Projects
Improving postoperative outcomes in outpatient surgery using different regional anesthesia techniques KU Leuven
Multimodal analgesia in outpatient surgery: clinical and economical impact.
INTRODUCTION
Ambulatory surgery has a lot of clinical and economical advantages.(1)
For many years ambulatory surgery was only done in healthy patients for small surgical interventions. But lately because of economical an financial pressure also less healthy patients and more invasive procedures are carried out on an ambulatory ...
Reducing/adjusting painful management practices in piglets: an attempt to improve animal welfare and zootechnical results KU Leuven
Optimalization of radiotherapy for head and neck cancer KU Leuven
In head-and-neck cancer (HNC), radiotherapy (RT) is an important part of the treatment possibilities. It can be recommended as definitive treatment with or without chemotherapy, adjuvantly after surgery, or in the treatment of local failure after surgery. RT allows organ preservation and improved function preservation compared to surgery and can therefore be an elegant solution. However, radiation of HNC is often complex due to large planning ...
The Interprosthetic Gap as a Risk Factor for Interprosthetic Fractures of the Femur KU Leuven
An interprosthetic (IP) gap is created when an arthroplasty is performed on both joints of the same bone to replace deteriorated joints. Specifically in this
thesis, placement of a hip and knee prosthesis in the femur was examined. Such an ipsilateral placement of stemmed prostheses into the same bone creates a gap of varying size and location depending on the prosthesis stem lengths. The IP gap is measured in between the tips of the ...
Development and validation of active and passive immunotherapy targeted at protein Tau in transgenic mouse models for Alzheimer's disease KU Leuven
Modeling Renal Fibrosis in Zebrafish Using Aristolochic Acid I KU Leuven
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major global health problem that is characterized by a slow and progressive loss of kidney function. The endpoint of virtually all progressive renal diseases is fibrosis, characterized histologically by an excessive accumulation and deposition of extracellular matrix (ECM) disrupting the normal histo-architecture of the organ.
The number of renal fibrosis patients doubled from 1990 to 2016 making it ...
Celfi: Development,production, application and recycling of Wood Plastic Composites Centexbel - Scientific and Technical Centre of the Belgian Textile industry
Results and conclusions
During the last decades, wood plastic composites (WPC) have become popular in the construction of deckings, sidings, but also in the automobile industry. The reason for this is twofold. First of all, they consist of low-cost plastics such as PVC, PP, PE…, which are easy processable due to their good melt flow at elevated temperatures. On the other hand, they contain wood fibres, which are cheaper, ...
Ultrasound-Assisted Synthesis of Zeolite Catalysts KU Leuven
Zeolites are aluminosilicate minerals with a microporous structure used as adsorbents and catalysts. They are conventionally synthesized by hydrothermal methods in batch systems. However, this process exhibits several disadvantages, such as long synthesis times and non-uniform qualities of product from batch to batch. There is a strong interest from the zeolite manufacturing industry to reduce the synthesis time and achieve a continuous ...
Development of an extended animal model for perinatal drug testing for Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia KU Leuven
Premature birth affects 11% of all pregnancies and is the leading cause of death in neonates worldwide. Advances in perinatal medicine have resulted in the more accurate prediction of preterm birth and more timely interventions leading to increased neonatal survival rates also for extreme preterm babies (≤28 weeks). However, the associated morbidity in survivors remains significant, especially in the pulmonary and central nervous system. At ...