21 results match your criteria: "Sint-Trudo Hospital[Affiliation]"
Case Rep Oncol
October 2024
Department of Pulmonology, Sint-Trudo Hospital, Sint-Truiden, Belgium.
J Abdom Wall Surg
September 2024
Department of Abdominal Surgery, Jessa Hospital-Sint Trudo Hospital, Sint-Truiden, Belgium.
J Belg Soc Radiol
June 2024
Department of Pathology, Sint-Trudo Hospital, Sint-Truiden, Belgium.
Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE) is a rare vascular tumor that can originate in various parenchymatous organs, soft tissue, and bone. Extrahepatic involvement is exceedingly rare. In this case, multifocal disease in the spleen and bone was present.
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November 2023
Department of Immunology and Infection, UHasselt, Biomedical Research Institute, Martelarenlaan 42, 3500, Hasselt, Belgium.
The immune response in patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is highly variable and is linked to disease severity and mortality. However, antibody and cytokine responses in the early disease stage and their association with disease course and outcome are still not completely understood. In this large, multi-centre cohort study, blood samples of 434 Belgian COVID-19 hospitalized patients with different disease severities (ranging from asymptomatic/mild to critically ill) from the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic were obtained.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Matern Fetal Neonatal Med
December 2023
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Objectives: To evaluate the concordance of conventional autopsy (CA) and postmortem magnetic resonance (MR) after termination of pregnancy (TOP) in fetuses with prenatally detected central nervous system (CNS) anomalies. Second, to determine the most informative postmortem investigation in parental counseling.
Methods: All TOPs between 2006 and 2016 with prenatally detected CNS involvement and having a postmortem MR and CA as postmortem examinations were retrospectively analyzed and concordance levels were established.
Eur J Pediatr
June 2023
Sint-Trudo Hospital, Diestersteenweg 100, Sint Truiden, Belgium.
The hospital landscape is shifting to new care models to meet current challenges in demand, technology, available budgets and staffing. These challenges also apply to the paediatric population, leading to a reduction in paediatric hospital beds and occupancy rates. Paediatric hospital-at-home (HAH) care is used to substitute hospital care in an attempt to bring hospital services closer to children's homes.
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March 2023
Department of Abdominal Surgery, Sint-Trudo Hospital, 100 Diestersteenweg, 3800, Sint-Truiden, Belgium.
Background: Gastrojejunocolic fistulas are a rare type of fistulas after a laparascopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB). They are known as a chronic complication. This case report is the first to describe an acute perforation in a gastrojejunocolic fistula after LRYGB.
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August 2023
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Laboratory for Experimental Orthopaedics, Research School CAPHRI, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
For prosthetic joint infections, antibiotic loaded poly methyl methacrylate (PMMA) spacer or beads can be used to release high concentrations of antibiotics locally at the infection site, while minimizing systemic toxicity. The aim of this study is to determine in vitro and in vivo pharmacokinetic release profile of antibiotics from PMMA spacers and PMMA beads. For the in vitro experiment, the PMMA spacers or beads were submerged in phosphate-buffered saline and gentamicin concentrations were determined from collected specimen at several times points, measured with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA).
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March 2023
Department of Pathology, Sint-Trudo Hospital, Diestersteenweg 100, 3800 Sint-Truiden, Belgium.
Epidermoid cyst is a frequently encountered cutaneous or subcutaneous cyst. Non-(sub)cutaneous epidermoid cysts are rarely found. We present a case of a 60-year-old man with an incidental mass in the left flank which turned out to be a preperitoneal located epidermoid cyst.
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June 2022
National Reference Centre for Respiratory Pathogens, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
From early 2020, a high demand for SARS-CoV-2 tests was driven by several testing indications, including asymptomatic cases, resulting in the massive roll-out of PCR assays to combat the pandemic. Considering the dynamic of viral shedding during the course of infection, the demand to report cycle threshold (Ct) values rapidly emerged. As Ct values can be affected by a number of factors, we considered that harmonization of semi-quantitative PCR results across laboratories would avoid potential divergent interpretations, particularly in the absence of clinical or serological information.
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May 2022
Department of Cardiology, Sint-Trudo Hospital, 3800 Sint-Truiden, Belgium.
Background: Primary cardiac tumours are extremely rare with an autopsy incidence of 0.05%. They can present with a variety of symptoms, including life-threatening arrhythmia and cardiac tamponade.
