Department of Clinical Medicine: Recent submissions
Now showing items 21-40 of 2025
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Increased Sphingomyelin and Free Sialic Acid in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Kearns-Sayre Syndrome: New Findings Using Untargeted Metabolomics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background: Kearns-Sayre syndrome (KSS) is caused by duplications and/or deletions of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and is typically diagnosed based on a classic triad of symptoms with chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia ... -
Point-of-care ultrasound of the gastrointestinal tract
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The widespread use of portable ultrasound scanners has promoted the concept of point of care ultrasound (POCUS), namely “ultrasound performed bedside and interpreted directly by the clinician.” The purpose of this short ... -
Staged or Simultaneous Surgery for Colon or Rectal Cancer with Synchronous Liver Metastases: Implications for Study Design and Clinical Endpoints
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-04-06)In patients presenting with colorectal cancer and synchronous liver metastases, the disease burden related to the liver metastasis is the driving cause of limited longevity and, eventually, risk of death. Surgical resection ... -
Epidemiology of forearm fractures in women and men in Norway 2008–2019
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Summary The purpose of this paper is to describe rates of forearm fractures in adults in Norway 2008–2019. Incidence rate of distal forearm fractures declined over time in both sexes. Forearm fracture constitute a ... -
Prehospital identification of acute ischaemic stroke with large vessel occlusion: a retrospective study from western Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background In 2019, the emergency medical services (EMS) covering the western Norway Regional Health Authority area implemented its version of the prehospital clinical criteria G-FAST (Gaze deviation, Facial palsy, Arm ... -
Assessing the content validity of the Manchester–Oxford Foot Questionnaire in surgically treated ankle fracture patients: a qualitative study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background Roughly 10% of fractures in adults are ankle fractures. These injuries are found in both sexes and present with different fracture characteristics. The treatment varies with the patients’ biology and fracture ... -
Histologic chorioamnionitis in extremely preterm births, microbiological findings and infant outcome
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background: Histologic chorioamnionitis (HCA) is most often caused by ascending bacterial infection originating from the cervicovaginal tract. Objectives: To investigate whether HCA with a fetal inflammatory response ... -
Impaired glucose utilization in the brain of patients with delirium following hip fracture
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Alterations in brain energy metabolism have long been proposed as one of several neurobiological processes contributing to delirium. This is supported by previous findings of altered CSF lactate and neuron-specific enolase ... -
Paediatric kidney stone surgery: state-of-the-art review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)While urolithiasis in children is rare, the global incidence is rising, and the volume of minimally invasive surgeries being performed reflects this. There have been many developments in the technology, which have supported ... -
Not every estimate counts – evaluation of cell composition estimation approaches in brain bulk tissue data
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-06-07)Background: Variation in cell composition can dramatically impact analyses in bulk tissue samples. A commonly employed approach to mitigate this issue is to adjust statistical models using estimates of cell abundance derived ... -
Patient Perspectives on Kidney Stone Surgery: A Content Analysis of Instagram Posts by Patients Versus Surgeons
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background Both clinicians and patients use social media to post about health care issues such as kidney stone disease, but their perspectives may differ. Objective To evaluate content and themes regarding kidney ... -
Legume consumption in adults and risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Objectives: This study aimed to systematically review the evidence for associations between consumption of legumes and cardiovascular disease (CVD), type 2 diabetes (T2D) and their risk factors among healthy adults. Methods: ... -
Ureteroscopy in Patients with Urinary Diversion: Outcomes and Lessons Learned from Two European Centres
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background: Ureteroscopy (URS) in patients with urinary diversion is technically challenging. Common difficulties include anastomotic strictures, tortuosity, and failure to cannulate the ureteric orifice. There are few ... -
Spatial immunophenotyping of the tumour microenvironment in non–small cell lung cancer
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Introduction: Immune cells in the tumour microenvironment are associated with prognosis and response to therapy. We aimed to comprehensively characterise the spatial immune phenotypes in the mutational and clinicopathological ... -
The MeSH heading "Call Center" is due for an update: Why we recommend the more precise heading "Emergency Medical Communication Center"
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Call centers can be found in various industries. However as a Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) the term “Call centers” does not reflect the critical purpose of handling emergency calls. We recommend “emergency medical ... -
Dietary fiber and growth, iron status and bowel function in children 0–5 years old: a systematic review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background: While dietary fiber intake is low in many children, the current trend to plant-based diets is associated with higher fiber intake in children raised on these diets. As older reports indicate that diets providing ... -
A Pellino-2 variant is associated with constitutive NLRP3 inflammasome activation in a family with ocular pterygium–digital keloid dysplasia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Ocular pterygium–digital keloid dysplasia (OPDKD) is a rare hereditary disease characterized by corneal ingrowth of vascularized conjunctival tissue early in life. Later, patients develop keloids on fingers and toes but ... -
Medisinsk pedagogikk som forskningsfelt i Norge – en bibliometrisk studie
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)BAKGRUNN Medisinsk pedagogikk er et internasjonalt forskningsfelt i vekst. Imidlertid finnes det ingen oversikt over norske forskeres bidrag til feltet. Hensikten med denne studien var å identifisere og beskrive ... -
Did a New Design of the Oxford Unicompartmental Knee Prosthesis Result in Improved Survival? A Study From the Norwegian Arthroplasty Register 2012-2021
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) has generally shown higher revision rates than TKA, and this is particularly true for the femoral component. A twin-peg femoral component (Oxford Partial) has replaced ... -
A comparison of men and women undergoing septoplasty—the Swedish national septoplasty register
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Objective: Men represent more than two-thirds of septoplasty patients in many studies, but differences between men and women in terms of patient selection or outcome are seldom reported. This study aims to investigate ...