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Journal of vascular surgery,
Volume 46, Issue 2, 1 1 2007, Pages 403; author reply 403-4
Regarding "Initial results of wireless pressure sensing for endovascular aneurysm repair: The APEX trial--Acute Pressure Measurement to Confirm Aneurysm Sac EXclusion".
Hinnen JW, Koning OH, Van Bockel HJ, Hamming JF
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Cited 47 times since 2007 (2.6 per year)
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American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation,
Volume 50, Issue 2, 1 1 2007, Pages 219-228
Temporary worsening of renal function after aortic surgery is associated with higher long-term mortality.
Welten GM, Schouten O, Chonchol M, Hoeks SE, Feringa HH, Bax JJ, Dunkelgrün M, van Gestel YR, van Domburg RT, Poldermans D
Background: Little is known about acute changes in renal function in the postoperative period and the outcome of patients undergoing major vascular surgery. Specifically, data are scarce for patients in whom renal function temporarily decreases and returns to baseline at 3 days after surgery. Study design: Retrospective cohort study. Setting & participants: 1,324 patients who underwent elective open abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery in a single center. Predictor: Renal function (creatinine c...
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Cited 20 times since 2007 (1.1 per year)
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The Annals of thoracic surgery,
Volume 84, Issue 2, 1 1 2007, Pages 599-605
Right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction with the bovine jugular vein graft: 5 years' experience with 133 patients.
Sekarski N, van Meir H, Rijlaarsdam ME, Schoof PH, Koolbergen DR, Hruda J, von Segesser LK, Meijboom EJ, Hazekamp MG
Background: We analyzed the results in two centers of using bovine jugular vein graft for right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction. Methods: From April 1999 to July 2005, 133 children with a median age of 30.9 months (range, 4 days to 19 years) underwent graft implantation. Echocardiography was performed during follow-up and retrospectively reviewed. Results: Nongraft-related early mortality occurred in 8 patients. Late mortality occurred in 11 patients, 2 late deaths were graft related (e...
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Cited 37 times since 2007 (2 per year)
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The Journal of rheumatology,
Volume 34, Issue 9, 1 1 2007, Pages 1882-1887
Serum uric acid levels and risk for vascular diseases in patients with metabolic syndrome.
Hjortnaes J, Algra A, Olijhoek J, Huisman M, Jacobs J, van der Graaf Y, Visseren F
Objective: Gout and increased serum uric acid (SUA) levels are often seen in patients with components of the metabolic syndrome. Increased SUA levels are associated with increased vascular risk, as is the metabolic syndrome. We investigated the association between SUA levels and the metabolic syndrome in a population of patients with manifest vascular disease to determine whether SUA levels convey an independent risk for vascular disease in patients with the metabolic syndrome. Methods: A nested...
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Cited 14 times since 2007 (0.8 per year)
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Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy,
Volume 8, Issue 12, 1 1 2007, Pages 1787-1799
Pharmacogenetics and paediatric drug development: issues and consequences to labelling and dosing recommendations.
Krekels EH, van den Anker JN, Baiardi P, Cella M, Cheng KY, Gibb DM, Green H, Iolascon A, Jacqz-Aigrain EM, Knibbe CA, Santen GW, van Schaik RH, Tibboel D, Della Pasqua OE
The area of pharmacogenetics (PGt) is evolving rapidly. However, ongoing efforts in this field are not aligned with the requirements for the inclusion of clinically relevant findings into the label, especially with reference to paediatric indications. Clinical research in children poses unique issues from a practical and technical perspective, but many challenges can be overcome by applying advanced study design and data analysis methods. When investigating the role of PGt factors on treatment e...
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Cited 64 times since 2007 (3.5 per year)
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The Behavioral and brain sciences,
Volume 30, Issue 4, 1 1 2007, Pages 393-407; discussion 407-32
Animal innovation defined and operationalized.
