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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. ...
Perruca Martínez, Cristina (Date of defense: 2022-03-04)
The lack of knowledge and skills in the care of infants in their first years of life often results in frequent paediatric consultations for banal problems and doubts, which are often a result of a low level of health ...
Rabionet Diaz, Marc (Date of defense: 2021-11-08)
Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) accounts for 15-20% of the breast cancers and displays an aggressive profile, poor prognosis, high relapse risk and does not have a targeted therapy. In the last years, breast cancer ...
Matés Ramírez, Jesús (Date of defense: 2018-01-19)
Arrhythmogenic cardiac diseases are the main cause of SCD among the population under 35 years of age. Despite the improvements in genetic diagnosis, the percentage of cases that remain unexplained after genetic analysis ...
Ramió i Torrentà, Lluís (Date of defense: 2014-10-23)
Multiple sclerosis is a chronic neurological disease of the central nervous system with unknown, autoimmune mechanism, and a progressive and disabling course. Lipid-specific oligoclonal IgM bands in cerebrospinal fluid ...
Bosch Calero, Cristina (Date of defense: 2016-03-08)
Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is a sudden cardiac death (SCD) associated disease characterized by the presence of polymorphic or bidirectional ventricular tachycardia during emotional or ...
Puig Alcántara, Josep (Date of defense: 2014-12-03)
Introducción: El infarto cerebral és una de las primeras causas de morbi-mortalidad en nuestra sociedad. La fibrinolisis intravenosa con activador tisular del plasminógeno es el tratamiento de elección en las primeras 4.5 ...
Palomeras, Sònia (Date of defense: 2019-02-27)
The major clinical problem for HER2+ breast cancer target therapies is the acquisition of resistance. The DNA methylation status of the promoter gene region has been described as a common epigenetic alteration for ...
Planella Farrugia, Cristina (Date of defense: 2020-09-10)
Sarcopenia is a multifactorial entity characterized by loss of muscle mass, strength and functionality. People with sarcopenia are more at risk of developing insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and excess fat in the muscle ...
Martinez Moreno, Rebecca (Date of defense: 2021-06-02)
Ion channel mutations can cause defects on the electrical cellular activity, leading to arrhythmogenic diseases also known as channelopathies. Genetic analysis has been a useful tool to identify these mutations as the cause ...
Paz Bermejo, Marco Antonio (Date of defense: 2022-05-30)
Background. The relative efficacy of antihypertensive drugs/combinations is not well known; Identifying the most effective ones, and the patients’ characteristics associated to best performance of the drugs will improve ...
Cunill Clotet, Ruth (Date of defense: 2017-05-08)
There are concerns about the benefit-risk ratio of pharmacologic interventions for ADHD in adults, especially in patients with ADHD and substance use disorder (SUD). Four systematic reviews of randomized placebo-controlled ...
Vázquez Oliva, Gabriel (Date of defense: 2019-02-08)
Acute myocardial infarction incidence rates are very high in those over 74, with a tendency to decrease in recent years in men and are always higher in men than in women. Mortality rates over the age of 74 are very high. ...
Tarradas Pou, Anna (Date of defense: 2017-03-14)
The SCN5A gene encodes the alpha subunit of the cardiac sodium channel (NaV1.5), which is responsible for the influx of sodium ions through membrane of cardiomyocytes. Different evidences suggest that an aberrant expression ...
Chevarría Montesinos, Julio Leonel (Date of defense: 2019-04-25)
The sodium in 24H urine is the standard to quantify the intake. The objective is to develop a method to stimate using isolated urine sample, analyze the reliability, concordance and clinical utility. Observational, ...
Vila Belmonte, Àlex (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)
Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is the most frequent hereditary cause of premature coronary heart disease. The aim of this doctoral thesis is to determine the prevalence of subjects with FH phenotype (FH-P); to describe ...
López Navarro, Eva (Date of defense: 2015-03-27)
L’esterilitat constitueix una part important de la pràctica clínica i de la consegüent despesa sanitària. Tot i el progrés que han experimentat les tècniques de reproducció assistida, aquestes tenen en el moment actual una ...
Calabia Martínez, Jordi (Date of defense: 2014-12-12)
Dins de les mesures en la ona espectral intrarenal, l’índex de resistivitat (IRI) és el més conegut i estudiat com relacionat amb la valoració de la disfunció renal i el seu pronòstic. Així mateix s’ha relacionat amb ...
Carreras Gorgals, David (Date of defense: 2023-05-30)
In a small region of the island of Gran Canaria, 11 cases of sudden cardiac death (SCD) were registered in emotional or physical stress situations in young individuals between 1994 and 2007 in four seemingly unrelated ...
Xifra Villarroya, Gemma (Date of defense: 2017-02-03)
INTRODUCTION: Bariatric surgery (CB) is the only treatment option that has proved capable of solving the DM2. In addition to the impact on weight and comorbidities, the CB has shown a great impact on adipose tissue. THEORY: ...