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Vidi grant Matthijs Cluitmans

Vidi grant Matthijs Cluitmans

22 October 2026

Dr Matthijs Cluitmans (Dept of Cardiology) is awarded a prestigious Vidi grant from NWO for the project 'Predicting sudden cardiac death’.

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Catheter treatment is not only effective, but also cost-effective for ischemic stroke

Catheter treatment is not only effective, but also cost-effective for ischemic stroke

29 September 2026

With ischemic stroke, every minute counts. However, many patients do not seek hospital care until it is too late, for example, because symptoms are not immediately recognized or because people wake up with signs of neurological deficits. As a result, a group of patients is no longer eligible for catheter treatment. 

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Maarten Snoeijs

Maarten Snoeijs' main clinical and scientific interests are vascular access surgery and kidney transplantation. In addition, he is trained as a clinical epidemiologist. Maarten has been the clinical lead of the vascular access program at the department of vascular surgery of Maastricht UMC+ since 2018. With a multidisciplinary team of vascular surgeons, nephrologists, interventional radiologists, and dialysis nurses, they introduced several surgical innovations (e.g. endovascular arteriovenous fistulas and biodegradable vascular grafts) to expand treatment options for patients with vascular access problems referred to Maastricht UMC+. This has strengthened the position as the national referral centre for vascular access surgery.

In addition to Maarten his clinical and scientific work, he am involved in educational activities to promote vascular access care. He is the chair of the educational committee of the international Vascular Access Society, the course director of the vascular access programme of the annual European Vascular Course, and leads the vascular access surgery theme of the national training and assessment course for vascular surgery residents. Finally, Maarten contributes to several national and international clinical practice guidelines on vascular access surgery.

Maarten his research is focused on vascular access for hemodialysis and includes the following themes:

·         Pragmatic multicentre randomised controlled trials. This research theme has immediate impact on vascular access care. The OASIS trial studies the best type of vascular access for elderly patients starting hemodialysis treatment, and the FLOW trial studies the best strategy for follow-up and treatment of vascular access stenosis.

·         Biology of vascular remodelling. This research theme intends to understand the biology of venous outward remodelling and intimal hyperplasia after arteriovenous fistula creation using human tissue and mouse models. This research is done with the department of pathology at Maastricht UMC+ (Prof. Andrew Baker and Prof. Judith Sluimer) and the departments of nephrology and surgery at LUMC (prof. Joris Rotmans and dr. Margreet de Vries).

·         Hemodynamic consequences of arteriovenous fistulas. This research theme intends to study the hemodynamic consequences of vascular access surgery by computational modelling. Patient-specific hemodynamic modelling is used to create digital twins that support decision making in vascular access creation (Shunt Simulation Study) and thrombosis prevention (ThromboRisk doctoral network). This research is done with the department of biomedical engineering at TU/e and MUMC+ (prof. Wouter Huberts and prof. Tammo Delhaas).

Department of Vascular Surgery
P. Debyelaan 25, 6229 HX Maastricht
Room number: 3.B2.002

