Jan Erik Nordrehaug

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Jan Erik Nordrehaug er spesialist i hjertesykdommer, tidligere intervensjonskardiolog og leder av Hjerteavdelingen, Haukeland universitetssjukehus og professor emeritus ved Universitetet i Bergen.

Articles by Jan Erik Nordrehaug

Hyperkalaemia as a differential diagnosis in chest pain

Jan Erik Nordrehaug

22.03.2022: The treatment of patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction generally works well. Sometimes other suspected diagnoses become so urgent that treatment must be initiated rapidly. When acute myocardial infarction is suspected, the standard treatment protocol is immediate transportation to a...

Assessment of heart failure – not always easy

Jan Erik Nordrehaug

27.11.2012: Patients with dyspnoea often present a challenge to clinicians, even when causes other than heart failure have been excluded. The diagnosis of heart failure (1) has traditionally been made in the light of history of present illness, clinical findings of oedema, pulmonary congestion, distended neck...

Hospital admission rates and case-fatality for cardiovascular diseases in Western Norway, 1992 - 2001

Nina Øyen,
Ottar Nygård,
Jannicke Igland,
Grethe S. Tell,
Jan Erik Nordrehaug,
Lorentz M. Irgens,
John G. Cooper,
Jørund Langørgen,
Stein Emil Vollset

03.01.2008: Since 1970, cardiovascular mortality (box 1) has decreased with more than 50 % in Norway and other Scandinavian countries (1, 2). A combination of several factors may have contributed to fewer patients acquiring disease (prevention) and/orfewer deaths (treatment) (2). Until recently, Norway has been...