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  • Patient acceptable symptom state in scleroderma: Results from the tocilizumab compared with placebo trial in active diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis 
    Arnold, Michael B.; Khanna, Dinesh; Denton, Christopher P.; van Laar, Jacob M.; Frech, Tracy M.; Anderson, Marina E.; Baron, Murray; Chung, Lorinda; Fierlbeck, Gerhard; Lakshminarayanan, Santhanam; Allanore, Yannick; Riemekasten, Gabriela; Steen, Virginia; Müller-Ladner, Ulf; Spotswood, Helen; Burke, Laura; Siegel, Jeffrey; Jahreis, Angelika; Furst, Daniel E.; Pope, Janet E. (Oxford University Press, 2018-01)
    Objectives. Patient acceptable symptom state (PASS) as an absolute state of well-being has shown promise as an outcome measure in many rheumatologic conditions. We aimed to assess whether PASS may be effective in active ...
  • Disability, fatigue, pain and their associates in early diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis: The European Scleroderma Observational Study 
    Peytrignet, Sébastien; Denton, Christopher P.; Lunt, Mark; Hesselstrand, Roger; Mouthon, Luc; Silman, Alan; Pan, Xiaoyan; Brown, Edith; Czirják, László; Distler, Jörg H.W.; Distler, Oliver; Fligelstone, Kim; Gregory, William J.; Ochiel, Rachel; Vonk, Madelon; Ancuţa, Codrina; Ong, Voon H.; Farge, Dominique; Hudson, Marie; Matucci-Cerinic, Marco; Balbir-Gurman, Alexandra; Midtvedt, Øyvind; Jordan, Alison C.; Stevens, Wendy; Moinzadeh, Pia; Hall, Frances C.; Agard, Christian; Anderson, Marina E.; Diot, Elisabeth; Madhok, Rajan; Akil, Mohammed; Buch, Maya H.; Chung, Lorinda; Damjanov, Nemanja; Gunawardena, Harsha; Lanyon, Peter; Ahmad, Yasmeen; Chakravarty, Kuntal; Jacobsen, Søren; MacGregor, Alexander J.; McHugh, Neil; Müller-Ladner, Ulf; Riemekasten, Gabriela; Becker, Michael; Roddy, Janet; Carreira, Patricia E.; Fauchais, Anne Laure; Hachulla, Eric; Hamilton, Jennifer; van Laar, Jacob M.; ESOS investigators (Oxford University Press, 2018-02-01)
    Objectives. Our aim was to describe the burden of early dcSSc in terms of disability, fatigue and pain in the European Scleroderma Observational Study cohort, and to explore associated clinical features. Methods. Patients ...
  • Patterns and predictors of skin score change in early diffuse systemic sclerosis from the European Scleroderma Observational Study 
    Herrick, Ariane L.; Peytrignet, Sebastien; Lunt, Mark; Pan, Xiaoyan; Hesselstrand, Roger; Mouthon, Luc; Silman, Alan J.; DInsdale, Graham; Brown, Edith; Czirják, László; DIstler, Jörg H.W.; DIstler, Oliver; Fligelstone, Kim; Gregory, William J.; Ochiel, Rachel; Vonk, Madelon C.; Ancu, Codrina; Ong, Voon H.; Farge, Dominique; Hudson, Marie; Matucci-Cerinic, Marco; Balbir-Gurman, Alexandra; Midtvedt, Øyvind; Jobanputra, Paresh; Jordan, Alison C.; Stevens, Wendy; Moinzadeh, Pia; Hall, Frances C.; Agard, Christian; Anderson, Marina E.; DIot, Elisabeth; Madhok, Rajan; Akil, Mohammed; Buch, Maya H.; Chung, Lorinda; Damjanov, Nemanja S.; Gunawardena, Harsha; Lanyon, Peter; Ahmad, Yasmeen; Chakravarty, Kuntal; Jacobsen, Søren; MacGregor, Alexander J.; McHugh, Neil; Müller-Ladner, Ulf; Riemekasten, Gabriela; Becker, Michael; Roddy, Janet; Carreira, Patricia E.; Fauchais, Anne Laure; Van Laar, Jacob M.; ESOS investigators (Elsevier, 2018-04)
    Objectives Our aim was to use the opportunity provided by the European Scleroderma Observational Study to (1) identify and describe those patients with early diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis (dcSSc) with progressive ...
