Prevention of hepatitis B infections: vaccination and its limitations.

abstract：:The immune system may be considered as a sensory organ able to respond to different kinds of danger signals that are not detected by nervous cells. The immune response is not autonomous but also regulated by the central and peripheral nervous system, as well as by neuropeptides, vitamin D and neuroendocrine axes such ...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Geenen V

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The arrival of new cephalosporins faces the clinician with an evergrowing confusion as to the drug of choice. The older agents (cephalexin, cephradine, cefadroxil and cefaclor) and the newer formulations cefatrizine and cefuroxime axetil are intensively used for treatment of mild and moderate infections. The oldest ag...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Verhaegen J,Verbist L

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a rare form of systemic vasculitis, characterized by necrotizing inflammation of medium-sized vessels. In clinical practice, the distinction is made between a limited, mostly cutaneous, form and a generalized form. The Chapel Hill Consensus Conference of 2012 on the classificati...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Kint N,De Haes P,Blockmans D

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-dimers (DD), specific degradation products of crosslinked fibrin, are markers for activation of plasma coagulation and/or fibrinolysis. DD results below the cut-off level are proven to be useful to rule out the probable diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and/or pulmonary embolism (PE). Our objective was to de...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Ver Elst K,Jochmans K,De Pauw A,De Waele M

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE:Sarcoidosis is a multisystem inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology. It is characterized by the presence of noncaseating granulomas and an inflammatory process in which T lymphocytes, especially type-1 helper T (Th1) cells, macrophages and different cytokines are involved. Different studies ...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Esendagli D,Koksal D,Emri S

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a 34-year-old woman, who was recently diagnosed with Von Hippel-Lindau disease (VHL), genetically confirmed. At this moment, she presented with an acute history of arterial hypertension, headache, cortical blindness and epilepsy. On the basis of clinical and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) criteria the d...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Vanacker P,Vanacker A,Leys A,Thijs V

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thorax scan was performed for elucidation of a pulmonary problem in a Nigerian immigrant. The aspect of the vertebrae suggested sickle cell disease, of course without specification of the genotype. Routine hematological tests seemed compatible with an HbSC disease, showing typical laboratory features, namely a signifi...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Thoma J,Kutter D,Casel S,Rosoux P,Braas C,Ries F,Groff P,Kalmes G,Golinska B

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors reported a 56-year-old man with progressive pain over left bottom of oral cavity involving tongue for 3 days. He had a puncture history of tongue by fishbone, which was immediately removed 3 weeks ago. The subsequent contrast-enhanced computed tomography scan of neck disclosed an abscess formation with a f...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Chen PL,Chiang CW,Shiao CC

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various treatments for essential hyperhidrosis are available. The aim of this study is to present our experience with a simplified thoracoscopic sympathicolysis technique in this disorder, and to confront our results with data in the literature, 35 consecutive patients (11 male, 24 female, age 12-44 years) with essent...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Noppen M,Vincken W,Dhaese J,Herregodts P,D'haens J

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：:The last two decades have witnessed that flow-assisted analysis of in vitro-activated basophils can constitute a valuable adjunct in the in vitro diagnostic approach of immediate drug hypersensitivity reactions (IDHR). This article summarises the current experience with the basophil activation test in the diagnosis of...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Mangodt EA,Van Gasse AL,Bastiaensen A,Decuyper II,Uyttebroek A,Faber M,Sabato V,Bridts CH,Hagendorens MM,De Clerck LS,Ebo DG

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：:We performed a systematic survey of original papers published in The Lancet throughout the years 1945, 1946, 1970 and 1995. The Lancet was chosen due to a conservative layout through these years, and the year 1946 added to the analysis to ponder for any war-induced bias. The general layout and structure of the journal...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Selvais P,Hermans M

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Since the second World Congress on the Abdominal Compartment Syndrome (WCACS) in Noosa 2 years ago, interest and publications on intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) and ACS have increased exponentially. This paper aimed to critically review recent publications and put this new data into the context of alrea...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Wauters J,Wilmer A

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) were each separately described in association with a variety of chronic idiopathic inflammatory diseases such as retroperitoneal fibrosis, Sicca complex or Riedel's thyroiditis. We report a case which may be the first description of the assoc...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Jonard P,Geubel A,Wallon J,Rahier J,Dive C,Meunier H

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIM:There are controversial results regarding the relationship of serum 25 hydroxy vitamin D [25(OH)D] and ulcerative colitis (UC) activity. To address this issue, the current study was designed to evaluate the correlation of serum 25(OH)D level and disease activity in patients with UC. METHOD:All consecuti...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Dolatshahi S,Pishgar E,Jamali R

