List of works - Dirk Westermann

Activity of superoxide dismutase copper/zinc type and prognosis in a cohort of patients with coronary artery disease

scientific article published on June 2015

Acute stimulation of the soluble guanylate cyclase does not impact on left ventricular capacitance in normal and hypertrophied porcine hearts in vivo.

scientific article published on 4 May 2018

Adherence to Mediterranean diet, high-sensitive C-reactive protein, and severity of coronary artery disease: Contemporary data from the INTERCATH cohort

scientific article published on 22 June 2018

Adverse Outcome Prediction of Iron Deficiency in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome

scientific article published on 20 July 2018

Angiotensin AT2 receptor deficiency after myocardial infarction: its effects on cardiac function and fibrosis depend on the stimulus

scientific article published on January 2005

Angiotensin deficiency in mice leads to dilated cardiomyopathy

scientific article published in June 2004

Application of High-Sensitivity Troponin in Suspected Myocardial Infarction

scientific article published on 1 June 2019

Association of High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I Concentration With Cardiac Outcomes in Patients With Suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome

scientific article published on 11 November 2017

Association of high-sensitivity troponin T and I with the severity of stable coronary artery disease in patients with chronic kidney disease

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

Biomarkers for characterization of heart failure - Distinction of heart failure with preserved and reduced ejection fraction

scientific article published on 9 November 2016

Blunted frequency-dependent upregulation of cardiac output is related to impaired relaxation in diastolic heart failure

scientific article published on December 2009

Candidate biomarkers in heart failure with reduced and preserved ejection fraction

scientific article published on June 2015

Cardiac SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with pro-inflammatory transcriptomic alterations within the heart

scientific article published on 01 January 2022

Cardiac inflammation contributes to changes in the extracellular matrix in patients with heart failure and normal ejection fraction

scientific article published on 12 November 2010

Cardioprotective and anti-inflammatory effects of interleukin converting enzyme inhibition in experimental diabetic cardiomyopathy

scientific article published in May 2007

Cardiovascular Biomarkers in Hypertensive Patients with Medical Treatment-Results from the Randomized TEAMSTA Protect I Trial.

scientific article

Cardiovascular Mortality in Chest Pain Patients: Comparison of Natriuretic Peptides With Novel Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Stress

scientific article published on 20 May 2016

Challenging aspects of treatment strategies in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: "Why did recent clinical trials fail?"

scientific article

Challenging the 99th percentile: A lower troponin cutoff leads to low mortality of chest pain patients

scientific article published on 27 December 2016

Circulating rather than cardiac angiotensin-(1-7) stimulates cardioprotection after myocardial infarction.

scientific article

Clinical application of the 4th Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction

scientific article published on 20 February 2020

Clinical chemistry score versus high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I and T tests alone to identify patients at low or high risk for myocardial infarction or death at presentation to the emergency department

scientific article published on 1 August 2018

Comparative Analysis of Circulating Noncoding RNAs Versus Protein Biomarkers in the Detection of Myocardial Injury

scientific article published on 04 June 2019

Coronary vasospasm-induced acute diastolic dysfunction in a patient with Raynaud's phenomenon

scientific article published on 18 May 2006

Current treatment of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: should we add life to the remaining years or add years to the remaining life?

scientific article published on 24 October 2013

Development of diastolic heart failure in a 6-year follow-up study in patients after acute myocarditis

scientific article

Diabetes association with self-reported health, resource utilization, and prognosis post-myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 04 November 2020

Diagnosis of Myocardial Infarction Using a High-Sensitivity Troponin I 1-Hour Algorithm

scientific article published on July 2016

Diagnostic Evaluation of a High-Sensitivity Troponin I Point-of-Care Assay

scientific article published on 07 November 2019

Diagnostic Value of Soluble Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator Receptor in Addition to High-Sensitivity Troponin I in Early Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction.