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June 2022
Department of Neurology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Background: Several neurologic complications have been reported in close temporal association with both severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and following vaccination against SARS-CoV-2. Specifically, several cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) have been reported in temporal relationship with COVID-19 vaccination, with two small case series describing a specific phenotype with bifacial weakness and paresthesia in the limbs.
Methods: We retrospectively collected patients who developed a new-onset neuromuscular disorder in the first 6 weeks after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine (either first or second dose).
BMC Public Health
August 2021
Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Hasselt University, Martelarenlaan 42, 3500, Hasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium.
Background: Screening and treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in people who use drugs (PWUD) remains insufficient. Reducing the burden of HCV infection in PWUD requires interventions focusing on the different steps of the HCV care cascade.
Methods: We performed a prospective, multicenter study, evaluating the impact of an HCV care model on the HCV care cascade among PWUD attending an addiction care center in Belgium between 2015 and 2018.
Arch Pathol Lab Med
November 2021
Obstetrics & Gynecology, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden and Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden (Zaigham).
Context.—: SARS-CoV-2 can undergo maternal-fetal transmission, heightening interest in the placental pathology findings from this infection. Transplacental SARS-CoV-2 transmission is typically accompanied by chronic histiocytic intervillositis together with necrosis and positivity of syncytiotrophoblast for SARS-CoV-2.
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October 2021
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Transplantation, Laboratory of Abdominal Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Abdominal Transplant Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address:
Background: Organ transplantation is a life-saving intervention that improves quality of life of patients with irreversible organ failure. Although exercise training immediately after transplantation has been suggested to be beneficial, such interventions remain rare in stable transplant recipients, whereas effects of high-intensity training (HIT) are even less frequently investigated. Moreover, sustainability of such interventions has not yet been reported.
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May 2021
The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Antoine Béclère Hospital, APHP, Université Paris Saclay, Clamart, France (Vivanti).
Context.—: The number of neonates with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection is increasing, and in a few there are reports of intrauterine infection.
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Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis
December 2020
Department of Clinical Biology, Sint-Trudo Hospital, Diestersteenweg 100, 3800, Sint-Truiden, Belgium.
Viral infections are common complications of pregnancy, with a wide range of obstetric and neonatal sequelae. Currently, there are limited data on whether SARS-CoV-2 is vertically transmitted in pregnant women tested positive for the virus. Here we describe a case of a known SARS-CoV-2-positive woman giving preterm birth to two fetuses with SARS-CoV-2 positive testing in placental tissue and amniotic fluid.
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October 2019
Nephrology, Sint Trudo Hospital, Sint-Truiden, Belgium.
We present a case of tubulointerstitial nephritis and uveitis (TINU) with nodular anterior scleritis and large-vessel arteritis. A 67-year-old patient was admitted to the hospital with high fever, thoracic pain, and weakness. Bilateral anterior uveitis was seen at that time.
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December 2018
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Academic Centre for General Practice, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Objective: To develop an evidence-based recommendation concerning the use of α-blockers for uncomplicated ureteric stones based on an up-to-date Cochrane review, as the role of medical expulsive therapy for uncomplicated ureteric stones remains controversial in the light of new contradictory trial evidence.
Methods: We applied the Rapid Recommendations approach to guideline development, which represents an innovative approach by an international collaborative network of clinicians, researchers, methodologists and patient representatives seeking to rapidly respond to new, potentially practice-changing evidence with recommendations developed according to standards for trustworthy guidelines.
Results: The panel suggests the use of α-blockers in addition to standard care over standard care alone in patients with uncomplicated ureteric stones (weak recommendation based on low-quality evidence).
Acta Chir Belg
December 2013
Department of General and Abdominal Surgery, RZ Sint-Trudo Hospital, Sint-Truiden, Belgium.
Gastrointestinal tract duplications are uncommon congenital abnormalities, that may occur anywhere along the alimentary tract. Most frequently they occur at the level of the small bowel tract and are symptomatic before the age of two. In our case we report the history of a 68-years old women with a colon duplication, especially a rectal duplication.
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January 2006
Clinical Laboratory, Sint-Trudo Hospital, Diestersteenweg 100, 3800, Sint-Truiden, Belgium.
The majority of human Rhodococcus equi infections occur in immunocompromised hosts, especially those with AIDS, and infection in immunocompetent patients is rare. Reported here is a case of R. equi infection in a seemingly healthy patient with a very complicated course.
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