Lowie Vanfleteren
About Lowie Vanfleteren
About Lowie Vanfleteren
Lowie Vanfleteren is currently the head of COPD-center at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, lecturer and researcher in Pulmonary Medicine at University of Gothenburg.
In June 2005 he obtained his medical degree and shortly afterwards he started his training in internal medicine in the Atrium medical center in Heerlen (the Netherlands).
From august 2007 he was working as a resident in respiratory medicine in Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC+), where he obtained his degree as a chest physician in august 2011. From 2011 to 2018 he worked as a chest physician in CIRO+, a center of expertise in chronic organ failure, in Horn, (the Netherlands) with secondment to the department of respiratory medicine in Maastricht University Medical Center and the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences of Maastricht university. Next to his work in pulmonary rehabilitation, he set up collaboration with the center of home mechanical ventilation in Maastricht for the treatment of respiratory failure in advanced COPD, initiated a referral center for endobronchial lung volume reduction and lung volume reduction surgery, and set up a multidisciplinary treatment approach for severe asthma in Maastricht University Medical Hospital. In February 2015 he obtained his PhD on “COPD and comorbidities” at the university of Maastricht.
In 2018 he moved to Gothenburg, Sweden and started to work in a combination position as associate professor at the Institute of Medicine of the University of Gothenburg and as a lung physician and head of the COPD-center at Sahlgrenska University Medical Hospital in Gothenburg Sweden.
Research and international collaboration
Lowie Vanfleteren's clinical and scientific focus is on COPD. He is a principal investigator of several investigator-initiated studies and supervisor of PhD and Postdoc students.
Internationally Lowie is a member of twelve collaborative initiatives, including the American Thoracic Society and participating in the Program Committee of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation assembly. He is the representative to the Early Career Members Committee for the clinical assembly of the European Respiratory Society for 2018-2022. He is associate editor for the Journals Respiration and ERJ open research. He participates in the steering committee of the Swedish Airway register.
Awards, citations and distinctions
Lowie Vanfleteren has published over 100 scientific publications and has been invited speaker to over 80 conferences and symposias. He is a winner of several awards: European Respiratory Journal 2016 Top Reviewer; Best Abstract in Pulmonary Rehabilitation; European Respiratory Society annual meeting; Travel Award, funded by the national emphysema foundation; American Thoracic Society annual meeting; assembly of clinical problems.
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Endothelial function in patients with COPD: an updated systematic review of studies using flow-mediated
dilatation
A. W. Vaes, P. De Boever, F. M. E. Franssen, Nhmk Uszko-Lencer, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, M. A. Spruit
Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine - 2023 -
Clinical impact of routine sleep assessment by peripheral arterial tonometry in patients with
COPD
D. Hansson, Anders Andersson, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, Kristina Andelid, Ding Zou, Jan A Hedner, Ludger Grote
ERJ Open Research - 2023 -
Exacerbation Risk and Mortality in COPD GOLD Group A and B Patients with and without Exacerbation
History.
Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, Anne Lindberg, Caddie Zhou, Fredrik Nyberg, Caroline Stridsman
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine - 2023 -
Biomarker-based clustering of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease
Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, Julie Weidner, F. M. E. Franssen, S. Gaffron, N. L. Reynaert, E. F. M. Wouters, M. A. Spruit
ERJ Open Research - 2023 -
Gender Differences in Vitamin D Status and Determinants of Vitamin D Insufficiency in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary
Disease
Maria Minter, Hanna Augustin, Jenny Van Odijk, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren
Nutrients - 2023 -
Reduction of Lung Hyperinflation Improves Cardiac Preload, Contractility, and Output in Emphysema A Clinical Trial in Patients Who Received Endobronchial
Valves
M. C. van der Molen, J. E. Hartman, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, H. A. M. Kerstjens, J. P. van Melle, T. P. Willems, D. J. Slebos
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine - 2022 -
ERS International Congress 2021: highlights from the Respiratory Clinical Care and Physiology
Assembly
T. Gille, P. Sivapalan, G. Kaltsakas, S. B. Kolekar, M. Armstrong, R. Tuffnell, R. A. Evans, G. Vagheggini, L. H. Degani-Costa, C. Vicente, N. Das, V. Poberezhets, C. Rolland-Debord, S. Bayat, I. Vogiatzis, F. M. E. Franssen, H. Pinnock, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren
European Respiratory Journal Open Research (ERJ Open Research) - 2022 -
Computational phenotyping of obstructive airway diseases: protocol for a systematic
review.
