Bernhard M. Kaess

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

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Bernhard M. Kaess is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bernhard M. Kaess has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 10 papers in Surgery and 8 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Bernhard M. Kaess's work include Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments (23 papers), Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes (21 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (13 papers). Bernhard M. Kaess is often cited by papers focused on Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments (23 papers), Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes (21 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (13 papers). Bernhard M. Kaess collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Bernhard M. Kaess's co-authors include Ramachandran S. Vasan, Martin G. Larson, Emelia J. Benjamin, Joseph A. Vita, Naomi M. Hamburg, Jian Rong, Daniel Levy, Gary F. Mitchell, Alison Pedley and Joseph M. Massaro and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Circulation and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Bernhard M. Kaess

59 papers receiving 2.1k citations

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Aortic Stiffness, Blood Pressure Progression, and Incident Hypertension

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bernhard M. Kaess Germany	20	1.3k	288	283	272	237	62	2.1k
Justin M. Canada United States	21	1.3k 1.0×	285 1.0×	488 1.7×	320 1.2×	200 0.8×	73	2.0k
Matthew Nayor United States	23	1.1k 0.8×	200 0.7×	343 1.2×	199 0.7×	119 0.5×	69	1.7k
Emmanuelle Vidal‐Petiot France	21	624 0.5×	270 0.9×	350 1.2×	126 0.5×	204 0.9×	69	1.7k
Kristen Jablonski United States	18	803 0.6×	175 0.6×	271 1.0×	586 2.2×	205 0.9×	30	2.0k
Ayaz Rahman United States	12	951 0.7×	419 1.5×	256 0.9×	345 1.3×	223 0.9×	20	2.6k
Annapaola Zito Italy	25	594 0.5×	304 1.1×	142 0.5×	193 0.7×	190 0.8×	81	1.4k
Céline Fassot France	21	1.3k 1.0×	348 1.2×	342 1.2×	215 0.8×	112 0.5×	42	2.3k
Markus Stühlinger Austria	16	1.1k 0.9×	285 1.0×	236 0.8×	913 3.4×	145 0.6×	43	2.2k
Christopher S. Hayward Australia	26	1.5k 1.1×	553 1.9×	303 1.1×	296 1.1×	169 0.7×	71	2.8k
Geir Øystein Andersen Norway	28	931 0.7×	259 0.9×	721 2.5×	206 0.8×	257 1.1×	92	2.1k

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Andrade, Jason G., Peter Weiß, Christian Ruckes, et al.. (2025). Pulmonary Vein Isolation Only for Atrial Fibrillation With Heart Failure (POLAR-HF). JACC. Clinical electrophysiology. 12(2). 264–273.

Kaess, Bernhard M., Christian Ruckes, Christian Meyer, et al.. (2024). Pulmonary Vein Isolation or Pace and Ablate in Elderly Patients With Persistent Atrial Fibrillation (ABLATE Versus PACE)—Rationale, Methods, and Design. Canadian Journal of Cardiology. 40(12). 2429–2440. 5 indexed citations

Ruckes, Christian, et al.. (2024). Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation in Elderly Patients: an Updated Meta-analysis of Comparative Studies. Canadian Journal of Cardiology. 40(12). 2441–2451. 9 indexed citations

Kaess, Bernhard M., et al.. (2023). Zero-fluoro atrioventricular-nodal reentrant tachycardia ablation. Herzschrittmachertherapie + Elektrophysiologie. 34(4). 305–310.

