Other projects

Themes and other publications

This section describes the themes in the thesis and provides a brief background and overview of the relevant publications. (These are not part of the thesis)

• Cardiac care processes

• Lipton JA, Lenzen M, P de Jaegere, Simoons M. The rise and fall of pre-hospital thrombolysis. A commentary.

  • Work on abstract with M. Lenzen, P. de Jaegere abstract ESC 14 February; draft manuscript early March?

  • Clinical Decision Support 

• Lipton J, Hazelzet JA, Bakker J, van der Putten NHJJ, Barendse R, Nelwan S,Simoons M. Patient specific clinical decision support systems in the intensive care setting. In preparation.

  • Include feedback next version 15 march

  • Glucose regulation on the Intensive Cardiac Care Unit

  • Alarm management on the Intensive Cardiac Care Unit

• Electrocardiogram

Algorithm

• • Beusen B, van de Graaf R, Roorda S, Nelwan S, van der Putten N, Lipton J. Validation and optimisation of an algorithm for predicting location of acute coronary occlusion. Potential addition to thesis? Results from Junior Med School Project. Awaiting comments from S. Nelwan, N van der Putten; possibly include more data in collaboration with WA Dijk et al. Data is with dr. Kors; awaiting results. Could be ready to submit (J Electrocardiography) within 2-3 weeks.

Prognostic value

• Lipton JA, Nelwan SP, van Domburg RT, Kors JA, Elhendy A, Poldermans D. Abnormal spatial QRS-T angle predicts mortality in patients undergoing dobutamine stress echocardiography for suspected coronary artery disease. Coronary Artery Disease, In Press.

High Frequency QRS analysis for detecting ischemia

• Lipton JA, Warren SG, Broce M, Abboud S, Beker A, Sörnmo L, Lilly DR, Maynard C, Lucas BD Jr, Wagner GS. High-frequency QRS electrocardiogram analysis during exercise stress testing for detecting ischemia. Int J Cardiol. 2008 Feb 29;124(2):198-203. Epub 2007 Apr 25.

• Toledo E, Lipton JA, Warren SG, Abboud S, Broce M, Lilly DR, Maynard C, Lucas BD Jr, Wagner GS. Detection of stress-induced myocardial ischemia from the depolarization phase of the cardiac cycle--a preliminary study. J Electrocardiol. 2009 May-Jun;42(3):240-7. Epub 2009 Feb 28.

Atrial Fibrillation

• Van den Oord S, Lipton JA, Nelwan SP, van Dam TB. Automated Detection of Atrial Fibrillation: proposed student project

  • Biomarkers and Acute Coronary Syndromes 

  • Segers D, Lipton JA, Leenen PM, Cheng C, Tempel D, Duckers HJ, Pasterkamp G, Moll F, Crom R, Krams R. Atherosclerotic plaque stability is affected by the chemokine CXCL10 in both mice and humans. Submitted to JACC.

• Case Reports

• Lipton JA, Piersma D, van der Klooster JM, van Paassen HC, van Zaanen HCT. Skin lesions and constrictive pericarditis in a patient with acute leukemia. Submitted to Netherlands Journal of Medicine.

• Education

  • Evaluation of the Scientific Summer School 2008 in Trilj, Croatia. In planning.

  • Evaluation of website as a means for facilitation of communication between Scientific Summer School participants. In planning.

  • Establishing a database of Summer School Participants to evaluate the effect of participation in a Scientific Summer school on long-term research collaboration. In planning.