Endovascular techniques are essential in treating vascular conditions, to ensure safe and rapid recovery, particularly for elderly and vulnerable patients. Approximately 60% of vascular treatments currently employ endovascular ...

Osteoarthritis is a common disease in which patients experience joint pain and functional limitations. In knee osteoarthritis, the bone and cartilage are often damaged. Serious damage at older age is often treated with ...

The aim of this thesis was to take the important next steps to understand the role of sleep in preterm development. Subsequently, the groundwork is laid to design an intervention aimed to improve sleep of preterm infants ...

An overview of dengue epidemiology in Indonesia over 45 years showed an increase in dengue infections in the adolescent age group since 1999. Clinical and laboratory manifestations in children were mostly fever, petechiae, ...

Despite centuries of research progress, cancer remains challenging to understand and treat, persisting as a prominent contributor to global mortality. Childhood cancer is rare, however it remains a leading cause of death ...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a noninvasive treatment that uses electromagnetic pulses to stimulate nerve cells. For decades, it is attempted to use high frequency trains of TMS pulses (repetitive or rTMS) ...

Epithelial tissues form regulated barriers that separate the outside world from the internal environment, and come in various forms to enable their organ-specific functions. All these intricate epithelial topologies need ...

Despite great efficacy in various cancers, current immune checkpoint blockade therapies remain insufficient for most patients. These therapies are limited by a lack of response, the development of resistance and the presence ...

The number of patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) is increasing worldwide. Many patients with CVD are 75 years of age or older. Frailty and geriatric impairments such as problems with thinking (cognitive impairment), ...

Aneuploidy, defined as a karyotype aberration that differs from a multiple of the haploid genome, is a prominent feature of cancer. Aneuploidy commonly arises as a result of chromosomal instability (CIN), when chromosomes ...