Publications by authors named "R van Engen"
Objectives: It is uncertain what the effects of introducing digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) in the Dutch breast cancer screening programme would be on detection, recall, and interval cancers (ICs), while reading times are expected to increase. Therefore, an investigation into the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of DBT screening while optimising reading is required.
Materials And Methods: The Screening Tomosynthesis trial with advanced REAding Methods (STREAM) aims to include 17,275 women (age 50-72 years) eligible for breast cancer screening in the Netherlands for two biennial DBT screening rounds to determine the short-, medium-, and long-term effects and acceptability of DBT screening and identify an optimised strategy for reading DBT.
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- Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is a problem that can happen to kids who get kidney transplants, but not much is known about how it affects their new kidneys.
- A study looked at 74 kids who got kidney transplants between 2007 and 2020 to see how VUR affected their health, checking for infections and kidney function.
- The results showed that kids with high-grade VUR were more likely to develop urinary tract infections (UTIs), especially severe ones, but both groups had the same chances of keeping their transplanted kidney alive.
Background A curve-shaped compression paddle could reduce the pain experienced by some women at breast cancer screening. Purpose To compare curved and standard compression systems in terms of pain experience and image quality in mammography screening. Materials and Methods In this randomized controlled trial conducted between October 2021 and February 2022, participants screened at three screening sites in the Netherlands were randomized to either a curved-paddle or sham-paddle group.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Obesity is associated with increased complications, rejection, and graft loss after kidney transplantation in adult and pediatric recipients. Elevated body mass index (BMI) is a common contraindication to transplant at adult kidney transplant programs; however, there is no data on such limitations for pediatric patients.
Methods: Between October and December 2022, we conducted a survey of Pediatric Nephrology Research Consortium centers assessing the use of BMI in pediatric kidney transplant evaluation.