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Jan Deprest
Researcher at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Publications - 1000
Citations - 29185
Jan Deprest is an academic researcher from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The author has contributed to research in topics: Congenital diaphragmatic hernia & Pregnancy. The author has an hindex of 77, co-authored 915 publications receiving 24732 citations. Previous affiliations of Jan Deprest include University College Hospital & Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
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Sildenafil for Antenatal Treatment of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia: From Bench to Bedside.
TL;DR: There is preclinical evidence that maternally administered sildenafil prevents the vascular changes that lead to PPH in CDH newborns.
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Cell-based secondary prevention of childbirth-induced pelvic floor trauma
Geertje Callewaert,Marina Gabriela Monteiro Carvalho Mori da Cunha,Nikhil Sindhwani,Maurilio Sampaolesi,Maarten Albersen,Jan Deprest +5 more
TL;DR: With advancing population age, pelvic-floor dysfunction (PFD) will affect an increasing number of women, indicating an urgent need for effective strategies to treat or, preferably, prevent the occurrence of PFD.
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Biomechanical effects of polyglecaprone fibers in a polypropylene mesh after abdominal and rectovaginal implantation in a rabbit.
TL;DR: The addition of polyglecaprone fibers did not compromise the biomechanical properties nor did it prevent vaginal extrusion and contraction, and some other limitations preclude the rabbit vagina to be a suitable model for biomechanicals testing.
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Fetal surgery for spina bifida aperta.
TL;DR: Clinicians are provided with the essential information necessary to counsel SBA parents as the basis for considering referral of selected patients to expert fetal surgery centres and discusses recent developments of potentially less invasive fetal SBA approaches.
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Prenatal Growth in Fetuses with Isolated Cyanotic and Non-Cyanotic Congenital Heart Defects.
Annalisa Inversetti,Annalisa Inversetti,Vlasta Fesslova,Jan Deprest,Massimo Candiani,Veronica Giorgione,Paolo Cavoretto +6 more
TL;DR: Fetuses with cyanotic CHD have fetal growth restriction, impaired head growth, yet normal posterior fossa dimensions and fetal-placental Doppler, with no differences between categories of brain oxygen delivery.