| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Myocardial infarction accelerates atherosclerosis | Nature | 2012 | 874 |
| 2 | Radiofrequency Ablation vs Endoscopic Surveillance for Patients With Barrett Esophagus and Low-Grade Dysplasia | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2014 | 545 |
| 3 | Flecainide prevents catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia in mice and humans | Nature Medicine | 2009 | 539 |
| 4 | The value of the electrocardiogram in the differential diagnosis of a tachycardia with a widened QRS complex | American Journal of Medicine | 1978 | 518 |
| 5 | Edoxaban-based versus vitamin K antagonist-based antithrombotic regimen after successful coronary stenting in patients with atrial fibrillation (ENTRUST-AF PCI): a randomised, open-label, phase 3b trial | Lancet, The | 2019 | 465 |
| 6 | A systematic review and meta-analysis of intra-aortic balloon pump therapy in ST-elevation myocardial infarction: should we change the guidelines? | European Heart Journal | 2008 | 452 |
| 7 | Depicting the composition of gut microbiota in a population with varied ethnic origins but shared geography | Nature Medicine | 2018 | 436 |
| 8 | Sudden Unexplained Death | Circulation | 2005 | 384 |
| 9 | Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: risk factors and potential pathomechanisms | Nature Reviews Neurology | 2009 | 377 |
| 10 | Drugs and Brugada syndrome patients: Review of the literature, recommendations, and an up-to-date website (www.brugadadrugs.org) | Heart Rhythm | 2009 | 342 |
| 11 | Risk stratification for sudden cardiac death: current status and challenges for the future | European Heart Journal | 2014 | 341 |
| 12 | Pathophysiological mechanisms of Brugada syndrome: Depolarization disorder, repolarization disorder, or more? | Cardiovascular Research | 2005 | 326 |
| 13 | Cardiotoxicity of cytotoxic drugs | Cancer Treatment Reviews | 2004 | 318 |
| 14 | Ability of Recombinant Factor VIIa to Reverse the Anticoagulant Effect of the Pentasaccharide Fondaparinux in Healthy Volunteers | Circulation | 2002 | 311 |
| 15 | PET/MRI of Inflammation in Myocardial Infarction | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2012 | 301 |
| 16 | Left ventricular thrombus formation after acute myocardial infarction | Heart | 2012 | 275 |
| 17 | To operate or not on elderly patients with aortic stenosis: the decision and its consequences | Heart | 1999 | 274 |
| 18 | Value of Myoglobin, Troponin T, and CK-MB mass in Ruling Out an Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Emergency Room | Circulation | 1995 | 263 |
| 19 | Permanent Leadless Cardiac Pacing | Circulation | 2014 | 257 |
| 20 | X-linked cardioskeletal myopathy and neutropenia (Barth syndrome): An update | American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A | 2004 | 244 |
| 21 | Long-term follow-up of idiopathic mitral valve prolapse in 300 patients: A prospective study | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 1988 | 238 |
| 22 | Relationship of Thrombus Healing to Underlying Plaque Morphology in Sudden Coronary Death | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2010 | 226 |
| 23 | Symptoms and signs of syncope: a review of the link between physiology and clinical clues | Brain | 2009 | 225 |
| 24 | Type of SCN5A mutation determines clinical severity and degree of conduction slowing in loss-of-function sodium channelopathies | Heart Rhythm | 2009 | 224 |
| 25 | Intracoronary infusion of mononuclear cells from bone marrow or peripheral blood compared with standard therapy in patients after acute myocardial infarction treated by primary percutaneous coronary intervention: results of the randomized controlled HEBE trial | European Heart Journal | 2011 | 211 |
| 26 | Monocyte subset accumulation in the human heart following acute myocardial infarction and the role of the spleen as monocyte reservoir | European Heart Journal | 2014 | 210 |
| 27 | Evaluation of the Effect of a Concurrent Chronic Total Occlusion on Long-Term Mortality and Left Ventricular Function in Patients After Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention | JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions | 2009 | 208 |
| 28 | Unravelling the impact of ethnicity on health in Europe: the HELIUS study | BMC Public Health | 2013 | 206 |
| 29 | Prospective validation and assessment of cardiovascular and offspring risk models for pregnant women with congenital heart disease | Heart | 2014 | 206 |
| 30 | Bystander initiated actions in out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation: results from the Amsterdam Resuscitation Study (ARRESUST) | Resuscitation | 2001 | 201 |
| 31 | Importance of the First Link | Circulation | 2009 | 201 |
| 32 | Brugada Phenocopy: New Terminology and Proposed Classification | Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology | 2012 | 198 |
| 33 | Safety and efficacy outcomes of first and second generation durable polymer drug eluting stents and biodegradable polymer biolimus eluting stents in clinical practice: comprehensive network meta-analysis | BMJ, The | 2013 | 194 |
| 34 | Alterations in potassium channel gene expression in atria of patients with persistent and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: differential regulation of protein and mRNA levels for K+channels | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2001 | 189 |
| 35 | Individual time within target range in patients treated with vitamin K antagonists: main determinant of quality of anticoagulation and predictor of clinical outcome. a retrospective study of 2300 consecutive patients with venous thromboembolism | British Journal of Haematology | 2005 | 187 |
| 36 | Genetic advances in sarcomeric cardiomyopathies: state of the art | Cardiovascular Research | 2015 | 187 |
| 37 | Lipid parameters for measuring risk of cardiovascular disease | Nature Reviews Cardiology | 2011 | 177 |
| 38 | Therapeutic approach for patients with catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia: state of the art and future developments | Europace | 2012 | 174 |
| 39 | Delay in Right Ventricular Activation Contributes to Brugada Syndrome | Circulation | 2004 | 173 |
| 40 | Cardiac sodium channelopathies | Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology | 2010 | 173 |
| 41 | Genome-wide association study identifies a susceptibility locus at 21q21 for ventricular fibrillation in acute myocardial infarction | Nature Genetics | 2010 | 170 |
| 42 | Myocardial Infarction Activates CCR2+ Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells | Cell Stem Cell | 2015 | 168 |
| 43 | Ganglion Plexus Ablation in Advanced Atrial Fibrillation | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2016 | 168 |
| 44 | Effects of left ventricular unloading by Impella recover LP2.5 on coronary hemodynamics | Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions | 2007 | 161 |
| 45 | Impella ventricular support in clinical practice: Collaborative viewpoint from a European expert user group | International Journal of Cardiology | 2015 | 160 |
| 46 | Smoking and the patency of lower extremity bypass grafts: A meta-analysis | Journal of Vascular Surgery | 2005 | 156 |
| 47 | Diagnostic yield in sudden unexplained death and aborted cardiac arrest in the young: The experience of a tertiary referral center in The Netherlands | Heart Rhythm | 2010 | 156 |
| 48 | Cardiac involvement in carriers of Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy | Neuromuscular Disorders | 1999 | 154 |
| 49 | Glucocorticoids and Relapse of Major Depression (Dexamethasone/Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Test in Relation to Relapse of Major Depression) | Biological Psychiatry | 2006 | 148 |
| 50 | Pacemaker current (If) in the human sinoatrial node | European Heart Journal | 2007 | 148 |
