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Genetic studies of children with mental retardation
(2013-02-20)
Mental retardation (MR) is characterised by significant limitations in intellectual function and adaptive behaviour. It is estimated that MR affects up to 3% of the population in Europe. Patients with MR are an aetiologically ...
Improving care of children with cancer in Egypt
(2013-12-23)
Aims: More than 70 percent of the children diagnosed with cancer in Egypt die every year. In Sweden the corresponding figure is close to 20 percent. The aims of this study was to investigate psycho-oncological predictors ...
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass - clinical outcome and mechanisms of action
(2013-06-28)
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (gastric bypass) is an effective surgical technique for treating morbid obesity. The objective of this thesis is to increase knowledge of long-term outcomes of gastric bypass surgery and to elucidate ...
Evaluation of surgical outcomes in craniosynostosis
(2013-04-02)
Background: A continuous and objective evaluation of surgical outcomes must be an integrated part of the technical development. The present thesis has the ambition to innovate the evaluation of surgical results allowing ...
Pancreatic Cancer. Experimental and Clinical Studies
(2013-09-20)
Background: Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal of known cancers and the only treatment with possibility of cure is surgery. The costs associated with treatment of pancreatic cancer are reputably high, both in terms ...
Systematisla kunskapsöversikter; 5. Arbetsmiljöexponeringar och stroke - en kritisk granskning av evidens för samband mellan exponeringar i arbetsmiljön och stroke.
(Arbets- och miljömedicin, Göteborgs universitet, 2013)
Airway reactions and breathing movements in sensory hyperreactivity
(2013-03-05)
Abstract
Patients diagnosed with sensory hyperreactivity, SHR, suffer from upper and lower airway symptoms like cough, difficulties to breathe and chest pain, induced by a variety of environmental irritants but also by ...
Hearing symptoms in children and adolescents - Tinnitus and temporary threshold shift
(2013-04-10)
This thesis has assessed the prevalence of spontaneous tinnitus (ST), noise-induced tinnitus (NIT) and temporary threshold shift (TTS) in children and adolescents as well as investigated some of the audiometric, medical ...
Environmental exposure to fine particles in Gothenburg - personal exposure and its variability, indoor and outdoor levels, and effects on biomarkers
(2013-03-25)
Urban particulate air pollution has been associated with adverse health effects in epidemiological as well as experimental studies. The overall aim of this thesis was to characterize environmental exposure to fine particles ...
Hemodynamic, hemostatic and inflammatory effects of cardiotomy suction blood in cardiac surgery
(2013-10-14)
ABSTRACT
Background: Cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass induces an inflammatory response and a coagulopathy, which may contribute to perioperative complications. Retransfusion of unprocessed cardiotomy suction ...