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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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Su, J., Hughes, A. D., Simonsen, U., Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E., Parker, K. H., Howard, L. S. & Mellemkjaer, S. (2019). Impact of Pulmonary Endarterectomy on Pulmonary Arterial Wave Propagation and Reservoir Function. American Journal of Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physiology, 317(3), H505-H516. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpheart.00181.2019
Aminian, A., Schmidt, B., Mazzone, P., Berti, S., Fischer, S., Montorfano, M., Lam, S. C. C., Lund, J., Asch, F. M., Gage, R., Cruz-Gonzalez, I., Omran, H., Tarantini, G. & Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E. (2019). Incidence, Characterization, and Clinical Impact of Device-Related Thrombus Following Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion in the Prospective Global AMPLATZER Amulet Observational Study. JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, 12(11), 1003-1014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcin.2019.02.003
Salmon, M. K., Hammer, K. E., Johansen, P. & Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E. (2019). Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion: To Tug or Not To Tug?. Poster session presented at EuroPCR in Interventional Cardiovascular Medicine, Paris, France.
Udholm, S., Nyboe, C., Karunanithi, Z., Christensen, A. L., Redington, A., Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E. & Hjortdal, V. E. (2019). Lifelong burden of small unrepaired atrial septal defect: Results from the Danish National Patient Registry. Poster session presented at 22nd Annual Update on Pediatric and Congenital Cardiovascular Disease, California, United States.
Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E., Berti, S., De Backer, O., Aguirre, D., Fassini, G., Cruz-Gonzalez, I., Grassi, G. & Tondo, C. (2019). Use of Intracardiac Compared With Transesophageal Echocardiography for Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion in the Amulet Observational Study. JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, 12(11), 1030-1039. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcin.2019.04.035
Smits, J., Tasev, D., Andersen, S., Szulcek, R., Botros, L., Ringgaard, S., Andersen, A., Vonk-Noordegraaf, A., Koolwijk, P. & Bogaard, H. J. (2018). Blood Outgrowth and Proliferation of Endothelial Colony Forming Cells are Related to Markers of Disease Severity in Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. International Journal of Molecular Sciences , 19(12), Article 3763. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms19123763
Nielsen-Kudsk, M. H., Ralfs, F. J., Kim, W. Y., Ringgaard, S., Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E. & Johansen, P. (2018). Compromised sinus of valsalva flow and transcatheter aortic valve thrombosis. Poster session presented at 28th Annual Meeting, Scandinavian Society for Research in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Geilo, Norway.
Landmesser, U., Tondo, C., Camm, J., Diener, H.-C., Paul, V., Schmidt, B., Settergren, M., Teiger, E., Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E. & Hildick-Smith, D. (2018). Left atrial appendage occlusion with the AMPLATZER Amulet device: one-year follow-up from the prospective global Amulet observational registry. EuroIntervention : journal of EuroPCR in collaboration with the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology, 14(5), e590-e597. https://doi.org/10.4244/EIJ-D-18-00344
Ralfs, F. J., Nielsen-Kudsk, M. H., Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E. & Johansen, P. (2018). The functional effect of left atrial appendage occlusion. Poster session presented at 28th Annual Meeting, Scandinavian Society for Research in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Geilo, Norway.
Hardt, S. E., Eicken, A., Berger, F., Schubert, S., Carminati, M., Butera, G., Grohmann, J., Höhn, R., Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E., Hildick-Smith, D., Settergren, M., Thomson, J. D., Geis, N. & Søndergaard, L. (2017). Closure of patent foramen ovale defects using GORE® CARDIOFORM septal occluder. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, 90(5), 824-829. https://doi.org/10.1002/ccd.26993
Tilsted, H.-H., Ahlehoff, O., Terkelsen, C. J., Pedersen, F., Özcan, C., Jørgensen, T. H., Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E., Ravkilde, J., Nissen, H., Haahr-Pedersen, S. A., Havndrup, O. & Lassen, J. F. (2017). Denmark: coronary and structural heart interventions from 2010 to 2015. EuroIntervention : journal of EuroPCR in collaboration with the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology, 13(Z), Z17-Z20. https://doi.org/10.4244/EIJ-D-16-00857
Johansen, P., Engholt, H., Tang, M., Nybo, R. F., Rasmussen, P. D. & Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E. (2017). Fracturing mechanics before valve-in-valve therapy of small aortic bioprosthetic heart valves. EuroIntervention : journal of EuroPCR in collaboration with the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology, 13(9), e1026-e1031. https://doi.org/10.4244/EIJ-D-17-00245
Engholt, H., Rasmussen, P. D., Tang, M., Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E. & Johansen, P. (2017). Fracturing surgical bioprosthetic heart valves by high-pressure balloon dilatation in-vitro. Abstract from 27th Annual Meeting, Scandinavian Society for Research in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Geilo, Norway.
