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The Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease (JCDD, ISSN: 2308-3425) is an international, scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal on cardiovascular medicine published monthly online by MDPI, where you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all of the published articles.

JCDD publishes research articles, review papers and communications on cardiovascular development as well as congenital and acquired heart disease. We are pleased to invite you to read the most highly cited papers in 2021 in JCDD. The paper list is as follows:

1. “Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 and Cardiovascular Autonomic Dysfunction: What Do We Know?”
by Giandomenico Bisaccia, Fabrizio Ricci, Vittoria Recce, Antonio Serio, Giovanni Iannetti, Anwar A. Chahal, Marcus Ståhlberg, Mohammed Yunus Khanji, Artur Fedorowski and Sabina Gallina
J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis. 2021, 8(11), 156; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd8110156
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2308-3425/8/11/156

2. “Physiological Age- and Sex-Related Profiles for Local (Aortic) and Regional (Carotid-Femoral, Carotid-Radial) Pulse Wave Velocity and Center-to-Periphery Stiffness Gradient, with and without Blood Pressure Adjustments: Reference Intervals and Agreement between Methods in Healthy Subjects (3–84 Years)”
by Daniel Bia and Yanina Zócalo
J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis. 2021, 8(1), 3; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd8010003
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2308-3425/8/1/3

3. “From Stripes to a Beating Heart: Early Cardiac Development in Zebrafish”
by Cassie L. Kemmler, Fréderike W. Riemslagh, Hannah R. Moran and Christian Mosimann
J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis. 2021, 8(2), 17; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd8020017
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2308-3425/8/2/17

4. “Extracellular Matrix-Based Biomaterials for Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering”
by Astha Khanna, Maedeh Zamani and Ngan F. Huang
J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis. 2021, 8(11), 137; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd8110137
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2308-3425/8/11/137

5. “Potential Role of eNOS Genetic Variants in Ischemic Heart Disease Susceptibility and Clinical Presentation”
by Paolo Severino, Andrea D’Amato, Silvia Prosperi, Michele Magnocavallo, Marco Valerio Mariani, Lucrezia Netti, Lucia Ilaria Birtolo, Paolo De Orchi, Cristina Chimenti, Viviana Maestrini et al.
J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis. 2021, 8(9), 116; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd8090116
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2308-3425/8/9/116

6. “Computational Modeling of Blood Flow Hemodynamics for Biomechanical Investigation of Cardiac Development and Disease”
by Huseyin Enes Salman and Huseyin Cagatay Yalcin
J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis. 2021, 8(2), 14; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd8020014
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2308-3425/8/2/14

7. “Characterization of Degenerative Mitral Valve Disease: Differences between Fibroelastic Deficiency and Barlow’s Disease”
by Aniek L. van Wijngaarden, Boudewijn P. T. Kruithof, Tommaso Vinella, Daniela Q. C. M. Barge-Schaapveld and Nina Ajmone Marsan
J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis. 2021, 8(2), 23; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd8020023
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2308-3425/8/2/23

8. “Outflow Tract Formation—Embryonic Origins of Conotruncal Congenital Heart Disease”
by Sonia Stefanovic, Heather C. Etchevers and Stéphane Zaffran
J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis. 2021, 8(4), 42; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd8040042
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2308-3425/8/4/42

9. “Peptidic Connexin43 Therapeutics in Cardiac Reparative Medicine”
by Spencer R. Marsh, Zachary J. Williams, Kevin J. Pridham and Robert G. Gourdie
J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis. 2021, 8(5), 52; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd8050052
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2308-3425/8/5/52

10. “The Use of β-Blockers in Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction”
by Daniele Masarone, Maria Luigia Martucci, Vittoria Errigo and Giuseppe Pacileo
J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis. 2021, 8(9), 101; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd8090101
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2308-3425/8/9/101

11. “Atrial and Sinoatrial Node Development in the Zebrafish Heart”
by Kendall E. Martin and Joshua S. Waxman
J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis. 2021, 8(2), 15; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd8020015
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2308-3425/8/2/15

12. “Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Functional Hierarchy of Pacemaker Clusters in the Sinoatrial Node: New Insights into Sick Sinus Syndrome”
by Di Lang and Alexey V. Glukhov
J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis. 2021, 8(4), 43; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd8040043
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2308-3425/8/4/43

13. “Lipoprotein(a), Immunity, and Inflammation in Polyvascular Atherosclerotic Disease”
by Narek A. Tmoyan, Olga I. Afanasieva, Marat V. Ezhov, Elena A. Klesareva, Tatiana V. Balakhonova and Sergei N. Pokrovsky
J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis. 2021, 8(2), 11; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd8020011
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2308-3425/8/2/11

14. “Disagreement between Cardiac Troponin Tests Yielding a Higher Incidence of Myocardial Injury in the Emergency Setting”
by Peter A. Kavsak, Shawn E. Mondoux, Janet Martin, Mark K. Hewitt, Lorna Clark, Nadia Caruso, Ching-Tong Mark, V. Tony Chetty, Craig Ainsworth and Andrew Worster
J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis. 2021, 8(3), 31; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd8030031
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2308-3425/8/3/31

15. “The Zebrafish Cardiac Endothelial Cell—Roles in Development and Regeneration”
by Vanessa Lowe, Laura Wisniewski and Caroline Pellet-Many
J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis. 2021, 8(5), 49; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd8050049
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2308-3425/8/5/49

16. “Unlocking the Secrets of the Regenerating Fish Heart: Comparing Regenerative Models to Shed Light on Successful Regeneration”
by Helen G. Potts, William T. Stockdale and Mathilda T. M. Mommersteeg
J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis. 2021, 8(1), 4; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd8010004
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2308-3425/8/1/4

17. “Acute and Chronic Effects of COVID-19 on the Cardiovascular System”
by Victor Arévalos, Luis Ortega-Paz, Juan José Rodríguez-Arias, Margarita Calvo López, Leticia Castrillo-Golvano, Anthony Salazar-Rodríguez, Marta Sabaté-Tormos, Francesco Spione, Manel Sabaté and Salvatore Brugaletta
J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis. 2021, 8(10), 128; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd8100128
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2308-3425/8/10/128

18. “Myocardium-Specific Deletion of Rac1 Causes Ventricular Noncompaction and Outflow Tract Defects”
by Carmen Leung, Anish Engineer, Mella Y. Kim, Xiangru Lu and Qingping Feng
J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis. 2021, 8(3), 29; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd8030029
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2308-3425/8/3/29

19. “Diagnostic Performance of Serial High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin Measurements in the Emergency Setting”
by Peter A. Kavsak, Mark K. Hewitt, Shawn E. Mondoux, Joshua O. Cerasuolo, Jinhui Ma, Natasha Clayton, Matthew McQueen, Lauren E. Griffith, Richard Perez, Hsien Seow et al.
J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis. 2021, 8(8), 97; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd8080097
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2308-3425/8/8/97

20. “Myxomatous Mitral Valve Disease with Mitral Valve Prolapse and Mitral Annular Disjunction: Clinical and Functional Significance of the Coincidence”
by Nina C. Wunderlich, Siew Yen Ho, Nir Flint and Robert J. Siegel
J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis. 2021, 8(2), 9; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd8020009
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2308-3425/8/2/9