Publications by authors named "Tormod Lund"

Introduction: Subintimal angioplasty (SIA) was introduced in the late 1980s and is a supplement to bypass surgery. Adaptation of the technique has been hampered by high rates of early intervention to maintain patency, but the long term assisted patency is good.

Report: The superficial femoral and popliteal artery containing a patent subintimal canal were explanted from a patient who died in the authors' ward.

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Unlabelled: Study Type - Prognosis (case series) Level of Evidence 4 What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? It is known that a tertiary Gleason grade pattern 4 or 5 found in RP specimens has a negative impact on recurrence rate regarding biochemical relapse after radical prostatectomy. This is the first publication addressing clinical outcome in patients with a tertiary Gleason grade pattern 4 or 5 showing a negative influence on clinical failure rates.

Objective: To investigate the impact of a tertiary Gleason grade (TGG) pattern 4 or 5 on clinical failure, as the presence of a TGG pattern 4 or 5 in radical prostatectomy (RP) specimens has been associated with biochemical failure.

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Background: There is an increasing emphasis in the islet transplant community on the development of alternative sites for islet implantation. Striated musculature constitutes a potential alternative, which has been successfully employed in autotransplantation of parathyroid glands for decades. In the present study, a technique for intramuscular islet transplantation was developed and compared with intraportal islet transplantation in a syngeneic rat model.

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Factors that upregulate the inflammatory status of islets probably contribute to detrimental processes leading to islet loss and impaired post-transplant function. Glucocorticoids have the potential to counteract inflammation and thus improve islet quality and function. However, glucocorticoids have diabetogenic properties and are known to hamper islet function in vivo.

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