Erion Xhepa

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
124 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Erion Xhepa is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Erion Xhepa has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 76 papers in Surgery and 37 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Erion Xhepa's work include Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics (64 papers), Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments (50 papers) and Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics (37 papers). Erion Xhepa is often cited by papers focused on Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics (64 papers), Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments (50 papers) and Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics (37 papers). Erion Xhepa collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Mexico and Switzerland. Erion Xhepa's co-authors include Adnan Kastrati, Salvatore Cassese, Robert A. Byrne, Michael Joner, Heribert Schunkert, Sebastian Kufner, Massimiliano Fusaro, Karl‐Ludwig Laugwitz, Fumiyuki Otsuka and Elena Ladich and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of the American College of Cardiology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Erion Xhepa

108 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Neoatherosclerosis: overview of histopathologic findings and implications for intravascular imaging assessment

2015 327 citations Robert A. Byrne, Erion Xhepa et al. European Heart Journal profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Erion Xhepa Germany	15	843	732	371	353	157	124	1.3k
Michael Joner Germany	17	960 1.1×	797 1.1×	379 1.0×	444 1.3×	199 1.3×	92	1.4k
Amanda G. M. R. Sousa Brazil	12	942 1.1×	754 1.0×	366 1.0×	353 1.0×	81 0.5×	81	1.3k
Miles Behan United Kingdom	13	514 0.6×	590 0.8×	664 1.8×	453 1.3×	134 0.9×	23	1.2k
Marie-Angèle Morel Netherlands	14	1.1k 1.3×	1.0k 1.4×	745 2.0×	299 0.8×	70 0.4×	29	1.4k
Lamin King Germany	20	1.3k 1.6×	935 1.3×	477 1.3×	524 1.5×	73 0.5×	41	1.7k
Giovanni Pedrazzini Switzerland	17	1.2k 1.4×	889 1.2×	340 0.9×	245 0.7×	158 1.0×	41	1.6k
Makoto Orii Japan	20	839 1.0×	681 0.9×	643 1.7×	357 1.0×	55 0.4×	77	1.3k
Su Ern Yeoh United Kingdom	12	316 0.4×	352 0.5×	466 1.3×	382 1.1×	65 0.4×	19	944
Michael Joner Germany	15	351 0.4×	647 0.9×	186 0.5×	196 0.6×	256 1.6×	74	854
Tania Pawade United Kingdom	20	570 0.7×	1.1k 1.5×	838 2.3×	349 1.0×	476 3.0×	37	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Erion Xhepa

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Ruge, Hendrik, Melchior Burri, Won‐Keun Kim, et al.. (2025). Bioprosthetic Valve Fracturing in Valve‐in‐Valve TAVI: Clinical and Echocardiographic Outcomes in Failing Perimount Aortic Bioprostheses—A Multicenter Registry. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. 106(2). 1409–1420. 1 indexed citations

Ruge, Hendrik, Melchior Burri, Magdalena Erlebach, et al.. (2025). Transcatheter Mitral Valve Implantation Compared to Surgery: One-Year Clinical Outcome. The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon.

Ndrepepa, Gjin, Salvatore Cassese, Michael Joner, et al.. (2025). Body Mass Index and 10-Year Clinical Outcomes After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention—Interaction with Age, Sex, Diabetic Status and Clinical Presentation. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 14(5). 1413–1413. 1 indexed citations

Strauss, Ludwig G., Lorenzo Gibello, Tobias Lenz, et al.. (2024). New-generation single-layer PTFE-covered coronary stent for endovascular repair of iatrogenic arterial side-branch injury in non-coronary lesions for the RECOVER (REsults after percutaneous interventions with COVERed stents) Investigators. Cardiovascular revascularization medicine. 76. 84–90. 1 indexed citations

Kessler, Thorsten, Sebastian Kufner, Tobias Rheude, et al.. (2024). Tiempos para la revascularización multivaso en pacientes estables con IAMCEST: revisión sistemática y metanálisis en red. Revista Española de Cardiología. 78(2). 127–137.

