Researcher
Rik Willems
- Disciplines:Cardiac and vascular medicine
Affiliations
- Cardiology (Division)
Member
From1 Oct 2006 → Today
Projects
1 - 10 of 17
- Interventional X-ray system equipped with 3D rotational angiography for cardiovascular research in preclinical large animal models.From1 May 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO Medium Size Research Infrastructure
- Linking functional microarchitecture of the myocardial infarction borderzone to arrhythmogenesisFrom1 Jan 2021 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- BLOOD PRESSURE INDUCED PREMATURE VENTRICULAR BEATS AS TRIGGERS FOR VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA IN ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHYFrom1 Oct 2018 → 30 Sep 2022Funding: BOF - Concerted Research Project from 1994
- Clin-IC: Medtech solutions for patientsFrom1 May 2018 → TodayFunding: IOF - mandates, IOF - Industrial Research Fund
- The athlete's heart: is there a thin line between health and disease? When and why do longterm training programs become unhealthy?From1 Nov 2017 → 23 Nov 2022Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Lifetime endurance exercise to prevent coronary artery disease. A comparison with late-onset endurance training and a sedentary lifestyle.From1 Oct 2017 → 30 Sep 2021Funding: FWO Applied Biomedical Research (TBM)
- Mechanisms of triggers and substrate of ventricular tachycardia in the myocardial infarction border zoneFrom1 Apr 2017 → 8 May 2023Funding: FWO fellowships
- Cardiac reserve and ventricular interdependence in right heart disease: diagnostic and therapeutic prospectsFrom1 Aug 2015 → 14 Dec 2021Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Microdomain modulation of ryanodine receptors in post-myocardial infarction remodeling of cardiac myocytes.From1 Jan 2015 → 31 Dec 2018Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Integration of high-detail-three-dimensional anatomical evaluation of the atrium with functional and metabolic factors to improve safety and effectiveness of catheter ablation of supraventricular arrhythmiasFrom1 Oct 2014 → 17 Nov 2020Funding: FWO fellowships
Publications
1 - 10 of 279
- Semiautomatic Training Load Determination in Endurance Athletes(2023)
Authors: Christophe Dausin, Véronique Cornelissen, Rik Willems
Pages: 193 - 201 - Mechanical Dyssynchrony Combined with Septal Scarring Reliably Identifies Responders to Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy(2023)
Authors: Jürgen Duchenne, Alexis Puvrez, Laurine Wouters, Lennert Minten, Gabor Voros, Rik Willems
- Is it feasible to outsource the remote monitoring of implantable cardiac defibrillators in a large tertiary hospital?(2023)
Authors: Joris Ector, Peter Haemers, Gabor Voros, Christophe Garweg, Rik Willems
Pages: 687 - 698 - Electric field-based spatial analysis of non-contact unipolar electrograms to map regional activation-repolarization intervals(2023)
Authors: Dylan Vermoortele, Rik Willems, Piet Claus
Pages: 1217 - 1231 - Lifelong endurance exercise and its relation with coronary atherosclerosis(2023)
Authors: Christophe Dausin, Piet Claus, Jan Bogaert, Andre La Gerche, Rik Willems, Guido Claessen, Peter Hespel, Tom Dresselaers, Ann Belmans
Pages: 2388 - 2399 - A unified framework for multi-lead ECG characterization using Laplacian Eigenmaps(2023)
Authors: Bert Vandenberk, Sabine Van Huffel, Rik Willems, Carolina Varon Perez
- Regional beat-to-beat variability of repolarization increases during ischemia and predicts imminent arrhythmias in a pig model of myocardial infarction.(2023)
Authors: Sebastian Ingelaere, Sabine Van Huffel, Carolina Varon Perez, Piet Claus, Rik Willems
Pages: H54 - H65 - Individualized QT interval (QTi) is a powerful diagnostic tool in long QT syndrome: results from a large validation study(2023)
Authors: Tomas Robyns, Bert Vandenberk, Peter Haemers, Jeroen Breckpot, Rik Willems
- Mechanisms of triggers and substrate of ventricular arrhythmias in the myocardial infarction border zone(2023)
Authors: Matthew Amoni, Rik Willems
- Heterogeneity of Repolarization and Cell-Cell Variability of Cardiomyocyte Remodeling Within the Myocardial Infarction Border Zone Contribute to Arrhythmia Susceptibility.(2023)
Authors: Dylan Vermoortele, Guillaume Gilbert, Bernard Thienpont, Rik Willems, Piet Claus