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24 Nov, 2025
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Discover the most influential research that has shaped the field and sparked conversations in cardiovascular science.

Top-cited articles

Acute outcomes for the full US cohort of the FLASH mechanical thrombectomy registry in pulmonary embolism

Doctor Catalin Toma

EuroIntervention

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Apolipoprotein C-III reduction in subjects with moderate hypertriglyceridaemia and at high cardiovascular risk

Doctor Jean-Claude Tardif

European Heart Journal

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The dysfunctional right ventricle: the importance of multi-modality imaging

Doctor Elena Surkova

Light to moderate coffee consumption is associated with lower risk of death: a UK Biobank study

Doctor Judit Simon
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A systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression of patient education for secondary prevention in patients with coronary heart disease: impact on psychological outcomes

Doctor Wendan Shi
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Incidence, associated outcomes, and predictors of upper gastrointestinal bleeding following acute myocardial infarction: a SWEDEHEART-based nationwide cohort study

Doctor Philip Sarajlic
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Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels exceed the recommended European threshold for PCSK9i initiation: lessons from the HEYMANS study

Professor Kausik K Ray

Keeping the plates spinning’: a qualitative study of the complexity, barriers, and facilitators to caregiving in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

Mrs Clare Pearson

Dipping pattern and short-term blood pressure variability are stronger predictors of cardiovascular events than average 24-h blood pressure in young hypertensive subjects

Professor Paolo Palatini
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Cardiac lipid metabolism, mitochondrial function, and heart failure

Professor Giuseppe Danilo Norata

Cardiovascular Research

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Ten-year trends in mortality and complications following catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation

Doctor Linh Ngo

EHJ Quality of Care & Clinical Outcomes

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The Core Curriculum for Cardiovascular Nurses and Allied Professionals

Professor Lis Neubeck

European Journal Cardiovascular Nursing

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SGLT-2 inhibitors and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with and without a history of heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Professor Roxana Mehran
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Imaging assessment of the right atrium: anatomy and function

Professor Roberto M Lang

A comparative analysis of premature heart disease- and cancer-related mortality in women in the USA, 1999–2018

Doctor Safi Khan

Less revascularization in young women but impaired long-term outcomes in young men after myocardial infarction

Mrs Anne Kerola

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

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Tricuspid regurgitation: recent advances in understanding pathophysiology, severity grading and outcome

Professor Rebecca Hahn

EHJ Cardiovascular Imaging

Effect of tafamidis on global longitudinal strain and myocardial work in transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis

Doctor Gerard Giblin
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Current and future use of neuromodulation in heart failure

Professor David Duncker

EHJ Supplements

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Cardiorenal interactions in heart failure – insights from recent therapeutic advances

Associate Professor Kevin Damman
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Remote-delivered cardiac rehabilitation during COVID-19: a prospective cohort comparison of health-related quality of life outcomes and patient experiences

Doctor Dion Candelaria
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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)

Professor Emanuele Barbato
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Antiplatelet therapy after percutaneous coronary intervention

Professor Dominick Joseph Angiolillo
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PCI of bystander coronary artery lesions should be performed before TAVI: pros and cons

Doctor Ignacio Jesus Amat Santos

Immune profiling of murine cardiac leukocytes identifies triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 as a novel mediator of hypertensive heart failure 

Meena S. Madhur

Clinical and radiological factors predicting stroke outcome after successful mechanical intervention in anterior circulation

Tomáš Peisker

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Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors in heart failure with reduced or preserved ejection fraction: a meta-analysis

Professor Subodh Verma
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Obesity and contraceptive use: impact on cardiovascular risk

Professor Giuseppe Rosano
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Vericiguat and NT-proBNP in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: analyses from the VICTORIA trial

Professor Burkert Pieske
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Heart failure: an update from the last years and a look at the near future

Advanced heart failure: guideline-directed medical therapy, diuretics, inotropes, and palliative care

Professor Marco Metra

Prevalence and prognostic impact of cognitive frailty in elderly patients with heart failure: sub-analysis of FRAGILE-HF

Doctor Yuya Matsue

ACC/AHA/HFSA 2022 and ESC 2021 guidelines on heart failure comparison

Doctor Amirmohammad Khalaji

ACC/AHA/HFSA 2022 and ESC 2021 guidelines on heart failure comparison

Mr Amir Hossein Behnoush
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Sacubitril/valsartan affects pulmonary arterial pressure in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and pulmonary hypertension

