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Journal of internal medicine,
Volume 260, Issue 2, 1 1 2006, Pages 183-185
Lipoprotein (a) and risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with metabolic syndrome in a population of familial hypercholesterolaemia.
Rana JS, Jansen AC, Zwinderman AH, van Aalst-Cohen ES, Jukema JW, Trip MD, Kastelein JJ
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Cited 21 times since 2006 (1.1 per year)
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Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America,
Volume 43, Issue 5, 31 5 2006, Pages 616-623
Potential confounding in evaluating infection-control interventions in hospital settings: changing antibiotic prescription.
Nijssen S, Bootsma M, Bonten M
The colonization dynamics of antibiotic-resistant pathogens in hospital settings are complex, with multiple and continuously interacting variables (e.g., introduction of resistance, infection-control practices, antibiotic use). Quantification of these variables is indispensable in the evaluation of intervention studies, because these variables represent potential confounders. In this article, the complexity of colonization dynamics is described. Through a systematic review, we identified studies...
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Cited 45 times since 2006 (2.4 per year)
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Cardiovascular research,
Volume 72, Issue 2, 29 5 2006, Pages 282-291
Progressive increase in conduction velocity across human mesenchymal stem cells is mediated by enhanced electrical coupling.
Pijnappels DA, Schalij MJ, van Tuyn J, Ypey DL, de Vries AA, van der Wall EE, van der Laarse A, Atsma DE
Objective: The purpose of the study was to investigate the development of electrical transmission across human adult bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) during long-term co-incubation with cardiomyocytes (CMCs). Methods: Neonatal rat CMCs were cultured in multi-electrode array dishes. A conduction block was induced by creating a central acellular channel, yielding two asynchronously beating CMC fields. Enhanced green fluorescent protein (eGFP)-labeled hMSCs from ischemic heart dis...
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Cited 20 times since 2006 (1.1 per year)
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European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging,
Volume 33, Issue 12, 25 4 2006, Pages 1452-1460
Global and regional left ventricular function: a comparison between gated SPECT, 2D echocardiography and multi-slice computed tomography.
Henneman MM, Bax JJ, Schuijf JD, Jukema JW, Holman ER, Stokkel MP, Lamb HJ, de Roos A, van der Wall EE
Purpose: Global and regional left ventricular (LV) function are important indicators of the cardiac status in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). Therapy and prognosis are to a large extent dependent on LV function. Multi-slice computed tomography (MSCT) has already earned its place as an imaging modality for non-invasive assessment of the coronary arteries, but since retrospective gating to the patient's ECG is performed, information on LV function can be derived. Methods: In 49 p...
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Cited 51 times since 2006 (2.7 per year)
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Journal of the American College of Cardiology,
Volume 48, Issue 4, 24 4 2006, Pages 754-760
The potential of myocardial perfusion scintigraphy for risk stratification of asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes.
Bax JJ, Bonow RO, Tschöpe D, Inzucchi SE, Barrett E, Global Dialogue Group for the Evaluation of Cardiovascular Risk in Patients With Diabetes
Patients with diabetes, in particular patients with type 2 diabetes, are at a 2- to 4-fold higher risk of cardiovascular mortality compared with their nondiabetic peers. Patients with diabetes are also more likely to have silent ischemia and less likely to survive a myocardial infarction than nondiabetic patients. Recent studies with electron beam computed tomography (EBCT) have shown that subclinical atherosclerosis is common in patients with diabetes, and studies with myocardial perfusion scin...
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Cited 33 times since 2006 (1.8 per year)
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European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging,
Volume 33, Issue 12, 18 3 2006, Pages 1442-1451
Accuracy of non-invasive techniques for diagnosis of coronary artery disease and prediction of cardiac events in patients with left bundle branch block: a meta-analysis.
Biagini E, Shaw LJ, Poldermans D, Schinkel AF, Rizzello V, Elhendy A, Rapezzi C, Bax JJ
Purpose: Non-invasive evaluation of coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients with left bundle branch block (LBBB) has limitations inherent to different tests, and the relative merits of these tests are unclear. This meta-analysis assessed the accuracy of the frequently used non-invasive techniques, including exercise electrocardiography (ECG), myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) and stress echocardiography (SE), for detection of CAD and prediction of cardiac events in patients with LBBB. Methods...
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Cited 16 times since 2006 (0.9 per year)
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Journal of the American College of Cardiology,
Volume 48, Issue 3, 12 2 2006, Pages 464-470
Benefit of combined resynchronization and defibrillator therapy in heart failure patients with and without ventricular arrhythmias.
Ypenburg C, van Erven L, Bleeker GB, Bax JJ, Bootsma M, Wijffels MC, van der Wall EE, Schalij MJ
Objectives: We attempted to assess the efficacy of combined cardiac resynchronization therapy-implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (CRT-ICD) in heart failure patients with and without ventricular arrhythmias. Background: Because CRT and ICDs both lower all-cause mortality in patients with advanced heart failure, combination of both therapies in a single device is challenging. Methods: A total of 191 consecutive patients with advanced heart failure, left ventricular ejection fraction 120 ms rec...
