cardiac surgeon and researcher @UZLeuven @Cardio_KULeuven, father of 4, husband of Liesbeth

Joined October 2017
Exciting update in #EHJ! 📖 1-yr FU from NIHP2019 confirms the clinical benefit of hypothermic perfusion for donor hearts. 📈See you in Toronto for #ISHLT2026 for more on HOPE. Thank you to all co-investigators! doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/eh… @UZLeuven @KU_Leuven @Cardio_KULeuven
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🎶 Muziek die het hart raakt — letterlijk en figuurlijk. Pianist en student Wouter Gillijns bracht “Heartbeat” op het podium van de Academie in Lennik, ten voordele van #KULeuven Fonds voor Cardiale Heelkunde. ❤️ Passie, talent en engagement!
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#ESOTcongress - discovering new frontiers in transplantation in London!
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Proud to present the 12 Month Follow-Up Results from European Multicenter Heart Transplantation Trial at #ISHLT2025 in Boston with 💪 outcome of hypothermic oxygenated perfusion! A big 🙏 to all collaborators!
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Jef Neve In honor of the inspiring, exemplary career of Stefan Janssens! 🙏 @Cardio_KULeuven @UZLeuven
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Today we celebrated 👉 Dirk Van Raemdonck, chair of the @UZLeuven #transplantation council for the past 18 yrs! 🙏
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Kick off of the Belgian @Transplantoux Games 2024! Thank you to all that make #transplantation possible & good luck to all participants today and tomorrow 💪
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Thanks to many! Finally something that can shift the outcome after #transplantation of ♥️. Hypothermic oxygenated perfusion of the donor heart in heart transplantation - The Lancet thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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And here they are! The @escardio 2024 guidelines on the management of #Afib !!! 🤙doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/eh…
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Filip Rega retweeted
❤️‍🔥 of the Press: Results from European randomized controlled study using XVIVO’s #heart technology published in The Lancet Read the pressrelease: ow.ly/4Bjk50SZfGx Learn about the results: ow.ly/61z750SZfGy #NIHP2019 #HOPE #HopeforHearts #XVIVO #ClinicalTrial
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Another major step forward in transplantation 👉 nytimes.com/2024/03/21/healt…
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"KU Leuven en Vlaamse gemeenschap kopen topwerk van Vesalius" 💪wat een super nieuws!!!⁦@KU_Leuven⁩ ⁦@Cardio_KULeuven⁩ ⁦@UZLeuven⁩ standaard.be/cnt/dmf20240204…
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Merrry X-mas for everyone🎄!
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Now live, the annual scientific meeting of the Belgian Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery bacts.org
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Recently graduated engineers compete for first place with their master's paper. You too can vote! Proud of my daughter! @ElineRega facebook.com/share/v/wsE1jTZ…
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Filip Rega retweeted
The study concludes that donor hearts previously considered unsuitable for transplantat due to long distances between hospitals may be transplanted with a 100% survival rate at 30-days when transported in XVIVO Heart Assist Transport. 👉 xvivoperfusion.com/mfn_news/… #hearttransplant
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