Udholm, S., Nyboe, C., Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E. & Hjortdal, V. E. (2017). Health profile in adults with small atrial septal defects. Poster session presented at 7th World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery, Barcelona, Spain.
Saw, J., Tzikas, A., Shakir, S., Gafoor, S., Omran, H., Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E., Kefer, J., Aminian, A., Berti, S., Santoro, G., Nietlispach, F., Moschovitis, A., Cruz-Gonzalez, I., Stammen, F., Tichelbäcker, T., Freixa, X., Ibrahim, R., Schillinger, W., Meier, B. ... Gloekler, S. (2017). Incidence and Clinical Impact of Device-Associated Thrombus and Peri-Device Leak Following Left Atrial Appendage Closure With the Amplatzer Cardiac Plug. JACC. Cardiovascular interventions, 10(4), 391-399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcin.2016.11.029
Lempereur, M., Aminian, A., Freixa, X., Gafoor, S., Shakir, S., Omran, H., Berti, S., Santoro, G., Kefer, J., Landmesser, U., Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E., Cruz-Gonzalez, I., Kanagaratnam, P., Nietlispach, F., Ibrahim, R., Sievert, H., Schillinger, W., Park, J.-W., Gloekler, S. & Tzikas, A. (2017). Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Previous Major Gastrointestinal Bleeding (from the Amplatzer Cardiac Plug Multicenter Registry). The American Journal of Cardiology, 120(3), 414-420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2017.04.046
Korsholm, K. & Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E. (2017). Left atrial appendage occlusion is promising, not concerning. EuroIntervention : journal of EuroPCR in collaboration with the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology, 13(8), 1005-1006. https://doi.org/10.4244/EIJ-D-17-00457R
Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E., Johnsen, S. P., Wester, P., Damgaard, D., Airaksinen, J., Lund, J., De Backer, O., Pakarinen, S., Odenstedt, J., Vikman, S., Settergren, M., Kongstad, O., Rosenqvist, M. & Krieger, D. W. (2017). Left atrial appendage occlusion versus standard medical care in patients with atrial fibrillation and intracerebral hemorrhage: A propensity score matched follow-up study. EuroIntervention : journal of EuroPCR in collaboration with the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology, 13(3), 371-378. https://doi.org/10.4244/EIJ-D-17-00201
Landmesser, U., Schmidt, B., Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E., Lam, C. C. S., Park, J.-W., Tarantini, G., Cruz-Gonzalez, I., Geist, V., della Bella, P., Colombo, A., Zeus, T., Omran, H., Piorkowski, C., Lund, J., Tondo, C. & Hildick-Smith, D. (2017). Left atrial appendage occlusion with the AMPLATZER Amulet device: periprocedural and early clinical/echocardiographic data from a global prospective observational study. EuroIntervention : journal of EuroPCR in collaboration with the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology, 13(7), 867-876. https://doi.org/10.4244/EIJ-D-17-00493
Nybo, R. F., Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E. & Johansen, P. (2017). Mapping of catheter tug forces during left atrial appendage occlusion. Poster session presented at 27th Annual Meeting, Scandinavian Society for Research in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Geilo, Norway.
Søndergaard, L., Kasner, S. E., Rhodes, J. F., Andersen, G., Iversen, H. K., Nielsen-Kudsk, J. E., Settergren, M., Sjöstrand, C., Roine, R. O., Hildick-Smith, D., Spence, J. D., Thomassen, L. & Gore REDUCE Clinical Study Investigators (2017). Patent Foramen Ovale Closure or Antiplatelet Therapy for Cryptogenic Stroke. The New England Journal of Medicine, 377(11), 1033-1042. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1707404