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Frontiers in nutrition,
Volume 10, 22 4 2023, Pages 1178134
Identifying barriers and facilitators to adopting healthier dietary choices in clinical care: a cross-sectional observational study.
de Frel DL, Wicks H, Bakk Z, van Keulen N, Atsma DE, Janssen VR
Background and aims: Adopting healthier diets can drastically improve societal health. Our environment plays a crucial role in daily dietary choices and hospitals in particular can stimulate patients to adopt healthier eating habits. Unfortunately, no robust clinically applicable cuing tools exist to help guide in-hospital dietary interventions. The purpose of this study was to identify patient-related barriers and facilitators to adopting healthier dietary choices. Methods and results: This cro...
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Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions,
Volume 3, Issue 2, 22 4 2023, Pages 101263
A Tumor-Feeding Artery Towards a Cardiac Glomus Tumor.
Kalkman DN, van der Kley F, Dekkers P, Wierda E, Kuipers RS, van de Klippe HA
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Journal of general internal medicine,
Volume 39, Issue 4, 22 4 2023, Pages 683-689
How to Use Costs in Value-Based Healthcare: Learning from Real-life Examples.
van der Poort EKJ, Kidanemariam M, Moriates C, Rakers MM, Tsevat J, Schroijen M, Atsma DE, van den Akker-van Marle ME, Bos WJW, van den Hout WB
Background: Healthcare organizations measure costs for business operations but do not routinely incorporate costs in decision-making on the value of care. Aim: Provide guidance on how to use costs in value-based healthcare (VBHC) delivery at different levels of the healthcare system. Setting and participants: Integrated practice units (IPUs) for diabetes mellitus (DM) and for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) at the Leiden University Medical Center and a collaboration of seven breast cancer IPUs...
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Journal of cardiovascular medicine (Hagerstown, Md.),
Volume 25, Issue 2, 22 4 2023, Pages 176-177
Statin pretreatment and cardiac surgery: end of a myth?
Oliveri F, Meretta A, Schaerli N, Montero-Cabezas J, Jukema JW
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Cited 5 times since 2023 (3.4 per year)
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BMC health services research,
Volume 23, Issue 1, 21 3 2023, Pages 1455
An iterative approach to developing a multifaceted implementation strategy for a complex eHealth intervention within clinical practice.
IJzerman RVH, van der Vaart R, Breeman LD, Arkenbout K, Keesman M, Kraaijenhagen RA, Evers AWM, Scholte Op Reimer WJM, Janssen VR
Background: The number of complex eHealth interventions has increased considerably. Despite available implementation theory outlining well-designed strategies, implementing complex interventions within practice proves challenging and often does not lead to sustainable use. To improve sustainability, theory and practice should be addressed during the development of an implementation strategy. By subsequently transparently reporting the executed theory-based steps and their corresponding practice...
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Cited 11 times since 2023 (7.5 per year)
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European journal of heart failure,
Volume 26, Issue 4, 20 3 2023, Pages 754-771
European Society of Cardiology Core Curriculum for cardio-oncology.
López-Fernández T, Farmakis D, Ameri P, Asteggiano R, de Azambuja E, Aznar M, Barac A, Bayes-Genis A, Bax JJ, Bergler-Klein J, Boriani G, Celutkiene J, Coats A, Cohen-Solal A, Córdoba R, Cosyns B, Filippatos G, Fox K, Gulati G, Inciardi RM, Lee G, Mamas MA, Novo G, Plummer C, Psyrri A, Rakisheva A, Suter T, Tini G, Tocchetti CG, Toutouzas K, Wilhelm M, Metra M, Lyon AR, Rosano GMC
Cardio-oncology is a rapidly growing field of cardiovascular (CV) medicine that has resulted from the continuously increasing clinical demand for specialized CV evaluation, prevention and management of patients suffering or surviving from malignant diseases. Dealing with CV disease in patients with cancer requires special knowledge beyond that included in the general core curriculum for cardiology. Therefore, the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has developed a special core curriculum for ca...
