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Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is the standard treatment option for non-muscleinvasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). The mechanism of BCG relies on live mycobacteria inducing an immune response in the bladder wall and is therefore ...

Lymphedema is a progressive disease that can significantly deteriorate the quality of life of patients if not treated appropriately. The conventional treatment for lymphedema has been conservative, with the continuous use ...

With a 3% prevalence in the general population, intracranial aneurysms (IA) are not rare. Asymptomatic and unruptured aneurysms are harmless, but growth is associated with rupture risk. Other characteristics, such as their ...

The clinical course of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is characterized by relapses and spontaneous or drug-induced remissions, but it cannot be predicted by currently known parameters. The priority of this thesis was to ...

Together osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee, epicondylitis of the elbow and tendinopathy of the shoulder rotator cuff (RC) affect 5.9% to 13.8% of the general population worldwide. These conditions cause significant disability ...

BACKGROUND: Fat transfer is a basic technique in the field of plastic surgery, but so far, there is very little information about what happens to fat grafts after transfer. The aim of this dissertation was to determine ...

The incidence of acute diverticulitis – common disease in Western countries – is increasing worldwide. Acute diverticulitis can be divided by its degree of severity into uncomplicated and complicated forms. Accurate diagnosis ...

Endovascular aortic treatment involving all aortic segments has replaced open surgery in most patients during the last three decades. Although the endovascular techniques have significantly decreased invasiveness, preoperative ...