P. Geusens

Publication List Details

Period

1979 - 2008

Number

100

Co-Authors

Association of markers of bone- and cartilage-degradation with radiological changes at baseline and after 2 years follow-up in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (2008)

Vosse, D., Landewé, R., Garnero, P., Geusens, P.

Objective. There is a lack of knowledge on factors that reliably can predict radiological changes in patients with AS. We have investigated whether urinary C-terminal cross-linking telopeptide of...

Comparing morphometric X-ray absorptiometry and radiography in defining vertebral wedge fractures in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (2007)

Vosse, D., Heijckmann, C., Landewé, R., Geusens, P.

Objective. To compare the level of agreement of quantitative morphometry of the vertebrae on lateral views of the spine using conventional X-ray and using a dual X-ray absorptiometry device (DXA) in...

Individual fracture risk and the cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates in patients using oral glucocorticoids (2007)

Van Staa, T.P., Geusens, P., Zhang, B., Leufkens, H.G.M., Boonen, A., Cooper, C.

OBJECTIVES: There are few data on the cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates with oral glucocorticoids (GCs). An individual patient-based pharmaco-economic model was developed. METHODS: Data were...

A prospective randomised multicentre study comparing continuous and intermittent treatment with celecoxib in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee or hip (2007)

Geusens, P, Malaise, M, De Clerck, L, Raeman, F, ...

OBJECTIVE: To compare the effects of continuous and intermittent celecoxib treatment in patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis in flare. METHODS: In this 24-week, prospective, randomised,...

Individual risk of fracture and the cost-effectiveness of biphosphonates in patients using oral glucocorticoids (2007)

Staa, T.P. Van, Geusens, P., Boonen, A., Leufkens, H.G.M., Cooper, C.

Objectives. There are few data on the cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates with oral glucocorticoids (GCs). An individual patient-based pharmaco-economic model was developed. Methods. Data were...

The cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates in postmenopausal women based on individual long-term fracature risks (2007)

Staa, T.P. Van, Geusens, P., Boonen, A., Leufkens, H.G.M., Cooper, C.

Objectives: Cost-effectiveness analyses are routinely based on data from group averages, restricting its generalizibility to those with below- or above-average risk. A pharmacoeconomic model that...

Individual fracture risk and the cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates in patients using oral glucocorticoids (2007)

Van Staa, T. P., Geusens, P., Zhang, B., Leufkens, H. G. M., Boonen, A., Cooper, C.

Objectives. There are few data on the cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates with oral glucocorticoids (GCs). An individual patient-based pharmaco-economic model was developed. Methods. Data were...

A simple clinical score for estimating the long-term risk of fracture in post-menopausal women (2006)

Staa, T.P. Van, Geusens, P., Kanis, J.A., Leufkens, H.G.M., Gehlbach, S., Cooper, C.

Background: Simple tools are needed to identify patients at high risk of fracture. Aim: To develop a simple clinical tool for assessing 5-year risk of fracture. Design: Cohort study. Methods: The...

Clinical assessment of the long-term risk of fracture in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. (2006)

Staa, T.P. Van, Geusens, P., Bijlsma, J.W.J., Leufkens, H.G.M., Cooper, C.

Objective. To determine whether patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have an increased risk of fracture, and to estimate their long-term absolute fracture risk. Methods. We studied patients with...

Clinical assessment of the long-term risk of fracture in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (2006)

Staa, T.P., Geusens, P., Bijlsma, J.W., Leufkens, H.G., Cooper, C.

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have an increased risk of fracture, and to estimate their long-term absolute fracture risk. METHODS: We studied patients with...

A simple clinical score for estimating the long-term risk of fracture in post-menopausal women (2006)

Van Staa, T.P., Geusens, P., Kanis, J.A., Leufkens, H.G., Gehlbach, S., Cooper, C.

BACKGROUND: Simple tools are needed to identify patients at high risk of fracture. AIM: To develop a simple clinical tool for assessing 5-year risk of fracture. DESIGN: Cohort study. METHODS: The...

Individual fracture risk and the cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates in patients using oral glucocorticoids (2006)

Van Staa, T. P., Geusens, P., Zhang, B., Leufkens, H. G. M., Boonen, A., Cooper, C.

Objectives. There are few data on the cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates with oral glucocorticoids (GCs). An individual patient-based pharmaco-economic model was developed. Methods. Data were...

A simple clinical score for estimating the long-term risk of fracture in post-menopausal women (2006)

Van Staa, T.P., Geusens, P., Kanis, J.A., Leufkens, H.G.M., Gehlbach, S., Cooper, C.

Background: Simple tools are needed to identify patients at high risk of fracture. Aim: To develop a simple clinical tool for assessing 5-year risk of fracture. Design: Cohort study. Methods: The...

