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Cited 5 times since 2015 (0.5 per year)
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BMC surgery,
Volume 15, 6 1 2015, Pages 12
Wound Infections Following Implant removal below the knee: the effect of antibiotic prophylaxis; the WIFI-trial, a multi-centre randomized controlled trial.
Backes M, Dingemans SA, Schep NW, Bloemers FW, Van Dijkman B, Garssen FP, Haverlag R, Hoogendoorn JM, Joosse P, Mirck B, Postma V, Ritchie E, Roerdink WH, Sintenie JB, Soesman NM, Sosef NL, Twigt BA, Van Veen RN, Van der Veen AH, Van Velde R, Vos DI, De Vries MR, Winkelhagen J, Goslings JC, Schepers T
Background: In the Netherlands about 18,000 procedures with implant removal are performed annually following open or closed reduction and fixation of fractures, of which 30-80% concern the foot, ankle and lower leg region. For clean surgical procedures, the rate of postoperative wound infections (POWI) should be less than ~2%. However, rates of 10-12% following implant removal have been reported, specifically after foot, ankle and lower leg fractures. Currently, surgeons individually decide if a...
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Cited 206 times since 2015 (20.4 per year)
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Molecular psychiatry,
Volume 20, Issue 2, 3 1 2015, Pages 183-192
Genetic contributions to variation in general cognitive function: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in the CHARGE consortium (N=53949).
Davies G, Armstrong N, Bis JC, Bressler J, Chouraki V, Giddaluru S, Hofer E, Ibrahim-Verbaas CA, Kirin M, Lahti J, van der Lee SJ, Le Hellard S, Liu T, Marioni RE, Oldmeadow C, Postmus I, Smith AV, Smith JA, Thalamuthu A, Thomson R, Vitart V, Wang J, Yu L, Zgaga L, Zhao W, Boxall R, Harris SE, Hill WD, Liewald DC, Luciano M, Adams H, Ames D, Amin N, Amouyel P, Assareh AA, Au R, Becker JT, Beiser A, Berr C, Bertram L, Boerwinkle E, Buckley BM, Campbell H, Corley J, De Jager PL, Dufouil C, Eriksson JG, Espeseth T, Faul JD, Ford I, Generation Scotland, Gottesman RF, Griswold ME, Gudnason V, Harris TB, Heiss G, Hofman A, Holliday EG, Huffman J, Kardia SL, Kochan N, Knopman DS, Kwok JB, Lambert JC, Lee T, Li G, Li SC, Loitfelder M, Lopez OL, Lundervold AJ, Lundqvist A, Mather KA, Mirza SS, Nyberg L, Oostra BA, Palotie A, Papenberg G, Pattie A, Petrovic K, Polasek O, Psaty BM, Redmond P, Reppermund S, Rotter JI, Schmidt H, Schuur M, Schofield PW, Scott RJ, Steen VM, Stott DJ, van Swieten JC, Taylor KD, Trollor J, T
General cognitive function is substantially heritable across the human life course from adolescence to old age. We investigated the genetic contribution to variation in this important, health- and well-being-related trait in middle-aged and older adults. We conducted a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of 31 cohorts (N=53,949) in which the participants had undertaken multiple, diverse cognitive tests. A general cognitive function phenotype was tested for, and created in each cohor...
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Cited 6 times since 2015 (0.6 per year)
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PloS one,
Volume 10, Issue 2, 2 1 2015, Pages e0115119
Long-term impact of battle injuries; five-year follow-up of injured Dutch servicemen in Afghanistan 2006-2010.
Hoencamp R, Idenburg FJ, van Dongen TT, de Kruijff LG, Huizinga EP, Plat MC, Hoencamp E, Leenen LP, Hamming JF, Vermetten E
Objectives: Units deployed to armed conflicts are at high risk for exposure to combat events. Many battle casualties (BCs) have been reported in the recent deployment to Afghanistan. The long-term impact of these combat injuries, at their five-year end point, is currently unknown. To date, no systematic inventory has been performed of an identified group of BCs in comparison to non-injured service members from the same operational theatre. Design: Observational cross-sectional cohort study. Sett...
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Cited 7 times since 2015 (0.7 per year)
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European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery,
Volume 48, Issue 5, 1 1 2015, Pages 724-30; discussion 730-1
Surgical treatment of aberrant aortic origin of coronary arteries.
Kooij M, Vliegen HW, de Graaf MA, Hazekamp MG
Objectives: Aberrant origin of the coronary arteries is rare but can be life threatening. It is an important cause of sudden death in athletes and other young adults, and may be treated surgically. Consensus exists that interarterial left coronary artery (LCA) should be surgically repaired. For interarterial right coronary artery (RCA), the discussion remains open. The purpose of this study was to analyse our surgical experience. Methods: From 2001 until 2014, 31 patients were operated for inter...
