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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 ...
Carrera Boix, Alícia (Date of defense: 2022-11-04)
Urinary incontinence (UI) is a dysfunction that has a very negative impact on the quality of life of women who suffer from it (low self-esteem, shame, restriction of social contacts, etc.). Different factors involved in ...
Zabalza Cerdeiriña, Michel (Date of defense: 2015-12-09)
La enfermedad cardiovascular es un trastorno complejo, multifactorial, poligénico y con un importante componente ambiental. Este grupo de enfermedades, y en particular la cardiopatía isquémica, ocasionan una gran morbilidad ...
Rodríguez Jareño, Mari Cruz (Date of defense: 2016-07-08)
Pocas publicaciones estudian la utilidad preventiva de los exámenes rutinarios de vigilancia de la salud de los trabajadores. Aplicando técnicas cuantitativas y cualitativas a la información proporcionada mediante ...
Soriano Rodríguez, Pilar (Date of defense: 2015-10-13)
WNT5A is a protein with proinflammatory properties recently related to insulin resistance. It is believed that this protein might be regulated by SFRP5, which sequesters WNT5A exerting its anti-inflammatory actions and ...