Gösta Pettersson

17.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
494 papers, 10.8k citations indexed

About

Gösta Pettersson is a scholar working on Surgery, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gösta Pettersson has authored 494 papers receiving a total of 10.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 211 papers in Surgery, 151 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 148 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Gösta Pettersson's work include Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments (118 papers), Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management (101 papers) and Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes (65 papers). Gösta Pettersson is often cited by papers focused on Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments (118 papers), Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management (101 papers) and Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes (65 papers). Gösta Pettersson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Denmark. Gösta Pettersson's co-authors include Eugene H. Blackstone, Jan KVASSMAN, Sudish C. Murthy, A. Marc Gillinov, David P. Mason, Syed T. Hussain, Lars G. Svensson, Bruce W. Lytle, Eugene H. Blackstone and Delos M. Cosgrove and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Gastroenterology.

In The Last Decade

Gösta Pettersson

479 papers receiving 10.2k citations

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Challenges in Infective Endocarditis

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gösta Pettersson United States	51	4.4k	4.0k	3.4k	2.5k	1.8k	494	10.8k
Prasad Devarajan United States	87	4.7k 1.1×	3.1k 0.8×	4.7k 1.4×	3.4k 1.3×	4.0k 2.1×	304	29.8k
Bruce A. Molitoris United States	56	2.9k 0.7×	1.8k 0.4×	1.9k 0.6×	1.8k 0.7×	3.1k 1.7×	180	16.3k
Bernd Jilma Austria	64	2.4k 0.5×	4.8k 1.2×	2.5k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	2.4k 1.3×	562	16.7k
Sudhir V. Shah United States	60	2.3k 0.5×	1.6k 0.4×	1.9k 0.6×	1.6k 0.6×	3.5k 1.9×	189	15.5k
Jonathan Barasch United States	61	2.5k 0.6×	1.1k 0.3×	2.2k 0.7×	2.8k 1.1×	4.6k 2.5×	113	17.5k
Robert A. Star United States	71	2.6k 0.6×	1.2k 0.3×	1.9k 0.6×	2.5k 1.0×	6.3k 3.4×	182	18.7k
Robert Wesley United States	58	2.8k 0.6×	1.3k 0.3×	3.0k 0.9×	3.2k 1.3×	1.6k 0.8×	158	13.7k
Lesley J. Scott New Zealand	57	1.6k 0.4×	815 0.2×	1.6k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	3.1k 1.7×	333	12.9k
Wolfgang Stremmel Germany	87	4.5k 1.0×	790 0.2×	5.1k 1.5×	1.6k 0.6×	9.4k 5.1×	660	27.5k
Petri T. Kovanen Finland	77	8.8k 2.0×	4.3k 1.1×	3.3k 1.0×	1.6k 0.6×	7.5k 4.1×	453	26.0k

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Chen, Lin, Jeevanantham Rajeswaran, Gösta Pettersson, et al.. (2025). Long-Term Clinical Outcomes and Health-Related Quality of Life After the Ross Procedure. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 120(3). 502–510. 1 indexed citations

Unai, Shinya, Gösta Pettersson, Haytham Elgharably, et al.. (2025). Mitral annular calcification score by computed tomography in patients undergoing mitral valve surgery. PubMed. 3(2). qyaf093–qyaf093.

Shah, Shawn, Matthew A. Thompson, Steven M. Gordon, et al.. (2024). Infective Endocarditis in Patients Addicted to Injected Opioid Drugs. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 83(8). 811–823. 2 indexed citations

Zahka, Kenneth, Hani K. Najm, Robert D. Stewart, et al.. (2024). Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Congenital Heart Disease. JACC Case Reports. 29(4). 102199–102199. 1 indexed citations

Frankel, William C., Eric E. Roselli, Shinya Unai, et al.. (2024). Lifetime Management of Adolescents and Young Adults with Congenital Aortic Valve Disease. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 119(1). 59–69. 3 indexed citations

