Health Literacy and Quality of Life in Young Adults From The Belgian Crohn's Disease Registry Compared to Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus.

The management of chronic inflammatory bowel diseases in youth is challenging. We aimed to determine health literacy (HL), quality of life (QoL) and clinical outcomes in young adults from the BELgian CROhn's disease registry (BELCRO) in comparison to type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) as a control. In this prospective and observational study, young adults with Crohn's disease (CD) diagnosed < 18 years and with > 5 years disease duration and a comparable group of patients with DM completed validated HL, QoL and work productivity and activity impairment questionnaires (HLS-EU-Q16, EQ-5D-5L and WPAI).

Study protocol of KLIMOP: a cohort study on the wellbeing of older cancer patients in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Background: Cancer is mainly a disease of older patients. In older cancer patients, additional endpoints such as quality of survival and daily functioning might be considered equally relevant as overall or disease free survival. However, these factors have been understudied using prospective designs focussing on older cancer patients.

Delay in diagnosis and outcome of Acanthamoeba keratitis.

Purpose: To evaluate the outcome of Acanthamoeba keratitis with respect to the delay in diagnosis.

Methods: A retrospective review of the records of 14 patients treated for Acanthamoeba keratitis was carried out. Delay in diagnosis was correlated with risk factors, clinical presentation, method of diagnosis, final visual acuity and need for penetrating keratoplasty.

Results of penetrating keratoplasty in syphilitic interstitial keratitis.

Purpose: To compare the results in our patient series after penetrating keratoplasty (PKP) for syphilitic interstitial keratitis (IK) with those described in the literature.

Methods: Retrospective case series in which visual acuity (VA), graft clarity, rejection episodes, intraocular pressure and endothelial cell density (ECD) were examined postoperatively.

Results: Postoperative VA improved in all cases.