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Cited 6 times since 2006 (0.3 per year)
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European heart journal,
Volume 27, Issue 17, 11 2 2006, Pages 2036-2037
The relationship between sinus node dysfunction, bradycardia-mediated atrial remodelling, and post-operative atrial flutter in patients with congenital heart defects.
de Groot NM, Schalij MJ
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Cited 18 times since 2006 (1 per year)
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International journal of cardiology,
Volume 116, Issue 2, 10 2 2006, Pages 201-205
Assessment of left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction with 16-slice multi-slice computed tomography; comparison with 2D-echocardiography.
Schuijf JD, Bax JJ, Jukema JW, Lamb HJ, Salm LP, de Roos A, van der Wall EE
Background: In recent years, multi-slice computed tomography (MSCT) has emerged as a rapidly expanding modality for non-invasive assessment of coronary artery disease. Simultaneously, left ventricular (LV) function can be evaluated although this is not yet a routine component of an MSCT examination. Accordingly, the purpose of the present study was to validate assessment of LV function with MSCT using 2D-echocardiography in a large cohort of patients. Methods: In 70 patients (57 male, 13 female)...
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Cited 8 times since 2006 (0.4 per year)
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Brain & development,
Volume 28, Issue 10, 7 1 2006, Pages 649-652
Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis: is there something different in the younger children?
Yilmaz D, Aydin OF, Senbil N, Yuksel D
Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis is a rare, slow viral infection caused by a defective measles virus. Although it is a rare disease, it is still important in developing countries. The onset is generally between the ages of 5-15 years. We reported the clinical and laboratory profile and nature of 9 patients under the age of 4 years with SSPE. Although it is known that a few patients with SSPE have an acute and rapidly fulminating course, in this study rate of progression was rapidly progressiv...
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Cited 93 times since 2006 (5 per year)
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Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology,
Volume 26, Issue 9, 6 1 2006, Pages 2063-2069
Anti-MCP-1 gene therapy inhibits vascular smooth muscle cells proliferation and attenuates vein graft thickening both in vitro and in vivo.
Schepers A, Eefting D, Bonta PI, Grimbergen JM, de Vries MR, van Weel V, de Vries CJ, Egashira K, van Bockel JH, Quax PH
Objective: Because late vein graft failure is caused by intimal hyperplasia (IH) and accelerated atherosclerosis, and these processes are thought to be inflammation driven, influx of monocytes is one of the first phenomena seen in IH, we would like to provide direct evidence for a role of the MCP-1 pathway in the development of vein graft disease. Methods and results: MCP-1 expression is demonstrated in various stages of vein graft disease in a murine model in which venous interpositions are pla...
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Cited 1 times since 2006 (0.1 per year)
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European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging,
Volume 33, Issue 8, 4 1 2006, Pages 955-959
The future of cardiovascular imaging and non-invasive diagnosis. A joint statement from the European Association of Echocardiography, the Working Groups on Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Computers in Cardiology, and Nuclear Cardiology, of the European Society of Cardiology, the European Association of Nuclear Medicine and the Association for European Paediatric Cardiology.
Fraser AG, Buser PT, Bax JJ, Dassen WR, Nihoyannopoulos P, Schwitter J, Knuuti JM, Höher M, Bengel F, Szatmári A, European Association of Echocardiography, Working Groups on Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Computers in Cardiology, and Nuclear Cardiology, of the European Society of Cardiology, European Association of Nuclear Medicine, Association for European Paediatric Cardiology
Advances in medical imaging now make it possible to investigate any patient with cardiovascular disease using multiple methods which vary widely in their technical requirements, benefits, limitations and costs. The appropriate use of alternative tests requires their integration into joint clinical diagnostic services where experts in all methods collaborate. This statement summarises the principles that should guide developments in cardiovascular diagnostic services.
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Cited 41 times since 2006 (2.2 per year)
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Heart (British Cardiac Society),
Volume 92, Issue 12, 3 1 2006, Pages 1838-1843
Non-cardiac complications during pregnancy in women with isolated congenital pulmonary valvar stenosis.
Drenthen W, Pieper PG, Roos-Hesselink JW, Schmidt AC, Mulder BJ, van Dijk AP, Vliegen HW, Sollie KM, Voors AA, Ebels T, van Veldhuisen DJ, ZAHARA investigators
Background: Information on the outcome of pregnancy in patients with pulmonary valvar stenosis is scarce, mostly limited to cardiac complications observed during pregnancy. Objectives: To investigate the magnitude and determinants of non-cardiac and fetal risks during pregnancy of women with isolated pulmonary valvar stenosis. Methods: Using the nationwide registry (CONgenital CORvitia), 106 women with (un-)corrected pulmonary valvar stenosis receiving care in six tertiary medical centres in The...