A simple clinical score for estimating the long-term risk of fracture in post-menopausal women (2006)

Van Staa, T.P., Geusens, P., Kanis, J.A., Leufkens, H.G.M., Gehlbach, S., Cooper, C.

Background: Simple tools are needed to identify patients at high risk of fracture. Aim: To develop a simple clinical tool for assessing 5-year risk of fracture. Design: Cohort study. Methods: The...

Individual fracture risk and the cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates in patients using oral glucocorticoids (2006)

Van Staa, T. P., Geusens, P., Zhang, B., Leufkens, H. G. M., Boonen, A., Cooper, C.

Objectives. There are few data on the cost-effectiveness of bisphosphonates with oral glucocorticoids (GCs). An individual patient-based pharmaco-economic model was developed. Methods. Data were...

A simple clinical score for estimating the long-term risk of fracture in post-menopausal women (2006)

Van Staa, T.P., Geusens, P., Kanis, J.A., Leufkens, H.G.M., Gehlbach, S., Cooper, C.

Background: Simple tools are needed to identify patients at high risk of fracture. Aim: To develop a simple clinical tool for assessing 5-year risk of fracture. Design: Cohort study. Methods: The...

A simple score for estimating the long-term risk of fracture in patients using oral glucocorticoids (2005)

Van Staa, T.P., Geusens, P., Pols, H.A., De Laet, C., Leufkens, H.G., Cooper, C.

Background: Previous analyses of risk factors for glucocorticoid (GC)-induced osteoporosis have focused on the estimation of relative rather than absolute fracture probability. Aim: To estimate risk...

Newer drug treatments: Their effects on fracture prevention (2005)

Geusens, P, Reid, D, GEUSENS, Piet

Drug treatment of osteoporosis is based on the knowledge of mechanisms of bone turnover and the manipulation of the cellular components of bone turnover in terms of recruitment, activation and...

Osteoporosis therapy: an example of putting evidence-based medicine into clinical practice (2005)

Hosking, D.J., Geusens, P., Rizzoli, R.

A major aim of evidence-based medicine is to assist clinical decision-making by providing the most current and reliable medical information. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are important tools...

Osteoporosis therapy: an example of putting evidence-based medicine into clinical practice (2005)

Hosking, D.J., Geusens, P., Rizzoli, R.

A major aim of evidence-based medicine is to assist clinical decision-making by providing the most current and reliable medical information. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are important tools...

A simple score for estimating the long-term risk of fracture in patients using oral glucocorticoids (2005)

Geusens, P., Pols, H.A.P., De Laet, C., Leufkens, H.G.M., Cooper, C.

Background: Previous analyses of risk factors for glucocorticoid (GC)-induced osteoporosis have focused on the estimation of relative rather than absolute fracture probability. Aim: To estimate risk...

Dynamic T cell receptor clonotype changes in synovial tissue of patients with early rheumatoid arthritis: Effects of treatment with cyclosporin A (Neoral (R)) (2002)

De Keyser, F, Geusens, P, De Backer, Manu; U0039058, Malaise, M, Baeten, D, ...

Objective. To study T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire changes in synovial membrane over a 16 week period in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA); and to study the influence of cyclosporin A...

High prevalence of thoracic vertebral deformities and discal wedging in ankylosing spondylitis patients with hyperkyphosis (2001)

Geusens, P, Vosse, D, Vanhoof, J, Van Tubergen, A, VAN DER HEIJDE, Desiree, ...

Objective. To study the prevalence of deformities of vertebrae and inter-vertebral discs in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) in relation to fixed hyperkyphosis of the spine. Methods....

High prevalence of thoracic vertebral deformities and discal wedging in ankylosing spondylitis patients with hyperkyphosis (2001)

Geusens, P, Vosse, D, Vanhoof, J, Van Tubergen, A, VAN DER HEIJDE, Desiree, ...

Objective. To study the prevalence of deformities of vertebrae and inter-vertebral discs in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) in relation to fixed hyperkyphosis of the spine. Methods....

Bone turnover, joint damage and bone mineral density in early rheumatoid arthritis treated with combination therapy including high-dose prednisolone (2001)

Verhoeven, A. C., Boers, M., Te Koppele, J. M., Van Der Laan, W. H., Markusse, H. M., Geusens, P., ...

Objectives. Exploration of bone metabolism changes at different levels of disease activity, both with and without oral corticosteroid therapy, and prediction of changes in joint damage and bone...

Skewed T-cell receptor variable gene usage in the synovium of early and chronic rheumatoid arthritis patients and persistence of clonally expanded T cells in a chronic patient (2000)

VanderBorght, A., Geusens, P., Vandevyver, C., Raus, J., Stinissen, P.

