Researcher
Willem-Jan Metsemakers
- Disciplines:Orthopaedics
Affiliations
- Locomotor and Neurological Disorders (Division)
Member
From1 Jan 2019 → Today - Woman and Child (Division)
Member
From1 Mar 2015 → 31 Dec 2018
Projects
1 - 8 of 8
- New concepts for the management of musculoskeletal infections.From1 Aug 2022 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Implementation of Personalized PHAGE therapy to combat difficult-to-treat infections (IP-PHAGE)From1 Jul 2022 → 30 Jun 2023Funding: IOF - mandates
- Working towards diagnostic uniformity and optimized treatment in fracture-related infectionFrom1 Mar 2022 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Safety and Efficacy of bacteriophages in the treatment of musculoskeletal infectionFrom25 Aug 2020 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- ‘Bisceps’ Biofilm susceptibility sensors for in situ biofilm monitoring.From1 Jan 2019 → 31 Dec 2022Funding: FWO Strategic Basic Research (SBO)
- Vascular graft coatings to prevent infection: current status and future potentialsFrom1 Dec 2018 → 30 Nov 2023Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Fracture-related infection: optimization of diagnostic principles and the development of alternative strategies for prevention and treatmentFrom1 Jan 2018 → 17 Dec 2021Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- In vivo validation of the resistance-proof activity of 2-aminoimidazole based anti-biofilm coatings for medical implantsFrom1 Oct 2017 → 30 Sep 2019Funding: IOF - Industrial Research Fund
Publications
1 - 10 of 114
- Diagnostic Performance of a telephone questionnaire for fracture-related infections (FRIs) in open tibia fracture patients in Tanzania(2024)
Authors: Willem-Jan Metsemakers
- Key aspects of soft tissue management in fracture-related infection: recommendations from an international expert group(2024)
Authors: Willem-Jan Metsemakers
- Advanced imaging shows extra-articular abscesses in two out of three adult patients with septic arthritis of the native hip joint.(2024)
Authors: Willem-Jan Metsemakers
Pages: 27 - 35 - Alginate microbeads and hydrogels delivering meropenem and bacteriophages to treat Pseudomonas aeruginosa fracture-related infections(2023)
Authors: Baixing Chen, Jeroen Wagemans, Jolien Onsea, Rob Lavigne, Willem-Jan Metsemakers
Pages: 159 - 173 - Vascular graft coatings to prevent infection: current status and future potentials(2023)
Authors: Hozan Mufty, Inge Fourneau, Bart Meuris, Willem-Jan Metsemakers
- The global burden of fracture-related infection: can we do better?(2023)
Authors: Willem-Jan Metsemakers, Melissa Depypere
Pages: S1473-3099 - Should treatment decisions in septic arthritis of the native hip joint be based on the route of infection?(2023)
Authors: Melissa Depypere, Paul De Munter, Willem-Jan Metsemakers
Pages: 209 - 218 - Stability of magistral phage preparations before therapeutic application in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis, sepsis, pulmonary, and musculoskeletal infections(2023)
Authors: Saartje Uyttebroek, Willem-Jan Metsemakers, Yves Debaveye, Laura Van Gerven, Lieven Dupont, Melissa Depypere, Jeroen Wagemans, Rob Lavigne, Isabel Spriet, Jolien Onsea
- Treatment and outcome of fracture-related infection of the clavicle(2023)
Authors: Jonathan Sliepen, Harm Hoekstra, Jolien Onsea, Melissa Depypere, Michiel Herteleer, An Sermon, Jan Vranckx, Willem-Jan Metsemakers
- Validation of the diagnostic criteria of the consensus definition of fracture-related infection Injury (vol 53, pg1867, 2022)(2023)
Authors: Jolien Onsea, Jonathan Sliepen, Melissa Depypere, Willem-Jan Metsemakers
Pages: 1843 - 1843