell myocarditis: a matched comparison with cardiac sarcoidosis
  Pauli Pöyhönen et al. - Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki (Finland) 

EHJ - Imaging Methods and Practices (EHJ-IMP)

• Combining cardiopulmonary exercise testing with echocardiography: a multiparametric approach to the cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary systems
  Lavinia Del Punta et al. - University of Pisa, Pisa (Italy) 
  
  
• Pericardial late gadolinium enhancement and time to recurrence: a substudy from RHAPSODY, a phase 3 clinical trial of rilonacept in recurrent pericarditis
  Paul Cremer et al. - Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland (United States of America) 
  
  
• Non-invasive left ventricular pressure-volume loops from cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging and brachial blood pressure: validation using pressure catheter measurement
  Per Arvidsson et al. - Skane University Hospital and Lund University, Lund (Sweden) 
  
  
• A machine learning-based score for precise echocardiographic assessment of cardiac remodelling in hypertensive young adults
  Maryam Alsharqi et al. - University of Oxford, Oxford (United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland) - 
  
  
• Fully automatic estimation of global left ventricular systolic function using deep learning in transoesophageal echocardiography
  Erik Berg et al. - Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg (Denmark) 

European Journal of Heart Failure (EJHF)

• 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
  Theresa A. McDonagh, et al. -King's College Hospital, London (United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland)
  
  
• Diagnosis and treatment of cardiac amyloisdosis. A position statement of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial disease.
  Pablo Garcia-Pavia et al. - Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda, Majadahonda (Spain) 
  
  
• Universal definition and classification of heart failure: a report of the Heart Failure Society of America, Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, Japanese Heart Failure Society and Writing Committee of the Universal Definition of Heart Failure.
  Biykem Bozkurt et al. - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston (United States of America) 

ESC Heart Failure 

• Heart Failure after myocardial infarction: incidence and predictors 
  Dominik Jenca et al. - Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKEM), Prague (Czechia) 
  
  
• Heart failure is associated with depletion of core intestinal microbiota 
  Mark Luedde et al. -University hospital Giessen and Marburg, Giessen (Germany)
  
  
• Detection of viral SARS-CoV-2 genomes and histopathological changes in endomyocardial biopsies
  Biykem Bozkurt et al. -  Charite Campus Virchow Clinic, Berlin (Germany) 
  

European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing (EJCN)

• ChatGPT: can artificial intelligence language models be of value for cardiovascular nurses and allied health professionals
  Philip Moons et al. - KU Leuven, Leuven (Belgium) 
  
  
• What if your patient switches from Dr. Google to Dr. ChatGPT? A vignette-based survey of the trustworthiness, value, and danger of ChatGPT-generated responses to health questions
  Philip Moons et al. - KU Leuven, Leuven (Belgium) 
  
  
• Solutions to address low response rates in online surveys
  Wa'ed Shiyab et al. - University of Wollongong (Australia) 
  
  
• Integrated care in cardiovascular disease: a statement of the Association of Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professions of the European Society of Cardiology
  Chantal Ski et al. - Queens University Belfast,  Belfast (United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland) 
  
  
• Sex-related differences in the impact of nutritional status on in-hospital mortality in heart failure: a retrospective cohort study
  Adrian Kwasny et al. - Lodz (Poland) 

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology (EJPC)

• The association between daily step count and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: a meta-analysis
  Maciej Banach et al. - Medical University of Lodz, Lodz (Poland) 
  
  
• Life's Essential 8 and the risk of cardiovascular disease death and all-cause mortality in Finnish men 
  Nzechukwu Michael Isiozor et al. - University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio (Finland)
  
  
• Life's Essential 8' cardiovascular health with premature cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in young adults: the Kailuan prospective cohort study
  Aijun Xing et al. - Beijing Municipal Key Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology (China) 
  
  
• Gut microbiome and risk of ischaemic stroke: a comprehensive Mendelian randomization study
  Changjiang Meng et al. -  The Third Xiangya Hospital (China) 
  
  
• Vascular ageing: moving from bench towards bedside
  Rachel Climie et al.  -  University Paris-Descartes, Paris (France) 

EuroIntervention

• Acute outcomes for the full US cohort of the FLASH mechanical thrombectomy registry in pulmonary embolism 
  Catalin Toma et al. - Upmc Presbyterian Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh (United States of America)
  
  
• Venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation or standard care in patients with cardiogenic shock complicating acute myocardial infarction: the multicentre, randomised EURO SHOCK trial
  Banning Amerjeet et al. - United Kingdom
  
  
• Management of coronary artery disease in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation. A clinical consensus statement from the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions in collaboration with the ESC Working Group on Cardiovascular Surgery
  Giuseppe Tarantini et al. - University of Padua, Padova (Italy)
  
  
• Left atrial appendage occlusion
  David R. Holmes et al. - Mayo Clinic, Rochester (United States of America)

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