  • Brief Report: Smoking in Systemic Sclerosis: A Longitudinal European Scleroderma Trials and Research Group Study 
    EUSTAR coauthors (John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2018-11)
    Objective: Data on the role of tobacco exposure in systemic sclerosis (SSc; scleroderma) severity and progression are scarce. We aimed to assess the effects of smoking on the evolution of pulmonary and skin manifestations, ...
  • Sjögren's syndrome: State of the art on clinical practice guidelines 
    Romão, Vasco C.; Talarico, Rosaria; Scirè, Carlo Alberto; Vieira, Ana; Alexander, Tobias; Baldini, Chiara; Gottenberg, Jacques Eric; Gruner, Heidi; Hachulla, Eric; Mouthon, Luc; Orlandi, Martina; Pamfil, Cristina; Pineton De Chambrun, Marc; Taglietti, Marco; Toplak, Natasa; Van Daele, Paul; Van Laar, Jacob M.; Bombardieri, Stefano; Schneider, Matthias; Smith, Vanessa; Cutolo, Maurizio; Mosca, Marta; Mariette, Xavier (BMJ Publishing Group, 2018-10-01)
    Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is a complex autoimmune rheumatic disease that specifically targets salivary and lachrymal glands. As such, patients typically had ocular and oral dryness and salivary gland swelling. Moreover, skin, ...
  • Systemic sclerosis: State of the art on clinical practice guidelines 
    Smith, Vanessa; Scirè, Carlo Alberto; Talarico, Rosaria; Airo, Paolo; Alexander, Tobias; Allanore, Yannick; Bruni, Cosimo; Codullo, Veronica; Dalm, Virgil; De Vries-Bouwstra, Jeska; Della Rossa, Alessandra; Distler, Oliver; Galetti, Ilaria; Launay, David; Lepri, Gemma; Mathian, Alexis; Mouthon, Luc; Ruaro, Barbara; Sulli, Alberto; Tincani, Angela; Vandecasteele, Els; Vanhaecke, Amber; Vanthuyne, Marie; Van Den Hoogen, Frank; Van Vollenhoven, Ronald; Voskuyl, Alexandre E.; Zanatta, Elisabetta; Bombardieri, Stefano; Burmester, Gerd; Eurico, Fonseca João; Frank, Charissa; Hachulla, Eric; Houssiau, Frederic; Mueller-Ladner, Ulf; Schneider, Matthias; Van Laar, Jacob M.; Vieira, Ana; Cutolo, Maurizio; Mosca, Marta; Matucci-Cerinic, Marco (BMJ Publishing Group, 2018-10-01)
    Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an orphan disease characterised by autoimmunity, fibrosis of the skin and internal organs, and vasculopathy. SSc may be associated with high morbidity and mortality. In this narrative review we ...
  • Advance care planning in patients with advanced cancer: A 6-country, cluster-randomised clinical trial 
    Korfage, Ida J.; Carreras, Giulia; Arnfeldt Christensen, Caroline M.; Billekens, Pascalle; Bramley, Louise; Briggs, Linda; Bulli, Francesco; Caswell, Glenys; Červ, Branka; van Delden, Johannes J.M.; Deliens, Luc; Dunleavy, Lesley; Eecloo, Kim; Gorini, Giuseppe; Groenvold, Mogens; Hammes, Bud; Ingravallo, Francesca; Jabbarian, Lea J.; Kars, Marijke C.; Kodba-Čeh, Hana; Lunder, Urska; Miccinesi, Guido; Mimić, Alenka; Ozbič, Polona; Seymour, Jane; Simonič, Anja; Johnsen, Anna Thit; Toccafondi, Alessandro; Payne, Sheila A.; Polinder, Suzanne; Pollock, Kristian; Preston, Nancy J.; Verkissen, Mariëtte N.; Wilcock, Andrew; Zwakman, Marieke; van derHeide, Agnes; Rietjens, Judith A.C. (Public Library of Science, 2020-11-13)
    Background Advance care planning (ACP) supports individuals to define, discuss, and record goals and preferences for future medical treatment and care. Despite being internationally recommended, randomised clinical trials ...
