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Dirk Van Raemdonck Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven Belgium
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Surgery

Subspecialties: Transplantation - Thoracic And Cardiovascular Surgery - Pulmonology

Full career – Last 3 years

Main Topics

Publications and Clinical Studies

Publications – Clinical Studies

Short Biography

Prof dr Dirk Van Raemdonck is consultant thoracic surgeon in the department of thoracic surgery at the University Hospitals Leuven and emeritus professor in the department of chronic diseases and metabolism at the KU Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium.

He is the former surgical director of the Leuven Lung Transplant Group until his retirement on 1st October 2024. He was responsible for an annual volume of about 60-70 lung transplants over the last 5 years and a total of nearly 1500 lung transplants since 1991. He served as the head of the Leuven Transplant Center until September 2024.

He is ESTS past-president and honorary member and current president of the UEMS Section of Thoracic Surgery.

Current positions:

  1. chair of the Board of Supervision of Eurotransplant International Foundation, Leiden, the Netherlands since January 2022.
  2. president of the Royal Academy for Medicine in Belgium since January 2023.
  3. editor-in-chief of the Journal for Heart and Lung Transplantation Open since April 2023.
  4. Vice-president International Thymic Malignancy Interest Group 2025


Organizations

Source: Pubmed

Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven

Publications Synthesis

Source: Pubmed

Number : 786

Citations

Citations: 17 934 1st author: 66 Last author: 135 Unique author: 14

Main journals

J Heart Lung Transplant 218
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 67
Transplantation 40
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 36
Transpl Int 36

Best Journals

Lancet Respir Med 4
Intensive Care Med 3
N Engl J Med 3

Breakdown by type

Clinical Studies 5

Source: ClinicalTrials

Synthesis

By phase:

N/A 4
Phase 4 1

By status:

Completed 5

By type:

Interventional 4
Observational 1

By Monocentric/Multicentric:

monocentric 2
multicentric2to4 0
multicentric5to9 1
multicentricup10 2

Main Topics

Respiratory Tract Diseases 1

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