Publications by authors named "Per Erling Dahl"
Background: We report a case of patient-to-surgeon transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV), and the subsequent transmission of HCV to surgical patients.
Methods: In 2007, a cardiac surgeon tested positive for hepatitis C. A complete look-back investigation was initiated that involved screening of all patients on the surgeon's operating lists between September 2004 and April 2007.
[Carotid endarterectomy in patients with coronary heart disease].
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen
November 2005
Background: Patients with coexistent coronary and carotid artery disease are at high risk of developing stroke following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and at the same time at increased risk of myocardial infarction when subjected to carotid endarterectomy (CEA). In patients with pronounced symptoms from both vascular territories, some institutions advocate a combined approach, with both CABG and CEA performed during the same period of anaesthesia.
Material And Methods: We reviewed the medical records of patients who underwent the combined procedure between 1986 and 2004 (n = 37; group 1) and compared them to patients with coronary artery disease who underwent isolated CEA over the same period of time (n = 118; group 2).
Background: First described in 1991, endovascular treatment is a simplified method for abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR). The enthusiasm created by few complications and early mobilisation was replaced by scepticism because of the high frequency of secondary complications such as endoleak, stenosis, graft migration, aneurysm enlargement and late rupture. Though the method still is considered experimental, thousands of grafts are inserted every year.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Increasing numbers of octogenarians are referred to cardiac surgery in Norway. Little is known about short and long term results.
Methods: We retrospectively identified 47 patients (20 women, 27 men) aged 80 to 87.