| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | European system for cardiac operative risk evaluation (EuroSCORE) | European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery | 1999 | 2,998 |
| 2 | EuroSCORE II | European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery | 2012 | 2,159 |
| 3 | Randomised controlled trial of vitamin E in patients with coronary disease: Cambridge Heart Antioxidant Study (CHAOS) | Lancet, The | 1996 | 2,089 |
| 4 | Revision of the 1996 Working Formulation for the Standardization of Nomenclature in the Diagnosis of Lung Rejection | Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation | 2007 | 1,309 |
| 5 | Inhaled nitric oxide as a cause of selective pulmonary vasodilatation in pulmonary hypertension | Lancet, The | 1991 | 1,045 |
| 6 | The logistic EuroSCORE | European Heart Journal | 2003 | 975 |
| 7 | Rapid and noninvasive diagnosis of the presence and severity of coronary heart disease using 1H-NMR-based metabonomics | Nature Medicine | 2002 | 941 |
| 8 | How can airborne transmission of COVID-19 indoors be minimised? | Environment International | 2020 | 933 |
| 9 | Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH) | Circulation | 2011 | 860 |
| 10 | European Respiratory Society guidelines for the management of adult bronchiectasis | European Respiratory Journal | 2017 | 788 |
| 11 | Pathologic assessment of vasculopathies in pulmonary hypertension | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2004 | 609 |
| 12 | An Investigation into Causative Factors in Patients with Bronchiectasis | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2000 | 607 |
| 13 | Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension | European Respiratory Journal | 2019 | 607 |
| 14 | Surgical management and outcome of patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: Results from an international prospective registry | Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery | 2011 | 605 |
| 15 | Whole-genome sequencing to identify transmission of Mycobacterium abscessus between patients with cystic fibrosis: a retrospective cohort study | Lancet, The | 2013 | 596 |
| 16 | Targeted Left Ventricular Lead Placement to Guide Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2012 | 591 |
| 17 | Apoptosis of vascular smooth muscle cells induces features of plaque vulnerability in atherosclerosis | Nature Medicine | 2006 | 584 |
| 18 | International consensus statement on the peri‐operative management of anaemia and iron deficiency | Anaesthesia | 2017 | 571 |
| 19 | Advanced heart failure: a position statement of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology | European Journal of Heart Failure | 2018 | 555 |
| 20 | Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells Undergo Telomere-Based Senescence in Human Atherosclerosis | Circulation Research | 2006 | 541 |
| 21 | BMPR2 Haploinsufficiency as the Inherited Molecular Mechanism for Primary Pulmonary Hypertension | American Journal of Human Genetics | 2001 | 521 |
| 22 | Impairment of Endothelium-Dependent Pulmonary-Artery Relaxation in Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease | New England Journal of Medicine | 1991 | 507 |
| 23 | Bosentan for Treatment of Inoperable Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2008 | 506 |
| 24 | Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2013 | 503 |
| 25 | British Thoracic Society guidelines for the management of non-tuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease (NTM-PD) | Thorax | 2017 | 488 |
| 26 | Changing Demographics, Epidemiology, and Survival of Incident Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2012 | 483 |
| 27 | The landscape of somatic mutation in normal colorectal epithelial cells | Nature | 2019 | 468 |
| 28 | Validation of European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE) in North American cardiac surgery | European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery | 2002 | 462 |
| 29 | Emergence and spread of a human-transmissible multidrug-resistant nontuberculous mycobacterium | Science | 2016 | 462 |
| 30 | Effect of Home Noninvasive Ventilation With Oxygen Therapy vs Oxygen Therapy Alone on Hospital Readmission or Death After an Acute COPD Exacerbation | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2017 | 443 |
| 31 | The 2013 International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Working Formulation for the standardization of nomenclature in the pathologic diagnosis of antibody-mediated rejection in heart transplantation | Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation | 2013 | 440 |
| 32 | Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2013 | 432 |
| 33 | Guidelines for the diagnosis and antibiotic treatment of endocarditis in adults: a report of the Working Party of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | 2012 | 428 |
| 34 | Pulmonary hypertension in chronic lung disease and hypoxia | European Respiratory Journal | 2019 | 428 |
| 35 | A clinical prediction rule for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease: validation, updating, and extension | European Heart Journal | 2011 | 427 |
| 36 | European Society of Cardiology, acute cardiovascular care association, SCAD study group: a position paper on spontaneous coronary artery dissection | European Heart Journal | 2018 | 421 |
| 37 | Cardiac Remote Ischemic Preconditioning in Coronary Stenting (CRISP Stent) Study | Circulation | 2009 | 408 |
| 38 | Recommendations for standards of monitoring during anaesthesia and recovery 2015 : Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland | Anaesthesia | 2016 | 403 |
| 39 | Guidelines on the radical management of patients with lung cancer | Thorax | 2010 | 393 |
| 40 | The serum concentration of active transforming growth factor-β is severely depressed in advanced atherosclerosis | Nature Medicine | 1995 | 391 |
| 41 | Selective enhancement of endothelial BMPR-II with BMP9 reverses pulmonary arterial hypertension | Nature Medicine | 2015 | 389 |
| 42 | Improved Outcomes in Medically and Surgically Treated Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2008 | 379 |
| 43 | Clinical spectrum and features of activated phosphoinositide 3-kinase δ syndrome: A large patient cohort study | Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology | 2017 | 377 |
| 44 | 5th National Audit Project (NAP5) on accidental awareness during general anaesthesia: summary of main findings and risk factors | British Journal of Anaesthesia | 2014 | 360 |
| 45 | Transmyocardial laser revascularisation in patients with refractory angina: a randomised controlled trial | Lancet, The | 1999 | 354 |
| 46 | Diagnosis, Assessment, and Treatment of Non-Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Pulmonary Hypertension | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2009 | 353 |
| 47 | US Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and European Cystic Fibrosis Society consensus recommendations for the management of non-tuberculous mycobacteria in individuals with cystic fibrosis | Thorax | 2016 | 348 |
| 48 | Test performance of endobronchial ultrasound and transbronchial needle aspiration biopsy for mediastinal staging in patients with lung cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis | Thorax | 2009 | 339 |
| 49 | Sleep and Circadian Rhythm Regulation in Early Parkinson Disease | JAMA Neurology | 2014 | 333 |
| 50 | Consumption of red wine polyphenols reduces the susceptibility of low-density lipoproteins to oxidation in vivo | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 1998 | 329 |
