Publications by authors named "Pien Spoor"
Background: Combining preoperative angiography findings with intraoperative transit time flow measurements (TTFM) may improve patency of coronary artery bypass grafts. Nevertheless, graft flow might be impaired by native coronary flow based on the severity of stenoses, with inferior long-term outcomes. This study investigates the impact of left anterior descending artery (LAD) stenosis on competitive flow measured in left internal mammary artery (LIMA) grafts during off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting.
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- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) is an advanced imaging technique that quantifies blood volume and flow in vital organs using microbubble contrast agents.
- Despite technological advancements and greater familiarity among healthcare professionals, there are no standardized guidelines for its use in quantifying tissue perfusion in humans, which limits its application in research.
- This review aims to outline the methodology of CEUS, focusing on factors that affect its performance and data interpretation, while also addressing specific challenges and benefits related to imaging different organs.
Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are complex and overlapping diseases that include inflammatory phenotypes. Novel anti-eosinophilic/anti-neutrophilic strategies demand rapid inflammatory phenotyping, which might be accessible from exhaled breath.Our objective was to capture clinical/inflammatory phenotypes in patients with chronic airway disease using an electronic nose (eNose) in a training and validation set.
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