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Farrés Coll, Ramon (Date of defense: 2023-03-10)
Introduction: Anastomotic leak (AL) is the most feared complication in the postoperative period for patients with rectal cancer. Objectives: To determine the real rate of AL in patients operated on for rectal cancer. ...
Mas de Xaxars Rivero, Teresa (Date of defense: 2012-10-02)
Colorectal Cancer is the main type of cancer in Spain. Up to 90% of the cases are sporadic in nature and its aetiology is still unclear. It is supposed to be a multi-factorial disease, where factors play an important role ...
Barrabés Vera, Sílvia (Date of defense: 2007-10-08)
L'adenocarcinoma pancreàtic és una neoplàsia amb mal pronòstic per la que no existeixen marcadors específics. En aquesta tesi s'han estudiat possibles alteracions de les estructures glucídiques de la ribonucleasa pancreàtica ...
Malagón Rodríguez, Marta (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)
This thesis aims to develop a new non-invasive tool based on faecal bacterial markers for the early detection of colorectal cancer, which is capable of detecting precancerous lesions before the onset of clinical signs. ...
López Siles, Mireia (Date of defense: 2016-01-25)
In this PhD thesis Faecalibacterium prausnitzii populations of patients with gut disease and healthy individuals have been characterized. First, isolates from healthy volunteers have been phenotypically characterised, ...
Bonet-Rossinyol, Queralt (Date of defense: 2024-07-12)
Adherent-invasive Escherichia coli (AIEC) is a bacterium found in the intestine that can adhere to and invade intestinal epithelial cells and to survive and replicate inside macrophages. Although it has also been detected ...
Pigem Rodeja, Anna (Date of defense: 2023-03-03)
INTRODUCTION: Anastomotic leak (AL) is the most dreadful and life-threatening complication in colon cancer (CC) surgery. It is associated to an increase of morbimortality, longer hospital stay, increased healthcare costs ...
Camprubí Font, Carla (Date of defense: 2019-07-26)
The adherent-invasive Escherichia coli (AIEC) pathotype could play a role in the course of Crohn’s disease. This is characterized by its capacity to adhere to and to invade intestinal epithelial cells as well as to replicate ...
Martínez Medina, Margarita (Date of defense: 2009-12-22)
La malaltia de Crohn és una malaltia inflamatòria intestinal crònica d'etiologia encara desconeguda. Actualment es pensa que hi participen factors genètics i immunològics que confereixen una susceptibilitat a l'hoste, i ...
Lluansí Salis, Aleix (Date of defense: 2024-07-01)
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of immune-mediated chronic inflammatory intestinal conditions of multifactorial etiology. Unfortunately, there are still some gaps in its pathophysiology and, therefore, in its ...
Oliver Galindo, Lia (Date of defense: 2024-07-17)
ENG- Intestinal microbiota, a diverse community of microorganisms residing in the gastrointestinal tract, plays a crucial role in digestion, nutrient absorption, and immune system regulation, thus influencing overall gut ...
Miquel Cusachs, Josep Oriol (Date of defense: 2021-12-17)
The gut microbiota (GM) plays a pivotal role in the maintenance of gut homeostasis, and the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) which includes Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). The degree of ...
Duran Sidera, Adrià (Date of defense: 2023-11-14)
Pancreatic cancer (PaC) is the deadliest of all tumours, with a 5-year survival below 12% and a mortality/incidence ratio of 94.5%. One of the main reasons behind this dismal prognosis is the diagnosis of the disease at ...
Amoedo Cibeira, Joan (Date of defense: 2020-12-15)
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a group of immune-based pathologies that affect the digestive tract, causing chronic inflammatory diseases processes. In recent years, the microbial communities that inhabit the human ...