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Overview

Adnan Kastrati is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. The scientific work focuses primarily on Medicine, with a significant emphasis on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine as well as Surgery and related subfields. The range of research topics includes Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics, Antiplatelet Therapy and Cardiovascular Diseases, and Acute Myocardial Infarction Research, among others.

The scientist's research covers prominent subfields such as:

  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Surgery
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Internal Medicine

Main topics of research explored include:

  • Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics
  • Antiplatelet Therapy and Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Acute Myocardial Infarction Research
  • Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
  • Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
  • Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management
  • Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases

The scientist has published extensively in several well-known venues, with notable frequency in:

  • European Heart Journal
  • EuroIntervention
  • Clinical Research in Cardiology
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions

Some recent publications include:

  • 2020 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation, 2020, European Heart Journal
  • Discovery and systematic characterization of risk variants and genes for coronary artery disease in over a million participants, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Optical coherence tomography in coronary atherosclerosis assessment and intervention, 2022, Nature Reviews Cardiology
  • [2018 ESC/EACTS Guidelines on myocardial revascularization. The Task Force on myocardial revascularization of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)]., 2020, PubMed
  • Antiplatelet therapy after percutaneous coronary intervention, 2022, EuroIntervention

Frequent collaboration partners in research include:

  • Salvatore Cassese
  • Heribert Schunkert
  • Erion Xhepa
  • Sebastian Kufner
  • Karl-Ludwig Laugwitz

Best Publications

  • 2017 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation: The Task Force for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

    Borja Ibanez;Stefan James;Stefan Agewall;Manuel J Antunes

  • 2014 ESC/EACTS guidelines on myocardial revascularization.

    Stephan Windecker;Philippe Kolh;Fernando Alfonso;Jean-Philippe Collet

  • 2018 ESC/EACTS Guidelines on myocardial revascularization.

    Sousa-Uva M;Neumann Fj;Ahlsson A;Alfonso F

  • ESC Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation: The Task Force for the management of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment eleva...

    C. W. Hamm;J.-P. Bassand;S. Agewall;J. Bax

  • 2014 ESC/EACTS Guidelines on myocardial revascularization: The Task Force on Myocardial Revascularization of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)Developed with the special contribution of the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI).

    Stephan Windecker;Philippe Kolh;Fernando Alfonso;Jean-Philippe Collet

  • Management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with persistent ST-segment elevation: the Task Force on the Management of ST-Segment Elevation Acute Myocardial Infarction of the European Society of Cardiology.

    Frans Van de Werf;Jeroen Bax;Amadeo Betriu;Carina Blomstrom-Lundqvist

  • 2017 ESC focused update on dual antiplatelet therapy in coronary artery disease developed in collaboration with EACTS: The Task Force for dual antiplatelet therapy in coronary artery disease of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS).

    Marco Valgimigli;Héctor Bueno;Robert A Byrne;Jean-Philippe Collet

  • A Randomized Comparison of Antiplatelet and Anticoagulant Therapy After the Placement of Coronary-Artery Stents.

    Albert Schömig;Franz-Josef Neumann;Adnan Kastrati;Helmut Schühlen

  • 2017 ESC focused update on dual antiplatelet therapy in coronary artery disease developed in collaboration with EACTS

    Marco Valgimigli;Héctor Bueno;Robert A. Byrne;Jean-Philippe Collet

  • 2018 ESC/EACTS Guidelines on myocardial revascularization.

    Franz-Josef Neumann;Miguel Sousa-Uva;Anders Ahlsson;Fernando Alfonso

  • Outcomes associated with drug-eluting and bare-metal stents: a collaborative network meta-analysis

    Christoph Stettler;Christoph Stettler;Simon Wandel;Sabin Allemann;Adnan Kastrati

  • Reduced-function CYP2C19 genotype and risk of adverse clinical outcomes among patients treated with clopidogrel predominantly for PCI: a meta-analysis.

    Jessica L. Mega;Tabassome Simon;Jean Philippe Collet;Jeffrey L. Anderson

  • Analysis of 14 trials comparing sirolimus-eluting stents with bare-metal stents.

    Adnan Kastrati;Julinda Mehilli;Jürgen Pache;Christoph Kaiser

  • A Randomized Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of a Percutaneous Left Ventricular Assist Device Versus Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumping for Treatment of Cardiogenic Shock Caused by Myocardial Infarction

    Melchior Seyfarth;Dirk Sibbing;Iris Bauer;Georg Fröhlich

  • Estimated Radiation Dose Associated With Cardiac CT Angiography

    Jörg Hausleiter;Tanja Meyer;Franziska Hermann;Martin Hadamitzky

  • 2017 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation

    Borja Ibanez;Stefan James;Stefan Agewall;Manuel J. Antunes

  • Predictive Factors of Restenosis After Coronary Stent Placement

    Adnan Kastrati;Albert Schömig;Shpend Elezi;Helmut Schühlen

  • Intracoronary stenting and angiographic results: strut thickness effect on restenosis outcome (ISAR-STEREO-2) trial

    Adnan Kastrati;Julinda Mehilli;Josef Dirschinger;Franz Dotzer

  • Absorption, Metabolization, and Antiplatelet Effects of 300-, 600-, and 900-mg Loading Doses of Clopidogrel Results of the ISAR-CHOICE (Intracoronary Stenting and Antithrombotic Regimen: Choose Between 3 High Oral Doses for Immediate Clopidogrel Effect) Trial

    Nicolas von Beckerath;Dirk Taubert;Gisela Pogatsa-Murray;Edgar Schömig

  • 2017 ESC focused update on dual antiplatelet therapy in coronary artery disease developed in collaboration with EACTS.

    Marco Valgimigli;Héctor Bueno;Robert A. Byrne;Jean-Philippe Collet

Frequent Co-Authors

Albert Schömig
Albert Schömig Technical University of Munich
Robert A. Byrne
Robert A. Byrne Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Julinda Mehilli
Julinda Mehilli Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Heribert Schunkert
Heribert Schunkert Technical University of Munich
Franz-Josef Neumann
Franz-Josef Neumann University of Freiburg
Stephan Windecker
Stephan Windecker University of Bern
Steffen Massberg
Steffen Massberg Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jörg Hausleiter
Jörg Hausleiter Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Marco Valgimigli
Marco Valgimigli University of Bern
Christian Hengstenberg
Christian Hengstenberg Medical University of Vienna

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