Doctor Antonio Bayes Genis

ACC/AHA/HFSA 2022 and ESC 2021 guidelines on heart failure comparison

Assistant Professor Haleh Ashraf
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Sacubitril/valsartan in heart failure: efficacy and safety in and outside clinical trials

Associate Professor Amr Abdin
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Egyptian expert opinion for the use of sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction

Professor Magdy Abdelhamid

Open Access Journals

Smartwatch-derived heart rate variability: a head-to-head comparison with the gold standard in cardiovascular disease

Doctor Fabian Theurl
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Smartphone as an electronic stethoscope: factors influencing heart sound quality

Doctor Hongxing Luo
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European Heart Journal—Imaging Methods and Practice (EHJ-IMP): new perspectives, new partnerships, more IMPact

Doctor Alessia Gimelli

EHJ Imaging Methods and Practice

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Sex-related differences in the management and outcomes of patients hospitalized with ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a comparison within four European myocardial infarction registries

Doctor Robert Edfors

Evaluation of the cardiac amyloidosis clinical pathway implementation: a real-world experience

Doctor Maaike Brons

EHJ Open

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A report of two cases of myocarditis following mRNA coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination

Doctor Christopher Paul Bengel
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Automated detection of low ejection fraction from a one-lead electrocardiogram: application of an AI algorithm to an electrocardiogram-enabled Digital Stethoscope

Associate Professor Zachi Attia

EHJ Digital Health

Fulminant myocarditis following coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination: a case report

Doctor Arianne Clare Agdamag

EHJ-Case Reports

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Non-invasive detection of cardiac allograft rejection among heart transplant recipients using an electrocardiogram based deep learning model

Assistant Professor Demilade Adedinsewo

Case report of acute myocarditis after administration of coronavirus disease 2019 vaccine in Japan

Masato Ohnishi

European Journal of Heart Failure

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Treating oxidative stress in heart failure: past, present and future

Doctor Peter Van Der Meer
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The use of diuretics in heart failure with congestion — a position statement from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology

Professor Wilfried Mullens

Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology practical guidance on the use of natriuretic peptide concentrations

Doctor Christian Mueller
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2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure

Professor Marco Metra
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2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure

Professor Theresa McDonagh
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Baseline cardiovascular risk assessment in cancer patients scheduled to receive cardiotoxic cancer therapies: a position statement and new risk assessment tools from the Cardio-Oncology Study Group of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology in collaboration with the International Cardio-Oncology Society

Doctor Alexander Lyon

Epidemiology of heart failure

Miss Amy Groenewegen
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Advanced heart failure: a position statement of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology

Professor Maria Generosa Crespo-Leiro
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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

Professor Biykem Bozkurt
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Eloisa Arbustini & Francesco Mojoli

Myocardial localization of coronavirus in COVID-19 cardiogenic shock

Professor Eloisa Arbustini
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Clinical practice update on heart failure 2019: pharmacotherapy, procedures, devices and patient management. An expert consensus meeting report of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology

Professor Stefan Anker

ESC Heart Failure

Top Cited Authors

Transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis: an update on diagnosis and treatment

Doctor Hiroyuki Yamamoto

Heart failure after myocardial infarction: incidence and predictors

Doctor Peter Wohlfahrt
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Empagliflozin reduces Ca/calmodulin-dependent kinase II activity in isolated ventricular cardiomyocytes

Empagliflozin inhibits Na+/H+ exchanger activity in human atrial cardiomyocytes

Professor Stefan Wagner

Detection of viral SARS-CoV-2 genomes and histopathological changes in endomyocardial biopsies

Professor Heinz-Peter Schultheiss
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Highlights in heart failure

Professor Marco Metra
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Fatal lymphocytic cardiac damage in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): autopsy reveals a ferroptosis signature

Professor Philippe Jorens
Congestive nephropathy: a neglected entity? Proposal for diagnostic criteria and future perspectives
Doctor Syed Ishaq Husain
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Exercise and heart failure: an update

Doctor Gaia Cattadori
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Echocardiographic abnormalities and predictors of mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients: the ECHOVID-19 study

Professor Tor Biering-Sorensen