Rutger J. Ploeg

The need for interval appendectomy after resolution of an appendiceal mass questioned.

Hyperaggregating effect of hydroxyethyl starch components and University of Wisconsin solution on human red blood cells: a risk of impaired graft perfusion in organ procurement?

Shortage of donation despite an adequate number of donors: a professional attitude?

Relationship between duration of brain death and hemodynamic (in)stability on progressive dysfunction and increased immunologic activation of donor kidneys.

Brain death induces apoptosis in donor liver of the rat.

Hypothermic machine preservation in liver transplantation revisited: concepts and criteria in the new millennium.

Effect of University of Wisconsin organ-preservation solution on haemorheology.

Metabolic syndrome is associated with impaired long-term renal allograft function; not all component criteria contribute equally.

Initial blood washout during organ procurement determines liver injury and function after preservation and reperfusion.

Effect of brain death on gene expression and tissue activation in human donor kidneys.

Donor brain death aggravates chronic rejection after lung transplantation in rats.

Distinct transcriptional changes in donor kidneys upon brain death induction in rats: insights in the processes of brain death.

The influence of brain death on liver function.

Effect of brain death and non-heart-beating kidney donation on renal function and injury: an assessment in the isolated perfused rat kidney.

Abdominal obesity and smoking are important determinants of C-reactive protein in renal transplant recipients.

To haemodialysis and back: saving a kidney graft by treatment of an arteriovenous fistula.

Validation of insulin resistance indexes in a stable renal transplant population.

Oxygenation during hypothermic rat liver preservation: an in vitro slice study to demonstrate beneficial or toxic oxygenation effects.

Revival of machine perfusion: new chances to increase the donor pool?

Mycophenolate mofetil and bronchiectasis in kidney transplant patients: a possible relationship.

Cytoprotective doses of erythropoietin or carbamylated erythropoietin have markedly different procoagulant and vasoactive activities.

Minimally invasive 'step-up approach' versus maximal necrosectomy in patients with acute necrotising pancreatitis (PANTER trial): design and rationale of a randomised controlled multicenter trial [ISRCTN13975868].

Acute isovolemic hemodilution triggers proinflammatory and procoagulatory endothelial activation in vital organs: role of erythrocyte aggregation.

Matrix metalloproteinases as profibrotic factors in terminal ileum in Crohn's disease.

Elevated levels of C-reactive protein independently predict accelerated deterioration of graft function in renal transplant recipients.

Determinants of insulin resistance in renal transplant recipients.

Non-heart beating organ donation: overview and future perspectives.

The phenomenon of infection with abdominal wall reconstruction.

Determination of an adequate perfusion pressure for continuous dual vessel hypothermic machine perfusion of the rat liver.

Perspectives in organ preservation.

The gradual onset brain death model: a relevant model to study organ donation and its consequences on the outcome after transplantation.

Analyses of intricate kinetics of the serum proteome during and after colon surgery by protein expression time series.

No increase of melanoma after kidney transplantation in the northern part of The Netherlands.

Improved kidney graft function after preservation using a novel hypothermic machine perfusion device.

Static cold storage preservation of ischemically damaged kidneys. a comparison between IGL-1 and UW solution.

Probiotic prophylaxis in predicted severe acute pancreatitis: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

Early events in kidney donation: progression of endothelial activation, oxidative stress and tubular injury after brain death.

Complement and renal transplantation: from donor to recipient.

Real time noninvasive monitoring of contaminating bacteria in a soft tissue implant infection model.

Brain death induces inflammation in the donor intestine.

Deterioration of endothelial and smooth muscle cell function in DCD kidneys after static cold storage in IGL-1 or UW.

Machine perfusion or cold storage in deceased-donor kidney transplantation.

Antimicrobial effects of an NO-releasing poly(ethylene vinylacetate) coating on soft-tissue implants in vitro and in a murine model.

SnapShot: Biofilms and biomaterials; mechanisms of medical device related infections.

Increased intestinal permeability in deceased brain dead rats.

The influence of deceased donor age and old-for-old allocation on kidney transplant outcome.

Spatiotemporal progression of localized bacterial peritonitis before and after open abdomen lavage monitored by in vivo bioluminescent imaging.

Intestinal barrier dysfunction in a randomized trial of a specific probiotic composition in acute pancreatitis.

In vivo evaluation of bacterial infection involving morphologically different surgical meshes.

Donor pretreatment with carbamylated erythropoietin in a brain death model reduces inflammation more effectively than erythropoietin while preserving renal function.

Heparin binding epidermal growth factor in renal ischaemia/reperfusion injury.

Gastrointestinal symptoms in kidney transplant recipients: what about silent sufferers?

Kidneys from donors after cardiac death provide survival benefit.

AMP-activated protein kinase as a target for preconditioning in transplantation medicine.

Renal function equations before and after living kidney donation: a within-individual comparison of performance at different levels of renal function.

Reduced ischemia-reoxygenation injury in rat intestine after luminal preservation with a tailored solution.

The risk of biomaterial-associated infection after revision surgery due to an experimental primary implant infection.

How important is the duration of the brain death period for the outcome in kidney transplantation?

The value of machine perfusion perfusate biomarkers for predicting kidney transplant outcome.

Machine perfusion versus cold storage for the preservation of kidneys donated after cardiac death: a multicenter, randomized, controlled trial.

Small bowel preservation for intestinal transplantation: a review.

Local renal complement C3 induction by donor brain death is associated with reduced renal allograft function after transplantation.

Machine perfusion versus cold storage for preservation of kidneys from expanded criteria donors after brain death.

Brain death induced renal injury.

Targeting complement activation in brain-dead donors improves renal function after transplantation.

Crosstalk between complement and Toll-like receptor activation in relation to donor brain death and renal ischemia-reperfusion injury.

[C-seal for prevention of anastomotic leakage following colorectal anastomosis].

Systemic complement activation in deceased donors is associated with acute rejection after renal transplantation in the recipient.

Protection of stapled colorectal anastomoses with a biodegradable device: the C-Seal feasibility study.

Superior preservation of DCD livers with continuous normothermic perfusion.

ADAM17 up-regulation in renal transplant dysfunction and non-transplant-related renal fibrosis.

The effect of normothermic recirculation before cold preservation on post-transplant injury of ischemically damaged donor kidneys.

Can intraluminal devices prevent or reduce colorectal anastomotic leakage: a review.

Lectin complement pathway gene profile of the donor and recipient does not influence graft outcome after kidney transplantation.

Effects of preexistent hypertension on blood pressure and residual renal function after donor nephrectomy.

Tubular epithelial syndecan-1 maintains renal function in murine ischemia/reperfusion and human transplantation.