Stavros Mountantonakis

3.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
81 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Stavros Mountantonakis is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stavros Mountantonakis has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 6 papers in Surgery and 6 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Stavros Mountantonakis's work include Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments (55 papers), Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes (43 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (37 papers). Stavros Mountantonakis is often cited by papers focused on Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments (55 papers), Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes (43 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (37 papers). Stavros Mountantonakis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Greece and Czechia. Stavros Mountantonakis's co-authors include Francis E. Marchlinski, Edward P. Gerstenfeld, David J. Callans, David S. Frankel, Mathew D. Hutchinson, Joshua M. Cooper, Erica S. Zado, Sanjay Dixit, Laurence M. Epstein and Moussa Saleh and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Medicine and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Stavros Mountantonakis

72 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Pulsed Field or Conventional Thermal Ablation for Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

2023 351 citations Vivek Y. Reddy, Edward P. Gerstenfeld et al. profile →
Dual-energy lattice-tip ablation system for persistent atrial fibrillation: a randomized trial

2024 48 citations Elad Anter, Moussa Mansour et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stavros Mountantonakis United States	21	1.5k	259	112	106	76	81	1.9k
Chirag R. Barbhaiya United States	21	1.3k 0.9×	359 1.4×	136 1.2×	93 0.9×	213 2.8×	79	1.8k
Gaetano Fassini Italy	21	1.6k 1.1×	316 1.2×	232 2.1×	140 1.3×	34 0.4×	78	2.0k
Pierre Qian Australia	15	568 0.4×	83 0.3×	54 0.5×	100 0.9×	32 0.4×	63	926
Bruce A. Koplan United States	36	4.1k 2.8×	160 0.6×	146 1.3×	549 5.2×	165 2.2×	104	4.7k
Moti Haim Israel	23	1.0k 0.7×	59 0.2×	44 0.4×	302 2.8×	156 2.1×	107	1.7k
José Luis Zamorano Gómez Spain	13	659 0.5×	57 0.2×	50 0.4×	127 1.2×	17 0.2×	99	804
Sagar Ranka United States	17	343 0.2×	120 0.5×	72 0.6×	228 2.2×	41 0.5×	72	824
Nico Reinsch Germany	19	926 0.6×	211 0.8×	10 0.1×	230 2.2×	255 3.4×	67	1.4k
Amit Noheria United States	23	1.8k 1.2×	85 0.3×	43 0.4×	232 2.2×	37 0.5×	104	2.1k
Angelo Silverio Italy	20	782 0.5×	346 1.3×	243 2.2×	319 3.0×	54 0.7×	74	1.2k

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Sundaram, Sri, Prashanthan Sanders, David B. DeLurgio, et al.. (2025). Safety and effectiveness of a novel balloon-in-basket pulsed-field ablation catheter for the treatment of paroxysmal and persistent AF: Volt-AF IDE trial acute results. Heart Rhythm. 22(10). 2524–2533. 4 indexed citations

Mansour, Moussa, Tyler L. Taigen, Dinesh Sharma, et al.. (2025). AB-514135-001 IMPACT OF LINEAR ABLATION IN PERSISTENT AF ON OUTCOMES USING A DUAL-ENERGY, WIDE-FOOTPRINT ABLATION CATHETER - ANALYSIS FROM THE SPHERE PER-AF RANDOMIZED TRIAL. Heart Rhythm. 22(4). S809–S810. 1 indexed citations

Mountantonakis, Stavros, Aditya Goyal, Dimitrios Varrias, et al.. (2025). Differences in intravascular hemolysis between 2 technologies for pulse field ablation of atrial fibrillation. Heart Rhythm. 23(2). e217–e219. 1 indexed citations

Varrias, Dimitrios, et al.. (2025). Adherence to CPAP for patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing catheter ablation: A “real-world” analysis. Heart Rhythm. 23(2). 349–355. 1 indexed citations

