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.
Tissue hypoxia is the only accepted trigger for erythropoietin (EPO) production. However, in healthy subjects EPO concentrations have also increased after oxygen breathing. The aim of our study is to confirm these observations. Besides its main function in erythropoiesis, EPO has also shown tissue protective effects. The second goal of our study is to observe the cardioprotective effects of increased endogenous EPO, induced after normobaric oxygen breathing.
In view to avoid immunosuppression, the investigators are submitting a Phase 1 clinical trial protocol testing the safety and the efficacy of encapsulated human islets in a "Monolayer Cellular Device" for allogeneic islets transplantation in Type 1 diabetic patients performed at the University clinical hospital Saint-Luc, Brussels. Encapsulated human islets will be transplanted in the subcutaneous tissue as "safety procedure" for patients. This protocol (single center trial) is designed as a limited series of islets transplants for 15 Type 1 diabetic adult subjects.
Study of the kinetics of uremic toxins in the ICU patients with acute renal failure, in order to optimize the dialysis dose: patients with sepsis/multi-organ failure. The sampling of blood and dialysate will be done during dialyses with different durations (4, 6 and 8h)
Giving infiltration analgesia around the neck of the womb (= paracervical block, PCB) is frequently experienced as a painful procedure by women undergoing follicle aspiration. Two sedation protocols, where in the one protocol a low dose of alfentanil hydrochloride is already administered before the PCB, will be compared with each other and pain relief measured using the 'Visual Analogue Scale' and the 'Short-Form McGill Questionnaire'
In In vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment, poor responder patients of more than 38 years old are randomized prospectively into two dosages of gonadotrophins. The outcome of treatment will be analyzed.
Children with otitis media with effusion will be treated with osteopatic cranial techniques or with a placebo treatment. Before and after the treatment audiometric and tympanometric measures will take place. This procedure will be repeated 3 times, once a week and every session will last for 30-45 minutes. The fourth week, only audiometry and tympanomtry will be done.
Comparison between use of Aruba Aloë formula F-BC-096 and control.
Epratuzumab is an investigational antibody designed to help treat SLE. The purpose is to evaluate safety and long term efficacy in concert with standard SLE treatments
The purpose of this study is determine if NPPV can be performed in a pre-hospital setting very early after onset of dyspnea with a similar benefit in need of intubation and mortality as in previous study in hospital context and if early NPPV intervention have a real, rather standard medical therapy, value, both on objectively measured parameters and on patient's clinical status.
Follow up of implants with patients receiving radiotherapy for buccopharyngeal oncology. Implants will be placed 6 weeks before start of the radiotherapy or at least 3 months after the end of the radiotherapy