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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"RD Surgery"”.
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Psychological factors and experience of patients undergoing total hip replacement
… should be considered throughout the hip surgery journey. Interventions, such as use of a reflective diary and talking to former patients who have undergone hip replacement, will enhance self-efficacy and adjustment of expectations, thus promoting better pain control, functional recovery …
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Design and fabricating of an orthotic insole by using Kinect® XBOX gaming sensor scanner and 3D printer
… 360 gaming sensor scanner and 3D printer. In order to fulfill medical requirement, it was invented to help medical field to overcome their problem of high 3D scanner cost, handcrafted fabrication, inventory problem, and long fabrication time. In term of process, author had proven the potential …
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Modelling of pad support for foot osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a disease that affects joints or ankles of human body that will cause the patients of this disease feels pain, swelling and stiffness in the joint. Human who was affected by the foot osteoarthritis (OA) disease always have problem in doing daily activities due to the pain at …
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Hydrothermally extracted nanohydroxyapatite from bovine bone as bioceramic and biofiller in bionanocomposite
Bones have an extraordinary capacity to restore and regenerate in case of minor injury. However, major injuries need orthopedic surgeries that required bone implant biomaterials. In this study, n-HAP powder was extracted from bovine bone by hydrothermal and calcined at different calcination …
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Intelligent modelling and control with fatigue reduction for fes induced knee joint of hemiplegic for rehabilitation
… the amount of electrical stimulation in order to reduce the muscle fatigue. This control strategy has shown up to 32.6% minimisation of the electrical stimulation in the simulation studies and 35.89 % reduction the muscle fatigue in the experimental work. Therefore, this control strategy …
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Study on the performance enhancement of biomedical implants: in vitro test under UV irradiation of titanium anodised in mixed electrolyte
… and crystal structure using x-ray diffraction (XRD); absorption analysis using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR); and the hydrophilicity using water contact angle (WCA). TiO2 was then subjected in vitro testing to assess the bioactivity of TiO2 surface; that is the apatite formation …
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Development and characterisation of medicated wound dressings for chronic wound healing
Chronic wounds are difficult to heal and exhibit physiological features including prolonged inflammatory phase, mixed bacterial flora resistance and formation of biofilms, ineffectiveness of topical antimicrobials and high volumes of wound exudate. Polymeric gels of Polyox (POL) and blends of POL …
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The role of SRC family kinases in the development and progression of prostate cancer
… pathways, employed by prostate cancer cells in order to proliferate and migrate in low androgen environment. Hormone-sensitive prostate cancer cells rely on androgens for their growth needs with androgens acting through the androgen receptor (AR). In castration-resistant prostate cancer AR can be …
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An investigation of liver blood flow in systemic inflammation
… dysfunction syndrome, often resulting in cardiac, respiratory or renal failure. There is no specific treatment for multi-organ dysfunction syndrome and the practice of intensive care medicine has developed to support organ function in this period while the source of the illness is treated …
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The role of the systemic inflammatory response, the JAK STAT pathway and the MAPK pathway in the prognosis of resectable pancreatic cancer
… and the only potential cure is major surgery with adjuvant chemotherapy. The outcomes of surgery are disappointing with a median survival of only15-17 months and operative mortality and morbidity figures of 5-10% and 40% respectively. This abysmal prognosis is likely due to the highly …
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The effect of intravenous fluids and other factors on patient recovery following elective abdominal surgery
… recovery for patients undergoing major abdominal surgery. During clinical studies we have investigated some of the factors influencing postoperative recovery as well as suggesting strategies to improve patient care. The main focus of the scientific work of this thesis is the role of intravenous …
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Peri-operative cardiac morbidity: prediction, prevention and the novel role of B-type natriuretic peptide
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in surgical patients and because of this a number of strategies have been utilised to attempt to predict the cardiac risk of surgery. Theoretically, accurate pre-operative risk stratification would allow patients at low risk to have their surgery …
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Management of asymptomatic inguinal hernias
Hernia surgery remains one of the most common operations carried out by general surgeons worldwide with more than 800,000 repairs performed in the USA alone in 2003. Advancement in surgical technique has meant fewer recurrences are now encountered with figures dropping to less than 2% using the …
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Developing an evidence based approach to follow up in breast cancer
… randomised controlled trial is the gold standard for comparing one intervention with another, and any evidence for the benefit of routine clinic visits from randomised trials would be of particular value. Trials which have compared differing frequencies of traditional follow up visits or have …
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An investigation of the systemic inflammatory response in the peri-operative period in patients undergoing potentially curative surgery for colorectal cancer
… attributable to the disease. Despite a trend towards earlier presentation and improvements in the quality of surgery many patients still die of their disease. Overall about a third of patients undergoing surgery for potentially curative disease will die within five years. Recent work has meant …
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Outcomes and optimal treatment of patients with Acromegaly
This thesis defines mortality in acromegaly in a modern patient cohort, elucidates underlying explanations for the increased mortality and explores the impact of treatment, focussing on somatostatin analogue therapy. Results confirm there remains a 30% increase in mortality in patients with …
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Clinical assessment of arterial stiffness
… arterial stiffness is associated with ageing, cardiovascular disease diabetes and renal failure. The aims of this thesis were to investigate the reproducibility of a tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) based ultrasound system to calculate indices of arterial stiffness, and to investigate changes in …
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Systematic and local regulation of angiogenesis, and other adaptations, in response to hypoxia
… Homeostatic regulation mechanisms in the cardiovascular and respiratory systems rapidly act to maintain oxygen supply to sustain normal metabolism; prolonged exposure to a low oxygen tension initiates changes in gene expression. In control of many of these responses is a transcription factor …
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The role of EGFR, HER 2-4, heregulin and downstream signalling in prostate adenocarcinoma
Background Currently evidence regarding influence of the HER tyrosine kinase family - EGFR, HER2, HER3 and HER4 - during disease progression in prostate adenocarcinoma is conflicting – both poor prognosis and no influence on outcome are reported. A small cohort pilot study of paired hormone …
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The application of the Pre-operative Intrusive Thoughts Inventory (Crockett et al. 2007) in an elective hernia repair surgery population & clinical research portfolio
… for consideration of emotional distress prior to surgery. Measures of pre-operative anxiety have been developed and include the Pre-operative Intrusive Thoughts Inventory (PITI). The aim of the present study is to evaluate the application of the PITI in a mid- to older-adult population awaiting …
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