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This study will answer the question if (repeated) abdominal amnioninfusion after midtrimester PPROM with associated oligohydramnios improves perinatal survival and prevents pulmonary hypoplasia and other neonatal morbidities. Moreover, it will…
Quantify inflammatory response (through IL-8 production) of bronchial (both commercial available cells and cultivated brushed infant cells) when exposing these to gastric juice from: hospitalized Infants, before and during PPI treatment and age…
Part I of the study: I) to determine if one or a batch of aging marker(s) is/are associated with the presence of objectively diagnosed COPD related co-morbidity (muscle wasting, osteoporosis, cardiovascular risk, glucose intolerance, renal failure,…
The main objective of this study is to measure the effects of the monitoring and feedback tool embedded in a Self-management Support Program on physical activity. The secondary objective is to measure the effect on self-efficacy, quality of life and…
To investigate causes and predictors for primary or secondary allergy profiles for soymilk
The primary aim of this observational study is to determine the occurrence of (exercise-induced) pulmonary hypertension (sPAP > 40 mmHg) in IIP patients with an elevated V*E/V*CO2 at AT (> 34) assessed during CPET. And, secondly to…
To evaluate the effects of intravenous iron suppletion in iron deficient PAH patients.Amendment: to compare exercise capacity and isolated muscle strength in IPAH patients and healthy controls
Our primary hypothesis is that the process of nasopharyngeal and fecal colonization from birth to childhood differs in quality and quantity between infants with CF and healthy controls and that these differences are related to subsequent respiratory…
The main objective of the current study is to search for biomarkers, which will be investigated with their predictive value with respect to the course of COPD in lungfunction, exacerbations, health care use and mortality. The effects of the…
Run-in phase I: To confirm the safety and tolerability of BIBF 1120 up to a dose level of 200 mg b.i.d added to a standard dose of cisplatin/gemcitabine in first line NSCLC patients with squamous cell histology. Pharmacokinetics of BIBF 1120 and…
To externally validate the accuracy of a host-response based diagnostics for differentiating between bacterial and viral etiology in pediatric patients aged 2 to 60 months with LRTI or FWS.
Main objective: To investigate differential gene-expression in nasal epithelium of asthmatics in complete remission, in clinical remission, not in remission and healthy controls.
The first aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of cognitive impairment in COPD patients compared with persons without COPD. The second aim is to study the clinical characteristics of COPD patients with cognitive impairment. The third aim…
What is the correlation between change in Mannitol PD15 (provoking dose of mannitol to cause a >= 15% fall in FEV1 ) 6h after a single dose of beclomethasone and after 4 weeks of treatment with beclomethasone?
• To assess the long-term bronchodilation of aclidinium/formoterol FDCs compared to individual components and placebo, when administered twice daily via inhalation to COPD patients.• To assess the benefits of aclidinium/formoterol FDCs in COPD…
Primary Objective: To identify new markers in BPD, in particular in sphingolipid- and oxylipin profiles in tracheal aspirates.Secondary Objective(s): To predict the development of BPD in preterm infants by the use of metabolomic analysis of the…
The objective is to investigate whether environmental exposure to livestock farm emissions in the Netherlands poses a health risk among neighbouring residents.
The main objective of this study is the clinical, physiological and psychosocial determinants of CAT in a broad sample of patients with moderate to very severe COPD and the impact of co-morbidities on the HRQL assessed with CAT. Secondary objectives…
-To assess the central chemosensitivity by an carbon dioxide rebreathing test-To assess mouth occlusion pressures during the carbon dioxide rebreathing test-To study the relation between these results and the results obtained with the MRI and…
Investigation of the prevalence of sinonasal disease on CT-sinus in children with Cystic Fibrosis at different ages. This study will focus especially on the onset of sinonasal pathology in Cystic Fibrosis in relation to the development of the…