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Sexual life after childbirth and aspects of midwives’ counselling at the postnatal check-up
(2009-02-27)
The overall aim of this thesis was to explore and describe how sexual
life after childbirth is communicated, addressed and reflected upon among
new mothers, fathers and midwives and the impact of leaving first and
minor ...
Elbow kinematics : studies of the elbow joint under normal conditions and after joint replacement
(2010-05-28)
Background: Total elbow arthroplasty (TEA) is used for treatment of
patients with severe pain and disability due to reumatoid arthritis. Long
term results are not as good as for hip and knee replacements. Further
development ...
Etiological aspects of esophageal atresia
(2010-03-05)
to first time mothers. The risk of having an infant with EA was found to increase with maternal age. Infants of women giving birth when 35-40 years and >40 years old showed a 2-fold (OR 2.09; 95% CI 1.09-3.99) and 3-fold (OR 3.04; 95% CI 1.37-6.74) increase...
Body and soul : studies on health and psychosomatic complaints among adolescents in Sweden
(2008-10-07)
Objective: The aim of this thesis is to describe the health of the
adolescents with special emphasis on psychosomatic complaints.
Method: Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used to get a
insight into ...
Studies of histone modification systems in Schizosaccharomyces pombe
(2010-05-26)
150D the reverse transcripts decreased to 25% of wild type levels. In the double mutant dcr1delta/rpb7-G150D the reverse transcript levels remained low indicating that Rpb7 functions upstream of Dcr1 in the RNAi pathway that maintains the H3K9me2...
Influence of renal dysfunction on therapy and prognosis in patients with myocardial infarction
(2010-04-30)
The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the influence of renal dysfunction on the presentation for myocardial infarction (MI), its treatment and outcome. Patients between 2003 and 2006 were selected from the nationwide Swedish ...
Optimization of suicide gene therapy in stem cell transplantation with special reference to the selection marker OuaSelect
(2009-04-22)
For many patients suffering from leukemia and other hematological malignancies, allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) represents the only curative approach. However, an optimal HSCT procedure is yet to ...
Drug use, mortality and outcomes among drug users in the general population and in methadone maintenance treatment
(2010-03-19)
, coercive treatment was analysed among 157 subjects admitted 1989-91 and followed for 18-years. Data was linked between seven registers and medical journals. Criminality, inpatient care, coercive treatment, convictions and prison sentences were lower during...
Prognostic molecular markers of childhood leukemia
(2010-05-21)
and Oncology (NOPHO), we investigated the frequency and clinical implications of the genetic aberration dic(9;20)(p13.2;q11.2), which easily escapes detection by chromosome banding analysis alone. We obtained material and performed interphase FISH on more than...
Recessive parkinsonism, mitochondria and translational regulation
(2008-09-05)
Three genes are known to cause recessive forms of Parkinson disease (PD) in humans: parkin, PINK1 and DJ-1. Of these, the rarest is DJ-1; less than fifty known cases worldwide are due to mutations in DJ-1. Though rare, ...