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Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer,
Volume 10, Issue 2, 1 1 2015, Pages e9
Difference in outcome between types of KRAS mutation may point toward difference in tumor biology.
Mellema WW, Dingemans AM, Jonker M, Smit EF
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Cited 9 times since 2015 (0.9 per year)
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Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation,
Volume 23, Issue 2, 1 1 2015, Pages 102-108
Left ventricular assist device for end-stage heart failure: results of the first LVAD destination program in the Netherlands.
Haeck ML, Beeres SL, Höke U, Palmen M, Couperus LE, Delgado V, Logeman EA, Maas JJ, Klautz RJ, Schalij MJ, Verwey HF
Purpose: Mechanical circulatory support with a continuous-flow left ventricular assist device (LVAD) may be a valuable treatment in end-stage heart failure patients for an extended period of time. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of implantation of a continuous-flow LVAD in end-stage heart failure patients within the first destination program in the Netherlands. Methods: A third-generation LVAD was implanted in 16 heart failure patients (age 61 ± 8; 81 % male; le...
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Cited 2603 times since 2015 (257.9 per year)
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Nature,
Volume 518, Issue 7538, 1 1 2015, Pages 197-206
Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology.
Locke AE, Kahali B, Berndt SI, Justice AE, Pers TH, Day FR, Powell C, Vedantam S, Buchkovich ML, Yang J, Croteau-Chonka DC, Esko T, Fall T, Ferreira T, Gustafsson S, Kutalik Z, Luan J, Mägi R, Randall JC, Winkler TW, Wood AR, Workalemahu T, Faul JD, Smith JA, Zhao JH, Zhao W, Chen J, Fehrmann R, Hedman ÅK, Karjalainen J, Schmidt EM, Absher D, Amin N, Anderson D, Beekman M, Bolton JL, Bragg-Gresham JL, Buyske S, Demirkan A, Deng G, Ehret GB, Feenstra B, Feitosa MF, Fischer K, Goel A, Gong J, Jackson AU, Kanoni S, Kleber ME, Kristiansson K, Lim U, Lotay V, Mangino M, Leach IM, Medina-Gomez C, Medland SE, Nalls MA, Palmer CD, Pasko D, Pechlivanis S, Peters MJ, Prokopenko I, Shungin D, Stančáková A, Strawbridge RJ, Sung YJ, Tanaka T, Teumer A, Trompet S, van der Laan SW, van Setten J, Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk JV, Wang Z, Yengo L, Zhang W, Isaacs A, Albrecht E, Ärnlöv J, Arscott GM, Attwood AP, Bandinelli S, Barrett A, Bas IN, Bellis C, Bennett AJ, Berne C, Blagieva R, Blüher M, Böhringer S, Bonnycastle LL, Böttcher
Obesity is heritable and predisposes to many diseases. To understand the genetic basis of obesity better, here we conduct a genome-wide association study and Metabochip meta-analysis of body mass index (BMI), a measure commonly used to define obesity and assess adiposity, in up to 339,224 individuals. This analysis identifies 97 BMI-associated loci (P 20% of BMI variation. Pathway analyses provide strong support for a role of the central nervous system in obesity susceptibility and implicate new...
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Cited 13 times since 2015 (1.3 per year)
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Cardiovascular drugs and therapy,
Volume 29, Issue 1, 1 1 2015, Pages 59-73
Post-myocardial infarct inflammation and the potential role of cell therapy.
van Zuylen VL, den Haan MC, Geutskens SB, Roelofs H, Fibbe WE, Schalij MJ, Atsma DE
Myocardial infarction triggers reparative inflammatory processes programmed to repair damaged tissue. However, often additional injury to the myocardium occurs through the course of this inflammatory process, which ultimately can lead to heart failure. The potential beneficial effects of cell therapy in treating cardiac ischemic disease, the number one cause of death worldwide, are being studied extensively, both in clinical trials using adult stem cells as well as in fundamental research on car...
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Cited 12 times since 2015 (1.2 per year)
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Critical care medicine,
Volume 43, Issue 2, 1 1 2015, Pages 373-381
Postoperative pro-adrenomedullin levels predict mortality in thoracic surgery patients: comparison with Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation IV Score*.
