There are about 13446 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Belgium. The country of the clinical trial is determined by the location of where the clinical research is being studied. Most studies are often held in multiple locations & countries.
Research has demonstrated the positive effects of bibliotherapy (the use of reading in the treatment of patients), such as increased self-awareness, increased empathy, hope and decreased negativity. At Ghent University Hospital, 20 students from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences were selected to be trained as readers by 'The Readers Collective', a Flemish Organization inspired by The Reader. Those students will read to patients with acute leukemia or to patients with a solid tumors in an advanced stage, using the "read aloud" method. Eight to ten reading sessions of approximately half an hour will be organized in a 1: 1 relationship between student and patient during a period of six months. The primary aim of study is to determine the acceptability and feasibility of the intervention by the patients as well as the students. Secondary aims are exploring the impact of the reading sessions on the professional development of the students and on the emotional well-being and quality of life of cancer patients. Assessment will be based upon questionnaires (as a basis for the in-depth interviews), diary notes, and in-depth interviews.
The purpose of this observational registry is to evaluate the safety and performance of the easyEndoTM Universal Linear Cutting Stapler and reloads from Ezisurg Medical used in laparoscopic RYGB surgery to create anastomoses. The goal of the study will be achieved by assessing the device performance and reporting of peri- and postoperative complications in a prospectively maintained database.
The goal is to improve the underarm odor by changing the microbiome. The autochthonous bacterial community is replaced by a non-smelling microbiome, by daily application of bacteria in a spray.
This study is designed to evaluate the method of assessing the and intensity areas of secondary hyperalgesia induced by High Frequency Stimulation (HFS). Measures of the areas of secondary hyperalgesia will take place on two experimental days separated by a minimum of two weeks. Each experimental day, the areas of secondary hyperalgesia will be assessed three times, starting 30 minutes following HFS. Furthermore, the investigators will assess if anxiety, catastrophization, stress and demographic variables modulate the extend of hyperalgesia.
The objective is to verify that there is a decrease in the pulsed oxygen saturation with the digital sensor. That is, the drop in oxygen saturation in COPD patients during inhalation is real and not due to an artifact of the measuring tool, because oximeters need a quality pulsatile signal to properly measure oxygen saturation
The purpose of this preliminary study is to help clarify our hypotheses for the longitudinal study by investigating the relationship between vocal cord paralysis and central auditory processes and thus the interpretation of auditory inputs into the central nervous system.
Maintaining adequate blood pressure is important for survival of organs. Recent studies have demonstrated that higher blood pressures were necessary for prevention of acute kidney injury and myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery. Hypotension after induction and maintenance of anesthesia is common. For maintaining adequate blood pressure in a euvolemic patient, vasopressor therapy is required. Norepinephrine (NOR) is commonly used to treat anesthesia-related hypotension. The hepatic circulation has a large number of alpha and beta adrenergic receptors and is very sensitive for adrenergic stimulation such as norepinephrine infusion. Animal studies (Hiltebrand et al.) suggest that NOR has only minimal effect on hepatic blood flow however the effect of NOR on hepatic blood flow in clinical surgical patients remains unclear. The aim of the study is to evaluate the effect of NOR on hepatic blood flow during. goal directed haemodynamic therapy.
Multicenter, open-label, safety and tolerability study of ascending doses of HepaStem in patients with cirrhotic and pre-cirrhotic non-alcoholic steato-hepatitis (NASH) to determine the safety and tolerability of ascending single and repeated doses of HepaStem administered to patients with cirrhotic and pre-cirrhotic non-alcoholic steato-hepatitis (NASH)
The primary purpose of the study is to characterize the safety profile of lorlatinib in the presence of a moderate CYP3A4/5 inducer, modafinil. In another drug-drug interaction study for lorlatinib coadministered with a strong CYP3A4/5 inducer, rifampin, all participants experienced increases in liver enzymes after receiving the combination of a single dose lorlatinib (100 mg) with rifampin (600 mg daily (QD)) after multiple doses of rifampin. The AST and ALT continued to increase over the next 24-48 hours, but recovered below the upper limit of normal for all participants upon discontinuation of rifampin. We hypothesize the combination of lorlatinib with the moderate CYP3A inducer modafinil will not have a safety findings related to liver enzyme elevation similar to what occurred in the study with rifampin and lorlatinib.
The objective of this study was to collect data both retrospectively and prospectively in order to evaluate the long-term outcomes, durability of effect, and real-world treatment patterns following treatment with Cladribine Tablets or placebo in participants with multiple sclerosis (MS) who were previously participated in the parent studies (ORACLE MS and CLARITY/CLARITY-EXT).