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International Outcomes of Total Hip Arthroplasty: Influence of Patient, Implant, and Surgical factors on Total Hip Arthroplasty Survivorship in Sweden, the US, and Australia
(2019-05-22)Abstract Background Hip osteoarthritis (OA) is debilitating disease resulting in pain, stiffness, and reduced physical function. Although total hip arthroplasty (THA) is a successful treatment for OA, some THAs require ... -
Intervertebral disc regeneration. Studies on stem cell niches and cell transplantation
(2010-11-08)Abstract Intervertebral disc regeneration Studies on stem cell niches and cell transplantation Helena Barreto Henriksson Gothenburg 2010 Low back pain is a common condition in the Western world and disc degeneration ... -
Intestinal adaption in response to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery
(2015-11-12)ABSTRACT Background: Obesity is a condition with increasing prevalence that leads to morbidity, decreased quality of life and reduced life expectancy. The only effective evidence-based treatment is bariatric surgery. The ... -
Intestinal preservation for transplantation: translational approaches
(2019-11-13)Background: Intestinal preservation injury (IPI) may result in various degrees of mucosal damage, which may later favor bacterial translocation, post-reperfusion syndrome, and upregulation of alloreactivity. Experimental ... -
Intestinal transplantation. Experimental and clinical studies
(2010-01-11)Intestinal preservation-reperfusion injury may result in various degrees of mucosal injury. Interestingly, the preservation injury is similar when using the current preservation solutions, which are given as a intravascular ... -
Intravoxel incoherent motion modeling - Optimization of acquisition, analysis and tumor tissue characterization
(2018-09-13)Intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) analysis provides a means to obtain information on diffusion and perfusion from a single MRI sequence. The measurements are completely noninvasive and the results have been shown to be ... -
Invasive and Metastatic Properties of Advanced Prostate Cancer
(2009-05-15)Prostate cancer is initially androgen-dependent (AD) and therefore androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is generally used to treat advanced prostate cancer. However, the long-term treatment effects are insufficient and over ... -
Invasive treatment for intermittent claudication - clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness
(2020-04-01)Intermittent claudication (IC) is caused by obstructive arterial lesions and is characterized by effort-induced pain in the lower extremity, limiting walking distance, and reduced health-related quality of life (HRQoL). ... -
Isocapnic hyperventilation in anaesthesia practice. Clinical and experimental studies
(2018-01-30)Abstract Background: Isocapnic hyperventilation (IHV) has been shown to shorten recovery time after volatile anaesthesia by accelerating elimination of inhalational agents by increasing minute ventilation while maintaining ... -
Isolated regional perfusion for metastases of malignant melanoma - Clinical and experimental studies
(2013-10-25)Background: Isolated regional perfusion is a treatment option mainly for localized metastatic disease. The principle idea is to surgically isolate a region of the body and connect the circulation to a heart-lung machine. ... -
Jejunal control of glucose homeostasis in the human body
(2021-11-15)Background: The prevalence of obesity and type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have risen dramatically over the last decades, and are major threats to the human health. Obesity, and also T2DM, is treated with lifestyle ... -
Kinematics and laxity in the knee, before and after Anterior Cruciate Ligament reconstruction. Evaluation using dynamic and static radiostereometric analysis
(2008-03-19)Introduction: Whether full active and passive extension training, started immediately after an Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) reconstruction, will increase the post-operative A-P laxity of the knee has been the subject ... -
Kinesiophobia : various aspects of moving with musculoskeletal pain
(2006)Aim: The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate various aspects of the phenomenon of kinesiophobia among patients with musculoskeletal pain. Study population: For the purpose of this thesis 1304 patients, with ... -
Knee ligament injuries in male professional football players
(2019-10-25)ABSTRACT Knee ligament injuries are common in professional football and entail a significant time loss from football, but studies of knee ligament injuries other than anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are ... -
Laparoscopic Lavage - A Paradigm Shift for the Treatment of Perforated Diverticulitis with Purulent Peritonitis?
(2015-11-13)Introduction: Perforated diverticulitis of the colon is a condition that sometimes requires surgical treatment. Traditionally Hartmann’s procedure is the recommended treatment. Laparoscopic lavage has lately evoked interest ... -
Laparoscopic surgery as treatment for rectal cancer
(2015-05-11)Introduction Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide, with nearly 1.4 million new cases annually, of which about one third suffer from rectal cancer. Laparoscopic surgery has in several surgical fields ... -
Laryngopharyngeal reflux - development and refinement of diagnostic tools
(2009-11-13)Laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR), characterized by symptoms of chronic cough, hoarseness, throat clearing, globus, laryngospasm, throat pain and excessive mucus has in recent years been recognized as an extra-esophageal ... -
Left ventricular dysfunction in critically ill patients
(2023-09-08)ABSTRACT Background: Cardiac dysfunction is common in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients and can contribute to multiorgan failure and death. Despite this, few studies have been performed on pathogenies, prevalence, ... -
Left-sided obstructive cardiac lesions in the fetus and the neonate
(2018-05-21)ABSTRACT Introduction Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is a severe cardiac malformation, fatal in the neonatal period in the absence of immediate care. Palliative surgery for HLHS has been available in Sweden since ... -
Levosimendan vs. Milrinone: Early Renal and Hemodynamic Outcomes after lnfant Cardiac Surgery
(2022-10-25)Background: Myocardial and renal dysfunction are common after cardiac surgery in young children, which increases risk of complications and delayed recovery. Inodilators, such as milrinone and levosimendan, are frequently ...