  • 2026
    • van Vliet, L., Zonnebeld, N., Delhaas, T., Ganesan, R., Huijsse, I., Mees, B., Tordoir, J., Huberts, W., & Snoeijs, M. (2026). Blood flow rate predictions in arteriovenous fistulas: Combining physics-based modelling with data-driven models. Journal of Computational Science, 100, Article 102966. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocs.2026.102966
    • Heggen, B. D. C., Chesnaye, N. C., Dekker, F. W., van Diepen, M., Rotmans, J. I., Caskey, F. J., Torino, C., Vilasi, A., Szymczak, M., Drechsler, C., Wanner, C., Pippias, M., Jager, K. J., Evans, M., Hiligsmann, M., Schurink, G. W. H., Snoeijs, M. G. J., & EQUAL study investigators (2026). Vascular Access Surgery Timing: A Prospective European Cohort Study in Elderly Patients with ESKD. Kidney360, 7(9), 2066-2074. https://doi.org/10.34067/KID.0000001180
    • Edgar, B., Stevenson, K., Aitken, E., Jackson, A., Thomas, S., Snoeijs, M., Franchin, M., Tozzi, M., & Kingsmore, D. B. (2026). A review of technical steps in the performance of arteriovenous fistula creation. The Journal of Vascular Access, 27(1), 90-101. Article 11297298251328715. https://doi.org/10.1177/11297298251328715
  • 2025
    • Lomonte, C., Ibeas, J., Kitrou, P., Giusto, A., Baratto, M., Bocchibianchi, V., Brunori, G., Pirozzi, N., Ponikvar, R., Forneris, G., Malik, J., Katsanos, K., Snoeijs, M., Tozzi, M., Gallieni, M., & Gesualdo, L. (2025). Nephrology Partnership for Advancing Technology in Healthcare (N-PATH) Erasmus+ project: The Renal Expert in Vascular Access (REVAC) module. Journal of vascular access, 26(4), 1385–1390. https://doi.org/10.1177/11297298241265163
  • 2024
    • Zomer, B., Ruiter, M. S., Dekker, F. W., Goertz, E. G. D., de Haan, M. W., Hemmelder, M. H. H., Hiligsmann, M. J. C., Konijn, W. S., van Loon, M. M., Maessen, J. M. C., Mees, B. M. E., Rotmans, J. I., Schurink, G. W. H., Vleugels, M. J. JPJ., & Snoeijs, M. G. J. (2024). FLOW: Flow dysfunction of hemodialysis vascular access: A randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness of surveillance of arteriovenous fistulas and grafts. Journal of vascular access, 25(6), 2007-2017. https://doi.org/10.1177/11297298231212754
    • van Vliet, L. V., Zonnebeld, N., Tordoir, J. H., Huberts, W., Bouwman, L. H., Cuypers, P. W., Heinen, S. G., Huisman, L. C., Lemson, S., Mees, B. M. E., Schlosser, F. J., de Smet, A. A., Toorop, R. J., Delhaas, T., & Snoeijs, M. G. (2024). Guideline recommendations on minimal blood vessel diameters and arteriovenous fistula outcomes. Journal of vascular access, 25(5), 1584-1592. https://doi.org/10.1177/11297298231180627
    • van Vliet, L. V., Delhaas, T., Mees, B. M. E., & Snoeijs, M. G. (2024). Response letter. Journal of vascular access, 25(5), 1705-1707. https://doi.org/10.1177/11297298231218663
    • Lomonte, C., Rossini, M., Ibeas, J., Forcella, M., Ponikvar, J. B., Gallieni, M., Russo, R., Goumenos, D., Tesar, V., Hruskova, Z., Roelofs, J., Florquin, S., Snoeijs, M., Giusto, A., Shemesh, D., Rotmans, J., Torra, R., Wanner, C., & Gesualdo, L. (2024). Nephrology Partnership for Advancing Technology in Healthcare (N-PATH) program: the teachers' perspective. Clinical Kidney Journal, 17(1), Article sfad299. https://doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfad299
  • 2023
    • van der Weijden, J., De Hoogt, P. A., Leufkens, M. M. E., Keijbeck, A. A., van Goor, H., van den Heuvel, M. C., Cleutjens, J. P. M., Moers, C., Snoeijs, M. G., Navis, G. J., van Londen, M., Nolte, I. M., Berger, S. P., De Borst, M. H., & Peutz-Kootstra, C. J. (2023). The relationship of peritubular capillary density with glomerular volume and kidney function in living kidney donors. Journal of Nephrology, 36(7), 2111-2124. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40620-023-01734-5
    • van Vliet, L. V., Zonnebeld, N., Tordoir, J. H., Huberts, W., Delhaas, T., & Snoeijs, M. G. (2023). Arteriovenous Fistulas Created with the Help of Personalised Blood Flow Simulations: Clinical Outcomes of a Randomised Controlled Trial. European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, 65(6), 907-908. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejvs.2023.02.072
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