Doctoral Theses - Cardiovascular Diseases

Gevaert, A (2019): Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction : focus on exercise and the endothelium.
Promotors: Van Craenenbroeck, E and Vrints, CJ

Frederix, I (2018): Cardiac telerehabilitation : a novel, cost-efficient care delivery strategy in secondary prevention for ischemic heart disease?
Promotors: Dendale, P and Van Craenenbroeck, E

Nollet, E (2017): Bone marrow dysfunction in heart disease : implications for stem cell therapy.
Promotors: Vrints, CJ and Van Craenenbroeck, E

Latet, S (2017): The immune response after ST-elevation myocardial infarction and its relation to the development of adverse left ventricular remodelling.
Promotors: Vrints, CJ and Hoymans, VY

Sente, T (2016): Adiponectin: Potential therapeutic target for the treatment of muscle wasting in chronic heart failure.
Promotors: Vrints, CJ and Hoymans, VY

Collas, V (2016): Transcatheter aortic valve implantation: Challenges and potential solutions.
Promotors: Vrints, CJ and Bosmans, JM

Proost, D (2016): Improved molecular diagnostic testing for sudden cardiac death.
Promotors: Vrints, CJ and Van Laer, L

Vorlat, A (2015): Biomarkers in acute cardiac care.
Promotors: Vrints, CJ and Claeys MJ

Van Craenenbroeck, A (2015): Vascular dysfunction in chronic kidney disease: relevance and reversibility with exercise.
Promotors: Vrints, CJ and Couttenye, MM

van Ierssel, S (2015): Markers of endothelial dysfunction in the critical ill: the functional capacity of endothelial progenitor cells in sepsis; the role of endothelial progenitor cells and endothelial microparticles as biomarkers of symptomatic cerebral ischemia after acute brain injury.
Promotors: Vrints, CJ and Jorens, PG

Bruyndonckx, L (2014): Adolescent obesity: what determines endothelial dysfunction and is the process reversible?
Promotors: Vrints, CJ and Conraads, V and Ramet, J

Van Dyck, C (2014): Evaluation of Xience V® and Resolute® drug-eluting stents in a rabbit model of established atherosclerosis.
Promotor: Vrints, CJ  -  Copromotors: Hoymans, VY and Timmermans, JP

Van de Heyning, C (2014): Non-invasive assessment of primary mitral regurgitation: additional value of cardiovascular magnetic resonance.
Promotor: Vrints, CJ

Haine, S (2014): Early restenosis in bare-metal stents: role of stent type, circulating progenitor cells and plaque composition.
Promotor: Vrints, CJ  -  Copromotors: Bosmans, J and Claeys, M

Everaert, B (2012): Endothelial nitric oxide synthase is essential for circulating angiogenic cell biology and ischemia-directed homing.
Promotors: Vrints, CJ and Timmermans, JP

Van Berendoncks, A (2011): The role of adiponectin in chronic heart failure; focus on skeletal muscle metabolism and effect of exercise training.
Promotors: Conraads, V and Vrints, CJ

Van Brussel, I (2011): Dendritic cells in human atherosclerosis; focus on dendritic cell activation and oxidative stress.
Promotor: Vrints, CJ  -  Copromotors: Bosmans, J and Bult, H

Van Craenenbroeck, E (2010): Exercise in chronic heart failure; focus on endothelial repair.
Promotors: Conraads, V and Vrints, CJ

Siebens, K (2010): Effect of the implementation of a critical pathway for the treatment of patients admitted to a chest pain unit.
Promotor: Vrints, CJ  -  Copromotors: De Geest, S and Drew, B

Beckers, P (2010): Exercise capacity in chronic heart failure; focus on testing, training and maintenance.
Promotors: Conraads, V and Vrints, CJ

Van Herck, J (2009): The vulnerable plaque in animal models.
Promotor: Vrints, CJ

Van Vré, E (2008): Dendritic cells and atherosclerosis; an in vivo and in vitro study.
Promotor: Bosmans, J  -  Copromotors: Vrints, CJ and Bult, H

Moens, A (2008): Preventing and reversing eNOS-uncoupling by folic acid and tetrahydrobiopterin.
Promotors: Vrints, CJ and Kass, DA  -  Copromotors: Claeys, MJ and Timmermans, JP and Champion, HC

Van Herck, P (2007): Coronary haemodynamics after a myocardial infarction.
Promotor: Vrints, CJ  -  Copromotors: Bosmans, JM and Claeys-Maenhout, M

Saenen, J (2007): Functional analysis of hERG potassium channels and mutations underlying the long QT syndrome.
Promotors: Vrints, CJ and Snyders, D

Paelinck, B (2006): Non invasive imaging of diastolic heart function.
Promotor: Vrints, CJ

Suys, B (2006): Early cardiovascular changes in children and adolescents with type I diabetes mellitus.
Promotor: Vrints, CJ

Berges, A (2006): Coronary blood flow in the non-infarcted myocardium during postinfarction remodeling.
Promotors: Vrints, CJ and Timmermans, JP

Hoymans, V (2003): Chlamydia pneumoniae and atherosclerosis: myth or reality?
Promotor: Vrints, CJ  -  Copromotors: Bosmans, JM and Ieven, MM

Salu, K (2003): Local delivery of actin skeleton inhibitors in the prevention of in-stent restenosis: an experimental animal study.
Promotors: Vrints, CJ and Bosmans, JM and Bult, H

Conraads, V (2002): Inflammation and chronic heart failure: determinants and modulation.
Promotors: Vrints, CJ and Bosmans, JM and Brutsaert, DL