scientific article published on 18 March 2019

Diagnostic and prognostic value of circulating microRNAs in heart failure with preserved and reduced ejection fraction

scientific article

Diastolic tissue Doppler indexes correlate with the degree of collagen expression and cross-linking in heart failure and normal ejection fraction

scientific article published in February 2011

Differences in measurement of high-sensitivity troponin in an on-demand and batch-wise setting

scientific article published on 23 July 2020

Diltiazem treatment prevents diastolic heart failure in mice with familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

scientific article

Discrimination of patients with type 2 myocardial infarction

scientific article

Does inflammation trigger fibrosis in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a burning question? ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 July 2012

Early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction using high-sensitivity troponin I

scientific article

Evaluation of a new ultra-sensitivity troponin I assay in patients with suspected myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 05 December 2018

First-line treatment of hypertension: critical appraisal of potential role of aliskiren and hydrochlorothiazide in a fixed combination

scientific article

Fractalkine in human inflammatory cardiomyopathy ⬇️

scientific article published on February 25, 2011

Gene deletion of the kinin receptor B1 attenuates cardiac inflammation and fibrosis during the development of experimental diabetic cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 10 March 2009

Heart non-specific effector CD4+ T cells protect from postinflammatory fibrosis and cardiac dysfunction in experimental autoimmune myocarditis

scientific article published on 20 December 2019

Hemodynamic characterization of left ventricular function in experimental coxsackieviral myocarditis: effects of carvedilol and metoprolol

scientific article

High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I Levels and Prediction of Heart Failure: Results From the BiomarCaRE Consortium

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

High-sensitivity cardiac troponin I in women with a history of early-onset preeclampsia

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

Human cardiac-derived adherent proliferating cells reduce murine acute Coxsackievirus B3-induced myocarditis

scientific article

Immediate Rule-Out of Acute Myocardial Infarction Using Electrocardiogram and Baseline High-Sensitivity Troponin I.

scientific article published on 30 November 2016

Immunomodulation and matrix metalloproteinases in viral myocarditis

scientific article published on September 2009

Interleukin-23 deficiency leads to impaired wound healing and adverse prognosis after myocardial infarction.

scientific article published on 3 December 2013

Intravascular Lithotripsy for the Treatment of Calcium-Mediated Coronary In-Stent Restenoses

scientific article published on 01 January 2021

Investigating a biomarker-driven approach to target collagen turnover in diabetic heart failure with preserved ejection fraction patients. Effect of torasemide vs. furosemide on serum C-terminal propeptide of procollagen type I (DROP-PIP trial).

scientific article published on 11 September 2017

Kinins in cardiac inflammation and regeneration: insights from ischemic and diabetic cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 24 December 2009

Left Ventricular Dysfunction Induced by Nonsevere Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Lipid Management After First Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease: Contemporary Results From an Observational Cohort Study

scientific article

Long-term cardiac-targeted RNA interference for the treatment of heart failure restores cardiac function and reduces pathological hypertrophy

scientific article published on 23 February 2009

Long-term outcome of patients with virus-negative chronic myocarditis or inflammatory cardiomyopathy after immunosuppressive therapy

scientific article published on 16 June 2016

Low-dose treatment with atorvastatin leads to anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory effects in diabetes mellitus

scientific journal article

Lower socioeconomic status predicts higher mortality and morbidity in patients with heart failure

scientific article published on 07 August 2020

Machine Learning to Predict the Likelihood of Acute Myocardial Infarction

scientific article published on 16 August 2019

Mesenchymal stromal cells but not cardiac fibroblasts exert beneficial systemic immunomodulatory effects in experimental myocarditis

scientific article

Midregional proadrenomedullin and growth differentiation factor-15 are not influenced by obesity in heart failure patients

scientific article published on 21 December 2016

Mitral stenosis and atrial fibrillation

scientific article published on 06 February 2020

Modifiable lifestyle risk factors and C-reactive protein in patients with coronary artery disease: Implications for an anti-inflammatory treatment target population

scientific article published on 10 November 2019

Myeloid differentiation factor-88 contributes to TLR9-mediated modulation of acute coxsackievirus B3-induced myocarditis in vivo

scientific article published on 12 March 2010

New oral anticoagulants: better than vitamin K antagonists?

