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Exploring the Association Between Frailty and Adverse Clinical Outcomes in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
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Background and Rationale: Chronological age does not always accurately reflect “biological age”, or the extent of physiological reserve an individual possesses to endure stressors. The concept of physiological reserve is best represented by frailty; a multifaceted syndrome or state that...
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Fabry Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure: The Roles of Inflammation and Valvular Heart Disease
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Fabry disease (FD) is an X-linked recessive multisystem disorder and an underrecognized secondary cause of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. A gene variant encoding the enzyme α-galactosidase A results in deficient or absent hydrolase activity, resulting in the accumulation of glycosphingolipids in...
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Fall 2016
Background: Fecal Microbial Transplantation (FMT) has gained popularity due to its efficacy in the treatment of recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (RCDI). RCDI is associated with prolonged courses of antibiotics with high recurrence rates following the initial resolution of symptoms. ...
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Fall 2020
People requiring hemodialysis (HD) have a high cardiovascular mortality rate. Some of the strongest predictors for the increased cardiovascular disease is related to vascular stiffness and fluid overload. Nevertheless, there is an ongoing debate regarding the importance of fluid overload as an...
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Spring 2015
Achievement of normal volume status is crucial in hemodialysis (HD), since both volume overload and volume depletion have been associated with adverse outcome and events. The main objectives of this thesis were to find out the prevalence of volume overload and to identify the best clinical...
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Functional Assessment on the Differential Effect of Mutant p53-Plakoglobin Interaction in Carcinoma Cells
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p53 transcriptional factor and tumor suppressor protein is mutated in over 50% of all cancers and most metastatic tumors. Majority of p53 mutations are single missense mutation and occur in the DNA-binding domain (DBD). The six most common missense mutations in the p53 DBD are known as “hot...
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Spring 2012
Maximizing the possibility of effectively treating cancer requires timely assessment of its aggressiveness and susceptibility to drug intervention. During cancer surgery, the “fast biopsy” is a commonly employed technique to assess a tumor’s invasiveness and guide surgery. Unfortunately, it is...