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| 1 | Use of clopidogrel with or without aspirin in patients taking oral anticoagulant therapy and undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: an open-label, randomised, controlled trial | Lancet, The | 2013 | 1,491 |
| 2 | Autologous bone marrow-derived stem-cell transfer in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: double-blind, randomised controlled trial | Lancet, The | 2006 | 1,225 |
| 3 | Doxorubicin-induced cardiomyopathy: From molecular mechanisms to therapeutic strategies | Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology | 2012 | 1,053 |
| 4 | Regional Strain and Strain Rate Measurements by Cardiac Ultrasound: Principles, Implementation and Limitations | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2000 | 864 |
| 5 | Meta-analysis of clinical characteristics of 299 carriers of LMNA gene mutations: do lamin A/C mutations portend a high risk of sudden death? | Journal of Molecular Medicine | 2005 | 388 |
| 6 | Heart rate variability and heart rate in healthy volunteers. Is the female autonomic nervous system cardioprotective? | European Heart Journal | 1998 | 266 |
| 7 | Obesity Is a Major Determinant of Radiation Dose in Patients Undergoing Pulmonary Vein Isolation for Atrial Fibrillation | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2007 | 180 |
| 8 | Matrix metalloproteinases and atrial remodeling in patients with mitral valve disease and atrial fibrillation | Cardiovascular Research | 2005 | 175 |
| 9 | Feasibility of strain and strain rate imaging for the assessment of regional left atrial deformation: A study in normal subjects | European Journal of Echocardiography | 2006 | 173 |
| 10 | Endurance sports is a risk factor for atrial fibrillation after ablation for atrial flutter | International Journal of Cardiology | 2006 | 166 |
| 11 | Two-dimensional ultrasonic strain rate measurement of the human heart in vivo | IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control | 2002 | 164 |
| 12 | Trade-off of myocardial infarction vs. bleeding types on mortality after acute coronary syndrome: lessons from the Thrombin Receptor Antagonist for Clinical Event Reduction in Acute Coronary Syndrome (TRACER) randomized trial | European Heart Journal | 2017 | 164 |
| 13 | Review article: blood platelet number and function in chronic liver disease and cirrhosis | Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics | 2008 | 147 |
| 14 | Cyclic GMP-dependent protein kinase stimulates the plasmalemmal Ca2+ pump of smooth muscle via phosphorylation of phosphatidylinositol | Biochemical Journal | 1988 | 140 |
| 15 | Reduced right ventricular ejection fraction in endurance athletes presenting with ventricular arrhythmias: a quantitative angiographic assessment | European Heart Journal | 2007 | 132 |
| 16 | Right Atrial Angiographic Evaluation of the Posterior Isthmus | Circulation | 2000 | 117 |
| 17 | Incidence and predictors of bleeding events after fibrinolytic therapy with fibrin-specific agents. A comparison of TNK-tPA and rt-PA | European Heart Journal | 2001 | 117 |
| 18 | Nitric Oxide Inhalation Improves Microvascular Flow and Decreases Infarction Size After Myocardial Ischemia and Reperfusion | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2007 | 109 |
| 19 | Short-term effects of early intravenous treatment with a beta-adrenergic blocking agent or a specific bradycardiac agent in patients with acute mycardial infarction receiving thrombolytic therapy | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 1993 | 102 |
| 20 | Cardiac Three-Dimensional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Fluoroscopy Merging | Circulation | 2005 | 102 |
| 21 | Improved regional function after autologous bone marrow-derived stem cell transfer in patients with acute myocardial infarction: a randomized, double-blind strain rate imaging study | European Heart Journal | 2008 | 92 |
| 22 | Characterization of subforms of AV nodal reentrant tachycardia | Europace | 2004 | 89 |
| 23 | Electrochemical polishing of 316L stainless steel slotted tube coronary stents | Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine | 2002 | 87 |
| 24 | The sequential changes in myocardial thickness and thickening which occur during acute transmural infarction, infarct reperfusion and the resultant expression of reperfusion injury | European Heart Journal | 2004 | 87 |
| 25 | Efficacy of radiofrequency catheter ablation in athletes with atrial fibrillation | Europace | 2011 | 85 |