Kaess, Bernhard M., et al.. (2023). Frame-rate reduction to reduce radiation dose for cardiac device implantation is safe. Heart Rhythm O2. 4(7). 427–432. 2 indexed citations

Kasper, Wolfgang, et al.. (2020). Percutaneous transluminal renal angioplasty of global kidney ischemia improves renal function and blood pressure. IJC Heart & Vasculature. 27. 100475–100475. 1 indexed citations

Seeger, Florian, Birgit Aßmus, Bernhard M. Kaess, et al.. (2020). Differential prognostic accuracy of right ventricular dysfunction, the Seattle heart failure model and the MAGGIC score in patients with severe mitral regurgitation undergoing the MitraClip® procedure. IJC Heart & Vasculature. 31. 100641–100641. 1 indexed citations

Trenkwalder, Teresa, Nicole Rübsamen, Volker H. Schmitt, et al.. (2019). Left ventricular geometry and function in early repolarization: results from the population-based Gutenberg Health Study. Clinical Research in Cardiology. 108(10). 1107–1116. 8 indexed citations

Kaess, Bernhard M., et al.. (2018). Midazolam addition to analgosedation for pulmonary vein isolation may increase risk of hypercapnia and acidosis. International Journal of Cardiology. 259. 100–102. 6 indexed citations

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Kaess, Bernhard M., Tonia de las Heras Gala, Astrid Zierer, et al.. (2017). Ultra-sensitive troponin I is an independent predictor of incident coronary heart disease in the general population. European Journal of Epidemiology. 32(7). 583–591. 10 indexed citations

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Trenkwalder, Teresa, Ryan P. King, Bernhard M. Kaess, et al.. (2017). Ventricular and Supraventricular Ectopy in Subjects With Early Repolarization. The American Journal of Cardiology. 120(1). 92–97. 5 indexed citations

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Kaess, Bernhard M., Sarah R. Preis, Wolfgang Lieb, et al.. (2015). Circulating Brain‐Derived Neurotrophic Factor Concentrations and the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in the Community. Journal of the American Heart Association. 4(3). e001544–e001544. 115 indexed citations

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Kaess, Bernhard M., Sonia Ammar, Tilko Reents, et al.. (2014). Comparison of Safety of Left Atrial Catheter Ablation Procedures for Atrial Arrhythmias Under Continuous Anticoagulation With Apixaban Versus Phenprocoumon. The American Journal of Cardiology. 115(1). 47–51. 45 indexed citations

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Kremer, Andreas E., Ruth Bolier, Peter Dixon, et al.. (2014). Autotaxin activity has a high accuracy to diagnose intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy. Journal of Hepatology. 62(4). 897–904. 58 indexed citations

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Kaess, Bernhard M., Danielle Enserro, David D. McManus, et al.. (2012). Cardiometabolic Correlates and Heritability of Fetuin-A, Retinol-Binding Protein 4, and Fatty-Acid Binding Protein 4 in the Framingham Heart Study. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 97(10). E1943–E1947. 61 indexed citations

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Kaess, Bernhard M., Maciej Tomaszewski, Peter S. Braund, et al.. (2011). Large-Scale Candidate Gene Analysis of HDL Particle Features. PLoS ONE. 6(1). e14529–e14529. 27 indexed citations

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Reinhold, Stephan W., Rainer H. Straub, Bernd Krüger, et al.. (2011). Elevated urinary sVCAM-1, IL6, sIL6R and TNFR1 concentrations indicate acute kidney transplant rejection in the first 2weeks after transplantation. Cytokine. 57(3). 379–388. 20 indexed citations

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Kaess, Bernhard M., Jacek Jerzy Jozwiak, Mirosław Mastej, et al.. (2009). Association between anthropometric obesity measures and coronary artery disease: a cross-sectional survey of 16 657 subjects from 444 Polish cities. Heart. 96(2). 131–135. 25 indexed citations

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Stark, Klaus, Wibke Reinhard, Katharina Neureuther, et al.. (2008). Association of Common Polymorphisms in GLUT9 Gene with Gout but Not with Coronary Artery Disease in a Large Case-Control Study. PLoS ONE. 3(4). e1948–e1948. 67 indexed citations

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Kaess, Bernhard M., Marcus Fischer, Andrea Baessler, et al.. (2007). The lipoprotein subfraction profile: heritability and identification of quantitative trait loci. Journal of Lipid Research. 49(4). 715–723. 29 indexed citations

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