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Helmut U. Klein is affiliated with the University of Rochester Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, encompassing 56 publications in the field. Subfields of study include cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, neurology, surgery, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The main topics covered in their work are cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies, cardiac arrhythmias and treatments, cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias, vagus nerve stimulation research, heart rate variability and autonomic control, atrial fibrillation management and outcomes, and cardiac structural anomalies and repair.

Helmut U. Klein has published extensively in selected research venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • European Heart Journal
  • Herzschrittmachertherapie + Elektrophysiologie
  • Clinical Research in Cardiology
  • IJC Heart & Vasculature
  • Heart Rhythm

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Valentina Kutyifa
  • Scott McNitt
  • Ilan Goldenberg
  • Arwa Younis
  • Wojciech Zaręba

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Helmut U. Klein demonstrate a focus on cardiac devices, therapies, and outcomes associated with heart failure and arrhythmias:

  • "Predicted benefit of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator: the MADIT-ICD benefit score," 2020, European Heart Journal
  • "Comparison of symptomatic and functional responses to vagus nerve stimulation in ANTHEM-HF, INOVATE-HF, and NECTAR-HF," 2020, ESC Heart Failure
  • "Upgrade of right ventricular pacing to cardiac resynchronization therapy in heart failure: a randomized trial," 2023, European Heart Journal
  • "Survival After Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Shocks," 2021, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • "Protected risk stratification with the wearable cardioverter-defibrillator: results from the WEARIT-II-EUROPE registry," 2020, Clinical Research in Cardiology

Best Publications

  • Prophylactic implantation of a defibrillator in patients with myocardial infarction and reduced ejection fraction.

    Arthur J. Moss;Wojciech Zareba;W. Jackson Hall;Helmut Klein

  • Improved survival with an implanted defibrillator in patients with coronary disease at high risk for ventricular arrhythmia

    Arthur J. Moss;W. Jackson Hall;David S. Cannom;James P. Daubert

  • Comparison of interstudy reproducibility of cardiovascular magnetic resonance with two-dimensional echocardiography in normal subjects and in patients with heart failure or left ventricular hypertrophy.

    Frank Grothues;Frank Grothues;Gillian C Smith;James C.C Moon;Nicholas G Bellenger

  • Effect of Pacing Chamber and Atrioventricular Delay on Acute Systolic Function of Paced Patients With Congestive Heart Failure

    Angelo Auricchio;Christoph Stellbrink;Michael Block;Stefan Sack

  • Reduction in Inappropriate Therapy and Mortality through ICD Programming

    Arthur J. Moss;Claudio Schuger;Christopher A. Beck;Mary W. Brown

  • Prasugrel versus clopidogrel for acute coronary syndromes without revascularization

    Matthew T. Roe;Paul W. Armstrong;Keith A.A. Fox;Harvey D. White

  • Increased expression of extracellular signal-regulated kinase and angiotensin-converting enzyme in human atria during atrial fibrillation

    Andreas Goette;Thorsten Staack;Christoph Röcken;Marco Arndt

  • Inappropriate Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Shocks in MADIT II : Frequency, Mechanisms, Predictors, and Survival Impact

    James P. Daubert;Wojciech Zareba;David S. Cannom;Scott McNitt

  • Effectiveness of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy by QRS Morphology in the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial–Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (MADIT-CRT)

    Wojciech Zareba;Helmut Klein;Iwona Cygankiewicz;W. Jackson Hall

  • Interstudy reproducibility of right ventricular volumes, function, and mass with cardiovascular magnetic resonance

    Frank Grothues;James C Moon;Nicholas G Bellenger;Gillian S Smith

  • Characterization of Left Ventricular Activation in Patients With Heart Failure and Left Bundle-Branch Block

    Angelo Auricchio;Cecilia Fantoni;Francois Regoli;Corrado Carbucicchio

  • Left Ventricular Lead Position and Clinical Outcome in the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial–Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (MADIT-CRT) Trial

    Jagmeet P. Singh;Helmut U. Klein;David T. Huang;Sven Reek

  • Chronic vagus nerve stimulation: a new and promising therapeutic approach for chronic heart failure

    Gaetano M. De Ferrari;Harry J.G.M. Crijns;Martin Borggrefe;Goran Milasinovic

  • Regulation of Angiotensin II Receptor Subtypes During Atrial Fibrillation in Humans

    Andreas Goette;Marco Arndt;Christoph Röcken;Antje Spiess

  • The Pacing Therapies for Congestive Heart Failure (PATH-CHF) study: rationale, design, and endpoints of a prospective randomized multicenter study.

    Angelo Auricchio;Christoph Stellbrink;Stefan Sack;Michael Block

  • Survival with cardiac-resynchronization therapy in mild heart failure.

    Ilan Goldenberg;Valentina Kutyifa;Helmut U. Klein;David S. Cannom

  • The cardioprotective effect of mesenchymal stem cells is mediated by IGF-I and VEGF.

    Sanga Sadat;Sebastian Gehmert;Yao-Hua Song;Yasheng Yen

  • Atrial Amyloidosis An Arrhythmogenic Substrate for Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

    Christoph Röcken;Brigitte Peters;Gina Juenemann;Wolfgang Saeger

  • Chronic vagal stimulation for the treatment of low ejection fraction heart failure: results of the NEural Cardiac TherApy foR Heart Failure (NECTAR-HF) randomized controlled trial

    Faiez Zannad;Gaetano M. De Ferrari;Anton E. Tuinenburg;David Wright

  • Comparison of interstudy reproducibility of cardiovascular magnetic resonance with two-dimensional echocardiography in normal subjects and in patients with heart failure or left ventricular hypertrophy☆

    F. Grothues;G.C. Smith;J.C.C. Moon

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur J. Moss
Arthur J. Moss University of Rochester Medical Center
Wojciech Zareba
Wojciech Zareba University of Rochester Medical Center
Scott McNitt
Scott McNitt University of Rochester Medical Center
Ilan Goldenberg
Ilan Goldenberg University of Rochester Medical Center
Angelo Auricchio
Angelo Auricchio Universita della Svizzera Italiana
Scott D. Solomon
Scott D. Solomon Brigham and Women's Hospital
Uwe Lendeckel
Uwe Lendeckel Greifswald University Hospital
Christoph Röcken
Christoph Röcken Kiel University
Siegfried Ansorge
Siegfried Ansorge Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Béla Merkely
Béla Merkely Semmelweis University

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