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 looks into how a common breast cancer treatment, paclitaxel, can sometimes cause severe side effects that make it hard for patients to continue treatment. These side effects can significantly affect a patient's quality of life and even impact their recovery and overall health costs. What's interesting about this research is that it considers how a patient's lifestyle, specifically their physical activity levels and body makeup (like how much muscle and fat they have), might influence these side effects. The researchers are doing a detailed study with 40 women receiving paclitaxel treatment, tracking how the drug is processed in their bodies and how their body composition and physical activity might play a role in the side effects they experience. They are using a special method to monitor drug levels in the blood and are also keeping tabs on the patients' health and physical activity through questionnaires and modern tracking devices. The goal here is twofold: first, to better understand why these side effects happen to some people and not others, and second, to develop a model that can predict who might be at higher risk for these side effects based on their body composition, lifestyle, and how their body handles the drug. This could lead to more personalized treatment plans that could help reduce the risk of severe side effects and improve the overall treatment experience for patients with breast cancer. In simpler terms, this research is trying to find a way to make breast cancer treatment with paclitaxel safer and more comfortable by considering how a person's lifestyle and body type might affect their reaction to the drug. This could make a big difference in helping patients complete their treatment successfully and with a better quality of life.
Determination of biological availability, time-to-peak and elimination half-life of inhaled levosimendan by administration of an inhaled- and intravenous dose of levosimendan.
This project aims to identify the effect of a 3-week Grand Tour (e.g. Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, and Vuelta a España) on sleep, hematological parameters and the serum metabolome in world-class cyclists.
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia and may contribute to 60-70 % of all cases. An early, accurate diagnosis of AD will become increasingly important with disease-modifying therapies. Different types of fluid and neuroimaging biomarkers are available for the early detection of AD. However, implementation of routine use of these biomarkers in clinical settings is held back due to the risk of overdiagnosis, increased cost and invasiveness of the assessment method. Therefore, novel biomarkers are needed beyond the amyloid and tau pathologies for the early diagnosis of AD. Neuropsychological paper and pencil tests can detect AD and discriminate between different clinical stages. Since medial temporal lobe structures, including the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex (EC), are involved in spatial navigation and degenerate in the earliest stages of AD, spatial navigation can be considered as an early cognitive biomarker of the disease. Nonetheless, the measurement of spatial navigation needs further improvement since the current paper and pencil tests lack ecological validity. Therefore, the test environment should be set up in immersive Virtual Reality (iVR). Dr. Andrea Castegnaro (Space and Memory Lab of University College of London) developed the Allocentric Spatial Update Task (ALLO task), which is an iVR task measuring egocentric and allocentric spatial abilities. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to evaluate whether allocentric and egocentric spatial navigation, measured by the ALLO iVR task can be considered a cognitive biomarker for the early detection of AD. In addition, the investigators want to report on the neuronal correlates of both spatial navigation strategies. Through the Department of Neurology of the University Hospital of Ghent, which has a large cognitive disorders clinic, patients with mild cognitive impairment and mild Alzheimer's dementia will be recruited. Participants will undergo standard clinical assessment, including a neuropsychological examination, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, a 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET and a Lumbar Puncture. In addition, participants will also be asked to undergo Tau PET imaging, Amyloid PET imaging and complete the ALLO iVR task. Healthy controls will also be recruited and have to undergo the same investigations, except for the amyloid PET and lumbar puncture.
In the medical world more and more procedures are performed with the use of ionizing radiation (x-ray), both diagnostic and therapeutic. The main and most known risk is the development of malignancies as a result of the use of ionizing radiation. Purpose of this study: To examine the patient radiation dose (PRD) if the frames per second (FPS) are set differently during the five most performed endourological procedures where fluoroscopy is used (insertion/replacement of ureteral stent, (mini-)percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL/PNL), ureterorenoscopy (URS) and extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL/SWL)) and to propose an acceptable PRD for these procedures in a multicentric study.
The goal of this clinical trial is to compare two ablation techniques to treat patients with persistent atrial fibrillation (irregular and often very rapid heart rhythm). An ablation is a procedure during which some scars are made on the inside of the heart to break up the electrical signals that cause the irregular heartbeat. In this trial researchers will compare a new technique, which uses tiny electric shocks to make the scars, to the standard technique, which uses heat. The main question the trial aims to answer is: • Does the new technique work as well as the standard technique to prevent the irregular heartbeat from returning within one year of the procedure? Participants will: - Undergo an ablation with either the new or the standard technique - Visit the hospital 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months after the procedure for a check-up - Wear a device to register their heart rhythm for 24 hours before the 3 month visit and for 72 hours before the 6, 9 and 12 month visit - Record their heart rhythm at home every week - Complete a questionnaire 3, 6, 9 and 12 months after the procedure
The main purpose of this study is to determine if retatrutide can significantly lower the incidence of serious heart-related complications or prevent the worsening of kidney function. The trial will enroll adults with body mass index 27 kg/m^2 or higher and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease and/or chronic kidney disease. The study will last for about 5 years. Participants will have up to 27 clinic visits with the study doctor.
This investigation is a pre-market, prospective, multi-center, randomized, single blinded, parallel controlled clinical investigation performed in at least 5 clinical centers for confirmatory purposes of the use of WHA as intended in the filling of extraction sockets to enhance preservation of the alveolar socket.
Sensorimotor function of the upper limb is often impaired after stroke, even in the chronic phase (minimum 6 months after stroke). Currently, an optimal assessment for sensory processing, one of the most important sensory functions, does not exists. However, our research team has developed a novel assessment paradigm using the KINARM End-Point robot to assess the level of sensory processing of the upper limb. Within a previous study, the investigators examined the validity within 20 chronic stroke patients and 80 age-matched healthy controls by comparing the novel robotic assessment with a set of existing clinical and robotic assessments for the upper limb. The investigators hypothesize that the stroke patients will show a poorer performance on this novel assessment compared to the healthy controls, that the novel assessment will show better correlation coefficients with other sensory tests compared to motor tests, that the novel assessment can differentiate between different motor subgroups of chronic stroke patients, and that the novel assessment shows good test-retest reliability.
ELTGOL (Slow Expiration with the Opened Glottis in the Lateral posture) is an airway clearance technique performed in the lateral decubitus position. This technique focuses on optimizing ventilation of the infralateral lung (when the subject is lying in the lateral posture) to enhance local air-liquid interaction. Previous studies on ventilation differences between the infra- and supralateral lungs were conducted on healthy, young, male subjects, without the application of thoracic or abdominal pressure. This study aimed to assess ventilation distribution in right lateral recumbency in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), as well as healthy individuals, and investigate the impact of thoracic and abdominal manual pressures during ELTGOL on ventilation distribution.