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.
SPECTA is a quality assured platform for collecting clinicopathologically annotated biological material, imaging data, operative images, environmental assessment, questionnaires as well as patient-reported outcomes from cancer patients to support biospecimen-based translational research and clinical cancer research, including biomarker discovery to improve the understanding of tumor biology and cancer patients care.
Biomargin is a European research program aimed at evaluating the diagnostic performance of biomarkers with respect to renal graft injuries, as well as their prognostic performance with respect to 3-year and 5-year graft outcomes. Nucleic acids, proteins and metabolites previously identified as candidate biomarkers of individual kidney graft lesions will be determined systematically in urine and blood samples collected in patients from the time of transplantation onwards, as well as in the graft tissue when biopsies are required for medical causes or performed systematically in the investigation centres. Their diagnostic and prognostic performance will be checked against histological reading of the biopsies and evolution of the graft function over time.
The Computerized Registry of Patients with Venous Thromboembolism (RIETE) is a multidisciplinary Project initiated in march 2001 and consisting in obtaining an extensive data registry of consecutive patients with venous thromboembolism. The main objective is to provide information on the Internet to help physicians to improve their knowledge on the natural history of thromboembolic disease, particularly in those subgroups of patients who are usually not recruited in randomized clinical trials (pregnant women, elderly patients, disseminated cancer, severe renal insufficiency, patients with contraindications to anticoagulation therapy, extreme body weight, etc), with the purpose of decreasing mortality, frequency of thromboembolic recurrences as well as bleeding complications and arterial events. As an additional objective RIETE is also aimed to create predictive scores that help physicians to better identify patients with high risk of presenting some of these complications. The primary parameters recorded by the registry comprise details of each patient's clinical status, including any coexisting or underlying conditions, and the type, dose, duration and outcome (during the first 3 months of therapy) of antithrombotic treatment. Study endpoints are clinically recognized (and objectively confirmed) recurrences of VTE, major and minor bleeding complications, and death.
Maximal Voluntary Ventilation (MVV) correlates well with maximal exercise capacity and is used to assess the ventilatory function during exercise in COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) patients. Dynamic hyperinflation (DH) often occurs during MVV in COPD and is believed to be due to expiratory flow limitation. The present study is intended to assess whether DH can also occur during MVV in normal subjects without expiratory flow limitation.
This study evaluates the effectiveness of a minimally invasive treatment, consisting of partial polymer-infiltrated-ceramic-network (PICN) restorations, used in case of rehabilitation of advanced and generalized dental wear over a period of 5 years.
This is a multicenter, double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled, study to assess the efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetics of ZX008 when used as adjunctive therapy in pediatric and young adult subjects with Dravet syndrome. Subjects who qualify for the study will be randomized (1:1:1) in a double-blind manner to receive 1 of 2 doses of ZX008 or placebo. All subjects will be titrated to their randomized dose over a 14-day Titration Period. Following titration, subjects will continue treatment at their randomly assigned dose over a 12-week Maintenance Period. Total treatment time from the beginning of the Titration Period through the end of the Maintenance Period is 14 weeks.
The usability, skin reactions and accuracy of the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitoring system in children will be evaluated by questionnaires, pictures of the insertion site and comparison of the glucose results with capillary blood glucose determinations.
A previous multicenter trial led by Bioiberica S.A. has confirmed the efficacy and safety of DROGLICAN for the treatment of osteoarthritis (OA) in patients with severe pain. The MOVES study was a phase IV, double blind, randomized and non-inferiority trial to compare the efficacy and safety of a fixed dose combination of glucosamine hydrochloride (GH) + chondroitin sulfate (CS) (DROGLICAN) versus celecoxib in patient with symptomatic knee OA with moderate to severe pain. This study concluded that both drugs reduced the WOMAC Pain subscale by 50% without significant difference between groups. Further, there was no difference in all secondary outcomes assessing patient's pain, functional capacity, stiffness, inflammation, joint swelling, effusion, and overall quality of life. This new exploratory trial is aimed to evaluate the beneficial effect of DROGLICAN on the good health of the cartilage of patients suffering of knee osteoarthritis as revealed by qualitative assessment of cartilage biochemical composition in vivo.
In the context of hemophilia, it is well know that the level of factor VIII alone does not reflect the clinical phenotype of the patients in an accurate way. At equal factor VIII levels, certain patients will bleed more than others. The thrombin generation test (TGT) is a test that seems to provide a better prediction of the overall hemostatic status of an individual patient. In a previous study, the investigators have established normal reference values of the thrombin generation curve in children aged 6 months to 16 years and adults. The goal was to evaluate the use of this test in different clinical contexts and in severe hemophilia patients in particular. A pilot study showed that the patients having a thrombin generation <150 had a severe phenotype, whether those who received an appropriate prophylaxy had a thrombin generation superior to 150. Moreover, the investigators now have access to a software tool that allows them to individually determine the pharmacokinetic profile of the factor VIII injected to each patient. The factor VIII concentration is measured at injection and 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours and 24 hours afterwards. The introduction of these concentrations in the software allows to obtain the half-life of factor for a given patient, the maximum peak, and the minimum factor level (though level). The injected dosis might be sufficient (disappearance of substantial diminution of the bleedings) or unsufficient (persisting bleeding) for a given patient. This study aims: - to measure the pharmacokinetic profile of factor VIII by two different methods, the time-based method and the chromogenic method - to correlate the results with the TGT results obtained at the same time points and determine which method gives the best correlation - to link the clinical symptomatology (improved symptomatology or not) with the TGT results - to determine which minimal TGT result is linked to a minimal bleeding rate - to adapt the prophylactic dosis of the patient in a personalized way.
Cardiac surgery is sometimes associated with organ dysfunction of variable severity (renal insufficiency, cognitive decline, arrhythmias, ARDS). The phenomenon responsible is an intense inflammatory reaction induced by cardiopulmonary bypass, leading to microcirculation alterations, specially in endothelial cell and its protective layer - glycocalyx. Endothelial dysfunction then reduces the reactivity of peripheral tissues to hypoxia, and is associated with bad prognosis. High - dose corticoids administration at anesthesia induction in cardiac surgery could attenuate the intensity of this inflammatory reaction, and represents the current practice in our hospital. Nevertheless, this attitude is abandoned in numerous cardiac surgery centres.