Published in Acta clinica Belgica
The management of therapy-resistant lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and symptoms resulting from pelvic organ dysfunctions are subject to a high variability in the Belgian health-care centres. Practical guidelines and standardized patient clinical care pathways are often lacking and unadapted to the Belgian healthcare system. The OptiLUTS trial ...
Published in Acta clinica Belgica
Turner syndrome (TS) is characterized by dysmorphism and body disproportion. TS women are also susceptible to a range of chronic disorders including arterial hypertension (AHT), osteoporosis, sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) and thyroid disease. The association between dysmorphism/body disproportion and chronic dise...
Published in Acta clinica Belgica
Hemodialysis-related portosystemic encephalopathy (HRPSE) is a clinical phenomenon where portosystemic encephalopathy (PSE) develops without liver dysfunction, usually caused by changes in the portosystemic blood flow related to hemodialysis. We describe the case of a 22-year old patient with a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) w...
Published in Acta clinica Belgica
We report the case of a 51 year-old female who complained of jaundice and weight loss. At the time of presentation, she had been in remission from a stage 2a ductal breast carcinoma for 58 months. The clinical presentation was suggestive of a primary pancreas cancer with liver metastases and retroperitoneal lymph nodes. We performed liver and pancr...
Published in Acta clinica Belgica
Outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT) was not used in Belgium before 2013, except for patients with cystic fibrosis. Thus, we have performed a pilot study to evaluate clinical characteristics and outcomes of patient receiving OPAT in a Belgian setting. The study was a prospective observational single-center study of patients receiving OPA...
Published in Acta clinica Belgica
Oncological home-hospitalization (OHH) might be a patient-centred approach to deal with the increasing burden of cancer on health-care facilities and finances. Before implementation into practice, its feasibility, costs and support among stakeholders should be evaluated. The purpose of this trial was to explore patients', specialists' and general p...
Published in Acta clinica Belgica
Stroke is a development of an acute focal neurological deficit with an ischemic or hemorrhagic origin. Thrombolysis within 4.5 h of ischemic stroke onset improves outcome. Guidelines recommend administration of intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator within 60 min upon arrival at the hospital, meaning the door-to-needle time (DNT) shou...
Published in Acta clinica Belgica
Published in Acta clinica Belgica
In prosthetic joint infections (PJIs), there is no consensus about the utility of the preoperative joint aspiration culture to guide antimicrobial treatment. The main objective of this retrospective study was to investigate the value of these preoperative samples to narrow immediate postoperative empirical antimicrobial treatment in patients with a...
Published in Acta clinica Belgica
Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis (iRPF) is a rare fibro-inflammatory disease, characterized by inflammation of the abdominal aorta and its surrounding structures. The exact pathophysiology remains unclear. Diagnosis is often troublesome due to the non-specific and highly variable clinical presentation. Standardized treatment protocols are lackin...
