Abdominal Transplantation KU Leuven
Intestinal transplantation Bioartifical liver Effect of immunosuppression on tolerance induction. Chronic rejection
Intestinal transplantation Bioartifical liver Effect of immunosuppression on tolerance induction. Chronic rejection
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology focuses on the study, prevention and treatment of important diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites, the study of the complex host-microbiome interaction, and the study of the host immune system in infections, cancer, kidney diseases, autoimmunity, allergy and organ transplantation
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Clinical bacteriology
• Study the impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines on pneumococcal disease epidemiology
• Next-generation sequencing (NGS) strategy by means of Illumina sequencing to characterize S. pneumoniae and M. tuberculosis strains including genotyping, serotyping, resistance, virulence detection and strain relatedness.
• Optimization of microbiological methods for diagnosis of orthopedic implant-related ...
- 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 ...
In this project, we investigate the possibility to transplant lungs from donors after circulatory arrest. In a rabbit lung model, we look for biochemical, morphological and functional evidence that postmortem cooling, ventilation or inflation may be beneficial for lung viability in the absence of perfusion.
A. Expansion of the Clinical Research Unit of the department of anaesthesiology. This unit is at the disposition of 1. Stafmembers of the department who wish to initiate and conduct clinical research in their subspeciality. 2. Companies active in health care who wish to submit their products for evaluating in a clinical environment. 3. Health care manger who wishes to investigate organisation, cost explosion and containment in health care. B. ...
- Health Care Financing - Medical technology - Nursing activities (acute care, psychiatric care) and financing - Clinical nursing - Preference patterns for the aged - Case management in psycho-geriatric patients - Quality improvement - Economic evaluation of cancer treatment (mainly radiotherapy). - Health Care financing systems.