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The gastric balloons are expected to remain in the stomach for approximately four weeks, after which they burst and are fecally excreted. It is further hypothesised that intragastric balloons can provide a surrogate stomach fill, inducing an…
- Smokers are implicitly biased with regard to the pros/cons of smoking (more attention and/or approach tendencies with regard to the pros) - These biases can be retrained using implicit pictorial trainings based on the Visual Probe Task and the…
We hypothesize that group medical appointments will enhance adherence to treatment and self-efficacy in patients with sickle cell disease, as well as increase quality of life, and satisfaction with the treating physician and nurse. When performing…
Kidney transplantation is the only treatment offering long-term benefit to patients with chronic kidney failure. Urological complications after kidney transplantation, such as urinary leakage and ureteral strictures, are associated with significant…
Patient education on extended anticoagulation pros and cons: a journey app in venous thromboembolism
Our hypothesis is that patients whom receive targeted information about VTE and (extended) anticoagulation treatment with the 'patient journey app' on a daily basis in the week preceding their hospital visit will be more satisfied with the…
Postoperative change in deltoid volume following reverse shoulder arthroplasty is related to functional outcome
Gut-homing lymphocytes play a role in the development and maintainence of perianal fistula in Crohn's disease patients.
Casein ingested within a normal milk matrix results in a more rapid digestion and amino acid absorption, resulting in greater amino acid availability and post-prandial muscle protein accretion as compared to the ingestion of isolated casein (…
The addition of fluorescence imaging to the standard radio-guided procedure improves intraoperative sentinel node detection.
We hypothesize this difference is due to differences in the mechanisms by which the individuals can withstand and/or adapt to the stress conditions applied in the clinical model and that these mechanisms are of key importance in our ability to…
Crohn’s disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disorder (IBD) with a major impact on quality of life. Mucosal healing is an important treatment outcome to prevent long term complications of the disease. Regulatory M2 type macrophages play a…
By giving high dose, radical, radiotherapy to patients with recurrent lung cancer, the overall survival can be prolonged and local control rate can be increased which can be done with acceptable toxicity for the irradiated normal tissues.
Our primary outcome is to change knowledge, attitude and managing skills of prison staff. We hypothesis that the elearning module will contribute to improve knowledge, attitude and skills
Targeting a higher SpO2 (95% lower limit) in children with moderate-severe BPD from 36 weeks PMA and onwards, will possibly lead to superior growth of normal lung tissue (assessed indirectly by body weight) at 6 months corrected age, compared to a…
Rehabilitation on skates after ACL reconstruction is non inferior to current common practice.
Our primary objective is to compare the short and medium term (up to 6 months) clinical results in pain and function of the Bauerfeind SecuTec OA brace with only conservative treatment (no brace) in the management of patients with medial knee OA and…
The main objective is to determine the change in CS parameters upon administration of tapentadol in comparison to pregabalin in patients suffering from chronic pain that has a visceral or deep somatic origin.
A proportion of patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis with minimal disease activity can remain in a state of minimal disease activity with a lower dose of etanercept than the standard dose or even without etanercept.
Current standard treatments for symptomatic benign thyroid nodules (SBTN) are surgery or radioactive iodine. However, these interventions pose a risk to an otherwise healthy person. Therefore, minimally invasive alternatives have been explored.…