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  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Germany Leader Award
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Overview

Stephan Achenbach is affiliated with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Their research output strongly focuses on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, with extensive work in related subfields including radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, surgery, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and biomedical engineering.

The main topics of Stephan Achenbach's work include:

  • Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
  • Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics
  • Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
  • Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging
  • Acute Myocardial Infarction Research
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity

Stephan Achenbach has published frequently in several notable scientific journals, with the highest number of publications appearing in the following venues:

  • European Heart Journal
  • Journal of cardiovascular computed tomography
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Clinical Research in Cardiology
  • European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging

Recent papers authored by Stephan Achenbach cover several key cardiovascular topics and have appeared in high-impact journals. These include:

  • 2021 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease, 2021, European Heart Journal
  • SCORE2 risk prediction algorithms: new models to estimate 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in Europe, 2021, European Heart Journal
  • European Society of Cardiology: cardiovascular disease statistics 2021, 2021, European Heart Journal
  • Epidemiology of cardiovascular disease in Europe, 2021, Nature Reviews Cardiology
  • 2021 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease, 2021, European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

Collaborations form a significant part of Stephan Achenbach's research activities. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Mohamed Marwan
  • Damini Dey
  • Daniel S. Berman
  • Markus Goeller
  • Daniel O. Bittner

Best Publications

  • 2013 ESH/ESC Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension: The Task Force for the management of arterial hypertension of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

    Giuseppe Mancia;Robert Fagard;Krzysztof Narkiewicz;Josep Redon

  • 2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure: The Task Force for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Developed with the special contribution of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC.

    Piotr Ponikowski;Adriaan A. Voors;Stefan D. Anker;Héctor Bueno

  • 2019 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of chronic coronary syndromes.

    Juhani Knuuti;William Wijns;Antti Saraste;Davide Capodanno

  • 2013 ESC guidelines on the management of stable coronary artery disease: the Task Force on the management of stable coronary artery disease of the European Society of Cardiology.

    Gilles Montalescot;Udo Sechtem;Stephan Achenbach;Felicita Andreotti

  • 2013 ESC Guidelines on cardiac pacing and cardiac resynchronization therapy : The Task Force on cardiac pacing and resynchronization therapy of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Developed in collaboration with the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)

    Michele Brignole;Angelo Auricchio;Gonzalo Baron-Esquivias;Pierre Bordachar

  • ESC Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation: The Task Force for the management of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment eleva...

    C. W. Hamm;J.-P. Bassand;S. Agewall;J. Bax

  • 2014 ESC/EACTS Guidelines on myocardial revascularization: The Task Force on Myocardial Revascularization of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)Developed with the special contribution of the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI).

    Stephan Windecker;Philippe Kolh;Fernando Alfonso;Jean-Philippe Collet

  • 2016 ESC Position Paper on cancer treatments and cardiovascular toxicity developed under the auspices of the ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines The Task Force for cancer treatments and cardiovascular toxicity of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

    Jose Luis Zamorano;Patrizio Lancellotti;Daniel Rodriguez Munoz;Victor Aboyans

  • Assessment of coronary artery disease by cardiac computed tomography : A scientific statement from the american heart association committee on cardiovascular imaging and intervention, council on cardiovascular radiology and intervention, and committee on cardiac imaging, council on clinical cardiology

    Matthew J. Budoff;Stephan Achenbach;Roger S. Blumenthal;J. Jeffrey Carr

  • 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

  • Detection of Coronary Artery Stenoses With Thin-Slice Multi-Detector Row Spiral Computed Tomography and Multiplanar Reconstruction

    Dieter Ropers;Ulrich Baum;Karsten Pohle;Katharina Anders

  • Detection of Calcified and Noncalcified Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaque by Contrast-Enhanced, Submillimeter Multidetector Spiral Computed Tomography A Segment-Based Comparison With Intravascular Ultrasound

    Stephan Achenbach;Fabian Moselewski;Dieter Ropers;Maros Ferencik

  • Estimated Radiation Dose Associated With Cardiac CT Angiography

    Jörg Hausleiter;Tanja Meyer;Franziska Hermann;Martin Hadamitzky

  • Detection of Coronary Artery Stenoses by Contrast-Enhanced, Retrospectively Electrocardiographically-Gated, Multislice Spiral Computed Tomography

    Stephan Achenbach;Tom Giesler;Dieter Ropers;Stefan Ulzheimer

  • European Society of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Disease Statistics 2019

    Adam Timmis;Nick Townsend;Chris P Gale;Aleksandra Torbica

  • SCCT guidelines for the interpretation and reporting of coronary CT angiography: a report of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography Guidelines Committee.

    Jonathon Leipsic;Suhny Abbara;Stephan Achenbach;Ricardo Cury

  • Age- and sex-related differences in all-cause mortality risk based on coronary computed tomography angiography findings results from the International Multicenter CONFIRM (Coronary CT Angiography Evaluation for Clinical Outcomes: An International Multicenter Registry) of 23,854 patients without known coronary artery disease.

    James K. Min;Allison Dunning;Fay Y. Lin;Stephan Achenbach

  • SCORE2 risk prediction algorithms: new models to estimate 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in Europe

    Steven Hageman;Lisa Pennells

  • Non-invasive detection of coronary inflammation using computed tomography and prediction of residual cardiovascular risk (the CRISP CT study): a post-hoc analysis of prospective outcome data

    Evangelos K Oikonomou;Mohamed Marwan;Milind Y Desai;Jennifer Mancio

  • SCCT guidelines for the interpretation and reporting of coronary computed tomographic angiography.

    Gilbert L. Raff;Aiden Abidov;Stephan Achenbach

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel S. Berman
Daniel S. Berman Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Werner G. Daniel
Werner G. Daniel University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
James K. Min
James K. Min NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital
Matthew J. Budoff
Matthew J. Budoff UCLA Medical Center
Philipp A. Kaufmann
Philipp A. Kaufmann University of Zurich
Mouaz H. Al-Mallah
Mouaz H. Al-Mallah Houston Methodist
Filippo Cademartiri
Filippo Cademartiri Fondazione Monasterio
Leslee J. Shaw
Leslee J. Shaw Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Jonathon Leipsic
Jonathon Leipsic University of British Columbia
Gianluca Pontone
Gianluca Pontone University of Milan

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