Nico Pijls
Department / Institute
RESEARCH PROFILE
Nico Pijls is part-time professor of Pathophysiology of the Circulation at the TU/e department of Biomedical Engineering, research group Cardiovascular Biomechanics. His main affiliation is with Catharina Hospital Eindhoven, where he is a cardiologist specialized in diseases of the coronary arteries.Pijls and co-workers developed a new and innovative method to improve coronary intervention techniques by means of Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) measurement.
The most important prognostic parameter in coronary artery diseaseis the presence and extent of inducible ischemia, which can be best assessed by Fractional Flow Reserve.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Nico Pijls studied at Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands) where he obtained both a MSc degree in Mathematics and Physics and his medical degree. In 1991, he obtained his PhD at the same university with a thesis on maximal myocardial perfusion as a measure of the functional significance of coronary artery disease. Since 1992, Nico Pijls is a cardiologist at Catharina Hospital Eindhoven (The Netherlands).In 1999, he was appointed part-time professor of Pathophysiology of Circulation at Eindhoven University of Technology, department of Biomedical Engineering.
Recent Publications
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Alessandro Candreva,Emanuele Gallinoro,Estefania Fernandez Peregrina,Jeroen Sonck,Danielle C.J. Keulards,Marcel van 't Veer,Takuya Mizukami,Nico H.J. Pijls,Carlos Collet,Bernard De Bruyne
Automation of intracoronary continuous thermodilution for absolute coronary flow and microvascular resistance measurements
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions (2022) -
Mohamed El Farissi,Noortje A.M. Bax,Jan Willem van Rijswijk,Tineke Veenendaal,Danielle C.J. Keulards,Jo M. Zelis,Sjoerd van Tuijl,Rob Eerdekens,Jesse Demandt,Fabienne Vervaat
Ultrastructural Characteristics of Myocardial Reperfusion Injury and Effect of Selective Intracoronary Hypothermia
Therapeutic Hypothermia and Temperature Management (2022) -
Mohamed El Farissi,Thomas P. Mast,Mileen R.D. van de Kar,Daimy M.M. Dillen,Jesse P.A. Demandt,Fabienne E. Vervaat,Rob Eerdekens,Simon A.G. Dello,Danielle C. Keulards,Jo M. Zelis
Hypothermia for Cardioprotection in Patients with St-Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Journal of Clinical Medicine (2022) -
Bernard de Bruyne,Nico H.J. Pijls,Emanuele Gallinoro,Alessandro Candreva,Stephane Fournier,Danielle C.J. Keulards,Jeroen Sonck,Marcel van 't Veer,Emanuele Barbato,Jozef Bartunek
Microvascular Resistance Reserve for Assessment of Coronary Microvascular Function
Journal of the American College of Cardiology (2021) -
Emanuele Gallinoro,Alessandro Candreva,Iginio Colaiori,Monika Kodeboina,Stephane Fournier,Olivier Nelis,Giuseppe Di Gioia,Jeroen Sonck,Marcel van 't Veer,Nico H.J. Pijls
Thermodilution-derived volumetric resting coronary blood flow measurement in humans
EuroIntervention (2021)
Ancillary Activities
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