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Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner

Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner

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Medicine

D-Index
86
Citations
28222
World Ranking
14095
National Ranking
746

Overview

Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner is affiliated with Hannover Medical School in Germany and has focused their research primarily in the field of medicine, with particular emphasis on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. With a significant volume of publications, their work spans several subfields including surgery, molecular biology, oncology, and obstetrics and gynecology.

The scientist's research topics center heavily on cardiovascular issues related to pregnancy, including cardiomyopathy and related cardiac structural anomalies and repair. Their detailed exploration of cardiomyopathy and associated phenomena incorporates studies on Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity and mitigation, pregnancy and preeclampsia studies, and RNA research and splicing.

Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner has contributed to numerous papers, with notable recent publications including:

  • Clinical presentation, management, and 6-month outcomes in women with peripartum cardiomyopathy: an ESC EORP registry, 2020, European Heart Journal
  • Genetic and Phenotypic Landscape of Peripartum Cardiomyopathy, 2021, Circulation
  • Peripartum cardiomyopathy: from genetics to management, 2021, European Heart Journal
  • Onco-Cardiology: Consensus Paper of the German Cardiac Society, the German Society for Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Defects and the German Society for Hematology and Medical Oncology, 2020, Clinical Research in Cardiology
  • Impaired immune response mediated by prostaglandin E2 promotes severe COVID-19 disease, 2021, PLoS ONE

Their frequent co-authors include Johann Bauersachs, Melanie Ricke-Hoch, Michaela Scherr, Tobias J. Pfeffer, and Karen Sliwa, reflecting ongoing collaborative efforts in their research fields.

Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner's publications are most commonly found in the following venues:

  • European Heart Journal
  • Circulation
  • ESC Heart Failure
  • Clinical Research in Cardiology
  • European Journal of Heart Failure

Best Publications

  • ESC Guidelines on the management of cardiovascular diseases during pregnancy: the Task Force on the Management of Cardiovascular Diseases during Pregnancy of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

    Vera Regitz-Zagrosek;Carina Blomstrom Lundqvist;Claudio Borghi;Renata Cifkova

  • A Cathepsin D-Cleaved 16 kDa Form of Prolactin Mediates Postpartum Cardiomyopathy

    Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner;Karol Kaminski;Edith Podewski;Tomasz Bonda

  • Expression of angiotensin II and interleukin 6 in human coronary atherosclerotic plaques: potential implications for inflammation and plaque instability.

    Bernhard Schieffer;Elisabeth Schieffer;Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner;Andres Hilfiker

  • Current state of knowledge on aetiology, diagnosis, management, and therapy of peripartum cardiomyopathy: a position statement from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on peripartum cardiomyopathy

    Karen Sliwa;Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner;Mark C. Petrie;Alexandre Mebazaa

  • Statin-Induced Improvement of Endothelial Progenitor Cell Mobilization, Myocardial Neovascularization, Left Ventricular Function, and Survival After Experimental Myocardial Infarction Requires Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase

    Ulf Landmesser;Niels Engberding;Ferdinand H. Bahlmann;Arnd Schaefer

  • Cardiac angiogenic imbalance leads to peripartum cardiomyopathy

    Ian S. Patten;Sarosh Rana;Sajid Shahul;Glenn C. Rowe

  • Evaluation of Bromocriptine in the Treatment of Acute Severe Peripartum Cardiomyopathy A Proof-of-Concept Pilot Study

    Karen Sliwa;Lori Blauwet;Kemi Tibazarwa;Elena Libhaber

  • Sex Differences in Heart Failure

    Carolyn S P Lam;Clare Arnott;Anna L Beale;Chanchal Chandramouli

  • Shared Genetic Predisposition in Peripartum and Dilated Cardiomyopathies

    J.S. Ware;J. Li;E. Mazaika;C.M. Yasso

  • MicroRNA-146a is a therapeutic target and biomarker for peripartum cardiomyopathy

    Julie Halkein;Sebastien P. Tabruyn;Melanie Ricke-Hoch;Arash Haghikia

  • Cardiovascular side effects of cancer therapies: a position statement from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology.

    Thomas Eschenhagen;Thomas Force;Michael S. Ewer;Gilles W. De Keulenaer

  • Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 3 Is Required for Myocardial Capillary Growth, Control of Interstitial Matrix Deposition, and Heart Protection From Ischemic Injury

    Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner;Andres Hilfiker;Martin Fuchs;Karol Kaminski

  • Inhibition of permeability transition pore opening by mitochondrial STAT3 and its role in myocardial ischemia/reperfusion

    Kerstin Boengler;Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner;Gerd Heusch;Rainer Schulz

  • The myocardial JAK/STAT pathway: from protection to failure.

    Kerstin Boengler;Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner;Helmut Drexler;Gerd Heusch

  • Impact of Interleukin-6 on Plaque Development and Morphology in Experimental Atherosclerosis

    Bernhard Schieffer;Tina Selle;Andres Hilfiker;Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner

  • Peripartum cardiomyopathy: inflammatory markers as predictors of outcome in 100 prospectively studied patients

    Karen Sliwa;Olaf Förster;Elena Libhaber;James D. Fett

  • Survival pathways in hypertrophy and heart failure: The gp130-STAT3 axis

    Philipp Fischer;Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner

  • Role of NAD(P)H Oxidase in Angiotensin II–Induced JAK/STAT Signaling and Cytokine Induction

    Bernhard Schieffer;Maren Luchtefeld;Sabine Braun;Andres Hilfiker

  • Phenotyping and outcome on contemporary management in a German cohort of patients with peripartum cardiomyopathy

    A. Haghikia;E. Podewski;E. Libhaber;E. Libhaber;S. Labidi

  • Cardioprotection by Ischemic Postconditioning Is Lost in Aged and STAT3-Deficient Mice

    Kerstin Boengler;Astrid Buechert;Yvonne Heinen;Christin Roeskes

Frequent Co-Authors

Johann Bauersachs
Johann Bauersachs Hannover Medical School
Karen Sliwa
Karen Sliwa University of Cape Town
Helmut Drexler
Helmut Drexler Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Thomas Thum
Thomas Thum Hannover Medical School
Axel Haverich
Axel Haverich Hannover Medical School
Stephane Heymans
Stephane Heymans Maastricht University
Ulf Landmesser
Ulf Landmesser Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Burkert Pieske
Burkert Pieske Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Vera Regitz-Zagrosek
Vera Regitz-Zagrosek Charité - University Medicine Berlin

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