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Wim Van Biesen is affiliated with Ghent University Hospital in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a primary focus on nephrology. Their research encompasses various subfields including general health professions, surgery, economics and econometrics, and public health, environmental, and occupational health.

Their work centers on several key topics within healthcare and kidney disease management:

  • Dialysis and Renal Disease Management
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Acute Kidney Injury Research
  • Central Venous Catheters and Hemodialysis
  • Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments

Van Biesen has published in a range of scientific journals, frequently appearing in:

  • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
  • Clinical Kidney Journal
  • Toxins
  • PLoS ONE
  • Peritoneal Dialysis International

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by them include:

  • Sustainable Development Goals relevant to kidney health: an update on progress, 2020, Nature Reviews Nephrology
  • Gut microbiota generation of protein-bound uremic toxins and related metabolites is not altered at different stages of chronic kidney disease, 2020, Kidney International
  • Isolation and Quantification of Uremic Toxin Precursor-Generating Gut Bacteria in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Explainability in medicine in an era of AI-based clinical decision support systems, 2022, Frontiers in Genetics
  • Supportive care for end-stage kidney disease: an integral part of kidney services across a range of income settings around the world, 2020, Kidney International Supplements

Throughout their career, Wim Van Biesen has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Sunny Eloot
  • Griet Glorieux
  • Johan Decruyenaere
  • Francis Verbeke
  • Karsten Vanden Wyngaert

Their body of work contributes to advancing knowledge around kidney health, dialysis, and related healthcare services, intersecting both clinical and systemic areas of study.

Best Publications

  • Clinical practice guideline on diagnosis and treatment of hyponatraemia

    Goce Spasovski;Raymond Vanholder;Bruno B. Allolio;Djillali Annane

  • Acute kidney injury: an increasing global concern

    Norbert H Lameire;Arvind Bagga;Dinna Cruz;Jan De Maeseneer

  • A European Renal Best Practice (ERBP) position statement on the Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Clinical Practice Guidelines on Acute Kidney Injury: Part 1: definitions, conservative management and contrast-induced nephropathy

    Danilo Fliser;Maurice Laville;Adrian Covic

  • CKD Prevalence Varies across the European General Population

    Katharina Brück;Vianda S. Stel;Giovanni Gambaro;Stein Hallan

  • Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes guidelines on anaemia management in chronic kidney disease: a European Renal Best Practice position statement

    Francesco Locatelli;Peter Bárány;Adrian Covic;Angel De Francisco

  • Urinary and serum biomarkers for the diagnosis of acute kidney injury: an in-depth review of the literature

    Jill Vanmassenhove;Raymond Vanholder;Evi Nagler;Wim Van Biesen

  • An evaluation of an integrative care approach for end-stage renal disease patients.

    Wim Van Biesen;Raymond C. Vanholder;Nic Veys;Annemieke Dhondt

  • The changing epidemiology of acute renal failure

    Norbert Lameire;Wim Van Biesen;Raymond Vanholder

  • European Renal Best Practice Guideline on kidney donor and recipient evaluation and perioperative care

    Daniel Abramowicz;Pierre Cochat;Frans H. J. Claas;Uwe Heemann

  • Fluid status in peritoneal dialysis patients: the European Body Composition Monitoring (EuroBCM) study cohort.

    Wim Van Biesen;John D. Williams;Adrian C. Covic;Stanley Fan

  • Diagnosis and treatment of hyponatremia: a systematic review of clinical practice guidelines and consensus statements

    Evi V Nagler;Evi V Nagler;Evi V Nagler;Jill Vanmassenhove;Sabine N van der Veer;Ionut Nistor

  • Patient and Caregiver Priorities for Outcomes in Hemodialysis: An International Nominal Group Technique Study

    Rachel Urquhart-Secord;Rachel Urquhart-Secord;Jonathan C. Craig;Jonathan C. Craig;Brenda Hemmelgarn;Helen Tam-Tham

  • Prognostic Value of Aortic Stiffness and Calcification for Cardiovascular Events and Mortality in Dialysis Patients: Outcome of the Calcification Outcome in Renal Disease (CORD) Study

    Francis Verbeke;Wim Van Biesen;Eero Honkanen;Björn Wikström

  • Developing a Set of Core Outcomes for Trials in Hemodialysis: An International Delphi Survey.

    Nicole Evangelidis;Nicole Evangelidis;Allison Tong;Allison Tong;Braden Manns;Brenda Hemmelgarn

  • Reducing the costs of chronic kidney disease while delivering quality health care: a call to action

    Raymond Vanholder;Lieven Annemans;Edwina Brown;Ron Gansevoort

  • Recommendations for the use of tolvaptan in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease: a position statement on behalf of the ERA-EDTA Working Groups on Inherited Kidney Disorders and European Renal Best Practice

    Ron T Gansevoort;Mustafa Arici;Thomas Benzing;Henrik Birn

  • Management of patients at risk of acute kidney injury

    Jill Vanmassenhove;Jan Kielstein;Achim Jörres;Wim Van Biesen

  • Clinical characteristics of patients developing ARF due to sepsis/systemic inflammatory response syndrome: results of a prospective study.

    Itir Yegenaga;Erik Hoste;Wim Van Biesen;Raymond Vanholder

  • Impact of hemodialysis duration on the removal of uremic retention solutes.

    S Eloot;W Van Biesen;A Dhondt;H Van de Wynkele

  • The glomerular filtration rate in an apparently healthy population and its relation with cardiovascular mortality during 10 years.

    Wim Van Biesen;Dirk De Bacquer;Francis Verbeke;Joris Delanghe

Frequent Co-Authors

Raymond Vanholder
Raymond Vanholder Ghent University
Norbert Lameire
Norbert Lameire Ghent University Hospital
Adrian Covic
Adrian Covic Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy
Allison Tong
Allison Tong University of Sydney
Jonathan C. Craig
Jonathan C. Craig Flinders University
Kitty J. Jager
Kitty J. Jager University of Amsterdam
Joris R. Delanghe
Joris R. Delanghe Ghent University
Brenda R. Hemmelgarn
Brenda R. Hemmelgarn University of Calgary
David C. Wheeler
David C. Wheeler University College London

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