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Severity of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Lower Respiratory Tract Infection With Viral Coinfection in HIV-Uninfected Children

Mazur, Natalie I; Bont, Louis; Cohen, Adam L; Cohen, Cheryl; von Gottberg, Anne; Groome, Michelle J; Hellferscee, Orienka; Klipstein-Grobusch, Kerstin; Mekgoe, Omphile; Naby, Fathima; Moyes, Jocelyn; Tempia, Stefano; Treurnicht, Florette K; Venter, Marietje; Walaza, Sibongile; Wolter, Nicole; Madhi, Shabir A; South African Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI) Surveillance Group (Oxford University Press, 2017-02-15)

Background. Molecular diagnostics enable sensitive detection of respiratory viruses, but their clinical significance remains unclear in pediatric lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI). We aimed to determine whether viral ...
Activation of silent mating type information regulation 2 homolog 1 by human chorionic gonadotropin exerts a therapeutic effect on hepatic injury and inflammation

Steinmetz, Caroline; Kashyap, Anubha; Zhivkova, Nataliya; Alizor, Henry; Ernst, Isabell; Gottfried-Brand, Daniela; Janssen, Henning; Teufel, Andreas; Schulze-Bergkamen, Henning; Lotz, Johannes; Kuball, Jürgen; Theobald, Matthias; Heise, Michael; Lang, Hauke; Galle, Peter R; Strand, Dennis; Strand, Susanne (John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2017-06-01)

Incidence and prevalence of inflammatory liver diseases has increased over the last years, but therapeutic options are limited. Pregnancy induces a state of immune tolerance, which can result in spontaneous improvement of ...
Connectome Disconnectivity and Cortical Gene Expression in Patients With Schizophrenia

Romme, Ingrid A C; de Reus, Marcel A; Ophoff, Roel A; Kahn, René S; van den Heuvel, Martijn P (Elsevier, 2017-03)

BACKGROUND: Genome-wide association studies have identified several common risk loci for schizophrenia (SCZ). In parallel, neuroimaging studies have shown consistent findings of widespread white matter disconnectivity in ...
Reliability of the Ki67-Labelling Index in Core Needle Biopsies of Luminal Breast Cancers is Unaffected by Biopsy Volume

Focke, C. M.; Decker, T.; van Diest, P. J. (Springer New York, 2017-05)

Background: Assessing prognostic and predictive factors like the Ki67 labelling index (Ki67-LI) in breast cancer core needle biopsies (CNB) may be hampered by undersampling. Our aim was to arrive at a representative ...
Implementation of the Cultural Formulation through a newly developed Brief Cultural Interview: Pilot data from the Netherlands

Groen, S.P.N.; Richters, Annemiek; Laban, Cornelis J.; Devillé, W (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2017-02)

The Outline for a Cultural Formulation (OCF) has remained underutilized in clinical practice since its publication in the DSM-IV in 1994. In the Netherlands, a Cultural Interview (CI) was developed in 2002 as a tool to ...
Risk factors and prognosis of postpericardiotomy syndrome in patients undergoing valve surgery

van Osch, Dirk; Dieleman, Jan M.; Bunge, Jeroen J.; van Dijk, Diederik; Doevendans, Pieter A.; Suyker, Willem J.; Nathoe, Hendrik M.; Cardiac Surgery Study Group (Mosby Inc., 2017-04)

OBJECTIVE: The study aim was to investigate the long-term prognosis and risk factors of postpericardiotomy syndrome (PPS). METHODS: We performed a single-center cohort study in 822 patients undergoing nonemergent valve ...
Does end-of-treatment FDG-PET provide any additional prognostic value to the pre-treatment NCCN-IPI score?

Adams, Hugo J A; Kwee, Thomas C. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017-04-01)
Effect of a single dose of Vitamin D3 on postprandial arterial stiffness and inflammation in Vitamin D-deficient women

de Vries, Marijke A; Van Der Meulen, Noelle; van de Geijn, Gert-Jan M; Klop, Boudewijn; van der Zwan, Ellen M; Prinzen, Lenneke; Birnie, Erwin; Westerman, Elsbeth M; de Herder, Wouter W; Cabezas, Manuel Castro (Endocrine Society, 2017-03-01)

Context: Cholecalciferol (Vitamin D3) improves vascular function and inflammation, potentially providing an explanation for the proposed cardiovascular protection of Vitamin D. Objective: We investigated whether cholecalciferol ...
Comprehensive Diagnostic Assessment of Health Status of Patients with Asthma or COPD: A Delphi Panel Study among Dutch Experts

van den Akker, Edmée F M M; van't Hul, Alex J.; Birnie, Erwin; Chavannes, Niels H.; Rutten-van Mölken, Maureen P M H; In't Veen, Johannes C C M (Informa Healthcare, 2017)

A comprehensive diagnostic assessment is needed to improve understanding of the health status of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or asthma. Therefore, this study investigated which components and ...
Improving peak local SAR prediction in parallel transmit using in situ S-matrix measurements

Restivo, Matthew; Raaijmakers, AJE; van den Berg, CAT; Luijten, Peter; Hoogduin, Hans (John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2017-05)

