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Jan F. Gummert is affiliated with the Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. Their research is primarily situated within the broad field of medicine, with a significant focus on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist's work spans several subfields including cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, surgery, biomedical engineering, emergency medicine, and molecular biology.

The main topics of their research involve:

  • Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices
  • Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair
  • Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
  • Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management

Jan F. Gummert has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent publication venues including:

  • The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon
  • European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
  • The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
  • Zeitschrift für Herz- Thorax- und Gefäßchirurgie
  • Clinical Research in Cardiology

Significant recent papers associated with relevant coauthors cover diverse aspects of cardiology and cardiovascular research:

  • "Spatial multi-omic map of human myocardial infarction," 2022, Nature
  • "Catheter Ablation in End-Stage Heart Failure with Atrial Fibrillation," 2023, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Pathogenic variants damage cell composition and single cell transcription in cardiomyopathies," 2022, Science
  • "Long-term outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve implantation in failed bioprosthetic valves," 2020, European Heart Journal
  • "Truncated titin proteins and titin haploinsufficiency are targets for functional recovery in human cardiomyopathy due to TTN mutations," 2021, Science Translational Medicine

Frequent co-authors in their research network include:

  • René Schramm
  • Michiel Morshuis
  • Henrik Fox
  • Hendrik Milting
  • Armin Zittermann

Best Publications

  • Regular Physical Activity Improves Endothelial Function in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease by Increasing Phosphorylation of Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase

    R. Hambrecht;V. Adams;S. Erbs;A. Linke

  • Stroke after cardiac surgery: a risk factor analysis of 16,184 consecutive adult patients.

    Jan Bucerius;Jan F Gummert;Michael A Borger;Thomas Walther

  • Fibrosis in left atrial tissue of patients with atrial fibrillation with and without underlying mitral valve disease

    A Boldt;U Wetzel;J Lauschke;J Weigl

  • Computer-enhanced "robotic" cardiac surgery: experience in 148 patients

    Friedrich W. Mohr;Volkmar Falk;Anno Diegeler;Thomas Walther

  • Impact of Regular Physical Activity on the NAD(P)H Oxidase and Angiotensin Receptor System in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease

    Volker Adams;Axel Linke;Nicolle Kränkel;Sandra Erbs

  • Predictors of delirium after cardiac surgery delirium: effect of beating-heart (off-pump) surgery.

    Jan Bucerius;Jan F Gummert;Michael A Borger;Thomas Walther

  • Esophageal perforation during left atrial radiofrequency ablation: Is the risk too high?

    Nicolas Doll;Michael A. Borger;Alexander Fabricius;Susann Stephan

  • Newer Immunosuppressive Drugs A Review

    Jan F. Gummert;Tuija Ikonen;Randall E. Morris

  • Mediastinitis and Cardiac Surgery - an Updated Risk Factor Analysis in 10,373 Consecutive Adult Patients

    J. F. Gummert;M. J. Barten;C. Hans;M. Kluge

  • Humoral immune response during coronary artery bypass grafting: A comparison of limited approach, "off-pump" technique, and conventional cardiopulmonary bypass.

    Anno Diegeler;Nicolas Doll;Thomas Rauch;Dorothea Haberer

  • Inhibition of Elevated Ca2+/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase II Improves Contractility in Human Failing Myocardium

    Samuel Sossalla;Nina Fluschnik;Hanna Schotola;Katharina R. Ort

  • Patient prosthesis mismatch affects short- and long-term outcomes after aortic valve replacement.

    Thomas Walther;Ardawan Rastan;Volkmar Falk;Sven Lehmann

  • Derivation and Validation of a Novel Right-Sided Heart Failure Model After Implantation of Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices: The EUROMACS (European Registry for Patients with Mechanical Circulatory Support) Right-Sided Heart Failure Risk Score.

    Osama Ibrahim Ibrahim Soliman;Şakir Akin;Rahatullah Muslem;Eric Boersma

  • Prospectively randomized evaluation of stentless versus conventional biological aortic valves: impact on early regression of left ventricular hypertrophy.

    Thomas Walther;Volkmar Falk;Georg Langebartels;Martin Krüger

  • Swan-Ganz catheter-induced severe complications in cardiac surgery: right ventricular perforation, knotting, and rupture of a pulmonary artery.

    Torsten Bossert;Jan F. Gummert;Hartmuth B. Bittner;Markus Barten

  • Emergency Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery for Acute Coronary Syndrome Beating Heart Versus Conventional Cardioplegic Cardiac Arrest Strategies

    Ardawan Julian Rastan;Judith Isabell Eckenstein;Bettina Hentschel;Anne Kathrin Funkat

  • Empagliflozin directly improves diastolic function in human heart failure

    Steffen Pabel;Steffen Pabel;Stefan Wagner;Hannah Bollenberg;Philipp Bengel

  • Use of minimal invasive extracorporeal circulation in cardiac surgery: principles, definitions and potential benefits. A position paper from the Minimal invasive Extra-Corporeal Technologies international Society (MiECTiS)

    Kyriakos Anastasiadis;John Murkin;Polychronis Antonitsis;Adrian Bauer

  • Effect of vitamin D on all-cause mortality in heart failure (EVITA): a 3-year randomized clinical trial with 4000 IU vitamin D daily.

    Armin Zittermann;Jana B Ernst;Sylvana Prokop;Uwe Fuchs

  • Expression of angiotensin II receptors in human left and right atrial tissue in atrial fibrillation with and without underlying mitral valve disease

    Andreas Boldt;Ulrike Wetzel;Josef Weigl;Jens Garbade

Frequent Co-Authors

Friedrich W. Mohr
Friedrich W. Mohr Leipzig University
Volkmar Falk
Volkmar Falk Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Michael A. Borger
Michael A. Borger Leipzig University
Margaret E. Billingham
Margaret E. Billingham Stanford University
Paul G. Yock
Paul G. Yock Stanford University
Uwe Christians
Uwe Christians University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Thomas Walther
Thomas Walther University College Cork
Gerald J. Berry
Gerald J. Berry Stanford University
Gerhard Schuler
Gerhard Schuler Leipzig University
Gerd Hasenfuss
Gerd Hasenfuss University of Göttingen

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