Rainer Schimpf

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1 Loss-of-function mutations in the cardiac calcium channel underlie a new clinical entity characterized by ST-segment elevation, short QT intervals, and sudden cardiac death. Circulation 2007 4.37
2 Short QT Syndrome: a familial cause of sudden death. Circulation 2003 4.23
3 Sudden death associated with short-QT syndrome linked to mutations in HERG. Circulation 2003 3.68
4 Mutations in the cardiac L-type calcium channel associated with inherited J-wave syndromes and sudden cardiac death. Heart Rhythm 2010 2.79
5 Short QT syndrome: clinical findings and diagnostic-therapeutic implications. Eur Heart J 2006 2.59
6 A prospective study on spontaneous fluctuations between diagnostic and non-diagnostic ECGs in Brugada syndrome: implications for correct phenotyping and risk stratification. Eur Heart J 2006 2.01
7 Molecular genetic and functional association of Brugada and early repolarization syndromes with S422L missense mutation in KCNJ8. Heart Rhythm 2011 1.87
8 Short QT syndrome: pharmacological treatment. J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 1.87
9 Common variants at SCN5A-SCN10A and HEY2 are associated with Brugada syndrome, a rare disease with high risk of sudden cardiac death. Nat Genet 2013 1.86
10 Intravenous drug challenge using flecainide and ajmaline in patients with Brugada syndrome. Heart Rhythm 2005 1.83
11 Reduction of dispersion of repolarization and prolongation of postrepolarization refractoriness explain the antiarrhythmic effects of quinidine in a model of short QT syndrome. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2007 1.79
12 Long-term prognosis of individuals with right precordial ST-segment-elevation Brugada syndrome. Circulation 2005 1.78
13 Further insights into the effect of quinidine in short QT syndrome caused by a mutation in HERG. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2005 1.74
14 Early repolarization pattern is associated with ventricular fibrillation in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Heart Rhythm 2012 1.71
15 Magnetic resonance imaging findings in patients with Brugada syndrome. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2004 1.67
16 Incidence of venous obstruction following insertion of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator. A study of systematic contrast venography on patients presenting for their first elective ICD generator replacement. Europace 2004 1.66
17 Response to intravenous ajmaline: a retrospective analysis of 677 ajmaline challenges. Europace 2009 1.47
18 A novel rare variant in SCN1Bb linked to Brugada syndrome and SIDS by combined modulation of Na(v)1.5 and K(v)4.3 channel currents. Heart Rhythm 2011 1.43
19 Is a narrow and tall QRS complex an ECG marker for sudden death? Heart Rhythm 2008 1.42
20 Long-term follow-up of patients with short QT syndrome. J Am Coll Cardiol 2011 1.29
21 Short QT syndrome. Genotype-phenotype correlations. J Electrocardiol 2005 1.11
22 Induction of atrial fibrillation in mice by rapid transesophageal atrial pacing. Basic Res Cardiol 2002 1.09
23 Beat-to-beat variability of QT intervals is increased in patients with drug-induced long-QT syndrome: a case control pilot study. Eur Heart J 2007 1.04
24 An unusual case of pacemaker failure: complete disconnection of connector block and battery of a subpectorally implanted dual chamber pacemaker. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 2002 1.02
25 Usefulness of short-term variability of QT intervals as a predictor for electrical remodeling and proarrhythmia in patients with nonischemic heart failure. Am J Cardiol 2010 1.02
26 Clinical characteristics and treatment of short QT syndrome. Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther 2005 0.99
27 Prevention of inappropriate ICD shocks in patients with Brugada syndrome. Clin Res Cardiol 2009 0.98
28 Fatal inappropriate ICD shock. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2007 0.97
29 Variability of the diagnostic ECG pattern in an ICD patient population with Brugada syndrome. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2008 0.90
30 Differences in twelve-lead electrocardiogram between symptomatic and asymptomatic subjects with short QT interval. Heart Rhythm 2008 0.89
31 Circumferential pulmonary vein mapping and ablation in focal atrial fibrillation: single catheter technique. J Interv Card Electrophysiol 2002 0.88
32 Images in cardiovascular medicine. Yew causes brugada ECG. Circulation 2009 0.86
33 Short QT syndrome. Update on a recent entity. Arch Cardiovasc Dis 2008 0.83
34 Comparison of ventricular tachyarrhythmia characteristics in patients with idiopathic dilated or ischemic cardiomyopathy and defibrillators implanted for primary prevention. Clin Cardiol 2011 0.82
35 Spontaneous type 1 electrocardiographic pattern is associated with cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging changes in Brugada syndrome. Heart Rhythm 2010 0.81
36 Sudden cardiac death in a patient with lamin A/C mutation in the absence of dilated cardiomyopathy or conduction disease. Clin Res Cardiol 2011 0.80
37 Electrophysiological characteristics of septal hypertrophy in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and moderate to severe symptoms. Circulation 2005 0.79
38 Right Atrial Thrombi and Depressed Right Atrial Appendage Function After Cardioversion of Atrial Fibrillation. Echocardiography 1999 0.78
39 Advanced pacemaker diagnostic features in the characterization of atrial fibrillation: impact on preventive pacing algorithms. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 2003 0.77
40 DEGRO/DGK guideline for radiotherapy in patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices. Strahlenther Onkol 2015 0.77
41 Predictors of electrical storm recurrences in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. Europace 2010 0.77
42 Overlapping LQT1 and LQT2 phenotype in a patient with long QT syndrome associated with loss-of-function variations in KCNQ1 and KCNH2. Can J Physiol Pharmacol 2010 0.77
43 [Short QT syndrome]. Herz 2007 0.77
44 J-wave syndromes caused by repolarization or depolarization mechanisms a debated issue among experimental and clinical electrophysiologists. J Am Coll Cardiol 2010 0.77
45 Incidence and rate characteristics of atrial tachyarrhythmias in patients with a dual chamber defibrillator. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 2003 0.76
46 Risk stratification in electrical cardiomyopathies. Herz 2009 0.76
47 From ECG to mutation: programmed ventricular stimulation providing a link to genetics of cardiac channelopathies. Heart Rhythm 2011 0.75
48 Automatic camera-based identification and 3-D reconstruction of electrode positions in electrocardiographic imaging. Biomed Tech (Berl) 2014 0.75
49 A new method to investigate the response to the morphology discrimination algorithm in patients with ICD. Int J Cardiol 2006 0.75
50 Patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with apical aneurysm and thrombus presenting with progressive congestive heart failure. Hellenic J Cardiol 2015 0.75
51 [Tachycardic arrhythmia in childhood and adolescence: incidence, diagnosis, non-invasive and invasive therapy]. Herzschrittmacherther Elektrophysiol 2014 0.75
52 Long-term follow-up of fast pathway radiofrequency ablation in atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia. Am J Cardiol 2002 0.75
53 Proarrhythmic effect of "reverse mode switch" in a patient with long-QT syndrome. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2014 0.75