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- Ekbom, K, et al.
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Age at onset and sex ratio in cluster headache: observations over three decades
- 2002
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Ingår i: Cephalalgia : an international journal of headache. - : SAGE Publications. - 0333-1024. ; 22:2, s. 94-100
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Five hundred and fifty-four patients with episodic cluster headache (ECH) and chronic cluster headache (CCH) were examined between 1963 and 1997. Mean age at onset was significantly higher in women with CCH compared with women with ECH and in men with ECH or CCH. In women with CCH age at onset was evenly distributed from 10 to 69 years, whereas in men with CCH and in both sexes with ECH, there was a peak when they were in their 20s. In women with ECH a second peak of onset occurred in their 50s. Although not statistically significant, primary CCH started later in women (mean 50.8 years) than secondary CCH (mean 35.5 years). There was a significant variation in the male : female ratio with respect to age at onset, being largest between 30 and 49 years of age (ECH 7.2 : 1; CCH 11.0 : 1) and lowest after 50 (ECH 2.3 : 1; CCH 0.6 : 1). During the observation period of more than 30 years there was a trend towards a decreasing male preponderance; the male: female ratio was significantly higher among patients with onset before rather than after 1970. The proportion of episodic vs. chronic CH did not change during the study period. The nature of the sex- and age-related pattern of cluster headache onset remains to be elucidated but mechanisms associated with sex hormone regulation, perhaps of hypothalamic origin, may be involved, as well as environmental factors related to lifestyle.
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- Lindholm, Maj-Lis, et al.
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Mortality Within 2 Years After Surgery in Relation to Low Intraoperative Bispectral Index Values and Preexisting Malignant Disease
- 2009
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Ingår i: ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA. - : Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health). - 0003-2999 .- 1526-7598. ; 108:2, s. 508-512
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: A correlation between deep anesthesia (defined as time with Bispectral Index (BIS) <45; T-BIS <45 and death within 1. yr after surgery has previously been reported. In order to confirm or refute these findings, we evaluated T-BIS (<45) as an independent risk factor for death within I and 2 yr after surgery and also the impact of malignancy, the predominant cause of death in the previous report. METHODS: Mortality within 2 yr after surgery, causes of death and the occurrence of malignant disease at the time of surgery were identified in a cohort of 4087 BIS-monitored patients. Statistically significant univariate predictors of mortality were identified. In order to allow for comparison with previous data, the following multivariate analysis was first done without, and thereafter with, preexisting malignancy status, the predominant cause of death. RESULTS: One-hundred-seventy-four (4.3%) patients died within I yr and another 92 during the second year (totaling 6.5% in 2 yr). T-BIS <45 was a significant predictor of 1- and 2-yr mortality when preexisting malignant disease was not among the co-variates (hazard ratio [HR] 113 [1.01-1.27] and 1.18 [1.08-1.29], respectively). Further exploration confined the significant relation between postoperative mortality and T-BIS <45 to Patients with preexisting malignant diagnoses associated with extensive Surgery and less favorable prognosis. The most powerful predictors of 2-yr mortality in the model, including preexisting malignancy, were ASA physical score class IV (HR 19.3 [7.31-51.1]), age >80 yr (HR 2.93 [1.79-4.79]), and preexisting malignancy associated with less favorable prognosis (HR 9.30 [6.60-13.1]). When the initial multivariate regression was repeated using preexisting malignancy status among the co-variates in the model, the previously significant relation between 1, and 2-yr mortality and T-BIS <45 did not reach statistical significance. CONCLUSION: Using a similar set of co-variates as in previous work, we confirmed the statistical relation between 1-yr mortality and T-BIS <45, and we extended this observation to 2-yr mortality. However, this relation is sensitive to the selection of co-variates in the statistical model, and a randomized study is required to demonstrate that there really is a causal impact from and T-BIS (<45) on postoperative mortality and, if it does, the effect is probably very weak in comparison with co-morbidity as assessed by ASA physical score, the preexisting malignancy status at surgery and age.
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- Svensson, DA, et al.
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A note on cluster headache in a population-based twin register
- 2003
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Ingår i: Cephalalgia : an international journal of headache. - : SAGE Publications. - 0333-1024. ; 23:5, s. 376-380
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Evidence of a familial risk factor in cluster headache is accumulating and studies of twin concordance may resolve family resemblance into genetic and environmental influences. The past literature on cluster headache in twins comprises a few case reports of concordant monozygotic pairs. Swedish twin pairs with a diagnosis of cluster headache were selected through a cross-match of national registers of twin births and hospitalizations. Seventeen discordant twin pairs were found, in which it was possible to verify cluster headache status in 11 complete pairs (two monozygotic, four dizygotic, and five unlike-sexed pairs). In both members of a female monozygotic pair, migraine without aura developed after birth of the first child and remitted by menopause, whereas post-menopausal development of chronic cluster headache occurred in only one of them. The importance of individual specific factors for cluster headache was demonstrated. However, to explain familial aggregation a larger sample of affected twin pairs is necessary.
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- Wårdell, Karin, et al.
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ECG-triggering of the laser Doppler signal - An approach for perfusion imaging on the beating calf heart
- 2001
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Ingår i: Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering. - : SPIE. - 0277-786X .- 1996-756X. ; 4254, s. 49-57
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Laser Doppler perfusion imaging (LDPI) has successfully been used to map the myocardial perfusion on patients undergoing coronary bypass surgery on the arrested heart. The need for intra-operative evaluation of graft function is obvious in routine surgery but even more imperative when adapting new surgical techniques where the procedure is performed on the beating heart. When using LDPI on the beating heart, artifacts originating from the movement of the heart are superimposed on the Doppler signal. We have investigated a method to reduce these artifacts by controlling the sampling sequence with ECG-triggering. The method has been assessed in an animal model on the beating calf heart. After sternotomy, an area covering 1 cm2 was imaged at the anterior wall of the left ventricle. In this area, six perfusion images were captured each of them recorded at fixed, but different time intervals in the cardiac cycle. In addition continuous measurements at one spot was done during 1-2 minutes. The signal recorded during pumping action was high compared to measurements performed in the same muscle area during infusion of blood with a syringe pump. Repeated measurements captured at a fixed delay time from the R-peak in the same areas at the same heart frequency showed reproducibility. ECG-triggering of the laser Doppler signal is the first step in our attempts to adapt LDPI to enabling assessment of myocardial perfusion on the beating heart. Further technical achievements and in-vivo investigations are, however, needed and will be performed by our research team in future studies.
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