Objective.  Autoreactive T cells may contribute to the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We studied the T‐cell receptor (TCR) V‐gene repertoire in the...

Age-related (type II) femoral neck osteoporosis in men: biochemical evidence for both hypovitaminosis D- and androgen deficiency-induced bone resorption (1997)

Cheng, X G, Geusens, P, ...

The problem of osteoporosis in men has recently been recognized as an important public health issue. To test the hypothesis that endocrine deficiency-mediated alterations in bone metabolism might...

Age-associated endocrine deficiencies as potential determinants of femoral neck (type II) osteoporotic fracture occurrence in elderly men (1997)

Geusens, P

Osteoporotic fractures, and especially hip fractures, are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among elderly men. Among other factors, a decline in bone mass has been identified as the major...

Prevention of bone loss in cardiac transplant recipients. A comparison of biphosphonates and vitamin D (1996)

Geusens, P, Dequeker, P

Bone mineral density is already abnormally reduced at the moment of cardiac transplantation and bone loss occurs at an impressive rate in the first postoperative year. The aim of the study was to...

Measurement of femoral geometry in type I and type II osteoporosis: differences in hip axis length consistent with heterogeneity in the pathogenesis of osteoporotic fractures (1995)

Koutri, R, Aerssens, J, Lowet, G, ...

The epidemiologic patterns of vertebral and femoral fractures are sufficiently different to suggest that they represent distinct disorders (type I versus type II osteoporosis) although osteopenia is...

Timing and quantification of bone loss in cardiac transplant recipients (1995)

Geusens, P

To evaluate osteopenic bone disease in heart transplant patients, we prospectively measured bone mineral density (BMD) in 33 consecutive male recipients before hospital discharge and 1 year later,...

PEPTIDE TRANSPORTER GENES (TAP) POLYMORPHISMS AND GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY TO RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS (1995)

VANDEVYVER, C., GEUSENS, P., RAUS, J.

The association of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with HLA-DRB1 allelcs indicates that at least one RA susceptibility gene is linked to the HLA class II region. Transporter associated with protein...

Total body mineral mass measured with dual photon absorptiometry in healthy children (1994)

Goos, G, Emma, F, Geusens, P

Using dual photon absorptiometry, bone mineral content (BMC) and bone mineral density (BMD) of the total body and the lumbar spine were assessed in 97 healthy, Caucasian children aged 3-14 years....

Brittle bones in spontaneously diabetic female rats cannot be predicted by bone mineral measurements: studies in diabetic and ovariectomized rats (1994)

Suiker, A M, Einhorn, T A, Geusens, P, Visser, W J, Van Herck, E, ...

Spontaneously diabetic BB rats were sham operated (SO) or ovariectomized (OVX) within days after onset and studied after 4, 8, and 12 weeks. Analyses included histomorphometry of proximal tibial...

Androgen resistance and deficiency have different effects on the growing skeleton of the rat (1994)

Van Herck, E, Geusens, P, Suiker, A, Visser, W, Chung, K, ...

Mature male, female, and androgen-resistant testicular feminized (Tfm) male rats of the same strain were sacrificed at the age of 120 days. Young male and Tfm rats were orchidectomized (orch) at 1...

Aging of the thoracic spine - distinction between wedging in osteoarthritis and fracture in osteoporosis - a cross-sectional and longitudinal-study (1994)

Bassiouni, H, Koutri, R, Geusens, P

Thoracic kyphosis is clinically associated with osteoporosis as well as with osteoarthritis. Because misinterpretation of thoracic spine deformities on X-rays may lead to overdiagnosis of vertebral...

In vitro analysis of urinary calculi: type differentiation using computed tomography and bone densitometry (1993)

Vandeursen, H, Pittomvils, G, Boving, R, Geusens, P, ...

Thirty-six urinary stones were studied by computed tomography and bone densitometry in order to find a correlation between the chemical composition of the stones and the densitometric data. In vitro,...

The aged male rat as a model for human osteoporosis: evaluation by nondestructive measurements and biomechanical testing (1993)

Schot, P, Rush, E, Einhorn, T, Geusens, P, ...

Effects of androgen deficiency and androgen replacement on bone density, as measured with dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and single photon absorptiometry (SPA), cortical ratio (cortical...

The relation between resonant frequencies and torsional stiffness of long bones in vitro. Validation of a simple beam model (1993)

Geusens, P

The results of vibration analysis experiments and impact torsion tests performed on excised animal long bones were used to validate a simple beam model for the prediction of torsional stiffness from...

Application of microfocus x-ray radiography in materials and medical-research (1993)

Wevers, Martine; U0008503, Demeester, P, Lodewijckx, Marc; U0005411, Ni, Yicheng; U0014498, Marchal, Guy; U0008034, Jiang, Y, ...

