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Early detection of ALS and frontotemporal dementia

3 June 2020
A PET-MR brain scan can detect early changes in people with an increased risk of developing ALS or frontotemporal dementia as a result of a genetic error, as discovered by VIB, KU Leuven and UZ Leuven researchers.

Researchers discover important changes in pulmonary veins caused by COVID-19

3 June 2020
A new trial has shown that COVID-19 causes important changes in the blood veins of the lungs. The deviations in the lungs show that the virus is a lot more harmful than regular influenza.

40 per cent of the worldwide population suffers from chronic gastrointestinal problems

27 May 2020
An international research group has just released the results of a trial about the worldwide prevalence and impact of 22 functional gastrointestinal disorders. The trial was performed in 33 countries over 6 continents and offers more perspective on the diagnosis and treatment of these disorders.

Smartwatches detect deviating sleeping pattern during bed-wetting

26 May 2020
With the help of smartwatches, a recent UZ Leuven/KU Leuven study has revealed that children that wet the bed sleep less efficiently and have more variation in certain sleeping patterns than their peers that don't wet the bed anymore.

Receive your UZ Leuven invoice online

19 May 2020
Patients can now choose to receive their hospital invoice via the online administration platform Doccle instead of in the mail.

UZ Leuven examines disease progression of COVID-19 in cancer patients

19 May 2020
UZ Leuven researchers led by prof. dr. An Cooseman, specialist in immunotherapy, are starting a new clinical trial. The trial wants to examine how the immune system reacts when a cancer patients gets the coronavirus. Are treatments just as effective? Does the disease progression change?

Transplant patients bring face masks to fellow patients by bicycle

15 May 2020
This week the organisation Transplantoux is bringing all its members a package of face masks by bike. Transplantoux wants to connect transplant patients and encourage them to start exercising. This way Transplantoux links the protection of its members to the sportive connection associated to the organisation.

Watch how UZ Leuven deals with restarting non-urgent consultations and admissions

13 May 2020
ROB-tv reports on the restart of non-urgent activities in UZ Leuven. Patients admitted for at least 1 night or undergoing certain examinations, are being screened in advance in the car. Outpatients can register automatically via mynexuzhealth app.

Large-scale Belgian trial into convalescent plasma for COVID-19 patients

12 May 2020
Belgium will start a large-scale clinical trial with the plasma of recovered COVID-19 patients van start. The trial is collaboration between university and non-university hospitals in Flanders, Brussels and Wallonia, coordinated by UZ Leuven.

UZ Leuven-button for the hearing-impaired eases communication with face masks

11 May 2020
It is compulsory to wear a face mask in the hospital and various public places. This is a problem for the hearing-impaired that often rely on lip-reading and facial expressions to understand their conversational partner. UZ Leuven has developed a button indicating you’re hearing-impaired.

UZ Leuven and Materialise work together on a solution for unusable face masks

6 May 2020
Together UZ Leuven and the Belgian 3D-print company Materialise have developed a brace which will make the hundreds of thousands of rejected face masks safe for use. The masks have good filter quality, but not do not fit well on nose and mouth. The brace remedies this.

Mobile UZ Leuven team supports the Leuven care homes

10 April 2020
UZ Leuven has undertaken to support the first-line care in Leuven. Today a mobile time took some 85 samples from residents and employees in the Booghuys care home, to test them for COVID-19.