Highly sensitive assays are mandatory for the differential diagnosis of patients presenting with symptoms of mast cell activation: diagnostic work-up of 38 patients.

abstract：:We present the updated Belgian guidelines for the use of non-occupational HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (NONOPEP). This document is inspired by UK guidelines 2015, adapted to the Belgian situation and approved by all AIDS reference centers in Belgium. When recommended, NONOPEP should be initiated as soon as possible, ...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Libois A,Florence E,Derdelinckx I,Yombi JC,Henrard S,Uurlings F,Vandecasteele S,Allard SD,Demeester R,Van Wanzeele F,Ausselet N,De Wit S

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) can detect geriatric problems and potentially improve survival, physical, and cognitive state of patients, as well as increase an older person's chances of staying at home longer. In older people, the number and severity of comorbidity increase with age and are an...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Denewet N,De Breucker S,Luce S,Kennes B,Higuet S,Pepersack T

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 32-year-old patient with Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) associated with a (biopsy - proven) renal inflammatory pseudotumour (IPT) of the left kidney treated by a partial nephrectomy, glucocorticoids and immunosuppressive drugs, in whom a relapse of renal IPT was found 6 years after the diagnosis...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Vandergheynst F,Dumarey N,Cogan E

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：:The kidneys play a major role in the regulation of the salt balance and thereby regulate blood pressure. Salt sensitivity is acquired or genetically-induced and is noted in about 50% of patients with essential hypertension. This property leads to a high cardiovascular risk. In this situation, the benefit of salt restr...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Krzesinski JM,Cohen EP

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：: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：:We report a case of aneurysm of the abdominal aorta with spontaneous rupture in a 64-year-old man with emphysema and chronic alcoholism. Campylobacter fetus subspecies fetus was repeatedly recovered from the blood and from specimens of the excised aneurysm. The patient died in spite of early diagnosis, intravenous ery...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Jacobs J,Van Lierde J,Nevelsteen A,Vermylen J,Verbist L

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the case of a 51-year-old woman who presented a right supraclavicular mass corresponding to lymphadenitis with atypical mycobacterium (Mycobacterium genavense). Later, she developed subcutaneous purulent small nodules containing the same germ. The presence of this mycobacterium was in the context of recurre...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Numbi N,Demeure F,Van Bleyenbergh P,De Visscher N

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background Trichinellosis is a parasitic infection caused by nematodes of the genus Trichinella, and its principal mode of transmission is the consumption of raw or undercooked contaminated meat. Cardiac involvement in trichinellosis is unusual, yet it represents the most frequent cause of death. Here, we report a cas...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Mohib O,Clevenbergh P,Truyens C,Morissens M,Castro Rodriguez J

更新日期：2020-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A multidisciplinary pulmonary rehabilitation program has become an important part of the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It can improve both exercise tolerance and health related quality of life in these patients. Exercise training has to be included for the program to be successful. The intensity ...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： De Backer LA,Ides K,Daems D,Dieriks B,De Backer WA,Germonpre P

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 69-year-old man with slight dyspnoea underwent routine X-ray examination by his primary care physician. The X-ray and the CT showed a homogenous mass at the right side of the anterior mediastinum. The benignity and the origin of the tissue were still unknown. Therefore, we performed a CT-guided fine needle aspiratio...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Michels G,Drebber U,Pfister R

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central venous catheters are widely used in clinical practice. Air embolism is a rare, but potentially life threatening complication of central venous catheterisation. We describe a case of collapse and transient hemiplegia after removal of central venous catheter. This was accidentally performed with the patient in u...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Van Ierssel S,Specenier P,Baar I,De Belder F,Jorens PG,Vermorken JB

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a need for legal control of sensitivity discs. False results are obtained by the use of discs containing an antibiotic and an unlabelled antimicrobial drug. Results of sensitivity tests (performed by the disc agar diffusion method) using Levocyclin8 discs furnished by the manufacturers were highly improbable....

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Yourassowsky E,Dony J,De Roeck A,De Keere V,Schoutens E,Vanderlinden MP,Palsterman V

更新日期：1976-01-01 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：:In order to demonstrate an intake of cannabis, there are a number of rapid tests, all of them being focused on urine. In this study, we evaluated the results of six tests when applied to sweat (DrugWipe), saliva and urine (Syva Rapidtest, Biomedix, Frontline, DrugWipe, Cortez Dako). Fifty regular users of cannabis and...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Mura P,Kintz P,Papet Y,Ruesch G,Piriou A

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:The management of refractory systemic rheumatic diseases remains a challenging issue. New immunosuppressive drugs have been developed which might improve long-term outcome, with a reasonably toxicity profile. Moreover, better understanding of the mechanisms underlying some of the systemic rheumatic disease has raised ...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Houssiau FA

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There has been an exponentially increasing interest in intraabdominal hypertension (IAH) and the abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) over the last decade, and different definitions have been suggested. Nevertheless, there has been an impetus from experts in the field to modify these definitions to reflect ou...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Malbrain ML,De Laet I,Cheatham M

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Saccharomyces boulardii is widely used as a probiotic compound and is generally thought to be safe. We report one case of fungemia caused by Saccharomyces cerevisiae occurring in an elderly patient treated orally with S. boulardii in association with vancomycin for Clostridium difficile colitis. We do not recommend ad...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Cherifi S,Robberecht J,Miendje Y

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoprotein(a) has many similarities to low density lipoproteins but possesses a unique protein moiety called apolipoprotein(a). The plasma concentration of lipoprotein(a) is mainly under genetic control and most of diets and hypolipidemic drugs do not change its level. Only nicotinic acid and neomycin are able to red...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Heller FR,Parfonry A,Hondekijn JC

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:We describe the case of a 39-year-old Caucasian woman who was admitted to the University Hospital of Antwerp with a clinical picture suggestive of adult Still's disease. Even though a transoesophageal echocardiography showed endocarditis of the aortic valve, blood cultures remained negative. Additional serological tes...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： De Clerck KF,Van Offel JF,Vlieghe E,Van Marck E,Stevens WJ

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a skin Mycobacterium marinum infection presenting as wide ulcerative lesions of the arm (4 cm for the widest) in a hypoxic COPD patient who takes 4 mg methylprednisolone daily and higher doses during exacerbations. Diagnostic delay as well as glucocorticoid use could be responsible for the extension of the l...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Buttafuoco F,Peché R,Vander Elst B,Van Meerhaeghe A

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：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：:We present a case of cutaneous mucormycosis in a patient with several important risk factors precipitating disease, namely underlying acute myeloid leukaemia and poorly controlled secondary diabetes. Inoculation was most likely caused by repeated minor trauma (insulin injection) at the site of infection. Treatment con...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Delie A,Vlummens P,Creytens D,Steel E

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last decade an increase has been seen in drug smuggling. Body-packing and body-stuffing are the terms used for intracorporeal concealment of illicit drugs (mainly cocaine and heroine, but sometimes also amphetamines and cannabinoids). These body-packets are especially prone to rupture. In order to avoid systemic c...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Malbrain ML,Neels H,Vissers K,Demedts P,Verbraeken H,Daelemans R,Wauters A

更新日期：1994-01-01 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