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Karl Wegscheider

Karl Wegscheider

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Medicine

D-Index
104
Citations
37913
World Ranking
7079
National Ranking
398

Overview

Karl Wegscheider is affiliated with Universität Hamburg in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with a particular emphasis on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, as well as related subfields including General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Clinical Psychology, and Sociology and Political Science.

They have contributed extensively to the study of heart-related conditions, including atrial fibrillation and cardiac arrhythmias. Their work encompasses topics such as atrial fibrillation management and outcomes, cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias, cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies, and intersections of cardiac health with mental health and family support during illness. Other researched areas include maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum.

The scientist has published multiple papers in a variety of prominent journals and periodicals. Frequent venues for their publications include:

  • EP Europace
  • European Heart Journal
  • Circulation
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry

Significant recent papers by Karl Wegscheider include:

  • Early Rhythm-Control Therapy in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Early Rhythm Control Therapy in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure, 2021, Circulation
  • Atrial Fibrillation Burden and Clinical Outcomes in Heart Failure, 2021, JACC. Clinical electrophysiology
  • Systematic, early rhythm control strategy for atrial fibrillation in patients with or without symptoms: the EAST-AFNET 4 trial, 2021, European Heart Journal
  • Preventive or Deferred Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia in Patients With Ischemic Cardiomyopathy and Implantable Defibrillator (BERLIN VT), 2020, Circulation

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Anne Daubmann
  • Antonia Zapf
  • Paulus Kirchhof
  • Anna Suling
  • Silke Wiegand-Grefe

Best Publications

  • Early Rhythm-Control Therapy in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

    Paulus Kirchhof;A. John Camm;Andreas Goette;Axel Brandes

  • Adaptive Servo-Ventilation for Central Sleep Apnea in Systolic Heart Failure

    Martin R. Cowie;Holger Woehrle;Karl Wegscheider;Christiane Angermann

  • Non-invasive positive pressure ventilation for the treatment of severe stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a prospective, multicentre, randomised, controlled clinical trial

    Thomas Köhnlein;Wolfram Windisch;Dieter Köhler;Anna Drabik

  • Magnetic Resonance Perfusion Measurements for the Noninvasive Detection of Coronary Artery Disease

    Eike Nagel;Christoph Klein;Ingo Paetsch;Sabine Hettwer

  • Defibrillator implantation early after myocardial infarction.

    Gerhard Steinbeck;Dietrich Andresen;Karlheinz Seidl;Johannes Brachmann

  • Four-Week Prevalence of Mental Disorders in Patients With Cancer Across Major Tumor Entities

    Anja Mehnert;Elmar Brähler;Hermann Faller;Martin Härter

  • Effect of Positive Airway Pressure on Cardiovascular Outcomes in Coronary Artery Disease Patients with Nonsleepy Obstructive Sleep Apnea. The RICCADSA Randomized Controlled Trial.

    Yüksel Peker;Helena Glantz;Christine Eulenburg;Karl Wegscheider

  • One in two cancer patients is significantly distressed: Prevalence and indicators of distress.

    A. Mehnert;T.J. Hartung;M. Friedrich;S. Vehling

  • Efficacy of telemedical interventional management in patients with heart failure (TIM-HF2): a randomised, controlled, parallel-group, unmasked trial

    Friedrich Koehler;Kerstin Koehler;Oliver Deckwart;Sandra Prescher

  • Extent of early ST segment elevation resolution : A strong predictor of outcome in patients with acute myocardial infarction and a sensitive measure to compare thrombolytic regimens : A substudy of the International Joint Efficacy Comparison of Thrombolytics (INJECT) trial

    Rolf Schröder;Karl Wegscheider;Klaus Schröder;Rüdiger Dissmann

  • Intravenous short-term infusion of streptokinase in acute myocardial infarction.

    R Schröder;G Biamino;E R von Leitner;T Linderer

  • Prevalence of thyroid disorders in the working population of Germany: ultrasonography screening in 96,278 unselected employees.

    Christoph Reiners;Karl Wegscheider;Harald Schicha;Peter Theissen

  • Multimorbidity Patterns in the Elderly: A New Approach of Disease Clustering Identifies Complex Interrelations between Chronic Conditions

    Ingmar Schäfer;Eike-Christin von Leitner;Gerhard Schön;Daniela Koller

  • Which chronic diseases and disease combinations are specific to multimorbidity in the elderly? Results of a claims data based cross-sectional study in Germany

    Hendrik van den Bussche;Daniela Koller;Tina Kolonko;Heike Hansen

  • Prevalence of mental disorders in elderly people: the European MentDis_ICF65+ study

    Sylke Andreas;Holger Schulz;Jana Volkert;Maria Dehoust

  • Pragmatic Randomized Trial Evaluating the Clinical and Economic Effectiveness of Acupuncture for Chronic Low Back Pain

    Claudia M. Witt;Susanne Jena;Dagmar Selim;Benno Brinkhaus

  • The influence of age, gender and socio-economic status on multimorbidity patterns in primary care. first results from the multicare cohort study

    Ingmar Schäfer;Heike Hansen;Gerhard Schön;Susanne Höfels

  • Rapid Identification of Bacteria from Positive Blood Culture Bottles by Use of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry Fingerprinting

    Martin Christner;Holger Rohde;Manuel Wolters;Ingo Sobottka

  • Procalcitonin for early diagnosis and differentiation of SIRS, sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock

    F. M. Brunkhorst;K. Wegscheider;Z. F. Forycki;R. Brunkhorst

  • Nocturnal hypoxaemia is associated with increased mortality in stable heart failure patients.

    Olaf Oldenburg;Birgit Wellmann;Anika Buchholz;Thomas Bitter

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Härter
Martin Härter Universität Hamburg
Holger Schulz
Holger Schulz Universität Hamburg
Stefan N. Willich
Stefan N. Willich Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Hans-Helmut König
Hans-Helmut König Universität Hamburg
Bernd Löwe
Bernd Löwe Universität Hamburg
Erland Erdmann
Erland Erdmann University of Cologne
Anja Mehnert
Anja Mehnert Leipzig University
Paulus Kirchhof
Paulus Kirchhof University of Birmingham
Joachim Weis
Joachim Weis RWTH Aachen University

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