OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Acta Clinica Belgica is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The concomitant use of paracetamol and flucloxacillin. A rare cause of high anion gap metabolic acidosis in the frail oldest old	21
Association between admission biomarkers and clinical outcome in older adults diagnosed with an infection in the emergency department	19
Unravelling the coagulation paradox in liver cirrhosis: challenges and insights	18
Real-life data on clinical characteristics, treatments and outcomes of patients with newly diagnosed advanced-stage ovarian cancer: an observational study from Belgium	13
A case of Leishmania infection with focal splanchnic involvement without systemic symptoms: a potential anti-inflammatory role for vitamin D	10
Evolution of muscle mass and strength in patients admitted for a diabetic foot ulcer	8
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Clostridioides difficile infection in a tertiary healthcare institution in Belgium	8
Unveiling unexpected adverse events and haemorrhagic safety: post-marketing safety surveillance of ramucirumab from the FAERS database	8
Acquired factor X deficiency in a multiple myeloma without amyloidosis: a case report	7
A Belgian student with black eschars	6
The role of olfactory and salivary gland pathways in periodontal disease-mediated Alzheimer’s disease progression: mechanistic insights and early diagnostic implications	6
Incidence, evolution and risk factors of hypophosphatemia in patients with solid tumors receiving ferric carboxymaltose: a retrospective cohort study	6
Inconsistencies in laboratory investigations of hypertension in a young woman taking ethinylestradiol/drospirenone association	6
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency	6
Clinical practice of hereditary angioedema in Belgium: opportunities for optimized care	5
Evaluation of the AIX1000 automated rapid plasma reagin test in a tertiary academic medical center	5
Pan-immune-inflammation value predicts sustained ventricular arrhythmias in NSTEMI: a novel inflammatory risk marker	5
Pulmonary vascular complications of cirrhosis: hepatopulmonary syndrome and portopulmonary hypertension	5
Differences in antibiotic prescribing quality in Belgian out-of-hours primary care services	5
Systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases as paraneoplastic phenomena: 3 illustrative case reports and narrative review of the literature	4
The global, regional, and national patterns of change in the burden of acute glomerulonephritis, 1990–2021: an analysis of the global burden of disease study 2021 and forecast to 2036	4
Heart failure with severely reduced ejection fraction after liver transplantation: a case report and review of the literature	4
Glycomics-based serum markers as reliable tool for assessment of viral response after treatment with direct-acting antiviral drugs in hepatitis C virus infection	4
Peritoneal tuberculosis caused by intravesical instillation with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) following nephroureterectomy in a patient with bladder and upper tract urothelial cancer: a case report	4
Hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy versus transarterial chemoembolization for patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4

Current urinalysis practices in Belgian laboratories towards the 2023 EFLM European urinalysis guideline	4
A first case of Chimaeribacter species catheter-related bloodstream infection	4
Prevalence of antisynthetase antibodies in a multicentre early rheumatoid arthritis cohort	4
Mastocytosis and related entities: a practical roadmap	4
The Belgian physiotherapy reimbursement criteria for fall prevention fails in screening appropriately fall-prone community-dwelling older adults	3
Prevalence and risk factors of antibiotic resistance for urinary tract infections in patients presenting to a Belgian tertiary care emergency department: testing the national guidelines against the lo	3
Retrospective analysis of a flucloxacillin oral absorption test in patients requiring flucloxacillin therapy: results and determination of factors associated with adequate absorption	3
Interleukin 6 inhibition in refractory antisynthetase syndrome: case-based literature review	3
The 2023 Belgian clinical guidance on anticoagulation management in hospitalized and ambulatory COVID-19 patients	3
The 2024 Flemish consensus on screening for gestational diabetes mellitus early and later in pregnancy	3
Evaluation of the clinical application of MALDI-TOF MS for identification of difficult-to-classify nontuberculous mycobacterial strains isolated in the laboratory	3
Belgian recommendations for tissue diagnosis of amyloidosis	3
A characterization of the HIV population with limited/exhausted treatment options: a multicenter Belgian study	3
Characteristics and outcomes of patients treated with sotrovimab to prevent progression to severe COVID-19 in Belgium	3
Clinical decision-making in older patients with cancer: a cross-sectional single-centre study to assess the impact of clinical judgement and patient preferences	3
Outcomes of adjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy in melanoma: a retrospective study	3
The effect of physical exercise on fatigue in systemic lupus erythematosus: a systematic review	3
AMI in (bi)ventricular pacing – do not discard the ECG	2
The importance of the cumulation of risk factors for antepartum depression	2
Asymptomatic hypercalcemia, caused by sarcoid-like granulomatosis, induced by checkpoint inhibition	2
Expansion of MALDI-TOF MS database as a strategy for identification of Haemophilus species other than H. influenzae	2
A comprehensive review and meta-analysis of relationship between age of onset or duration of type 2 diabetes and mortality involving more than 2.85 million patients	2
Comparison of time-to-detection of Mindray TDR and BacT/ALERT®3D blood culture systems using simulated blood cultures	2
Assessing the ability of SARC-F to reflect elastography-based muscle quality in older adults	2
Effective prompt design for large language models in clinical practice	2
