Projects
IL-13-overexpressing anti-inflammatory Mφs suppress traumainduced premature immune aging. Hasselt University
Automated neonatal EEG background analysis for prediction of neurological outcome of premature infants. KU Leuven
Around 10 percent of all human births is premature, which means about 15 million babies are born before 37 completed weeks of gestation. About one third of the admissions to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) consists of this patient group. Due to complications, 1 million babies die from premature delivery, and it is therefore the most important cause of neonatal death. In general, premature and immature babies have a high risk for ...
PremAtuRe nEwborn motor and cogNitive impairmenTs: Early diagnosis KU Leuven
Prematurity exponentially increases the risk for an altered neurodevelopmental outcomes in childhood and adolescence. Many survivors children, face a lifetime of disability. Despite the advances in neonatal care have greatly improved survival of preterm born infants even at extremely low gestational ages we are now at a period of steadiness where no further improvement in long-term neurodevelopmental outcome is seen. The impact of these ...
Exposure of premature neonates to bisphenol A and phthalates at the intensive care unit: accumulation in hair and long-term neurodevelopmentel and pulmonary toxicity. University of Antwerp
Understanding reduced penetrance of ABCA7 premature termination codon mutations in Alzheimer's disease. University of Antwerp
Nephrogenesis in extremely low birthweight infants and nephropathogenesis in relation to biomarkers and research to long distance prognosis KU Leuven
The aims of this PhD–project were to a) determine screening criteria for HNF1B analysis in patients with congenital anomalies of kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT), b) generate an infrastructure to facilitate longitudinal follow–up of a birth cohort of former extremely low birth weight (ELBW) neonates and subsequent data pooling with other cohorts and c) to use this infrastructure to study the consequences of preterm birth and ...
From root to leaf and back again: cadmium-induced interdependence of root and leaf responses related to glutathione and ethylene Hasselt University
From root to leaf and back again: cadmium-induced interdependence of root and leaf responses related to glutathione and ethylene Hasselt University
Advanced models for the quantification of stress in preterm babies KU Leuven
This thesis focuses on the design of various automatic signal processing algorithms to extract information from physiological signals of preterm infants. Overall, the aim was to improve the neurodevelopmental outcome of the neonate. More specifically, three main research objectives were carried out. The first objective was to describe the maturation of neonates during their stay in the neonatal intensive care unit. The second objective was to ...