Muwada Bashir Awad Bashir, Rani Basna, Guo-Qiang Zhang, Helena Backman, Anne Lindberg, Linda Ekerljung, Malin Axelsson, Linnea Hedman, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, Bo Lundbäck, Eva Rönmark, Bright I Nwaru
Systematic reviews - 2022 -
Implementation of Bronchoscopic Lung Volume Reduction Using One-Way Endobronchial Valves: A Retrospective Single-Centre Cohort
Study
R. Posthuma, A. W. Vaes, K. H. M. Walraven, P. S. Nia, J. U. Schreiber, H. A. Gietema, G. Wesseling, E. F. M. Wouters, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren
Respiration - 2022 -
Cause-specific Death in Chronic Airway Obstruction and Restrictive Spirometric
Pattern.
Helena Backman, Sami Sawalha, Ulf Nilsson, Linnea Hedman, Caroline Stridsman, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, Bright I Nwaru, Nikolai Stenfors, Eva Rönmark, Anne Lindberg
Annals of the American Thoracic Society - 2022 -
Clustering based on comorbidities in patients with chronic heart failure: an illustration of clinical
diversity
Nhmk Uszko-Lencer, D. J. A. Janssen, S. Gaffron, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, E. Janssen, C. Werter, F. M. E. Franssen, E. F. M. Wouters, S. Rechberger, H. P. B. La Rocca, M. A. Spruit
ESC Heart Failure - 2022 -
Uncontrolled asthma predicts severe COVID-19: a report from the Swedish National Airway
Register.
Johanna Karlsson Sundbaum, Jon R Konradsen, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, Sten Axelsson Fisk, Christophe Pedroletti, Yvonne Sjöö, Jörgen Syk, Therese Sterner, Anne Lindberg, Alf Tunsäter, Fredrik Nyberg, Ann Ekberg-Jansson, Caroline Stridsman
Therapeutic advances in respiratory disease - 2022 -
Differential Outcomes Following 4 Weeks of Aclidinium/Formoterol in Patients with COPD: A Reanalysis of the ACTIVATE
Study
M. Koopman, F. M. E. Franssen, S. Gaffron, H. Watz, T. Troosters, J. Garcia-Aymerich, P. Paggiaro, E. Molins, M. Moya, L. van Burk, D. Maier, E. G. Gil, E. F. M. Wouters, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, M. A. Spruit
International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - 2022 -
The HUNT study: Association of comorbidity clusters with long-term survival and incidence of exacerbation in a population-based Norwegian COPD
cohort
S. A. A. Vikjord, B. Brumpton, X. M. Mai, S. Romundstad, A. Langhammer, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren
Respirology - 2022 -
Restricted spirometry and cardiometabolic comorbidities: results from the international population based BOLD
study
Katarzyna Kulbacka-Ortiz, F. J. J. Triest, F. M. E. Franssen, E. F. M. Wouters, M. Studnicka, W. M. Vollmer, B. Lamprecht, P. G. J. Burney, A. F. S. Amaral, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren
Respiratory research - 2022 -
Changes in lung function in European adults born between 1884 and 1996 and implications for the diagnosis of lung disease: a cross-sectional analysis of ten population-based
studies.
James P Allinson, Shoaib Afzal, Yunus Çolak, Debbie Jarvis, Helena Backman, Maarten van den Berge, H Marike Boezen, Marie-Kathrin Breyer, Robab Breyer-Kohansal, Guy Brusselle, Otto C Burghuber, Rosa Faner, Sylvia Hartl, Lies Lahousse, Arnulf Langhammer, Bo Lundbäck, Bright I Nwaru, Eva Rönmark, Sigrid A Aalberg Vikjord, Judith M Vonk, Sara R A Wijnant, Peter Lange, Børge G Nordestgaard, Nuria Olvera, Alvar Agusti, Gavin C Donaldson, Jadwiga A Wedzicha, Jørgen Vestbo, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren
The Lancet. Respiratory medicine - 2022 -
On the Annotation of Health Care Pathways to Allow the Application of Care-Plans That Generate Data for Multiple
Purposes
M. Ingvar, M. C. Blom, C. Winsnes, G. Robinson, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, S. Huff
Frontiers in Digital Health - 2021 -
Severe COVID-19 among patients with asthma and COPD: a report from the Swedish National Airway
Register
J. Karlsson Sundbaum, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, J. R. Konradsen, Fredrik Nyberg, Ann Ekberg-Jansson, C. Stridsman
Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease - 2021 -
Determinants of Lung Fissure
Completeness
M. C. van der Molen, J. E. Hartman, C. J. Vermeulen, M. van den Berge, A. Faiz, H. A. M. Kerstjens, J. P. Charbonnier, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, D. J. Slebos
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine - 2021 -
Effects of person-centred care using digital platform and structured telephone support for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and chronic heart failure: Randomized controlled
trial
Lilas Ali, Sara Wallström, Andreas Fors, Emmelie Barenfeld, Eva Fredholm, Michael Fu, Mahboubeh Goudarzi, Hanna Gyllensten, Irma Lindström Kjellberg, Karl Swedberg, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, Inger Ekman
Journal of Medical Internet Research - 2021 -
Predictors of severe COVID-19 in a registry-based Swedish cohort of patients with
COPD.
