| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | European Society of Cardiology, acute cardiovascular care association, SCAD study group: a position paper on spontaneous coronary artery dissection | European Heart Journal | 2018 | 421 |
| 2 | Treatment of Parkinson's disease with pergolide and relation to restrictive valvular heart disease | Lancet, The | 2004 | 312 |
| 3 | Pregnancy outcomes in women with cardiovascular disease: evolving trends over 10 years in the ESC Registry Of Pregnancy And Cardiac disease (ROPAC) | European Heart Journal | 2019 | 209 |
| 4 | Diastolic Dysfunction in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Is It Really the First Marker of Diabetic Cardiomyopathy? | Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography | 2011 | 190 |
| 5 | Genome-wide analyses identify a role for SLC17A4 and AADAT in thyroid hormone regulation | Nature Communications | 2018 | 181 |
| 6 | Strain Rate Imaging Detects Early Cardiac Effects of Pegylated Liposomal Doxorubicin as Adjuvant Therapy in Elderly Patients with Breast Cancer | Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography | 2008 | 165 |
| 7 | The role of endothelial cells in the vasculopathy of systemic sclerosis: A systematic review | Autoimmunity Reviews | 2017 | 153 |
| 8 | Reference Values for Echocardiographic Assessment of the Diameter of the Aortic Root and Ascending Aorta Spanning All Age Categories | American Journal of Cardiology | 2014 | 151 |
| 9 | A Novel Simulation Strategy for Stent Insertion and Deployment in Curved Coronary Bifurcations: Comparison of Three Drug-Eluting Stents | Annals of Biomedical Engineering | 2010 | 140 |
| 10 | Impaired Myocardial Radial Function in Asymptomatic Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Speckle-Tracking Imaging Study | Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography | 2010 | 136 |
| 11 | Triiodothyronine and Free Thyroxine Levels are Differentially Associated with Metabolic Profile and Adiposity-Related Cardiovascular Risk Markers in Euthyroid Middle-Aged Subjects | Thyroid | 2014 | 118 |
| 12 | Second harmonic transthoracic echocardiography: the new reference screening method for the detection of patent foramen ovale | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2004 | 112 |
| 13 | Acute and critically ill peripartum cardiomyopathy and 'bridge to' therapeutic options: a single center experience with intra-aortic balloon pump, extra corporeal membrane oxygenation and continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices | Critical Care | 2011 | 81 |
| 14 | The gender gap in risk factor control: Effects of age and education on the control of cardiovascular risk factors in male and female coronary patients. The EUROASPIRE IV study by the European Society of Cardiology | International Journal of Cardiology | 2016 | 77 |
| 15 | Prevalence, associated factors and management implications of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in takotsubo cardiomyopathy: a two-year, two-center experience | BMC Cardiovascular Disorders | 2014 | 76 |
| 16 | Echocardiography for the detection of portopulmonary hypertension in liver transplant candidates: An analysis of cutoff values | Liver Transplantation | 2013 | 71 |
| 17 | Effect of an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm on Wave Reflection in the Aorta | IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering | 2008 | 58 |
| 18 | Revisiting Fibromuscular Dysplasia | Hypertension | 2016 | 55 |
| 19 | Age- and gender-specific differences in left ventricular cardiac function and volumes determined by gated SPET | European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | 2001 | 51 |
| 20 | Screening for pulmonary arterial hypertension in an unselected prospective systemic sclerosis cohort | European Respiratory Journal | 2017 | 50 |
| 21 | Effectiveness and Safety of Oral Anticoagulants in Older Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis | Frontiers in Pharmacology | 2020 | 50 |
| 22 | Gender, TIMI risk score and in-hospital mortality in STEMI patients undergoing primary PCI: results from the Belgian STEMI registry | EuroIntervention | 2014 | 48 |
| 23 | Low-Dose Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography in Children and Young Adults | American Journal of Cardiology | 1998 | 41 |
| 24 | Worldwide trends in oral anticoagulant use in patients with atrial fibrillation from 2010 to 2018: a systematic review and meta-analysis | Europace | 2022 | 40 |
