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2026

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D-Index
120
Citations
68481
World Ranking
3688
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Thomas Walther is affiliated with University College Cork in Ireland and specializes in medical research with a focus on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their extensive publication record includes 389 contributions in the field of medicine, prominently in cardiology and cardiovascular medicine with 183 publications.

Their research spans several subfields including:

  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Epidemiology
  • Surgery
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

Walther's main topics of work cover a range of cardiac conditions and treatments, highlighting diverse aspects of cardiovascular health and disease management:

  • Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
  • Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management
  • Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches
  • Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
  • Cardiac and Coronary Surgery Techniques

Their frequent publication venues reflect a focus on thoracic, cardiovascular, and cardiac surgery research:

  • The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon
  • European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
  • The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
  • European Heart Journal
  • Clinical Research in Cardiology

Among the most recent published papers associated with Thomas Walther are:

  • Cell type-specific expression of the putative SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 in human hearts (2020) in European Heart Journal
  • Transcatheter or Surgical Treatment of Aortic-Valve Stenosis (2024) in New England Journal of Medicine
  • Prehabilitation in patients awaiting elective coronary artery bypass graft surgery - effects on functional capacity and quality of life: a randomized controlled trial (2020) in Clinical Rehabilitation
  • Five-year outcome in 18,010 patients from the German Aortic Valve Registry (2021) in European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
  • 2025 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease (2025) in European Heart Journal

Walther frequently collaborates with several researchers in the field, including:

  • Tomáš Holubec
  • Helge Möllmann
  • Sabine Bleiziffer
  • Christian Frerker
  • Stephan Ensminger

Best Publications

  • [2017 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease].

    Helmut Baumgartner;Volkmar Falk;Jeroen J. Bax;Michele De Bonis

  • Angiotensin-(1-7) is an endogenous ligand for the G protein-coupled receptor Mas.

    Robson A. S. Santos;Ana C. Simoes e Silva;Christine Maric;Denise M. R. Silva

  • Transcatheter valve implantation for patients with aortic stenosis: a position statement from the European association of cardio-thoracic surgery (EACTS) and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), in collaboration with the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI).

    Alec Vahanian;Ottavio Alfieri;Nawwar Al-Attar;Manuel Antunes

  • Percutaneous aortic valve replacement for severe aortic stenosis in high-risk patients using the second- and current third-generation self-expanding CoreValve prosthesis: device success and 30-day clinical outcome.

    Eberhard Grube;Gerhard Schuler;Lutz Buellesfeld;Ulrich Gerckens

  • Thirty-Day Results of the SAPIEN Aortic Bioprosthesis European Outcome (SOURCE) Registry A European Registry of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Using the Edwards SAPIEN Valve

    Martyn Thomas;Gerhard Schymik;Thomas Walther;Dominique Himbert

  • Transcatheter aortic valve implantation in failed bioprosthetic surgical valves.

    Danny Dvir;John G. Webb;Sabine Bleiziffer;Miralem Pasic

  • Stroke after cardiac surgery: a risk factor analysis of 16,184 consecutive adult patients.

    Jan Bucerius;Jan F Gummert;Michael A Borger;Thomas Walther

  • One-year outcomes of cohort 1 in the Edwards SAPIEN Aortic Bioprosthesis European Outcome (SOURCE) registry: the European registry of transcatheter aortic valve implantation using the Edwards SAPIEN valve.

    Martyn Thomas;Gerhard Schymik;Thomas Walther;Dominique Himbert

  • Early and late outcomes of 517 consecutive adult patients treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for refractory postcardiotomy cardiogenic shock

    Ardawan Julian Rastan;Andreas Dege;Matthias Mohr;Nicolas Doll

  • Transapical Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Implantation Multicenter Experience

    Thomas Walther;Paul Simon;Todd Dewey;Gerhard Wimmer-Greinecker

  • Clinical presentation, aetiology and outcome of infective endocarditis. Results of the ESC-EORP EURO-ENDO (European infective endocarditis) registry: a prospective cohort study

    G Habib;P A Erba;P A Erba;B Iung;E Donal

  • Minimally Invasive Port-Access Mitral Valve Surgery

    F.W. Mohr;V. Falk;A. Diegeler;T. Walther

  • Randomized Comparison of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With Sirolimus-Eluting Stents Versus Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Unprotected Left Main Stem Stenosis

    Enno Boudriot;Holger Thiele;Thomas Walther;Christoph Liebetrau

  • G-protein-coupled receptor Mas is a physiological antagonist of the angiotensin II type 1 receptor

    Evi Kostenis;Graeme Milligan;Arthur Christopoulos;Carlos F. Sanchez-Ferrer

  • Computer-enhanced "robotic" cardiac surgery: experience in 148 patients

    Friedrich W. Mohr;Volkmar Falk;Anno Diegeler;Thomas Walther

  • Hypoalgesia and altered inflammatory responses in mice lacking kinin B1 receptors

    João B. Pesquero;Ronaldo C. Araujo;Paul A. Heppenstall;Cheryl L. Stucky

  • Predictors of delirium after cardiac surgery delirium: effect of beating-heart (off-pump) surgery.

    Jan Bucerius;Jan F Gummert;Michael A Borger;Thomas Walther

  • Guidelines on the Management of Valvular Heart disease (Version 2012)

    Alec Vahanian;Ottavio Alfieri;Felicita Andreotti;Manuel J. Antunes

  • Transcatheter Valve Implantation for Patients with Aortic Stenosis

    Grégory Ducrocq;Dominique Himbert;Eric Brochet;Alec Vahanian

  • TCT-100 Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement for Degenerative Bioprosthetic Surgical Valves: Results from the Global Valve-in-Valve Registry

    Danny Dvir;John Webb;Miralem Pasic;Sabine Bleiziffer

Frequent Co-Authors

Friedrich W. Mohr
Friedrich W. Mohr Leipzig University
Heinz-Peter Schultheiss
Heinz-Peter Schultheiss Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Volkmar Falk
Volkmar Falk Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Christian W. Hamm
Christian W. Hamm University of Giessen
Michael Bader
Michael Bader Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Axel Linke
Axel Linke TU Dresden
Gerhard Schuler
Gerhard Schuler Leipzig University
Michael A. Borger
Michael A. Borger Leipzig University
Andreas Voss
Andreas Voss Heidelberg University
Christian Hengstenberg
Christian Hengstenberg Medical University of Vienna

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