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Cause of death in patients with chronic visceral and chronic neurovisceral acid sphingomyelinase deficiency (Niemann-Pick disease type B and B variant): Literature review and report of new cases (vol 118, pg 206, 2016) KU Leuven
© 2017 The authors regret that the percent of deaths due to respiratory (32.1%) or liver (26.4%) disease in patients with chronic visceral ASMD stated on pages 208 and 209 are incorrect, and instead should match the data shown in Fig. 2D (30.9% and 29.1% for deaths due to respiratory or liver disease, respectively). The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Cause of death in patients with chronic visceral and chronic neurovisceral acid sphingomyelinase deficiency (Niemann-Pick disease type B and B variant): Literature review and report of new cases KU Leuven
Acid sphingomyelinase deficiency (ASMD), [Niemann-Pick Disease Types A and B (NPD A and B)], is an inherited metabolic disorder resulting from deficiency of the lysosomal enzyme acid sphingomyelinase. Accumulation of sphingomyelin in hepatocytes, reticuloendothelial cells, and in some cases neurons, results in a progressive multisystem disease that encompasses a broad clinical spectrum of neurological and visceral involvement, including: ...
Vrouwenbesnijdenis in de Afrikaanse literaturen: Literaire bijdragen aan een evoluerend en complex debat Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Female genital excision is undoubtedly one of the most widely debated cultural traditions of our time. Although the practice is most prevalent in Africa, African voices tend to be ignored in the international debate on female genital excision. This article shows how this debate has evolved in African literatures over the last four decades of the twentieth century, in response to changing attitudes about ethnicity, nationalism, colonialism, ...
Aged parents' experiences during a critical illness trajectory and after the death of an adult child: a review of the literature Ghent University
"Every Soul Shall Taste Death”. Attitudes and Beliefs of Moroccan Muslim Women living in Antwerp (Belgium) toward Dying, Death and the Afterlife KU Leuven
This study aims to elicit the beliefs and attitudes of middle-aged and elderly Moroccan Muslim women toward dying, death, and the afterlife; to identify whether differences are observable between middle-aged and elderly participants and to document how the actual attitudes of our participants relate to normative Islamic literature. Interviews were conducted with middle-aged and elderly Moroccan women living in Belgium (n = 30) and with experts ...
Recht en Literatuur: een pittig literair debat u aangeboden door de Vlaamse Juristenvereniging KU Leuven
From the plant of life to the throat of death : freakish flora and masculine forms in fin de siècle lost world novels Ghent University
Continuous sedation until death in nursing homes in Flanders: An empirical-ethical analysis Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Despite the development of palliative care and advanced symptom management over the past decades, some patients may still face unbearable suffering from symptoms that do not respond to treatment. In such situations, there has been a recent increase in the practice of sedating the patient until death in order to relieve otherwise untreatable pain and distress. However, continuous sedation until death has also become a contentious topic of ...