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Researcher
Rik Willems
- Disciplines:Cardiac and vascular medicine
Affiliations
- Cardiology (Division)
Member
From1 Oct 2006 → Today
Projects
1 - 10 of 26
- Cardiac arrhythmia: from pathophysiology to prediction and from prevention to palliationFrom1 Oct 2025 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Quality of Life in patients with an Implantable-Cardioverter DefibrillatorFrom18 Sep 2025 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Identifying the Determinants of Exercise Capacity Limitations after Heart TransplantationFrom4 Feb 2025 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- In-depth functional characterization of discrete sites of arrhythmogenic vulnarability in the infarct border-zone.From1 Jan 2025 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Redefining chronotropic incompetenceFrom1 Oct 2024 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Continuous Cardiac Rhythm Monitoring in Athletes: Improving Screening, Diagnosis, and Return-to-Play ProtocolsFrom5 Sep 2024 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Interaction of sports, genetics and arrhythmiaFrom1 Oct 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Challenges in current and novel cardiac implantable device technologiesFrom31 Aug 2023 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- 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 → 31 Dec 2023Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
Publications
1 - 10 of 298
- Leadless pacemaker tine fracture and dislodgement in infective tricuspid valve endocarditis: a case report(2025)Published in: Eur Heart J Case RepISSN: 2514-2119Issue: 11Volume: 9
- The role of lipoprotein(a) in predicting coronary artery disease among ageing endurance athletes and healthy controls(2025)Published in: European Journal of Preventive CardiologyISSN: 2047-4873
- Evolution of primary prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillator clinical utility across therapeutic eras in ischemic and nonischemic cardiomyopathy.(2025)Published in: Heart RhythmISSN: 1547-5271Pages: S1547-5271
- Atrial fibrillation and Micra AV leadless pacemaker: A challenge for atrioventricular synchrony?(2025)Published in: Heart RhythmISSN: 1547-5271Pages: S1547-5271
- Mechanistic Insights Into Reduced Arrhythmia Prevalence in Female Endurance Athletes.(2025)Published in: JACC: Clinical ElectrophysiologyISSN: 2405-500XIssue: 10Volume: 11Pages: 2225 - 2237
- Patient-specific modifiers of survival benefit in cardiac resynchronization therapy - A multicentre interaction analysis(2025)Published in: ESC Heart FailureISSN: 2055-5822Issue: 5Volume: 12Pages: 3579 - 3588
- Female endurance athletes: smaller hearts but similar relationship between ventricular size, fitness and fibrosis as male athletes(2025)Published in: British Journal of Sports MedicineISSN: 0306-3674Issue: 17Volume: 59Pages: 1211 - 1218
- Arrhythmia burden, symptoms and quality of life in female and male endurance athletes with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: a multicentre cohort study in Norway, Australia and Belgium(2025)Published in: Bmj OpenISSN: 2044-6055Issue: 8Volume: 15
- Lateral QRS amplitude is independently associated with outcome after cardiac resynchronization therapy: Advancing patient selection?(2025)Published in: Heart RhythmISSN: 1547-5271Issue: 8Volume: 22Pages: e396 - e406
- Incidences and clinical outcomes of patients with a single or dual chamber implantable cardioverter-defibrillator developing an indication for cardiac resynchronization therapy(2025)Published in: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILUREISSN: 1388-9842Issue: 7Volume: 27Pages: 1262 - 1269