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.
Preliminary evidence suggest that patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) suffer from lower-limb muscle dysfunction. This may, at least in part, be due to a combination of physical inactivity and muscle oxidative stress. Pilot data (not published) clearly show that patients with COPD have significantly lower carnosine, which is a pH (acidity-basicity level) buffer and antioxidant, levels in the m. vastus lateralis compared to healthy subjects. Beta-alanine supplementation has shown to increase muscle carnosine in trained and untrained healthy subjects. This study will assess if muscle carnosine can be augmented by beta-alanine supplementation in 40 COPD patients (20 patients receive beta-alanine, 20 patients receive placebo). 10 healthy elderly controls will also be assessed to compare baseline muscle carnosine levels. The aims of this study are to: 1. Investigate baseline muscle carnosine levels to confirm the pilot data in a larger sample of patients with COPD compared with healthy elderly subjects 2. Investigate if beta-alanine supplementation augments muscle carnosine in COPD patients and whether it has an influence on exercise capacity, lower-limb muscle function and quality of life 3. To investigate baseline and post supplementation structural and metabolic muscle characteristics and markers of oxidative stress and inflammation in COPD patients and it's association with muscle carnosine levels
Review of clinical characteristics of patients who are prescribed Repatha® and how their treatment is managed.
Prospective, international, multi-center, single arm, observational study to continue to assess the treatment by the Stellarex™ OTW Drug-coated Angioplasty Balloon in superficial femoral and/or popliteal arteries according to the Instructions for Use in a broad, real-world, claudicant or ischemic rest pain patients population per the institution's standard practice.
This is a single arm, multicenter, open label, and non-randomized clinical study on adult participants with unresectable or metastatic melanoma. The study will be conducted in two phases. Pre-screening phase will assess the BRAF V600 mutation in a new mutation analysis triggered by a mutant plasma cfDNA test result. Treatment phase will assess the clinical outcome for the participants treated with vemurafenib plus cobimetinib. The length of the study will be approximately 38 months.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy (proportion of subjects with SVR12), safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of an 8- and 6-week treatment regimen of AL-335, odalasvir (ODV) and simeprevir (SMV) in chronic HCV genotype 1, 2, 4, 5 or 6 infected subjects without cirrhosis.
The aim of this post-market study is to confirm that the microprocessor controlled prosthetic knee components (C-Leg 3 and C-Leg 4) in comparison to mechanical knee joints can bring additional benefit to the users primarily on level walking and secondarily in safety, stair and hill mobility, activities of daily living, satisfaction and preference.
Age-Related Macular Degeneration (ARMD) is the most common cause of blindness in the adult population of the Western World. It affects the macula - the region of the retina most rich in photoreceptors and responsible for central vision. The ethiology of ARMD remains poorly understood. Population-based studies have demonstrated a complex ethiology, with contributions from a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Two major forms of ARMD are clinically distinguishable: the dry and wet form. The latter represents the more aggressive clinical subgroup, and is characterized by the abnormal growth of new blood vessels (neovascularization) under the macula, thus leading to the accumulation of fluid under the retina, bleeding, progression to fibrosis, and finally loss of central vision. The pathogenesis of this neovascularization is not fully understood, although the VEGF pathway is well known to be involved in angiogenesis and was implicated in the development of the new vessels under the macula. The VEGFs are the most specific and potent stimulators of the angiogenesis. Molecules that bind and inactivate the VEGF have been developed for the treatment of ARMD and they are applied in ARMD clinic through intra vitreal injections.The difference seen in response to anti VEGF treatment for ARMD between the patients is suggestive for the presence of factors influencing the effect of the drug. Some of these could be genetic variants within genes involved in ARMD pathogenesis or VEGF pathway. Few associations with markers within genes previously found to be related with the pathogenesis of ARMD have been found. It remains unknown whether variants involved in the anti VEGF treatment response could influence the therapeutic outcome. The purpose of this trial is to evaluate the association between a panel of selected polymorphic markers in the VEGF pathway and the response to therapy with anti VEGF antibody for ARMD. The hypothesis is that the individual genotype influences the response to the anti VEGF. This can lead to identification of genetic biomarkers allowing treatment individualization and optimization of the visual outcomes.
The purpose of this study is to describe contemporary, real-world patterns of patient characteristics, clinical disease presentation, therapeutic regimen chosen, and clinical outcomes in participants with newly diagnosed [ND] multiple myeloma (MM) and participants with relapsed/refractory [R/R] MM.
This is an open-label, multicenter study designed to assess the safety, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and therapeutic activity of emactuzumab and RO7009789 administered in combination in participants with locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors that are not amenable to standard treatment. This study will be conducted in two parts: a dose-finding stage (Part I) and an expansion stage (Part II).
To characterize the safety profile of ARGX-110 administered as mono- or combination therapy to patients with NPC at various stages of its natural history (adjuvant vs. metastatic).