  • Discovery, research, and development of new antibiotics: the WHO priority list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and tuberculosis 
    Tacconelli, Evelina; Carrara, Elena; Savoldi, Alessia; Harbarth, Stephan; Mendelson, Marc; Monnet, Dominique L.; Pulcini, Céline; Kahlmeter, Gunnar; Kluytmans, Jan; Carmeli, Yehuda; Ouellette, Marc; Outterson, Kevin; Patel, Jean; Cavaleri, Marco; Cox, Edward M.; Houchens, Chris R.; Grayson, M. Lindsay; Hansen, Paul; Singh, Nalini; Theuretzbacher, Ursula; Magrini, Nicola; Aboderin, Aaron Oladipo; Al-Abri, Seif Salem; Awang Jalil, Nordiah; Benzonana, Nur; Bhattacharya, Sanjay; Brink, Adrian John; Burkert, Francesco Robert; Cars, Otto; Cornaglia, Giuseppe; Dyar, Oliver James; Friedrich, Alex W.; Gales, Ana C.; Gandra, Sumanth; Giske, Christian Georg; Goff, Debra A.; Goossens, Herman; Gottlieb, Thomas; Guzman Blanco, Manuel; Hryniewicz, Waleria; Kattula, Deepthi; Jinks, Timothy; Kanj, Souha S.; Kerr, Lawrence; Kieny, Marie Paule; Kim, Yang Soo; Kozlov, Roman S.; Labarca, Jaime; Laxminarayan, Ramanan; Leder, Karin; WHO Pathogens Priority List Working Group (Elsevier Limited, 2018-03)
    Background: The spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria poses a substantial threat to morbidity and mortality worldwide. Due to its large public health and societal implications, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis has been ...
  • The infection risk scan (IRIS): Standardization and transparency in infection control and antimicrobial use 
    Willemsen, Ina; Kluytmans, Jan (BioMed Central Ltd., 2018-03-09)
    Background: Infection control needs user-friendly standardized instruments to measure the compliance to guidelines and to implement targeted improvement actions. This abstract describes a tool to measure the quality of ...
  • Association between rectal colonization with highly resistant gram-negative rods (HR-GNRs) and subsequent infection with HR-GNRs in clinical patients: A one year historical cohort study 
    Souverein, Dennis; Euser, Sjoerd M.; Herpers, Bjorn L.; Kluytmans, Jan; Rossen, John W.A.; Den Boer, Jeroen W. (Public Library of Science, 2019-01)
    Objective Rectal colonization with Highly Resistant Gram-negative Rods (HR-GNRs) probably precedes infection. We aimed to assess the association between rectal HR-GNR colonization and subsequent HR-GNR infection in clinical ...
  • Surgical Site and Graft Infections in Endovascular and Open Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Surgery 
    Langenberg, Jasper C.M.; Kluytmans, Jan A.J.W.; De Groot, Hans G.W.; Ho, Gwan H.; Veen, Eelco J.; Buimer, M. G.; Van Der Laan, Lijckle (Mary Ann Liebert Inc., 2018-05-01)
    BACKGROUND: Surgical site infections (SSIs) constitute one of many major complications after aortic aneurysm surgery and its details and outcome have not been evaluated extensively. This research evaluates the incidence ...
  • Prevalence of nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in patients at hospital admission in The Netherlands, 2010–2017: an observational study 
    Weterings, Veronica; Veenemans, Jacobien; van Rijen, Miranda; Kluytmans, Jan (Elsevier, 2019-11)
    Objectives: We determined the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal carriage upon hospital admission, among patients who were screened preoperatively for nasal S. aureus carriage between ...
  • Oral antibiotics prior to colorectal surgery: Do they have to be combined with mechanical bowel preparation? 
