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Fall 2021

Nomani, Ali Z

Computed Tomography Perfusion (CTP) is a rapidly acquired minimally invasive mean to assess brain perfusion dynamics, collaterals and infarct growth in acute ischemic stroke (AIS). It helps differentiate expected stroke evolution and speed of core growth after arterial occlusion. The goals of...

Spring 2021

Carr, Frances

Decision-making is required for daily living. Specific decision-making ability in the area of finances is complex, and determining an individual’s capacity requires an in-depth assessment. In the presence of communication disorders such as aphasia, such assessments can become challenging, and...

Fall 2021

Aziz, Bishoi H. G.

Background Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic cholestatic disease of unknown etiology, whose only definitive management is liver transplantation. One of the dilemmas that PSC patients face is the recurrence of the disease in the graft, which may shorten the organ’s life expectancy...

Spring 2021

Yogasundaram, Haran

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...

Spring 2020

Heffernan, Courtney

Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is a communicable disease that has an airborne route of transmission. It is a disease of poverty that exists in every country of the world. Within high-income, low TB burden settings, the disease increasingly affects vulnerable and underserved population groups who are...

Fall 2020

Lingyu Xu

Heart failure (HF) is a progressive and complex syndrome with poor prognosis, characterized by a wide array of cardiac structural and functional abnormalities. Patients are typically categorized according to left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), with reduced ejection fraction defined as...

Spring 2020

Chiang Jurado, Diana Alejandra

Background: Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE) colonization is common in liver transplant candidates. In addition to the risk of invasive enterococcal infections, dominance of VRE colonization in the gut may contribute to low microbiota diversity playing a role in the transplant outcomes. The...

Spring 2020

Sutton, Reed T

Clinical care pathways have been developed with the goal to standardize and improve quality of care. At the University of Alberta, clinical care pathways have been developed, and are currently in use, for inflammatory bowel disease patents experiencing disease flare. However, there is limited...

Fall 2020

Jackson, Marcus

This thesis examines the role of community completeness in the health and wellbeing of older adults. Community completeness is a concept commonly used in urban planning policies by cities, however utilizations and definitions vary between locations. As the older adult population in Canada and...

Spring 2020

Iyer, Aishwarya

Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) is heterogeneous form of T-cell lymphoma of which, Mycosis fungoides (MF) is the most common entity. In early stages MF presents on skin as a scaly plaques that in advanced stages develop into tumors and may disseminate to other sites such as lymph node and...