Schoe A, Schippers EF, Struck J, Ebmeyer S, Klautz RJ, de Jonge E, van Dissel JT
Objectives: Risk assessment in ICU patients using commonly used prognostic models may be influenced using different data definitions and by errors in data collection. We investigated whether a set of biomarkers (procalcitonin, MR-pro-adrenomedullin, CT-pro-endothelin-1, CT-pro-arginine vasopressin, and MR-pro-atrial natriuretic peptide), alone or as a panel, could be useful in postoperative risk assessment for hospital mortality in comparison with the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluati...
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Cited 3 times since 2015 (0.3 per year)
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Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy,
Volume 5, Issue 1, 1 1 2015, Pages 63-66
Myocardial CT perfusion for the prediction of obstructive coronary artery disease, valuable or not?
van Rosendael AR, de Graaf MA, Scholte AJ
Adenosine stress myocardial computed tomography perfusion (CTP) is a relatively new myocardial perfusion imaging technique. Together with coronary CT angiography (CTA) it provides anatomic and functional information of coronary artery disease (CAD). In previous studies, the combination of these techniques demonstrated to be valuable for identifying hemodynamically significant stenoses. George et al., performed a secondary analysis on the CORE320 study and compared the diagnostic performance of C...
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Cited 5 times since 2015 (0.5 per year)
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Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation,
Volume 23, Issue 2, 1 1 2015, Pages 130-132
Cardiac arrest during vigorous exercise: coronary plaque rupture or myocardial ischaemia?
van Rosendael AR, de Graaf MA, Scholte AJ
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Cited 19 times since 2015 (1.9 per year)
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Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography,
Volume 28, Issue 4, 27 4 2015, Pages 470-477
The relationship between time from myocardial infarction, left ventricular dyssynchrony, and the risk for ventricular arrhythmia: speckle-tracking echocardiographic analysis.
Leong DP, Hoogslag GE, Piers SR, Höke U, Thijssen J, Marsan NA, Schalij MJ, Zeppenfeld K, Bax JJ, Delgado V
Background: Differences in arrhythmogenic substrate may explain the variable efficacy of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) in primary sudden cardiac death prevention over time after myocardial infarction (MI). Speckle-tracking echocardiography allows the assessment left ventricular (LV) dyssynchrony, which may reflect the electromechanical heterogeneity of myocardial tissue. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the relationship among LV dyssynchrony, age of MI, and their ass...
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Cited 23 times since 2015 (2.3 per year)
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Journal of cardiovascular computed tomography,
Volume 9, Issue 2, 26 4 2015, Pages 129-138
Atherosclerosis burden of the aortic valve and aorta and risk of acute kidney injury after transcatheter aortic valve implantation.
van Rosendael PJ, Kamperidis V, van der Kley F, Katsanos S, Al Amri I, Regeer MV, Schalij MJ, de Weger A, Marsan NA, Bax JJ, Delgado V
Background: Atheroembolic renal disease, due to dislodgement of cholesterol crystals during maneuvering of a large catheter across the aorta and deployment of the transcatheter prosthesis within a calcified aortic valve, may be one of the pathophysiological mechanisms of acute kidney injury (AKI) complicating transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). Objective: To investigate the association between the atherosclerotic burden and plaque characteristics of the aortic valve and thoracic aort...
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Cited 205 times since 2015 (20.3 per year)
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European heart journal,
Volume 36, Issue 14, 23 4 2015, Pages 847-855
Impact of genotype on clinical course in arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy-associated mutation carriers.
Bhonsale A, Groeneweg JA, James CA, Dooijes D, Tichnell C, Jongbloed JD, Murray B, te Riele AS, van den Berg MP, Bikker H, Atsma DE, de Groot NM, Houweling AC, van der Heijden JF, Russell SD, Doevendans PA, van Veen TA, Tandri H, Wilde AA, Judge DP, van Tintelen JP, Calkins H, Hauer RN
Aims: We sought to determine the influence of genotype on clinical course and arrhythmic outcome among arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy (ARVD/C)-associated mutation carriers. Methods and results: Pathogenic mutations in desmosomal and non-desmosomal genes were identified in 577 patients (241 families) from USA and Dutch ARVD/C cohorts. Patients with sudden cardiac death (SCD)/ventricular fibrillation (VF) at presentation (n = 36) were younger (median 23 vs. 36 years; P &...
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Cited 8 times since 2015 (0.8 per year)
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Cell transplantation,
Volume 24, Issue 12, 23 4 2015, Pages 2463-2478
Human Placenta-Derived Multipotent Cells (hPDMCs) Modulate Cardiac Injury: From Bench to Small and Large Animal Myocardial Ischemia Studies.
