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    • Race against time : performance of emergency medical dispatch centres in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest 

      Byrsell, Fredrik (Inst för klinisk forskning och utbildning, Södersjukhuset / Dept of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, 2024-04-26)
      Background: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is an acute medical condition where the heart suddenly stops beating, thus causing blood circulation to cease in the body with irreversible brain damage and death if not ...

    • Radiation dose and related risk in interventional cardiology 

      Karambatsakidou, Angeliki (Inst för onkologi-patologi / Dept of Oncology-Pathology, 2020-12-21)
      Cardiac catheterization procedures are classified as high radiation dose procedures, European Directive 2013/59/Euratom, and may result in skin injuries (deterministic effects) and/or increased cancer risk (stochastic ...

    • Radiation dose and x-ray beam modelling in diagnostic and interventional radiology using Monte Carlo methods 

      Omar, Artur (Inst för onkologi-patologi / Dept of Oncology-Pathology, 2020-11-03)
      Although medical imaging is essential for the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of medical conditions, the radiation dose from x-ray examinations is one of the largest contributors to the exposure of the world’s ...

    • Radiation dose-, contrast media- and image quality optimization in computed tomography 

      Thor, Daniel (Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2019-10-31)
      Computed tomography (CT) was introduced to medicine in the early 1970s, which brought slice imaging into wide use for the first time. Today, CT is an essential part of radiological diagnostics, and is used for a wide range ...

    • Radiation-induced toxicity and secondary malignant neoplasms in radiotherapy of intrathoracic tumors 

      Lideståhl, Anders (Inst för onkologi-patologi / Dept of Oncology-Pathology, 2024-02-23)
      Radiation oncology is essential in the treatment of cancer, with approximately fifty percent of oncology patients undergoing radiotherapy (RT) at some stage of their disease management. Significant progress is being made ...

    • Radiation-induced vascular inflammation : translational studies 

      Christersdottir Björklund, Tinna (Inst för molekylär medicin och kirurgi / Dept of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, 2019-04-18)
      Radiotherapy has been shown to increase the risk for localized cardiovascular disease in a growing population of cancer survivors. However, irradiation, as a risk factor for vascular complications in free flap surgery, has ...

    • Radiographic quality workflow : in the digitized healthcare environment 

      Hillergård, Kerstin (Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2013-10-04)
      This thesis emphasizes two different aspects — how radiographers use knowledge in image production work and perceive a radiographic quality workflow in the digitized healthcare environment using PACS — both because these ...

    • Radiologic diagnosis of appendicitis in children 

      Kaiser, Sylvie (Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa / Department of Women's and Children's Health, 2004-04-23)
      Suspected appendicitis is the most common cause of emergency abdominal surgery in children. Because of the often atypical clinical findings, the diagnosis of appendicitis is difficult and may be delayed. Perforation has ...

    • Radiological evaluation of bone marrow transplanted multipel myeloma patients 

      Ågren, Brita (Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 1997-08-22)
      This thesis concerns radiological evaluation of bone marrow transplanted multiple myeloma (MM) patients. The diagnostic radiological modalities evaluated are: conventional radiography (RG); bone scintigraphy (BS); bone ...

    • Radiological imaging of pulmonary emphysema : preoperative evaluation of candidates for lung volume reduction surgery 

      Cederlund, Kerstin (Institutionen för kirurgisk vetenskap / Department of Surgical Science, 2002-05-07)
      Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) for pulmonary emphysema, first described by Brantigan in 1957, was re-introduced by Cooper et al in 1995. From a surgical point of view, information on the extent and distribution of ...

    • Radiomics in cancer prognosis : applications and limitations of quantitative texture analysis 

      Zhang, Yi-Hua (Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2018-11-16)
      Medical imaging has become an integral part of clinical diagnostics since the discovery of X-rays at the end of the 19th century. Recent advances in computing power have opened up the possibility to extract quantitative ...

    • Radiotherapy in advanced head and neck cancer 

      Embring, Anna (Inst för onkologi-patologi / Dept of Oncology-Pathology, 2023-03-17)
      Head and neck cancer (HNC) is a group of malignant tumours located in the mucosa of the upper aero-digestive tract. The location of the tumour, close to several critical organs, can often result in great suffering for the ...

    • Radiotherapy in prostate cancer : information, quality of life and prostate volume 

      Majumder, Khairul (Inst för onkologi-patologi / Dept of Oncology-Pathology, 2016-05-04)
      Prostate cancer (PC) is the most widespread form of cancer among men in Sweden, with an annual incidence of approximately 10,000 new cases. Treatment of localized prostate cancer is controversial. Curative intended treatments ...

    • Randomised clinical trials with hyperbaric oxygen in COVID-19 and Long COVID : transcriptomic insights into benefits and harms 

      Kjellberg, Anders (Inst för fysiologi och farmakologi / Dept of Physiology and Pharmacology, 2024-01-08)
      The flow from transcription of genes through translation and processing of proteins is a common basis for all life. Redox homeostasis is crucial for the defence against oxidative stress. We adapt through hormesis; non-lethal ...

    • Rapid assessment of drug susceptibility and mutation to resistance in mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing type 

      Werngren, Jim (Institutionen för mikrobiologi, tumör- och cellbiologi / Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, 2006-11-24)
      The increasing rates of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) worldwide, are seriously threatening the TB control efforts. The present thesis was aimed at increasing the knowledge about the role of different factors, ...

    • Rapid detection of drug resistance and genetic characterisation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Honduras 

      Rosales, Senia (Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2010-12-17)
      Background: New challenges for tuberculosis (TB) control are emerging in the 21st century. The deadly combination TB/HIV as well as the development and spread of new forms of drug resistance are some examples. In this ...

    • Rapid diagnosis of sepsis pathogens 

      Almuhayawi, Mohammed (Inst för laboratoriemedicin / Dept of Laboratory Medicine, 2016-09-12)
      Sepsis is a growing global healthcare concern and is related to high morbidity and mortality. Studies have repeatedly demonstrated that the rapid administration of appropriate antimicrobial treatment is crucial for patient ...

    • Rapid microbiological diagnosis of infections in sterile body fluids including blood 

      Altun, Osman (Inst för laboratoriemedicin / Dept of Laboratory Medicine, 2020-04-24)
      Infections of normally sterile body fluids (SBF) including blood, cerebrospinal-, pleural-, peritoneal-, pericardial and synovial fluid are critical and require early diagnosis and rapid initiation of appropriate antimicrobial ...

    • Rapid tests for multidrug resistant tuberculosis in low income settings 

      Bwanga, Freddie (Institutionen för mikrobiologi, tumör- och cellbiologi / Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, 2010-09-03)
      Tuberculosis (TB) is at epidemic levels in the resource-limited settings (RLSs) due to HIV/AIDS, poverty and insufficient TB control programmes. These factors are also contributing to TB drug resistance. Patients with ...

    • Rare complications in cancer surgery 

      Björklund, Johan (Inst för molekylär medicin och kirurgi / Dept of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, 2023-04-28)
      Background: Curative cancer surgery aims to reduce mortality and morbidity related symptoms caused by the cancer. The surgery is often done at a time when the patient is presenting lesser or no symptoms and at a time when ...