Purpose: Peak local specific absorption rate (pSAR10g) is an important parameter used to determine patient safety during radiofrequency transmission. pSAR10g predictions for parallel transmit MRI are affected by the level ...
An Antiestrogenic Activity Score for tamoxifen and its metabolites is associated with breast cancer outcome

de Vries Schultink, A. H M; Alexi, X.; van Werkhoven, E.; Madlensky, L.; Natarajan, L.; Flatt, S. W.; Zwart, W.; Linn, S.C.; Parker, B. A.; Wu, A. H B; Pierce, J. P.; Huitema, A. D R; Beijnen, J. H. (Springer New York, 2017-02)

Purpose: Endoxifen concentrations have been associated with breast cancer recurrence in tamoxifen-treated patients. However, tamoxifen itself and other metabolites also show antiestrogenic anti-tumor activity. Therefore, ...
Adapting clinical guidelines in low-resources countries: a study on the guideline on the management and prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Indonesia

Widyahening, Indah S.; Wangge, Grace; van der Graaf, Yolanda; van der Heijden, Geert J M G (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017-02-01)

Rationale, aims and objectives: Most of the clinical guidelines in low-resource countries are adaptations from preexisting international guidelines. This adaptation can be problematic when those international guidelines ...
Life-long tailoring of management for patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Awareness and decision-making in changing scenarios

Michels, M.; Olivotto, I; Asselbergs, F. W.; van der Velden, J. (Bohn Stafleu van Loghum, 2017-03-01)

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common genetic heart disease, characterised by complex pathophysiology and extensive genetic and clinical heterogeneity. In most patients, HCM is caused by mutations in cardiac ...
Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies on the intolerance of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors

Mahmoudpour, Seyed Hamidreza; Veluchamy, Abirami; Siddiqui, Moneeza K; Asselbergs, Folkert W.; Souverein, Patrick C.; de Keyser, Catherine E; Hofman, Albert; Lang, Chim C; Doney, Alexander S F; Stricker, Bruno H.; de Boer, Anthonius; Maitland-van der Zee, Anke H.; Palmer, Colin N. A.; PREDICTION-ADR consortium (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2017)

Objectives To identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with switching from an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE)-inhibitor to an angiotensin receptor blocker. Methods Two cohorts of patients starting ...
Coxiella burnetii (Q fever) prevalence in associated populations of humans and small ruminants in The Gambia

Bok, Jeroen; Hogerwerf, Lenny; Germeraad, Eveline A; Roest, Hendrik I J; Faye-Joof, Tisbeh; Jeng, Momodou; Nwakanma, Davis; Secka, Arss; Stegeman, Arjan; Goossens, Bart; Wegmüller, Rita; van der Sande, Marianne A B; van der Hoek, Wim; Secka, Ousman (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017-03-01)

Objectives: To simultaneously estimate the prevalence of antibodies against Coxiella burnetii (Q fever) among adults and small ruminants, and C. burnetii shedding prevalence among small ruminants in households in the Kiang ...
Lower dose basal insulin infusion has positive effect on glycaemic control for children with type I diabetes on continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion therapy

Schulten, Ron J; Piet, Jessica; Bruijning-Verhagen, Patricia; de Waal, Wouter J (John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2017-02-01)

Objective: The aim of our study was to explore a possible relationship between proportion of basal insulin dose (%BD/T) and glycaemic control in children with type I diabetes on continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion ...
Height Assessment in the Dutch-Origin Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Population

Woestenenk, Janna W.; Gulmans, Vincent A M; Van Der Ent, Cornelis K.; Houwen, Roderick H J (John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2017-02)

Background: Height evaluation is an integral part of cystic fibrosis (CF) care. Height is compared with reference values by converting it to height-for-age (HFA) z scores. However, HFA z scores do not adjust for genetic ...
The unnatural history of pulmonary stenosis up to 40 years after surgical repair

Cuypers, Judith A A E; Menting, Myrthe E; Opić, Petra; Utens, Elisabeth M W J; Helbing, Willem A.; Witsenburg, Maarten; van den Bosch, Annemien E; van Domburg, Ron T.; Baart, Sara J; Boersma, Eric; Meijboom, Folkert J.; Bogers, Ad J. J. C.; Roos-Hesselink, Jolien W (BMJ Publishing Group, 2017-02-15)

Objective: To provide prospective information on long-term outcome after surgical correction of valvular pulmonary stenosis (PS). Methods: Fifty-three consecutive patients operated for PS during childhood between 1968 and ...
Three-dimensional Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Disease: An Expert Consensus Document from the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging and the American Society of Echocardiography

Simpson, John; Lopez, Leo; Acar, Philippe; Friedberg, Mark K; Khoo, Nee S; Ko, Helen; Marek, Jan; Marx, Gerald; McGhie, Jackie S; Meijboom, Folkert; Roberson, David; van den Bosch, Annemien E; Miller, Owen; Shirali, Girish (Mosby Inc., 2017-01-01)

Three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) has become important in the management of patients with congenital heart disease (CHD), particularly with pre-surgical planning, guidance of catheter intervention, and functional ...
Prediction Equations Underestimate Resting Energy Expenditure in Patients with End-Stage Cystic Fibrosis

Hollander-Kraaijeveld, Francis; Kok, Annemieke; de Roos, Nicole M.; Belle-Van Meerkerk, Gerdien; Van De Graaf, Ed A. (John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2017)

Background: Resting energy expenditure (REE) is increased in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) with end-stage lung disease due to chronic inflammation and pulmonary infections. After lung transplantation (LTx), energy ...

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