Caroline Stridsman, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, Jon R Konradsen, Sten Axelsson Fisk, Christophe Pedroletti, Yvonne Sjöö, Jörgen Syk, Therese Sterner, Anne Lindberg, Alf Tunsäter, Fredrik Nyberg, Ann Ekberg-Jansson, Johanna Karlsson Sundbaum
The European respiratory journal - 2021 -
Swedish Covid-19 Investigation for Future Insights - A Population Epidemiology Approach Using Register Linkage
(SCIFI-PEARL)
Fredrik Nyberg, Stefan Franzén, Magnus Lindh, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, N. Hammar, B. Wettermark, J. Sundstrom, Ailiana Santosa, S. Bjorck, Magnus Gisslén
Clinical Epidemiology - 2021 -
Prediction of COPD by the single-breath nitrogen test and various respiratory
symptoms
Jan Olofson, Björn Bake, Bengt Bergman, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, K. Svardsudd
Erj Open Research - 2021 -
Healthcare and Societal Costs in Patients with COPD and Breathlessness after Completion of a Comprehensive Rehabilitation
Program
C. A. Verberkt, M. H. J. van den Beuken-van Everdingen, C. D. Dirksen, J. M. G. A. Schols, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, F. M. E. Franssen, M. T. J. Groenen, E. F. M. Wouters, D. J. A. Janssen
COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - 2021 -
Dual-Energy Computed Tomography Compared to Lung Perfusion Scintigraphy to Assess Pulmonary Perfusion in Patients Screened for Endoscopic Lung Volume
Reduction
H. A. Gietema, K. H. M. Walraven, R. Posthuma, C. Mitea, D. J. Slebos, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren
Respiration - 2021 -
Effect of Bronchoscopic Lung Volume Reduction in Advanced Emphysema on Energy Balance
Regulation
K. Sanders, K. Klooster, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, G. Plasqui, A. M. Dingemans, D. J. Slebos, Amwj Schols
Respiration - 2021 -
Introducing a new prognostic instrument for long-term mortality prediction in COPD patients: the CADOT
index
K. Brat, M. Svoboda, K. Hejduk, M. Plutinsky, J. Zatloukal, E. Volakova, P. Popelkova, B. Novotna, D. Engova, F. M. E. Franssen, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, M. A. Spruit, V. Koblizek
Biomedical Papers-Olomouc - 2021 -
Adherence to Treatment Recommendations for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - Results from the Swedish National Airway
Register
K. Larsson, Ann Ekberg-Jansson, C. Stridsman, M. Hanno, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren
International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - 2021 -
Contemporary perspectives in COPD: Patient burden, the role of gender and trajectories of
multimorbidity
S. C. Buttery, S. A. A. Vikjord, N. S. Hopkinson, C. Jenkins, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren
Respirology - 2021 -
Lung macrophages drive mucus production and steroid-resistant inflammation in chronic
bronchitis
Kristina Andelid, K. Ost, Anders Andersson, E. Mohamed, Z. Jevnikar, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, M. Goransson
Respiratory research - 2021 -
ERS International Congress 2020: highlights from the General Pneumology
Assembly
L. Daines, J. Buekers, B. A. Bolado, J. W. H. Kocks, G. Vagheggini, V. Poberezhets, I. Vogiatzis, H. Pinnock, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren
ERJ Open Research - 2021 -
Current developments and future directions in
COPD
A. G. Mathioudakis, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, L. Lahousse, A. Higham, J. P. Allinson, C. Gotera, D. Visca, D. Singh, A. Spanevello
European Respiratory Review - 2020 -
Decreased COPD prevalence in Sweden after decades of decrease in
smoking.
Helena Backman, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, Anne Lindberg, Linda Ekerljung, Caroline Stridsman, Malin Axelsson, Ulf Nilsson, Bright I Nwaru, Sami Sawalha, Berne Eriksson, Linnea Hedman, Madeleine Rådinger, Sven-Arne Jansson, Anders Ullman, Hannu Kankaanranta, Jan Lötvall, Eva Rönmark, Bo Lundbäck
Respiratory research - 2020 -
The Swedish National Airway Register (SNAR): development, design and utility to
date
C. Stridsman, J R Konradsen, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, C. Pedroletti, J. Binnmyr, P. Edfelt, K. F. Scharberg, Y. Sjoo, Fredrik Nyberg, A. Lindberg, A. Tunsater, Ann Ekberg-Jansson
European Clinical Respiratory Journal - 2020 -
The association of anxiety and depression with mortality in a COPD cohort. The HUNT study,
Norway
S. A. A. Vikjord, B. Brumpton, X. M. Mai, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, A. Langhammer
Respiratory Medicine - 2020 -
Effectiveness of Energy Conservation Techniques in Patients with
COPD.
