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- Mathiesen, U L, et al.
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Also with a restrictive transfusion policy, screening with second-generation anti-hepatitis C virus enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay would have reduced post-transfusion hepatitis C after open-heart surgery
- 1993
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1502-7708 .- 0036-5521. ; 28:7, s. 581-584
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The incidence of post-transfusion hepatitis non-A, non-B (PTH-NANB) was prospectively assessed among open-heart surgery patients from the southeast region of Sweden before the introduction of antihepatitis C virus (HCV) blood donor screening. Blood samples for alanine aminotransferase analysis were drawn before and 2, 3, and 4 months after transfusion. Surgery was performed in four centres. Of 190 transfused and followed-up patients 2 (1.1%) contracted PTH-NANB, both operated on at the centre with significantly fewer transfusions than the other centres. One patient had antibodies to HCV detected by first-generation (C100-3) and later by second-generation anti-HCV enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA-2) and by positive second-generation recombinant immunoblot assay (4-RIBA). The other patient, although negative by first-generation anti-HCV ELISA, was positive by second-generation ELISA and by 4-RIBA. Both patients were hepatitis C-viremic by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). All the six donors implicated in the two hepatitis cases were first-generation anti-HCV-negative, but two, one for each patient, were positive by second-generation anti-HCV ELISA. This finding was confirmed by positive 4-RIBA in only 1 donor, the other being 'indeterminate'. However, in both donors hepatitis C viremia was found by PCR. This study shows that the second-generation anti-HCV ELISA will further reduce the risk for PTH-NANB/C and draws attention to the problem of evaluation of confirmatory tests.
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- Blohm, M, et al.
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Reaction to a media campaign focusing on delay in acute myocardial infarction
- 1991
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Ingår i: Heart & Lung. - : Elsevier. - 0147-9563 .- 1527-3288. ; 20:6, s. 661-666
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A media campaign conducted to reduce delay time and to increase the use of ambulance transport in acute myocardial infarction was performed in an urban area with about half a million inhabitants during 1 year. The main message was that chest pain lasting more than 15 minutes might indicate acute myocardial infarction; dial 90,000 immediately for ambulance transport to the hospital. The target population was the general public. After 6 and 12 months 400 and 610 randomly chosen persons, respectively, were contacted by telephone to evaluate the reaction of the general public to the campaign. Of these, 60% and 71%, respectively, had heard of the campaign, and all parts of the message were spontaneously remembered by 15% and 19%, respectively. The reaction to the campaign was generally positive. Among all patients admitted to the coronary care unit of one of the two city hospitals, 65% were aware of the campaign and 31% of them were of the opinion that they came to the hospital faster because of the campaign. In conclusion, a media campaign aimed at reducing patient delay time in acute myocardial infarction was shown to reach a majority of people in the community and patients with ischemic heart disease. The reaction was positive and about one fifth of interviewed people spontaneously remembered the total message.
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- Gaillard, Marie-Jose, et al.
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Application of modern pollen/land-use relationships to the interpretation of pollen diagrams - reconstructions of land-use history in South Sweden 3000-0 BP
- 1994
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Ingår i: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0034-6667 .- 1879-0615. ; 82:1-2, s. 47-73
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A modem pollen/land-use data-set of 124 surface samples (moss polsters) from different vegetation and land-use types in south Sweden is presented. The samples are from non-fertilized grazed areas, burned and grazed heaths, traditionally managed fodder-producing meadows and cultivated fields, and deciduous forests. Twenty nine environmental (e.g. management type, soil chemistry) variables are available for the 124 samples. Patterns of modern local pollen variation in relation to these environmental variables are explored by canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) and tested by associated statistical procedures. The modem data-set is used to aid interpretation of extra-local pollen sequences from two small lakes and one mire in south Sweden, using CCA as a means of comparing modem and fossil spectra. The resulting land-use reconstructions are compared to earlier interpretations of the same pollen-stratigraphical data using the more traditional ''indicator-species'' approach. Emphasis is placed on the history of mowing and grazing in south Sweden as an example of the potential uses of the comparative approach for interpretating fossil pollen data in terms of past land-use.
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- Göthelid, M., et al.
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Adatom and rest-atom contributions in Ge(111)c(2×8) and Ge(111)-Sn(7×7) core-level spectra
- 1993
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Ingår i: Physical Review B. - 0163-1829. ; 48:3, s. 2012-2015
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We have identified the adatom contribution in the Ge 3d core-level spectra from the clean Ge(111)c(2×8) surface, shifted 0.17 eV to higher binding energy compared to the bulk. This adatom component vanishes in the Ge(111)-Sn(7×7) surface core-level spectra where Sn occupies the adatom site. Moreover we report the observation of an earlier proposed difference between the rest atoms in the c(2×8) structure, and also a shift to lower binding energy for the rest atoms in both structures studied. © 1993 The American Physical Society.