Saijo, Yoshihito, A. Marc Gillinov, Gösta Pettersson, et al.. (2024). Sex-related differences in outcomes and prognosis of severe calcific mitral stenosis due to mitral annular calcification: A propensity-score matched cohort study. International Journal of Cardiology. 421. 132893–132893. 3 indexed citations

Blackstone, Eugene H., Gösta Pettersson, A. Marc Gillinov, et al.. (2023). Increasing surgeon experience and cumulative institutional experience drive decreasing hospital mortality after reoperative cardiac surgery. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 168(3). 907–918.e6. 4 indexed citations

Ahmad, Munir, et al.. (2023). Mitral Valve Intervention, Pulmonary Hypertension, and Survival in 219 Shone’s Syndrome Patients. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 118(1). 189–198. 2 indexed citations

Unai, Shinya, Ryan Moore, Habib Layoun, et al.. (2023). The Ozaki Procedure: Standardized Protocol Adoption of a Complex Innovative Procedure. Structural Heart. 8(1). 100217–100217. 1 indexed citations

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Unai, Shinya, James Yun, & Gösta Pettersson. (2022). Bronchial Artery Revascularization: Surgical Technique. Operative Techniques in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 28(2). 139–153. 4 indexed citations

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Rajeswaran, Jeevanantham, Tara Karamlou, Munir Ahmad, et al.. (2022). Characterizing the anatomic spectrum, surgical treatment, and long-term clinical outcomes for patients with Shone's syndrome. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 165(3). 1224–1234.e9. 4 indexed citations

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Jiang, Michael, Joanna Ghobrial, Tara Karamlou, et al.. (2022). Coronary artery disease in adults with anomalous aortic origin of a coronary artery. JTCVS Open. 10. 205–221. 12 indexed citations

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Saijo, Yoshihito, Nicholas Chan, Hassan Mehmood Lak, et al.. (2021). Impact of Frailty and Mitral Valve Surgery on Outcomes of Severe Mitral Stenosis Due to Mitral Annular Calcification. The American Journal of Cardiology. 160. 83–90. 10 indexed citations

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Wang, Tom Kai Ming, Amgad Mentias, Zoran Popović, et al.. (2021). Effect of Tricuspid Valve Repair or Replacement on Survival in Patients With Isolated Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation. The American Journal of Cardiology. 162. 163–169. 10 indexed citations

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Xu, Bo, Duygu Koçyiğit, Tom Kai Ming Wang, et al.. (2021). Mitral annular calcification and valvular dysfunction: multimodality imaging evaluation, grading, and management. European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging. 23(3). e111–e122. 20 indexed citations

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Soltesz, Edward G., Douglas R. Johnston, Eric E. Roselli, et al.. (2020). Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Patency and Survival in Patients on Dialysis. Journal of Surgical Research. 254. 1–6. 3 indexed citations

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Ayoub, Chadi, et al.. (2018). Surgical repair of a left main coronary artery aneurysm. Journal of Cardiac Surgery. 33(10). 634–637. 1 indexed citations

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Pettersson, Gösta, Joseph S. Coselli, S.T. Hussain, et al.. (2017). 2016 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) consensus guidelines: Surgical treatment of infective endocarditis: Executive summary. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 153(6). 1241–1258.e29. 224 indexed citations

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Gunasekaran, Ganesh, Kalman P. Bencsath, Vera Hupertz, et al.. (2010). Deep hypothermia with circulatory arrest to aid in the management of suprahepatic vena cava stenosis after liver transplantation. Liver Transplantation. 16(12). 1434–1436. 2 indexed citations

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Mughal, Majid, Thomas R. Gildea, Sudish C. Murthy, et al.. (2005). Short-Term Deployment of Self-Expanding Metallic Stents Facilitates Healing of Bronchial Dehiscence. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 172(6). 768–771. 100 indexed citations

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