Browsing by Contributor "Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron"

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    • Anàlisi i modelització de les infeccions per enterovirus en població pediàtrica a Catalunya 

      Font Altés, Ariadna (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2024-09-06)
      Bachelor thesis
      Restricted access - confidentiality agreement
      Covenantee:   Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron / BIOCOM-SC - Biologia Computacional i Sistemes Complexos / Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron
      This final degree project aims to analyze and model enterovirus infections in the pediatric population of Catalonia. Enteroviruses are viruses in the Picornaviridae family that can cause a variety of illnesses, from common ...

    • Apoptosis-like cell death induction and aberrant fibroblast properties in human incisional hernia fascia 

      Diaz, Ramon; Quiles Pérez, María Teresa; Guillem Martí, Jordi; López-Cano, Manuel; Huguet, Pere; Ramon-y-Cajal, Santiago; Reventós, Jaume; Armengol Carrasco, Manuel; Arbós Vilà, Maria Antonia (2011-06-06)
      Article
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      Covenantee:   Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron
      Incisional hernia often occurs following laparotomy and can be a source of serious problems. Although there is evidence that a biological cause may underlie its development, the mechanistic link between the local tissue ...

    • Design and implementation of a 3D-printed intracranial stenosis model 

      Tiberi Antonio, Riccardo (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-01-23)
      Bachelor thesis
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      Covenantee:   Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron

    • Disassembling bacterial extracellular matrix with DNase-coated nanoparticles to enhance antibiotic delivery in biofilm infections 

      Baelo, Aida; Levato, Riccardo; Julian, Esther; Crespo, A.; Astola, Jose; Gavalda, Joan; Engel López, Elisabeth; Mateos Timoneda, Miguel Ángel; Torrents, Eduard (2015-07-10)
      Article
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron
      Infections caused by biofilm-forming bacteria are a major threat to hospitalized patients and the main cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cystic fibrosis. There is an urgent necessity for novel therapeutic ...

    • Effect of allogeneic cell-based tissue-engineered treatments in a sheep osteonecrosis model 

      López Fernández, Alba; Barro Ojed, Víctor; Ortiz Hernández, Mónica; Manzanares, Maria Cristina; Ginebra Molins, Maria Pau; Vives Armengol, Joaquim; Velez Villa, Roberto; Aguirre Canyadell, Màrius (2020-03-27)
      Article
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona / Vall d'Hebron Institut de Recerca / Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron / Universitat de Barcelona
      Osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) is defined as a tissue disorder and successive subchondral bone collapse resulting from an ischemic process, which may progress to hip osteoarthritis. Cell therapy with multipotent ...

    • Effect of functionalization of texturized polypropylene surface by silanization and HBII-RGD attachment on response of primary abdominal and vaginal fibroblasts 

      Quiles Pérez, María Teresa; Rodríguez Contreras, Alejandra María; Guillem Martí, Jordi; Punset Fuste, Miquel; Sánchez Soto, Miguel; López Cano, Manuel; Sabadell García, Jordi; Velasco, Janice; Armengol Carrasco, Manuel; Manero Planella, José María; Arbós Via, Maria Antònia (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2024-03-01)
      Article
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Vall d'Hebron Institut de Recerca / Universitat Internacional de Catalunya / Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red. Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina / Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona / Hospital Sant Rafael - Germanes Hospitalàries / Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron
      Soft tissue defects, such as incisional hernia or pelvic organ prolapse, are prevalent pathologies characterized by a tissue microenvironment rich in fragile and dysfunctional fibroblasts. Precision medicine could improve ...

    • Escalabilitat d'un sistema d'enquestes de salut online 

      López Morales, Javier (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2025-01-22)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   inLab FIB / Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron / Mundo Sano
      Since the coronavirus crisis, many medical and epidemiological entities have been working tirelessly to prevent a similar catastrophe from occurring again. In order to achieve this purpose, actions such as screenings to ...

    • Fabricació d'estructures obertes de titani per rapid prototyping 

      Millán Valera, Alejandro (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-06)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron
      Aquest treball tracta de la fabricació d’ estructures poroses obertes de titani per rapid prototyping, concretament de la caracterització de les mostres que es fabriquin. Aquest estudi s’ ha centrat en la impressió 3D, ...

    • Millora en el sistema de disseny d'amplicons 

      Muiños Vivancos, Laura (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-01-12)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron
      En aquest treball es dissenyen i desenvolupen dues eines, una a partir d’un programa i l’altra obtinguda a partir d’una macro d’Excel, amb l’objectiu d’agilitzar el procés de disseny d’amplicons i millorar l’anàlisi del ...

    • MMPs/TIMPs and inflammatory signalling de-regulation in human incisional hernia tissues 

      Guillem Martí, Jordi; Diaz, Ramon; Quiles Pérez, María Teresa; López-Cano, Manuel; Vilallonga, Ramon; Huguet, Pere; Ramon-y-Cajal, Santiago; Sanchez-Niubo, Albert; Armengol, Manel; Reventós, Jaume; Arbós Vilà, Maria Antonia (2009-11-01)
      Article
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron
      Incisional hernia is a common and important complication of laparotomies. Epidemiological studies allude to an underlying biological cause, at least in a subset of population. Interest has mainly focused on abnormal collagen ...

    • Preventive midline laparotomy closure with a new bioabsorbable mesh: An experimental study 

      López Cano, Manuel; Armengol Carrasco, Manuel; Quiles Pérez, María Teresa; Biel Arrufat, Alejandro; Velasco, Janice; Huguet, Pere; Mestre Vinardell, Aleix; Delgado Garoña, Luis María; Gil Mur, Francisco Javier; Arbós Vilà, Maria Antonia (2013-05)
      Article
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      Covenantee:   Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron
      Background Incisional hernia formation is one of the most frequent complications of midline laparotomies requiring reoperation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of prophylactically placing ...

    • Renovación e implementación de un sistema de integración de un quirófano de hemodinámica 

      Doncel Espejo, Daniel (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2024-01-29)
      Bachelor thesis
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      Covenantee:   Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron
      Mitjançant el present Treball Final d'Estudis es pretén detallar com, des del Departament de Tecnologia Mèdica i altres departaments implicats d'un hospital de tercer nivell, es plantegen, coordinen i emprenen totes les ...

    • Sample size computation for binary composite endpoints 

      Bertran Melines, Alexandra (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Universitat de Barcelona, 2015-10)
      Master thesis
      Restricted access - author's decision
      Covenantee:   Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron
      In this project we propose a way of computing the needed sample size, for a binary endpoint and for a binary composite endpoint, needed to detect the effect of a certain treatment considering a type I error of alpha and a ...