Clinical trials: sponsored by Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
- Lead sponsor (exact) Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
- Age group Children (under 18)
- Accepts healthy volunteers yes
General Anaesthesia During Pregnancy
Intelligence and Neurodevelopmental Disorders After Prenatal Exposure to General Anaesthesia
Every year in the European Union, thousands of babies are exposed to anaesthesia before they are born because their mothers need surgery during pregnancy.
- Trial name
- PAE-IQ (NCT06633406)
- Testing
- Age-appropriate Wechsler Intelligence Test, Disruptive Behavior Disorders Rating Scale, Social Responsiveness Scale
- Where
- 3 sites in Belgium
- Volunteers
- 192 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Cerebral Palsy (CP), Typically Developing Children
The Effect of Perturbation Training on Reactive Balance in Children With Cerebral Palsy
The aim of this project was to evaluate whether perturbation training influences reflex modulation in children with spastic CP and whether changed reflex modulation leads to improved reactive balance and walking.
- Trial name
- NCT07818928
- Testing
- Balance training on a moving platform
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 24 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Cerebral Palsy (CP), Typically Developing Children
Interaction Between Spasticity and the Initial Response After Balance Perturbations in Children With Spastic Cerebral Palsy
The aim of this study was to investigate the link between spasticity and the initial response after standing balance perturbations in children with spastic cerebral palsy.
- Trial name
- NCT07616193
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Spastic Cerebral Palsy
3D-Microscopic Muscle Architecture in Cerebral Palsy
The focus of this study is to understand and define the mechanisms of the altered muscle development and growth on a microscopic level within a long-term perspective in children with cerebral palsy and to relate these findings to…
- Trial name
- 3D-MMAP (NCT06584851)
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 130 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Spastic Cerebral Palsy (sCP)
Botulinum Neurotoxin for Children With CP: a Delicate Balance Between Clinical Benefits and Muscular Harm
A cross-sectional design study will be carried out to explore the morphological muscle properties and alterations in muscle composition on a macroscopic level in children with spastic cerebral palsy (CP).
- Trial name
- Bo-Balance (NCT06991725)
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 51 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Radicular Pain, Lumbar Surgery
Return to Work After Lumbar Surgery: a Nationwide Survey of Spinal Surgeons' Practices
This national cross-sectional survey investigates the current practices and perceptions of Belgian spinal surgeons regarding return to work (RTW) after lumbar surgery for radicular pain.
- Conditions
- Radicular Pain, Lumbar Surgery, Radicular Pain Related to Lumbosacral Disc Disease, Fusion of Spine, Lumbar Region
- Trial name
- NCT07193758
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 54 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Spastic Cerebral Palsy, Acquired Brain Injury
Evaluation of Macroscopic Muscle Growth in Infants and Young Children With Spastic Cerebral Palsy
A mixed longitudinal design study will be carried out to explore the onset and time course of morphological muscle changes on a macroscopic level in children with spastic cerebral palsy (SCP).
- Trial name
- 3D-MMAP (NCT05197764)
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 229 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
ADPKD, Pain
Somatosensory Phenotyping of ADPKD
Over 60% of patients with ADPKD suffer from pain, mostly in the abdomen, flank and back, often leading to the diagnosis. It is challenging to manage and cure the pain; approximately 39% of patients are not satisfied with their…
- Trial name
- NCT06970028
- Testing
- Quantitative Sensory Testing, Questionnaires regarding pain and quality of life
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Hearing Disorders in Children, Hearing Loss
Automated Measures of Speech Intelligibility Using Brain Wave Recordings
Hearing loss is one of the most prevalent impairments in the world. The World Health Organization estimates that as of 2020, around 466 million people worldwide are affected by disabling hearing loss, of which 34 million are…
- Trial name
- CORGEE (NCT06402994)
- Testing
- Electrophysiological experiment, Speech audiometry
- Where
- 4 sites in Belgium
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Pregnancy, Epidural Analgesia, Obstetric
Intelligence and Neurodevelopmental Outcome After Prenatal Exposure to Labour Epidural Analgesia: a Sibling Matched Clinical Ambidirectional Cohort Study
In Belgium, labour epidural analgesia (LEA) has been used for decades in the vast majority of vaginal deliveries (up to 83% of deliveries).
- Trial name
- NCT07014956
- Testing
- Labour epidural analgesia
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 128 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease)
Enhancing Endoscopic Scoring Consistency and Accuracy in IBD: a Video-based Training Approach
Endoscopic scoring systems are vital for the objective assessment of disease activity being used in both clinical trials and daily clinical practice.