| 26 | Comparison of time-domain displacement estimators for two-dimensional RF tracking | Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology | 2003 | 84 |
| 27 | Self-terminating AF depends on electrical remodeling while persistent AF depends on additional structural changes in a rapid atrially paced sheep model | Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology | 2007 | 81 |
| 28 | Subepicardial delayed gadolinium enhancement in asymptomatic athletes: let sleeping dogs lie? | British Journal of Sports Medicine | 2016 | 78 |
| 29 | Biplane three-dimensional augmented fluoroscopy as single navigation tool for ablation of atrial fibrillation: Accuracy and clinical value | Heart Rhythm | 2008 | 73 |
| 30 | Modulating endothelial nitric oxide synthase: a new cardiovascular therapeutic strategy | American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology | 2011 | 71 |
| 31 | Aerosol Gene Transfer With Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase Reduces Hypoxic Pulmonary Hypertension and Pulmonary Vascular Remodeling in Rats | Circulation | 2000 | 67 |
| 32 | An augmented reality system for patient-specific guidance of cardiac catheter ablation procedures | IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging | 2005 | 67 |
| 33 | Validation of BARC Bleeding Criteria in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2016 | 66 |
| 34 | New aspects of the ventricular septum and its function: an echocardiographic study | Heart | 2005 | 62 |
| 35 | Dynamic Electrocardiography and Ventricular Pauses of 3 Seconds and More: Etiology and Therapeutic Implications | PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology | 1983 | 61 |
| 36 | Doppler tissue velocity, strain, and strain rate imaging with transesophageal echocardiography in the operating room: A feasibility study | Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography | 2002 | 58 |
| 37 | Significance of arrhythmias during the first 24 hours of acute myocardial infarction treated with alteplase and effect of early administration of a beta-blocker or a bradycardiac agent on their incidence. | Circulation | 1994 | 56 |
| 38 | What has been learned about the cardiovascular effects of matrix metalloproteinases from mouse models? | Cardiovascular Research | 2006 | 53 |
| 39 | Changes in Left Atrial Anatomy Due to Respiration: Impact on Three‐Dimensional Image Integration During Atrial Fibrillation Ablation | Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology | 2008 | 52 |
| 40 | Velocardiofacial Syndrome Patients with a Heterozygous Chromosome 22q11 Deletion Have Giant Platelets | Pediatric Research | 1998 | 52 |
| 41 | Quantifying myocardial deformation throughout the cardiac cycle: a comparison of ultrasound strain rate, grey-scale M-mode and magnetic resonance imaging | Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology | 2004 | 51 |
| 42 | Clinical Phenotype and Genotype Associations With Improvement in Left Ventricular Function in Dilated Cardiomyopathy | Circulation: Heart Failure | 2018 | 51 |
| 43 | Towards ultrasound cardiac image segmentation based on the radiofrequency signal | Medical Image Analysis | 2003 | 49 |
| 44 | SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF LOW DOSE SIMVASTATIN IN CARDIAC TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS TREATED WITH CYCLOSPORINE | Transplantation | 1994 | 48 |
| 45 | Role of magnetic resonance in the diagnosis of subclavian steal syndrome | Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging | 2000 | 46 |
| 46 | One-year follow-up of the ASSENT-2 trial: A double-blind, randomized comparison of single-bolus tenecteplase and front-loaded alteplase in 16,949 patients with ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction | American Heart Journal | 2003 | 45 |
| 47 | Vorapaxar in patients with peripheral artery disease and acute coronary syndrome: Insights from Thrombin Receptor Antagonist for Clinical Event Reduction in Acute Coronary Syndrome (TRACER) | American Heart Journal | 2014 | 44 |
| 48 | Recombinant P-selectin glycoprotein ligand–immunoglobulin, a P-selectin antagonist, as an adjunct to thrombolysis in acute myocardial infarction. The P-Selectin Antagonist Limiting Myonecrosis (PSALM) trial | American Heart Journal | 2006 | 42 |
| 49 | Different Patterns of Angiotensin II and Atrial Natriuretic Peptide Secretion in a Sheep Model of Atrial Fibrillation | Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology | 2001 | 41 |
| 50 | Vorapaxar in Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2014 | 40 |
