Publications by authors named "A M Hjelle"
We report the first randomized trial of a virtual reality (VR) headset used on-table during external beam radiation therapy (RT) treatments to reduce anxiety/distress during receipt of RT. A small pilot study was conducted among 10 patients, with VR randomized to start in the first week ("immediate VR") versus the second week ("delayed VR") of treatment. All patients (100%) in the immediate VR group had declines in measured distress scores after their first radiation treatment, compared to only 1 patient (16.
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- Researchers created a new risk model called G-score to better predict if patients with solitary fibrous tumors will have recurrences, or if their disease will come back.
- They studied a large group of 318 patients worldwide and found that 33% had their disease come back over time.
- The G-score did a really good job at predicting who was at low risk for recurrence compared to other models, which means patients with a low score might not need to visit the doctor as often.
Associations of overweight, obesity and osteoporosis with ankle fractures.
BMC Musculoskelet Disord
August 2021
Background: Studies exploring risk factors for ankle fractures in adults are scarce, and with diverging conclusions. This study aims to investigate whether overweight, obesity and osteoporosis may be identified as risk factors for ankle fractures and ankle fracture subgroups according to the Danis-Weber (D-W) classification.
Methods: 108 patients ≥40 years with fracture of the lateral malleolus were included.
Background: It is mechanically plausible that osteoporosis leads to more severe peripheral fractures, but studies investigating associations between BMD and radiographically verified complexity of distal radius fractures are scarce. This study aims to study the association between osteoporosis, as well as other risk factors for fracture, and the AO classification of distal radius fractures.
Methods: In this observational study, 289 consecutive patients aged ≥40 years with a distal radius fracture were included.
Objectives: Fatigue is a frequent and often disabling phenomenon that occurs in patients with chronic inflammatory and immunological diseases, and the underlying biological mechanisms are largely unknown. Because fatigue is generated in the brain, we aimed to investigate cerebrospinal fluid and search for molecules that participate in the pathophysiology of fatigue processes.
Methods: A label-free shotgun proteomics approach was applied to analyze the cerebrospinal fluid proteome of 20 patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome.