Update on the management of acute severe pancreatitis.

abstract：:Despite the high prevalence of malnutrition among elderly patients, nutritional problems are still not recognized as a priority forthem by health professionals. The need for nutritional assessment and intervention is particularly crucial in this age group, in whom the incidence of chronic illness is high and a myriad ...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Pepersack T

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the cases of two patients suffering from ascites attributed for several years to a non pericarditic aetiology. The first patient presented with a diagnosis of right cardiac failure secondary to a right myocardial infarction. Cardiac catheterisation, magnetic resonance imaging and transoesophageal ec...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Heureux F,Frankart L,Marchandise B,Buche M,Martinet JP,Donckier J

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this pilot study was to evaluate long-term effects of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) on physical and psychosocial health as well as eating behavior of obese patients. METHODS:We compared 23 patients 7 years after RYGB to 23 body mass index (BMI), sex, and age matched obese control patients by me...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Vangoitsenhoven R,Frederiks P,Gijbels B,Lannoo M,Van der Borght W,Van den Eynde A,Mertens A,Mathieu C,Van der Schueren B

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of a 77-year old male who developed a fulminant erysipelas and sepsis, caused by Myroides odoratimimus. Selecting the optimal antibiotic therapy for the treatment of infections with M. odoratimimus is challenging due to limited clinical experience with this micro-organism and its reported multidrug-re...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Willems P,Muller J,Verhaegen J,Saegeman V,Desmet S

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hepatotoxicity of tetracyclines is well known. If microvesicular steatosis due to a high dose of tetracycline has virtually disappeared, it can also be observed with other drugs belonging to the tetracycline family. To our knowledge, hepatotoxicity induced by doxycycline has never been reported. In our patient, th...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Lienart F,Morissens M,Jacobs P,Ducobu J

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) has traditionally been measured in the supine position, however, measuring the pressure in lateral semi-recumbent position has not been studied. DESIGN:A single centre prospective 1-day study. PATIENTS:10 patients admitted for more then 24 hours who were mechanically ventilate...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： De Keulenaer BL,Cheatham ML,De Waele JJ,Kimball EJ,Powell B,Davis WA,Jenkins IR

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study compares two new factor VIII preparations currently used in the treatment of haemophilia. A Factor VIII was partially purified from plasma obtained from unpaid voluntary Belgian donors in the blood transfusion centers of Lille and Amsterdam and virus-inactivated by exposure to solvent-detergent (FVII...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Peerlinck K,Arnout J,Tamise M,Vanherle A,Fondu P,Vermylen J

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temocillin, a methoxy-derivative of the broad-spectrum penicillin, ticarcillin, has been introduced into clinical practice in Belgium in 1988. Since then, not many surveys of its in vitro activity have been published. This study addresses this issue in a prospective collection of 300 consecutive Gram-negative isolates...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Vanhoof R,Bérin C,Carpentier M,Fagnart O,Glupczynski Y,Mans I,Nyssen HJ,Surmont I,Van Nimmen L

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tramadol is a weak opioid with effects on adrenergic and serotonergic neurotransmission that is used to treat cancer pain and chronic non malignant pain. This drug was initiated in association with paroxetine and dosulepine hydrochloride in a tetraparetic patient with chronic pain. Fifty-six days after initiation of t...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Devulder J,De Laat M,Dumoulin K,Renson A,Rolly G

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term "microvesicular steatosis of the liver" refers to a variant form of hepatic fat accumulation whose histologic features contrast with the much more common macrovesicular steatosis. Microvesicular steatosis of the liver was originally described in association with conditions who share a number of biochemical an...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Hautekeete ML,Degott C,Benhamou JP

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drugs with potential cardiac toxicity are prominent in cancer treatment, not only the old chemotherapeutic agents, but also the newer targeted drugs and biologic agents. As the long-term survival of patients with malignancies has improved and cancer turned into a chronic disease, physicians must take into account the ...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Combes M,Rottey S,De Backer T

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The use of hypnosedatives (HSs) in the hospital and at home before admission was registered. Also, the incidence of HSs newly started in the hospital and the incidence of withdrawal in chronic users while in hospital was recorded. METHODS:The study population consisted of 517 consecutively admitted patients ...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Warie H,Petrovic M,Somers A,Mariman A,Robays H,Pevernagie D

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae is a rare cause of endocarditis. Most cases were observed in people working with animals. We report a case in a 45-year old man without any exposure to animals. He was admitted to our hospital because of dyspnoea. Blood cultures were drawn following fever on day 8 of hospitalisation. Erysi...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Spiritus T,Surmont I

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Turner syndrome (TS) is characterized by dysmorphism and body disproportion. TS women are also susceptible to a range of chronic disorders including arterial hypertension (AHT), osteoporosis, sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) and thyroid disease. The association between dysmor...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Van De Kelft AS,Lievens C,De Groote K,Demulier L,De Backer J,T'Sjoen G,Craen M,Callewaert B,De Schepper J

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors analyse the bacteriological data gathered by 100 successive tracheal Punctures and compare these results to those obtained by sputum cultures, which had either been collected by routine or when withdrawing the catheter for tracheal aspiration. This plain and not hazardous technique allows to draw the follo...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Schoutens E,Koster JP,Arouete A,Tombroff M,Yourassowsky E

