List of works by Paul Herijgers

(18)F-FDG PET/CT for early detection of embolism and metastatic infection in patients with infective endocarditis.

scientific article published on 4 March 2010

500th birthday of Andreas Vesalius, the founder of modern anatomy: "vivitur ingenio, caetera mortis erunt" ("genius lives on, all else is mortal").

scientific article

A Cardiovascular Occlusion Method Based on the Use of a Smart Hydrogel

scientific article published on 04 September 2014

A SERCA2 pump with an increased Ca2+ affinity can lead to severe cardiac hypertrophy, stress intolerance and reduced life span

scientific article published on 30 June 2006

A method for incorporating three-dimensional residual stretches/stresses into patient-specific finite element simulations of arteries.

scientific article published on 2 April 2015

ACE-inhibition induces a cardioprotective transcriptional response in the metabolic syndrome heart

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

ACE-inhibition, but not weight reduction restores cardiomyocyte response to β-adrenergic stimulation in the metabolic syndrome.

scientific article

Abscess in infective endocarditis: the value of transesophageal echocardiography and outcome: a 5-year study.

scientific article published in November 2007

Added diagnostic value and impact on antimicrobial therapy of 16S rRNA PCR and amplicon sequencing on resected heart valves in infective endocarditis: a prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 19 June 2017

Additional tricuspid annuloplasty in mitral valve surgery results in better clinical outcome.

scientific article published on 20 February 2015

An electro-responsive hydrogel for intravascular applications: an in vitro and in vivo evaluation

scientific article

An unusual presentation of a tumour of the heart

scientific article published on 19 May 2009

Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition and food restriction in diabetic mice do not correct the increased sensitivity for ischemia-reperfusion injury

scientific article

Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition and food restriction restore delayed preconditioning in diabetic mice

scientific article published on 23 February 2013

Anti-thrombotic therapy in infective endocarditis.

scientific article published on September 2011

Antithrombotic therapy in patients with heart valve prostheses

scientific article published on January 2013

Aortic wall thickness in patients with ascending aortic aneurysm versus acute aortic dissection.

scientific article published on 29 May 2015

Arterial Vasoreactivity is Equally Affected by In Vivo Cross-Clamping with Increasing Loads in Young and Middle-Aged Mice Aortas

scientific article

Assessment of longitudinal strain in the carotid artery wall using ultrasound-based Speckle tracking - Validation in a sheep model

Atherosclerosis Alters Loading-Induced Arterial Damage: Implications for Robotic Surgery

scientific article

Automated Delineation of Vessel Wall and Thrombus Boundaries of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Using Multispectral MR Images.

scientific article published on 5 July 2015

Bridging procedures to heart transplantation

scientific article published on 17 December 2001

Calcification characteristics of porcine stented valves in a juvenile sheep model.

scientific article published in May 2001

Calcification characteristics of porcine stentless valves in juvenile sheep

scientific article published on 01 February 1999

Carcinoid heart disease: case and literature review.

scientific article published on April 2010

Cardiomyocyte changes in the metabolic syndrome and implications for endogeneous protective strategies

scientific article published on March 2014

Changes in organ perfusion after brain death in the rat and its relation to circulating catecholamines

scientific article published in August 1996

Chest pain after partial upper versus complete sternotomy for aortic valve surgery

scientific article published on 01 February 2003

Chronic contained rupture of the posterior left ventricular wall two years after balloon dilatation of a degenerated mitral bioprosthesis

scientific article published on 17 March 2014

Combined valve and coronary artery bypass surgery: early and late results.

scientific article

Comparative Anatomy of the Ovine and Female Pelvis

scientific article published on 27 January 2017

Comparison of PCR-Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry with 16S rRNA PCR and Amplicon Sequencing for Detection of Bacteria in Excised Heart Valves

scientific article published on 14 September 2016

Comparison of thrombolysis versus surgery as a first line therapy for prosthetic heart valve thrombosis

scientific article published on 01 January 2011

Continuous retrograde blood cardioplegia is associated with lower hospital mortality after heart valve surgery

