Impact of Pronator Quadratus Muscle Tear in Distal Radius Fractures on Patient Outcomes: Analyses of 55 Patients in a Volar Locking Plate Arm of a Randomized Clinical Trial.

Background The advantage of pronator quadratus (PQ) repair following internal fixation via the volar approach in distal radius fracture (DRF) surgery remains unconfirmed in the literature. The aim of this study was to compare grip strength, patient-reported outcomes, and functional results between patients with an intact PQ and those with a ruptured PQ before undergoing surgery with a volar locking plate for dorsally displaced unstable extra-articular DRFs. Methods A total of 120 patients aged 55 years and older were included in a randomized controlled trial comparing a volar locking plate with a dorsal nail plate.

Five days serum glucose stability at room-temperature in centrifuged fast-clotting serum tubes and the comparability with glucose in heparin-plasma and plasma containing citrate-stabilizer.

Glucose measurement plays a central role in the diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Because of earlier reports of overestimation of glucose in the widely used tubes containing granulated glycolysis inhibitor, the study assessed the performance of fast-clotting serum tubes as an alternative sample for the measurement of glucose. Glucose concentration in fast-clotting serum was compared to lithium-heparin plasma placed in an ice-water slurry after sample collection and glucose stability at room-temperature was studied.

Retrospective Study of Orbital and Orbitozygomaticomaxillary Complex Fractures Treated at Aalesund Hospital Between 2002 and 2017.

Study Design: Retrospective study.

Objective: To evaluate patient demographics, surgical management, and complications of orbital and orbitozygomaticomaxillary complex (OZMC) fractures treated at a district hospital in Norway.

Methods: The medical records of patients with orbital fractures treated at Aalesund hospital between January 2002 and July 2017 were reviewed.

Effects of Receiving Hearing Aids on Health-Related Quality of Life in Adults With Mild Hearing Loss.

Background And Objectives: Hearing aid (HA) use is a common rehabilitation method for people with hearing loss. This study aimed to investigate whether the use of HA will advance the health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Subjects and.

Pulmonary Hypertension in Children is Associated With Abnormal Flow Patterns in the Main Pulmonary Artery as Demonstrated by Blood Speckle Tracking.

Background: Paediatric pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is characterized by increased pulmonary vascular resistance resulting in increased pulmonary artery (PA) and right ventricular pressure (RV). This is associated with disturbed flow dynamics in the PA and RV that are not well characterized. We aimed to compare flow dynamics in children with PAH compared with healthy controls using blood speckle tracking echocardiography.

Evaluation of the Sentinel-FOB gold faecal immunochemical test for the presence of haemoglobin using the automated Roche Cobas 8000 system.

Objectives: Faecal immunochemical tests (FIT) for the detection of haemoglobin are widely used in the diagnostic pathway of colorectal cancer (CRC) in patients presenting with lower abdominal symptoms. Several quantitative immunochemical tests are available, however only a few tests are available on high throughput automated analyzers. Here we report the analytical and clinical evaluation of the Sentinel-FOB Gold assay on the Roche Cobas 8000 automated system.

Volar Locking Plate Versus Dorsal Locking Nail-Plate Fixation for Dorsally Displaced Unstable Extra-Articular Distal Radial Fractures: Functional and Radiographic Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Unlabelled: The use of low-profile dorsal and volar locking plates for distal radial fracture surgery has improved results and lowered the complication rate compared with older plate designs. The purpose of the present randomized controlled trial was to compare patient-reported outcomes as well as radiographic and functional results between patients who underwent stabilization with a volar locking plate or a dorsal locking nail-plate for the treatment of dorsally displaced unstable extra-articular distal radial fractures.

Methods: One hundred and twenty patients ≥55 years of age were randomized to surgery with either a volar locking plate or a dorsal locking nail-plate and were assessed at 2 weeks, 6 weeks, 3 months, 6 months, and 1 year.

Thrombosis is not a marker of bridging vein rupture in infants with alleged abusive head trauma.

Aim: Thrombosis of bridging veins has been suggested to be a marker of bridging vein rupture, and thus AHT, in infants with subdural haematoma.

Methods: This is a non-systematic review based on Pubmed search, secondary reference tracking and authors' own article collections.

Results: Radiological studies asserting that imaging signs of cortical vein thrombosis were indicative of traumatic bridging vein rupture were unreliable as they lacked pathological verification of either thrombosis or rupture, and paid little regard to medical conditions other than trauma.

Is long-bout sedentary behaviour associated with long-term glucose levels 3 months after acute ischaemic stroke? A prospective observational cohort study.

Background And Purpose: Sedentary behaviour is a risk factor for vascular disease and stroke patients are more sedentary than their age-matched peers. The association with glucose levels, as a potential mediator, is unclear, and we have investigated the association between long-bout sedentary behaviour and long-term glucose levels in stroke survivors.

Methods: This study uses data from the Norwegian Cognitive Impairment After Stroke study, a multicentre cohort study.