Zafeiropoulos, Stefanos, Ioannis Doundoulakis, Αlexandra Bekiaridou, et al.. (2024). Rhythm vs Rate Control Strategy for Atrial Fibrillation. JACC. Clinical electrophysiology. 10(7). 1395–1405. 15 indexed citations

Mansour, Moussa, Edward P. Gerstenfeld, Andrea Natale, et al.. (2024). Pulmonary vein narrowing after pulsed field versus thermal ablation. EP Europace. 26(2). 26 indexed citations

Varrias, Dimitrios, et al.. (2024). Incidence and predictors of cardiomyopathy after implantation of leadless pacemakers: A comparative analysis with patients with transvenous systems. Heart Rhythm O2. 5(8). 597–600. 2 indexed citations

Brennan, Christina, et al.. (2022). Leveraging electronic health record query to streamline adverse event reporting and protocol compliance. Contemporary Clinical Trials. 121. 106901–106901. 1 indexed citations

Hsu, Jonathan C., et al.. (2021). Atrial fibrillation associated with heart failure treated by a 2-lead CRT-DX system (BIO-AffectDX): Study design and clinical protocol. Heart Rhythm O2. 2(6). 642–650. 1 indexed citations

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Makker, Parth, Moussa Saleh, Stuart Beldner, et al.. (2021). Clinical predictors of heart block during atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia ablation: A multicenter 18‐year experience. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 32(6). 1658–1664. 4 indexed citations

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Mountantonakis, Stavros, Moussa Saleh, Joanna Fishbein, et al.. (2021). Atrial fibrillation is an independent predictor for in-hospital mortality in patients admitted with SARS-CoV-2 infection. Heart Rhythm. 18(4). 501–507. 70 indexed citations

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Mountantonakis, Stavros, Parth Makker, Moussa Saleh, et al.. (2021). Increased Inpatient Mortality for Cardiovascular Patients During the First Wave of the COVID‐19 Epidemic in New York. Journal of the American Heart Association. 10(16). e020255–e020255. 9 indexed citations

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Mountantonakis, Stavros, Laurence M. Epstein, Moussa Saleh, et al.. (2021). The Association of Structural Inequities and Race With Out-of-Hospital Sudden Death During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Circulation Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. 14(5). e009646–e009646. 8 indexed citations

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Saleh, Moussa, James Gabriels, David Chang, et al.. (2020). Safely Administering Potential QTc Prolonging Therapy Across a Large Health Care System in the COVID-19 Era. Circulation Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. 13(11). e008937–e008937. 8 indexed citations

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Saleh, Moussa, James Gabriels, David Chang, et al.. (2020). Effect of Chloroquine, Hydroxychloroquine, and Azithromycin on the Corrected QT Interval in Patients With SARS-CoV-2 Infection. Circulation Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. 13(6). e008662–e008662. 218 indexed citations

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Chang, David, James Gabriels, Beom Soo Kim, et al.. (2020). Electrocardiographic localization of ventricular arrhythmias successfully ablated from the distal great cardiac vein. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 31(10). 2668–2676.

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Mountantonakis, Stavros, et al.. (2020). Non-invasive electroanatomic mapping to reduce mapping time during catheter ablation of outflow tract ventricular premature depolarizations. Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology. 60(2). 295–302. 1 indexed citations

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Mountantonakis, Stavros, Moussa Saleh, Jeffrey T. Kuvin, et al.. (2020). Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest and Acute Coronary Syndrome Hospitalizations During the COVID-19 Surge. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 76(10). 1271–1273. 36 indexed citations

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Campos, Bieito, Kyoung‐Min Park, Stavros Mountantonakis, et al.. (2012). New Unipolar Electrogram Criteria to Identify Irreversibility of Nonischemic Left Ventricular Cardiomyopathy. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 60(21). 2194–2204. 64 indexed citations

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Mountantonakis, Stavros, et al.. (2002). FOLK REMEDIES STILL IN USE: A CASE OF SOFT PALATE AND UVULAR OEDEMA DUE TO ECBALIUM ELATERIUM. International Journal of Clinical Practice. 56(10). 817–817. 5 indexed citations

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