Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology: Recent submissions
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Sleep and obesity in children at different obesity risks : patterns, associations and early intervention
(Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2020-05-13)Background: Childhood obesity is a global health concern with a range of adverse outcomes. Short sleep has been consistently linked to childhood obesity. However, associations between other sleep characteristics and obesity ... -
Is it all about the money? The effects of low and high cost simulator training scenarios in surgical training
(Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2020-05-12)Background: The learning process is complex and dependent on several factors such as for instance, the environment to learn, prior knowledge and distinct abilities, motivation, goal-orientation as well as the effects of ... -
Long term effects of lumbar disc herniation surgery in adolescents
(Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2020-05-08)Background: In Sweden, about 2,900 surgeries due to a lumbar disc herniation are performed yearly, and the surgical incidence is low compared to the incidence in Denmark and Norway. Surgery for lumbar disc herniation in ... -
Developmental insights and biomedical potential of human embryonic stem cells : modelling trophoblast differentiation and establishing novel cell therapies for age-related macular degeneration
(Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2020-05-04)Understanding the molecular pathways responsible for lineage segregation in the preimplantation human embryo is critical in order to fully elucidate the mechanisms involved in pluripotency and differentiation of embryonic ... -
The role of fibroblast growth factor 19 in human liver
(Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2020-05-04)Bile acids are synthesized in the liver and are essential for intestinal absorption of lipids. Bile acid homeostasis is crucial and if not maintained, bile acids can accumulate to toxic levels and cause severe damage to ... -
Exploring childhood apraxia of speech : speech and language profiles in 5-year-olds with suspected apraxia of speech or cleft palate
(Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2020-05-04)Introduction and aims: Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a speech sound disorder (SSD) lacking a quantifiable measure discriminating all cases of CAS from other SSDs. This project aimed at exploring CAS using different ... -
Exploring mammalian preimplantation development and pluripotency
(Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2020-04-27)Our current understanding of how stem cells arise and transition during embryonic development has been limited by analysis tools that have lacked single-cell, whole-genome resolution. This thesis emphasizes the use of novel ... -
A personalized approach to chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps : based on biomarkers, phenotypes and new surgical thinking
(Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2020-04-27)Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a prevalent disease causing a substantial burden for the patient and the society. CRS is divided into CRS with (CRSwNP) and without nasal polyps (CRSsNP). Based on current knowledge on ... -
Hands-on osteoporosis screening with digital x-ray radiogrammetry
(Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2020-04-24)According to epidemiological studies about one third of women and one fifth of men over 50 years will experience a fragility fracture. These fractures account for substantial mortality, morbidity and health care cost. ... -
Off-label drug use, medication errors and adverse drug events : among Swedish pediatric inpatients
(Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2020-04-22)Background: In pediatrics, treatment with drugs is an important and fully integrated part of everyday medical practice. However, authorized drugs specified to be used in children are often lacking which leads to off-label ... -
The new old normal : reassessing perioperative oxygen consumption and haemodynamics in the elderly
(Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2020-04-01)Perioperative haemodynamic instability and disturbances of global oxygen transport are associated with complications and organ injury after surgery. The continuously growing population of elderly in surgical care are at ... -
Scalable, safe and GMP-compatible production of embryonic stem cell derived retinal pigment epithelial cells
(Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2020-03-06)Regenerative medicine is an exponentially growing field that aims to regenerate a lost function, cell type or tissue due to damage, ageing or disease. Currently, more than 30,000 gene- and cell-based therapies have been ... -
Hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury
(Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2020-02-28)Hepatic ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury is a complex phenomenon occuring in response to interruption of the liver’s blood and oxygen supply and the subsequent restoration of blood flow and tissue oxygenation. Techniques ... -
Hearing in children with cleft palate
(Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2020-02-21)Objective: The overall aim of this thesis was to collect longitudinal information about hearing thresholds and complications due to otitis media with effusion (OME) in children with cleft palate. Since OME is highly prevalent ... -
Voice disorders and treatment effects in Parkinson’s disease studied with a portable voice accumulator
(Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2020-02-11)Background: Information about voice use outside the clinical setting has traditionally consisted of subjective data collected via interviews or questionnaires. Quantitative, objective information about voice use in daily ... -
Microdialysis : potentials and limitations
(Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2020-02-03)Despite improvements in operating technique and post-operative management, many patients undergoing liver transplantation still suffer post-operative complications, which may lead to graft loss or patient death. Patients ... -
Different perspectives of living with osteoarthritis and outcomes after knee arthroplasty
(Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2020-01-31)Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disease affecting the population increasingly with age. Living with OA and pain can cause severe distress in an individual’s life and expectations of outcome after joint replacement ... -
Optimizing computed tomography : quality assurance, radiation dose and contrast media
(Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2020-01-22)Computed tomography (CT) is an important modality in radiology; it enables imaging of the inside of patients without superimposed anatomy. The radiation dose and quality of a CT image are highly dependent on the CT scanner, ... -
The papilla of Vater : issues relevant to transpapillary cannulation and clinical management
(Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2019-12-20)Background: Many endoscopists have since the beginning of endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography (ERCP) commented on the variation in the macroscopic appearance of the papilla of Vater. How the macroscopic appearance ... -
Anabolic response to amino acid supplementation in critical illness
(Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2019-11-07)Background: Critically ill patients suffer from protein catabolism with losses of skeletal muscle and whole-body proteins associated with morbidity and mortality. Catabolism is difficult to overcome, but nutritional ...