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- Göthelid, M., et al.
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Sn-induced surface reconstructions on the Ge(111) surface studied with scanning tunneling microscopy
- 1992
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Ingår i: Surface Science. - 0039-6028. ; 271:3, s. L357-L361
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) has been used to study different Sn induced reconstructions on the Ge(111) surface; namely the (7 × 7), (5 × 5) and ( 3 × 3) R30° structures. The first two have been confirmed to be of the dimer adatom stacking faults (DAS) type with adatoms mainly being Sn. The ( 3 × 3)R30° superstructure was found at different Sn depositions. At 0.4 monolayer (ML) Sn coverage a homogeneous Sn adatom layer is adsorbed on the(1 × 1) surface in threefold sites directly over second-layer atoms (T4), while at low coverage, 0.1 ML, the top layer is a mixture of Sn and Ge atoms. We also propose the chemical identities of the different atoms seen in the STM images as related to their apparent height. © 1992.
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- Hammar, M., et al.
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Initial growth of silver on Ge(111) studied by scanning tunneling microscopy
- 1993
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Ingår i: Physical Review B. - 0163-1829. ; 47:23, s. 15669-15674
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) has been used to study the Ge(111) surface after submonolayer depositions of Ag. At the lowest coverages a (4×4) reconstruction, with small insets of a (3×1) edge structure, is observed. Based on the STM images we propose a mixed Ag and Ge adatom structure for the (4×4) reconstruction, in which the adatoms have local (1×1) and (2×2) arrangements corresponding to a Ag coverage of 6/16 monolayers. The (3×1) structure appears to have a configuration similar to the Si(111)/Ag-(3×1) reconstruction, although in this case it has a much more limited extension, restricted to a few unit cells in the near vicinity of step edges and phase boundaries. At higher coverages, after the completion of a full (4×4)/(3×1) surface, a (3 × 3) R30°structure appears showing STM images similar to those previously published for the Si(111)/Ag system. © 1993 The American Physical Society.
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- Hammar, M., et al.
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Morphology and atomic structure of the sputtered and annealed Mo3Si and Cr3Si (110) surfaces
- 1994
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Ingår i: Physical Review B. - 0163-1829. ; 50:23, s. 17639-17642
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Scanning tunneling microscopy was used to study the sputtered and annealed (110) surfaces of Mo3Si and Cr3Si. Both surfaces show extended and atomically flat terraces, but in the case of Mo3Si there is also a uniform distribution of Mo crystallites. This difference in morphology is discussed in terms of different preferential sputtering effects. In both cases, measured step heights show that the ideally bulk-truncated surfaces are either purely Si or metal terminated. Atomically resolved images suggest that the Mo3Si surface is Si terminated, but although no atomic resolution could be obtained for the Cr3Si surface, there are indications that this surface is instead metal terminated. © 1994 The American Physical Society.
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- Hammar, Mattias, 1961-, et al.
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Scanning tunnelling microscopy studies of Pt80Fe 20(110)
- 1993
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Ingår i: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. - : IOP Publishing. - 0953-8984 .- 1361-648X. ; 5:18, s. 2837-2842
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Results of scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) show that two different kinds of surface structures coexist on the (110) surface of Pt 80Fe20. The predominant structure corresponds well to the missing row type (1*2) reconstruction previously observed on, for example Pt(110), whereas the minority domains show a faintly buckled structure with approximately (1*1) geometry. Based on the STM images, the authors propose that the two domains have different surface chemical compositions and correspond to two different metallurgical phases known for the PtFe system at this composition.
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- Karlsson, BW, et al.
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Prognosis in suspected acute myocardial infarction in relation to delay time between onset of symptoms and arrival in hospital
- 1991
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Ingår i: Cardiology. - : S. Karger AG. - 0008-6312 .- 1421-9751. ; 78:2, s. 131-137
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During a 21-month period, the prognosis in all patients admitted to a hospital ward from the emergency room with suspected acute myocardial infarction (AMI) was prospectively recorded and related to the time between onset of symptoms and arrival in hospital. They were classified as early arrivers (less than or equal to 2 h), intermediate arrivers (2-8 h) and late arrivers (greater than 8 h). Among patients developing a confirmed AMI (n = 909) the 1-year mortality rate was 26.0% in early arrivers, 28.1% in intermediate arrivers and 32.6% in late arrivers. The corresponding figures for patients in whom AMI was ruled out (n = 2,035) were 15.2, 15.1 and 17.6%, respectively. In AMI patients, various morbidity aspects during hospitalization and 1 year of follow-up appeared mainly independent of delay time, whereas among those in whom AMI was ruled out congestive heart failure during hospitalization was most common in early arrivers. We conclude that patients with suspected AMI who do not arrive early in hospital have a high 1-year mortality rate regardless of whether they develop AMI or not. Whether their prognosis can be improved by shortening of delay time remains to be clarified.
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