Hyaluronic acid is superior to autologous fat for treatment of temporal hollowing after lateral orbital wall decompression: A prospective interventional trial.

Purpose: To compare injections of hyaluronic acid (HA) and autologous fat (AF) for the treatment of unsightly temporal hollowing after lateral orbital wall decompression in thyroid eye disease.

Methods: In this nonblinded prospective comparative interventional study, patients received injections of HA in the right temple and AF in the left temple. Additional injections were given when needed at follow-up after 6, 12, 18, and 24 months.

[Treatment of serious burns].

Background: Treatment of patients with large burns is challenging.

Material And Method: The article is based on clinical experience, and a non-systematic review in PubMed.

Results: In patients with burns covering more than 10 - 15 % of the total body surface area, fluid resuscitation should be initiated early.

The epidemiology of patients with burn injuries admitted to Norwegian hospitals in 2007.

Objectives: To study the incidence and outcome of burns in Norway in 2007, and to establish estimates for effective length of stay, mortality and economical costs.

Methods: Data from the Norwegian Patient Registry on all patients discharged from all somatic hospitals in Norway in 2007 with main or subsidiary diagnosis of burn injury (ICD-10: T20-31) were collected.

Results: Seven hundred and twenty-six patients (65.

The association between diabetes mellitus and the prevalence of intermittent claudication: the HUNT study.

The objective of this study was to investigate the association between diabetes mellitus (DM) and the prevalence of intermittent claudication (IC). Between 1995 and 1997, all residents aged 20 years or older in Nord-Trøndelag County, Norway were mailed an invitation to participate in a health survey (HUNT 2). A total of 19,712 participants aged 40-69 years old completed and returned the questionnaire included with the invitation.

The association between smoking and the prevalence of intermittent claudication.

The objective of this study was to investigate the association between smoking and the prevalence of intermittent claudication (IC). Between 1995 and 1997, all residents aged 20 years or older in Nord-Trøndelag County, Norway, were invited to take part in the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (Helseundersøkelsen i Nord-Trøndelag: HUNT 2). A total of 19748 participants aged 40-69 years attended.

[Erroneous drug charts--a health hazard?].

Background: For appropriate medical attention to be given to patients in community care it is essential that the drug charts of the community nurse and the general practitioner's patient records correspond.

Material And Methods: We compared the drug charts for all 38 patients treated by the community nurse in one geographically defined area whose defined general practitioner worked at a health centre in Trondheim, Norway. We calculated total, proportional and chance corrected agreement (Cohen's kappa) for the number of drugs within these records.