| 25 | Stabilization of Microcirculation in Patients with Early Systemic Sclerosis with Diffuse Skin Involvement following Rituximab Treatment: An Open-label Study | Journal of Rheumatology | 2016 | 39 |
| 26 | Prevalence of Fabry disease in a predominantly hypertensive population with left ventricular hypertrophy | International Journal of Cardiology | 2013 | 38 |
| 27 | Two years follow-up of an open-label pilot study of treatment with rituximab in patients with early diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis | Acta Clinica Belgica | 2018 | 37 |
| 28 | Evaluation and management of cancer patients presenting with acute cardiovascular disease: a Consensus Document of the Acute CardioVascular Care (ACVC) association and the ESC council of Cardio-Oncology—Part 1: acute coronary syndromes and acute pericardial diseases | European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care | 2021 | 37 |
| 29 | Prevalence and outcome of diastolic dysfunction in liver transplantation recipients | Acta Cardiologica | 2014 | 36 |
| 30 | Mapping and Isolation of the Pulmonary Veins Using the PVAC Catheter | PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology | 2010 | 34 |
| 31 | Thyroid Hormone Levels Within Reference Range Are Associated with Heart Rate, Cardiac Structure, and Function in Middle-Aged Men and Women | Thyroid | 2013 | 33 |
| 32 | Impact of COVID-19-related public containment measures on the ST elevation myocardial infarction epidemic in Belgium: a nationwide, serial, cross-sectional study | Acta Cardiologica | 2021 | 33 |
| 33 | Six-minute walk test in systemic sclerosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis | International Journal of Cardiology | 2016 | 32 |
| 34 | Reperfusion therapy and mortality in octogenarian STEMI patients: results from the Belgian STEMI registry | Clinical Research in Cardiology | 2013 | 31 |
| 35 | Health considerations for transgender women and remaining unknowns: a narrative review | Therapeutic Advances in Endocrinology and Metabolism | 2019 | 31 |
| 36 | Therapy From a Novel Substernal Lead | JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology | 2019 | 30 |
| 37 | Pregnancy outcome in thoracic aortic disease data from the Registry Of Pregnancy And Cardiac disease | Heart | 2021 | 29 |
| 38 | Relationship between arterial elasticity indices and carotid artery intima-media thickness | American Journal of Hypertension | 2000 | 28 |
| 39 | Increased aortic stiffness in prepubertal girls with Turner syndrome | Journal of Cardiology | 2017 | 28 |
| 40 | Clinical outcome of COVID-19 in patients with adult congenital heart disease | Heart | 2021 | 28 |
| 41 | Incidence, timing, and characteristics of acute changes in heart rate during ongoing circumferential pulmonary vein isolation | Europace | 2008 | 27 |
| 42 | Abnormal aortic arch morphology in Turner syndrome patients is a risk factor for hypertension | Heart and Vessels | 2015 | 26 |
| 43 | Fibrinogen and C-reactive protein on admission as markers of final infarct size after primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction | Atherosclerosis | 2001 | 25 |
| 44 | Haemodynamic management of patients with left ventricular assist devices using echocardiography: the essentials | European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging | 2019 | 25 |
| 45 | Renal dysfunction in STEMI-patients undergoing primary angioplasty: higher prevalence but equal prognostic impact in female patients; an observational cohort study from the Belgian STEMI registry | BMC Nephrology | 2013 | 24 |
| 46 | Proximal aortic stiffening in Turner patients may be present before dilation can be detected: a segmental functional MRI study | Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance | 2016 | 24 |
| 47 | SMAD4 rare variants in individuals and families with thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections | European Journal of Human Genetics | 2019 | 24 |
| 48 | The clinical value of nuclear medicine in the assessment of irradiation-induced and anthracycline-associated cardiac damage | Annals of Oncology | 2002 | 23 |
| 49 | Standardization of Arterial Stiffness Measurements Make Them Ready for Use in Clinical Practice: Table 1. | American Journal of Hypertension | 2016 | 23 |
| 50 | Day-to-day variability of global left ventricular functional and perfusional measurements by quantitative gated SPECT using Tc-99m tetrofosmin in patients with heart failure due to coronary artery disease | Journal of Nuclear Cardiology | 2004 | 22 |
