The Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc (UCL-St-Luc) is a non-profit-making (ASBL) hospital

Hospital

A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....

 situated in the municipality of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert/Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe

Woluwe-Saint-Lambert

Woluwe-Saint-Lambert or Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe is one of the nineteen municipalities located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium...

 in the east of Brussels

Brussels

Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...

, Belgium

Belgium

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. The hospital opened on the 23 August 1976.

History

In 1968 the Catholic University of Louvain acquired some land in the east of Brussels which did not have a large hospital at that time. When the university split into two the French-speaking part moved to Ottignies

Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve

Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant. On January 1, 2006 Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve had a total population of 29,521. The total area is 32.96 km² which gives a population density of 896 inhabitants per km².The two main towns in the...

 except for the medical faculty, which moved to the Brussels site.

Research

Being a teaching and university hospital UCL St.-Luc continues to do ground breaking medical research. For example, the first baby born after ovarian

Ovary

The ovary is an ovum-producing reproductive organ, often found in pairs as part of the vertebrate female reproductive system. Ovaries in anatomically female individuals are analogous to testes in anatomically male individuals, in that they are both gonads and endocrine glands.-Human anatomy:Ovaries...

 transplant and the first photograph of human ovulation

Ovulation

Ovulation is the process in a female's menstrual cycle by which a mature ovarian follicle ruptures and discharges an ovum . Ovulation also occurs in the estrous cycle of other female mammals, which differs in many fundamental ways from the menstrual cycle...

.

Special procedures (in 2002)

• Bone marrow grafts: 66
• Kidney transplantions: 99
• Pancreas transplantions: 3
• Heart transplantions: 14
• Liver transplantions (adults): 53
• Liver transplantions (children): 33
• Cochlear implants: 49
• Adults cardiology: PTCA: 992
• Lithotripsies: kidney stones: 717 - gallstones: 49
• MRI (magnetic resonance): 14027
• Singel photon emission computerized tomographies (SPECT): 4061
• Positron emission tomographies (PET): 1910

Medical equipment

• Operating rooms: 23
• Catheterization and angiography rooms: 5 (4 for adults - 1 for children)

Diagnostic imaging

• 4 Cat
  Computed tomography
  X-ray computed tomography or Computer tomography , is a medical imaging method employing tomography created by computer processing...
  
   Scanners of which 1 multi detectors (8 images/sec)
• 2 MRI
  Magnetic resonance imaging
  Magnetic resonance imaging , nuclear magnetic resonance imaging , or magnetic resonance tomography is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to visualize detailed internal structures...
  
  
• 2 MRI for research
• Nuclear medicine (radioisotope studies)

• 3 SPECT
  Single photon emission computed tomography
  Single-photon emission computed tomography is a nuclear medicine tomographic imaging technique using gamma rays. It is very similar to conventional nuclear medicine planar imaging using a gamma camera. However, it is able to provide true 3D information...
  
   detectors
• 1 PET
  Positron emission tomography
  Positron emission tomography is nuclear medicine imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or picture of functional processes in the body. The system detects pairs of gamma rays emitted indirectly by a positron-emitting radionuclide , which is introduced into the body on a...
  
   camera
• Radiotherapy

• 4 linear accelerators
  Linear particle accelerator
  A linear particle accelerator is a type of particle accelerator that greatly increases the velocity of charged subatomic particles or ions by subjecting the charged particles to a series of oscillating electric potentials along a linear beamline; this method of particle acceleration was invented...
  
   with digital scanning (6 and 25 MeV)
• 3 portale scanner (of which 1 at the Europe St-Michel site)
• 4 treatment planning 3 D
• 2 simulators for radiotherapy (of which 1 at the Europe St-Michel site)
• integrated communication system VISIR
• Lithotriptor
  Lithotriptor
  Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy is a non-invasive treatment of kidney stones and biliary calculi using an acoustic pulse....
  
  
• Neuronavigator
  Neuronavigation
  The term neuronavigation is a neologism used to describe the set of computer-assisted technologies used by neurosurgeons to guide or "navigate” within the confines of the skull or vertebral column during surgery...
  
  
• Tissue banks: bone
  Bone
  Bones are rigid organs that constitute part of the endoskeleton of vertebrates. They support, and protect the various organs of the body, produce red and white blood cells and store minerals. Bone tissue is a type of dense connective tissue...
  
  , marrow
  Bone marrow
  Bone marrow is the flexible tissue found in the interior of bones. In humans, bone marrow in large bones produces new blood cells. On average, bone marrow constitutes 4% of the total body mass of humans; in adults weighing 65 kg , bone marrow accounts for approximately 2.6 kg...
  
  

External links

• Official web site