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Holmium and Thulium Fiber Laser Safety in Endourological Practice: What Does the Clinician Need to Know?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Purpose of Review: To summarise the literature on laser safety during endourological practice. Recent Findings: Holmium and Thulium Fiber laser are the two main energy sources in the current clinical practice. The latter ... -
The Homeostatic Chemokine CCL21 Predicts Mortality and May Play a Pathogenic Role in Heart Failure
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-03-12)Background: CCL19 and CCL21, acting through CCR7, are termed homeostatic chemokines. Based on their role in concerting immunological responses and their proposed involvement in tissue remodeling, we hypothesized that these ... -
Homogeneity in prediction of survival probabilities for subcategories of hipprosthesis data: The Nordic Arthroplasty Register Association, 2000-2013
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-07-10)Introduction: The four countries in the Nordic Arthroplasty Register Association (NARA) share geographic proximity, culture, and ethnicity. Pooling data from different sources in order to obtain higher precision and accuracy ... -
Hormone receptor loss in endometrial carcinoma curettage predicts lymph node metastasis and poor outcome in prospective multicentre trial
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-11)Background: Preoperative histologic examination of tumour tissue is essential when deciding if endometrial cancer surgery should include lymph node sampling. We wanted to investigate if biomarkers could improve prediction ... -
A hospital based epidemiological study of genetically determined muscle disease in south western Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)We determined the prevalence of genetically determined neuromuscular diseases in adult Norwegian patients from Hordaland County. We identified patients using International Classification of Disease codes registered in our ... -
Hospital care for the dying patient with cancer: does an advance care planning invitation influence bereaved relatives' experiences? A two country survey
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Objectives: Advance care planning (ACP) is not systematically performed in Argentina or Norway. We used the post-bereavement survey of the ERANet-LAC International Care Of the Dying Evaluation (CODE) project (2017–2020) ... -
Hospital readmission after ischemic stroke or TIA
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-09-06)Background: Considerable advances in the field of stroke medicine have led to declining trends in stroke incidence, disability, and mortality in the Western world. Despite this, the absolute number of people affected by ... -
Hospital volume and the risk of revision in Oxford unicompartmental knee arthroplasty in the Nordic countries -an observational study of 14,496 cases
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-09-07)Background High procedure volume and dedication to unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) has been suggested to improve revision rates. This study aimed to quantify the annual hospital volume effect on revision risk in ... -
Hot towels: The bedrock of Meibomian gland dysfunction treatment – A review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background Meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) reduces quality-of-life and hinders work productivity of millions of patients, with high direct and indirect societal costs. Thickened meibum obstructs the glands and disrupts ... -
How can we improve specialist health services for children with multi-referrals? Parent reported experience
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background Children with combined mental and somatic conditions pose a challenge to specialized health services. These cases are often characterized by multi-referrals, frequent use of health services, poor clinical and ... -
How Does Implant Survivorship Vary with Different Corail Femoral Stem Variants? Results of 51,212 Cases with Up to 30 Years Of Follow-up from the Norwegian Arthroplasty Register
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background: The Corail® cementless stem (DePuy Synthes) has been used in Norway since 1987 and is one of the most frequently used stems in THA worldwide. Although the published survival results of the standard Corail stem ... -
HPV DNA testing improves CIN2+ risk stratification and detection of CIN2+ in delayed triage of ASCUS and LSIL. A population-based follow-up study from Western Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-02)In Norway, Pap smears with atypical squamous cells of uncertain significance (ASCUS) and low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (LSIL) are triaged after 6 months. The aim of the study was to evaluate effects of ... -
HSP27 Expression as a Novel Predictive Biomarker for Bevacizumab: is it Cost Effective?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background: Despite the extensive use of bevacizumab in a range of oncology indications, the US FDA revoked its approval for breast cancers, and multiple negative trials in several solid malignancies have been reported, ... -
Huge variation in obtaining ethical permission for a non-interventional observational study in Europe
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-06-03)Background Ethical approval (EA) must be obtained before medical research can start. We describe the differences in EA for an pseudonymous, non-interventional, observational European study. Methods Sixteen European national ... -
A human clinical trial using ultrasound and microbubbles to enhance gemcitabine treatment of inoperable pancreatic cancer
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-12)Background: The primary aim of our study was to evaluate the safety and potential toxicity of gemcitabine combined with microbubbles under sonication in inoperable pancreatic cancer patients. The secondary aim was to ... -
Human pancreatic glucokinase. Structural and physico-chemical studies related to catalytic activation, kinetic cooperativity and GCK-diabetes.
(Doctoral thesis, 2012-10-19)Glucokinase (GK) functions as a glucose sensor in insulin-producing pancreatic-cells and as a regulator of hepatic glycolysis, glycogen synthesis and gluconeogenesis. Its key role in glucose homeostasis is evidenced by ... -
Human seroprevalence of antibodies to tick-borne microbes in southern Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The tick Ixodes ricinus is widespread along the coastline of southern Norway, but data on human exposure to tick-borne microbes are scarce. We aimed to assess the seroprevalence of IgG antibodies to various tick-borne ... -
Humoral immunity to SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination in multiple sclerosis: the relevance of time since last rituximab infusion and first experience from sporadic revaccinations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Introduction The effect of disease-modifying therapies (DMT) on vaccine responses is largely unknown. Understanding the development of protective immunity is of paramount importance to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Objective ... -
Humoral response to Epstein-Barr virus in patients with multiple sclerosis treated with B cell depletion therapy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background B cell depletion therapy is highly effective in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). However, the precise underlying mechanisms of action for its biological effects in MS have still not been clarified. ... -
Hydroxyapatite coating does not improve uncemented stem survival after total hip arthroplasty!: An analysis of 116,069 THAs in the Nordic Arthroplasty Register Association (NARA) database
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-09-01)Background and purpose — It is still being debated whether HA coating of uncemented stems used in total hip arthroplasty (THA) improves implant survival. We therefore investigated different uncemented stem brands, with and ...