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- Akesson, A, et al.
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Cadmium exposure in pregnancy and lactation in relation to iron status
- 2002
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Ingår i: American Journal of Public Health. - : American Public Health Association. - 1541-0048 .- 0090-0036. ; 92:2, s. 284-287
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objectives. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of iron status on cadmium dose among pregnant women. Methods. Iron status and cadmium concentration in blood, urine, and placenta were determined among women followed for 2 years from early pregnancy. Results. Blood cadmium and urinary cadmium were correlated with iron status throughout the study period. Urinary cadmium increased longitudinally among women with exhausted iron stores during their pregnancy. The increase in urinary cadmium with age was more pronounced in multiparous than in nulliparous women. Conclusions. Iron deficiency during pregnancy leads to increased cadmium absorption and body burden. Multiparous women exhibit additional increases with increasing age.
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- Berglund, M, et al.
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Metal-bone interactions
- 2000
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Ingår i: Toxicology letters. - : Elsevier BV. - 0378-4274. ; 112112-113, s. 219-225
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- Grenback, E, et al.
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Galanin in pituitary adenomas
- 2004
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Ingår i: Regulatory peptides. - : Elsevier BV. - 0167-0115. ; 117:2, s. 127-139
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- Oien, R F, et al.
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Measuring the size of ulcers by planimetry: a useful method in the clinical setting
- 2002
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Ingår i: Journal of Wound Care. - 0969-0700. ; 11:5, s. 165-168
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to compare four measurement methods. Digital planimetry was compared with mechanical planimetry, placing the film over graph paper and counting the squares (grid tracing), and multiplying the two maximal perpendicular diameters of the ulcer (diameter product). METHOD: Twenty patients with 50 chronic leg ulcers of various aetiology and sizes (20 ulcers were < or = 3 cm2, 15 ulcers were > 3 cm2 and < or = 10 cm2, and 15 ulcers were > 10 cm2) were enrolled consecutively into this study. Ulcer area was calculated from film transparency tracings using a digital planimeter, a mechanical planimeter, grid tracing and diameter product. RESULTS: The mean difference of digital planimetry versus mechanical planimetry, grid tracing and diameter product was 0.51 cm2, 0.72 cm2 and -5.38 cm2, respectively. For all methods difference tended to increase with ulcer size. CONCLUSION: Digital and mechanical planimetry, together with grid tracing, appear to be appropriate means of obtaining accurate surface area measurements. Digital planimetry is a quick and practical method and could therefore be recommended in the clinical setting.
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- Öien, Rut, et al.
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Pinch grafting in hospital and primary care: a cost analysis
- 2001
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Ingår i: Journal of Wound Care. - 0969-0700. ; 10:5, s. 164-169
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The cost of treating venous leg ulcers with pinch grafting was evaluated for 58 consecutive patients: 29 in hospital care and 29 in primary care. The mean age was 76.8 and 74.3 years and the mean ulcer size 15.1 and 13.5 cm2, respectively. The operation technique, pinch grafting, was the same for all patients but primary care patients were not immobilised postoperatively. Healing rate within 12 weeks was the same for patients in hospital care and primary care (31%). Treatment costs for one week pre-operatively and three weeks postoperatively amounted to 5109 Pounds per patient in hospital care and 870 Pounds per patient in primary care (p < 0.001), and the costs for one week pre-operatively and 12 weeks postoperatively were 6738 Pounds and 1806 Pounds, respectively (p < 0.001). Costs for patients whose ulcers healed within 12 weeks were 5552 Pounds for those receiving hospital care and 1676 Pounds for those receiving primary care (p < 0.001). Pinch grafting in primary care was shown to cost 3.3 to 5.9 times less, with the same healing outcome, than pinch grafting in hospital care.
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- Öien, Rut, et al.
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Pinch grafting of chronic leg ulcers in primary care: Fourteen years' experience
- 2002
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Ingår i: Acta Dermato-Venereologica. - : Medical Journals Sweden AB. - 1651-2057 .- 0001-5555. ; 82:4, s. 275-278
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Pinch grafting for treatment of chronic leg ulcers has been evaluated mainly in hospitalized and immobilized patients. This study describes the results of 199 pinch graft operations of 126 chronic leg and foot ulcers in 85 patients in primary care between 1987 and 2001. The aetiology of the ulcers was venous insufficiency in 43% and multi-factorial in 25% (77% with venous insufficiency as the main determinant). The mean ulcer size was 13.5 cm(2) and the mean ulcer duration was 15.9 months. The overall healing rate within 3 months was 33%, ranging from 19% for multi-factorial or combined venous and arterial ulcers to 48% for venous ulcers. Within 12 months the overall healing rate was 60%, with 67% healed venous ulcers. The results from our study suggest that pinch grafting is suitable for treating chronic leg ulcers, especially venous ulcers, in primary care.
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