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European heart journal. Cardiovascular Imaging,
Volume 16, Issue 9, 1 1 2015, Pages 959-965
Highlights of the 12th International Conference on Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac CT.
Kitsiou A, Dorbala S, Scholte AJ
The 12th International Conference on Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac CT was held from 3 to 5 May 2015 in Madrid, Spain. In this article, the three Congress Program Committee Chairs summarize selected highlights of the presented abstracts.
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Cited 1119 times since 2015 (117.4 per year)
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The New England journal of medicine,
Volume 373, Issue 10, 1 1 2015, Pages 929-938
Clinical Features and Outcomes of Takotsubo (Stress) Cardiomyopathy.
Templin C, Ghadri JR, Diekmann J, Napp LC, Bataiosu DR, Jaguszewski M, Cammann VL, Sarcon A, Geyer V, Neumann CA, Seifert B, Hellermann J, Schwyzer M, Eisenhardt K, Jenewein J, Franke J, Katus HA, Burgdorf C, Schunkert H, Moeller C, Thiele H, Bauersachs J, Tschöpe C, Schultheiss HP, Laney CA, Rajan L, Michels G, Pfister R, Ukena C, Böhm M, Erbel R, Cuneo A, Kuck KH, Jacobshagen C, Hasenfuss G, Karakas M, Koenig W, Rottbauer W, Said SM, Braun-Dullaeus RC, Cuculi F, Banning A, Fischer TA, Vasankari T, Airaksinen KE, Fijalkowski M, Rynkiewicz A, Pawlak M, Opolski G, Dworakowski R, MacCarthy P, Kaiser C, Osswald S, Galiuto L, Crea F, Dichtl W, Franz WM, Empen K, Felix SB, Delmas C, Lairez O, Erne P, Bax JJ, Ford I, Ruschitzka F, Prasad A, Lüscher TF
Background: The natural history, management, and outcome of takotsubo (stress) cardiomyopathy are incompletely understood. Methods: The International Takotsubo Registry, a consortium of 26 centers in Europe and the United States, was established to investigate clinical features, prognostic predictors, and outcome of takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Patients were compared with age- and sex-matched patients who had an acute coronary syndrome. Results: Of 1750 patients with takotsubo cardiomyopathy, 89.8%...
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Cited 4 times since 2015 (0.4 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 10, 1 1 2015, Pages 457-465
The year of transparency: measuring quality of cardiac care.
Eindhoven DC, Wierda E, de Bruijne MC, Amoroso G, de Mol BAJM, Umans VAWM, Schalij MJ, Borleffs CJW
The assessment of quality of care is becoming increasingly important in healthcare, both globally and in the Netherlands. The Dutch Minister of Health declared 2015 to be the year of transparency, thereby aiming to improve quality of care by transparent reporting of outcome data. With the increasing importance of transparency, knowledge on quality measurement will be essential for a cardiologist in daily clinical care. To that end, this paper provides a comprehensive overview of the Dutch health...
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Cited 43 times since 2015 (4.5 per year)
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CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne,
Volume 187, Issue 15, 31 5 2015, Pages E442-E449
Resting heart rate, heart rate variability and functional decline in old age.
Ogliari G, Mahinrad S, Stott DJ, Jukema JW, Mooijaart SP, Macfarlane PW, Clark EN, Kearney PM, Westendorp RGJ, de Craen AJM, Sabayan B
Background: Heart rate and heart rate variability, markers of cardiac autonomic function, have been linked with cardiovascular disease. We investigated whether heart rate and heart rate variability are associated with functional status in older adults, independent of cardiovascular disease. Methods: We obtained data from the Prospective Study of Pravastatin in the Elderly at Risk (PROSPER). A total of 5042 participants were included in the present study, and mean follow-up was 3.2 years. Heart r...
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Cited 2 times since 2015 (0.2 per year)
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International journal of surgery case reports,
Volume 15, 30 5 2015, Pages 133-136
Case report of nail bed injury after blunt trauma; what lies beneath the nail?
Nanninga GL, de Leur K, van den Boom AL, de Vries MR, van Ginhoven TM
Introduction: A stable, mobile and sensate fingertip is of paramount importance to perform daily tasks and sense dangerous situations. Unfortunately, fingertips are easily injured with various extents of soft tissue damage. Delayed and inadequate treatment of nail bed injuries may cause substantial clinical problems. The aim is to increase awareness about nail bed injuries among physicians who often treat these patients. Presentation of case: We present a 26-year-old male with blunt trauma to a...
