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Transition of Mental Health Care for Transgender Youth Aged Between 16 and 24 Years Old.

Psychiatr Danub

October 2023

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Faculty of Medicine, Child, Adolescent and Young Adult, Psychiatry Department, University Hospital of Brussel (HUB), Avenue Jean Joseph Crocq 15, 1020 Bruxelles, Belgium,

Background: The transitional age (16-24 years old) is a clinically vulnerable period particularly important in mental health care. While several studies focus on this problem, few consider the specificity of the transgender population, a minority at risk of mental health issues. The purpose of this paper is to establish a review of the current literature addressing the transitional age and the transgender population in order to identify the issues met by this specific population in the transition of mental health care.

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Introduction: The success of keratoplasty strongly depends on the health status of the transplanted endothelial cells. Donor corneal tissues are routinely screened for endothelial damage before shipment; however, surgical teams have currently no means of assessing the overall viability of corneal endothelium immediately prior to transplantation. The aim of this study is to validate a preoperative method of evaluating the endothelial health of donor corneal tissues, to assess the proportion of tissues deemed suitable for transplantation by the surgeons and to prospectively record the clinical outcomes of a cohort of patients undergoing keratoplasty in relation to preoperatively defined endothelial viability.

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Background: Brugada syndrome (BrS) is somewhat a challenging diagnosis, due to its dynamic pattern. One of the aspects of this disease is a significant conduction disorder located in the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT), which can be explained as a consequence of low expression of Connexin-43. This decreased conduction speed is responsible for the typical electrocardiographic pattern.

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Growth hormone treatment and fat redistribution in children born small for gestational age.

J Pediatr

March 2008

Belgian Study Group for Pediatric Endocrinology and the Departments of Pediatrics, University Hospital of Brussel, Mont Godinne, Gent, Louvain, Leuven, Belgium.

Objective: To determine whether in children born small for gestational age (SGA) high-dose growth hormone (GH) treatment is not only associated with catch-up of growth and with gain of lean mass, but also with a more central fat distribution.

Study Design: Short children who were SGA (n = 25; age [mean +/- SD], 5.3 +/- 1.

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