Background and aim: Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have anti-inflammatory and anti-fibrotic properties and could be a potential therapy for Crohn's Disease (CD) strictures. In this phase I-II pilot trial, we assessed safety and efficacy of local MSC injection to treat CD strictures. Methods: CD patients with a short (less than 5 cm in length) non-pa...
Opening lecture of the 1rst WONCA conference on Planetary heah
Voici le document de support à la consultation médicale auprès de personnes sinistrées par les inondations et les aidants, à destination des Médecins généralistes. Il s'agit d'une compilation de différentes sources à propos de problématiques spécifiques qui peuvent apparaitre dans ces conditions exceptionnelles. Cela pourra être utile aux MG travai...
L’entretien motivationnel peut aider les Médecins Généralistes à aborder de manière constructive, efficiente et dans le respect de l’autonomie de chaque patient, la question de l’hésitation vaccinale Covid-19 en consultation. Cette vidéo montre un exemple du déroulement d'un entretien motivationnel en consultation. Les explications théoriques se tr...
Cette courte vidéo aborde les justifications et les bases de la discussion à propos de la vaccination COVID19 dans les consultations médicales. L’entretien motivationnel peut aider les Médecins Généralistes à aborder de manière constructive, efficiente et dans le respect de l’autonomie de chaque patient, la question de l’hésitation vaccinale Covid-...
A drug‐induced sarcoidosis‐like reaction is a systemic granulomatous reaction indistinguishable from sarcoidosis and occurring in temporal relationship with a drug initiation. In this article, we report a patient who developed lung and liver granulomatous lesions following tocilizumab initiation for a giant cell arteritis. Infectious, toxic, neopla...
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In many countries facing the COronaVIrus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, the healthcare system was progressively stretched to capacity, emergency departments were overwhelmed and a lack of hospitalbeds threatened to occur.[1, 2] Belgium was no exception and the hospital admissions due to COVID-19 peaked a first time in early April 2020, followed ...
X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH) is the most common genetic form of hypophosphatemic rickets and osteomalacia. In this disease, mutations in the PHEX gene lead to elevated levels of the hormone fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23), resulting in renal phosphate wasting and impaired skeletal and dental mineralization. Recently, international guidelines...
Background: Kidney damage has been reported in patients with COVID-19. Despite numerous reports about COVID-19-associated nephropathy, the factual presence of the SARS-CoV-2 in the renal parenchyma remains controversial. Methods: We consecutively performed 16 immediate (≤3h) post-mortem renal biopsies in patients diagnosed with COVID-19. Kidney sam...
