BACKGROUND: Although a medial collateral ligament (MCL) injury is associated with anteromedial rotatory instability (AMRI) and often with an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, there has been little work to develop anteromedial (AM) reconstruction to address this laxity. PURPOSE: To measure the ability of a novel "anatomic" AM reconstruction t...
Published in Journal of pain and symptom management
Globally, people most often die within hospitals. As such, healthcare providers in hospitals are frequently confronted with dying persons and their bereaved relatives. To provide an overview of the current role hospitals take in providing bereavement care. Furthermore, we want to present an operational definition of bereavement care, the way it is ...
Importance Clinical practice regarding posttreatment radiologic surveillance for patients with oropharyngeal carcinoma (OPC) is neither adapted to individual patient risk nor fully evidence based. Objectives To construct a microsimulation model for posttreatment OPC progression and use it to optimize surveillance strategies while accounting for bot...
Published in Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery
The potential impact of abdominal wound dehiscence on long-term survival after elective abdominal surgery is largely unknown. The aim of this study was to examine the impact of abdominal wound dehiscence on survival and incisional hernia repair after elective, open colonic cancer resection. This was a nationwide cohort study based on merged data fr...
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PURPOSE: Selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) requires a good liver registration of multi-modality images to obtain precise dose prediction and measurement. This study investigated the feasibility of liver registration of CT and MR images, guided by segmentation of the liver and its landmarks. The influence of the resulting lesion registrati...
INTRODUCTION: The current therapy of neoplastic Barrett's esophagus (BE) consists of endoscopic resection plus ablation, with radiofrequency ablation as the best studied technique. This prospective trial assesses a potential alternative, namely hybrid argon plasma ablation. METHODS: Consecutive patients with neoplastic BE undergoing ablation after ...
Background: Asthmatics have accelerated lung function decline over time compared with healthy individuals. Objective: To evaluate risk factors for accelerated lung function decline. Methods: In a longitudinal analysis on severe asthmatics enrolled in the Belgian Severe Asthma Registry with at least 2 visits a minimum of 12 months apart, we compared...
Objective: To search for existing evidence of a beneficial effect of (val)ganciclovir on hearing in children with congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) infection and to identify future research questions. Study Design: Systematic review following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, searches were performed ...
Background: Young migrants face particular risks to develop mental health problems. Discrimination and social support impact mental health, yet little is known about the differential impact thereof on mental health in newcomers, non-newcomer migrants, and non-migrants. Aim: This study sheds light on mental health (posttraumatic stress, behavioral p...
