8821 results
Cited 66 times since 2018 (10 per year)
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Circulation. Cardiovascular imaging,
Volume 11, Issue 8, 1 1 2018, Pages e007372
Impact of Epicardial Adipose Tissue, Left Ventricular Myocardial Fat Content, and Interstitial Fibrosis on Myocardial Contractile Function.
Ng ACT, Strudwick M, van der Geest RJ, Ng ACC, Gillinder L, Goo SY, Cowin G, Delgado V, Wang WYS, Bax JJ
Background Current understanding of metabolic heart disease consists of a myriad of different pathophysiological mechanisms. Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) is increasingly recognized as metabolically active and associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of increased EAT volume index on left ventricular (LV) myocardial fat content and burden of interstitial myocardial fibrosis and their subsequent effects on LV myocardial contractile functi...
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Cited 125 times since 2018 (18.9 per year)
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Journal of the American College of Cardiology,
Volume 72, Issue 8, 1 1 2018, Pages 874-882
Long-Term Prognosis of Patients With Takotsubo Syndrome.
Ghadri JR, Kato K, Cammann VL, Gili S, Jurisic S, Di Vece D, Candreva A, Ding KJ, Micek J, Szawan KA, Bacchi B, Bianchi R, Levinson RA, Wischnewsky M, Seifert B, Schlossbauer SA, Citro R, Bossone E, Münzel T, Knorr M, Heiner S, D'Ascenzo F, Franke J, Sarcon A, Napp LC, Jaguszewski M, Noutsias M, Katus HA, Burgdorf C, Schunkert H, Thiele H, Bauersachs J, Tschöpe C, Pieske BM, Rajan L, Michels G, Pfister R, Cuneo A, Jacobshagen C, Hasenfuß G, Karakas M, Koenig W, Rottbauer W, Said SM, Braun-Dullaeus RC, Banning A, Cuculi F, Kobza R, Fischer TA, Vasankari T, Airaksinen KEJ, Opolski G, Dworakowski R, MacCarthy P, Kaiser C, Osswald S, Galiuto L, Crea F, Dichtl W, Empen K, Felix SB, Delmas C, Lairez O, El-Battrawy I, Akin I, Borggrefe M, Horowitz J, Kozel M, Tousek P, Widimský P, Gilyarova E, Shilova A, Gilyarov M, Winchester DE, Ukena C, Bax JJ, Prasad A, Böhm M, Lüscher TF, Ruschitzka F, Templin C
Background: Prognosis of Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) remains controversial due to scarcity of available data. Additionally, the effect of the triggering factors remains elusive. Objectives: This study compared prognosis between TTS and acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients and investigated short- and long-term outcomes in TTS based on different triggers. Methods: Patients with TTS were enrolled from the International Takotsubo Registry. Long-term mortality of patients with TTS was compared to an a...
Abstract
Cited 48 times since 2018 (7.3 per year)
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European heart journal,
Volume 39, Issue 31, 1 1 2018, Pages 2867-2875
Whole human heart histology to validate electroanatomical voltage mapping in patients with non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy and ventricular tachycardia.
Glashan CA, Androulakis AFA, Tao Q, Glashan RN, Wisse LJ, Ebert M, de Ruiter MC, van Meer BJ, Brouwer C, Dekkers OM, Pijnappels DA, de Bakker JMT, de Riva M, Piers SRD, Zeppenfeld K
Aims: Electroanatomical voltage mapping (EAVM) is an important diagnostic tool for fibrosis identification and risk stratification in non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy (NICM); currently, distinct cut-offs are applied. We aimed to evaluate the performance of EAVM to detect fibrosis by integration with whole heart histology and to identify the fibrosis pattern in NICM patients with ventricular tachycardias (VTs). Methods and results: Eight patients with NICM and VT underwent EAVM prior to death or hear...
Abstract
Cited 4 times since 2018 (0.6 per year)
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European journal of vascular and endovascular surgery : the official journal of the European Society for Vascular Surgery,
Volume 56, Issue 4, 1 1 2018, Pages 476-485
The Dutch Audit of Carotid Interventions: Transparency in Quality of Carotid Endarterectomy in Symptomatic Patients in the Netherlands.
Karthaus EG, Vahl A, Kuhrij LS, Elsman BHP, Geelkerken RH, Wouters MWJM, Hamming JF, de Borst GJ, Dutch Society of Vascular Surgery, Steering Committee of the Dutch Audit for Carotid Interventions, Dutch Institute for Clinical Auditing
Background: The Dutch Audit for Carotid Interventions (DACI) registers all patients undergoing interventions for carotid artery stenosis in the Netherlands. This study describes the design of the DACI and results of patients with a symptomatic stenosis undergoing carotid endarterectomy (CEA). It aimed to evaluate variation between hospitals in process of care and (adjusted) outcomes, as well as predictors of major stroke/death after CEA. Methods: All patients with a symptomatic stenosis, who und...