Physical rehabilitation in patients with head and neck cancer: Impact on health-related quality of life and suitability of a post-treatment program.

Objective: Physical rehabilitation programs hold the potential to mitigate deterioration in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with head and neck cancer. The objective was to assess development in relevant domains of HRQoL following a physical exercise and nutrition intervention administrated during or after treatment.

Methods: In a pilot study, 41 patients were randomized to resistance training and oral nutritional supplements during (EN-DUR, n = 20) or after (EN-AF, n = 21) radiotherapy.

Examining perinatal subdural haematoma as an aetiology of extra-axial hygroma and chronic subdural haematoma.

Aim: Benign external hydrocephalus (BEH), hygroma and chronic subdural haematoma are extra-axial fluid collections in infants. MRI studies have shown that almost half of all new-borns have perinatal subdural blood, generally referred to as subdural haematoma (SDH) or perinatal SDH. Epidemiologically there are striking similarities between chronic SDH and BEH in infants.

The novel arthroscopic subscapular sling procedure grants better stability than an arthroscopic Bankart repair in a cadaveric study.

Purpose: This novel arthroscopic subscapular sling procedure stabilizes the shoulder using a semitendinosus graft to create a sling around the subscapular tendon, which provides both static and dynamic stability. The aim of the study was to evaluate the biomechanical stability of the subscapular sling procedure in human cadaveric shoulders. The hypothesis was that the sling offers an equal stabilizing effect and range of motion compared to an arthroscopic Bankart repair.

Terminal digit preference: a source of measurement error in breast cancer diameter reporting.

Women diagnosed with breast cancer are offered treatment and therapy based on tumor characteristics, including tumor diameter. There is scarce knowledge whether tumor diameter is accurately reported, or whether it is unconsciously rounded to the nearest half-centimeter (terminal digit preference). This study aimed to assess the precision (number of digits) of breast cancer tumor diameters and whether they are affected by terminal digit preference.

Hb Aalesund (: c.400_406delAGCACCG), an Unstable α-Globin Variant Found in a Norwegian Patient Causing Moderate Hemolytic Anemia and Falsely High Hb A Using Ion Exchange High Performance Liquid Chromatography.

A new unstable hemoglobin (Hb) variant, named Hb Aalesund, was detected during Hb A measurement in a patient with a nearly compensated hemolytic anemia. Sequencing of the α-globin genes revealed a 7 bp deletion in exon 3 of the gene (: c.400_406delAGCACCG) (NM_000517.

Rectal volume variations and estimated rectal dose during 8 weeks of image-guided radical 3D conformal external beam radiotherapy for prostate cancer.

•Modern IGRT has given new insight regarding organ motion in radiotherapy.•Rectal volume variation may increase the risk of biochemical and local failure.•Rectal volume decreased significantly during eight weeks of radiotherapy.

Clinical, Radiological, and Demographic Details of Benign External Hydrocephalus: A Population-Based Study.

Background: Benign external hydrocephalus has an incidence of about 0.4 per 1000 live births. It affects infants and is characterized by an increasing head circumference and typical neuroimaging findings.

Quality of life and physician-reported developmental, cognitive, and social problems in children with benign external hydrocephalus-long-term follow-up.

Introduction: Benign external hydrocephalus (BEH) is characterized by too rapidly increasing head circumference in infants, combined with typical neuroimaging findings. Psychomotor developmental delay is typically seen during the first few years of life; after that, the children's development assumedly normalizes. However, little is known about the long-term effects of BEH.

Do patients with functional chest pain have neuroplastic reorganization of the pain matrix? A diffusion tensor imaging study.

Background and aims In functional chest pain (FCP) of presumed esophageal origin central nervous system hyperexcitability is generally believed to play an important role in pain pathogenesis. However, this theory has recently been challenged. Using magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging, the aim was to characterize any microstructural reorganization of the pain neuromatrix in FCP patients.

Epidemiology of Benign External Hydrocephalus in Norway-A Population-Based Study.

Background: Benign external hydrocephalus is defined as a rapidly increasing head circumference (occipitofrontal circumference) with characteristic radiological findings of increased subarachnoid cerebrospinal fluid spaces on neuroimaging. The incidence of benign external hydrocephalus has not been previously reported, and there is no available information on the ratio of benign external hydrocephalus in the population of hydrocephalic children.

Methods: This study is retrospective and population-based study, geographically covering two health regions in the southern half of Norway with a total mean population of 3.

Neurocognitive and psychosocial function in children with benign external hydrocephalus (BEH)-a long-term follow-up study.

Introduction: Long-term impact of benign external hydrocephalus (BEH) on cognition is largely unknown, and indication for neurosurgical CSF diversion procedure is debated. This study reports neuropsychological and psychosocial function in operated and non-operated BEH children.

Methods: Eighty-six children (76 males) between 8 and 18 years (mean 13.