Clinical trials: sponsored by Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Preoperative Anxiety Score
Virtual Reality to Reduce Anxiety During Thoracic Epidural Placement.
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether using a Virtual Reality (VR) headset can help young people relax during the placement of an epidural catheter for pain control after pectus surgery.
- Trial name
- NCT07911436
- Testing
- VR- headset
- Volunteers
- 78 people
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Cerebral Visual Impairment
joyVision: The Superiority of Co-design in the Development of a Serious Game for Children With Cerebral Visual Impairment
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the superiority of the through codesign redesigned game joyVision over the iVision game for children with a cognitive age between 3 and 12 with CVI.
- Trial name
- NCT07893379
- Testing
- serious game
- Volunteers
- 34 people
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
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
Musculoskeletal Infection, Chronic Rhinosinusitis (Diagnosis)
Establishing Personalized Phage Therapy and Its Comparative Cost in Difficult-to-treat Infections (EPHICACI)
EPHICACI is a multicenter, prospective study that continues and expands the monocentric PHAGEFORCE registry initiated at UZ Leuven.
- Conditions
- Musculoskeletal Infection, Chronic Rhinosinusitis (Diagnosis), Persistent Bacteremia, Pulmonary Infection
- Trial name
- EPHICACI (NCT06368388)
- Testing
- Prospective data collection phage therapy, Prospective data collection standard-of-care
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
NSCLC (Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer), Adaptive Radiotherapy
Efficiency of Contemporary Off-line Adaptive Radiotherapy for Lung Cancer
Locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (LA-NSCLC) patients could benefit in overall and progression-free survival from regular dosimetric treatment plan adaptations during radiotherapy.
- Trial name
- ECLAIR (NCT07259447)
- Testing
- CBCT-based adaptive radiotherapy
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- 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
Peritoneal Carcinomatosis, Pseudomyxoma Peritonei
Register With Patients in Which Hyperthermic Intra-Peritoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) Was Performed
The purpose of this study is to register the follow-up data of patients who, because of a peritoneal surface malignancy, will undergo cytoreductive surgery and HIPEC.
- Conditions
- Peritoneal Carcinomatosis, Pseudomyxoma Peritonei, Peritoneal Mesothelioma
- Trial name
- HIPEC (NCT01617382)
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 125 people
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Targeted Muscle Activation During Strength Training for Children With CP
Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common cause of physical disability in children and is associated with muscle weakness, spasticity, and impaired motor control.
- Trial name
- TACT-CP (NCT07800221)
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Spina Bifida, Neuromuscular Diseases
Metformin in Children With Motor Deficit
Obesity with insulin resistance in the paediatric population provides an increasing challenge. Children with neurological or neuromuscular diseases are even more prone to obesity: their locomotor impairment leads to an…
- Trial name
- NCT00720161
- Testing
- Metformin
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 42 people
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Poor Glycemic Control, Quality of Life
Benefits of a Bolus Calculator in Pediatric Patients on Multiple Daily Insulin Injections
It it hypothesized that children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes, who are counting carbohydrates can achieve better metabolic control by concurrent use of the Accu-Chek Aviva Expert.
- Trial name
- NCT06141629
- Testing
- accu chek Aviva Expert, Accu Chek Aviva Nano
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Visual Impairment, Cerebral Visual Impairment
Body Image, Identity Development, and Social Media Use Among Youth With Visual Impairment: A Single Case Intervention Study
1. Introduction This 3-week single case intervention study is funded by the Horizon Europe Research Program and is part of the VIPPSTAR project (Project 101156763 - VIPPSTAR "Visually Impaired children and adolescents: bridging…
- Conditions
- Visual Impairment, Cerebral Visual Impairment, Visual Impairments
- Trial name
- VIPPSTAR_G3KUL (NCT07741500)
- Testing
- Body image intervention
- Where
- 2 sites in Belgium
- Volunteers
- 15 people
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Pediatric Cancer
Securing Access to Innovative Molecules in Oncology and Hematology for Children, Adolescents and Young Adults
It involves collecting safety and efficacy data, under the actual conditions of use of off label and compassionate use medicines in children and adolescents approved in humans before 2007, using a validated tool (Ennov EDC) and…
- Trial name
- (SACHA) (NCT07727694)
- Testing
- data collection
- Where
- 6 sites in Belgium
- Volunteers
- 1,600 people
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Hip Arthropathy Associated With Other Conditions
Long-term Aseptic Revision & Advanced Hip Arthroplasty Database
Total hip arthroplasty (THA) volumes continue to rise each year as the population ages and indications broaden. Increasingly, younger patients require hip replacement for conditions beyond primary osteoarthritis or fractures.
- Trial name
- LARA (NCT07481448)
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 200 people
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Mpox
Validation of SDS-EDTA-Treated Chromatography Paper Strips for Mpox Sampling and Transport in DRC
The objective of this prospective paired diagnostic comparison study is to evaluate the diagnostic yield and field applicability of SDS-EDTA-treated chromatography paper strips for the collection, transport, and laboratory…
- Trial name
- NCT07634081
- Testing
- SDS-EDTA-treated chromatography strip
- Where
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Volunteers
- 150 people
- 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
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
The Impact of Hybrid Closed-loop Insulin Delivery in Type 1 Diabetes on Glycemic Control and PROMs
Since February 2019 the first hybrid closed-loop insulin pump, the Medtronic MiniMed 670G system, has been offered to people with type 1 diabetes in Belgium.
- Trial name
- INRANGE (NCT04414280)
- Testing
- Medtronic MiniMed 670G, Medtronic MiniMed 780G, Tandem Control-IQ
- Where
- 38 sites in Belgium
- Volunteers
- 1,600 people
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Spastic Cerebral Palsy
Homebased (6-week) Stretching Intervention in Children With Spastic Cerebral Palsy
This study will investigate the effect of a 6-week stretching intervention, consisting of a combination of a 2-week casting period and a home-based stretching program of the plantar flexors and hamstrings, on muscle and tendon…
- Trial name
- NCT04904094
- Testing
- Casting of the lower limb and homebased stretching exercise program.
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Food Allergy, Cow Milk Allergy
Stepwise Heat-Denaturated Protein Introduction for Tolerance Induction in Food Allergy
This interventional study aims to validate an early heated protein introduction protocol in cow's milk allergic children who already developed tolerance towards extensively heated cow's milk, in order to speed up the development…
- Trial name
- TEHITI (NCT06380673)
- Testing
- Implementation of cow's milk in decreasingly heated forms, Implementation of heated cow's milk, No intervention
- Where
- 5 sites in Belgium
- Volunteers
- 90 people
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Eosinophilic Esophagitis
Pediatric Eosinophilic Esophagitis (pedEoE): Effect of Allergen Heat Denaturation on EoE Remission: a Pilot Trial
The objective of the study is to study whether the introduction of heated food products (more specifically heated hen's egg and/or cow's milk) in children with EoE would be possible without re-occurrence of the eosinophilic…
- Trial name
- NCT06381219
- Testing
- Implementation of cow's milk in decreasingly heated forms, Implementation of hen's egg in decreasingly heated forms
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 36 people
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Spastic Cerebral Palsy
Feasibility Nutritional Supplements for Muscle Growth in CP
The purpose of this study is to investigate the feasibility of a 10-week plan with a nutritional supplement (leucine) and to perform pilot analyses on the effect of leucine on macroscopic muscle morphology in children with…
- Trial name
- Nut-CP (NCT06044168)
- Testing
- Dietary Supplement: Leucine
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 5 people
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven