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The structural heart disease group at Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital has a high level of clinical research activity. Here you can see our recent published papers. 

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De Caterina, A. R., Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E., Schmidt, B., Mazzone, P., Fischer, S., Lund, J., Montorfano, M., Gage, R., Lam, S. C. C. & Berti, S. (2021). Gender difference in left atrial appendage occlusion outcomes: Results from the Amplatzer™ Amulet™ Observational Study. IJC Heart & Vasculature, 35, Article 100848. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcha.2021.100848
Aminian, A., De Backer, O., Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E., Mazzone, P., Berti, S., Fischer, S., Lund, J., Montorfano, M., Lam, S. C. C., Freixa, X., Gage, R., Diener, H.-C. & Schmidt, B. (2021). Incidence and Clinical Impact of Major Bleeding Following Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion: insights from the Amplatzer Amulet Observational Post-Market Study. EuroIntervention : journal of EuroPCR in collaboration with the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology, 17(9), 774-781. https://doi.org/10.4244/EIJ-D-20-01309
Sun, X.-Q., Peters, E. L., Schalij, I., Axelsen, J. B., Andersen, S., Kurakula, K., Gomez-Puerto, M. C., Szulcek, R., Pan, X., da Silva Goncalves Bos, D., Schiepers, R. E., Andersen, A., Goumans, M.-J., Vonk Noordegraaf, A., van der Laarse, W. J., de Man, F. S. & Bogaard, H. J. (2021). Increased MAO-A Activity Promotes Progression of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology (Online), 64(3), 331-343. https://doi.org/10.1165/rcmb.2020-0105OC
Berti, S., Pastormerlo, L. E., Korsholm, K., Saw, J., Alkhouli, M., Costa, M. P., Odenstedt, J., Packer, E. J., Tondo, C., Santoro, G. & Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E. (2021). Intracardiac echocardiography for guidance of transcatheter left atrial appendage occlusion: An expert consensus document. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, 98(4), 815-825. https://doi.org/10.1002/ccd.29791
Freixa, X., Tzikas, A., Aminian, A., Flores-Umanzor, E., De Backer, O., Korsholm, K., Ben Yedder, M., Gonzalez-Ferreiro, R., Agudelo-Montañez, V., Gilhofer, T., Simon, F., Samaras, A., Regueiro, A., Sondergaard, L., Cruz-Gonzalez, I., Arzamendi, D., Saw, J., Ibrahim, R. & Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E. (2021). Left atrial appendage occlusion in chicken-wing anatomies: Imaging assessment, procedural, and clinical outcomes of the "sandwich technique". Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, 97(7), E1025-E1032. https://doi.org/10.1002/ccd.29546
Piayda, K., Afzal, S., Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E., Schmidt, B., Mazzone, P., Berti, S., Fischer, S., Lund, J., Montorfano, M., Hildick-Smith, D., Gage, R., Zhao, H. & Zeus, T. (2021). Length of stay following percutaneous left atrial appendage occlusion: Data from the prospective, multicenter Amplatzer Amulet Occluder Observational Study. PLoS One, 16(8 ), Article e0255721. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255721
Lun, E. W. Y., Giordano, N. J., Kramer, A., Mortensen, C. S., Torrey, J., Zheng, H. & Kabrhel, C. (2021). Patient and operational factors that influence the decision to place an inferior vena cava filter in a pulmonary embolism response team. Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders, 9(4), 895-903. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvsv.2020.11.021
Simard, T., Jung, R. G., Lehenbauer, K., Piayda, K., Pracoń, R., Jackson, G. G., Flores-Umanzor, E., Faroux, L., Korsholm, K., Chun, J. K. R., Chen, S., Maarse, M., Montrella, K., Chaker, Z., Spoon, J. N., Pastormerlo, L. E., Meincke, F., Sawant, A. C., Moldovan, C. M. ... Alkhouli, M. (2021). Predictors of Device-Related Thrombus Following Percutaneous Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 78(4), 297-313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.04.098
Gade, I. L., Schultz, J. G., Brøndum, R. F., Kjærgaard, B., Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E., Andersen, A., Kristensen, S. R. & Honoré, B. (2021). Putative biomarkers for acute pulmonary embolism in exhaled breath condensate. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 10(21), Article 5165. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10215165
Arru, C. D., Digumarthy, S. R., Hansen, J. V., Lyhne, M. D., Singh, R., Rosovsky, R., Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E., Kabrhel, C., Saba, L. & Kalra, M. K. (2021). Qualitative and quantitative DECT pulmonary angiography in COVID-19 pneumonia and pulmonary embolism. Clinical Radiology, 76(5), 392.e1-392.e9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crad.2021.02.009
