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Seung-Jung Park

Seung-Jung Park

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Medicine
Korea
2026

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Medicine

D-Index
119
Citations
57450
World Ranking
3866
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Korea Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Korea Leader Award

Overview

Seung-Jung Park is affiliated with the University of Ulsan in South Korea and has made substantial contributions in the field of medicine, particularly focusing on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their research spans several subfields including surgery, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, epidemiology, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's research topics primarily encompass coronary interventions and diagnostics, cardiac imaging and diagnostics, cardiac valve diseases and treatments, acute myocardial infarction research, antiplatelet therapy and cardiovascular diseases, infective endocarditis diagnosis and management, and atrial fibrillation management and outcomes.

Seung-Jung Park has published extensively in prominent journals, with frequent publication venues including:

  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • The American Journal of Cardiology
  • JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
  • JACC Asia
  • Circulation

Their recent research outputs demonstrate a focus on coronary artery disease and interventions. Selected recent papers include:

  • Preventive percutaneous coronary intervention versus optimal medical therapy alone for the treatment of vulnerable atherosclerotic coronary plaques, 2024, The Lancet
  • Optical coherence tomography in coronary atherosclerosis assessment and intervention, 2022, Nature Reviews Cardiology
  • The East Asian Paradox: An Updated Position Statement on the Challenges to the Current Antithrombotic Strategy in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease, 2020, Thrombosis and Haemostasis
  • Percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stents versus coronary artery bypass grafting in left main coronary artery disease: an individual patient data meta-analysis, 2021, The Lancet
  • Redevelopment and validation of the SYNTAX score II to individualise decision making between percutaneous and surgical revascularisation in patients with complex coronary artery disease: secondary analysis of the multicentre randomised controlled SYNTAXES trial with external cohort validation, 2020, The Lancet

Seung-Jung Park collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Duk-Woo Park, Do-Yoon Kang, Jung-Min Ahn, Pil Hyung Lee, and Hanbit Park. Collaboration counts indicate extensive research partnerships, with Duk-Woo Park having 142 coauthored works with Seung-Jung Park.

Best Publications

  • Outcomes associated with drug-eluting and bare-metal stents: a collaborative network meta-analysis

    Christoph Stettler;Christoph Stettler;Simon Wandel;Sabin Allemann;Adnan Kastrati

  • Diagnostic performance of noninvasive fractional flow reserve derived from coronary computed tomography angiography in suspected coronary artery disease: the NXT trial (Analysis of Coronary Blood Flow Using CT Angiography: Next Steps).

    Bjarne L Nørgaard;Jonathon Leipsic;Sara Gaur;Sujith Seneviratne

  • Visualization of coronary atherosclerotic plaques in patients using optical coherence tomography: comparison with intravascular ultrasound.

    Ik-Kyung Jang;Brett E. Bouma;Dong-Heon Kang;Dong-Heon Kang;Seung-Jung Park

  • Diagnostic Accuracy of Fractional Flow Reserve From Anatomic CT Angiography

    James K. Min;Jonathon Leipsic;Michael J. Pencina;Daniel S. Berman

  • In Vivo Diagnosis of Plaque Erosion and Calcified Nodule in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome by Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography

    Haibo Jia;Farhad Abtahian;Aaron D. Aguirre;Stephen Lee

  • Randomized trial of stents versus bypass surgery for left main coronary artery disease.

    Seung Jung Park;Young Hak Kim;Duk Woo Park;Sung Cheol Yun

  • Duration of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy After Implantation of Drug-Eluting Stents

    Seung-Jung Park;Duk-Woo Park;Young-Hak Kim;Soo-Jin Kang

  • Safety and Efficacy of Drug-Eluting and Bare Metal Stents Comprehensive Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials and Observational Studies

    Ajay J. Kirtane;Anuj Gupta;Srinivas Iyengar;Jeffrey W. Moses

  • Mortality after coronary artery bypass grafting versus percutaneous coronary intervention with stenting for coronary artery disease: a pooled analysis of individual patient data

    Stuart J. Head;Milan Milojevic;Joost Daemen;Jung Min Ahn

  • A Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent for the Prevention of Coronary Restenosis

    Seung Jung Park;Won Heum Shim;David S. Ho;Albert E. Raizner

  • Stents versus Coronary-Artery Bypass Grafting for Left Main Coronary Artery Disease

    Ki Bae Seung;Duk-Woo Park;Young-Hak Kim;Seung-Whan Lee

  • Sirolimus-eluting stent implantation for unprotected left main coronary artery stenosis: comparison with bare metal stent implantation.

    Seung Jung Park;Young Hak Kim;Bong Ki Lee;Seung Whan Lee

  • Frequency of and risk factors for stent thrombosis after drug-eluting stent implantation during long-term follow-up.

    Duk Woo Park;Seong Wook Park;Kyoung Ha Park;Bong Ki Lee

  • Impact of Intravascular Ultrasound Guidance on Long-Term Mortality in Stenting for Unprotected Left Main Coronary Artery Stenosis

    Seung Jung Park;Young Hak Kim;Duk Woo Park;Seung Whan Lee

  • Trial of Everolimus-Eluting Stents or Bypass Surgery for Coronary Disease

    Seung Jung Park;Jung Min Ahn;Young Hak Kim;Duk Woo Park

  • Cryptogenic Stroke and High-Risk Patent Foramen Ovale: The DEFENSE-PFO Trial

    Pil Hyung Lee;Jae Kwan Song;Jae Kwan Song;Jong S. Kim;Ran Heo

  • Late Stent Malapposition After Drug-Eluting Stent Implantation An Intravascular Ultrasound Analysis With Long-Term Follow-Up

    Myeong Ki Hong;Gary S. Mintz;Cheol Whan Lee;Duk Woo Park

  • Long-term dual antiplatelet therapy for secondary prevention of cardiovascular events in the subgroup of patients with previous myocardial infarction: A collaborative meta-analysis of randomized trials

    Jacob A. Udell;Jacob A. Udell;Marc P. Bonaca;Jean Philippe Collet;A. Michael Lincoff

  • In-Stent Neoatherosclerosis: A Final Common Pathway of Late Stent Failure

    Seung-Jung Park;Soo-Jin Kang;Renu Virmani;Masataka Nakano

  • Comparison of coronary plaque rupture between stable angina and acute myocardial infarction: a three-vessel intravascular ultrasound study in 235 patients.

    Myeong Ki Hong;Gary S. Mintz;Cheol Whan Lee;Young Hak Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

Young-Hak Kim
Young-Hak Kim Asan Medical Center
Duk-Woo Park
Duk-Woo Park University of Ulsan
Cheol Whan Lee
Cheol Whan Lee Asan Medical Center
Seung-Whan Lee
Seung-Whan Lee Asan Medical Center
Seong Wook Park
Seong Wook Park University of Ulsan
Jong-Young Lee
Jong-Young Lee Sungkyunkwan University
Yangsoo Jang
Yangsoo Jang Yonsei University
Gary S. Mintz
Gary S. Mintz Columbia University Medical Center
Jong-Young Lee
Jong-Young Lee Ministry of Health and Welfare
Hyo-Soo Kim
Hyo-Soo Kim Seoul National University Hospital

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