Ramsey G, Bastian ML, van Schaik C
Innovation is a key component of most definitions of culture and intelligence. Additionally, innovations may affect a species' ecology and evolution. Nonetheless, conceptual and empirical work on innovation has only recently begun. In particular, largely because the existing operational definition (first occurrence in a population) requires long-term studies of populations, there has been no systematic study of innovation in wild animals. To facilitate such study, we have produced a new def...
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Acta cardiologica,
Volume 62, Issue 4, 1 1 2007, Pages 367-372
Hypertension as a predictor of adverse cardiac events in patients with borderline fractional flow reserve.
Arslan F, Kaya MG, van der Heijden G, Timurkaynak T, Cengel A
Objective: The cut-off value myocardial fractional flow reserve (FFRmyo) < 0.75 identifies patients with clinically significant coronary stenosis. Normally PCI is deferred with a FFRmyo > or = 0.75. Other clinical characteristics may affect such treatment decision. Therefore, we studied the association between baseline characteristics and clinical outcomes in an unselected patient cohort with coronary artery disease, with intermediate coronary stenosis, initially referred for PCI, but in w...
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Cited 27 times since 2007 (1.5 per year)
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Molecular psychiatry,
Volume 13, Issue 6, 31 5 2007, Pages 597-605
Association of graded allele-specific changes in CYP2D6 function with imipramine dose requirement in a large group of depressed patients.
Schenk PW, van Fessem MA, Verploegh-Van Rij S, Mathot RA, van Gelder T, Vulto AG, van Vliet M, Lindemans J, Bruijn JA, van Schaik RH
The inactivation and clearance of the tricyclic antidepressant imipramine is dependent on CYP2D6 activity. First, CYP2C19 converts imipramine into the active metabolite desipramine, which is then inactivated by CYP2D6. This retrospective single center study aimed to prove whether CYP2C19 and ample CYP2D6 genotyping (taking into consideration four null alleles and three decreased-activity alleles) could be used to predict imipramine and desipramine plasma concentrations in depressed patients, and...
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Cited 25 times since 2007 (1.4 per year)
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Journal of vascular surgery,
Volume 46, Issue 3, 30 5 2007, Pages 507-512
Poor health-related quality of life in patients with peripheral arterial disease: type D personality and severity of peripheral arterial disease as independent predictors.
Aquarius AE, Denollet J, de Vries J, Hamming JF
Background: Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is associated with poor health-related quality of life (HRQOL), but individual differences in this patient-based outcome are not fully understood. We examined the impact of PAD severity, invasive treatment, and type D personality, defined as tendencies to experience negative emotions and be socially inhibited, on HRQOL in a 1-year follow-up study. Method: At their first visit to the department of surgery at the St. Elisabeth Hospital in Tilburg, The...
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Cited 419 times since 2007 (22.8 per year)
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Circulation,
Volume 116, Issue 6, 23 4 2007, Pages 637-647
Utility of Doppler echocardiography and tissue Doppler imaging in the estimation of diastolic function in heart failure with normal ejection fraction: a comparative Doppler-conductance catheterization study.
Kasner M, Westermann D, Steendijk P, Gaub R, Wilkenshoff U, Weitmann K, Hoffmann W, Poller W, Schultheiss HP, Pauschinger M, Tschöpe C
Background: Various conventional and tissue Doppler echocardiographic indexes were compared with pressure-volume loop analysis to assess their accuracy in detecting left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction in patients with heart failure with normal ejection fraction (HFNEF). Methods and results: Diastolic dysfunction was confirmed by pressure-volume loop analysis obtained by conductance catheter in 43 patients (19 men) with HFNEF. Their Doppler indexes were compared with those of 12 control p...
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Cited 118 times since 2007 (6.4 per year)
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Heart (British Cardiac Society),
Volume 94, Issue 3, 23 4 2007, Pages 290-295
Prevalence of coronary artery disease and plaque morphology assessed by multi-slice computed tomography coronary angiography and calcium scoring in asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes.