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary schistosomiasis, caused by Schistosoma haematobium, is a prevalent parasitic infection in certain areas of Africa and the Middle East. Humans can be infected by cercariae when they are in contact with contaminated freshwater. The adult worms reside in the veins of the vesical and pelvis plexuses. The urinary b...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Oyaert M,Lagrange W,Smet G,De Feyter K,Laffut W

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study aims to evaluate the clinical outcome of fibrinolytic treatment of prosthetic valve thrombosis (PVT) with 'streptokinase' as a first line treatment for these cases. METHODS:The study group was 20 consecutive patients (10 females) diagnosed with PVT. The protocol for streptokinase administration w...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Sakr SA,Abdel-Shakour H,Ramadan MM

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to investigate, through a patient chart analysis, the average and the variation in the medical resource use in pulmonary embolism (PE) patients in Belgium, and to find explanatory variables for the possible variation. A sample of patients with confirmed PE (n = 54) from 5 centres was se...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Annemans L,Robays H,Bruart J,Verstraeten P

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), along with other forms of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, is an increasingly common clinico-pathological syndrome. It is frequently associated with obesity, especially visceral fat, and type 2 diabetes, and is intimately related to markers of the insulin resistance syndrome. Both...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Scheen AJ,Luyckx FH

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background/aim: To determine insulin sensitivity before chemotherapy and during febrile neutropenia in patients with acute leukemia and to assess its effect on the number of documented infections, the severity of infection and the outcome of the first hospitalization. To compare insulin sensitivity in the study group ...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Perčić I,Urošević I,Stokić E,Tomić Naglić D,Milošević I

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past 2 decades, IgE-mediated NRL allergy has become a well-defined condition with recognised risk groups, established diagnostic tools, and adequate prevention strategies (1-3). Furthermore, molecular biology and biochemical techniques have significantly improved our knowledge of the proteins responsible to cau...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Ebo DG,Stevens WJ

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Automated insulin calculators (AICs) with carbohydrate counting (CHC) have been shown to be effective in improving glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) levels. By contrast, use of AICs without CHC, with predetermined prandial insulin doses modified according to a correction factor and modulated as a function of glyc...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Oriot P,Ponchon M,Hermans MP

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Up to a little while ago there was no uniform definition for acute kidney injury (AKI). Recently, the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative proposed the RIFLE consensus classification for AKI. This classification was adapted and modified by the Acute Kidney Injury Network into the AKI staging system. This classification d...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Hoste EA,De Corte W

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the technique of immunofluorescence on clinical samples (IFCS) and immunofluorescence on centrifuged cell cultures (IFCC) for the detection of respiratory viruses, using monoclonal antibodies. Four hundred fourty five nasopharyngeal aspirates were tested prospectively for RSV, influenza- (A and B), parainf...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Pattyn SR,Provinciael D,Lambrechts R,Ceuppens P

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Case report We report the case of a young Cameroonian woman who presented with cough, hyperthermia, weight loss, pancytopenia, and hepatosplenomegaly. A positive HIV serology was discovered and a chest radiography revealed a 'miliary pattern'. Bone marrow aspiration pointed out yeast inclusions within macrophages. Giv...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Evrard S,Caprasse P,Gavage P,Vasbien M,Radermacher J,Hayette MP,Sacheli R,Van Esbroeck M,Cnops L,Firre E,Médart L,Moerman F,Minon JM

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VTE presents a significant clinical and economic burden on healthcare. Previous strategies (chemical and mechanical) were not full-proof when used in isolation. The advent of more recent treatments such as factor Xa inhibitors and direct thrombin inhibitors may help to provide more conclusive preventative management o...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Balaratnam S

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'Lung cancer associated with cystic airspaces' is a rare radiological entity that is more frequently encountered on imaging studies and is gaining more attention since the widespread use of CT for lung cancer screening. Numerous aspects of this entity remain unraveled, including molecular profiling. The goal of this o...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Snoeckx A,Reyntiens P,Pauwels P,Van Schil PE,Parizel PM,Van Meerbeeck JP

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic nodules are frequently found incidentally and often pose a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge when surgery is considered. We present the case of a 66-year-old cirrhotic patient with a pancreatic nodule with signal intensity and contrast enhancement pattern suggestive for a non-functional neuroendocrine le...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Vandekerckhove E,Ameloot E,Hoorens A,De Man K,Berrevoet F,Geboes K

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Reversible lesions of the splenium of the corpus callosum constitute a clinicoradiological syndrome that has been associated to various medical conditions. We report the case of a 47-year-old man who presented with encephalopathy associated to auto-immune thyroid disease in which a reversible splenial lesion was isola...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： De Greef J,Jaumotte C,Quivron B,Derue G

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A decreasing incidence of tuberculosis (TB) among HIV patients has been documented in high-income settings and screening for tuberculosis is not systematically performed in many clinics (such as ours). Our objectives are to evaluate whether a same decline of incidence was seen in our Belgian tertiary center ...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Maniewski U,Payen MC,Delforge M,De Wit S

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00