The advantages of real-time microfocus radiography are evaluated for several applications. These advantages are mainly the small focal spot size (5 mum) leading to a very low geometrical unsharpness...

Bone and mineral metabolism in the adult guinea pig: long-term effects of estrogen and androgen deficiency (1992)

Suiker, A M, Allewaert, K, Visser, W J, Geusens, P, ...

The effects of androgen and estrogen deficiency on skeletal homeostasis were studied in the guinea pig. Male and female adult (7 months old) guinea pigs were either sham operated (9 females and 7...

Chloroquine levels in blood during chronic treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (1992)

Geusens, P

Blood levels of racemic chloroquine and its main metabolites desethylchloroquine and bisdesethylchloroquine were measured in 29 patients treated chronically for rheumatoid arthritis. In six patients,...

Alterations of the mineralization profile and osteocalcin concentrations in osteoarthritic cortical iliac crest bone (1992)

Aerssens, J, Vandeneynde, R, Peeters, J, Geusens, P, Devos, P, ...

The relation between bone mineralization and osteocalcin content was investigated in iliac crest cortical bone obtained at necropsy in young females and in two groups of elderly women with and...

Seasonal variation in bone metabolism in young healthy subjects (1991)

Vanderschueren, Dirk; U0008390, Gevers, G, Dequeker, Jan; U0010267, Geusens, P, Nijs, Johan; U0014712, Devos, P, ...

Serum vitamin D metabolites and urinary calcium excretion; parameters of bone formation (serum alkaline phosphatase, serum osteocalcin); parameters of bone resorption (24 hour hydroxyprolinuria, 2...

Osteoarthrosis retards the development of osteoporosis - observation of the coexistence of osteoarthrosis and osteoporosis (1991)

Vanermen, H, Haghebaert, G, Geusens, P

The clinical, roentgenographic, and biochemical features of the dorsal and lumbar spine were reviewed in 72 postmenopausal women. Nineteen women had both osteoporosis (vertebral collapse) and...

1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 stimulation test and the effect of a prostaglandin synthesis inhibitor (piroxicam) in young adults (1991)

Geusens, P, Verstraeten, A

This study was performed to assess whether the 1,25(OH)2 vitamin D3 stimulation test for osteoblastic function is influenced by a prostaglandin synthesis inhibitor (piroxicam). Thirty-four healthy...

Mineral metabolism and bone mass at peripheral and axial skeleton in diabetes mellitus (1988)

Geusens, P

Bone mineral content (BMC), mineral homeostasis, and diabetes control were evaluated in 31 Caucasian insulin-dependent diabetic patients (disease duration 18.3 +/- 7.7 yr, mean +/- SD) with normal...

Mineral metabolism and bone mass at peripheral and axial skeleton in diabetes mellitus. (1988)

Auwerx, J, Dequeker, J, Bouillon, R, Geusens, P, Nijs, J

Bone mineral content (BMC), mineral homeostasis, and diabetes control were evaluated in 31 Caucasian insulin-dependent diabetic patients (disease duration 18.3 +/- 7.7 yr, mean +/- SD) with normal...

Intranasal calcitonin for the prevention of bone erosion and bone loss in rheumatoid arthritis.

Sileghem, A, Geusens, P, Dequeker, J

The effect of intranasal salmon calcitonin on pain, erosion progression, and bone loss in 40 women with rheumatoid arthritis was investigated. The study design was double blind, placebo controlled...

HLA class II and T-cell receptor beta chain polymorphisms in Belgian patients with rheumatoid arthritis: no evidence for disease association with the TCRBC2, TCRBV8 and TCRBV11 polymorphisms.

Vandevyver, C, Gu, X X, Geusens, P, Spaepen, M, Philippaerts, L, Cassiman, J J, ...

OBJECTIVES--To investigate whether T-cell receptor (TCR) beta chain germline alleles, either alone or in combination with a particular HLA-genotype, are associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)....

Cyclical etidronate increases bone density in the spine and hip of postmenopausal women receiving long term corticosteroid treatment. A double blind, randomised placebo controlled study

Geusens, P., Dequeker, J., Vanhoof, J., Stalmans, R., Boonen, S., Joly, J., ...

OBJECTIVE—To study the effect of cyclic etidronate in secondary prevention of corticosteroid induced osteoporosis.
METHODS—A double blind, randomised placebo controlled study comparing cyclic...

Prevalence of rheumatic diseases in a rheumatological outpatient practice

Vanhoof, J, Declerck, K, Geusens, P

Methods: Rheumatological diagnoses of 3751 consecutive new and returning patients were recorded using a standard diagnosis form.