Scholte AJ, Schuijf JD, Kharagjitsingh AV, Jukema JW, Pundziute G, van der Wall EE, Bax JJ
Objective: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the prevalence of CAD as well as plaque morphology in asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes using multi-slice computed tomography (MSCT). In addition, the relation between calcium score and MSCT findings was explored. Design: In 70 patients, coronary calcium scoring and non-invasive coronary angiography were performed. Angiograms showing atherosclerosis were further classified as obstructive (> or =50% luminal narrowing) CAD or not. Pla...
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Cited 28 times since 2007 (1.5 per year)
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American journal of epidemiology,
Volume 166, Issue 7, 21 3 2007, Pages 841-851
An algorithm to estimate the importance of bacterial acquisition routes in hospital settings.
Bootsma MC, Bonten MJ, Nijssen S, Fluit AC, Diekmann O
An algorithm is presented to calculate likelihoods of acquisition routes using only individual patient data concerning period of stay and microbiologic surveillance (without genotyping). The algorithm also produces estimates for the prevalence and the number of acquisitions by each route. The algorithm is applied to colonization data of third-generation cephalosporin-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) from September 2001 to May 2002 in two intensive care units (ICUs) (n = 277 and n = 180, respec...
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Cited 41 times since 2007 (2.2 per year)
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American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology,
Volume 293, Issue 4, 20 3 2007, Pages H2438-47
Mesenchymal stem cells from ischemic heart disease patients improve left ventricular function after acute myocardial infarction.
Grauss RW, Winter EM, van Tuyn J, Pijnappels DA, Steijn RV, Hogers B, van der Geest RJ, de Vries AA, Steendijk P, van der Laarse A, Gittenberger-de Groot AC, Schalij MJ, Atsma DE
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from healthy donors improve cardiac function in experimental acute myocardial infarction (AMI) models. However, little is known about the therapeutic capacity of human MSCs (hMSCs) from patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD). Therefore, the behavior of hMSCs from IHD patients in an immune-compromised mouse AMI model was studied. Enhanced green fluorescent protein-labeled hMSCs from IHD patients (hMSC group: 2 x 10(5) cells in 20 microl, n = 12) or vehicle only (...
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Cited 27 times since 2007 (1.5 per year)
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Veterinary parasitology,
Volume 148, Issue 2, 20 3 2007, Pages 83-92
Quantification of vertical and horizontal transmission of Neospora caninum infection in Dutch dairy herds.
Bartels CJ, Huinink I, Beiboer ML, van Schaik G, Wouda W, Dijkstra T, Stegeman A
Ninety-six of 108 randomly selected Dutch dairy herds had one or more cows with a positive serostatus for N. caninum. In these 96 herds, we have quantified the probabilities of vertical transmission (VT) and horizontal transmission (HT) of N. caninum infection by combining serostatus and pedigree data in 4091 dam-daughter pairs. The probability of animals infected by vertical transmission during pregnancy (Prob(VT)) was calculated as the proportion of seropositive daughters among daughters of se...
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Cited 3 times since 2007 (0.2 per year)
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The Journal of urology,
Volume 178, Issue 3 Pt 1, 20 3 2007, Pages 1097-1103
Tubular and interstitial nephrocalcinosis.
Kummeling MT, de Jong BW, Laffeber C, Kok DJ, Verhagen PC, van Leenders GJ, van Schaik RH, van Woerden CS, Verhulst A, Verkoelen CF
Purpose: We determined whether nephrocalcinosis is common and whether its detection is influenced by renal tissue processing. Materials and methods: Renal cortical and papillary tissue was obtained from the unaffected parts of 15 kidneys removed due to an oncological indication. The effect of tissue processing on the loss of crystals was studied in a kidney with nephrocalcinosis due to chronic pyelonephritis. Immediately frozen and formaldehyde fixed sections were analyzed by polarized light and...
