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Postgraduate training program

community settings

Tekian A, Villiger PM.
GSID: s5KzRfUBxo4J
C Beyeler, PM Villiger, A Tekian - Swiss medical weekly, 2007 - researchgate.net

Background: Faculties face the permanent challenge to design training programs with well-balanced educational outcomes, and to offer various organised and individual learning …

Laser tissue coagulation and concurrent optical coherence tomography through a double-clad fiber coupler.

Biomedical optics express

Beaudette K, Baac HW, Madore WJ, Villiger M, Godbout N, Bouma BE, Boudoux C.
PMID: 25909013
Biomed Opt Express. 2015 Mar 16;6(4):1293-303. doi: 10.1364/BOE.6.001293. eCollection 2015 Apr 01.

Double-clad fiber (DCF) is herein used in conjunction with a double-clad fiber coupler (DCFC) to enable simultaneous and co-registered optical coherence tomography (OCT) and laser tissue coagulation. The DCF allows a single channel fiber-optic probe to be shared: i.e....

Prediction of Scar Size in Rats Six Months after Burns Based on Early Post-injury Polarization-Sensitive Optical Frequency Domain Imaging.

Frontiers in physiology

Kravez E, Villiger M, Bouma B, Yarmush M, Yakhini Z, Golberg A.
PMID: 29249978
Front Physiol. 2017 Dec 01;8:967. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2017.00967. eCollection 2017.

Hypertrophic scars remain a major clinical problem in the rehabilitation of burn survivors and lead to physical, aesthetic, functional, psychological, and social stresses. Prediction of healing outcome and scar formation is critical for deciding on the best treatment plan....

Risk for adverse pregnancy outcome in axial spondyloarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis: disease activity matters.

Rheumatology (Oxford, England)

Zbinden A, van den Brandt S, Østensen M, Villiger PM, Förger F.
PMID: 29617883
Rheumatology (Oxford). 2018 Jul 01;57(7):1235-1242. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/key053.

OBJECTIVE: To analyse pregnancy outcome and delivery mode in patients with RA and axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) in relation to disease activity and anti-rheumatic drugs.METHODS: Patients with RA and axSpA were compared with age-matched healthy controls (HCs) with respect to...

Rare Case of Large Bowel Injury due to Direct Blunt Trauma to a Preexisting Femoral Hernia.

Case reports in surgery

Tinner C, Odermatt M, Villiger P.
PMID: 29209550
Case Rep Surg. 2017;2017:5308027. doi: 10.1155/2017/5308027. Epub 2017 Oct 25.

We report a case of an 85-year-old man with a known asymptomatic left femoral hernia who was admitted to the emergency ward a few hours after falling from a bicycle and suffering from blunt trauma of the handlebar to...

Home parenteral nutrition is beneficial in systemic sclerosis patients with gastrointestinal dysfunction.

Scandinavian journal of rheumatology

Stanga Z, Aeberhard C, Schärer P, Kocher A, Adler S, Villiger PM.
PMID: 26303230
Scand J Rheumatol. 2016 Jan;45(1):32-35. doi: 10.3109/03009742.2015.1064543. Epub 2015 Aug 24.

OBJECTIVES: To assess 12-month changes in nutritional status and quality of life (QoL) in systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients requiring home parenteral nutrition (HPN).METHOD: We conducted a retrospective, single-centre database analysis of SSc patients regarding a 12-month period of HPN...

Balloon catheter-based radiofrequency ablation monitoring in porcine esophagus using optical coherence tomography.

Biomedical optics express

Lo WCY, Uribe-Patarroyo N, Hoebel K, Beaudette K, Villiger M, Nishioka NS, Vakoc BJ, Bouma BE.
PMID: 31086717
Biomed Opt Express. 2019 Mar 28;10(4):2067-2089. doi: 10.1364/BOE.10.002067. eCollection 2019 Apr 01.

We present a microscopic image guidance platform for radiofrequency ablation (RFA) using a clinical balloon-catheter-based optical coherence tomography (OCT) system, currently used in the surveillance of Barrett's esophagus patients. Our integrated thermal therapy delivery and monitoring platform consists of...

Depolarization signatures map gold nanorods within biological tissue.

Nature photonics

Lippok N, Villiger M, Albanese A, Meijer EFJ, Chung K, Padera TP, Bhatia SN, Bouma BE.
PMID: 29201136
Nat Photonics. 2017;11:583-588. doi: 10.1038/nphoton.2017.128. Epub 2017 Jul 31.

Owing to their electromagnetic properties, tunability and biocompatibility, gold nanorods (GNRs) are being investigated as multifunctional probes for a range of biomedical applications. However, detection beyond the reach of traditional fluorescence and two-photon approaches and quantitation of their concentration...

Development of an .

Frontiers in immunology

Madden PJ, Arif MS, Becker ME, McRaven MD, Carias AM, Lorenzo-Redondo R, Xiao S, Midkiff CC, Blair RV, Potter EL, Martin-Sancho L, Dodson A, Martinelli E, Todd JM, Villinger FJ, Chanda SK, Aye PP, Roy CJ, Roederer M, Lewis MG, Veazey RS, Hope TJ.
PMID: 35003140
Front Immunol. 2021 Dec 24;12:810047. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.810047. eCollection 2021.

Infection with the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, results in pneumonia and other respiratory symptoms as well as pathologies at diverse anatomical sites. An outstanding question is whether these diverse pathologies are due to replication of the virus in these anatomical...

Quantitative ultrasound to monitor the vascular response to tocilizumab in giant cell arteritis.

Rheumatology (Oxford, England)

Seitz L, Christ L, Lötscher F, Scholz G, Sarbu AC, Bütikofer L, Kollert F, Schmidt WA, Reichenbach S, Villiger PM.
PMID: 34117737
Rheumatology (Oxford). 2021 Nov 03;60(11):5052-5059. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/keab484.

OBJECTIVES: To characterize the effect of ultra-short glucocorticoids followed by Tocilizumab monotherapy on the intima-media thickness (IMT) in GCA.METHODS: Eighteen GCA patients received 500 mg for 3 consecutive days (total of 1500mg) i.v. methylprednisolone on days 0-2, followed by...

Localization of infection in neonatal rhesus macaques after oral viral challenge.

PLoS pathogens

Taylor RA, McRaven MD, Carias AM, Anderson MR, Matias E, Araínga M, Allen EJ, Rogers KA, Gupta S, Kulkarni V, Lakhashe S, Lorenzo-Redondo R, Thomas Y, Strickland A, Villinger FJ, Ruprecht RM, Hope TJ.
PMID: 34793582
PLoS Pathog. 2021 Nov 18;17(11):e1009855. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009855. eCollection 2021 Nov.

Vertical transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) can occur in utero, during delivery, and through breastfeeding. We utilized Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging coupled with fluorescent microscopy of 64Cu-labeled photoactivatable-GFP-HIV (PA-GFP-BaL) to determine how HIV virions distribute and localize...

Stigmatization of Chinese and Asian-looking people during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.

BMC public health

Koller JE, Villinger K, Lages NC, Brünecke I, Debbeler JM, Engel KD, Grieble S, Homann PC, Kaufmann R, Koppe KM, Oppenheimer H, Radtke VC, Rogula S, Stähler J, Renner B, Schupp HT.
PMID: 34215224
BMC Public Health. 2021 Jul 02;21(1):1296. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-11270-1.

BACKGROUND: The outbreak and global spread of COVID-19 was accompanied by an increase in reports of stigmatization of Chinese and Asian-looking people. The behavioral immune system provides a framework for stigmatization in response to infectious disease threats. Specifically, stigmatization...

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