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Cited 30 times since 2015 (3.1 per year)
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European heart journal,
Volume 37, Issue 1, 30 5 2015, Pages 49-59
Association of persistent or worsened echocardiographic dyssynchrony with unfavourable clinical outcomes in heart failure patients with narrow QRS width: a subgroup analysis of the EchoCRT trial.
Gorcsan J, Sogaard P, Bax JJ, Singh JP, Abraham WT, Borer JS, Dickstein K, Gras D, Krum H, Brugada J, Robertson M, Ford I, Holzmeister J, Ruschitzka F
Aims: EchoCRT was a randomized trial of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) in severely symptomatic heart failure (HF) patients with narrow QRS width
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Cited 7 times since 2015 (0.7 per year)
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The international journal of cardiovascular imaging,
Volume 31, Issue 8, 29 5 2015, Pages 1583-1590
Effect of statins on aortic root growth rate in patients with bicuspid aortic valve anatomy.
Regeer MV, van Rosendael PJ, Kamperidis V, Schalij MJ, Bax JJ, Marsan NA, Delgado V
Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) anatomy is associated with increased growth rate of the aortic root compared to tricuspid aortic valves. Statins decrease the growth rate of abdominal aneurysms; however their effect on the aortic root growth rate has not been elucidated. The present study evaluated the association between use of statins and aortic root growth in patients with BAV. A total of 199 patients (43 ± 15 years, 69% male) with BAV who underwent ≥ 2 echocardiographic measurements of the aortic...
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Cited 1728 times since 2015 (181.1 per year)
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European heart journal,
Volume 37, Issue 3, 29 5 2015, Pages 267-315
2015 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation: Task Force for the Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes in Patients Presenting without Persistent ST-Segment Elevation of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).
Roffi M, Patrono C, Collet JP, Mueller C, Valgimigli M, Andreotti F, Bax JJ, Borger MA, Brotons C, Chew DP, Gencer B, Hasenfuss G, Kjeldsen K, Lancellotti P, Landmesser U, Mehilli J, Mukherjee D, Storey RF, Windecker S, ESC Scientific Document Group
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Cited 19 times since 2015 (2 per year)
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Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography,
Volume 28, Issue 12, 22 4 2015, Pages 1379-89.e1
Quantitative Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography Using Speckle-Tracking Analysis versus Conventional Visual Analysis for Detection of Significant Coronary Artery Disease after ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction.
Joyce E, Hoogslag GE, Al Amri I, Debonnaire P, Katsanos S, Bax JJ, Delgado V, Marsan NA
Background: Residual ischemia detection after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) during dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) using visual analysis is challenging. The aim of the present study was to investigate the feasibility and accuracy of two-dimensional speckle-tracking strain DSE to detect significant coronary artery disease (CAD) after STEMI. Methods: First STEMI patients (n = 105; mean age, 60 ± 11 years; 86% men) treated with primary percutaneous coronary interventio...
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Cited 157 times since 2015 (16.4 per year)
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European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging,
Volume 42, Issue 12, 21 3 2015, Pages 1929-1940
EANM procedural guidelines for radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging with SPECT and SPECT/CT: 2015 revision.
Verberne HJ, Acampa W, Anagnostopoulos C, Ballinger J, Bengel F, De Bondt P, Buechel RR, Cuocolo A, van Eck-Smit BL, Flotats A, Hacker M, Hindorf C, Kaufmann PA, Lindner O, Ljungberg M, Lonsdale M, Manrique A, Minarik D, Scholte AJ, Slart RH, Trägårdh E, de Wit TC, Hesse B, European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM)
Since the publication of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) procedural guidelines for radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) in 2005, many small and some larger steps of progress have been made, improving MPI procedures. In this paper, the major changes from the updated 2015 procedural guidelines are highlighted, focusing on the important changes related to new instrumentation with improved image information and the possibility to reduce radiation exposure, which is fur...
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Cited 2 times since 2015 (0.2 per year)
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European biophysics journal : EBJ,
Volume 44, Issue 7, 19 3 2015, Pages 557-565
Study of light-induced MscL gating by EPR spectroscopy.
