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An international study to which the H.U.B contributed sheds new light on a severe complication of decompensated cirrhosis: kidney impairment. The researchers discovered that a variation in our genetic make-up could help explain the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying its occurrence.

On World Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day, Dr Giulia Garofalo, a gynaecologist at the Early Pregnancy Unit of Erasme Hospital (H.U.B), reflects on the importance of recognising every individual experience without ranking losses.

For the first time, a large-scale international prospective study published in the Journal of Hepatology directly compares the outcomes of patients with severe liver failure (Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure – ACLF) according to whether or not they underwent liver transplantation.

On 15 October, Erasme Hospital will inaugurate its Family Tree to mark World Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. Dr Caroline De Coninck, the gynaecologist behind the project, tells us the full story behind this initiative for families facing perinatal bereavement.

To mark the 40th anniversary of the Queen Fabiola Children’s University Hospital (HUDERF), Professor Pierre SMEESTERS, looks back at four decades of medical developments in paediatrics. Rather than presenting a chronology, however, he addresses an essential question: what have these advances really changed in the lives of children and their families?

As part of Heart Week, H.U.B focuses on women’s cardiac health care, the central theme of the new campaign by the Belgian Cardiological League.

As part of Migraine Awareness Week, let us take a closer look at this common neurological condition, which can sometimes be highly disabling, but for which treatment options have evolved considerably in recent years.

An important step that increases the department’s capacity and reflects a new dynamic driven by the strengthening of the teams.

On World Alzheimer’s Disease Day, the Integrated Memory Clinic highlights two new developments recently introduced into its clinical practice and research projects.