- Trial name
- CONCORDIA (NCT06961942)
- Testing
- Training
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Femoroacetabular Impingement
Investigating the Reliability of Highly Dynamic 3D Motion Analysis Protocol in Adolescence and Adult Males
Femoroacetabular impingement is an orthopedic condition that is primarily characterized by the presence of anatomic bony abnormalities in the femoral head and/or the acetabulum resulting in an abnormal contact between the two…
- Trial name
- CAM-FAI relia (NCT04822571)
- Testing
- Reliability of 3D motion analysis protocol
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 8 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Tooth, Impacted
Effect of Interceptive Strategies on the Clinical Outcome of Maxillary Impacted Canines
This study aims to investigate the effect of 3 randomly applied interceptive measures (slow maxillary expansion, extraction of deciduous canines and no intervention) on maxillary canine impaction in patients with early mixed…
- Trial name
- NCT05629312
- Testing
- Maxillary expansion, Extraction of deciduous upper canines
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 84 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Tooth Impaction, Canine Teeth
Effect of Interceptive Strategies on the Clinical Outcome of Impacted Maxillary Permanent Canines
Canine impaction is a sign of abnormal dental development with potentially far-reaching consequences (such as significant root resorption and loss of lateral incisors.
- Trial name
- RCTcanines2 (NCT06374329)
- Testing
- Interceptive Slow Maxillary Expansion with removable plates
- Where
- 3 sites in Belgium, Czechia and 1 more
- Volunteers
- 75 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Status Epilepticus, Ictal-interictal Continuum
The Role of Imaging in the Diagnosis, Management and Prognosis of Possible Non-convulsive Status Epilepticus
The investigators propose a prospective study of 20 control subjects and 180 consecutive patients with possible non-convulsive status epilepticus (NCSE). The investigators will obtain three functional images of the brain: 1.
- Conditions
- Status Epilepticus, Ictal-interictal Continuum, Positron-emission Tomography, Perfusion Weighted MRI
- Trial name
- NCT06017973
- Testing
- MRI scan including arterial spin labelling of the brain, CT perfusion scan of the brain, FDG-PET scan of the brain
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Adnexal Mass, Adnexal Tumor
Masses in Young Patients - International Ovarian Tumour Analysis (MY-IOTA)
This multicenter observational study aims to validate the IOTA Simple Rules, Benign Descriptors, and ADNEX model in a cohort of patients equal or under the age of 20.
- Conditions
- Adnexal Mass, Adnexal Tumor, Adnexal Cyst, Adnexal Masses in Young Girls and Adolescents
- Trial name
- MY-IOTA (NCT06693596)
- Testing
- Group 2: Conservative management (follow-up), Group 1: Surgical management
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Deafness Unilateral
Cochlear Implantation for Young Single-sided Deaf Children
Children with profound sensorineural unilateral hearing loss (UHL) lag behind in spoken language, cognition, spatial hearing, and academic performance compared to normal hearing (NH) children.
- Trial name
- CICADE (NCT04738968)
- Testing
- Cochlear implant
- Where
- 4 sites in Belgium
- Volunteers
- 70 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Hypotonia-Cystinuria Syndrome, Muscle Hypotonia
PREPL in Health and Disease
Evaluation of PREPL activity in healthy controls and known or possible PREPL deficient patients
- Conditions
- Hypotonia-Cystinuria Syndrome, Muscle Hypotonia, Healthy Volunteers, Dwarfism, Growth Hormone Deficiency
- Trial name
- PHD (NCT02263781)
- Testing
- Blood draw, muscle biopsy
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 125 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Specific Polysaccharide Antibody Deficiency
Polysaccharide Antibody Response Study
Specific polysaccharide antibody deficiency (SPAD) is a primary immunodeficiency characterized by a deficient antibody production to capsular polysaccharides with normal total immunoglobulin levels.
- Trial name
- PARS (NCT02429531)
- Testing
- Pneumovax 23 (Sanofi Pasteur MSD), Typhim Vi (Sanofi Pasteur MSD)
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Psychiatric Neurosurgery (PNS) for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): A Qualitative Analysis of Patient and Family Member Experiences
In this study the investigators will use semi-structured interviews to qualitatively analyse patient and family member experiences with either deep brain stimulation or other forms of psychiatric neurosurgery.
- Trial name
- NCT02537795
- Testing
- deep brain stimulation, anterior capsulotomy
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven