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Cited 4 times since 2014 (0.4 per year) source: Scopus

Perfusion, Volume 30, Issue 4, 1 1 2014, Pages 295-301 Sevoflurane-enriched blood cardioplegia: the intramyocardial delivery of a volatile anesthetic. van der Baan A, Kortekaas KA, van Es E, Meier S, Klautz RJ, Engbers FH

Myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury is a major problem in cardiac surgery, characterized by an enhanced inflammatory response postoperatively. Sevoflurane has anti-inflammatory effects and may attenuate this injury. This study describes a novel approach to using sevoflurane as a local anti-inflammatory drug and not as an anesthetic. Therefore, a pediatric oxygenator with a sevoflurane vaporizer was integrated into the blood cardioplegia system of an adult bypass system. In addition, a gas ble... Abstract

Cited 2 times since 2014 (0.2 per year) source: EuropePMC

Circulation research, Volume 115, Issue 4, 1 1 2014, Pages e6-7 Cardiac anisotropy, regeneration, and rhythm. Pijnappels DA, Schalij MJ, Atsma DE, de Vries AA

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Cited 11 times since 2014 (1 per year) source: EuropePMC

Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation, Volume 22, Issue 7-8, 1 1 2014, Pages 336-343 Cardiologist and cardiac surgeon view on decision-making in prosthetic aortic valve selection: does profession matter? Korteland NM, Kluin J, Klautz RJ, Roos-Hesselink JW, Versteegh MI, Bogers AJ, Takkenberg JJ

Aims: Assess and compare among Dutch cardiothoracic surgeons and cardiologists: opinion on (1) patient involvement, (2) conveying risk in aortic valve selection, and (3) aortic valve preferences. Methods and results: A survey among 117 cardiothoracic surgeons and cardiologists was conducted. Group responses were compared using the Mann-Whitney U test. Most respondents agreed that patients should be involved in decision-making, with surgeons leaning more toward patient involvement (always: 83 % v... Abstract

Cited 76 times since 2014 (7 per year) source: EuropePMC

Cardiovascular research, Volume 104, Issue 1, 31 5 2014, Pages 194-205 Light-induced termination of spiral wave arrhythmias by optogenetic engineering of atrial cardiomyocytes. Bingen BO, Engels MC, Schalij MJ, Jangsangthong W, Neshati Z, Feola I, Ypey DL, Askar SF, Panfilov AV, Pijnappels DA, de Vries AA

Aims: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia and often involves reentrant electrical activation (e.g. spiral waves). Drug therapy for AF can have serious side effects including proarrhythmia, while electrical shock therapy is associated with discomfort and tissue damage. Hypothetically, forced expression and subsequent activation of light-gated cation channels in cardiomyocytes might deliver a depolarizing force sufficient for defibrillation, thereby circumventing the afo... Abstract

Cited 64 times since 2014 (5.9 per year) source: EuropePMC

European heart journal, Volume 35, Issue 38, 25 4 2014, Pages 2627-2638 Open issues in transcatheter aortic valve implantation. Part 1: patient selection and treatment strategy for transcatheter aortic valve implantation. Bax JJ, Delgado V, Bapat V, Baumgartner H, Collet JP, Erbel R, Hamm C, Kappetein AP, Leipsic J, Leon MB, MacCarthy P, Piazza N, Pibarot P, Roberts WC, Rodés-Cabau J, Serruys PW, Thomas M, Vahanian A, Webb J, Zamorano JL, Windecker S

An exponential increase in the use of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in patients with severe aortic stenosis has been witnessed over the recent years. The current article reviews different areas of uncertainty related to patient selection. The use and limitations of risk scores are addressed, followed by an extensive discussion on the value of three-dimensional imaging for prosthesis sizing and the assessment of complex valve anatomy such as degenerated bicuspid valves. The uncer... Abstract

Cited 67 times since 2014 (6.1 per year) source: EuropePMC

European heart journal, Volume 35, Issue 38, 25 4 2014, Pages 2639-2654 Open issues in transcatheter aortic valve implantation. Part 2: procedural issues and outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve implantation. Bax JJ, Delgado V, Bapat V, Baumgartner H, Collet JP, Erbel R, Hamm C, Kappetein AP, Leipsic J, Leon MB, MacCarthy P, Piazza N, Pibarot P, Roberts WC, Rodés-Cabau J, Serruys PW, Thomas M, Vahanian A, Webb J, Zamorano JL, Windecker S

This article provides an overview on procedure-related issues and uncertainties in outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). The different access sites and how to select them in an individual patient are discussed. Also, the occurrence and potential predictors of aortic regurgitation (AR) after TAVI are addressed. The different methods to quantify AR are reviewed, and it appears that accurate and reproducible quantification is suboptimal. Complications such as prosthesis-pat... Abstract

Cited 22 times since 2014 (2 per year) source: EuropePMC

Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology, Volume 25, Issue 9, 24 4 2014, Pages 1012-1020 Impact of pacing site on QRS duration and its relationship to hemodynamic response in cardiac resynchronization therapy for congestive heart failure. Derval N, Bordachar P, Lim HS, Sacher F, Ploux S, Laborderie J, Steendijk P, Deplagne A, Ritter P, Garrigue S, Denis A, Hocini M, Haissaguerre M, Clementy J, Jaïs P

Introduction: Recent studies have demonstrated that left ventricular (LV) pacing site is a critical parameter in optimizing cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). The present study evaluates the effect of pacing from different LV locations on QRS duration (QRSd) and their relationship to acute hemodynamic response in congestive heart failure patients. Methods and results: Thirty-five patients with nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy and left bundle branch block referred for CRT device implantat... Abstract

Cited 19 times since 2014 (1.7 per year) source: EuropePMC

BMC cardiovascular disorders, Volume 14, 18 3 2014, Pages 87 Scarcity of atrial fibrillation in a traditional African population: a community-based study. Koopman JJ, van Bodegom D, Westendorp RG, Jukema JW

Background: In western societies, atrial fibrillation is an increasingly common finding among the elderly. Established risk factors of atrial fibrillation include obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease. Atrial fibrillation has almost exclusively been studied in western populations where these risk factors are widely present. Therefore, we studied the epidemiology of atrial fibrillation in a traditional African community. Methods: In rural Ghana, among 924 individuals aged 50... Abstract

Clinical and experimental rheumatology, Volume 32, Issue 6 Suppl 86, 17 3 2014, Pages S-60-7 Detection of pulmonary vasculopathy by novel analysis of oxygen uptake in patients with systemic sclerosis: association with pulmonary arterial pressures. Ninaber MK, Hamersma WB, Schouffoer AA, Kovacs G, Olschewski H, Holman ER, Ajmone Marsan N, Stolk J

Objectives: During cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) compromised pulmonary vasculature in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) may lead to increases in pulmonary arterial pressures (PAP) and decreased oxygen uptake. We hypothesised that this may lead into a disproportional heart rate (HR) increase with a corresponding V'O₂/HR breakpoint and relates to systolic PAP at rest. Methods: In a prospective design we evaluated V'O₂/HR slopes for breakpoints. To understand its physiologi... Abstract

Cited 96 times since 2014 (8.8 per year) source: EuropePMC

Heart (British Cardiac Society), Volume 100, Issue 17, 17 3 2014, Pages 1373-1381 Prospective validation and assessment of cardiovascular and offspring risk models for pregnant women with congenital heart disease. Balci A, Sollie-Szarynska KM, van der Bijl AG, Ruys TP, Mulder BJ, Roos-Hesselink JW, van Dijk AP, Wajon EM, Vliegen HW, Drenthen W, Hillege HL, Aarnoudse JG, van Veldhuisen DJ, Pieper PG, ZAHARA-II investigators

Objectives: Adequate prepregnancy prediction of maternal cardiovascular and offspring risk is important for counselling and management of pregnancy in women with congenital heart disease (CHD). Therefore we performed a study to identify the optimal assessment strategy for estimating the risk of pregnancy in women with CHD. Methods: In this prospective study, we determined the outcomes of 213 pregnancies in 203 women with CHD. The ZAHARA I (Zwangerschap bij Aangeboren HARtAfwijkingen I) and CARPR... Abstract

Cited 61 times since 2014 (5.6 per year) source: EuropePMC

JACC. Cardiovascular imaging, Volume 7, Issue 8, 16 3 2014, Pages 774-784 CMR-based identification of critical isthmus sites of ischemic and nonischemic ventricular tachycardia. Piers SR, Tao Q, de Riva Silva M, Siebelink HM, Schalij MJ, van der Geest RJ, Zeppenfeld K

Objectives: This study evaluates whether contrast-enhanced (CE) cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) can be used to identify critical isthmus sites for ventricular tachycardia (VT) in ischemic and nonischemic heart disease. Background: Fibrosis interspersed with viable myocytes may cause re-entrant VT. CE-CMR has the ability to accurately delineate fibrosis. Methods: Patients who underwent VT ablation with CE-CMR integration were included. After the procedure, critical isthmus sites (defined as site... Abstract

Cited 1 times since 2014 (0.1 per year) source: EuropePMC

PloS one, Volume 9, Issue 7, 16 3 2014, Pages e102433 Development of a lentivirus vector-based assay for non-destructive monitoring of cell fusion activity. Neshati Z, Liu J, Zhou G, Schalij MJ, de Vries AA

Cell-to-cell fusion can be quantified by endowing acceptor and donor cells with latent reporter genes/proteins and activators of these genes/proteins, respectively. One way to accomplish this goal is by using a bipartite lentivirus vector (LV)-based cell fusion assay system in which the cellular fusion partners are transduced with a flippase-activatable Photinus pyralis luciferase (PpLuc) expression unit (acceptor cells) or with a recombinant gene encoding FLPeNLS+, a nuclear-targeted and molecu... Abstract

Cited 424 times since 2014 (38.6 per year) source: EuropePMC

BMJ (Clinical research ed.), Volume 349, 10 2 2014, Pages g4164 Association between alcohol and cardiovascular disease: Mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data. Holmes MV, Dale CE, Zuccolo L, Silverwood RJ, Guo Y, Ye Z, Prieto-Merino D, Dehghan A, Trompet S, Wong A, Cavadino A, Drogan D, Padmanabhan S, Li S, Yesupriya A, Leusink M, Sundstrom J, Hubacek JA, Pikhart H, Swerdlow DI, Panayiotou AG, Borinskaya SA, Finan C, Shah S, Kuchenbaecker KB, Shah T, Engmann J, Folkersen L, Eriksson P, Ricceri F, Melander O, Sacerdote C, Gamble DM, Rayaprolu S, Ross OA, McLachlan S, Vikhireva O, Sluijs I, Scott RA, Adamkova V, Flicker L, Bockxmeer FM, Power C, Marques-Vidal P, Meade T, Marmot MG, Ferro JM, Paulos-Pinheiro S, Humphries SE, Talmud PJ, Mateo Leach I, Verweij N, Linneberg A, Skaaby T, Doevendans PA, Cramer MJ, van der Harst P, Klungel OH, Dowling NF, Dominiczak AF, Kumari M, Nicolaides AN, Weikert C, Boeing H, Ebrahim S, Gaunt TR, Price JF, Lannfelt L, Peasey A, Kubinova R, Pajak A, Malyutina S, Voevoda MI, Tamosiunas A, Maitland-van der Zee AH, Norman PE, Hankey GJ, Bergmann MM, Hofman A, Franco OH, Cooper J, Palmen J, Spiering W, de Jong PA, Kuh D, Hardy R, Uitterlind

Objective: To use the rs1229984 variant in the alcohol dehydrogenase 1B gene (ADH1B) as an instrument to investigate the causal role of alcohol in cardiovascular disease. Design: Mendelian randomisation meta-analysis of 56 epidemiological studies. Participants: 261 991 individuals of European descent, including 20 259 coronary heart disease cases and 10 164 stroke events. Data were available on ADH1B rs1229984 variant, alcohol phenotypes, and cardiovascular biomarkers. Main outcome measures: Odd... Abstract

Cited 12 times since 2014 (1.1 per year) source: EuropePMC

Annals of neurology, Volume 76, Issue 2, 9 2 2014, Pages 213-222 N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide and cognitive decline in older adults at high cardiovascular risk. Wijsman LW, Sabayan B, van Vliet P, Trompet S, de Ruijter W, Poortvliet RK, van Peet PG, Gussekloo J, Jukema JW, Stott DJ, Sattar N, Ford I, Westendorp RG, de Craen AJ, Mooijaart SP

Objective: Elevated levels of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) are associated with cognitive impairment, which might be explained by cardiovascular diseases or risk factors. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of NT-proBNP with cognitive function and decline in older adults at high risk of cardiovascular disease. Methods: We studied 5,205 men and women (mean age = 75 years) who were recruited into the PROspective Study of Pravastatin in the Elderly at Ris... Abstract

Cited 7 times since 2014 (0.6 per year) source: EuropePMC

International journal of cardiology, Volume 175, Issue 3, 2 1 2014, Pages 539-544 Predictors of response to intramyocardial bone marrow cell treatment in patients with refractory angina and chronic myocardial ischemia. Rodrigo SF, van Ramshorst J, Mann I, Leong DP, Cannegieter SC, Al Younis I, Dibbets-Schneider P, de Roos A, Fibbe WE, Zwaginga JJ, Bax JJ, Schalij MJ, Beeres SL, Atsma DE