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Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde,
Volume 150, Issue 27, 1 1 2006, Pages 1523-1527
[Intramyocardial injection of autologous bone-marrow stem cells in a 74-year-old man with untreatable angina pectoris and demonstrated myocardial ischaemia].
Beeres SL, Bax JJ, Stokkel MP, Fibbe WE, van der Wall EE, Schalij MJ, Atsma DE
For a 74-year-old man with angina pectoris and demonstrated myocardial ischaemia, optimal medical treatment was insufficient. He was ineligible for coronary revascularization. To improve myocardial perfusion, autologous bone-marrow stem cells were injected into the ischaemic myocardium. During the months following the injection, the frequency of angina attacks decreased and myocardial perfusion and cardiac function improved.
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Cited 1 times since 2006 (0.1 per year)
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Clinical physiology and functional imaging,
Volume 26, Issue 4, 1 1 2006, Pages 220-223
The effect of lung inflation on absolute ventricular volume measurement by conductance.
Haney MF, Steendijk P, Johansson G, Biber B
Background: Conductance catheter in vivo ventricular volume measurements during lung ventilation may provide important information on left ventricular (LV) function. Breathing potentially may alter parallel conductance (V(c)), complicating interpretation of the conductance-derived volume signals. The effects of controlled positive pressure lung inflation (PPLI) on measured parallel conductance with dual-field conductance volumetry were investigated. Methods: Eight anaesthetized pigs were instrum...
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Cited 17 times since 2006 (0.9 per year)
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Circulation,
Volume 114, Issue 3, 1 1 2006, Pages e51-2
Images in cardiovascular medicine. Epicardial radiofrequency catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia in the vicinity of coronary arteries is facilitated by fusion of 3-dimensional electroanatomical mapping with multislice computed tomography.
Zeppenfeld K, Tops LF, Bax JJ, Schalij MJ
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Cited 1 times since 2006 (0.1 per year)
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Expert review of medical devices,
Volume 3, Issue 4, 1 1 2006, Pages 441-451
Advances in the noninvasive evaluation of coronary artery disease with multislice computed tomography.
Pundziute G, Schuijf JD, Jukema JW, de Roos A, van der Wall EE, Bax JJ
Current noninvasive detection of coronary artery disease (CAD) is based on the demonstration of ischemia using stress-rest imaging, which is an indirect way of identifying CAD by demonstration of the hemodynamic consequences, rather than direct visualization of the obstructive lesions in the coronary arteries. Multislice computed tomography (MSCT) has recently emerged as an extremely rapidly developing noninvasive imaging modality, which allows anatomical imaging of the coronary arteries or noni...
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Cited 17 times since 2006 (0.9 per year)
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Chest,
Volume 130, Issue 1, 1 1 2006, Pages 58-65
Improvement in bronchodilation following deep inspiration after a course of high-dose oral prednisone in asthma.
Slats AM, Sont JK, van Klink RH, Bel EH, Sterk PJ
Background: Bronchodilation following deep inspiration is usually impaired in patients with asthma. This might be due to changes in airway mechanics in the presence of inflammation or structural changes within the airways. Although inhaled corticosteroid treatment has been shown to improve airway responses to deep inspiration in patients with asthma, airway inflammation can persist despite inhaled corticosteroid treatment, and thus could still influence the airway mechanics during deep breaths....
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Cited 30 times since 2006 (1.6 per year)
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Molecular and cellular biology,
Volume 26, Issue 14, 1 1 2006, Pages 5270-5283
Differential binding of replication proteins across the human c-myc replicator.
Ghosh M, Kemp M, Liu G, Ritzi M, Schepers A, Leffak M
The binding of the prereplication complex proteins Orc1, Orc2, Mcm3, Mcm7, and Cdc6 and the novel DNA unwinding element (DUE) binding protein DUE-B to the endogenous human c-myc replicator was studied by chromatin immunoprecipitation. In G(1)-arrested HeLa cells, Mcm3, Mcm7, and DUE-B were prominent near the DUE, while Orc1 and Orc2 were least abundant near the DUE and more abundant at flanking sites. Cdc6 binding mirrored that of Orc2 in G(1)-arrested cells but decreased in asynchronous or M-ph...
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Cited 73 times since 2006 (3.9 per year)
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Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology,
Volume 13, Issue 4, 1 1 2006, Pages 495-506
Prognostic value of poststress left ventricular volume and ejection fraction by gated myocardial perfusion SPECT in women and men: gender-related differences in normal limits and outcomes.
Sharir T, Kang X, Germano G, Bax JJ, Shaw LJ, Gransar H, Cohen I, Hayes SW, Friedman JD, Berman DS
Background: Whether there are gender differences in the prognostic application of gated myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) has not been assessed. Methods and results: Gender-specific normal limits of poststress volume and ejection fraction (EF) were obtained in 597 women and 824 men with a low likelihood of coronary artery disease and normal perfusion and were applied in a prognostic evaluation of 6713 patients (2735 women and 3978 men). Patients underwent re...
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