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Vila Currius, Mireia (Date of defense: 2020-03-09)
The tumor necrosis factor (TNF) acts as a potent inducer of inflammation in autoimmune diseases like Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis. Current available treatments are based on TNF inhibition such as infliximab and ...
Gimeno Cajal, Alfredo Eduardo (Date of defense: 2022-04-22)
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential in the management of patients with glioblastoma, providing useful information for diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutic planning. Although some presurgical and postsurgical ...
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 ...
Bagó Mas, Anna (Date of defense: 2022-03-18)
More than half of spinal cord injury patients develop central neuropathic pain, which is largely refractory to current treatments. Developing neuropathic pain has a high impact on the quality of life becoming an emotional, ...
Muñoz Montplet, Carles (Date of defense: 2022-03-01)
The algorithm for calculating absorbed dose in external radiotherapy Acuros XB (AXB), based on the solution of the Boltzmann equation, has shown to achieve a higher level of accuracy than the preceding convolution/superposition ...
Espín Sánchez, Rufina (Date of defense: 2023-06-16)
Introduction: Hypertension is the common cardiovascular risk factor and affects 20 to 50% of the population. Treatment, with drugs or not, involves improving lifestyle. Olive leaf extract has traditionally been taken to ...
Jurado Bruggeman, Diego (Date of defense: 2023-03-16)
Introduction Different types of dose calculation algorithms for external beam radiation therapy with MV photons coexist nowadays. The oldest ones are convolution/superposition (C/S), which consider all media as water of ...