Hallgeir Tveiten

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Hallgeir Tveiten er spesialist i indremedisin og i lungesykdommer og overlege og seksjonsleder ved Lungemedisinsk avdeling ved Oslo universitetssykehus, Ullevål sykehus.

Articles by Hallgeir Tveiten

Haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in COVID-19 cases?

Hallgeir Tveiten,
Pål Aukrust,
Gustav Lehne,
Jezabel R. Rodriguez,
Ole Henning Skjønsberg

23.03.2020: Could haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis be a factor in severe coronavirus disease? Puja Mehta and colleagues have recently published an article in The Lancet in which they discuss whether secondary haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) can be triggered by coronavirus (1). The Journal of the...

A man in his forties with increasing shortness of breath

Hallgeir Tveiten,
Gustav Lehne,
Pål Aukrust,
Jezabel R. Rodriguez,
Ole Henning Skjønsberg

23.03.2020: A previously healthy man was admitted to the local hospital with increasing dyspnoea, a sensation of fever and reduced general condition. After a short time he became critically ill with respiratory distress and pulmonary infiltrates. Only when a rare immunological syndrome was suspected did we come...

Non-tuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary infections

Hallgeir Tveiten,
Arne Broch Brantsæter,
Anne Torunn Mengshoel

26.11.2018: Mycobacteria are aerobic, non-spore-forming rod bacteria, are non-motile and acid-fast, i.e. they cannot be decolourised by acid-alcohol in special staining. Their growth rate is generally low, but varies. This forms the basis for their subdivision into fast- and slow-growing species, defined as...