Liu YH, Peng KY, Chiu YW, Ho YL, Wang YH, Shun CT, Huang SY, Lin YS, de Vries AA, Pijnappels DA, Lee NT, Yen BL, Yen ML
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death globally, and stem cell therapy remains one of the most promising strategies for regeneration or repair of the damaged heart. We report that human placenta-derived multipotent cells (hPDMCs) can modulate cardiac injury in small and large animal models of myocardial ischemia (MI) and elucidate the mechanisms involved. We found that hPDMCs can undergo in vitro cardiomyogenic differentiation when cocultured with mouse neonatal cardiomyocytes. Mor...
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Cited 91 times since 2015 (9 per year)
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Circulation. Cardiovascular genetics,
Volume 8, Issue 2, 22 4 2015, Pages 383-388
Beneficial Outcome of Losartan Therapy Depends on Type of FBN1 Mutation in Marfan Syndrome.
Franken R, den Hartog AW, Radonic T, Micha D, Maugeri A, van Dijk FS, Meijers-Heijboer HE, Timmermans J, Scholte AJ, van den Berg MP, Groenink M, Mulder BJ, Zwinderman AH, de Waard V, Pals G
Background: It has been shown that losartan reduces aortic dilatation in patients with Marfan syndrome. However, treatment response is highly variable. This study investigates losartan effectiveness in genetically classified subgroups. Methods and results: In this predefined substudy of COMPARE, Marfan patients were randomized to daily receive losartan 100 mg or no losartan. Aortic root dimensions were measured by MRI at baseline and after 3 years. FBN1 mutations were classified based on fibrill...
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Cited 7 times since 2015 (0.7 per year)
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Physics in medicine and biology,
Volume 60, Issue 4, 22 4 2015, Pages 1477-1496
Influence of vascular normalization on interstitial flow and delivery of liposomes in tumors.
Ozturk D, Yonucu S, Yilmaz D, Unlu MB
Elevated interstitial fluid pressure is one of the barriers of drug delivery in solid tumors. Recent studies have shown that normalization of tumor vasculature by anti-angiogenic factors may improve the delivery of conventional cytotoxic drugs, possibly by increasing blood flow, decreasing interstitial fluid pressure, and enhancing the convective transvascular transport of drug molecules. Delivery of large therapeutic agents such as nanoparticles and liposomes might also benefit from normalizati...
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Cited 22 times since 2015 (2.2 per year)
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Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery,
Volume 20, Issue 4, 22 4 2015, Pages 520-530
Mortality after cardiac surgery in patients with liver cirrhosis classified by the Child-Pugh score.
Jacob KA, Hjortnaes J, Kranenburg G, de Heer F, Kluin J
Liver cirrhosis is a known risk factor for postoperative mortality in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Clinical assessment of liver cirrhosis using the widely accepted Child-Pugh (CP) score is thus vital for evaluation of surgical options and perioperative care. However, detailed mortality rates as a consequence of liver cirrhosis are unclear. This review aimed to stratify the risk of short-term (
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Cited 52 times since 2015 (5.1 per year)
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Journal of virology,
Volume 89, Issue 7, 21 3 2015, Pages 3763-3775
Identification of amino acid substitutions supporting antigenic change of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses.
Koel BF, Mögling R, Chutinimitkul S, Fraaij PL, Burke DF, van der Vliet S, de Wit E, Bestebroer TM, Rimmelzwaan GF, Osterhaus AD, Smith DJ, Fouchier RA, de Graaf M
Unlabelled: The majority of currently circulating influenza A(H1N1) viruses are antigenically similar to the virus that caused the 2009 influenza pandemic. However, antigenic variants are expected to emerge as population immunity increases. Amino acid substitutions in the hemagglutinin protein can result in escape from neutralizing antibodies, affect viral fitness, and change receptor preference. In this study, we constructed mutants with substitutions in the hemagglutinin of A/Netherlands/602/0...
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Cited 16 times since 2015 (1.6 per year)
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European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery,
Volume 48, Issue 6, 18 3 2015, Pages 833-40; discussion 840-1
Comprehensive rhythm evaluation in a large contemporary Fontan population.
Bossers SS, Duppen N, Kapusta L, Maan AC, Duim AR, Bogers AJ, Hazekamp MG, van Iperen G, Helbing WA, Blom NA
Objectives: Rhythm disturbances are an important cause of morbidity in Fontan patients. Currently, the total cavopulmonary connection is performed by using the intra-atrial lateral tunnel (ILT) ('baffle ILT' or 'prosthetic ILT'), or the extracardiac conduit (ECC). The aim of the study was to evaluate rhythm abnormalities and compare the surgical techniques in a contemporary cohort. Methods: In a cross-sectional multicentre study, 115 patients (age 12.5 ± 3.1 years) underwent...
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