Ann Wingårdh, Carina Göransson, Sven Larsson, Frode Slinde, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren
Respiration. International review of thoracic diseases - 2020 -
Response
Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, L. M. Fabbri
Chest - 2020 -
Multimorbidity in COPD, does sleep
matter?
Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, B. Beghe, Anders Andersson, Hansson Daniel, L. M. Fabbri, Ludger Grote
European Journal of Internal Medicine - 2020 -
Challenges to the Application of Integrated, Personalized Care for Patients with COPD-A Vision for the Role of Clinical
Information
Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, A. J. van't Hul, Katarzyna Kulbacka-Ortiz, Anders Andersson, Anders Ullman, M. Ingvar
Journal of Clinical Medicine - 2020 -
The STELVIO trial, a game changer for bronchoscopic lung volume reduction in patients with severe
emphysema
R. Posthuma, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren
Breathe - 2020 -
Patient Selection for Bronchoscopic Lung Volume
Reduction
J. B. A. Welling, J. E. Hartman, S. W. S. Augustijn, H. A. M. Kerstjens, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, K. Klooster, D. J. Slebos
International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - 2020 -
ERS International Congress, Madrid, 2019: highlights from the General Pneumology
Assembly
Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, L. Blervaque, F. M. E. Franssen, L. Daines, J. W. H. Kocks, P. J. Honkoop, V. Poberezhets
Erj Open Research - 2020 -
Self-management interventions in COPD patients with
multimorbidity
Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, Leonardo M. Fabbri
European Respiratory Journal - 2019 -
Effects of Non-Invasive Ventilation Combined with Oxygen Supplementation on Exercise Performance in COPD Patients with Static Lung Hyperinflation and Exercise-Induced Oxygen Desaturation: A Single Blind, Randomized Cross-Over
Trial
M. Koopman, M. A. Spruit, F. M. E. Franssen, J. Delbressine, E. F. M. Wouters, D. Mathew, A. Vink, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren
Journal of Clinical Medicine - 2019 -
The Association of Bone Mineral Density with Mortality in a COPD Cohort. The HUNT Study,
Norway
S. A. A. Vikjord, B. Brumpton, X. M. Mai, L. Bhatta, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, A. Langhammer
Copd-Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - 2019 -
Add-on interventions during pulmonary
rehabilitation
Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, R. Gloeckl
Respirology - 2019 -
Effects of a comprehensive, inpatient pulmonary rehabilitation programme in a cachectic patient with very severe COPD and chronic respiratory
failure
F. M. E. Franssen, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, D. J. A. Janssen, E. F. M. Wouters, M. A. Spruit
Breathe - 2019 -
Airflow Obstruction and Cardio-metabolic
Comorbidities
F. J. J. Triest, M. Studnicka, F. M. E. Franssen, W. M. Vollmer, B. Lamprecht, E. F. M. Wouters, P. G. J. Burney, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren
Copd-Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - 2019 -
Revealing Methodological Challenges in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Studies Assessing Comorbidities: A Narrative
Review.
Sarah Houben-Wilke, Filip J J Triest, Frits M E Franssen, Daisy J A Janssen, Emiel F M Wouters, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren
Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (Miami, Fla.) - 2019 -
Preview of Sleep and Breathing Conference 2019 and report on Early Career Member international
collaboration.
Jana De Brandt, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, Isaac Almendros
Breathe (Sheffield, England) - 2019 -
Endobronchial valves for severe
emphysema.
Jorine E Hartman, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, Eva M van Rikxoort, Karin Klooster, Dirk-Jan Slebos
European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society - 2019 -
European Respiratory Society International Congress, Paris, 2018: highlights from the Clinical
Assembly.
Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, Iñigo Ojanguren, Claire M Nolan, Frits M E Franssen, Vasileios Andrianopoulos, Aleksandar Grgic, Marlies van Dijk, Dirk Jan Slebos, Luke Daines, Janwillem W H Kocks, Nicolas Kahn
ERJ open research - 2019 -
Triple therapy (ICS/LABA/LAMA) in COPD: time for a
reappraisal
Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, Leonardo M. Fabbri, A. Papi, S. Petruzzelli, B. Celli
International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - 2018 -
Contribution of individual COPD assessment test (CAT) items to CAT total score and effects of pulmonary rehabilitation on CAT
scores
S. Houben-Wilke, D. J. A. Janssen, F. M. E. Franssen, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, E. F. M. Wouters, M. A. Spruit
Health and quality of life outcomes - 2018