Wiebe, Jens, Robert A. Byrne, Christian Bradaric, et al.. (2024). A Prospective, Randomized Trial of Bioresorbable Polymer Drug-Eluting Stents versus Fully Bioresorbable Scaffolds in Patients Undergoing Coronary Stenting. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 13(19). 5949–5949. 1 indexed citations

Dutsch, Alexander, Thorsten Kessler, Hendrik B. Sager, et al.. (2024). Baseline Platelet Count Predicts Infarct Size and Mortality after Acute Myocardial Infarction. Hämostaseologie. 3 indexed citations

Pellegrini, Costanza, Mark Lachmann, Christian Thilo, et al.. (2024). Volumen de calcificación de la válvula aórtica y su pronóstico en pacientes sometidos a implante percutáneo de válvula aórtica. Revista Española de Cardiología. 78(6). 507–518.

Lachmann, Mark, Teresa Trenkwalder, Erion Xhepa, et al.. (2024). Invasive Assessment of Right Ventricular to Pulmonary Artery Coupling Improves 1-year Mortality Prediction After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement and Anticipates the Persistence of Extra-Aortic Valve Cardiac Damage. Structural Heart. 8(3). 100282–100282. 4 indexed citations

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Ndrepepa, Gjin, Sebastian Kufner, Salvatore Cassese, et al.. (2024). Impaired Kidney Function and 10-Year Outcome After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention—Interaction with Age, Sex, Diabetic Status and Clinical Presentation. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 13(22). 6833–6833.

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Joner, Michael, Erion Xhepa, N. Patrick Mayr, et al.. (2024). Outcomes after transcatheter mitral valve implantation in valve‐in‐valve, valve‐in‐ring, and valve‐in‐mitral annular calcification. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. 104(4). 837–852. 1 indexed citations

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Pellegrini, Costanza, N. Patrick Mayr, Tobias Rheude, et al.. (2023). Incidence of systemic inflammatory response syndrome and patient outcome following transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral valve repair. Clinical Research in Cardiology. 113(2). 276–287. 3 indexed citations

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Seguchi, Masaru, Erion Xhepa, Michael Haude, et al.. (2023). Twelve-months vessel healing profile following the novel resorbable magnesium scaffold implantation: an intravascular OCT analysis of the BIOMAG-I trial. European Heart Journal. 44(Supplement_2).

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Giacoppo, Daniele, Tobias Koch, Salvatore Cassese, et al.. (2023). Coronary artery restenosis treatment with plain balloon, drug-coated balloon, or drug-eluting stent: 10-year outcomes of the ISAR-DESIRE 3 trial. European Heart Journal. 44(15). 1343–1357. 51 indexed citations

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Ndrepepa, Gjin, Salvatore Cassese, Erion Xhepa, et al.. (2023). Coronary no-reflow and adverse events in patients with acute myocardial infarction after percutaneous coronary intervention with current drug-eluting stents and third-generation P2Y12 inhibitors. Clinical Research in Cardiology. 113(7). 1006–1016. 3 indexed citations

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Lachmann, Mark, Daniel Rueckert, Tibor Schuster, et al.. (2022). Harnessing feature extraction capacities from a pre-trained convolutional neural network (VGG-16) for the unsupervised distinction of aortic outflow velocity profiles in patients with severe aortic stenosis. European Heart Journal - Digital Health. 3(2). 153–168. 9 indexed citations

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Wiebe, Jens, Gjin Ndrepepa, Sebastian Kufner, et al.. (2021). Early Aspirin Discontinuation After Coronary Stenting: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis. Journal of the American Heart Association. 10(2). e018304–e018304. 9 indexed citations

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Ndrepepa, Gjin, Salvatore Cassese, Erion Xhepa, et al.. (2020). Relation of Hypocholesterolemia With Diabetes Mellitus in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease. The American Journal of Cardiology. 125(7). 1026–1032. 1 indexed citations

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Ndrepepa, Gjin, Stefan Holdenrieder, Salvatore Cassese, et al.. (2019). Hypocholesterolaemia and mortality in patients with coronary artery disease. European Journal of Clinical Investigation. 50(2). e13194–e13194. 7 indexed citations

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Ndrepepa, Gjin, Erion Xhepa, Siegmund Braun, et al.. (2017). Alkaline phosphatase and prognosis in patients with coronary artery disease. European Journal of Clinical Investigation. 47(5). 378–387. 30 indexed citations

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