Outcomes following SARS-CoV-2 infection in individuals with and without inflammatory rheumatic diseases: a Danish nationwide cohort study.

Objective: In a setting with an extensive SARS-CoV-2 test strategy and availability of effective vaccines, we aimed to investigate if patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases (IRD) face greater risk of contracting SARS-CoV-2 and have a worse prognosis of increased risk of hospitalisation, assisted ventilation and death compared with the general population.

Methods: This was a nationwide, population-based register study that compared outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Danish patients with IRD (n=66 840) with matched population controls (n=668 400). The study period was from March 2020 to January 2023.

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A 47-year-old woman developed anterior interosseus nerve (AIN) syndrome after subacromial decompression and acromioclavicular joint resection. The operation was performed in the beach chair position and under general anaesthesia without the application of an interscalene block. Two weeks later, the patient presented with paresis of the distal interphalangeal joint of the second finger.

[The application, rationale, and current evidence for arobotic approach in abdominal surgery].

High-level evidence now strongly supports the use of a minimally invasive approach in most abdominal surgical procedures. Minimally invasive surgery is performed with either a laparoscopic or a robotic approach, and the robotic approach has been implemented to overcome some of the inherent limitations of the conventional laparoscopic approach. In Denmark, robotic surgery is widely adopted, and this review describes the application and rationale of a robotic approach in different subspecialties, while also presenting the available high-level evidence.

Self-protection strategies and health behaviour in patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic: results and predictors in more than 12 000 patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases followed in the Danish DANBIO registry.

Aims: In Danish patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases to explore self-protection strategies and health behaviour including adherence to disease-modifying antirheumatic treatment (DMARD) during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic and again after the reopening of the society started. Furthermore, to identify characteristics of patients with high levels of anxiety and self-isolation.

Methods: Patients in routine care followed prospectively in the nationwide DANBIO registry were invited to answer an online questionnaire regarding disease activity and COVID-19 infection, behaviour in March and June 2020.

Effect of clindamycin and a live biotherapeutic on the reproductive outcomes of IVF patients with abnormal vaginal microbiota: protocol for a double-blind, placebo-controlled multicentre trial.

Introduction: Recent studies in in vitro fertilisation (IVF) patients have associated abnormal vaginal microbiota (AVM) with poor clinical pregnancy rates of 6%-9% per embryo transfer. The biological plausibility for this finding is hypothesised to be ascending infection to the endometrium which in turn hampers embryo implantation. New molecular based diagnosis may offer advantages compared to microscopical diagnosis of AVM which has huge inter-study variability ranging from 4 to 38%; however, the important question is whether screening and treatment of AVM would improve reproductive outcomes in IVF patients.

Validation of the preoperative score to predict postoperative mortality (POSPOM) in patients undergoing major emergency abdominal surgery.

Purpose: Patients undergoing major emergency abdominal surgery have a high mortality rate. Preoperative risk prediction tools of in-hospital mortality could assist clinical identification of patients at increased risk and thereby aid clinical decision-making and postoperative pathways. The aim of this study was to validate the preoperative score to predict mortality (POSPOM) in a population of patients undergoing major emergency abdominal surgery.

Extracranial internal carotid artery tortuosity may cause vocal cord palsy.

Background: Clinical practice made us suspect that vocal cord palsy (VCP) can be associated with extracranial internal carotid artery (ICA) tortuosity.

Objectives: To find evidence for a causative relation between ICA tortuosity and VCP.

Methods: This single-center, retrospective study comprised 66 patients with VCP.

Routine blood tests are associated with short term mortality and can improve emergency department triage: a cohort study of >12,000 patients.

Background: Prioritization of acutely ill patients in the Emergency Department remains a challenge. We aimed to evaluate whether routine blood tests can predict mortality in unselected patients in an emergency department and to compare risk prediction with a formalized triage algorithm.

Methods: A prospective observational cohort study of 12,661 consecutive admissions to the Emergency Department of Nordsjælland University Hospital during two separate periods in 2010 (primary cohort, n = 6279) and 2013 (validation cohort, n = 6383).