    Mulder, Tessa; Kluytmans, Jan A.J.W. (Cambridge University Press, 2019-08-01)
    To reduce the of risk infection after colorectal surgery, oral antibiotic preparation (OAP) and mechanical bowel preparation (MBP) can be applied. Whether OAP can be used without MBP is unclear. A meta-analysis of observational ...
  • Mechanical ventilation impairs IL-17 cytokine family expression in ventilator-associated pneumonia 
    De Winter, Fien H.R.; Jongers, Bart ’S; Bielen, Kenny; Mancuso, Domenico; Timbermont, Leen; Lammens, Christine; Van averbeke, Vincent; Boddaert, Jan; Ali, Omar; Kluytmans, Jan; Ruzin, Alexey; Malhotra-Kumar, Surbhi; Jorens, Philippe G.; Goossens, Herman; Kumar-Singh, Samir (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2019-10-02)
    Mechanical ventilation (MV) is the primary risk factor for the development of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Besides inducing a pro-inflammatory T-helper (Th)-1 cytokine response, MV also induces an anti-inflammatory ...
  • Risk perception of the antimicrobial resistance by infection control specialists in Europe: A case-vignette study 
    Birgand, Gabriel; Mutters, Nico T.; Ahmad, Raheelah; Tacconelli, Evelina; Lucet, Jean Christophe; Holmes, Alison; Asensio, Angel; Buke, Cagri; Markovic-Denic, Ljiljana; Da Graca Domingues Rocha, Maria; Kluytmans, Jan; Lyytikainen, Outi; Otter, Jonathan A.; Presterl, Elisabeth; Salmanov, Aidyn; Schaffer, Kirsten; Rodriguez Bano, Jesús; Schechner, Vered; Szilagyi, Emese; Tsakris, Athanassios (BioMed Central Ltd., 2020-02-14)
    BACKGROUND: Using case-vignettes, we assessed the perception of European infection control (IC) specialists regarding the individual and collective risk associated with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) among inpatients. ...
  • Training in neonatal neurocritical care: a proposal for a hybrid model of competence by design and time-based methods 
    Newborn Brain Society Guidelines and Publications Committee (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2024-09)
    BACKGROUND: Neonatal neurocritical care (NNCC) is a rapidly advancing field with limited fellowship training available in locally developed, non-accredited programs. A standardized survey aimed to understand the training ...
  • Probability of major depression classification based on the SCID, CIDI, and MINI diagnostic interviews: A synthesis of three individual participant data meta-analyses 
    DEPRESsion Screening Data (DEPRESSD) Collaboration (S. Karger AG, 2020-12)
    Introduction: Three previous individual participant data meta-analyses (IPDMAs) reported that, compared to the Structured Clinical Interview for the DSM (SCID), alternative reference standards, primarily the Composite ...
  • Microvascular decompression of the VII/VIII cranial nerve complex for the treatment of intermediate nerve neuralgia: A retrospective case series 
    Lippi Fernandes, Eric Goulin; Van Doormaal, Tristan; De Ru, Sander; Miller, Kai; Sen Han, Kuo (Oxford University Press, 2018-10-01)
    BACKGROUND : Intermediate nerve neuralgia (INN) is a rare and often overlooked form of primary otalgia. The pathophysiological mechanism is unknown, although one of the possible contributing factors is a neurovascular ...
  • Dural sealants for the management of cerebrospinal fluid leakage after intradural surgery: current status and future perspectives 
    Kinaci, Ahmet; Van Doormaal, Tristan P.C. (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2019-07-03)
    Introduction: Cerebrospinal fluid leakage is a complication after intradural surgery and is associated with severe secondary complications like compromised wound healing and meningitis. Dural sealants are meant to augment ...
  • Clinical accuracy of holographic navigation using point-based registration on augmented-reality glasses 
    Van Doormaal, Tristan P.C.; Van Doormaal, Jesse A.M.; Mensink, Tom (Oxford University Press, 2019-12-01)
    BACKGROUND: As current augmented-reality (AR) smart glasses are self-contained, powerful computers that project 3-dimensional holograms that can maintain their position in physical space, they could theoretically be used ...