Abstract
Cited 335 times since 2018 (50.7 per year)
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Angiogenesis,
Volume 21, Issue 3, 1 1 2018, Pages 425-532
Consensus guidelines for the use and interpretation of angiogenesis assays.
Nowak-Sliwinska P, Alitalo K, Allen E, Anisimov A, Aplin AC, Auerbach R, Augustin HG, Bates DO, van Beijnum JR, Bender RHF, Bergers G, Bikfalvi A, Bischoff J, Böck BC, Brooks PC, Bussolino F, Cakir B, Carmeliet P, Castranova D, Cimpean AM, Cleaver O, Coukos G, Davis GE, De Palma M, Dimberg A, Dings RPM, Djonov V, Dudley AC, Dufton NP, Fendt SM, Ferrara N, Fruttiger M, Fukumura D, Ghesquière B, Gong Y, Griffin RJ, Harris AL, Hughes CCW, Hultgren NW, Iruela-Arispe ML, Irving M, Jain RK, Kalluri R, Kalucka J, Kerbel RS, Kitajewski J, Klaassen I, Kleinmann HK, Koolwijk P, Kuczynski E, Kwak BR, Marien K, Melero-Martin JM, Munn LL, Nicosia RF, Noel A, Nurro J, Olsson AK, Petrova TV, Pietras K, Pili R, Pollard JW, Post MJ, Quax PHA, Rabinovich GA, Raica M, Randi AM, Ribatti D, Ruegg C, Schlingemann RO, Schulte-Merker S, Smith LEH, Song JW, Stacker SA, Stalin J, Stratman AN, Van de Velde M, van Hinsbergh VWM, Vermeulen PB, Waltenberger J, Weinstein BM, Xin H, Yetkin-Arik B, Yla-Herttuala S, Yoder MC, Griffioen AW
The formation of new blood vessels, or angiogenesis, is a complex process that plays important roles in growth and development, tissue and organ regeneration, as well as numerous pathological conditions. Angiogenesis undergoes multiple discrete steps that can be individually evaluated and quantified by a large number of bioassays. These independent assessments hold advantages but also have limitations. This article describes in vivo, ex vivo, and in vitro bioassays that are available for the eva...
Abstract
Cited 4 times since 2018 (0.6 per year)
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Cardiac failure review,
Volume 4, Issue 2, 1 1 2018, Pages 78-86
Imaging of Valvular Heart Disease in Heart Failure.
Podlesnikar T, Delgado V, Bax JJ
Valvular heart disease (VHD) and heart failure (HF) are major health issues that are steadily increasing in prevalence in Western populations. VHD and HF frequently co-exist, which can complicate the accurate diagnosis of the severity of valve stenosis or regurgitation and affect decisions about therapeutic options. Transthoracic echocardiography is the first-line imaging modality to determine left ventricular (LV) systolic function, to grade valvular stenosis or regurgitation and to characteris...
Abstract
Cited 17 times since 2018 (2.6 per year)
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Paediatric drugs,
Volume 20, Issue 4, 1 1 2018, Pages 365-374
Increased Metformin Clearance in Overweight and Obese Adolescents: A Pharmacokinetic Substudy of a Randomized Controlled Trial.
van Rongen A, van der Aa MP, Matic M, van Schaik RHN, Deneer VHM, van der Vorst MM, Knibbe CAJ
Background: In view of the increased use of metformin in obese adolescents, the aim of this study was to determine the pharmacokinetics of metformin in overweight and obese adolescents. Methods: In overweight and obese adolescents receiving metformin 500 or 1000 mg twice daily for 37 weeks during a clinical trial, blood samples were collected over 8 h during an oral glucose tolerance test. Population pharmacokinetic modeling was performed using NONMEM. Results: Data for 22 overweight and obese a...
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Aorta (Stamford, Conn.),
Volume 6, Issue 4, 1 1 2018, Pages 102-106
Endovascular Aneurysm Repair Complicated with Type Ia Endoleak and Presumable Infection Treated with a Fenestrated Endograft.
de Niet A, van Schaik PM, Saleem BR, Zeebregts CJ, Tielliu IFJ
An 81-year-old patient presented to the emergency room 5 years after infrarenal endovascular aneurysm repair, with a Type Ia endoleak and a presumable infection of the graft material with Listeria monocytogenes. He was treated with a custom-made fenestrated endograft to seal the endoleak and lifelong antibiotic therapy to suppress the infection. Full explantation of graft material is not always preferable, and endovascular treatment combined with antibiotic suppressive therapy is in some cases a...
