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.
The ongoing corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a viral acute respiratory tract infection caused by server acute respiratory syndrom coronavirus typ 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The signs and symptom of SARS-CoV-2 infection vary and most people with COVID-19 experience illness of mild or moderate severity and recover with symptomatic treatment outside of hospital. Studies have found that some people experience lingering/long-lasting symptoms and only a minority of patients were completely free from COVID-19 related symptoms after two months. About one third still had up to two residual symptoms and 55% had three or more. As far as we know no study on lingering symptoms has been published in patients after a mild or moderate infection managed in primary care settings. The aim of this study is to explore the course of disease over a one year period and describe lingering symptoms and their impact on well-being and daily activities in adult non-hospitalized patients with previous established COVID-19 infection.
This is a multi-site epidemiological study designed to monitor circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) status in participants with Stage II (high risk)/III colorectal cancer (CRC) following resection/prior to adjuvant chemotherapy (AdCTx), during the course of AdCTx and for a period of 630 days thereafter, according to CRC stages and disease characteristics. Participants receive no therapeutic intervention as part of this study. This study will identify participants who might be potential candidates for the clinical trial BNT122-01 (NCT04486378), a study of RO7198457 after completion of standard AdCTx in this patient population. Based on the eligibility criteria for that trial, this study will identify participants with confirmed Stage II (high risk)/III CRC that are positive for ctDNA after resection and are therefore at high risk of disease recurrence to enrich the BNT122-01 study cohort. These participants will have the option to enter screening for BNT122-01 at Screening Visit 2 of that trial if they meet the eligibility criteria of BNT000-001 during screening. Data from the assessments from BNT000-001 will be carried across to the BNT122-01 trial where feasible.
The objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of sotatercept (MK-7962, formerly called ACE-011) treatment (plus background pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) therapy) versus placebo (plus background PAH therapy) on time to clinical worsening (TTCW) in participants who are newly diagnosed with PAH and are at intermediate or high risk of disease progression.
Objective: Fever of unknown (FUO) origin remains challenging in geriatric patients. Geriatric patients have a blunted immune response responsible for altered fever mechanisms and immune cells responses. Consequently, FUO could be inappropriately named and could be changed in Inflammation of unknown origin (IUO) in this specific population. Furthermore, the studies of FUO in this group are (out)dated and the diagnostic methods have evolved achieving a better sensitivity and specificity. The aim of our study is to assess the spectrum of diseases responsible of FUO or IUO in elderly patients compared to younger patients and to define the diagnostic approach using new diagnostic investigations. The second aim of our study is to assess the usefulness of inflammatory markers, demographic data and comorbidity to differentiate the cause of FUO/IUO. Design: Patients with FUO or IUO will prospectively be recruited at the geriatric unit and the internal medicine unit of the UZ hospital during four years. The demographic, social and medical data will be screened. All diagnostic methods will be described.
The purpose of this observational registry is to evaluate the safety and the clinical efficacy of laparoscopic bariatric surgery using stapling devices (easyEndoTM Universal Linear Cutting Stapler and reloads from Ezisurg Medical). The goal of the study will be achieved by reporting peri- and postoperative complications and the clinical outcome after surgery in a prospectively maintained database.
The aim of this survey is to assess the current perception and clinical practice of Resident and Board-certified Anaesthesiologists and Intensivists regarding perioperative care of patients burdened with the Brugada Syndrome. It is intended to investigate this primarily on national and secondarily on European level.
The main goal of this prospective non-interventional exploratory monocentric study is to characterize the immune cell composition of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid from cancer patients experiencing cancer therapy-induced pneumonitis on a single-cell scale. These mechanistic insights can directly lead to putative diagnostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets. A second highly clinically relevant hypothesis is that single-cell profiling of blood samples will reveal circulating biomarkers of ICB toxicity, making non-invasive diagnosis feasible.
The main goal of this prospective non-interventional exploratory study is to characterize the tumor micro-environment of advanced NSCLC in single-cell resolution, prior to immune checkpoint blockade exposure, and correlate the findings to clinical outcome. This approach will allow to generate new hypotheses regarding mechanism of action of ICI and (primary) resistance mechanisms. The long-term goal is that these novel mechanistic insights will be translated to a clinical setting to develop better biomarkers of ICI efficacy. Importantly, since the investigators will also sequentially profile the immune composition of peripheral blood, this research offers an opportunity to develop circulating (non-invasive) biomarkers. A second aim is to characterize the immune cell composition of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid from these ICI-treated cancer patients if they would develop ICI-pneumonitis. These mechanistic insights can directly lead to putative diagnostic biomarkers and therpeutic targets. Since single-cell profiling of blood samples will also be performed, circulating biomarkers of ICI toxicity can also be identified, making non-invasive diagnosis feasible.
The study aims to evaluate the effect of an increased dose of vaginal progesterone supplementation on the incidence of ongoing pregnancy for patients with a suboptimal serum progesterone level (defined as < 10 mcg/l) on the day of blastocyst transfer.
The main objectives of FEIRI are: (i) To describe the demographic and arterial characteristics of FMD and related diseases at a global scale and according to countries and/or ethnic origin (ii) To evaluate the incidence and predictors of novel FMD lesions and complications (iii) To explore the commonalities and differences between FMD, SCAD and so-called atypical FMD (patients with multiple dissections and/or aneurysms without string-of-beads, focal stenosis or evidence of inherited arteriopathy) (iv) To contribute to the unravelling of genetic, proteomic and molecular mechanisms underlying FMD and related diseases Participation to the FEIRI study implies: (i) Collection of demographic and standard-of-care clinical data, both retrospectively (from the diagnosis of FMD to signature of the informed consent) and prospectively (on the occasion of standard-of-care follow-up). (ii) Optional participation to a biobank implying collection of blood, urine and, in rare cases of intervention, tissue samples for genomic and proteomic analysis and identification of diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers of FMD. Participants will be enrolled in centres from over 20 countries in Europe and beyond.