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Correction of endothelial dysfunction after selective homocysteine lowering gene therapy reduces arterial thrombogenicity but has no effect on atherogenesis.

scientific article published on 18 June 2011

Deterioration of a tricuspid bioprosthesis due to adhesion of the native valve.

scientific article published in September 2007

Determinants of early and late results of combined valve operations and coronary artery bypass grafting.

scientific article published in February 1996

Determination of Adenosine and Inosine in Sheep Plasma Using Solid Phase Extraction Followed by Liquid Chromatography with UV Detection

Durability of homografts used to treat complex aortic valve endocarditis.

scientific article published on 4 February 2015

Durability of mitral valve repair in Barlow disease versus fibroelastic deficiency.

scientific article published on 18 January 2008

Dyslipidaemia in type II diabetic mice does not aggravate contractile impairment but increases ventricular stiffness.

scientific article published on 14 August 2007

Early surgery in infective endocarditis with large vegetations significantly reduced mortality compared with conventional treatment.

scientific article

Effect of free radical scavengers on myocardial function and Na+, K+-ATPase activity in stunned rabbit myocardium.

scientific article published in September 2005

Effects of levosimendan on right ventricular function and ventriculovascular coupling in open chest pigs.

scientific article published in September 2003

Electro-actuation of biocompatible Pluronic/methacrylic acid hydrogel in blood-plasma and in blood-mimicking buffers

article by Piotr J. Glazer et al published 2014 in RSC Advances

Endoaortic Clamping Does Not Increase the Risk of Stroke in Minimal Access Mitral Valve Surgery: A Multicenter Experience.

scientific article published on 7 July 2015

Enhanced expression of β3-adrenoceptors in cardiac myocytes attenuates neurohormone-induced hypertrophic remodeling through nitric oxide synthase

scientific article

Enhanced β-adrenergic cardiac reserve in Trpm4⁻/⁻ mice with ischaemic heart failure.

scientific article published on 18 January 2015

Extensive dissection of the pulmonary artery treated with combined heart-lung transplantation.

scientific article published in July 2006

External aortic root support: a histological and mechanical study in sheep.

scientific article published on 26 April 2013

Factors influencing calcification of cardiac bioprostheses in adolescent sheep.

scientific article published in July 2006

Fatal right-sided endocarditis due to Aspergillus in a kidney transplant recipient

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

Fifteen-year experience with the mitral Carpentier-Edwards PERIMOUNT pericardial bioprosthesis

scientific article published on 01 May 2001

Functional and haemodynamic assessment of mild-to-moderate pulmonary valve stenosis at rest and during exercise.

scientific article published on 29 April 2014

Geometry of the right heart and tricuspid regurgitation to exclude elevated pulmonary artery pressure: new insights

scientific article published on 11 July 2013

Glucose tolerance and left ventricular pressure-volume relationships in frequently used mouse strains

scientific article

HMGCoA reductase inhibition reverses myocardial fibrosis and diastolic dysfunction through AMP-activated protein kinase activation in a mouse model of metabolic syndrome.

scientific article published on 29 March 2013

Hematopoietic stem/progenitor cell proliferation and differentiation is differentially regulated by high-density and low-density lipoproteins in mice.

scientific article published on 7 November 2012

High-quality conforming hexahedral meshes of patient-specific abdominal aortic aneurysms including their intraluminal thrombi.

scientific article published on 5 December 2013

Human thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysmal tissues: Damage experiments, statistical analysis and constitutive modeling

scientific article published on 18 October 2014

Impending paradoxical embolism

scientific article published on 11 June 2007

Implantation of an elastic ring at equator of the left ventricle influences cardiac mechanics in experimental acute ventricular dysfunction.

scientific article published in October 2007

Improving the quality of anticoagulant therapy in patients with mechanical heart valves: what are we waiting for?

scientific article published on 22 September 2007

In vivo soft tissue damage assessment for applications in surgery

scientific article

Increased cardiac expression of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-2 is related to cardiac fibrosis and dysfunction in the chronic pressure-overloaded human heart

scientific article published on 15 August 2005

Increased cardiac myocyte PDE5 levels in human and murine pressure overload hypertrophy contribute to adverse LV remodeling

scientific article

Increased catecholamine secretion contributes to hypertension in TRPM4-deficient mice

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Increased β-adrenergic inotropy in ventricular myocardium from Trpm4-/- mice.