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Cited 1 times since 2023 (0.7 per year)
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European urology open science,
Volume 59, 20 3 2023, Pages 50-54
Treatment Patterns and Use of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors Among Patients with Metastatic Bladder Cancer in a Dutch Nationwide Cohort.
Richters A, Robbrecht DGJ, Meijer RP, van der Heijden AG, Kiemeney LALM, van den Bosch J, Suelmann BBM, Özdemir BC, ProBCI Study Group, Mehra N, Aben KKH
Since 2017, two immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have become the standard of care for the treatment of metastatic urothelial carcinoma in Europe: pembrolizumab as second-line therapy and avelumab as maintenance therapy. Our aim was to describe the use of ICIs as first and later lines of treatment in patients with metastatic bladder cancer (mBC) in the Netherlands. We identified all patients diagnosed with primary mBC between 2018 and 2021 in the Netherlands from the Netherlands Cancer Registr...
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Cited 5 times since 2023 (3.4 per year)
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JACC. Clinical electrophysiology,
Volume 10, Issue 3, 20 3 2023, Pages 585-603
Mapping and Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia in Inherited Left Ventricular Cardiomyopathies.
Zeppenfeld K, Kimura Y, Ebert M
Advances in the field of human genetics have led to an accumulating understanding of the genetic basis of distinct nonischemic cardiomyopathies associated with ventricular tachycardias (VTs) and sudden cardiac death. To date, there is an increasing proportion of patients with inherited cardiomyopathies requiring catheter ablation for VTs. This review provides an overview of disease-causing gene mutations frequently encountered and relevant for clinical electrophysiologists. Available data on VT...
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BMC ecology and evolution,
Volume 23, Issue 1, 19 3 2023, Pages 77
Does the expensive brain hypothesis apply to amphibians and reptiles?
Song Z, Griesser M, Schuppli C, van Schaik CP
Vertebrate brains show extensive variation in relative size. The expensive brain hypothesis argues that one important source of this variation is linked to a species' ability to generate the energy required to sustain the brain, especially during periods of unavoidable food scarcity. Here we ask whether this hypothesis, tested so far in endothermic vertebrates, also applies to ectotherms, where ambient temperature is an additional major aspect of energy balance. Phylogenetic comparative ana...
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PloS one,
Volume 18, Issue 12, 19 3 2023, Pages e0292645
Differences in the gut microbiota between Gurkhas and soldiers of British origin.
Troth TD, McInnes RS, Dunn SJ, Mirza J, Whittaker AH, Goodchild SA, Loman NJ, Harding SV, van Schaik W
Previous work indicated that the incidence of travellers' diarrhoea (TD) is higher in soldiers of British origin, when compared to soldiers of Nepalese descent (Gurkhas). We hypothesise that the composition of the gut microbiota may be a contributing factor in the risk of developing TD in soldiers of British origin. This study aimed to characterise the gut microbial composition of Gurkha and non-Gurkha soldiers of the British Army. Recruitment of 38 soldiers (n = 22 Gurkhas, n = 16 non-Gurk...
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BMJ open,
Volume 13, Issue 12, 18 3 2023, Pages e064335
New methodology to assess the excess burden of antibiotic resistance using country-specific parameters: a case study regarding <i>E. coli</i> urinary tract infections.
Godijk NG, McDonald SA, Altorf-van der Kuil W, Schoffelen AF, Franz E, Bootsma MCJ
Objectives: Antimicrobial resistant (AMR) infections are a major public health problem and the burden on population level is not yet clear. We developed a method to calculate the excess burden of resistance which uses country-specific parameter estimates and surveillance data to compare the mortality and morbidity due to resistant infection against a counterfactual (the expected burden if infection was antimicrobial susceptible). We illustrate this approach by estimating the excess burden for AM...
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Cited 3 times since 2023 (2 per year)
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European journal of heart failure,
Volume 26, Issue 1, 18 3 2023, Pages 87-102
Proteomic prediction of incident heart failure and its main subtypes.