Yilmaz D, Dimitrova AI, Walko M, Kocer A
A number of techniques developed to investigate protein structure and function depend on chemically modifying and/or labeling of proteins. However, in the case of homooligomeric proteins, the presence of multiple identical subunits obstructs the introduction of residue-specific labels to only one or several subunits, selectively. Here, in order to study the initial conformational changes of a homopentameric mechanosensitive ion channel during its gating, we developed a method for labeling a defi...
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Cited 9 times since 2015 (0.9 per year)
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European heart journal. Cardiovascular Imaging,
Volume 16, Issue 10, 19 3 2015, Pages 1062-1064
Detection of viable myocardium and scar tissue.
Bax JJ, Delgado V
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Psychiatry research,
Volume 229, Issue 3, 15 3 2015, Pages 678-684
Viral metagenomics in drug-naïve, first-onset schizophrenia patients with prominent negative symptoms.
Canuti M, van Beveren NJ, Jazaeri Farsani SM, de Vries M, Deijs M, Jebbink MF, Zaaijer HL, van Schaik BD, van Kampen AH, van der Kuyl AC, de Haan L, Storosum JG, van der Hoek L
Although several studies suggest a virus or (endogenous) retrovirus involvement at the time of onset of schizophrenia, the unequivocal identification of one or more infectious agents, by means of an undirected catch-all technique, has never been conducted. In this study VIDISCA, a virus discovery method, was used in combination with Roche-454 high-throughput sequencing as a tool to determine the possible presence of viruses (known or unknown) in blood of first-onset drugs-naïve schizophrenic pat...
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Cited 11 times since 2015 (1.1 per year)
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The American journal of cardiology,
Volume 116, Issue 9, 14 2 2015, Pages 1334-1339
Comparison of Changes in Global Longitudinal Peak Systolic Strain After ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction in Patients With Versus Without Diabetes Mellitus.
Hoogslag GE, Abou R, Joyce E, Boden H, Kamperidis V, Regeer MV, van Rosendael PJ, Schalij MJ, Bax JJ, Marsan NA, Delgado V
Global longitudinal strain (GLS) measured by 2-dimensional longitudinal speckle-tracking echocardiography may be a more sensitive measure of left ventricular (LV) mechanics than conventional LV ejection fraction (EF) to characterize adverse post-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) remodeling. The aim of the present evaluation was to compare changes in LV GLS in patients with versus without diabetes after the first STEMI. Patients with first STEMI and diabetes (n = 143; age 64 ± 12...
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Cited 6 times since 2015 (0.6 per year)
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The British journal of surgery,
Volume 102, Issue 11, 12 2 2015, Pages 1338-1347
Multicentre randomized clinical trial to investigate the cost-effectiveness of an allogeneic single-donor fibrin sealant after coronary artery bypass grafting (FIBER Study).
Tavilla G, Bruggemans EF, Gielen CL, Brand A, van den Hout WB, Klautz RJ, van Hilten JA
Background: Reduction of blood transfusion in cardiac surgery is an important target. The aim of this study was to investigate the cost-effectiveness of the use of CryoSeal®, an allogeneic single-donor fibrin sealant, in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Methods: This randomized clinical study involved seven cardiac surgery centres in the Netherlands. Patients undergoing elective isolated CABG with the use of at least one internal thoracic artery (ITA) graft were assign...
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Cited 30 times since 2015 (3.1 per year)
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BMJ open,
Volume 5, Issue 8, 11 2 2015, Pages e008808
Heavier smoking may lead to a relative increase in waist circumference: evidence for a causal relationship from a Mendelian randomisation meta-analysis. The CARTA consortium.