scientific article published on December 1, 2010

New perspective on the tissue kallikrein-kinin system in myocardial infarction: role of angiogenesis and cardiac regeneration

scientific article published on 17 August 2007

Performance of the ESC 0/1-h and 0/3-h Algorithm for the Rapid Identification of Myocardial Infarction Without ST-Elevation in Patients With Diabetes

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Precursor proadrenomedullin influences cardiomyocyte survival and local inflammation related to myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 30 August 2018

Predicting risk of cardiovascular events 1 to 3 years post-myocardial infarction using a global registry

scientific article published on 12 November 2019

Predictive Value of Serial ECGs in Patients with Suspected Myocardial Infarction

scientific article published on 20 July 2020

Predictive value of long-term changes of growth differentiation factor-15 over a 27-year-period for heart failure and death due to coronary heart disease.

scientific article published on 17 May 2018

Predictive value of soluble urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor for mortality in patients with suspected myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 16 April 2019

Predictors of leptin concentration and association with cardiovascular risk in patients with coronary artery disease: results from the AtheroGene study

scientific article published on 15 January 2016

Presence of perforin in endomyocardial biopsies of patients with inflammatory cardiomyopathy predicts poor outcome

scientific article published on 28 August 2014

Prevention of cardiac fibrosis and left ventricular dysfunction in diabetic cardiomyopathy in rats by transgenic expression of the human tissue kallikrein gene

scientific article published on May 2004

Prognostic Value of a Novel and Established High-Sensitivity Troponin I Assay in Patients Presenting with Suspected Myocardial Infarction

scientific article published on 09 September 2019

Prognostic use of soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1 and placental growth factor in patients with coronary artery disease

scientific article published on 7 December 2015

Prospective Validation of the 0/1-h Algorithm for Early Diagnosis of Myocardial Infarction

scientific article published in August 2018

Rationale and design of the long-Term rIsk, clinical manaGement, and healthcare Resource utilization of stable coronary artery dISease in post-myocardial infarction patients (TIGRIS) study.

scientific article

Real-time optical coherence tomography coregistration with angiography in percutaneous coronary intervention-impact on physician decision-making: The OPTICO-integration study

scientific article published on 20 September 2017

Reduced degradation of the chemokine MCP-3 by matrix metalloproteinase-2 exacerbates myocardial inflammation in experimental viral cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 10 October 2011

Regulation of cardiac bradykinin B1- and B2-receptor mRNA in experimental ischemic, diabetic, and pressure-overload-induced cardiomyopathy

scientific article

Relations of Sex to Diagnosis and Outcomes in Acute Coronary Syndrome.

scientific article published on 10 March 2018

Relative Telomere Length and Cardiovascular Risk Factors.

scientific article published on 17 May 2019

Renin inhibition improves cardiac function and remodeling after myocardial infarction independent of blood pressure

scientific article

Renin inhibitors, clinical experience

scientific article published on 25 April 2008

Risk Factors of Coronary Artery Disease in Secondary Prevention--Results from the AtheroGene--Study

scientific article published on 8 July 2015

Risk factors for heart failure are associated with alterations of the LV end-diastolic pressure-volume relationship in non-heart failure individuals: data from a large-scale, population-based cohort

scientific article

Role of left ventricular stiffness in heart failure with normal ejection fraction

scientific article

SYNTAX score-0 patients: risk stratification in nonobstructive coronary artery disease

scientific article published on 30 June 2016

Simultaneous estimation of NT-proBNP on top to mitral flow Doppler echocardiography as an accurate strategy to diagnose diastolic dysfunction in HFNEF.

scientific article published on 6 January 2010

The utility of pregnancy-associated plasma protein A for determination of prognosis in a cohort of patients with coronary artery disease

scientific article published on 30 July 2015

Toll-like receptor-4 deficiency attenuates doxorubicin-induced cardiomyopathy in mice

scientific article published on 5 March 2008

Toll-like receptor-4 modulates survival by induction of left ventricular remodeling after myocardial infarction in mice.

scientific article

Utility of Doppler Echocardiography and Tissue Doppler Imaging in the Estimation of Diastolic Function in Heart Failure With Normal Ejection Fraction

article by Mario Kasner et al published 7 August 2007 in Circulation

miRNA-197 and miRNA-223 Predict Cardiovascular Death in a Cohort of Patients with Symptomatic Coronary Artery Disease

scientific article published on 31 December 2015

List of works by Dirk Westermann

Activity of superoxide dismutase copper/zinc type and prognosis in a cohort of patients with coronary artery disease

Acute stimulation of the soluble guanylate cyclase does not impact on left ventricular capacitance in normal and hypertrophied porcine hearts in vivo.

