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Wouter Meersseman
Researcher at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Publications - 119
Citations - 10764
Wouter Meersseman is an academic researcher from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The author has contributed to research in topics: Aspergillosis & Population. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 112 publications receiving 9783 citations. Previous affiliations of Wouter Meersseman include Université catholique de Louvain & Catholic University of Leuven.
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Intensive insulin therapy in the medical ICU.
Greet Van den Berghe,Alexander Wilmer,Greet Hermans,Wouter Meersseman,Pieter Wouters,Ilse Milants,Eric Van Wijngaerden,Herman Bobbaers,Roger Bouillon +8 more
TL;DR: Intensive insulin therapy significantly reduced morbidity but not mortality among all patients in the medical ICU, and the risk of subsequent death and disease was reduced in patients treated for three or more days.
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ESCMID guideline for the diagnosis and management of Candida diseases 2012: non-neutropenic adult patients.
Oliver A. Cornely,Matteo Bassetti,Thierry Calandra,Jorge Garbino,Bart Jan Kullberg,O. Lortholary,O. Lortholary,Wouter Meersseman,Murat Akova,Maiken Cavling Arendrup,S. Arikan-Akdagli,Jacques Bille,Elio Castagnola,Manuel Cuenca-Estrella,J.P. Donnelly,Andreas H. Groll,Raoul Herbrecht,William W. Hope,Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen,Cornelia Lass-Flörl,George Petrikkos,Malcolm Richardson,Emmanuel Roilides,Paul E. Verweij,Claudio Viscoli,Andrew J. Ullmann +25 more
TL;DR: This part of the EFISG guidelines focuses on non-neutropenic adult patients, and liposomal amphotericin B and voriconazole are supported with moderate, and fluconazole with marginal strength for the targeted initial treatment of candidaemia.
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Invasive Aspergillosis in Critically Ill Patients without Malignancy
Wouter Meersseman,Stefaan J. Vandecasteele,Alexander Wilmer,Eric Verbeken,Willy Peetermans,Eric Van Wijngaerden +5 more
TL;DR: Aspergillus infections occurred in five critically ill patients with proven IA who did not have any predisposing factors according to the currently available definitions and who had Child C liver cirrhosis.
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A Clinical Algorithm to Diagnose Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis in Critically Ill Patients
Stijn Blot,Fabio Silvio Taccone,Anne-Marie Van den Abeele,Pierre Bulpa,Wouter Meersseman,Nele Brusselaers,George Dimopoulos,José A. Paiva,Benoit Misset,Jordi Rello,Koenraad Vandewoude,Dirk Vogelaers,AspICU Study Investigators +12 more
TL;DR: The algorithm demonstrated favorable operating characteristics to discriminate Aspergillus respiratory tract colonization from invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in critically ill patients.
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Galactomannan in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid: a tool for diagnosing aspergillosis in intensive care unit patients.
Wouter Meersseman,Katrien Lagrou,Johan Maertens,Alexander Wilmer,Greet Hermans,Steven Vanderschueren,Isabel Spriet,Eric Verbeken,Eric Van Wijngaerden +8 more
TL;DR: Investigation of the role of GM in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid as a tool for early diagnosis of IA in the intensive care unit (ICU) in patients without classical risk factors finds GM detection in BAL fluid seems to be useful in establishing or excluding the diagnosis in the ICU.