| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Coarctation Long-term Assessment (COALA): Significance of arterial hypertension in a cohort of 404 patients up to 27 years after surgical repair of isolated coarctation of the aorta, even in the absence of restenosis and prosthetic material | Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery | 2007 | 265 |
| 2 | Diameters of the thoracic aorta throughout life as measured with helical computed tomography | Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery | 2002 | 231 |
| 3 | Recommendations for physical activity, recreation sport, and exercise training in paediatric patients with congenital heart disease: a report from the Exercise, Basic & Translational Research Section of the European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, the European Congenital Heart and Lung Exercise Group, and the Association for European Paediatric Cardiology | European Journal of Preventive Cardiology | 2012 | 205 |
| 4 | Self-estimated physical functioning poorly predicts actual exercise capacity in adolescents and adults with congenital heart disease | European Heart Journal | 2009 | 157 |
| 5 | Wall shear stress and flow patterns in the ascending aorta in patients with bicuspid aortic valves differ significantly from tricuspid aortic valves: a prospective study | European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging | 2013 | 133 |
| 6 | Exercise capacity, quality of life, and daily activity in the long-term follow-up of patients with univentricular heart and total cavopulmonary connection | European Heart Journal | 2009 | 125 |
| 7 | Occurrence and management of atrial arrhythmia after long-term Fontan circulation | Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery | 2004 | 113 |
| 8 | Intraoperative renal near-infrared spectroscopy indicates developing acute kidney injury in infants undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass: a case–control study | Critical Care | 2015 | 105 |
| 9 | The Serum- and Glucocorticoid-Inducible Kinase Sgk-1 Is Involved in Pulmonary Vascular Remodeling | Circulation Research | 2006 | 88 |
| 10 | Peak oxygen uptake, ventilatory efficiency and QRS-duration predict event free survival in patients late after surgical repair of tetralogy of Fallot | International Journal of Cardiology | 2015 | 81 |
| 11 | Management of Emergencies in Adults With Congenital Cardiac Disease | American Journal of Cardiology | 2008 | 76 |
| 12 | Thoracic aortopathy in Turner syndrome and the influence of bicuspid aortic valves and blood pressure: a CMR study | Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance | 2010 | 75 |
| 13 | Assumed oxygen consumption frequently results in large errors in the determination of cardiac output | Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery | 2005 | 71 |
| 14 | Daily physical activity in adults with congenital heart disease is positively correlated with exercise capacity but not with quality of life | Clinical Research in Cardiology | 2012 | 69 |
| 15 | Emergency hospital admissions and three-year survival of adults with and without cardiovascular surgery for congenital cardiac disease | Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery | 2003 | 68 |
| 16 | Minor symptoms of depression in patients with congenital heart disease have a larger impact on quality of life than limited exercise capacity | International Journal of Cardiology | 2012 | 67 |
| 17 | MMP21 is mutated in human heterotaxy and is required for normal left-right asymmetry in vertebrates | Nature Genetics | 2015 | 65 |
| 18 | Usefulness of Direct Oral Anticoagulants in Adult Congenital Heart Disease | American Journal of Cardiology | 2016 | 64 |
| 19 | Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: genetics and clinical perspectives | Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy | 2019 | 63 |
| 20 | Improvement in long-term survival after hospital discharge but not in freedom from reoperation after the change from atrial to arterial switch for transposition of the great arteries | Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery | 2009 | 56 |
| 21 | The Adult Patient with Eisenmenger Syndrome: A Medical Update After Dana Point Part I: Epidemiology, Clinical Aspects and Diagnostic Options | Current Cardiology Reviews | 2010 | 56 |
| 22 | Sense of coherence, rather than exercise capacity, is the stronger predictor to obtain health-related quality of life in adults with congenital heart disease | European Journal of Preventive Cardiology | 2014 | 53 |
| 23 | Early outcomes of percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation using the Edwards SAPIEN XT transcatheter heart valve system | International Journal of Cardiology | 2018 | 52 |
| 24 | Exercise performance and quality of life is more impaired in Eisenmenger syndrome than in complex cyanotic congenital heart disease with pulmonary stenosis | International Journal of Cardiology | 2011 | 46 |
