Research inventory
Pneumology unit
(Faculté de médecine / Département de médecine interne / PNEU)
Person(s) in charge of the research unit
RODENSTEIN Daniel
Address
UCL 28.32 AVENUE HIPPOCRATE, 10 1200 BRUXELLES BELGIQUE Phone : +32 2 764.28.32 Fax : +32 2 764.28.31 E-mail : rodenstein@pneu.ucl.ac.be
Scope of the research unit
• Chronic obstructive lung disease: natural history: response to therapy.
• Bronchial cancer: diagnostic methods: combined therapy (surgery, poly-chymiotherapy, radiotherapy): antitumor vaccination: risk factors (Radon exposition).
• Bronchial Carcinoma and Mediastinal Tumors: Role of echoendoscopic bronchoscopy in diagnostic procedures.
• Sleep apnea syndrome: diagnostic and therapeutic implication.
• Excessive daytime sleepiness and motor vehicle accidents. European Harmonization.
• Bronchial asthma: diagnostic aspects : occupational asthma: therapeuthic aspects.
• Lung diffusion capacity: methodological aspects: oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve: influence of plasmatic ions.
• Alveolar macrophage receptors : identificaiton and characterisation.
• Non-invasive assisted ventilation : methodological and therapeutic aspects.
• Secretory inmunoglobulins in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
. Excessive daytime somnolence: mechanisms and measurement
Services offered
Pulmonary Function studies: Oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve: modifiers and measurements in animals and man: Home mechanical ventilation: indications and assessment: Assessment of pulmonary damage due to inhaled allergens and particles: Assessment of risk factors for automobile accidents due to excessive daytime sleepiness, interventional pneumology.
Specialised equipments
videoendoscopes : body plethysmographs : chromatographs : plysomnographs : pulse oximeters : oxygen dissociation curve measuring apparatus : occupational asthma exposure rooms : visual response tests
Keywords
Medicine, Lung cancer, Daytime somnolence, Respiratory failure, Allergy
International contributions
Hôpital universitaire d'Amiens (France) - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Belo-Horizonte - Brésil) - Fondazione pro Juventute (Italie) - K.U.L. (Leuven - Belgique)- CHU Marseille (France) - CHU Strasbourg (France)- Université de Grenoble - Hospital General Yagüe, Burgos (Espagne) - Hospital A. Posadas, Buenos Aires (Argentine) - University Hospital S. Joao (Portugal) - Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (Suisse)
Patents et licences
Patent(s) : yes
Medicinal composition and in particular its use in fluid therapy (inventeurs : B. Detry: P. Gustin: C. Cambier: A. Frans: Th. Clerbaux)
Licences : yes
Staff of the research unit (in full time equivalent)
Number of researchers : 10 - Number of technical and administrative staff : 2,5
Scientific prize and distinctions
Prix Boehringer-Ingelheim de pneumologie, 1982 (D. Rodenstein)
Prix du Centre Médical de la Recherche, 2003 (Dr O. Vandenplas
Société Espagnole de Pneumologie et Chirurgie Thoracique, SEPAR, Conférence Manuel Tapia, 2003 (D. Rodenstein)
Prix Boehringer-Ingelheim de Pneumologie 2006 (C. Pilette)
Training activities
Training : yes
Contact : D. Rodenstein
Audience(s) : Family practitioners
Specialists
Themes : Various
Educational methods : lectures
case studies
internships , visits of companies or organisations
seminars
e-learning
Last update
30/06/2008
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