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.
This is a single arm, open-label, multi-center, phase II study to determine the efficacy and safety of tisagenlecleucel in de novo HR pediatric and young adult B-ALL patients who received first-line treatment and are EOC MRD positive. The study will have the following sequential phases: screening, pre-treatment, treatment & follow-up, and survival. After tisagenlecleucel infusion, patient will have assessments performed more frequently in the first month and then at Day 29, then every 3 months for the first year, every 6 months for the second year, then yearly until the end of the study. Efficacy and safety will be assessed at study visits and as clinically indicated throughout the study. The study is expected to end in approximately 8 years after first patient first treatment (FPFT). A post-study long term follow-up safety will continue under a separate protocol per health authority guidelines.
The REALITY study is a prospective, post-market, non-randomized, multi-center, single-arm, open-label study intended to collect short- and long-term safety and effectiveness data on various populations implanted with Abbott's neurostimulation systems.
The goal of the study is to develop a method of genetic diagnosis in two stages, by mendelioma then by genome and transcriptome on fibroblast culture, in genodermatoses and rare diseases with cutaneous expression in the child.
PRECISION 1 will enroll patients with metastatic solid tumors. The local PI will verify if the candidate patient fits the inclusion/ exclusion criteria. The participant will sign the PRECISION 1 informed consent. NGS data will be collected from local panel testing on DNA extracted from tissue samples or plasma. Data will be collected from further molecular testing performed at the different laboratories: select rearrangements (fusion genes and translocations) by RT PCR, FISH or NGS; copy number variations of selected genes via the NGS platform (if possible) or using FISH or other technologies such as SNP arrays in case the NGS technology is incapable of giving this information. Results will be stored in the Precision Belgium section of the Healthdata database. Data on germline variants will also be collected in the Healthdata database whenever this information is available. The cooperating clinical investigator will decide with the patient the treatment strategy, -guided by the best interest of the patient and the availability of respective options : - " Empirical " available approved treatment (for example chemotherapy, immunotherapy) - Genotype-driven standard of care - Inclusion in a genotype-matched clinical trial (includes signing of trial-specific IC) - Inclusion in PRECISION 2 if options 2/3 not available. Irrespective of treatment choice, the patient will be followed by the collaborating clinician and will have follow-up data collected every 6 months for determination of disease status and survival endpoints. Clinical data will be collected and stored in the Healthdata database. Genomic data (somatic and germline whenever available) and clinical data (tumor type and stage, number of previous lines, treatment choice, response rate, PFS on chosen and previous treatments, …) will be uploaded on the Healthdata platform and can be consulted via password-protected web access by the local PI at each participating center. European regulation protecting patient privacy will apply ("GDPR").
An anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture is one of the most common sport injuries, which typically develops after a sudden knee torsion. Arthroscopic repair of the ACL is often required as a complete ACL tear can cause instability of the knee joint. During arthroscopic reconstruction the lower leg is reattached to the upper leg using part of the hamstring tendon (mm. gracilis and mm. semitendinosus). Optimal postoperative analgesia is necessary to allow a quick recovery. Intravenous analgesia during surgery is often associated with a number of side effects such as nausea, vomiting and muscle weakness and does not anesthetize the donor site of the hamstring tendon graft. Local infiltration of ropivacaine and lidocaine in the knee joint and at the donor site can be a valuable asset to control the postoperative pain. This study evaluates the effect of local infiltration analgesia (LIA) on the postoperative pain in the first month after an ACL reconstruction. Half of participants will only receive intravenous analgesia during surgery, the other half will receive intravenous analgesia and a LIA.
Induction of general anesthesia often induces a decrease in the mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) caused by arterial and venous dilatation. Fluid administration is conventionally used to increase the patient's total blood volume, but is often associated with multiple adverse events such as postoperative edema. Arterial hypotension can also be treated by vasopressor agents such as norepinephrine and phenylephrine which mainly increase the blood pressure by arterial vasoconstriction. Compared to phenylephrine, norepinephrine has a shorter half-life (2 - 3 minutes) and improves the MAP by increase in cardiac contractility. In a recent study at our department it was demonstrated that besides arterial vasoconstriction, phenylephrine also improves venous return and cardiac output by venous vasoconstriction. The aim of this study is to compare the hemodynamic effects of both vasopressor agents in patients undergoing deep inferior epigastric perforators (DIEP) flap surgery. If significant differences between both agents are demonstrated, these findings can provide an important basis for future recommendations.
Rostock International Parkinson's Disease Study - An International, multicenter, epidemiological observational study aiming at identification of LRRK2-positive patients, the recruitment of 25,000 PD participants and the establishment of a candidate biomarker in the LRRK2-positive cohort.
The trial is designed as a multicenter randomized controlled study. 246 patients with presumed Glioblastoma Multiforme in eloquent areas on diagnostic MRI will be selected by the neurosurgeons according the eligibility criteria (see under). After written informed consent is obtained, the patient will be randomized for an awake craniotomy (AC) (+/-123 patients) or craniotomy under general anesthesia (GA) (+/-123 patients), with 1:1 allocation ratio. Under GA the amount of resection of the tumour has to be performed within safe margins as judged by the surgeon during surgery. The second group will be operated with an awake craniotomy procedure where the resection boundaries for motor or language functions will be identified by direct cortical and subcortical stimulation. After surgery, the diagnosis of GBM will have to be histologically confirmed. If GBM is not histologically confirmed, patients will be considered off-study and withdrawn from the study. These patients will be followed-up according to standard practice. Thereafter, patients will receive the standard treatment with concomitant Temozolomide and radiation therapy and standard follow up. Total duration of the study is 5 years. Patient inclusion is expected to take 4 years. Follow-up is 1 year after surgery. Statistical analysis, cost benefit analysis and article writing will take 3 months.
This is a multicenter post-marketing clinical follow-up study to collect safety and performance data in a prospective cohort of patients who will have undergone coil embolization using the ED Coil and ED Detach Generator v4.
The present project aims at comparing two conditioning regimens (FM-PTCy vs FM-ATG). The hypothesis is that one or the two regimens will lead to a 2-year cGRFS rate improvement from 30% (the cGRFS rate with FM without ATG/PTCy) to 45% (Pick-a-winner phase 2 randomized study).