| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Recommendations for chamber quantification☆ | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2006 | 2,960 |
| 2 | Recommendations for the Evaluation of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function by Echocardiography | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2008 | 1,804 |
| 3 | European Association of Echocardiography recommendations for the assessment of valvular regurgitation. Part 2: mitral and tricuspid regurgitation (native valve disease) | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2010 | 1,237 |
| 4 | Echocardiographic assessment of valve stenosis: EAE/ASE recommendations for clinical practice | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2009 | 890 |
| 5 | Regional Strain and Strain Rate Measurements by Cardiac Ultrasound: Principles, Implementation and Limitations | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2000 | 864 |
| 6 | Current and Evolving Echocardiographic Techniques for the Quantitative Evaluation of Cardiac Mechanics: ASE/EAE Consensus Statement on Methodology and Indications Endorsed by the Japanese Society of Echocardiography | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2011 | 796 |
| 7 | Stress echocardiography expert consensus statement: European Association of Echocardiography (EAE) (a registered branch of the ESC) | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2008 | 582 |
| 8 | Recommendations for the practice of echocardiography in infective endocarditis | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2010 | 457 |
| 9 | European Association of Echocardiography recommendations for the assessment of valvular regurgitation. Part 1: aortic and pulmonary regurgitation (native valve disease) | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2010 | 452 |
| 10 | Echocardiography in aortic diseases: EAE recommendations for clinical practice | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2010 | 411 |
| 11 | Left atrial function: physiology, assessment, and clinical implications | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2011 | 370 |
| 12 | Microbubbles and ultrasound: from diagnosis to therapy | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2004 | 344 |
| 13 | European Association of Echocardiography recommendations for standardization of performance, digital storage and reporting of echocardiographic studies | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2008 | 319 |
| 14 | Contrast echocardiography: evidence-based recommendations by European Association of Echocardiography | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2008 | 286 |
| 15 | Recommendations for transoesophageal echocardiography: update 2010 | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2010 | 252 |
| 16 | Evaluation of right ventricular volume and function by 2D and 3D echocardiography compared to MRI | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2006 | 249 |
| 17 | Recommendations for echocardiography use in the diagnosis and management of cardiac sources of embolism: European Association of Echocardiography (EAE) (a registered branch of the ESC) | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2010 | 247 |
| 18 | The echocardiographic assessment of the right ventricle: what to do in 2010? | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2010 | 226 |
| 19 | Structure and anatomy of the aortic root | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2009 | 225 |
| 20 | Subclinical left ventricular dysfunction in asymptomatic diabetic patients assessed by two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography: correlation with diabetic duration | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2009 | 203 |
| 21 | The use of pocket-size imaging devices: a position statement of the European Association of Echocardiography | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2011 | 200 |
| 22 | Is right ventricular systolic function reduced after cardiac surgery? A two- and three-dimensional echocardiographic study | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2009 | 197 |
| 23 | Left ventricular strain and strain rate: characterization of the effect of load in human subjects | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2010 | 192 |
| 24 | Tissue Doppler imaging and conventional echocardiography after anthracycline treatment in adults: Early and late alterations of left ventricular function during a prospective study | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2006 | 186 |
| 25 | European Association of Echocardiography recommendations for training, competence, and quality improvement in echocardiography | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2009 | 184 |
| 26 | Impact of impaired myocardial deformations on exercise tolerance and prognosis in patients with asymptomatic aortic stenosis | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2009 | 180 |
| 27 | Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy: New insights into the possible underlying pathophysiology | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2006 | 179 |
| 28 | Longitudinal 2D strain at rest predicts the presence of left main and three vessel coronary artery disease in patients without regional wall motion abnormality | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2009 | 177 |
| 29 | Right ventricle in pulmonary arterial hypertension: haemodynamics, structural changes, imaging, and proposal of a study protocol aimed to assess remodelling and treatment effects | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2010 | 176 |
| 30 | Feasibility of strain and strain rate imaging for the assessment of regional left atrial deformation: A study in normal subjects | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2006 | 173 |
| 31 | Echocardiographic classification of chronic ischemic mitral regurgitation caused by restricted motion according to tethering pattern | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2004 | 168 |
| 32 | Visceral adiposity and arterial stiffness: echocardiographic epicardial fat thickness reflects, better than waist circumference, carotid arterial stiffness in a large population of hypertensives | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2009 | 166 |
| 33 | Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Practice Guidelines and Recommendations for Training: Writing group of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) in collaboration with the European Association of Echocardiography (EAE) and the Association for European Pediatric Cardiologists (AEPC) | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2011 | 165 |
| 34 | Left and Right Atrial Volume by Freehand Three-dimensional Echocardiography: In Vivo Validation Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2000 | 164 |
| 35 | Influence of afterload on left ventricular radial and longitudinal systolic functions: a two-dimensional strain imaging study | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2009 | 154 |
| 36 | Velocity and deformation imaging for the assessment of myocardial dysfunction | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2008 | 150 |
| 37 | Anatomy of the mitral valve: understanding the mitral valve complex in mitral regurgitation | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2010 | 149 |
| 38 | Regional right ventricular dysfunction in acute pulmonary embolism and right ventricular infarction | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2005 | 145 |
| 39 | Evaluation of the tricuspid valve morphology and function by transthoracic real-time three-dimensional echocardiography | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2009 | 145 |
| 40 | Normal reference ranges for left and right atrial volume indexes and ejection fractions obtained with real-time three-dimensional echocardiography | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2009 | 144 |
| 41 | Prevalence of infective endocarditis in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: the value of screening with echocardiography | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2011 | 138 |
| 42 | Impact of global left ventricular afterload on left ventricular function in asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis: a two-dimensional speckle-tracking study | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2010 | 137 |
| 43 | Recommendations of the European Association of Echocardiography How to use echo-Doppler in clinical trials: different modalities for different purposes | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2011 | 137 |
| 44 | Right ventricular quantification in clinical practice: two-dimensional vs. three-dimensional echocardiography compared with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2011 | 137 |
| 45 | Echocardiography in the assessment of right heart function | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2007 | 135 |
| 46 | Echocardiography in the emergency assessment of acute aortic syndromes | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2009 | 135 |
| 47 | Two-dimensional myocardial strain imaging detects changes in left ventricular systolic function immediately after anthracycline chemotherapy | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2011 | 135 |
| 48 | Impact of left ventricular geometry on prognosis in hypertensive patients with left ventricular hypertrophy (the LIFE study) | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2008 | 132 |
| 49 | Right ventricular systolic function assessment: rank of echocardiographic methods vs. cardiac magnetic resonance imaging | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2011 | 126 |
| 50 | Echo-guided percutaneous septal ablation for symptomatic hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy: 7 years of experience | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2004 | 121 |
