Projects
The automated interpretation of cardiopulmonary exercise testing. KU Leuven
The digital era, where medical information of the patients’ history can be electronically organised, offers a unique opportunity for revolutionizing the impact of personalised medicine. Medical decisions, from initial diagnosis up to predicting optimal treatment approaches and prognostic outcomes, should be tuned based on all available data from this patient. In order to make this vision a reality, analytic approaches that turn datasets into ...
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing with echocardiography in diagnosis, phenotyping and treatment of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. University of Antwerp
Defining the role of exercise testing and cardiac rehabilitation in the detection and prevention of early-stage heart failure: a roadmap to personalised profiling KU Leuven
A Hybrid exercise program for claudication : ACTION. wAlking therapy Combined wiTh cardIO-pulmoNary exercise KU Leuven
Our primary objective is to provide the clinical evidence base for the use of a hybrid* exercise program to improve functional outcomes and cardiovascular health of patients with lower extremity artery disease (LEAD). Outcome will be determined with an exercise tests before and after completion of the program with additional follow-up after 1 year. Patients will be randomized between the exercise program and the actual standard of care ...
VAD-patient interaction: from rest to exercise. KU Leuven
Heart failure is the first cause of death in industrialized countries. Despite the use of medical therapy a certain percentage of patients (PTs) will progress to end stage heart failure. In this case the ventricular assist device (VAD) is a viable therapy that nowadays is used increasingly not only as a bridge to transplantation, but also as destination therapy and as a bridge to recovery. Therefore, there is a clinical need to understand how ...
MicroRNA in heart failure: Exercise as a tool to discover candidate microRNA for therapy and personalized medicine. University of Antwerp
Tackling FRAILTY: ACTIVE-AGE@home: a home-based functional exercise program for community dwelling frail older adults. University of Antwerp
Exercise physiology with a Ventricular Assist Device KU Leuven
Understanding mitochondrial function and the role of exogenous ketone supplementation in combating exercise intolerance and chronic fatigue in long COVID. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
term effects (long COVID). The symptoms (mostly fatigue and postexertional symptom exacerbation (PESE)) influence the life of these
patients. The current guidelines for rehabilitation are insufficient and
the pathogenesis is not fully understood. The first aim is to
understand the role of mitochondrial function (MF) in long COVID,
using a ...