Julie Staals

Professor

Prof. Julie Staals is working as a clinical neurologist at Maastricht UMC+. Her specialisation is neurovascular diseases. She has obtained her medical degree at Maastricht University. Afterwards, she did a parallel tract in neurology training and PhD research project, both were finished in 2009. In 2013 she did a short research fellowship at the Brain Research Imaging Center in Edinburgh, UK. Her research focus is on clinical studies in cerebral small vessel disease, mainly the effects of hypertension, the rol of endothelial function, blood-brain barrier and the neurovascular unit, advanced imaging, and the cognitive consequences of this disease. She developed the ‘total SVD score’, a highly cited score for MRI severity of cerebral small vessel disease. Other clinical research topics are intracerebral haemorrhage and acute stroke treatments.

Julie Staals has been appointed as professor 'Neurovascular disease' as of 1 April 2024. Julie is neurologist at Maastricht UMC+ and leader of the stroke clinic. Her research aims at unravelling the pathophysiology of cerebral small vessel disease, a common ageing-related disease leading to stroke and dementia, which falls within the research programs of both CARIM and MHeNS. Furthermore she is involved in clinical studies on the very successfull acute endovascular stroke treatment. The inaugural lecture will follow later.

She is currently involved in:
SVDs@target, a EU Horizon2020 multicenter project on mechanisms in cerebral small vessel disease (www.svds-at-target.eu)

CRUCIAL, a EU Horizon2020 multicenter project on microvascular rarefaction in vascular cognitive impairment and heart failure (www.crucial-project.eu)

MRCLEAN trials, acute clinical stroke trials aiming at improving outcome in endovascular treatment (www.contrast-consortium.nl)

Department of Neurology
Universiteitssingel 50, 6229 ER Maastricht
PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht

2013
- Klarenbeek, P., van Oostenbrugge, R. J., Rouhl, R. P. W., Knottnerus, I. L. H., & Staals, J. (2013). Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Patients With Lacunar Stroke Association With Total MRI Burden of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease. Stroke, 44(11), 2995-2999. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.113.002545
- van Overbeek, E. C., Staals, J., & van Oostenbrugge, R. J. (2013). Vitamin B12 and Progression of White Matter Lesions. A 2-Year Follow-Up Study in First-Ever Lacunar Stroke Patients. PLOS ONE, 8(10). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0078100
- Klarenbeek, P., van Oostenbrugge, R. J., Rouhl, R. P. W., Knottnerus, I. L. H., & Staals, J. (2013). Higher Ambulatory Blood Pressure Relates to New Cerebral Microbleeds 2-Year Follow-Up Study in Lacunar Stroke Patients. Stroke, 44(4), 978-983. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.676619
- Klarenbeek, P., van Oostenbrugge, R. J., Lodder, J., Rouhl, R. P. W., Knottnerus, I. L. H., & Staals, J. (2013). Higher ambulatory blood pressure relates to enlarged Virchow-Robin spaces in first-ever lacunar stroke patients. Journal of Neurology, 260(1), 115-121. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-012-6598-z
- Martens, R. J. H., Vink, H., van Oostenbrugge, R. J., & Staals, J. (2013). Sublingual Microvascular Glycocalyx Dimensions in Lacunar Stroke Patients. Cerebrovascular Diseases, 35(5), 451-454. https://doi.org/10.1159/000348854
2012
- Loos, C. M. J., Staals, J., Wardlaw, J. M., & van Oostenbrugge, R. J. (2012). Cavitation of Deep Lacunar Infarcts in Patients With First-Ever Lacunar Stroke A 2-Year Follow-Up Study With MR. Stroke, 43(8), 2245-U450. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.112.660076
- Rouhl, R. P. W., Damoiseaux, J. G. M. C., Lodder, J., Theunissen, R. O. M. F. I. H., Knottnerus, I. L. H., Staals, J., Henskens, L. H. G., Kroon, A. A., de Leeuw, P. W., Tervaert, J. W. C., & van Oostenbrugge, R. J. (2012). Vascular inflammation in cerebral small vessel disease. Neurobiology of Aging, 33(8), 1800-1806. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2011.04.008
- Knottnerus, I. L. H., Winckers, K., ten Cate, H., Hackeng, T. M., Lodder, J., Rouhl, R. P. W., Staals, J., Govers-Riemslag, J. W. P., Bekers, O., & van Oostenbrugge, R. J. (2012). Levels of heparin-releasable TFPI are increased in first-ever lacunar stroke patients. Neurology, 78(7), 493-498. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0b013e318246d6b7
- Huijts, M., Duits, A., Staals, J., & van Oostenbrugge, R. J. (2012). Association of Vitamin B12 Deficiency with Fatigue and Depression after Lacunar Stroke. PLOS ONE, 7(1), Article e30519. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0030519
- Loos, C. M. J., van Oostenbrugge, R. J., & Staals, J. (2012). The Appearance of a New White Matter Lesion Adjacent to the Old Infarct in First-Ever Lacunar Stroke Patients: A Two-Year Follow-Up Study with MRI. Cerebrovascular Diseases, 34(5-6), 443-445. https://doi.org/10.1159/000344003
2010
- Rouhl, R. P. W., van Oostenbrugge, R. J., Theunissen, R. O. M. F. I. H., Knottnerus, I. L. H., Staals, J., Henskens, L. H. G., Kroon, A. A., de Leeuw, P. W., Lodder, J., Tervaert, J. W. C., & Damoiseaux, J. G. M. C. (2010). Autoantibodies Against Oxidized Low-Density Lipoprotein in Cerebral Small Vessel Disease. Stroke, 41(11), 2687-2689. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.592725
- Knottnerus, I. L. H., Govers-Riemslag, J. W. P., Hamulyak, K., Rouhl, R. P. W., Staals, J., Spronk, H. M. H., van Oerle, R., van Raak, E. P. M., Lodder, J., ten Cate, H., & van Oostenbrugge, R. J. (2010). Endothelial Activation in Lacunar Stroke Subtypes. Stroke, 41(8), 1617-1622. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.576223
- Staals, J., Henskens, L. H. G., Delanghe, J. R., van Oostenbrugge, R. J., Kessels, A. G., Kroon, A. A., de Leeuw, P. W., & Lodder, J. (2010). Haptoglobin Phenotype Correlates with the Extent of Cerebral Deep White Matter Lesions in Hypertensive Patients. Current Neurovascular Research, 7(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.2174/156720210790820163
- Zhang, C. E., van Raak, E. P. M., Rouhl, R. P. W., Lodder, J., Staals, J., Knottnerus, I. L. H., & van Oostenbrugge, R. J. (2010). Metabolic Syndrome Relates to Lacunar Stroke without White Matter Lesions: A Study in First-Ever Lacunar Stroke Patients. Cerebrovascular Diseases, 29(5), 503-507. https://doi.org/10.1159/000297967

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