Faculty of Medicine: Recent submissions
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Treatment of the critically ill child in low-resource settings : Essential paediatric emergency and critical care
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-10-25)Introduction: In 2019 approximately 5.2 million children died before the age of 5 years. Around 2.2 million children and young people died between the age of 5‐24 years. A large number of these deaths are attributable to ... -
Lack of Association Between GBA Mutations and Motor Complications in European and American Parkinson’s Disease Cohorts
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background: Motor complications are a consequence of the chronic dopaminergic treatment of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and include levodopa-induced dyskinesia (LIDs) and motor fluctuations (MF). Currently, evidence is on ... -
Optical coherence tomography features and risk of macular hole formation in the fellow eye
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background To investigate the risk of primary macular hole (MH) in the fellow eye, and to evaluate baseline characteristics and optical coherence tomography (OCT) features that precede MH formation in the fellow ... -
Elevated Ambulatory Blood Pressure Measurements are Associated with a Progressive Form of Fabry Disease
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Introduction Published data on hypertension incidence and management in Anderson–Fabry disease are scant and the contribution of elevated blood pressure to organ damage is not well recognized. Aim Therefore, we have ... -
Thromboprophylaxis in primary shoulder arthroplasty does not seem to prevent death: a report from the Norwegian Arthroplasty Register 2005–2018
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background and purpose — There is still no consensus on whether to use thromboprophylaxis as a standard treatment in shoulder replacement surgery. We investigated the use of thromboprophylaxis reported to the Norwegian ... -
In children and adolescents with temporomandibular disorder assembled with juvenile idiopathic arthritis - no association were found between pain and TMJ deformities using CBCT
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Children and adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) may suffer from temporomandibular disorder (TMD). Due to this, imaging diagnosis is crucial in JIA with non-symptomatic TM joint (TMJ) involvement. ... -
Interdisciplinary Approaches Suggested for Children With Multiple Hospital Referrals Presenting With Non-specific Conditions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Aims: To describe the care patterns of patients with repeated referrals to both mental and somatic specialist healthcare, and to study their diagnostic processes. Methods: In a previous register study patients aged 6–12 ... -
Ultrasound imaging for assessing functions of the GI tract
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objective: In the following review we outline how ultrasound can be used to measure physiological processes in the gastrointestinal tract. Approach: We have investigated the potential of ultrasound in assessing ... -
Long-Term Survival in 1,931 Patients With Dizziness: Disease- and Symptom-Specific Mortality
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objective: To evaluate mortality among patients referred for suspected vestibular disorder and to examine whether specific symptoms or disorders predict long-term survival among patients with dizziness or vertigo. Study ... -
Digital Image Analysis of the Proliferation Markers Ki67 and Phosphohistone H3 in Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms: Accuracy of Grading Compared with Routine Manual Hot Spot Evaluation of the Ki67 Index
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP-NENs) are rare epithelial neoplasms. Grading is based on mitotic activity or the percentage of Ki67-positive cells in a hot spot. Routine methods have poor intraobserver ... -
Characteristics, management and survival of ICU patients with coronavirus disease-19 in Norway, March-June 2020. A prospective observational study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background: Norwegian hospitals have operated within capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic. We present patient and management characteristics, and outcomes for the entire cohort of adult (>18 years) COVID-19 patients ... -
Dizziness and physical health are associated with pain in dizzy patients—A cross‐sectional study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background and Purpose Associations between dizziness, health-related quality of life, and musculoskeletal pain have not been systematically explored in patients with vestibular disorders. Such knowledge may be important ... -
KRAS mutation analysis by droplet digital PCR of duodenal juice from patients with MODY8 and other pancreatic diseases
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Maturity-onset diabetes of the young type 8 (MODY8 or CEL-MODY) is an inherited pancreatic disease characterized by chronic inflammation of the pancreas and diabetes. It is not known whether MODY8 patients ... -
Reflexivity in Interprofessional Workplace Learning
(Journal article, 2021)Despite a vast literature oninterprofessional teamwork, it is still unclear how learning in interprofessional student teams proceed at the workplace. We aim to elucidate reflexivity conceptually in interprofessional workplace ... -
Tick-transmitted co-infections among erythema migrans patients in a general practice setting in Norway: a clinical and laboratory follow-up study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Erythema migrans (EM) is the most common manifestation of Lyme borreliosis. Here, we examined EM patients in Norwegian general practice to find the proportion exposed to tick-transmitted microorganisms other ... -
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): exacerbations and costs.
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-10-27)Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality worldwide. Being a preventable disease in most cases, the burden on both patients and society may be reduced ... -
Management of cluster headache and other trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias in pregnancy and breastfeeding
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Many clinicians lack experience in managing trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias (TACs) in pregnancy and lactation. In addition to cluster headache, TACs include hemicrania continua, paroxysmal hemicrania, and short-lasting ... -
Accounting for symptom heterogeneity can improve neuroimaging models of antidepressant response after electroconvulsive therapy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Depression symptom heterogeneity limits the identifiability of treatment-response biomarkers. Whether improvement along dimensions of depressive symptoms relates to separable neural networks remains poorly understood. We ... -
Child alcohol use disorder in Eastern Uganda: screening, diagnostics, risk factors and management of children drinking alcohol in Uganda (TREAT CAUD): a mixed-methods research protocol
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Following a finding of alcohol use among children aged 5–8 years old in Mbale, Uganda, this project investigates the magnitude of alcohol and substance use among children ged 6–13 years old and related household, ... -
Male to female ratios in autism spectrum disorders by age, intellectual disability and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objective To examine the gender distribution in ASD in adults compared with children and the impact of comorbid intellectual disability (ID) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on the male to female ratio ...