Search for dissertations about: "non healing ulcer"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words non healing ulcer.

2. 1. The roles of microRNAs in skin wound healing

   Author : Xi Li; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : Skin is an essential biological barrier of the human body, and wound healing is the fundamental physiological process to keep its integrity. Chronic non-healing wounds are growing socioeconomic and health concerns, which longs for more understanding of their pathophysiology to discover effective treatments. READ MORE

4. 2. Elderly patients with slow-healing leg ulcers : an embodied suffering

   Author : Britt Ebbeskog; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Communion; dressing change; elderly care; embodiment; intervention; lived experiences; phenomenological-hermeneutic; prevalence; nursing care; slow-healing wound; suffering and venous leg ulcer.;

   Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate leg and foot ulcer patients, from the perspective of a population in a specific urban area, and to illuminate these individual patients' lived experience of living with slow-healing venous leg ulcers. Study (I) was a survey of chronic leg and foot ulcers and study (II) was a follow-up study of the wound healing rate and an intervention study. READ MORE

5. 3. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy as adjunctive treatment of chronic diabetic foot ulcers

   Author : Magnus Löndahl; Lund Medicin; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; hyperbaric oxygen therapy; Diabetes Mellitus; foot ulcer; HRQL; cardiac function;

   Abstract : Chronic diabetic foot ulcers are a source of major concern for both patients and health care systems. Oxygen deficiency plays a major role in the pathogenesis of these ulcers. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has been proposed as a medical treatment for diabetic foot ulcers, but the clinical utility has not been established. READ MORE

6. 4. Development of squamous cell carcinoma in venous ulcers

   Author : Baldur Baldursson; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : cancer epidemiology; human papillomavirus; p53; p21; bc1-2; Ki-67; wound healing; chronic ulcers; skin carcinogenesis; growth factors;

   Abstract : Apart from numerous case reports, studies on the epidemiology and the outcome of malignant transformation in venous leg ulcers are scarce. Even the aetiology is unsettled, and the genetic effects of the chronic ulcer state only partly studied. READ MORE

7. 5. The contribution of epidermal apoptosis to the clinical outcome of Leishmania aethiopica induced cutaneous Leishmaniasis, and its laboratory diagnosis using low cost culture media

   Author : Geremew Tasew Guma; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : Background: Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL) induced by Leishmania aethiopica has two clinical manifestations: ulcerating, self-healing CL and non-ulcerating, non-healing CL. The grossly disfiguring multiple nodules on the face and exterior surface of limbs during non-ulcerative CL are sometimes misdiagnosed as other skin infections. READ MORE