Search for dissertations about: "effects therapeutic use"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 254 swedish dissertations containing the words effects therapeutic use.

  2. 1. Plasma as a Therapeutic Principle in Clinical Practice : With Special Reference to Sweden

    Author : Rut A C Norda; Bo Nilsson; Bernd G Stegmayr; Kristina Nilsson-Ekdahl; Volker Kretschmer; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Immunology; adverse effects; contact activation; plasma exchange; plasma storage; severe sepsis; therapeutic apheresis; transfusion; Immunologi;

    Abstract : The newly established Swedish Apheresis Registry makes it possible to do national inter-center comparisons. This study was undertaken to describe and analyze the use of therapeutic apheresis and the adverse effects in such therapy. READ MORE

  4. 2. Adherence to drug treatment and interpretation of treatment effects

    Author : Erik Berglund; Per Lytsy; Ragnar Westerling; Tove Hedenrud; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Medication adherence; Health-seeking behaviour; Chronic treatment; Cardiovascular treatments; Anticoagulants therapeutic use; Treatment outcome; Effect measure; Quality of care; Medical decision-making; Necessity-concern framework; Choice behaviour; Risk communication; Risk perception; Health communication; Social Medicine; Socialmedicin;

    Abstract : Suboptimal adherence to medical treatments is prevalent across several clinical conditions and can lead to treatment failure. Adherence is a far from fully explored phenomenon and there is little knowledge about how patients interpret treatment effects. READ MORE

  5. 3. Nucleic acid based therapeutic approaches

    Author : Joacim Elmén; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Nucleic acid therapy comprises several approaches based on nucleic acid as the active therapeutic component to treat human disease. Antisense and short interfering RNA (siRNA) are two gene-silencing techniques in this category. Based on nucleic acid sequence recognition both techniques inhibit gene expression. READ MORE

  6. 4. Therapeutic potential of extracellular vesicles

    Author : Oscar Wiklander; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are nanometer-sized, lipid membrane enclosed, vesicles that are secreted by most, if not all, cells and contain macromolecular material of the source cell including lipids, proteins and various nucleic acid species. Over the last two decades, EVs have been recognized as important mediators of cell-to-cell communication that influence both physiological and pathological conditions. READ MORE

  7. 5. Alcohol Use and Secondary Prevention in Psychiatric Care

    Author : Christina Nehlin Gordh; Anders Fredriksson; Lennart Jansson; Leif Grönbladh; Agneta Öjehagen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : hazardous alcohol use; risk drinking; brief intervention; screening methods; staff training; Psychiatry; Psykiatri;

    Abstract : Although alcohol plays an important role in psychiatric morbidity, there is a general lack of strategies within psychiatric care to intervene at alcohol problems in an early stage (secondary prevention). The aim of this thesis was to increase knowledge of adequate forms of secondary alcohol prevention in psychiatric care. READ MORE