Publications by authors named "B Sven"
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- The study investigates prolonged opioid use after lumbar spinal fusion surgery in Belgium, finding that 32.8% of patients continued using opioids six months post-operation.
- It highlights that lower pre-operative back pain is associated with a higher likelihood of prolonged use and less improvement in disability outcomes.
- The research stresses the need for personalized pain management strategies to minimize opioid dependence and improve functional recovery after surgery.
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of different dosages of retarded vs. rapid release of bone morphogenic protein 2 (BMP2) at different recipient sites. Porous composite poly(D,L-lactic acid) (PDLLA)/CaCO3 scaffolds were loaded with three different dosages of rhBMP2 (24 µg, 48 µg and 96 µg) and implanted, together with blank controls, both into non-healing defects of the mandibles and into the gluteal muscles of 24 adult male Wistar rats.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe major outer surface proteins of Lyme disease spirochaetes are differentially expressed in different isolates. Borrelia afzelii strain F1 expresses none, or very low amounts, of the OspA and OspB proteins. To elucidate the mechanisms that control the expression of these abundant surface proteins the ospAB operon of B.
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