Abstract
Cited 11 times since 2018 (1.7 per year)
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Journal of dairy science,
Volume 101, Issue 10, 1 1 2018, Pages 9259-9265
Factors associated with high antimicrobial use in young calves on Dutch dairy farms: A case-control study.
Holstege MMC, de Bont-Smolenaars AJG, Santman-Berends IMGA, van der Linde-Witteveen GM, van Schaik G, Velthuis AGJ, Lam TJGM
Since 2012, the Dutch Veterinary Medicine Authority reports antimicrobial usage (AMU) in young calves (
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Cited 30 times since 2018 (4.5 per year)
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Scientific reports,
Volume 8, Issue 1, 1 1 2018, Pages 11565
Astrocytic modulation of cortical oscillations.
Bellot-Saez A, Cohen G, van Schaik A, Ooi L, W Morley J, Buskila Y
Brain waves are rhythmic voltage oscillations emerging from the synchronization of individual neurons into a neuronal network. These oscillations range from slow to fast fluctuations, and are classified by power and frequency band, with different frequency bands being associated with specific behaviours. It has been postulated that at least ten distinct mechanisms are required to cover the frequency range of neural oscillations, however the mechanisms that gear the transition between distinct os...
Abstract
Cited 28 times since 2018 (4.2 per year)
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Nature geoscience,
Volume 11, Issue 9, 1 1 2018, Pages 744-748
Increased water-use efficiency and reduced CO<sub>2</sub> uptake by plants during droughts at a continental-scale.
Peters W, van der Velde IR, van Schaik E, Miller JB, Ciais P, Duarte HF, van der Laan-Luijkx IT, van der Molen MK, Scholze M, Schaefer K, Vidale PL, Verhoef A, Wårlind D, Zhu D, Tans PP, Vaughn B, White JWC
Severe droughts in the Northern Hemisphere cause widespread decline of agricultural yield, reduction of forest carbon uptake, and increased CO2 growth rates in the atmosphere. Plants respond to droughts by partially closing their stomata to limit their evaporative water loss, at the expense of carbon uptake by photosynthesis. This trade-off maximizes their water-use efficiency, as measured for many individual plants under laboratory conditions and field experiments. Here we analyze the 13C/12C s...
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Cited 46 times since 2018 (7 per year)
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European heart journal. Cardiovascular Imaging,
Volume 19, Issue 8, 1 1 2018, Pages 859-867
Left ventricular global longitudinal strain is predictive of all-cause mortality independent of aortic stenosis severity and ejection fraction.
Ng ACT, Prihadi EA, Antoni ML, Bertini M, Ewe SH, Ajmone Marsan N, Leung DY, Delgado V, Bax JJ
Aims: Left ventricular (LV) global longitudinal strain (GLS) may identify subclinical myocardial dysfunction in patients with aortic stenosis (AS). The aims of the present retrospective single centre study were to determine the independent prognostic value of LV GLS over LV ejection fraction (EF) and the role of LV GLS to further risk stratify severe AS patients before aortic valve replacement. Methods and results: A total of 688 patients (median age 72 years, 61.2% men) with mild (n = 130), mod...
Abstract
Cited 27 times since 2018 (4.1 per year)
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Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology,
Volume 38, Issue 8, 1 1 2018, Pages 1796-1805
Systemic Upregulation of IL-10 (Interleukin-10) Using a Nonimmunogenic Vector Reduces Growth and Rate of Dissecting Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm.
Adam M, Kooreman NG, Jagger A, Wagenhäuser MU, Mehrkens D, Wang Y, Kayama Y, Toyama K, Raaz U, Schellinger IN, Maegdefessel L, Spin JM, Hamming JF, Quax PHA, Baldus S, Wu JC, Tsao PS
Objective- Recruitment of immunologic competent cells to the vessel wall is a crucial step in formation of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). Innate immunity effectors (eg, macrophages), as well as mediators of adaptive immunity (eg, T cells), orchestrate a local vascular inflammatory response. IL-10 (interleukin-10) is an immune-regulatory cytokine with a crucial role in suppression of inflammatory processes. We hypothesized that an increase in systemic IL-10-levels would mitigate AAA progressio...
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Cited 22 times since 2018 (3.3 per year)
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Radiology,
Volume 288, Issue 3, 31 5 2018, Pages 638-655
Mitral Valve Imaging with CT: Relationship with Transcatheter Mitral Valve Interventions.