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Infective endocarditis treated with linezolid: case report and literature review.

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Infective endocarditis: changing epidemiology and predictors of 6-month mortality: a prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 07 December 2006

Influence of heart rate reduction on Doppler myocardial imaging parameters in a small animal model.

scientific article published on 2 October 2008

Initial experiences with the Impella device in patients with cardiogenic shock - Impella support for cardiogenic shock.

scientific article published in December 2003

Interleukin-6 causes myocardial failure and skeletal muscle atrophy in rats

scientific article

Intuitive teleoperation of active catheters for endovascular surgery

scientific article published in September 2015

Invited commentary

In vivo evidence for long-term vascular remodeling resulting from chronic cerebral hypoperfusion in mice.

scientific article

Ischaemic ATP degradation studied by HPLC and 31P-NMR spectroscopy: do the two techniques observe the same ATP pools?

scientific article published on 01 January 1994

Ischemic preconditioning reduces unloaded myocardial oxygen consumption in an in-vivo sheep model

scientific article published on 01 August 2002

Localization and determination of infarct size by Gd-Mesoporphyrin enhanced MRI in dogs

scientific article published in December 1997

Long-term blinded placebo-controlled study of SNT-MC17/idebenone in the dystrophin deficient mdx mouse: cardiac protection and improved exercise performance

scientific article

Matrix metalloproteinases and atrial remodeling in patients with mitral valve disease and atrial fibrillation

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

Meox2/Tcf15 heterodimers program the heart capillary endothelium for cardiac fatty acid uptake

scientific article published on 5 January 2015

Methicillin-resistant versus methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus infective endocarditis.

scientific article published on 26 January 2008

Midterm clinical outcome following Edwards SAPIEN or Medtronic Corevalve transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI): Results of the Belgian TAVI registry

scientific article published on 11 May 2015

Migration of a broken scalpel into the heart after spine surgery

scientific article

Mitral annuloplasty for dilated cardiomyopathy with mitral regurgitation

scientific article published on 01 June 2011

Molecular signature of progenitor cells isolated from young and adult human hearts.

scientific article

Murine pressure overload models: a 30-MHz look brings a whole new "sound" into data interpretation.

scientific article

NO-dependent endothelial dysfunction in type II diabetes is aggravated by dyslipidemia and hypertension, but can be restored by angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition and weight loss.

scientific article published on 31 October 2013

Na+/H+ exchange inhibition improves long-term myocardial preservation

scientific article published on 01 August 1998

Na+/H+ exchange inhibition improves post-transplant myocardial compliance in 4-hour stored donor hearts.

scientific article published in February 1998

Nosocomial infective endocarditis: should the definition be extended to 6 months after discharge

scientific article published on 26 August 2008

Packaging of implantable accelerometers to monitor epicardial and endocardial wall motion

scientific article published in September 2017

Parameters of ventricular contractility in mice: influence of load and sensitivity to changes in inotropic state.

scientific article published on 12 October 2007

Post-operative echocardiographic evaluation of bioprosthetic mitral valve implantation in sheep.

scientific article published on 12 August 2014

Preexisting antiadenoviral immunity and regional myocardial gene transfer: modulation by nitric oxide.

scientific article published in December 2002

Primary atrial fibrosarcoma of the heart

scientific article published on 11 June 2007

Prospective evaluation of clinical outcomes in all-comer high-risk patients with aortic valve stenosis undergoing medical treatment, transcatheter or surgical aortic valve implantation following heart team assessment.

