| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Acute Renal Failure After Coronary Intervention | American Journal of Medicine | 1997 | 1,553 |
| 2 | Renal-Artery Stenosis | New England Journal of Medicine | 2001 | 934 |
| 3 | Behavioral Predictors of Weight Regain after Bariatric Surgery | Obesity Surgery | 2010 | 371 |
| 4 | Association of eosinophilic inflammation with esophageal food impaction in adults | Gastrointestinal Endoscopy | 2005 | 365 |
| 5 | A Meta-Analysis of the Renal Safety of Isosmolar Iodixanol Compared With Low-Osmolar Contrast Media | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2006 | 309 |
| 6 | Plasmid-associated hemolysin and aggregation substance production contribute to virulence in experimental enterococcal endocarditis | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 1993 | 294 |
| 7 | A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of Ad5FGF-4 gene therapy and its effect on myocardial perfusion in patients with stable angina | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2003 | 271 |
| 8 | Thrombocytopenia Associated with Linezolid Therapy | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2002 | 239 |
| 9 | Prevalence of CKD and Comorbid Illness in Elderly Patients in the United States: Results From the Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP) | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2010 | 230 |
| 10 | Iatrogenic coronary artery dissections extending into and involving the aortic root | Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions | 2000 | 206 |
| 11 | Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Short-term Complications After Bariatric Surgery | Chest | 2006 | 204 |
| 12 | Contrast-Induced Nephropathy | Critical Care Clinics | 2005 | 167 |
| 13 | Effect of Cigarette Smoking on Outcome After Thrombolytic Therapy for Myocardial Infarction | Circulation | 1995 | 161 |
| 14 | Molecular Characterization of Gentamicin-Resistant Enterococci in the United States: Evidence of Spread from Animals to Humans through Food | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2003 | 160 |
| 15 | Chronic kidney disease, prevalence of premature cardiovascular disease, and relationship to short-term mortality | American Heart Journal | 2008 | 160 |
| 16 | National Kidney Foundation's Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP) Annual Data Report 2009: Executive Summary | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2010 | 160 |
| 17 | Impact of Obesity on Cardiovascular Disease | Medical Clinics of North America | 2011 | 160 |
| 18 | Role of microRNAs, circRNAs and long noncoding RNAs in acute myeloid leukemia | Journal of Hematology and Oncology | 2019 | 155 |
| 19 | Safety of Medically Supervised Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation Exercise Therapy | Chest | 1998 | 154 |
| 20 | A Systematic Review of the Clinical Presentation, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Small Bowel Obstruction | Current Gastroenterology Reports | 2017 | 148 |
| 21 | Effects of different ACE inhibitor combinations on albuminuria: results of the GUARD study | Kidney International | 2008 | 147 |
| 22 | CKD and Cardiovascular Disease in Screened High-Risk Volunteer and General Populations: The Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP) and National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999-2004 | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2008 | 141 |
| 23 | Obesity and Age of First Non–ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2008 | 140 |
| 24 | Mechanical Obstruction of the Small Bowel and Colon | Medical Clinics of North America | 2008 | 134 |
| 25 | Acute Pancreatitis: Etiology, Clinical Presentation, Diagnosis, and Therapy | Medical Clinics of North America | 2008 | 127 |
| 26 | The pathology of hepatitis C as a function of mode of transmission: Blood transfusion vs. Intravenous drug use | Hepatology | 1993 | 119 |
| 27 | Definition and classification of Cardio-Renal Syndromes: workgroup statements from the 7th ADQI Consensus Conference | Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation | 2010 | 118 |
| 28 | Plasmid Content of a Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecalis Isolate from a Patient Also Colonized by Staphylococcus aureus with a VanA Phenotype | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 2003 | 117 |
| 29 | Clinical outcome of hepatitis C as a function of mode of transmission | Hepatology | 1998 | 116 |
| 30 | Characterization of antimicrobial resistance in enterococci of animal origin | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 1995 | 114 |
| 31 | Antibodies to carbonic anhydrase in patients with immune cholangiopathies | Gastroenterology | 1995 | 111 |
| 32 | Antimicrobial Resistance in Enterococci Isolated from Turkey Flocks Fed Virginiamycin | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 1998 | 109 |
| 33 | Impact of Obesity on Cardiovascular Disease | Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America | 2008 | 108 |
| 34 | Initial Management of Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding: From Initial Evaluation up to Gastrointestinal Endoscopy | Medical Clinics of North America | 2008 | 107 |
| 35 | Cardiorenal Syndromes: An Executive Summary from the Consensus Conference of the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI) | Contributions To Nephrology | 2010 | 106 |
| 36 | Risk Factors and Risk Reduction of Malignant Seeding of the Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Track from Pharyngoesophageal Malignancy: A Review of all 44 Known Reported Cases | American Journal of Gastroenterology | 2007 | 105 |
| 37 | Determinants of coronary vascular calcification in patients with chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease: a systematic review | Journal of Nephrology | 2004 | 105 |
| 38 | Clinical and angiographic results of transluminal extraction coronary atherectomy in saphenous vein bypass grafts. | Circulation | 1994 | 100 |
| 39 | Detailed angiographic analysis of high-speed mechanical rotational atherectomy in human coronary arteries. | Circulation | 1993 | 95 |
| 40 | Prevalence and Associations of Anemia of CKD: Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP) and National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999-2004 | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2008 | 95 |
| 41 | Epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance in enterococci of animal origin | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | 2005 | 92 |
| 42 | The Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome Characterized by Persistent Nausea and Vomiting, Abdominal Pain, and Compulsive Bathing Associated with Chronic Marijuana Use: A Report of Eight Cases in the United States | Digestive Diseases and Sciences | 2010 | 88 |
| 43 | DNA hybridization and contour-clamped homogeneous electric field electrophoresis for identification of enterococci to the species level | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 1995 | 88 |
| 44 | Outcomes of contrast-induced nephropathy: Experience in patients undergoing cardiovascular intervention | Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions | 2006 | 86 |
| 45 | Use of multislice CT for the evaluation of emergency room patients with chest pain: The so‐called “Triple rule‐out” | Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions | 2008 | 85 |
| 46 | Comparative Impact of Morbid Obesity vs Heart Failure on Cardiorespiratory Fitness | Chest | 2005 | 76 |
| 47 | Adynamic Ileus and Acute Colonic Pseudo-Obstruction | Medical Clinics of North America | 2008 | 74 |
| 48 | Kidney Function, Albuminuria, and All-Cause Mortality in the REGARDS (Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke) Study | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2010 | 73 |
| 49 | Evaluation of clinical practice guidelines on outcome of infection in patients in the surgical intensive care unit | Critical Care Medicine | 1999 | 73 |
| 50 | Assessment of hepatitis B virus DNA and hepatitis C virus RNA in the common bedbug (Cimex lectularius L.) and kissing bug (Rodnius prolixus) | American Journal of Gastroenterology | 2001 | 72 |
