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The study investigators are interested in learning more about how drugs, that are given to children by their health care provider, act in the bodies of children and young adults in hopes to find the most safe and effective dose for children. The primary objective of this study is…

This study aimed to compare the effects of Inspiratory Muscle Training (IMT) and Diaphragmatic Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES) on inspiratory muscle strength, mechanical ventilator parameters, and functional levels in intubated intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Thir…

Brown fat is a type of fat, found in both children and adults, which can produce heat and regulate the body's metabolism and energy use. White fat is the more common type of fat which is used to store extra calories. Understanding more about differences between brown and white fa…

Chapman Reflex Points (CRPs) are small palpable nodules found within connective tissue that have traditionally been associated with dysfunction of internal organs and the autonomic nervous system. However, little is known about how commonly these findings occur in healthy individ…

Hantavirus disease are zoonotic infections and remain a clinical challenge with globally increasing incidence and multiple serious outbreak situations in Europe within the last years. Hantavirus disease encompasses two clinical syndromes, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HF…

Leptospirosis is a worldwide zoonotic diseases caused by pathogenic Leptospira spp. Human are accidental hosts, who acquired infections after exposition to animal urine, contaminated water or soil, infected tissue. Incidence of invasive leptospirosis disease causing acute kidney …

The purpose of this research study is to study the relationship between childhood asthma, allergies, and early-life environmental factors that may cause childhood asthma and allergies. Previous birth cohort studies have found early-life environmental factors such as allergies, po…

Postoperative respiratory complication is a common complication that occurs in 6% of patients after cardiac surgery and increases morbidity and mortality and hospital length of stay. Diaphragmatic dysfunction (DD) is one of the main risk factors for post-operative respiratory dis…

Under current practice, patients with persistent atrial fibrillation, can be offered one of two types of ablation treatment. Both of these treatments are aimed at electrically isolating the 4 pulmonary veins (PVs) at the back of the heart which connect it to the lungs. These PVs …

ABSTRACT Aim: The aim of the study was evaluate the effect of education provided to patients diagnosed with chronic kidney disease on adherence to illness, self-care, and well-being. Design: A randomised controlled trial. Participants: The study sample consisted of total of 119 …

Background: Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential (CHIP) is a change in a person s DNA that can increase a person s risk of developing blood cancers or cardiovascular disease. CHIP occurs mostly occurs in older people. Clonal cytopenia of undetermined significance (CCU…

Feeding and eating disorders are frequent in children of the general population. They are much more frequent in children with congenital chronic diseases. The analysis of feeding and eating disorders in children is difficult since their causes are complex and multiple. In additio…

Asthma and chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) are frequently described as unified airway inflammatory diseases. Both heavily impacts quality of life with substantial productivity loss. They share the same pathophysiologic pattern based upon proTh2 immune response w…

This is a Phase I multicenter, open-label, dose-ranging, three-dose PK and PD study of injectable LB administered as an IM or SQ injection at 40 mg, and subsequently at 50mg SQ and then 60 mg SQ depending on the preliminary pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic results obtained wit…

The goal of this study is to identify and characterize novel non-coding and splicing variants that may contribute to genetic disorders. We will particularly focus on patients with a diagnosed genetic disorder that has inconclusive genetic findings.

The purpose of this study is to describe the real-life use of Cabometyx® in monotherapy or in combination with nivolumab in Belgium in patients with advanced or metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma (1st, 2nd and later lines of treatment)

This research study is being done to learn more about inflammation in the brain using Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/CT) imaging in people with Alzheimer's Disease/Mild Cognitive Impairment or healthy controls. If the subject agrees to be in this study, sh…

Huntington disease (HD, 1.3/10 000) is an autosomal dominant disease due to an abnormal expansion of CAG triplets in HTT gene. Several pathophysiological mechanisms have been evoked, including an alteration of the signaling pathway of the Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF)…

The primary objective of the study is to characterize the patients who initiate treatment for asthma with DUPIXENT® in a real-world setting to understand the attributes of treated patients in real life. This includes characterization of: * Patient demographics (eg, gender, age,…

Muscle and physical activity play an important role in in growth, development and bone health in healthy children, especially during puberty. Children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have lower level and intensity of physical compared to a control group. Several studies hav…