scientific article published on 23 May 2013

Prosthesis-patient mismatch predicts structural valve degeneration in bioprosthetic heart valves.

scientific article

Pulmonary outflow obstruction protects against heart failure in adults with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries

scientific article

Purulent pericarditis and pericardial abscess one year after LAD-stenting

scientific article published on 01 April 2011

Recurrence of Mitral Valve Regurgitation After Mitral Valve Repair in Degenerative Valve Disease

scientific article published on 24 March 2003

Recurrent pulmonary edema in a patient with a prosthetic mitral valve

scientific article published on 01 September 2009

Remnant Epitope Autoimmunity in Human Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: A Pilot Study with Elastin Peptides.

scientific article

Reply to the editor

Response of mouse brain perfusion to hypo- and hyperventilation measured by arterial spin labeling.

scientific article

Retraction of: abstract P134, Increased beta-adrenergic inotropy in ventricular myocardium from Trpm4 knockout mice

scientific article published on 19 September 2014

Risk factors for infective endocarditis and outcome of patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia.

scientific article

Septic pulmonary embolisms and metastatic infections from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis on FDG PET/CT.

scientific article published on 8 September 2011

Simultaneous valve replacement and venous patch repair of superior mesenteric artery aneurysm due to infective endocarditis: a case report.

scientific article published on January 2006

Starting an aortic valve repair program: is it worthwhile? Aortic valve repair compared to replacement

scientific article

Starting minimally invasive valve surgery using endoclamp technology: safety and results of a starting surgeon.

scientific article

Statins for calcific aortic valve stenosis: into oblivion after SALTIRE and SEAS? An extensive review from bench to bedside.

scientific article published on June 2010

Steam ablation versus radiofrequency and laser ablation: an in vivo histological comparative trial.

scientific article

Strain assessment in the carotid artery wall using ultrasound speckle tracking: validation in a sheep model.

scientific article published on 14 January 2015

Successful extracorporeal lung assistance for overwhelming pneumonia in a patient with undiagnosed full blown aids--a controversial therapy in HIV-patients.

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Support of the aortic wall: a histological study in sheep comparing a macroporous mesh with low-porosity vascular graft of the same polyethylene terephthalate material

scientific article published on 16 April 2017

Survival Benefits of Intensive Insulin Therapy in Critical Illness: Impact of Maintaining Normoglycemia Versus Glycemia-Independent Actions of Insulin

scientific article published on 01 April 2006

The effect of brain death on cardiovascular function in rats. Part I. Is the heart damaged?

scientific article published in April 1998

The effect of brain death on cardiovascular function in rats. Part II. The cause of the in vivo haemodynamic changes.

scientific article published in April 1998

Transapical transcatheter aortic valve implantation in a heart transplant recipient with severely depressed left ventricular function.

scientific article published on 3 March 2013

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation in situs inversus totalis.

scientific article

Transient loss of consciousness caused by textiloma or gossypiboma.

scientific article published on 28 April 2010

Trilogy pericardial valve: hemodynamic performance and calcification in adolescent sheep.

scientific article published in February 2008

Triple strategy to improve early graft function after heart transplantation.

scientific article published in December 1997

Type II diabetic mice exhibit contractile dysfunction but maintain cardiac output by favourable loading conditions

scientific article published on 22 May 2006

Ventricular phosphodiesterase-5 expression is increased in patients with advanced heart failure and contributes to adverse ventricular remodeling after myocardial infarction in mice

scientific article

Why off-the-shelf clavicle plates rarely fit: anatomic analysis of the clavicle through statistical shape modeling

scientific article published on 02 January 2019

Xenon for the prevention of postoperative delirium in cardiac surgery: study protocol for a randomized controlled clinical trial.

scientific article

pH 48 h After Onset of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Is an Independent Predictor of Survival in Patients With Respiratory Failure

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