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the findings in 21 Belgian patients (12 males and 9 females, median age 61 years) with LGLPD. Symptoms at presentation included infection (n = 9), weight loss (n = 5), asthenia (n = 9), pruritus (n = 2) and arthralgia (n = 7). Four patients were asymptomatic. The main clinical findings were hepatomegaly (n =...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Pierre PG,Bosly A,De Bock R,Debusscher L,Ferrant A,Feremans W,Lacor P,Michaux JL,Van Camp B,Van Hoof A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis is characterized by disturbances in liver perfusion and alterations in intrahepatic cellular functions and interactions. This provokes structural and functional liver damage as well as hepatocellular activation that is believed to perpetuate the immuno-inflammatory response. Changes in hepatic perfusion during ...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Smets D,Spapen H,Diltoer M,Nguyen DN,Hubloue I,Huyghens L

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Institute for Insurance of Disease and Disablement (RIZIV/INAMI) in Belgium reimburses the costs of long term oxygen therapy (LTOT) by concentrators since 1984 and by liquid oxygen since 1988 for specific categories of patients supervised by approved medical centers. Since then we prescribed these therapi...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Buyse B,Demedts M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to characterize the clinical picture of macroprolactinemic patients and to further assess whether macroprolactinemia was part of an auto-immune syndrome. Eighty-two hyperprolactinemic (serum PRL > 1000 mU/l) patients were investigated and the PEG precipitation test identified 14 patients ...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Theunissen C,De Schepper J,Schiettecatte J,Verdood P,Hooghe-Peeters EL,Velkeniers B

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background Evidence of diagnostic accuracy for proposed definitions of nocturnal polyuria is currently unclear. Purpose Systematic review to determine population-based evidence of the diagnostic accuracy of proposed definitions of nocturnal polyuria based on data from frequency-volume charts. Methods Seventeen pre-spe...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Olesen TK,Denys MA,Vande Walle J,Everaert K

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Papillary thyroid cancer is the most common form of thyroid malignancy in children and adult with frequent metastases to the cervical lymph nodes. We present a case of metastatic papillary thyroid cancer with remarkable imaging findings of consecutive metastatic calcified lymph nodes resembling a chain of rings. While...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Juan YH,Hsuan HF,Ng KK,Ng SH,Yu CW,Liu H,Lin YC

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：:The kidney could be the cause of essential hypertension which can also cause renal disease. High blood pressure is also very common in chronic kidney disease, and is moreover a well-known risk factor for a faster progression of kidney failure. Hypertension and kidneys are thus closely linked. Hypertension must be aggr...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Krzesinski JM,Cohen EP

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report about 2 cases of isolated mediastinal tuberculous lymphadenitis presenting without parenchymal infiltrates. Although rare, this mode of presentation reminds the clinician that tuberculosis has to be included in the differential diagnosis of mediastinal masses even in the absence of parenchymal lesion. Both c...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Hainaut P,Monthe A,Lesage V,Weynand B

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A tired 32-year-old woman complaining of tiredness was referred for work-up of a possible immune deficiency. She had a history of recurrent infections since birth, which usually responded to antibiotics within a few days. Her mother, a nurse, had reported that early charts had disappeared. Munchausen's by proxy was su...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Farber CM,Wanders JA,Goffard JC,Parma J

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrent abdominal pain may be enigmatic to solve. We report three cases, presenting after a protracted history of severe recurrent bouts of epigastric pain, impeding daily activities. In all cases, serology for strongyloidiasis stercoralis proved positive. In one case, stool examination was positive for larvae. Trea...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Isen C,Ivens C,Callens SF,Meeuwissen J,Vonck A,Koch A,Vogelaers D

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:pp65 antigenaemia and real-time PCR are two methods that are used to diagnose CMV infection in its early stages and, thereby, to facilitate initiation of pre-emptive therapy. OBJECTIVES:Firstly, to compare PCR with antigenaemia and clinical outcome in order to define a clinical threshold for starting pre-em...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Mullier F,Kabamba-Mukadi B,Bodéus M,Goubau P

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mastocytosis is a heterogeneous disease caused by excessive mast cell (MC) proliferation. Diagnosis of systemic mastocytosis (SM) is based on the presence of major and minor criteria defined by the World Health Organization. Symptoms of MC activation can also occur in patients without SM or without allergic or inflamm...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Van den Poel B,Kochuyt AM,Del Biondo E,Dewaele B,Lierman E,Tousseyn T,de Hertogh G,Vandenberghe P,Boeckx N

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00