Adherence to Mediterranean diet, high-sensitive C-reactive protein, and severity of coronary artery disease: Contemporary data from the INTERCATH cohort

Adverse Outcome Prediction of Iron Deficiency in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome

Angiotensin AT2 receptor deficiency after myocardial infarction: its effects on cardiac function and fibrosis depend on the stimulus

Angiotensin deficiency in mice leads to dilated cardiomyopathy

Application of High-Sensitivity Troponin in Suspected Myocardial Infarction

Association of High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I Concentration With Cardiac Outcomes in Patients With Suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome

Association of high-sensitivity troponin T and I with the severity of stable coronary artery disease in patients with chronic kidney disease

Biomarkers for characterization of heart failure - Distinction of heart failure with preserved and reduced ejection fraction

Blunted frequency-dependent upregulation of cardiac output is related to impaired relaxation in diastolic heart failure

Candidate biomarkers in heart failure with reduced and preserved ejection fraction

Cardiac SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with pro-inflammatory transcriptomic alterations within the heart

Cardiac inflammation contributes to changes in the extracellular matrix in patients with heart failure and normal ejection fraction

Cardioprotective and anti-inflammatory effects of interleukin converting enzyme inhibition in experimental diabetic cardiomyopathy

Cardiovascular Biomarkers in Hypertensive Patients with Medical Treatment-Results from the Randomized TEAMSTA Protect I Trial.

Cardiovascular Mortality in Chest Pain Patients: Comparison of Natriuretic Peptides With Novel Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Stress

Challenging aspects of treatment strategies in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: "Why did recent clinical trials fail?"

Challenging the 99th percentile: A lower troponin cutoff leads to low mortality of chest pain patients

Circulating rather than cardiac angiotensin-(1-7) stimulates cardioprotection after myocardial infarction.

Clinical application of the 4th Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction

Clinical chemistry score versus high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I and T tests alone to identify patients at low or high risk for myocardial infarction or death at presentation to the emergency department

Comparative Analysis of Circulating Noncoding RNAs Versus Protein Biomarkers in the Detection of Myocardial Injury

Coronary vasospasm-induced acute diastolic dysfunction in a patient with Raynaud's phenomenon

Current treatment of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: should we add life to the remaining years or add years to the remaining life?

Development of diastolic heart failure in a 6-year follow-up study in patients after acute myocarditis

Diabetes association with self-reported health, resource utilization, and prognosis post-myocardial infarction

Diagnosis of Myocardial Infarction Using a High-Sensitivity Troponin I 1-Hour Algorithm

Diagnostic Evaluation of a High-Sensitivity Troponin I Point-of-Care Assay

Diagnostic Value of Soluble Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator Receptor in Addition to High-Sensitivity Troponin I in Early Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction.

Diagnostic and prognostic value of circulating microRNAs in heart failure with preserved and reduced ejection fraction

Diastolic tissue Doppler indexes correlate with the degree of collagen expression and cross-linking in heart failure and normal ejection fraction

Differences in measurement of high-sensitivity troponin in an on-demand and batch-wise setting

Diltiazem treatment prevents diastolic heart failure in mice with familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Discrimination of patients with type 2 myocardial infarction

Does inflammation trigger fibrosis in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a burning question? ⬇️

Early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction using high-sensitivity troponin I

Evaluation of a new ultra-sensitivity troponin I assay in patients with suspected myocardial infarction

First-line treatment of hypertension: critical appraisal of potential role of aliskiren and hydrochlorothiazide in a fixed combination

Fractalkine in human inflammatory cardiomyopathy ⬇️

Gene deletion of the kinin receptor B1 attenuates cardiac inflammation and fibrosis during the development of experimental diabetic cardiomyopathy

