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Guzmán Heras, Lidia Elizabeth (Date of defense: 2023-07-05)
The increase of elderly population in Spain is one of the most important challenges for their caregivers, healthcare professionals, and the society in general. The elderly population has the highest incidence rate of ...
Guerrero Caballero, Laura (Date of defense: 2021-12-16)
Introduction: In the current socioeconomic context, addressing chronic diseases forces us to seek new, more efficient, strategies for complex chronic patients care. Family care can improve complex chronic patient management, ...
Gich Fullà, Jordi (Date of defense: 2013-07-18)
The clinical manifestations of Multiple Sclerosis are motor, sensitive, cerebellar and cognitive alterations. It evolves with a high degree of physical and cognitive disability. The “EM-line! Project” has its origins in ...
Loma-Osorio Ricón, Pablo (Date of defense: 2020-07-03)
Introduction and aims: In recent years, public access defibrillation programs have exponentially increased the availability of automatic external defibrillators in public spaces but there are no data on their performance ...
Pinsach Abuin, Mel·lina (Date of defense: 2019-01-30)
Brugada syndrome (BrS) is a cardiac electrical disease with high susceptibility to sudden cardiac death. Approximately 25-30% of BrS patients are explained by pathogenic variants in coding sequences of cardiac ion channels, ...
Fernandez Falgueras, Anna (Date of defense: 2022-12-13)
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is defined as a natural and unexpected death due to cardiac etiology. In addition, when the cause of death remains unexplained after a complete autopsy, a cardiac arrhythmia is suspected as a ...
Díaz Roldán, Ferran (Date of defense: 2023-07-03)
Childhood obesity is one of the most important public health problems and is associated with cardiometabolic risk factors (CMR). Low-grade inflammation plays a prominent role in the development of cardiometabolic alterations ...
Rodríguez Cabeza, Patricia (Date of defense: 2017-10-03)
Risk of cerebral hypoperfusion during carotid endarterectomy arterial is the main limiting factor of this technique. Shunt allows partial maintenance of cerebral perfusion during clamping. We analyze the hemodynamic ...
Latorre Luque, Jèssica (Date of defense: 2020-03-04)
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has become the leading cause of chronic liver disease worldwide, involving a spectrum of disturbances mainly characterized by fatty acid infiltration and fat deposition in the liver ...
Muñoz San Martín, María (Date of defense: 2021-09-15)
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is considered a chronic inflammatory and neurodegenerative disease, characterized by the existence of demyelinated areas in the central nervous system, infiltration of inflammatory cells in the ...
Gispert-Saüch Puigdevall, Montse (Date of defense: 2018-03-02)
We studied the relationship between the circulating levels of the innate immune system molecules (α-defensins and BPI) and the acquired immune system (IgG, IgA and IgM) with obesity and cardiometabolic risk factors in ...
Servitja Tormo, Ramon (Date of defense: 2024-03-15)
Pain in the buttock region without lumbar pathology will lead us to focus the study on the region of the subgluteal space. This is defined as the deep gluteal syndrome. The deep gluteal syndrome is a condition with a very ...
Franquet Bonet, Álvaro (Date of defense: 2021-12-01)
The objective of this thesis is to explore in greater depth the process of creating a public health observatory and the processing of the information needed to take territorial decisions in the county of Alt Empordà. The ...
Solés Tarrés, Irene (Date of defense: 2023-06-14)
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative genetic disorder with no effective treatment characterized by motor discoordination, deficits in cognitive function (acquiring new knowledges, memory, understanding…), and ...
Verdura Martínez, Sara (Date of defense: 2024-06-07)
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a challenging disease to treat. Despite several decades of improved clinical progress, there is an unmet need to investigate how therapeutic resistance develops. In particular, managing ...
Comas Vila, Ferran (Date of defense: 2021-05-14)
Hydrogen sulfide (H2S), regarded as the third gasotransmitter, plays diverse physiological and pathological roles in the body along with another two gasotransmitters, including nitric oxide (NO) and carbon monoxide (CO). ...
Cabezas Llobet, Núria (Date of defense: 2019-02-28)
Huntington's disease (MH) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by a motor dysfunction, cognitive impairment, and psychiatric symptoms. At neuropathological level, it has been described that cognitive ...
Cortada Almar, Èric (Date of defense: 2020-11-24)
The sodium channel β2 subunit is a component of the voltage-gated sodium channel (NaV), a large multimeric protein complex. In the heart, NaV is mainly composed of a pore-forming α subunit, NaV1.5, and two associated ...
Baleato González, Sandra (Date of defense: 2012-12-12)
PURPOSE: To determine the role of MRI and MR spectroscopy (MRSI) in the diagnosis of infertility. To stablish normal values of the metabolites involved in the spermatogenesis (choline, creatine, and lipids) and to quantify ...
Balló Peña, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2020-07-31)
Electronic Health Record are legal documents where all the bio-psycho-social information of care received by the healthcare system is recorded throughout their lives. The first causes of death in Spain are cardiovascular ...