Emilsson V, Jonsson BG, Austin TR, Gudmundsdottir V, Axelsson GT, Frick EA, Jonmundsson T, Steindorsdottir AE, Loureiro J, Brody JA, Aspelund T, Launer LJ, Thorgeirsson G, Kortekaas KA, Lindeman JH, Orth AP, Lamb JR, Psaty BM, Kizer JR, Jennings LL, Gudnason V
Aim: To examine the ability of serum proteins in predicting future heart failure (HF) events, including HF with reduced or preserved ejection fraction (HFrEF or HFpEF), in relation to event time, and with or without considering established HF-associated clinical variables. Methods and results: In the prospective population-based Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility Reykjavik Study (AGES-RS), 440 individuals developed HF after their first visit with a median follow-up of 5.45 years. Among them, 1...
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Computer methods and programs in biomedicine,
Volume 244, 17 3 2023, Pages 107984
Quantification of the intrinsic neural plexus of the heart - The missing link in histological tissue analysis.
Chen HS, Voortman LM, van Munsteren JC, Wisse LJ, deRuiter MC, Zeppenfeld K, Jongbloed MRM
Background and objective: The heart is under strict regulation of the autonomic nervous system, during which, in a healthy state, the effects of sympathetic and parasympathetic branches are balanced. In recent years, there has been increasing interest in pathological remodeling and outgrowth of cardiac autonomic nerves in relation to arrhythmogenesis. However, the small size of the cardiac nerves in relatively large tissues renders research using histological quantification of these nerves extre...
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Cited 3 times since 2023 (2 per year)
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Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH,
Volume 22, Issue 4, 15 3 2023, Pages 936-950
A multitrait genetic study of hemostatic factors and hemorrhagic transformation after stroke treatment.
Gallego-Fabrega C, Temprano-Sagrera G, Cárcel-Márquez J, Muiño E, Cullell N, Lledós M, Llucià-Carol L, Martin-Campos JM, Sobrino T, Castillo J, Millán M, Muñoz-Narbona L, López-Cancio E, Ribó M, Alvarez-Sabin J, Jiménez-Conde J, Roquer J, Tur S, Obach V, Arenillas JF, Segura T, Serrano-Heras G, Marti-Fabregas J, Freijo-Guerrero M, Moniche F, Castellanos MDM, Morrison AC, Smith NL, de Vries PS, Fernández-Cadenas I, Sabater-Lleal M, Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology Consortium, Spanish Stroke Genetic Consortium
Background: Thrombolytic recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (r-tPA) treatment is the only pharmacologic intervention available in the ischemic stroke acute phase. This treatment is associated with an increased risk of intracerebral hemorrhages, known as hemorrhagic transformations (HTs), which worsen the patient's prognosis. Objectives: To investigate the association between genetically determined natural hemostatic factors' levels and increased risk of HT after r-tPA treatment....
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PHAGE (New Rochelle, N.Y.),
Volume 4, Issue 4, 14 2 2023, Pages 159-164
Genome Sequence and Characterization of Coliphage Môr Ffagbaw.
Thomas NE, Ugokwe NI, Kinsella A, Galyov E, van Schaik W, Joyce N, Nobrega FL, Millard A, Wilkinson RC
Background: The quality of coastal waters around the United Kingdom is an area of increasing concern following sewer overflow, where wastewater is discharged into the environment. Coliphages, viruses that infect coliform bacteria, are associated with water quality in aquatic systems, yet remain largely uncharacterized at the genomic level. Materials and methods: Phage môr ffagbaw was isolated from seawater against Escherichia coli by enrichment and plaque assays. Whole genome sequencing, transmi...
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Cited 1 times since 2023 (0.7 per year)
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Journal of cardiology,
Volume 84, Issue 2, 14 2 2023, Pages 86-92
Mitral regurgitation in atrial fibrillation: Is a simple repair enough to tackle a complex problem?