Ghofrani, H. A., Gomez Sanchez, M. A., Humbert, M., Pittrow, D., Simonneau, G., Gall, H., Grünig, E., Klose, H., Halank, M., Langleben, D., Snijder, R. J., Escribano Subias, P., Mielniczuk, L. M., Lange, T. J., Vachiéry, J. L., Wirtz, H., Helmersen, D. S., Tsangaris, I., Barberá, J. A. ... NEW COLLABORATORS LIST (2021). Riociguat treatment in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: Final safety data from the EXPERT registry. Respiratory Medicine, 178, Article 106220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2020.106220
Piayda, K., Sievert, K., Della Rocca, D. G., Adeola, O. G., Alkhouli, M., Yoo, D., Benito-González, T., Cruz-González, I., Galea, R., Skurk, C., De Backer, O., Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E., Grygier, M., Beaty, E. H., Newton, J., Pérez de Prado, A., Räber, L., Gibson, D., Van Niekerk, C. ... Sievert, H. (2021). Safety and Feasibility of Peri-device Leakage Closure after LAAO: an international, multicentre collaborative study. EuroIntervention, 17(12), e1033-e1040. https://doi.org/10.4244/EIJ-D-21-00286
Andersen, A., van der Feen, D. E., Andersen, S., Schultz, J. G., Hansmann, G. & Bogaard, H. J. (2020). Animal models of right heart failure. Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy, 10(5), 1561-1579. https://doi.org/10.21037/cdt-20-400
White, R. J., Jerjes-Sanchez, C., Bohns Meyer, G. M., Pulido, T., Sepulveda, P., Wang, K. Y., Grünig, E., Hiremath, S., Yu, Z., Gangcheng, Z., Yip, W. L. J., Zhang, S., Khan, A., Deng, C. Q., Grover, R., Tapson, V. F. & FREEDOM-EV (2020). Combination Therapy with Oral Treprostinil for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: A Double-Blind Placebo-controlled Clinical Trial. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 201(6), 707-717. https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.201908-1640OC
Korsholm, K., Berti, S., Iriart, X., Saw, J., Wang, D. D., Cochet, H., Chow, D., Clemente, A., De Backer, O., Møller Jensen, J. & Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E. (2020). Expert Recommendations on Cardiac Computed Tomography for Planning Transcatheter Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion. JACC. Cardiovascular interventions, 13(3), 277-292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcin.2019.08.054
Cruz-González, I., González-Ferreiro, R., Freixa, X., Gafoor, S., Shakir, S., Omran, H., Berti, S., Santoro, G., Kefer, J., Landmesser, U., Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E., Kanagaratnam, P., Nietlispach, F., Gloekler, S., Aminian, A., Danna, P., Rezzaghi, M., Stock, F., Stolcova, M. ... Tzikas, A. (2020). Left atrial appendage occlusion for stroke despite oral anticoagulation (resistant stroke). Results from the Amplatzer Cardiac Plug registry: Cierre de la orejuela izquierda por ictus pese a la anticoagulación oral (ictus resistente): resultados del registro Amplatzer Cardiac Plug. Revista española de cardiología (English ed.), 73(1), 28-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rec.2019.02.013
Freixa, X., Aminian, A., De Backer, O., Berti, S. & Nielsen-Kudsk, J.-E. (2020). Left atrial appendage occlusion in COVID-19 times. European Heart Journal Supplements, 22(Supplement_P), P47-P52. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/suaa173
Freixa, X., Aminian, A., Tzikas, A., Saw, J., Nielsen-Kudsk, J.-E., Ghanem, A., Schmidt, B. & Hildick-Smith, D. (2020). Left atrial appendage occlusion with the Amplatzer Amulet: update on device sizing. Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology, 59(1), 71-78. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10840-019-00699-5
Hildick-Smith, D., Landmesser, U., Camm, A. J., Diener, H.-C., Paul, V., Schmidt, B., Settergren, M., Teiger, E., Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E. & Tondo, C. (2020). Left atrial appendage occlusion with the Amplatzer™ Amulet™ device: full results of the prospective global observational study. European Heart Journal, 41(30), 2894-2901. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa169
Cruz-Gonzalez, I., Korsholm, K., Trejo-Velasco, B., Thambo, J. B., Mazzone, P., Rioufol, G., Grygier, M., Möbius-Winkler, S., Betts, T., Meincke, F., Sandri, M., Schmidt, B., Schmitz, T. & Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E. (2020). Procedural and Short-Term Results With the New Watchman FLX Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Device. JACC. Cardiovascular interventions, 13(23), 2732-2741. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcin.2020.06.056