Morris RW, Taylor AE, Fluharty ME, Bjørngaard JH, Åsvold BO, Elvestad Gabrielsen M, Campbell A, Marioni R, Kumari M, Korhonen T, Männistö S, Marques-Vidal P, Kaakinen M, Cavadino A, Postmus I, Husemoen LL, Skaaby T, Ahluwalia TV, Treur JL, Willemsen G, Dale C, Wannamethee SG, Lahti J, Palotie A, Räikkönen K, McConnachie A, Padmanabhan S, Wong A, Dalgård C, Paternoster L, Ben-Shlomo Y, Tyrrell J, Horwood J, Fergusson DM, Kennedy MA, Nohr EA, Christiansen L, Kyvik KO, Kuh D, Watt G, Eriksson JG, Whincup PH, Vink JM, Boomsma DI, Davey Smith G, Lawlor D, Linneberg A, Ford I, Jukema JW, Power C, Hyppönen E, Jarvelin MR, Preisig M, Borodulin K, Kaprio J, Kivimaki M, Smith BH, Hayward C, Romundstad PR, Sørensen TI, Munafò MR, Sattar N
Objectives: To investigate, using a Mendelian randomisation approach, whether heavier smoking is associated with a range of regional adiposity phenotypes, in particular those related to abdominal adiposity. Design: Mendelian randomisation meta-analyses using a genetic variant (rs16969968/rs1051730 in the CHRNA5-CHRNA3-CHRNB4 gene region) as a proxy for smoking heaviness, of the associations of smoking heaviness with a range of adiposity phenotypes. Participants: 148,731 current, former and never...
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Cited 4 times since 2015 (0.4 per year)
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BMC neurology,
Volume 15, 7 1 2015, Pages 133
Association between changes in brain microstructure and cognition in older subjects at increased risk for vascular disease.
Sala M, de Roos A, Blauw GJ, Middelkoop HA, Jukema JW, Mooijaart SP, van Buchem MA, de Craen AJ, van der Grond J
Background: The purpose of this study is to investigate whether changes in brain microstructure, detected by magnetization transfer imaging, are associated with cognition in older subjects at increased risk for vascular disease. Methods: One hundred ninety three nondemented subjects (105 men, mean age 77 ± 3 years) from the Prospective Study of Pravastatin in the Elderly at Risk were included. To assess cross-sectional associations between magnetization transfer ratio (MTR) peak height and cogni...
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Cited 6 times since 2015 (0.6 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 4, 6 1 2015, Pages e64-70
Stopping antiplatelet medication before coronary artery bypass graft surgery: is there an optimal timing to minimize bleeding?
Gielen CL, Bruggemans EF, Stijnen T, Eikenboom J, Tavilla G, Brand A, Klautz RJ
Objectives: As the indication for antiplatelet medication expands, patients may be exposed to an increased risk of excessive blood loss when cardiac surgery is required. The optimal timing to stop acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) or ASA combined with clopidogrel (ASA+Clo) before surgery is the subject of controversy. Methods: A total of 1065 patients were selected from a prospective randomized study on the effect of a fibrin sealant application in coronary artery bypass graft surgery [Fibrin sealant I...
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Cited 15 times since 2015 (1.6 per year)
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Neurology,
Volume 85, Issue 9, 5 1 2015, Pages 783-789
Executive function, but not memory, associates with incident coronary heart disease and stroke.
Rostamian S, van Buchem MA, Westendorp RG, Jukema JW, Mooijaart SP, Sabayan B, de Craen AJ
Objective: To evaluate the association of performance in cognitive domains executive function and memory with incident coronary heart disease and stroke in older participants without dementia. Methods: We included 3,926 participants (mean age 75 years, 44% male) at risk for cardiovascular diseases from the Prospective Study of Pravastatin in the Elderly at Risk (PROSPER) with Mini-Mental State Examination score ≥24 points. Scores on the Stroop Color-Word Test (selective attention) and the Letter...
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Cited 21 times since 2015 (2.2 per year)
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PloS one,
Volume 10, Issue 8, 4 1 2015, Pages e0133888
Optimisations and Challenges Involved in the Creation of Various Bioluminescent and Fluorescent Influenza A Virus Strains for In Vitro and In Vivo Applications.
Spronken MI, Short KR, Herfst S, Bestebroer TM, Vaes VP, van der Hoeven B, Koster AJ, Kremers GJ, Scott DP, Gultyaev AP, Sorell EM, de Graaf M, Bárcena M, Rimmelzwaan GF, Fouchier RA
Bioluminescent and fluorescent influenza A viruses offer new opportunities to study influenza virus replication, tropism and pathogenesis. To date, several influenza A reporter viruses have been described. These strategies typically focused on a single reporter gene (either bioluminescent or fluorescent) in a single virus backbone. However, whilst bioluminescence is suited to in vivo imaging, fluorescent viruses are more appropriate for microscopy. Therefore, the idea l reporter virus varies dep...
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