prof. dr. Julie De Backer
- Work address
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C. Heymanslaan 10
9000 Gent - Julie.DeBacker@UGent.be
- ORCID iD
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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8878-1507
- Bio (via ORCID)
- Julie De Backer is a cardiologist and clinical geneticist with a clinical and research interest in Heritable Thoracic Aortic Diseases (HTAD) and Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) working at the Ghent University Hospital in Belgium. She focuses on deep cardiovascular phenotyping in Marfan syndrome and related disorders and the relation to the genotype. Using genetically engineered animal models she and her team aim to identify new targets for better treatment and management. She is also involved in several multidisciplinary clinics for patients with HTAD and ACHD and in the development of adequate transition programs for these patients. She is an active member of several consortia and international societies in the field, including the European Reference Network for Rare Multisystemic Vasculair Disease and the Montalcino Aortic Consortium.
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Hepatic Changes in the Fontan Circulation: Identification of Liver Dysfunction and an Attempt to Streamline Follow-up Screening
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Predictors of Rapid Aortic Root Dilation and Referral for Aortic Surgery in Marfan Syndrome
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A heart for fibrillin: spatial arrangement in adult wild-type murine myocardial tissue
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Myocardial disease and arrhythmia in Marfan syndrome
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Prevalence of Obstructive sleep apnea and it's relation to cardiovascular disease in Marfan syndrome
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Tailoring the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology guidelines for the interpretation of sequenced variants in the FBN1 gene for Marfan syndrome : proposal for a disease- and gene-specific guideline
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Hungarian Marfan family with large FBN1 deletion calls attention to copy number variation detection in the current NGS era
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Looking for the missing links : challenges in the search for genotype-phenotype correlation in Marfan syndrome
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Heart failure and sudden cardiac death in heritable thoracic aortic disease caused by pathogenic variants in the SMAD3 gene
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Cardiovascular manifestations in inherited connective tissue disorders