Organisation
Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases and Thoracic Surgery (BREATHE)
Division
- Lung and chest wall mechanics: respiratory function in health and disease and effects of drugs. - Lung toxicology: fundamental mechanisms and epidemiologic research on occupational hazards. - Biochemical and metabolic functions of lung in health and disease and animal models. - Bronchial carcinoma: PET-scan, therapeutic modalities. - Respiratory muscles: animal models and changes in disease. - Difficult asthma. - Pulmonary embolism and hypertension. - COPD and rehabilitation.
Projects
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- Airway inflammation as a result of external triggers inducing epithelial cell damage in non-allergic asthma and exercise-induced bronchoconstrictionFrom1 Oct 2018 → 27 Jun 2023Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Histopathologic evaluation of the different fenotypes of chronic lung allograft dysfunction after lung transplantationFrom1 Oct 2018 → 15 Mar 2022Funding: FWO fellowships
- Occupational and environmental causes of sarcoidosis: clarifying epidemiology, improving in vitro detection, and development of an animal modelFrom1 Oct 2018 → 30 Sep 2022Funding: Fund Recuperation Fiscal Exemption, IOF - Industrial Research Fund, BOF - Concerted Research Project from 1994
- The roll of regulatory cells in rejection post lung transplantFrom1 Oct 2018 → 31 Oct 2023Funding: FWO fellowships
- EFFECTS trial: assessing the influence of timing of Enteral Feeding support in Esophageal Cancer patients on muscle functTION and SurvivalFrom1 Oct 2018 → 30 Sep 2022Funding: FWO Applied Biomedical Research (TBM)
- Prevalence of epilepsy and sleep-wake disturbances in Alzheimer’s diseaseFrom1 Oct 2018 → 30 Sep 2022Funding: IOF - Industrial Research Fund, BOF - Concerted Research Project from 1994
- Integration of macroscopic and microscopic muscle properties with cell modelling to feature neuromuscular symptoms in cerebral palsyAcronym: 3D-MMAP (3D-Macroscopic and microscopic Muscle Architecture in cerebral Palsy)From1 Oct 2018 → 30 Sep 2022Funding: IOF - Industrial Research Fund, BOF - Concerted Research Project from 1994, Fund Recuperation Fiscal Exemption
- DONOR LUNG ASSESSMENT AND MODIFICATION AT THE EARLY STAGES OF THE TRANSPLANT PROCESS TO IMPROVE OUTCOME AFTER LUNG TRANSPLANTATIONFrom1 Oct 2018 → TodayFunding: BOF - Concerted Research Project from 1994
- " Is lymph node response an important prognosticator in esophageal adenocarcinoma patients after neoadjuvant chemoradiation followed by surgery? "From31 May 2018 → 30 Dec 2019Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- The KU Leuven X-ray computed tomography centre: a versatile and structured way to unravel the material structures and dynamic processes.From1 May 2018 → 30 Apr 2022Funding: FWO Large scale research infrastructure
Publications
1 - 10 of 3045
- SUPERIOR LUNG FUNCTION WITH ONCE-DAILY QVA149 TRANSLATES INTO IMPROVEMENTS IN PATIENT-REPORTED BREATHLESSNESS COMPARED WITH PLACEBO AND TIOTROPIUM IN COPD PATIENTS: THE BLAZE STUDY(2013)
Authors: A D'Urzo, DA Mahler, Marc Decramer, H Worth, T White, VKT Alagappan, N Gallagher, H Chen, K Kulich, D Banerji
Pages: A184 - A184 - Preoperative chemotherapy plus surgery versus surgery alone in early-stage non-small cell lung cancer(2010)
Authors: S Derijcke, Johan Vansteenkiste
Pages: 196 - 197 - Cytospin Preparations Provide Better Quality Diagnoses Than Direct Smears in Nodal Needle Aspiration Specimens For Non-Small Cell Carcinoma (NSCLC): A Multicentre Review(2010)
Authors: C Rowan, K Tournoy, Christophe Dooms, R Rintoul, J Annema, P Shah, D Rassl, A Nicholson
Pages: S24 - S24 - Capmatinib in patients with METex14-mutated advanced non-small cell lung cancer who received prior immunotherapy: The phase II GEOMETRY mono-1 study(2020)
Authors: Johan Vansteenkiste, EF Smit, HJM Groen, EB Garon, RS Heist, T Hida, M Nishio, K Kokowski, C Grohe, N Reguart, et al.
Pages: S830 - S830 - Bmpr2 Mutant Rats Develop Pulmonary and Cardiac Characteristics of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension(2019)
Authors: Pedro Ferreira
Pages: 932 - 948 - Long-Term Safety and Tolerability of a New Formulation of Epoprostenol in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) Patients: Final Results from EPITOME-2(2016)
Authors: J Granton, E Bergot, A Boonstra, PE Subias, N Galie, D Langleben, JC Lemarie, T Pfister, G Simonnau, O Sitbon, et al.
Pages: S358 - S359 - Functional, Metabolic and Morphologic Results of Ex Vivo Donor Lung Perfusion with a Perfluorocarbon-Based Oxygen Carrier Nanoemulsion in a Large Animal Transplantation Model(2020)
Authors: Ilhan Inci, Stephan Arni, Ilker Iskender, Necati Citak, Josep Monne Rodriguez, Miriam Weisskopf, Isabelle Opitz, Walter Weder, Thomas Frauenfelder, Marie Pierre Krafft, et al.
- Remediastinoscopy: a dangerous tool?(2008)
Authors: Paul De Leyn, Toni Lerut
Pages: 708 - 709 - Editorial Commentary: A New Set of Lungs or a New Pair of Glasses?(2015)
Authors: Dirk Van Raemdonck
Pages: 15 - 16 - Tiotropium in patients with moderate COPD naive to maintenance therapy: a randomised placebo-controlled trial(2014)
Authors: Thierry Troosters, Frank C Sciurba, Marc Decramer, Nikos M Siafakas, Solomon S Klioze, Santosh C Sutradhar, Idelle M Weisman, Carla Yunis
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