Background: We previously showed that intramyocardial bone marrow cell (BMC) injection in patients with refractory angina and chronic myocardial ischemia improves myocardial perfusion, cardiac function and disease-related complaints. Treatment effect varied between patients, but the predictors of response remain to be identified. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to assess whether patient characteristics, procedural data and baseline measurements influence the response to intramyocardi... Abstract

Cited 11 times since 2014 (1 per year) source: EuropePMC

EuroIntervention : journal of EuroPCR in collaboration with the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology, Volume 10, Issue 3, 1 1 2014, Pages 364-371 Geometry of left atrial appendage assessed with multidetector-row computed tomography: implications for transcatheter closure devices. van Rosendael PJ, Katsanos S, van den Brink OW, Scholte AJ, Trines SA, Bax JJ, Schalij MJ, Marsan NA, Delgado V

Aims: To assess the left atrial appendage (LAA) geometry with multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT) and its implications for selection of closure devices. Methods and results: One hundred and ninety-seven patients who underwent MDCT prior to catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation were evaluated. Feasibility for Watchman and Amplatzer Cardiac Plug (ACP) devices was assessed based on the maximal cross-sectional diameter and perimeter of the ostium and at 10 mm depth and on the LAA diamet... Abstract

Cited 44 times since 2014 (4 per year) source: EuropePMC

Journal of cellular and molecular medicine, Volume 18, Issue 8, 1 1 2014, Pages 1509-1518 Serum supplemented culture medium masks hypertrophic phenotypes in human pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes. Dambrot C, Braam SR, Tertoolen LG, Birket M, Atsma DE, Mummery CL

It has been known for over 20 years that foetal calf serum can induce hypertrophy in cultured cardiomyocytes but this is rarely considered when examining cardiomyocytes derived from pluripotent stem cells (PSC). Here, we determined how serum affected cardiomyocytes from human embryonic- (hESC) and induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) and hiPSC from patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy linked to a mutation in the MYBPC3 gene. We first confirmed previously published hypertrophic effects of... Abstract

Cited 14 times since 2014 (1.3 per year) source: EuropePMC

World journal of surgery, Volume 38, Issue 7, 1 1 2014, Pages 1713-1718 Incidence and epidemiology of casualties treated at the Dutch role 2 enhanced medical treatment facility at multi national base Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan in the period 2006-2010. Hoencamp R, Idenburg FJ, Hamming JF, Tan EC

Background: To improve care for the injured service member, we have analyzed battle casualty patterns and mechanisms. This study is the first documented report of wounding patterns and mechanisms of battle casualties treated at the Dutch role 2 enhanced medical treatment facility at the multi-national base Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan, Afghanistan. Methods: Participants were selected from the trauma registry at the Dutch role 2 enhanced medical treatment facility if they fitted the criteria 'battle... Abstract

Cited 9 times since 2014 (0.8 per year) source: EuropePMC

International journal of cardiology, Volume 176, Issue 1, 28 4 2014, Pages 40-47 Beneficial effect of high dose statins on the vascular wall in patients with repaired aortic coarctation? Luijendijk P, Bouma BJ, Vriend JW, Groenink M, Vliegen HW, de Groot E, Pieper PG, van Dijk AP, Sieswerda GT, Konings TC, Stroes ES, Zwinderman AH, Mulder BJ

Background: Carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) is a marker for atherosclerosis. Adult post-coarctectomy patients (CoA) demonstrate an increased cardiovascular risk and increased CIMT compared to controls. This study evaluates the effect of high dose statins on the change in CIMT and cardiovascular risk. Methods: We designed a multicenter, prospective, randomized, open label trial with blinded endpoint (PROBE design) to evaluate the effect of three year treatment with atorvastatin 80 mg on CIM... Abstract

Cited 3 times since 2014 (0.3 per year) source: EuropePMC

Journal of cardiovascular computed tomography, Volume 8, Issue 4, 27 4 2014, Pages 299-306 Aortic valve and aortic root features in CT angiography in patients considered for aortic valve repair. Regeer MV, Kamperidis V, Versteegh MI, Klautz RJ, Scholte AJ, Bax JJ, Schalij MJ, Marsan NA, Delgado V

Background: The underlying mechanism of aortic regurgitation and aortic valve and root characteristics are associated with the durability of surgical repair. Objective: We investigated whether multidetector CT (MDCT) identifies the characteristics of the aortic valve and root that may be associated with the ability to perform successful surgical repair. Methods: Sixty-one patients with aortic regurgitation and/or aortic root pathology who were evaluated for aortic valve or root repair and underw... Abstract