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 study was designed to compare the efficacy and safety of I-DXd with treatment of physician's choice in participants with relapsed small cell lung cancer (SCLC).
The purpose of this trial is to define knee joint pathomechanics (KJPM) in the first 2 years after ACL reconstruction (ACLR) and relate these KJPM with changes in articular cartilage morphology and quality.
Immediate skin-to-skin contact (SSC) is already standard care for healthy term newborns, but its use for term or preterm newborns requiring admission to neonatal unit (NICU) with or without respiratory support is challenging. This study aimed to assess the safety and feasibility of SSC during the transfer of newborn infants, using a new purpose-built mobile shuttle care-station, called "Tandem". A monocentric prospective observational study was conducted at the tertiary referral center of the Université libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium Infants born with a birth weight above 1500g were eligible. Following initial stabilization, infants were placed in SSC with one of their parents and transferred to the NICU using the Tandem.
This study aims at understanding the relation between indoor air quality in schools, including both chemical and microbiological determinants, and cognition in children by gathering data across different parts of Europe
The goal of this observational study is to learn more about the effect of obstetric epidural anesthesia on regional lung ventilation in healthy parturient women. The main question it aims to answer is whether the initiation or epidural analgesia improves or not regional lung ventilation in healthy women at term during labor. Participants will be subject to measurements of pulmonary impedance by electric impedance tomography before and after the start of epidural analgesia. No change will be applied to clinical care as a result of this measurement.
A large body of studies indicate an increase in alcohol use disorder (AUD) rates after bariatric surgery. However, little information exists on the evolution of other drinking patterns after surgery and the psychological predictors of problematic drinking postoperatively. The identification of these factors is necessary for the implementation of prevention strategies regarding postoperative problematic alcohol use. The aim of this research is to examine the evolution of various drinking patterns after bariatric surgery as well as the psychological factors associated with AUD and an increase in postoperative alcohol consumption.
This is an international, multi-center, randomized, prospective, double-blind, placebo-controlled, Phase 3 study, designed to assess the effect of EryDex (dexamethasone sodium phosphate [DSP] in autologous erythrocytes), administered by intravenous (IV) infusion once every 28 days, on neurological symptoms of patients with Ataxia Telangectasia (A-T).
In this study, the pentavalent bioconjugate candidate vaccine (Candi5V) against Candida will be tested to obtain first-time-in-human (FTIH) data on its safety, immunogenicity, and preliminary efficacy in women with recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis.
The use of mechanical insufflation-exsufflation (MI-E) in children with neuromuscular diseases (NMD) is recommended by international guidelines and societies and well documented. Many authors have shown that MI-E is safe and effective for airway clearance and has a significant benefit in reducing the duration of the airway clearance session in children with respiratory infections and atelectasis or in the postoperative period. However, its use in paediatrics is still poorly supervised and learning the technique is too often therapist- and/or patient-dependent. The use of a protocol or means of help to guide the initiation and learning of MI-E would allow better use, better adaptation of the settings and potentially better compliance with the treatment. The aim of this study is to test whether the use of a coaching module (playful visual stimulation) in addition to guidance by a physiotherapist improves the learning and effectiveness of the technique compared to guidance alone.This randomized controlled study will first include healthy children, aged 6 to 12 years, with no history or recent respiratory infection affecting lung function or other chronic diseases. In a second phase, the investigators will test the use of the learning process in children with neuromuscular diseases. The investigators hope that the results of this study will provide a better framework for the learning and effectiveness of MI-E. Furthermore, if the results are positive, this will allow better support for the use of MI-E in chronic treatments and help to ensure that this costly treatment for hospitals and public health is used efficiently.
Infants with congenital heart disease (CHD) are at increased risk for delayed neurodevelopment. Multiple etiological explanations have been proposed, as there seems to be a multifactorial interplay of both prenatal and perioperative factors. The main goal of this research project is to focus on peri-operative physiological risk factors in infants with CHD which impair functional brain maturation or elicit brain injury, and subsequently creating a risk model and guidelines for standardized developmental follow-up in this population. PART 1: investigation of cerebral autoregulation and neurovascular coupling The homeostasis in cerebral blood supply regardless of perfusion pressure, is called Cerebral autoregulation (CAR). Neurovascular coupling (NVC) is the phenomenon in which blood supply increases as a result of increased brain activity in a specific area. At different times in the perioperative phase, these regulatory mechanisms will be estimated based on Electroencephalography (EEG) and Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS), in addition to hemodynamic parameters. PART 2: cell-free DNA (cfDNA) extraction. Non-invasive monitoring of neuronal degeneration can be performed using cfDNA extraction techniques. Serial measurements of neuronal cfDNA will be used to determine whether and when this neuronal damage has occurred. PART 3: Prognosis and outcome. These risk factors, supplemented with demographic factors and medications administered, will be combined in an Artificial Intelligence-driven model, thus establishing a risk model for neurodevelopmental outcome. This model will be compared to the current standard-of-care, both structural imaging (ultrasound and MRI) and a clinical developmental assessment at 9 and 24 months of age (Bayley Scales of Infant Development-III).