Browsing Department of Clinical Medicine by Document Types "Peer reviewed"
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ADCK3 mutations with epilepsy, stroke-like episodes and ataxia: a POLG mimic?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-07)Background and purpose: Defects of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) metabolism cause a variety of disorders ranging from isolated myopathy to multisystem involvement. ADCK3 is one of several genes associated with CoQ10 deficiency that ... -
Addition of eGFR and age improves the prognostic absolute renal risk-model in 1,134 norwegian patients with IgA nephropathy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-05)Background: Predicting outcome in individual patients with IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is difficult but important. For this purpose, the absolute renal risk (ARR) model has been developed in a French cohort to calculate the ... -
Adjacent Disc Degeneration After Lumbar Total Disc Replacement or Non-operative Treatment: A Randomized Study With Eight-year Follow-up
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-12)Study Design. A randomized controlled multicenter trial with 8-year follow-up. Objective. The aim of this study was to assess the long-term development of adjacent disc degeneration (ADD) after lumbar total disc replacement (TDR) ... -
Admission C – reactive protein after acute ischemic stroke is associated with stroke severity and mortality: The 'Bergen stroke study'
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009-04-28)Background: There is growing evidence that inflammation plays an important role in atherogenesis. Previous studies show that C-reactive protein (CRP), an inflammatory marker, is associated with stroke outcomes and future ... -
Adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is associated with asthma
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-08-07)Background: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is increasingly recognized as a common disorder not only in children, but also in the adult population. Similarly, asthma also has a substantial prevalence among ... -
Adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is associated with migraine headaches
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-03-11)Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is now recognized as a common disorder both in child and adult psychiatry. Adult patients with a diagnosis of ADHD (n = 572) and community controls (n = 675) responded to ... -
Adult pancreatic hemangioma in pregnancy – concerns and considerations of a rare case
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-10-30)Background: Pancreatic tumors in pregnancy are rare but clinically challenging. Careful diagnostic workup, including appropriate imaging examinations, should be performed to evaluate surgery indications and timing . In the ... -
Adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. A brain magnetic resonance spectroscopy study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-11-23)Background: Impaired cognitive control in individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may be related to a prefrontal cortical glutamatergic deficit. We assessed the glutamate level in the left and the ... -
Advance care planning in life-threatening pulmonary disease: a focus group study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Advance care planning (ACP) is a communication process for mapping a patient's wishes and priorities for end-of-life care. In preparation for the introduction of ACP in Norway, we wanted to explore the views of Norwegian ... -
Advances and challenges in the treatment of myasthenia gravis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a chronic autoimmune disease with fluctuating muscle weakness and fatigability. Standard immunomodulatory treatment may fail to achieve sufficient improvement with minimal symptom expression or ... -
Adverse events and in-hospital mortality: An analysis of all deaths in a Norwegian health trust during 2011
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-07-06)Background: The estimated number of in-hospitals deaths due to adverse events is often different when using data from deceased patients compared with that of a population experiencing adverse events. Methods: The study was ... -
Adverse events with fatal outcome associated with alemtuzumab treatment in multiple sclerosis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-12)Objective: Sporadic fatal adverse events have been reported during treatment of multiple sclerosis with alemtuzumab. To provide a systematic overview, we searched the centralized European Medicines Agency database of ... -
Aetiological risk factors are associated with distinct imaging findings in patients with chronic pancreatitis: A study of 959 cases from the Scandinavian Baltic Pancreatic Club (SBPC) imaging database
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objectives The relation between aetiology and structural changes of the pancreas in patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP) is not fully understood. Earlier studies are limited by focusing on selected factors in studies ... -
AGAP2-AS1 as a prognostic biomarker in low-risk clear cell renal cell carcinoma patients with progressing disease
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the most common subtype of renal cancer and one of the most common cancers. While survival for localized ccRCC is good, the survival of metastatic disease is not, and ... -
Age dependency of ischaemic stroke subtypes and vascular risk factors in western Norway: The Bergen Norwegian Stroke Cooperation Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-03)Objectives: Age dependency of acute ischaemic stroke aetiology and vascular risk factors have not been adequately evaluated in stroke patients in Norway. Aims of this study were to evaluate how stroke subtypes and vascular ... -
Age of menarche is associated with knee joint replacement due to primary osteoarthritis (The HUNT Study and the Norwegian Arthroplasty Register)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-10)Objective: To investigate whether parity, age at menarche, menopausal status, age at menopause, use of oral contraceptives (OC) or use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) were associated with total knee replacement (TKR) ... -
AIDS-related primary central nervous system lymphoma: a Norwegian national survey 1989–2003
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-08-06)Background: Primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) is a frequent complication in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The objective of this survey was to investigate incidence, clinical features, radiological ... -
Airway management by physician-staffed Helicopter Emergency Medical Services – a prospective, multicentre, observational study of 2,327 patients
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-08-07)Background. Despite numerous studies on prehospital airway management, results are difficult to compare due to inconsistent or heterogeneous data. The objective of this study was to assess advanced airway management from ... -
Akathisia and atypical antipsychotics. Relation to suicidality, agitation and depression in a clinical trial
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Objective: Akathisia is among the most unpleasant side effects related to antipsychotic drug (AP) use, and possible associations between akathisia and agitation, depression and suicidal behaviour, respectively, have been ... -
Alpha-tocopherol and MRI outcomes in multiple sclerosis - association and prediction
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-01-22)Objective: Alpha-tocopherol is the main vitamin E compound in humans, and has important antioxidative and immunomodulatory properties. The aim of this study was to study alpha-tocopherol concentrations and their relationship ...