Research in Surgery

Overview

The area of Research in Surgery includes more than 50 investigators distributed in five groups of research focused respectively on general and thoracic surgery, cranio-maxillofacial surgery, spinal disorders, skeletal reconstructive surgery and musculoskeletal tissue engineering. Their activity combines basic and clinical research together with robotics and virtual surgical planning. Their aims are to advance in the understanding of the causes and mechanisms underlying surgical pathologies, to deliver new knowledge and better integrated patient-centered solutions, improving surgical care and outcomes.

Publications

111

total

446

impact factor

4.02

average impact factor

Group Leader: Lluïsa Montesinos Magraner

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The Emerging Research Group of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation has managed to establish different lines of research from the field of rehabilitation. Currently have been developing and validating technological instruments, using smartphone technology and virtual reality system, for improve the physical activity levels and/or rehabilitation process of chronic spinal cord injured, COPD or hemiparetic stroke patients. For other hand, the group carries out different pharmacological studies in patients with acute traumatic spinal cord injury (allogenic adult stem mesenchymal cells), chronic low back pain associated with vertebral body endplate bone edema (treatment with PP353), spinal muscular atrophy and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Furthermore, we have been working in the research of biomarkers to monitor and predict stroke recovery in patients undergoing intensive rehabilitation therapy. Finally, part of our group are focused in perform a multidisciplinary protocol for diagnosis and treatment of oropharyngeal dysphagia.

Research in Surgery

Overview

Publications

Group Leader: Lluïsa Montesinos Magraner

Research Areas