A randomized n-of-1 study comparing blood pressure measured on a clothed arm and on an arm with a rolled-up sleeve	2
Abstracts presented at the 27th Annual Congress of the Belgian Society of Internal Medicine, 1-2 December 2023, Dolce La Hulpe, La Hulpe, Belgium	2
Retrospective evaluation of an intervention bundle on OPAT implementation in a large non-university hospital	2
Clinicopathologic characteristics and long-term outcomes in glomerulonephritis with crescent formation: a 20-year single-center cohort study	2
Pharmacological treatment of presbyopia	2
The ability of end-tidal carbon dioxide value to predict the risk of major cardiovascular events in patients with acute coronary syndrome	2
Determinants of anemia in patients with primary glomerulonephritis: a biopsy-based analysis	2
Trends in oral anticoagulant prescription in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation in Flanders and the impact of switching patients from vitamin K antagonists to DOACS in terms of the burden c	2
First case of Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica isolation from a patient with a foot ulcer infection in Belgium	2
Effective front-line treatment of osteosclerotic myeloma with POEMS syndrome with daratumumab, lenalidomide and dexamethasone: a case report and literature review	2
Body mass index and occupational accidents among health care workers: in BMI we must trust?	2
Doege-Potter syndrome in a patient with a giant abdominal solitary fibrous tumor: a case report and review of the literature	2
Evaluation of a heat protocol with the Allplex HPV HR assay on the fully automated Seegene STARlet platform for detection of human papillomaviruses	1
Lupus anticoagulant testing in Belgian laboratories: a comparison with the 2020 International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis Scientific and Standardization Committee (ISTH-SSC) guidelines	1
Appropriate use of antibiotics for oral/dental conditions in older adults: a narrative review	1
Short-term CGM as a tool to optimize glycemic control and defer intensive insulin therapy in people with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes: a Belgian real-life study	1
Changes in lipid lowering medication and lipid levels over time in patients with stable coronary artery disease	1
The first reported familial case of statin-induced immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy associated with anti-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase autoantibodies and HLA DRB1*11:01	1
Procalcitonin levels at hospital admission are increased in cyst infection in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease	1
Regression of a melanoma brain metastasis that had appeared after immune checkpoint inhibitor discontinuation: a hypothesis-generating case	1
HOMA-IR and HOMA2-IR estimation based on glycated hemoglobin as an alternative for fasting glucose	1
Prediction parameters of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction improvement in patients after acute coronary syndrome	1
Abstracts presented at the 26th Annual Congress of the Belgian Society of Internal Medicine, 9-10 December 2022, Dolce La Hulpe, La Hulpe, Belgium	1
Body mass index and occupational accidents among health care workers in a large university hospital	1
In-hospital end-of-life care in the old: a retrospective study of intensive care unit use and do-not-resuscitate forms in patients deceased in a Belgian university hospital	1

Associations between anemia and insomnia or excessive daytime sleepiness in older adults	1
Severe hypocalcemia due to osteoblastic bone metastases in a patient with hypoparathyroidism: a case report	1
Prognostic value of geriatric and cardiac parameters for one-year mortality in older heart failure patients. A multicentre, observational, prospective study	1
Characterisation of an interference affecting the triiodothyronine measurement on two different immunoassays	1
Herpes zoster in Belgium: a new solution to an old problem	1
The prospective screening for SARS-CoV-2 S1/S2 antibodies delineates the factual incidence of COVID-19 and shows a sustained serological response post COVID-19 in kidney transplant recipients	1
Flemish consensus statement on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infections in older nursing home residents	1
Cost-effectiveness analyses of quadrivalent influenza vaccinations in the general European population – a systematic review	1
Liver transplantation for cirrhosis and its complications	1
Construction and validation of a risk prediction model for secondary acute kidney injury in patients with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding	1
Single center, real-world retrospective study of CAR-T cell therapy for relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma beyond second line: five-year results at the University Hospitals Leuven	1
Predicting the unpredictable: unveiling hidden patterns of emergency department unexpected deaths - a retrospective study	1
Personalized antiplatelet therapy: a scoping review on the role of platelet function testing and genotyping in acute coronary syndrome	1
Acute stroke in patients taking an oral anticoagulant: impact of clinical pharmacist’s intervention on pharmacovigilance reporting	1
Infections caused by hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae in non-endemic countries: three case reports and review of the literature	1
Changes in the use and uptake of a national out-of-hours telephone triage service by younger and older patients seeking non-urgent unplanned care surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic in Flanders (Belgium	1
MASH to cirrhosis: bridging the gaps in MASLD management	1
Recurrent rejections after liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma with stem cell features in an adult patient	1
The burden of ascites in cirrhosis	1
Case report: thyrotoxic periodic paralysis, an unusual cause of hypokalemia	1
Systemic sarcoidosis presenting with hypercalcemia, sinusitis and hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction	1