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Joachim Schofer

Joachim Schofer

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D-Index
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26507
World Ranking
16547
National Ranking
862

Overview

Joachim Schofer is affiliated with Universität Hamburg in Germany and has focused a significant portion of their research on the field of Medicine, particularly within Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Their expertise spans several subfields including Epidemiology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery, and Neurology. The primary topics of Schofer's work revolve around Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments, Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management, and Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors. Additional areas include Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches, Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies, Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair, as well as Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments.

Schofer has published extensively, contributing to 144 works in total. The frequent publication venues in which they appear include:

  • JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
  • European Heart Journal
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • EuroIntervention
  • Circulation Cardiovascular Interventions

Some of the recent papers by Schofer include:

  • "Right Ventricular-Pulmonary Arterial Coupling and Afterload Reserve in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Repair," 2022, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • "Long-term outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve implantation in failed bioprosthetic valves," 2020, European Heart Journal
  • "Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement After Surgical Repair or Replacement," 2020, Circulation
  • "TRI-SCORE and benefit of intervention in patients with severe tricuspid regurgitation," 2023, European Heart Journal
  • "Outcomes of transcatheter tricuspid valve intervention by right ventricular function: a multicentre propensity-matched analysis," 2021, EuroIntervention

Frequent collaborators in Schofer's research include Azeem Latib, Maurizio Taramasso, Stephan Windecker, Rodrigo Estévez-Loureiro, and Francesco Maisano. These co-authors have been involved in multiple joint publications, indicating ongoing research partnerships.

Their main research topics align with the clinical and interventional cardiology domains, particularly focusing on various aspects of cardiac valve disease management and procedural outcomes. This includes studying the mechanics and therapeutic approaches to tricuspid, aortic, and mitral valve conditions as well as associated complications.

Best Publications

  • Safety and efficacy of sirolimus- and paclitaxel-eluting coronary stents

    Gregg W. Stone;Jeffrey W. Moses;Stephen G. Ellis;Joachim Schofer

  • Sirolimus-eluting stents for treatment of patients with long atherosclerotic lesions in small coronary arteries: double-blind, randomised controlled trial (E-SIRIUS)

    Joachim Schofer;Michael Schlüter;Anthony H Gershlick;William Wijns

  • Advantages and applications of the centerline method for characterizing regional ventricular function

    F. H. Sheehan;E. L. Bolson;H. T. Dodge;D. G. Mathey

  • Randomized Study of the Crush Technique Versus Provisional Side-Branch Stenting in True Coronary Bifurcations: The CACTUS (Coronary Bifurcations: Application of the Crushing Technique Using Sirolimus-Eluting Stents) Study

    Antonio Colombo;Ezio Bramucci;Salvatore Saccà;Roberto Violini

  • High-Speed Rotational Atherectomy Before Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent Implantation in Complex Calcified Coronary Lesions: The Randomized ROTAXUS (Rotational Atherectomy Prior to Taxus Stent Treatment for Complex Native Coronary Artery Disease) Trial

    Mohamed Abdel-Wahab;Gert Richardt;Heinz Joachim Büttner;Ralph Toelg

  • Iodine-123 meta-iodobenzylguanidine scintigraphy: A noninvasive method to demonstrate myocardial adrenergic nervous system disintegrity in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy☆

    Joachim Schofer;Rolf Spielmann;Andreas Schuchert;Kirsten Weber

  • A randomised comparison of an everolimus-eluting coronary stent with a paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent:the SPIRIT II trial.

    Patrick W Serruys;Peter Ruygrok;Jörg Neuzner;Jan J Piek

  • Acute outcomes of MitraClip therapy for mitral regurgitation in high-surgical-risk patients: emphasis on adverse valve morphology and severe left ventricular dysfunction

    Olaf Franzen;Stephan Baldus;Volker Rudolph;Sven Meyer

  • Safety of Coronary Sirolimus-Eluting Stents in Daily Clinical Practice One-Year Follow-Up of the e-Cypher Registry

    Philip Urban;Anthony H. Gershlick;Giulio Guagliumi;Philippe Guyon

  • Percutaneous Mitral Annuloplasty for Functional Mitral Regurgitation Results of the CARILLON Mitral Annuloplasty Device European Union Study

    Joachim Schofer;Tomasz Siminiak;Michael Haude;Jean P. Herrman

  • European perspective in the recanalisation of Chronic Total Occlusions (CTO): consensus document from the EuroCTO Club.

    Di Mario C;Werner Gs;Sianos G;Galassi Ar

  • Incidence, predictors, and clinical outcomes of coronary obstruction following transcatheter aortic valve replacement for degenerative bioprosthetic surgical valves: insights from the VIVID registry

    Henrique B. Ribeiro;Henrique B. Ribeiro;Josep Rodés-Cabau;Philipp Blanke;Jonathon Leipsic

  • Transcatheter Versus Medical Treatment of Patients With Symptomatic Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation

    Maurizio Taramasso;Giovanni Benfari;Pieter van der Bijl;Hannes Alessandrini

  • Transcatheter Treatment of Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation With the Edge-to-Edge MitraClip Technique

    Georg Nickenig;Marek Kowalski;Jörg Hausleiter;Daniel Braun

  • Outcomes of transcatheter mitral valve replacement for degenerated bioprostheses, failed annuloplasty rings, and mitral annular calcification

    Sung Han Yoon;Brian K. Whisenant;Sabine Bleiziffer;Victoria Delgado

  • DOUBLE-BLIND RANDOMISED TRIAL OF INTRAVENOUS TISSUE-TYPE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR VERSUS PLACEBO IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

    M. Verstraete;R.W. Brower;D. Collen;A.J. Dunning

  • The PROFI Study (Prevention of Cerebral Embolization by Proximal Balloon Occlusion Compared to Filter Protection During Carotid Artery Stenting): A Prospective Randomized Trial

    Klaudija Bijuklic;Andreas Wandler;Fadia Hazizi;Joachim Schofer

  • MitraClip therapy in daily clinical practice: initial results from the German transcatheter mitral valve interventions (TRAMI) registry.

    Stephan Baldus;Wolfgang Schillinger;Olaf Franzen;Raffi Bekeredjian

  • Effect of interventions in salvaging left ventricular function in acute myocardial infarction: A study of intracoronary streptokinase

    Florence H. Sheehan;Detlef G. Mathey;Joachim Schofer;Hans Joachim Krebber

  • Transcatheter Valve Implantation for Patients with Aortic Stenosis

    Grégory Ducrocq;Dominique Himbert;Eric Brochet;Alec Vahanian

Frequent Co-Authors

Horst Sievert
Horst Sievert Cardiovascular Center Frankfurt
Azeem Latib
Azeem Latib Montefiore Medical Center
Francesco Maisano
Francesco Maisano University of Zurich
Stephan Windecker
Stephan Windecker University of Bern
Eberhard Grube
Eberhard Grube University Hospital Bonn
Martin B. Leon
Martin B. Leon Columbia University Medical Center
Peter J. Fitzgerald
Peter J. Fitzgerald Stanford University
Antonio Colombo
Antonio Colombo Humanitas Clinical and Research Center IRCCS
Karl-Heinz Kuck
Karl-Heinz Kuck Universität Hamburg
John G. Webb
John G. Webb University of British Columbia

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