| 25 | Hemodynamic and genetic analysis in children with idiopathic, heritable, and congenital heart disease associated pulmonary arterial hypertension | Respiratory Research | 2013 | 46 |
| 26 | Congenital and surgically acquired Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome in patients with tricuspid atresia | Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery | 2005 | 44 |
| 27 | Mortality and Restenosis Rate of Surgical Coarctation Repair in Infancy: A Study of 191 Patients | Cardiology | 2009 | 44 |
| 28 | General anxiety of adolescents and adults with congenital heart disease is comparable with that in healthy controls | International Journal of Cardiology | 2013 | 44 |
| 29 | Non-cardiac comorbidities in adults with inherited and congenital heart disease: report from a single center experience of more than 800 consecutive patients | Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy | 2018 | 43 |
| 30 | Exercise Capacity and Exercise Hypertension After Surgical Repair of Isolated Aortic Coarctation | American Journal of Cardiology | 2008 | 41 |
| 31 | The Role of Gas Exchange Variables in Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing for Risk Stratification and Management of Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction | American Heart Journal | 2018 | 41 |
| 32 | Replacement of the systemic atrioventricular valve with a mechanical prosthesis in children aged less than 6 years: Late clinical results of survival and subsequent replacement | Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery | 2007 | 37 |
| 33 | Current research status on the psychological situation of adults with congenital heart disease | Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy | 2018 | 37 |
| 34 | A Low Residual Pressure Gradient Yields Excellent Long-Term Outcome After Percutaneous Pulmonary Valve Implantation | JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions | 2019 | 37 |
| 35 | Long-term survival of patients with univentricular heart not treated surgically | Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery | 2002 | 36 |
| 36 | Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Adult Congenital Heart Disease | Annals of the American Thoracic Society | 2017 | 36 |
| 37 | Value of N‐terminal pro brain natriuretic peptide levels in different types of Fontan circulation | European Journal of Heart Failure | 2013 | 34 |
| 38 | Recoarctation After Norwood I Procedure for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome: Impact of Patch Material | Annals of Thoracic Surgery | 2017 | 34 |
| 39 | Quality of life in young people with congenital heart disease is better than expected | Archives of Disease in Childhood | 2019 | 34 |
| 40 | Transcutaneous Melody™ valve implantation in “tricuspid position” after a Fontan Björk (RA–RV homograft) operation results in biventricular circulation | International Journal of Cardiology | 2010 | 33 |
| 41 | A restrictive ventilatory pattern is common in patients with univentricular heart after Fontan palliation and associated with a reduced exercise capacity and quality of life | Congenital Heart Disease | 2019 | 33 |
| 42 | Physical activity in adults with congenital heart disease and associations with functional outcomes | Heart | 2017 | 32 |
| 43 | Bioinspired Dopamine/Mucin Coatings Provide Lubricity, Wear Protection, and Cell‐Repellent Properties for Medical Applications | Advanced Healthcare Materials | 2021 | 32 |
| 44 | Improved exercise performance and quality of life after percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation | International Journal of Cardiology | 2014 | 31 |
| 45 | Usefulness of cardiopulmonary exercise testing to predict the development of arterial hypertension in adult patients with repaired isolated coarctation of the aorta | International Journal of Cardiology | 2013 | 30 |
| 46 | Functional outcome in contemporary children with total cavopulmonary connection – Health-related physical fitness, exercise capacity and health-related quality of life | International Journal of Cardiology | 2018 | 30 |
| 47 | Cardiac outcomes in adults with supravalvar aortic stenosis | European Heart Journal | 2012 | 28 |
| 48 | Tricuspid valve surgery improves cardiac output and exercise performance in patients with Ebstein's anomaly | International Journal of Cardiology | 2013 | 28 |
| 49 | PTPN11 mutations play a minor role in isolated congenital heart disease | American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A | 2005 | 26 |
| 50 | Improving medical care and prevention in adults with congenital heart disease—reflections on a global problem—part I: development of congenital cardiology, epidemiology, clinical aspects, heart failure, cardiac arrhythmia | Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy | 2018 | 26 |
