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Fashion in Belgium during the First World War and the case of Norine Ghent University
Nele Bernheim provides an overview of the fashion trade in Belgium during the war. Almost fully occupied by the Germans, who fought some of their bloodiest battles on Belgian land, the country was severely crippled by the war. Locked in for fifty months, countless Belgians were reliant on charity for food and clothing. Despite this, there was a constituency for fashion. Some couture houses remained open—and even newly opened, some fashion ...
Use of a recombinant human follicle-stimulating hormone:recombinant human luteinizing hormone (r-hFSH:r-hLH) 2:1 combination for controlled ovarian stimulation during assisted reproductive technology treatment: A real-world study of routine practice in th KU Leuven
Two observational studies in the Russian Federation described patient demographics/clinical decision for treatment with recombinant human follicle-stimulating hormone:recombinant human luteinizing hormone (r-hFSH:r-hLH) 2:1 combination for ovarian stimulation (OS) during assisted reproductive technology (ART) and outcomes, respectively. The first (prospective) study enrolled 500 patients. After post-hoc regrouping to assign patients to discrete ...
Virological outcomes and risk factors for non-suppression for routine and repeat viral load testing after enhanced adherence counselling during viral load testing scale-up in Zimbabwe Vrije Universiteit Brussel Institute of Tropical Medicine
BACKGROUND: Since the scale-up of routine viral load (VL) testing started in 2016, there is limited evidence on VL suppression rates under programmatic settings and groups at risk of non-suppression. We conducted a study to estimate VL non-suppression (> 1000 copies/ml) and its risk factors using "routine" and "repeat after enhanced adherence counselling (EAC)" VL results.
METHODS: We conducted an analytic cross-sectional study ...
A general approach to identify low-frequency variants within influenza samples collected during routine surveillance Ghent University Flanders Institute for Biotechnology
Influenza viruses exhibit considerable diversity between hosts. Additionally, different quasispecies can be found within the same host. High-throughput sequencing technologies can be used to sequence a patient-derived virus population at sufficient depths to identify low-frequency variants (LFV) present in a quasispecies, but many challenges remain for reliable LFV detec-tion because of experimental errors introduced during sample preparation ...
Critical closing pressure (Pcrit) of the pharyngeal airway during routine drug-induced sleep endoscopy University of Antwerp
In obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), there are various pathophysiological factors affecting the upper airway during sleep. Two prominent factors contributing to OSA are: site and pattern of upper airway collapse and degree of pharyngeal collapsibility. In a clinical setting, drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE) is used to visualize the structures of the upper airway. Critical closing pressure (Pcrit) is the gold standard measure of pharyngeal ...
Incidents in molecular pathology frequency and causes during routine testing University of Antwerp KU Leuven
center dot Context.-Errors in laboratory medicine could compro-mise patient safety. Good laboratory practice includes identifying and managing nonconformities in the total test process. Varying error percentages have been described in other fields but are lacking for molecular oncology. bjectives.-To gain insight into incident causes and frequency in the total test process from 8 European institutes routinely performing biomarker tests in non ...
The tele-transition of toxicity management in routine oncology care during the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic University of Antwerp
Background Telehealth modalities were introduced during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic to assure continuation of cancer care and maintain social distance. Methods This is a retrospective cohort analysis of our telehealth expansion programme. We adapted two existing patient-reported outcome (PRO) telemonitoring tools that register and (self-)manage toxicities to therapy, while screening for SARS-CoV-2-related symptoms. Outpatients from a tertiary cancer ...
Vaccines and routine immunization strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic University of Antwerp
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 related disease (COVID-19) is now responsible for one of the most challenging and concerning pandemics. By August 2020, there were almost 20 million confirmed cases worldwide and well over half-million deaths. Since there is still no effective treatment or vaccine, non-pharmaceutical interventions have been implemented in an attempt to contain the spread of the virus. During times of quarantine, ...