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Care for community-acquired pneumonia and emerging pneumococcal serotypes

Vestjens, Stefan Mathias Theodorus (Utrecht University, 2020-02-06)

Pneumonia is a common condition that frequently leads to hospitalization. In hospitalized adults Streptococcus pneumoniae, or pneumococcus, is the most prevalent bacterial pathogen causing community-acquired pneumonia ...
MRI safety of implants: transfer function determination from MR images

Tokaya, Janot Philippe (Utrecht University, 2020-01-07)

MRI is often considered to be a risk for patients with medical implants, like pacemakers and deep brain stimulators. The heating around the electrodes of these type of implants that are in contact with human tissue to ...
The extracellular matrix and angiogenesis: Two aspects that define cardiovascular health and disease

Louzao Martinez, Laura (Utrecht University, 2020-01-28)

Two aspects that define cardiovascular health and disease are the extracellular matrix and angiogenesis. The extracellular matrix   During development, ECM remodeling accompanies the formation of distinct tissues. This ...
Prognosis in glioblastoma: A clinical and translational approach

Berendsen, Sharon (Utrecht University, 2020-01-14)

Glioblastoma is a highly malignant brain tumor, and currently remains an incurable disease. Despite intensive treatment strategies, patients have a poor prognosis of 12-16 months. Glioblastoma patients suffer from both an ...
New disease mechanisms in Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy: Focus on calcium sensitive pathways

van Opbergen, Chantal Josephina Maria (Utrecht University, 2020-01-16)

The heart is the most important muscular organ in the body as it provides oxygen and vital nutrients to all tissues within the body and supports excretion of waste products. Nowadays cardiovascular disease is the number ...
Een basaalcelcarcinoom: Met een verrassende histopathologische diagnose

van den Elzen, Mignon; van der Wall, E.; Sigurdsson, V. (DCHG Partners in Mediscne Communicatie, 2019-04-01)

An 87-year-old woman with a history of basal cell carcinoma and two breast carcinomas reported a nodule on the left thorax, clinically suspect for basal cell carcinoma. However, it appeared to be a metastasis of breast ...
Een baby met uitgebreide blaren aan handen en voeten

Thijs, Judith L.; Sigurdsson, V.; de Graaf, M. (DCHG Partners in Mediscne Communicatie, 2019-04-01)

A 6-month-old boy presented to the emergency department because of bullae on hands and feet that existed since one week, and now started to spread rapidly. He also had erythematous plaques on the extremities and trunk and ...
Ernstige urticaria solaris: Licht op een nieuwe behandelmogelijkheid

van Seggelen, Wouter O.; Knulst, A. C.; Sigurdsson, V.; Röckmann, H. (DCHG Partners in Mediscne Communicatie, 2019-04-01)

A 37-year-old woman was referred to the dermatology outpatient clinic presenting with since 4 months severe pruritic wheals after sun exposure. Dermatological examination and light tests confirmed the diagnose of solar ...
Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in HIV infected late presenters starting integrase inhibitor containing antiretroviral therapy

ATHENA National Observational HIV Cohort (Elsevier, 2019-12)

Background: Integrase inhibitors (INI) induce a rapid decline of HIV-RNA in plasma and CD4 + T-cell recovery in blood. Both characteristics are also associated with immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS). Whether ...
En-bloc resection versus conventional transurethral resection for patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer

van Putten, Kim; Vernooij, Robin W.M.; Meijer, Richard P.; Zhu, Xiaoye (John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2019-11-08)

This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Intervention). The objectives are as follows:. To assess the effects of en-bloc resection compared with conventional transurethral resection for the best approach of bladder cancer ...
Dupilumab: Eerste resultaten vanuit het BioDay-register

Ariëns, Lieneke F.M.; van der Schaft, J.; Bakker, D. S.; Balak, D. M.W.; Giovannone, B.; Romeijn, M.; Kouwenhoven, T.; Kamsteeg, M.; Drylewicz, J.; van Wijk, F.; Nierkens, Stefan; Thijs, J. L.; Schuttelaar, M. L.; de Bruin-Weller, M. S. (DCHG Partners in Mediscne Communicatie, 2019)

The effectiveness and safety of dupilumab for the treatment of moderate to severe atopic dermatitis (AD) has been demonstrated in phase III clinical trials. At this moment, daily practice data on dupilumab treatment with ...
Praktische adviezen bij pollengerelateerde voedselallergie

Blankestijn, Mark A.; Le, T. M.; Michelsen-Huisman, A. D.; van Dijk, A. M.; Knulst, A. C. (DCHG Partners in Mediscne Communicatie, 2019-04-01)

