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Cerebral CT - and MRI perfusion: Techniques and clinical application in iNPH
(2015-05-18)
Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) is a disorder of the elderly, defined by slowly progressive impairment of gait and balance, cognitive decline, and incontinence. Disturbance of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) ...
Treating radiation-induced trismus in head and neck cancer;Exercise intervention and risk structures
(2015-01-07)
Abstract
The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate the incidence of trismus in head and neck cancer (HNC) and to assess the treatment of radiation-induced trismus with a structured jaw exercise program using jaw ...
Aspects on bleeding and transfusion in elective orthopaedic surgery. Clinical and experimental studies
(2015-11-11)
Background: Perioperative bleeding complications are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. One way to minimize perioperative bleeding and transfusion is to identify patients at risk of bleeding. Preoperative ...
Stress-induced cardiomyopathy - clinical and experimental studies
(2015-10-23)
Background: Stress-induced cardiomyopathy (SIC) is an acute cardiac condition with akinesia in the left ventricle (LV) that can be severe. A stress-trigger, physical or emotional, is usually identified preceding onset of ...
Long-gap esophageal atresia - The development of an experimental model of esophageal regeneration in vivo as an attempt to improve clinical outcome
(2015-01-07)
Background: A subset (~8-15%) of the patients born with esophageal atresia (EA) suffer from a lack of esophageal tissue, which makes a primary anastomosis difficult to achieve. This is most common in patients born without ...
Measurement of T1 relaxation time in lungs - Preclinical and clinical MRI applications to COPD
(2015-09-16)
Monitoring of regional lung function in clinical trials of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) requires alternative endpoints beyond global pulmonary function tests (PFTs), which is the most common approach for ...
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 ...
Characteristics of screen-failures in prostate cancer screening
(2015-03-30)
ABSTRACT
Although prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based screening has been shown to reduce prostate cancer (PC)-specific mortality with large variations in mortality reduction with different screening algorithms, the ...