Don Poldermans

TL;DR: MVRep for mitral valve endocarditis is feasible with good clinical results, maintained valve competency with significant reductions in left atrial and left ventricular dimensions after surgery.

TL;DR: There was no effect of smoking cessation on QoL in PAD patients undergoing vascular surgery, given the link between smoking, complications and mortality in this patient group, and smoking cessation should be a primary target in secondary prevention.

TL;DR: An improvement of clinical relevance of DSE testing is possible by stronger adherence to common and new methodological standards, and methodological problems may explain the wide range in diagnostic variability.

TL;DR: A patient with pulmonary embolism, treated unsuccessfully with heparin, revealed free-floating right heart thrombus and urgent surgical embolectomy was performed with relief of symptoms.

TL;DR: The results fail to demonstrate the efficacy of zoniporide in reducing the proportion of patients at high risk undergoing noncardiac vascular surgery who experience a composite cardiovascular endpoint, which led the corporate sponsor to stop enrollment early on the basis of a futility analysis of the chance of demonstrating efficacy with a larger sample size.