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Patrick Segers

Patrick Segers

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Medicine

D-Index
87
Citations
28149
World Ranking
13633
National Ranking
168

Overview

Patrick Segers is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has made contributions primarily within the fields of Medicine and Engineering. Their research focus encompasses subfields including Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, as well as Surgery.

Their work addresses several main topics, notably Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention, Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors, Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies, Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring, Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments, Elasticity and Material Modeling, and Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography.

Patrick Segers has published numerous scientific papers, notably in venues such as Artery Research, Hypertension, the Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, Scientific Reports, and Physics in Medicine and Biology. The publication count in these venues reflects ongoing engagement with research developments in cardiovascular and biomedical engineering topics.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Patrick Segers include Julio A. Chirinos, Annette Caenen, Patrick Sips, Julie De Backer, and Nele Famaey. These collaborations have resulted in multiple joint publications, indicating a network of researchers focused on cardiovascular and imaging research.

Selected papers authored or coauthored by Patrick Segers include:

  • 2024 Recommendations for Validation of Noninvasive Arterial Pulse Wave Velocity Measurement Devices, 2023, Hypertension
  • Assessing cardiac stiffness using ultrasound shear wave elastography, 2021, Physics in Medicine and Biology
  • Arterial pulse wave modeling and analysis for vascular-age studies: a review from VascAgeNet, 2023, American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology
  • Longitudinal Changes of Input Impedance, Pulse Wave Velocity, and Wave Reflection in a Middle-Aged Population, 2021, Hypertension
  • Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography in Cardiology, 2024, JACC. Cardiovascular Imaging

Best Publications

  • Expert consensus document on the measurement of aortic stiffness in daily practice using carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity.

    Luc M. Van Bortel;Stephane Laurent;Pierre Boutouyrie;Phil Chowienczyk

  • Determinants of pulse wave velocity in healthy people and in the presence of cardiovascular risk factors: 'establishing normal and reference values'.

    Francesco U. S. Mattace-Raso;Albert Hofman;Germaine C. Verwoert;Jacqueline C. M. Witteman

  • Recommendations on the use of echocardiography in adult hypertension: a report from the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) and the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE)

    Thomas H. Marwick;Thierry C. Gillebert;Gerard Aurigemma;Julio Chirinos

  • Large-Artery Stiffness in Health and Disease: JACC State-of-the-Art Review

    Julio A. Chirinos;Julio A. Chirinos;Patrick Segers;Timothy Hughes;Raymond Townsend

  • Role of Pulse Pressure Amplification in Arterial Hypertension: Experts’ Opinion and Review of the Data

    Alberto P. Avolio;Luc M. Van Bortel;Pierre Boutouyrie;John R. Cockcroft

  • Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells and Arterial Stiffening: Relevance in Development, Aging, and Disease

    Patrick Lacolley;Véronique Regnault;Patrick Segers;Stéphane Laurent

  • Arterial wave reflections and incident cardiovascular events and heart failure: MESA (Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis).

    Julio A. Chirinos;Jan G. Kips;David R. Jacobs;Lyndia Brumback

  • Pulse wave propagation in a model human arterial network: Assessment of 1-D visco-elastic simulations against in vitro measurements

    Jordi Alastruey;Ashraf W. Khir;Koen S. Matthys;Patrick Segers

  • Telomere length and cardiovascular risk factors in a middle‐aged population free of overt cardiovascular disease

    Sofie Bekaert;Tim De Meyer;Ernst R. Rietzschel;Marc L. De Buyzere

  • Noninvasive (Input) Impedance, Pulse Wave Velocity, and Wave Reflection in Healthy Middle-Aged Men and Women

    Patrick Segers;Ernst R. Rietzschel;Marc L. De Buyzere;Sebastian J. Vermeersch

  • Left Ventricular Mass: Allometric Scaling, Normative Values, Effect of Obesity, and Prognostic Performance

    Julio A. Chirinos;Patrick Segers;Marc L. De Buyzere;Richard A. Kronmal

  • Use of pulse pressure method for estimating total arterial compliance in vivo

    N Stergiopulos;Patrick Segers;N Westerhof

  • Noninvasive Evaluation of Left Ventricular Afterload Part 2: Arterial Pressure-Flow and Pressure-Volume Relations in Humans

    Julio A. Chirinos;Patrick Segers

  • ARTERY Society guidelines for validation of non-invasive haemodynamic measurement devices: Part 1, arterial pulse wave velocity

    Ian B. Wilkinson;Carmel M. McEniery;Giuseppe Schillaci;Pierre Boutouyrie

  • Amplification of the Pressure Pulse in the Upper Limb in Healthy, Middle-Aged Men and Women

    Patrick Segers;Dries Mahieu;Jan Kips;Ernst Rietzschel

  • Noninvasive Assessment of Local Pulse Pressure. Importance of Brachial-to-Radial Pressure Amplification

    Francis Verbeke;Patrick Segers;Steven Heireman;Raymond Vanholder

  • Validation of non-invasive central blood pressure devices: ARTERY Society task force consensus statement on protocol standardization

    James E. Sharman;Alberto P. Avolio;Johannes Baulmann;Athanase Benetos

  • Ethnic-Specific Normative Reference Values for Echocardiographic LA and LV Size, LV Mass, and Systolic Function: The EchoNoRMAL Study

    K.K. Poppe;R.N. Doughty;J.M. Gardin;F.D.R. Hobbs

  • A novel simulation strategy for stent insertion and deployment in curved coronary bifurcations: comparison of three drug-eluting stents.

    Peter Mortier;Gerhard A. Holzapfel;Gerhard A. Holzapfel;Matthieu De Beule;Denis Van Loo

  • Recommendations on the use of echocardiography in adult hypertension: a report from the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) and the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE)

    T H Marwick;Marwick T H;T C Gillebert;Gillebert T C

Frequent Co-Authors

Pascal Verdonck
Pascal Verdonck Ghent University
Julio A. Chirinos
Julio A. Chirinos University of Pennsylvania
Jan Vierendeels
Jan Vierendeels Ghent University
Dirk De Bacquer
Dirk De Bacquer Ghent University
Nico Westerhof
Nico Westerhof VU University Medical Center
Mathieu Pernot
Mathieu Pernot Inserm : Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
Guy De Backer
Guy De Backer Ghent University
Raymond R. Townsend
Raymond R. Townsend University of Pennsylvania
Roel Baets
Roel Baets Ghent University

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