Publications by authors named "Ulrika Palmer Kazen"
Background: Management of intermittent claudication should include secondary prevention to reduce the risk of cardiocerebrovascular disease. Patient adherence to secondary prevention is a challenge. The aim of this study was to investigate whether a person-centred, nurse-led follow-up programme could improve adherence to medication compared with standard care.
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- Open surgical repair remains the primary treatment for descending and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms (TAAA) despite the rise of endovascular options, with differences in patient profiles between the two methods.
- A study analyzed open repair outcomes for TAAA in Stockholm County from 2007 to 2012, involving 28 patients with an average age of 61, where various complications were noted but no deaths occurred within the first 30 days.
- Results indicate that open surgery can yield favorable midterm survival rates comparable to endovascular treatments, suggesting that centralized aortic centers should determine the best approach for TAAA treatment.
The objective of this retrospective, cross-sectional study was to determine risk factors for poor collateral development in patients with claudication. The authors listed all patients with calf claudication who had undergone angiography in this hospital between 1999 and 2001 and extracted those with superficial femoral artery (SFA) occlusion, a popliteal artery without major lesions, and at least 1 patent calf artery. Forty-five patients met the criteria, and concomitant disease and claudication characteristics, ankle/brachial index (ABI) and number of outflow vessels were recorded.
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- The study explores alternative treatments for critical limb ischemia (CLI), focusing on the role of vascular growth factors like VEGF and FGF-2 in the disease's progression.
- Skin and muscle biopsies were taken from CLI patients and controls to measure levels of these growth factors and their locations.
- Results indicated that CLI patients had lower VEGF levels in distal skin but higher levels in calf muscle compared to control samples, while FGF-2 levels showed similar patterns, suggesting a complex relationship between these growth factors and CLI.
Lower extremity peripheral arterial disease (PAD) most frequently presents with lower limb pain on walking--intermittent claudication. As the disease progresses the patient might suffer from rest pain and/or ischemic ulceration--critical limb ischemia (CLI). The management of patients with PAD consists of life-style modifications and pharmacotherapy addressing the risk factors to minimize the risk for disease progression and mortality in myocardial infarction and stroke.
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