Weir-McCall JR, Blanke P, Naoum C, Delgado V, Bax JJ, Leipsic J
The role of noninvasive imaging to help guide transcatheter aortic valvular interventions is well established and has grown with the advances in the procedure. With the rapid development of new transcatheter mitral valve interventions there is both an opportunity and a challenge for noninvasive imaging to grow understanding of mitral valve anatomy and disease, help with patient selection, and improve downstream clinical outcomes. This review will discuss the role of both echocardiography and mul...
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Atherosclerosis,
Volume 278, 31 5 2018, Pages 317-318
The senescence of vascular smooth muscle cells in BAV-associated aortopathy.
Mohamed SA, Grewal N, Gittenberger-de Groot AC
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Metabolic brain disease,
Volume 33, Issue 6, 31 5 2018, Pages 1779-1780
Reply to 'contribution of the MRPS22 variant and a down mosaic to the phenotype'.
Kılıç M, Kılıç E, Yılmaz DY, Özgül RK
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Cited 5 times since 2018 (0.8 per year)
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Heart (British Cardiac Society),
Volume 105, Issue 3, 30 5 2018, Pages 196-203
Prognostic value of chronic total occlusions detected on coronary computed tomographic angiography.
Opolski MP, Gransar H, Lu Y, Achenbach S, Al-Mallah MH, Andreini D, Bax JJ, Berman DS, Budoff MJ, Cademartiri F, Callister TQ, Chang HJ, Chinnaiyan K, Chow BJ, Cury RC, DeLago A, Feuchtner GM, Hadamitzky M, Hausleiter J, Kaufmann PA, Kim YJ, Leipsic JA, Maffei EC, Marques H, Pontone G, Raff G, Rubinshtein R, Shaw LJ, Villines TC, Gomez M, Jones EC, Peña JM, Min JK, Lin FY
Objective: Data describing clinical relevance of chronic total occlusion (CTO) identified by coronary CT angiography (CCTA) have not been reported to date. We investigated the prognosis of CTO on CCTA. Methods: We identified 22 828 patients without prior known coronary artery disease (CAD), who were followed for a median of 26 months. Based on CCTA, coronary lesions were graded as normal (no atherosclerosis), non-obstructive (1%-49%), moderate-to-severe (50%-99%) or totally occluded (100%). All-...
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Cited 1 times since 2018 (0.2 per year)
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Heart rhythm,
Volume 16, Issue 1, 29 5 2018, Pages 83-90
Defibrillation testing and clinical outcomes after implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantation in patients in atrial fibrillation at the time of implant: An analysis from the SIMPLE trial.
Bogdan S, Glikson M, Connolly SJ, Wang J, Hohnloser SH, Appl U, Neuzener J, Mabo P, Vinolas X, Gadler F, van Erven L, Kautzner J, Meeks B, Pogue J, Healey JS
Background: The Shockless IMPLant Evaluation (SIMPLE) trial showed that defibrillation testing (DT) at the time of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implant did not improve shock efficacy or reduce mortality. There are no data regarding the risk of complications, including stroke, among patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) who undergo DT. Objective: The purpose of this prospectively planned substudy of SIMPLE was to evaluate the effect of DT vs no DT on clinical outcomes among patie...
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Cited 3 times since 2018 (0.5 per year)
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Journal of medical microbiology,
Volume 67, Issue 9, 27 4 2018, Pages 1348-1350
Mycoplasma amphoriforme vs M. pneumoniae: similarities and differences between patient characteristics in a regional hospital in the Netherlands.
van Schaik ML, Patberg KW, Wallinga JG, Wolfhagen MJHM, Bruijnesteijn van Coppenraet LES
Mycoplasma amphoriforme is a species closely related to Mycoplasma pneumoniae, thus far with unknown clinical impact. The application of optimized diagnostics, better capable of differentiating between these two micro-organisms, identified a significant patient population positive for M. amphoriforme. The PCR designed by Ling et al. was used on respiratory samples that originally tested positive for M. pneumoniae (n=78), and identified 29 retrospectively as M. amphoriforme. The aim of this study...
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Multimedia manual of cardiothoracic surgery : MMCTS,
Volume 2018, 26 4 2018
Subclavicular arteriovenous fistula for univentricular heart palliation.
Caldaroni F, Nevvazhay T, Vladimir S, Hazekamp M
Creation of a subclavicular arteriovenous fistula is a minimally invasive procedure that provides an additional source of arterial blood flow to the pulmonary arteries in patients who have a Glenn shunt but are unsuitable for or at high risk for Fontan completion.
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