Tomšič A, Meucci MC, de Jong AR, Braun J, Marsan NA, Klautz RJM, Palmen M
Background: Clinical and echocardiographic results of valve repair for mitral regurgitation in the setting of atrial fibrillation are poorly studied. Methods: Between January 2008 and December 2020, 89 patients underwent valve repair for mitral regurgitation in the setting of atrial fibrillation. Clinical and echocardiographic follow-up data were collected and studied. The primary composite endpoint consisted of all-cause mortality or hospitalization for heart failure. Results: Valve repair with...
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Cited 2 times since 2023 (1.3 per year)
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Cancers,
Volume 15, Issue 24, 13 2 2023, Pages 5831
Relation between Coronary Artery Calcium Score and Cardiovascular Events in Hodgkin Lymphoma Survivors: A Cross-Sectional Matched Cohort Study.
Polomski EAS, Heemelaar JC, de Graaf MA, Krol ADG, Louwerens M, Stöger JL, van Dijkman PRM, Schalij MJ, Jukema JW, Antoni ML
Background: Thoracic radiotherapy is one of the corner stones of HL treatment, but it is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular events. As HL is often diagnosed at a young age, long-term follow-up including screening for coronary artery disease (CAD) is recommended. Objectives: This study aims to evaluate the presence of coronary artery calcium score (CACS) in relation to cardiovascular events in HL patients treated with thoracic radiotherapy compared to a non-cancer control group. Met...
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Cited 2 times since 2023 (1.3 per year)
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Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions,
Volume 103, Issue 2, 13 2 2023, Pages 308-316
Balloon atrial septostomy for transposition of the great arteries: Safety and experience with the Z-5 balloon catheter.
Weeda JA, Bokenkamp-Gramann R, Straver BB, Rammeloo L, Hahurij ND, Bertels RA, Haak MC, Te Pas AB, Hazekamp MG, Blom NA, van der Palen RLF
Background: Balloon atrial septostomy (BAS) is an emergent and essential cardiac intervention to enhance intercirculatory mixing at atrial level in deoxygenated patients diagnosed with transposition of the great arteries (TGA) and restrictive foramen ovale. The recent recall of several BAS catheters and the changes in the European legal framework for medical devices (MDR 2017/745), has led to an overall scarcity of BAS catheters and raised questions about the use, safety, and experience of the r...
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Cited 1 times since 2023 (0.7 per year)
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European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology,
Volume 50, Issue 2, 12 2 2023, Pages 107317
Consensus conference statement on fluorescence-guided surgery (FGS) ESSO course on fluorescence-guided surgery.
van Dam MA, Bijlstra OD, Faber RA, Warmerdam MI, Achiam MP, Boni L, Cahill RA, Chand M, Diana M, Gioux S, Kruijff S, Van der Vorst JR, Rosenthal RJ, Polom K, Vahrmeijer AL, Mieog JSD
Background: Fluorescence-guided surgery (FGS) has emerged as an innovative technique with promising applications in various surgical specialties. However, clinical implementation is hampered by limited availability of evidence-based reference work supporting the translation towards standard-of-care use in surgical practice. Therefore, we developed a consensus statement on current applications of FGS. Methods: During an international FGS course, participants anonymously voted on 36 statements. Co...
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Cited 2 times since 2023 (1.3 per year)
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Cell reports methods,
Volume 3, Issue 12, 11 2 2023, Pages 100671
Opto-electronic feedback control of membrane potential for real-time control of action potentials.
Ördög B, De Coster T, Dekker SO, Bart CI, Zhang J, Boink GJJ, Bax WH, Deng S, den Ouden BL, de Vries AAF, Pijnappels DA
To unlock new research possibilities by acquiring control of action potential (AP) morphologies in excitable cells, we developed an opto-electronic feedback loop-based system integrating cellular electrophysiology, real-time computing, and optogenetic approaches and applied it to monolayers of heart muscle cells. This allowed accurate restoration and preservation of cardiac AP morphologies in the presence of electrical perturbations of different origin in an unsupervised, self-regulatory manner,...
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