Publicaties

Advances in the diagnosis and management of congenital heart disease have led to a marked improvement in the survival of adult with congenital heart disease (ACHD) patients. However, ACHD patients are a heterogeneous population, with a large spectrum of anatomic substrates even within specific lesions. In addition, the nature of previous surgery and other intervention is highly variable rendering each patient unique and residual anatomic and ...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to report the late multimodality imaging and clinical outcomes of the novel poly-L-lactic-acid-based DESolve novolimus-eluting bioresorbable coronary scaffold for the treatment of de novo coronary lesions.

BACKGROUND Bioresorbable scaffolds are an alternative to drug-eluting metallic stents and provide temporary vascular scaffolding, which potentially may allow vessel restoration and reduce the risk of ...

Taking into account the complexity and limitations of clinical assessment in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), imaging techniques play an essential role in the evaluation of patients with this disease. Thus, in HCM patients, imaging provides solutions for most clinical needs, from diagnosis to prognosis and risk stratification, from anatomical and functional assessment to ischaemia detection, from metabolic evaluation to monitoring of treatment ...

Some similarity measures used in state-of-the-art multimodality image registration algorithms, (e.g., mutual information (MI)) have been shown to be suitable anatomical priors for maximum a posteriori reconstruction in emission tomography. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that some originally designed anatomical priors may also be well suited for multimodality image registration. In this work, we evaluate the registration performance of ...

Current evidence based on more than 8000 high-risk patients with severe aortic stenosis has demonstrated that transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is a feasible alternative to surgical aortic valve replacement in selected patients. Despite current promising results on hemodynamic and clinical improvements, there are several unresolved safety issues, such as the frequency of vascular complications, postprocedural paravalvular leak, ...

Cardiac myxoma (CM) is by far the most common primary benign cardiac tumor, typically arising in the left atrium with an attachment point in the fossa ovalis region. Although the etiology of CM remains unclear, we know that this endocardial-based mass originates from undifferentiated mesenchymal cells. Continuous technical improvements in the field of echocardiography since the 1960s has profoundly changed the diagnostic approach by allowing a ...

In this chapter, we present a plea for a stronger inclusion of two strands of research in Cognitive Linguistics, viz. the analysis of meaning construction and coordination in interactional language use, and the study of multimodal meaning making cues (such as gesture, posture and gaze) as essential ingredients of naturally occurring spoken language. Based on the very foundations of the cognitive-linguistic enterprise, we argue that a true ...

As technology has made a range of modes of communication available and created new ways to integrate these modes, feedback has become increasingly electronic and multimodal. From written to audio, video, and screencast feedback, the multimodal options for electronic feedback (e-feedback) have expanded in such a way that we might speak of a 'multimodal turn' in feedback on foreign and second language writing. However, feedback studies on second ...