Projecten
Verbeteren van de preventie van plotse dood bij erfelijke cardiale ritme aandoeningen door optimalisatie van niet-invasieve risico strataficatie en genotypering KU Leuven
De relatie tussen het genotype (de onderliggende genetische mutatie) en het fenotype (de klinische uitingsvorm van de aandoening) van primaire aritmie syndromen en cardiomyopathieën is complex en de kennis hierrond neemt snel toe. In het eerste deel van dit thesis project evalueerden we de waarde van zowel nieuwe als reeds bestaande elektrocardiografische parameters die gebruikt worden om de diagnose te stellen en de prognose in te schatten ...
Modelgebaseerde beeldvorming en -analyse voor multi-X medische beelddata. KU Leuven
Aortaklepvervanging met behulp van geïndividualiseerde regeneratieve allograften: overbrugging van de therapeutische kloof. KU Leuven
65,000 aortic valve replacements (AVR) are performed in Europe each year to treat acquired and congenital aortic valve diseases. In affected patients, mortality without AVR is extremely high and 50 % die within 2 years. Current AVR options are, however, limited for young patients - especially female patients - and those unwilling to accept life-long medical anticoagulation with its inherent risks. None of the currently available prostheses ...
Ondersteuning van postdoctoraal onderzoek met stages in de industrie en uitmuntende training KU Leuven
SPRITE is a multi-disciplinary European training network which brings together Europe’s premier research institutes in technology and applications of ion beams. Those involved are already actively collaborating, for example in the recently very favourably reviewed EC Infrastructure project SPIRIT.
SPRITE addresses the urgent European need - identified in a recent Foresight Review - to train the next generation of researchers in this ...
Biomedische toepassingen voor het incrementeel omvormen KU Leuven
Starting from the extensive background knowledge built up in the domain of incremental sheet forming in the Production Engineering research group, a range of ambitious application domains come within reach that by themselves create new research challenges. An important cluster of applications is situated in the bio-medical domain. Being able to generate thin shell structures from high strength materials in a fast and flexible way and tailored ...
Door technologie in staat gestelde gedragsverandering als een pad naar een beter zelfmanagement van hart- en vaatziekten KU Leuven
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of premature death and disability in Europe and worldwide, costing the EU economy almost EUR 196 billion a year. With changing demographics and deteriorating lifestyle this situation will worsen considerably. While effective cardiac rehabilitation (CR) improves mortality and morbidity rates, uptake of community-based CR, which represents the long-term rehabilitation phase (III), is very low ...
Transformeren van magnetische resonantie spectroscopie in een klinische tool. KU Leuven
In vivo Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Spectroscopic Imaging (MRS(I)) are unique, indispensable techniques for non-invasive metabolic imaging. Important areas where MRS(I) can make a difference are oncology and neurology, where metabolic changes due to, e.g., tumour formation, can be detected earlier and more sensitively than with morphological imaging modalities alone. Despite its huge proven potential, MRS(I) is not yet a routine ...
"Taxing for equality" in de personenbelasting: de keuze voor een individuele of gezamelijke belastingeenheid? Universiteit Hasselt
Geïndividualiseerde zorg voor ouderen met complexe chronische aandoeningen thuis en in verpleeghuizen KU Leuven
BACKGROUND
Optimal care for older patients with complex chronic conditions (CCC) is challenging. Not only do older patients with CCC present with multiple conditions and functional impairments, these often interact with each other, as well as with their treatments.
Patients with CCC are concentrated in home care and nursing home settings. Professionals working in these settings often lack appropriate decision support that mirrors ...