Pollen-related food allergies, such as birch pollen-related food allergy, are common in patients with atopic dermatitis. Diagnostics consist of a careful history, combined with assessing sensitization to tree pollen and, ...
Substituting physicians with nurse practitioners, physician assistants or nurses in nursing homes: A realist evaluation case study

Lovink, Marleen Hermien; Laurant, Miranda G.H.; Van Vught, Anneke Jah A.H.; Maassen, Irma; Schoonhoven, Lisette; Persoon, Anke; Koopmans, Raymond T.C.M. (BMJ Publishing Group, 2019-05-24)

Objectives This study aimed to gain insight into how substitution of elderly care physicians (ECPs) by nurse practitioners (NPs), physician assistants (PAs) or registered nurses (RNs) in nursing homes is modelled in different ...
Measuring free-living physical activity with three commercially available activity monitors for telemonitoring purposes: Validation study

Breteler, Martine J.M.; Janssen, Joris H.; Spiering, Wilko; Kalkman, Cor J.; Van Solinge, Wouter W.; Dohmen, Daan A.J. (Journal of medical Internet Research, 2019-04-24)

Background: Remote monitoring of physical activity in patients with chronic conditions could be useful to offer care professionals real-time assessment of their patient's daily activity pattern to adjust appropriate ...
Reply to: Assessing outcomes after adrenalectomy for unliateral primary aldosteronism

International CONNsortium study group (Mosby Inc., 2019-12-01)
Occurrence of an Abscopal Radiation Recall Phenomenon in a Glioblastoma Patient Treated with Nivolumab and Re-Irradiation

Van Seggelen, Wouter O.; De Vos, Filip Y.; Röckmann, Heike; Van Dijk, Marijke R.; Verhoeff, Joost J.C. (S. Karger AG, 2019-09-01)

Glioblastoma multiforme is the most frequent primary brain tumor. The clinical course of glioblastoma is almost invariably fatal. Combined chemo-irradiation with temozolomide is currently the standard of care for newly ...
Cardiovascular disease risk in an urban African population: a cross-sectional analysis on the role of HIV and antiretroviral treatment

Vos, Alinda G; Hoeve, Klariska; Barth, Roos E; Peper, Joyce; Moorhouse, Michelle; Crowther, Nigel J; Venter, Willem D F; Grobbee, Diederick E; Bots, Michiel L; Klipstein-Grobusch, Kerstin (BioMed Central, 2019-12-03)

Background: Life expectancy is increasing in the HIV-positive population and age-related non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, (CVD) are seen more frequently. This study investigated to what extent HIV ...
Effect of preoperative inspiratory muscle training on physical functioning following esophagectomy

Guinan, E. M.; Forde, C.; O’Neill, L.; Gannon, J.; Doyle, S. L.; Valkenet, K.; Trappenburg, J. C.A.; Van Hillegersberg, R.; Ravi, N.; Hussey, J. M.; Reynolds, J. V. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019-02-01)

This study aims to examine the effect of preoperative inspiratory muscle training (IMT) on pre- and postoperative functional exercise performance in patients undergoing esophagectomy. A subcohort of patients recruited to ...
Risk prediction tools in cardiovascular disease prevention: A report from the ESC Prevention of CVD Programme led by the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC) in collaboration with the Acute Cardiovascular Care Association (ACCA) and the Association of Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professions (ACNAP)

Rossello, Xavier; Dorresteijn, Jannick A.N.; Janssen, Arne; Lambrinou, Ekaterini; Scherrenberg, Martijn; Bonnefoy-Cudraz, Eric; Cobain, Mark; Piepoli, Massimo F.; Visseren, Frank L.J.; Dendale, Paul (Elsevier, 2019-10)

Risk assessment and risk prediction have become essential in the prevention of cardiovascular disease. Even though risk prediction tools are recommended in the European guidelines, they are not adequately implemented in ...
Observational study of the medical management of patients with peripheral artery disease

Saratzis, A.; Jaspers, N. E.M.; Gwilym, B.; Thomas, O.; Tsui, A.; Lefroy, R.; Parks, M.; Htun, V.; Mera, Z.; Thatcher, A.; Bosanquet, D.; Forsythe, R.; Benson, R.; Dattani, N.; Dovell, G.; Lane, T.; Shalhoub, J.; Sidloff, D.; Visseren, F. L.J.; Dorresteijn, J. A.N.; Richards, T.; Vascular and Endovascular Research Network (VERN) Collaborators (John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2019-08)

Background: Previous research has suggested that patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) are not offered adequate risk factor modification, despite their high cardiovascular risk. The aim of this study was to assess ...

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