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Cited 61 times since 2007 (3.3 per year)
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European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery,
Volume 32, Issue 3, 19 3 2007, Pages 449-456
Diaphragm plication in adult patients with diaphragm paralysis leads to long-term improvement of pulmonary function and level of dyspnea.
Versteegh MI, Braun J, Voigt PG, Bosman DB, Stolk J, Rabe KF, Dion RA
Objective: There is still controversy about the feasibility and long-term outcome of surgical treatment of acquired diaphragm paralysis. We analyzed the long-term effects on pulmonary function and level of dyspnea after unilateral or bilateral diaphragm plication. Methods: Between December 1996 and January 2006, 22 consecutive patients underwent diaphragm plication. Before surgery, spirometry in both seated and supine positions and a Baseline Dyspnea Index were assessed. The uncut diaphragm was...
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Cited 45 times since 2007 (2.5 per year)
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The American journal of cardiology,
Volume 100, Issue 7, 18 3 2007, Pages 1094-1098
Intramyocardial injection of autologous bone marrow mononuclear cells in patients with chronic myocardial infarction and severe left ventricular dysfunction.
Beeres SL, Bax JJ, Dibbets-Schneider P, Stokkel MP, Fibbe WE, van der Wall EE, Schalij MJ, Atsma DE
The present study investigated the safety, feasibility, and potential efficacy of autologous bone marrow cell injection in patients with chronic myocardial infarction and severe left ventricular (LV) dysfunction. In 15 patients (63 +/- 9 years; 14 men) bone marrow was aspirated from the iliac crest. Using the NOGA system (Biosense-Webster, Waterloo, Belgium), 94 +/- 14 x 10(6) bone marrow-derived mononuclear cells were injected into the infarction border zone. Bone marrow cell injection was perf...
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Cited 86 times since 2007 (4.7 per year)
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Journal of the American College of Cardiology,
Volume 50, Issue 5, 16 3 2007, Pages 397-405
Acute Myocardial Infarction with Hyperoxemic Therapy (AMIHOT): a prospective, randomized trial of intracoronary hyperoxemic reperfusion after percutaneous coronary intervention.
O'Neill WW, Martin JL, Dixon SR, Bartorelli AL, Trabattoni D, Oemrawsingh PV, Atsma DE, Chang M, Marquardt W, Oh JK, Krucoff MW, Gibbons RJ, Spears JR, AMIHOT Investigators
Objectives: This study sought to determine whether hyperoxemic reperfusion with aqueous oxygen (AO) improves recovery of ventricular function after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Background: Hyperbaric oxygen reduces myocardial injury and improves ventricular function when administered during ischemia-reperfusion. Methods: In a prospective, multicenter study, 269 patients with acute anterior or large inferior AMI undergoing primary or rescue PCI (
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Heart rhythm,
Volume 4, Issue 10, 14 2 2007, Pages 1336-1337
Pacemaking in the AV node.
Swenne CA, Schalij MJ
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Cited 393 times since 2007 (21.4 per year)
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Circulation,
Volume 116, Issue 5, 9 2 2007, Pages 545-551
Preoperative thresholds for pulmonary valve replacement in patients with corrected tetralogy of Fallot using cardiovascular magnetic resonance.
Oosterhof T, van Straten A, Vliegen HW, Meijboom FJ, van Dijk AP, Spijkerboer AM, Bouma BJ, Zwinderman AH, Hazekamp MG, de Roos A, Mulder BJ
Background: To facilitate the optimal timing of pulmonary valve replacement, we analyzed preoperative thresholds of right ventricular (RV) volumes above which no decrease or normalization of RV size takes place after surgery. Methods and results: Between 1993 and 2006, 71 adult patients with corrected tetralogy of Fallot underwent pulmonary valve replacement in a nationwide, prospective follow-up study. Patients were evaluated with cardiovascular magnetic resonance both preoperatively and postop...
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