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#	Title	Journal	Year	Citations
1	Chest sonography: a useful tool to differentiate acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema from acute respiratory distress syndrome	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2008	424
2	Feasibility and reference values of left atrial longitudinal strain imaging by two-dimensional speckle tracking	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2009	310
3	Echocardiographic quantification of myocardial function using tissue deformation imaging, a guide to image acquisition and analysis using tissue Doppler and speckle tracking	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2007	293
4	How I do it: Lung ultrasound	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2014	256
5	Lung ultrasound: a new tool for the cardiologist	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2011	226
6	Left atrial longitudinal strain by speckle tracking echocardiography correlates well with left ventricular filling pressures in patients with heart failure	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2010	208
7	Echocardiography practice, training and accreditation in the intensive care: document for the World Interactive Network Focused on Critical Ultrasound (WINFOCUS)	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2008	203
8	Persistent left superior vena cava: a case report and review of literature	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2008	198
9	Echocardiography-based left ventricular mass estimation. How should we define hypertrophy?	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2005	188
10	Evaluation of ultrasound lung comets by hand-held echocardiography	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2006	188
11	The use of microbubbles to target drug delivery	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2004	167
12	Persistent pulmonary congestion before discharge predicts rehospitalization in heart failure: a lung ultrasound study	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2015	160
13	The Radiation Issue in Cardiology: the time for action is now	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2011	132
14	Mitral annular disjunction in myxomatous mitral valve disease: a relevant abnormality recognizable by transthoracic echocardiography	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2010	122
15	Global longitudinal strain is a more reproducible measure of left ventricular function than ejection fraction regardless of echocardiographic training	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2019	122
16	The efficacy of sonographic measurement of inferior vena cava diameter as an estimate of central venous pressure	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2015	121
17	Improved cardiovascular diagnostic accuracy by pocket size imaging device in non-cardiologic outpatients: the NaUSiCa (Naples Ultrasound Stethoscope in Cardiology) study	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2010	120
18	Coronary flow reserve in stress-echo lab. From pathophysiologic toy to diagnostic tool	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2005	115
19	Left atrial volume measurement with automated border detection by 3-dimensional echocardiography: comparison with magnetic resonance imaging	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2009	115
20	Functional measurements based on feature tracking of cine magnetic resonance images identify left ventricular segments with myocardial scar	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2009	115
21	Right ventricular dyssynchrony in patients with pulmonary hypertension is associated with disease severity and functional class	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2005	114
22	Normalization of flow-mediated dilation to shear stress area under the curve eliminates the impact of variable hyperemic stimulus	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2008	113
23	Novel echocardiographic techniques to assess left atrial size, anatomy and function	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2012	113
24	Rapid evaluation by lung-cardiac-inferior vena cava (LCI) integrated ultrasound for differentiating heart failure from pulmonary disease as the cause of acute dyspnea in the emergency setting	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2012	111
25	Diastolic dysfunction and diastolic heart failure: diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic aspects	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2005	109
26	The role of Intravascular Ultrasound in the management of spontaneous coronary artery dissection	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2008	105
27	The diagnostic accuracy of pharmacological stress echocardiography for the assessment of coronary artery disease: a meta-analysis	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2008	102
28	Shear wave elastography imaging of carotid plaques: feasible, reproducible and of clinical potential	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2014	96
29	Cardiac magnetic resonance versus transthoracic echocardiography for the assessment of cardiac volumes and regional function after myocardial infarction: an intrasubject comparison using simultaneous intrasubject recordings	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2009	92
30	Epidemiology and cardiovascular risk factors of aortic stenosis	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2006	91
31	Current clinical applications of spectral tissue Doppler echocardiography (E/E' ratio) as a noninvasive surrogate for left ventricular diastolic pressures in the diagnosis of heart failure with preserved left ventricular systolic function	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2007	91
32	Doppler ultrasound in the measurement of pulse wave velocity: agreement with the Complior method	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2011	89
33	Ozone and cardiovascular injury	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2009	88
34	Mitral Annulus Calcification is associated with valvular and cardiac structural abnormalities	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2007	84
35	Stress echo 2020: the international stress echo study in ischemic and non-ischemic heart disease	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2017	82
36	Could the use of bedside lung ultrasound reduce the number of chest x-rays in the intensive care unit?	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2017	82
37	A new 2D-based method for myocardial velocity strain and strain rate quantification in a normal adult and paediatric population: assessment of reference values	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2009	81
38	Economic and biological costs of cardiac imaging	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2005	80
39	Left ventricular outflow tract velocity time integral outperforms ejection fraction and Doppler-derived cardiac output for predicting outcomes in a select advanced heart failure cohort	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2017	77
40	The non-invasive documentation of coronary microcirculation impairment: role of transthoracic echocardiography	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2005	72
41	Ultrasound settings significantly alter arterial lumen and wall thickness measurements	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2008	69
42	Visually estimated ejection fraction by two dimensional and triplane echocardiography is closely correlated with quantitative ejection fraction by real-time three dimensional echocardiography	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2009	69
43	Prevalence of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in European populations based on cross-validated diagnostic thresholds	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2012	68
44	Structural and functional changes in maternal left ventricle during pregnancy: a three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography study	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2015	68
45	Normal ranges of left ventricular strain in children: a meta-analysis	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2015	67
46	Non-compacted cardiomyopathy: clinical-echocardiographic study	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2006	66
47	Transthoracic Doppler echocardiography – noninvasive diagnostic window for coronary flow reserve assessment	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2003	64
48	Echocardiography in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: usefulness of old and new techniques in the diagnosis and pathophysiological assessment	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2010	62
49	Causes of changes in carotid intima-media thickness: a literature review	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2015	62
50	Myocardial contractility in the echo lab: molecular, cellular and pathophysiological basis	Cardiovascular Ultrasound	2005	61

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