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  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Italy Leader Award
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  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Peter J. Schwartz is affiliated with the University of Pavia in Italy. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a strong focus on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. The subfields of study associated with their work include Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Surgery.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias, Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies, Ion channel regulation and function, Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments, Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies, Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise, and ECG Monitoring and Analysis.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Heart Rhythm
  • European Heart Journal
  • EP Europace
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Circulation

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Peter J. Schwartz are:

  • Inherited cardiac arrhythmias, 2020, Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)/Heart Rhythm Society (HRS)/Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS)/Latin American Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS) Expert Consensus Statement on the state of genetic testing for cardiac diseases, 2022, EP Europace
  • European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)/Heart Rhythm Society (HRS)/Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS)/Latin American Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS) Expert Consensus Statement on the State of Genetic Testing for Cardiac Diseases, 2022, Heart Rhythm
  • Transethnic Genome-Wide Association Study Provides Insights in the Genetic Architecture and Heritability of Long QT Syndrome, 2020, Circulation
  • Recommendations for participation in leisure-time physical activity and competitive sports of patients with arrhythmias and potentially arrhythmogenic conditions. Part 2: ventricular arrhythmias, channelopathies, and implantable defibrillators, 2020, EP Europace

Peter J. Schwartz has collaborated frequently with other researchers such as:

  • Lia Crotti
  • Federica Dagradi
  • Michael J. Ackerman
  • Arthur A.M. Wilde
  • Jacob Tfelt-Hansen

Best Publications

  • Heart rate variability: standards of measurement, physiological interpretation and clinical use. Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology and the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology.

    A.J. Camm;M. Malik;J.T. Bigger;G. Breithardt

  • Heart rate variability. Standards of measurement, physiological interpretation, and clinical use

    Marek Malik;J. Thomas Bigger;A. John Camm;Robert E. Kleiger

  • Baroreflex sensitivity and heart-rate variability in prediction of total cardiac mortality after myocardial infarction

    Maria Teresa La Rovere;J Thomas Bigger;Frank I Marcus;Andrea Mortara

  • HRS/EHRA/APHRS expert consensus statement on the diagnosis and management of patients with inherited primary arrhythmia syndromes: document endorsed by HRS, EHRA, and APHRS in May 2013 and by ACCF, AHA, PACES, and AEPC in June 2013.

    Silvia G. Priori;Arthur A. Wilde;Minoru Horie;Yongkeun Cho

  • Positional cloning of a novel potassium channel gene: KVLQT1 mutations cause cardiac arrhythmias.

    Q. Wang;M. E. Curran;I. Splawski;T. C. Burn

  • Genotype-Phenotype Correlation in the Long-QT Syndrome Gene-Specific Triggers for Life-Threatening Arrhythmias

    Peter J. Schwartz;Silvia G Priori;Carla Spazzolini;Arthur J Moss

  • Sertraline Treatment of Major Depression in Patients With Acute MI or Unstable Angina

    Alexander H. Glassman;Christopher M. O'Connor;Robert M. Califf;Karl Swedberg

  • Ca(V)1.2 calcium channel dysfunction causes a multisystem disorder including arrhythmia and autism.

    Igor Splawski;Katherine W. Timothy;Leah M. Sharpe;Niels Decher

  • Risk Stratification in the Long-QT Syndrome

    Silvia G. Priori;Peter J. Schwartz;Carlo Napolitano;Raffaella Bloise

  • Effect of d-sotalol on mortality in patients with left ventricular dysfunction after recent and remote myocardial infarction

    Albert L Waldo;A John Camm;Hans deRuyter;Peter L Friedman

  • Diagnostic criteria for the long QT syndrome. An update.

    P J Schwartz;A J Moss;G M Vincent;R S Crampton

  • Randomised trial of effect of amiodarone on mortality in patients with left-ventricular dysfunction after recent myocardial infarction: EMIAT

    DG Julian;AJ Camm;G Frangin;MJ Janse

  • Spectrum of Mutations in Long-QT Syndrome Genes KVLQT1, HERG, SCN5A, KCNE1, and KCNE2

    Igor Splawski;Jiaxiang Shen;Katherine W. Timothy;Michael H. Lehmann

  • Genotype-Phenotype Correlation in the Long-QT Syndrome

    Peter J. Schwartz;Silvia G. Priori;Carla Spazzolini;Arthur J. Moss

  • Task Force on Sudden Cardiac Death of the European Society of Cardiology

    S.G. Priori;E. Aliot;C. Blomstrom-Lundqvist;L. Bossaert

  • Heart-rate profile during exercise as a predictor of sudden death.

    Xavier Jouven;Jean Philippe Empana;Peter J. Schwartz;Michel Desnos

  • The long Q-T syndrome.

    Peter J. Schwartz;Maurizio Periti;Alberto Malliani

  • The long QT syndrome. Prospective longitudinal study of 328 families.

    A J Moss;P J Schwartz;R S Crampton;D Tzivoni

  • Prevalence of the Congenital Long-QT Syndrome

    Peter J. Schwartz;Marco Stramba-Badiale;Lia Crotti;Matteo Pedrazzini

  • Long QT syndrome patients with mutations of the SCN5A and HERG genes have differential responses to Na+ channel blockade and to increases in heart rate : implications for gene-specific therapy

    Peter J. Schwartz;Silvia G. Priori;Emanuela H. Locati;Carlo Napolitano

Frequent Co-Authors

Silvia G. Priori
Silvia G. Priori University of Pavia
Carlo Napolitano
Carlo Napolitano University of Pavia
Arthur J. Moss
Arthur J. Moss University of Rochester Medical Center
Alfred L. George
Alfred L. George Northwestern University
Arthur A.M. Wilde
Arthur A.M. Wilde University of Amsterdam
Elijah R. Behr
Elijah R. Behr St George's, University of London
Minoru Horie
Minoru Horie Shiga University of Medical Science
Wojciech Zareba
Wojciech Zareba University of Rochester Medical Center
Dan M. Roden
Dan M. Roden Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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