Heart non-specific effector CD4+ T cells protect from postinflammatory fibrosis and cardiac dysfunction in experimental autoimmune myocarditis

Hemodynamic characterization of left ventricular function in experimental coxsackieviral myocarditis: effects of carvedilol and metoprolol

High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I Levels and Prediction of Heart Failure: Results From the BiomarCaRE Consortium

High-sensitivity cardiac troponin I in women with a history of early-onset preeclampsia

Human cardiac-derived adherent proliferating cells reduce murine acute Coxsackievirus B3-induced myocarditis

Immediate Rule-Out of Acute Myocardial Infarction Using Electrocardiogram and Baseline High-Sensitivity Troponin I.

Immunomodulation and matrix metalloproteinases in viral myocarditis

Interleukin-23 deficiency leads to impaired wound healing and adverse prognosis after myocardial infarction.

Intravascular Lithotripsy for the Treatment of Calcium-Mediated Coronary In-Stent Restenoses

Investigating a biomarker-driven approach to target collagen turnover in diabetic heart failure with preserved ejection fraction patients. Effect of torasemide vs. furosemide on serum C-terminal propeptide of procollagen type I (DROP-PIP trial).

Kinins in cardiac inflammation and regeneration: insights from ischemic and diabetic cardiomyopathy

Left Ventricular Dysfunction Induced by Nonsevere Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Lipid Management After First Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease: Contemporary Results From an Observational Cohort Study

Long-term cardiac-targeted RNA interference for the treatment of heart failure restores cardiac function and reduces pathological hypertrophy

Long-term outcome of patients with virus-negative chronic myocarditis or inflammatory cardiomyopathy after immunosuppressive therapy

Low-dose treatment with atorvastatin leads to anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory effects in diabetes mellitus

Lower socioeconomic status predicts higher mortality and morbidity in patients with heart failure

Machine Learning to Predict the Likelihood of Acute Myocardial Infarction

Mesenchymal stromal cells but not cardiac fibroblasts exert beneficial systemic immunomodulatory effects in experimental myocarditis

Midregional proadrenomedullin and growth differentiation factor-15 are not influenced by obesity in heart failure patients

Mitral stenosis and atrial fibrillation

Modifiable lifestyle risk factors and C-reactive protein in patients with coronary artery disease: Implications for an anti-inflammatory treatment target population

Myeloid differentiation factor-88 contributes to TLR9-mediated modulation of acute coxsackievirus B3-induced myocarditis in vivo

New oral anticoagulants: better than vitamin K antagonists?

New perspective on the tissue kallikrein-kinin system in myocardial infarction: role of angiogenesis and cardiac regeneration

Performance of the ESC 0/1-h and 0/3-h Algorithm for the Rapid Identification of Myocardial Infarction Without ST-Elevation in Patients With Diabetes

Precursor proadrenomedullin influences cardiomyocyte survival and local inflammation related to myocardial infarction

Predicting risk of cardiovascular events 1 to 3 years post-myocardial infarction using a global registry

Predictive Value of Serial ECGs in Patients with Suspected Myocardial Infarction

Predictive value of long-term changes of growth differentiation factor-15 over a 27-year-period for heart failure and death due to coronary heart disease.

Predictive value of soluble urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor for mortality in patients with suspected myocardial infarction

Predictors of leptin concentration and association with cardiovascular risk in patients with coronary artery disease: results from the AtheroGene study

Presence of perforin in endomyocardial biopsies of patients with inflammatory cardiomyopathy predicts poor outcome

Prevention of cardiac fibrosis and left ventricular dysfunction in diabetic cardiomyopathy in rats by transgenic expression of the human tissue kallikrein gene

Prognostic Value of a Novel and Established High-Sensitivity Troponin I Assay in Patients Presenting with Suspected Myocardial Infarction

Prognostic use of soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1 and placental growth factor in patients with coronary artery disease

Prospective Validation of the 0/1-h Algorithm for Early Diagnosis of Myocardial Infarction

Rationale and design of the long-Term rIsk, clinical manaGement, and healthcare Resource utilization of stable coronary artery dISease in post-myocardial infarction patients (TIGRIS) study.