Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology: Recent submissions
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Mental illness : relation to childbirth and experience of motherhood
(Institutionen för klinisk vetenskap / Department of Clinical Sciences, 2005-10-14)This thesis comprises two population-based studies of mental illness in childbearing women in Stockholm. The principal aims in study I were to find out to what extent postnatal depression (PND) in mothers was ... -
Mechanisms of liver allograft rejections
(Institutionen för klinisk vetenskap / Department of Clinical Sciences, 2005-05-20)Liver transplantation (M) has become a standard treatment for many end-stage liver diseases. However, acute rejections still occur in about half of the liver transplant recipients even treated with a combination of different ... -
Aspects of participation in sigmoidoscopy screening for colorectal cancer
(Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2007-05-25)Colorectal cancer is an important health problem due to a high morbidity and mortality but it is curable at an early stage and is therefore ideal for screening. Population-based screening of the average risk population ... -
Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis : clinical, biochemical, genetic and histopathological aspects
(Institutionen för klinisk vetenskap / Department of Clinical Sciences, 2009-11-06)In the early 1980's, most cases of neonatal cholestasis (often referred to as neonatal hepatitis) remained unexplained. By today, many of these diseases have been characterized in detail. Progressive familial intrahepatic ... -
Diagnostic evaluation of fetal death with special reference to intrauterine infections
(Institutionen för klinisk vetenskap / Department of Clinical Sciences, 2002-05-10)The incidence of intrauterine fetal death (>=28 gestational weeks) is approximately 4/1000 births in Sweden. In order to arrive at a potential cause of death, a number of investigations have been recommended in the diagnostic ... -
Minimally invasive hernia surgery
(Centrum för kirurgisk vetenskap CFSS / Center for Surgical Sciences CFSS, 2003-04-25)Minimally invasive laparoscopic and open tension-free techniques have been evolved during the 1990's. Different laparoscopic techniques have been used, where the totally extraperitoneal hernioplasty (TEP) is a technically ... -
Prognosis and progression in chronic kidney disease
(Institutionen för klinisk vetenskap / Department of Clinical Sciences, 2010-09-17)Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a life threatening condition with high risk of pre-term death and need for dialysis. The population prevalence of CKD has been estimated to 10-13% for both Europe and the USA. We investigated ... -
Hallux valgus surgery : epidemiological aspects and clinical outcome
(Institutionen för klinisk vetenskap / Department of Clinical Sciences, 2007-05-18)Hallux valgus is a common condition that accounts for a significant number of visits to foot and ankle specialists. Surgery is the standard treatment but there is insufficient evidence from randomized trials to determine ... -
Guinea pig osteoarthrosis : morphological and biochemical studies
(Centrum för kirurgisk vetenskap CFSS / Center for Surgical Sciences CFSS, 1999-02-04)Hartley guinea pigs spontaneously and reproducibly develop an arthropathy mimicking human primary osteoarthrosis. The morphological lesions first appear between 6 and 12 months of age, when it is confined to the ... -
On obesity in acute pancreatitis
(Centrum för kirurgisk vetenskap CFSS / Center for Surgical Sciences CFSS, 2005-03-25)Over-nutrition is one of today s most visible public health problems. Currently over 40% of the Swedish population is either overweight or obese. Acute pancreatitis (AP) is an acute inflammatory process of the pancreas ... -
Aprotinin for reduction of bleeding and transfusions in patients on clopidogrel undergoing urgent coronary surgery
(Institutionen för klinisk vetenskap / Department of Clinical Sciences, 2009-05-08)Background: An increased proportion of patients with acute coronary syndrome undergo coronary surgery while treated with clopidogrel, an irreversible platelet ADP-receptor inhibitor. Clopidogrel in combination with aspirin ... -
Long-term neurodevelopmental outcome after moderate neonatal encephalopathy and after post-term birth : two population-based studies
(Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2006-03-17)Long-term neurodevelopmental outcome in two population-based groups of children with different perinatal events was studied: A) Children born at term with moderate neonatal encephalopathy (NE) and B) children born post-term ... -
Prostate cancer : aspects of screening and prognostic factors
(Institutionen för klinisk vetenskap / Department of Clinical Sciences, 2010-04-16)Prostate cancer is the most common malignancy among Swedish men. Each year approx. 2 500 men die from the disease constituting almost 1/5 of all cancer death among men. Screening for prostate cancer has not been recommended ... -
Expression and regulation of vasoactive substances, sex steroids and their receptors in placenta during normal pregnancy and preeclampsia
(Institutionen för klinisk vetenskap / Department of Clinical Sciences, 2002-04-12)Despite intense studies preeclampsia remains enigmatic and a major cause of maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. It is now widely accepted that the placenta has a central role in preeclampsia; delivery of the placenta ... -
Magnetic resonance imaging in dementia : a study of brain white matter changes
(Centrum för kirurgisk vetenskap CFSS / Center for Surgical Sciences CFSS, 2001-11-02)Non-specific white matter changes (WMC) in the brain are common findings in the elderly population. Although they are frequently seen in non-demented persons, WMC seem to be more common in demented patients.The significance ... -
Glomerulopathy in normoalbuminuric adolescents with type 1 diabetes : relations between structure, function, metabolic control and ambulatory blood pressure
(Institutionen för klinisk vetenskap / Department of Clinical Sciences, 2005-04-29)An increase in the incidence of type 1 diabetes in childhood has been reported in several countries, especially among the youngest children. Although clinically apparent diabetic vascular disease is rare in children and ... -
Quality of life and health following allogeneic stem cell transplantation in childhood
(Institutionen för klinisk vetenskap / Department of Clinical Sciences, 2009-10-28)Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (SCT) is curative in refractory leukaemia and in several other haematological and immunological disorders. However, SCT is associated with morbidity and mortality and entails major ... -
Clinical and pathogenic aspects of otitis media
(Institutionen för klinisk vetenskap / Department of Clinical Sciences, 2010-05-14)One study on clinical treatment strategies in otitis media and two studies elucidating immunological events in otitis media in vitro, were conducted and joined in this thesis. First, topical treatment with or without ... -
Care by districts nurses : management of patients with chronic-pain conditions, patient satisfaction and effects of pain advisers
(Institutionen för klinisk vetenskap / Department of Clinical Sciences, 2001-05-10)This thesis focuses on some aspects of primary health care in Sweden before and after the introduction of "pain advisers": the district nurses opinions regarding their knowledge, management and documentation of patients ... -
Muscle protein synthesis : effects of metabolic stress and feeding
(Institutionen för klinisk vetenskap / Department of Clinical Sciences, 2005-04-29)Surgical trauma and critical illness are pathophysiological conditions where the metabolic stress leads to an imbalance between protein synthesis and protein breakdown, resulting in a net loss of body proteins. A major ...