Jana Midelfart-Hoff

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Jana Midelfart-Hoff er spesialist i nevrologi, seksjonsleder og assisterende fylkeslege hos Statsforvalteren i Vestland og professor ved VID vitenskapelige høgskole i Oslo. Hun er leder av Norsk nevrologisk forening.

Articles by Jana Midelfart-Hoff

Dizzy and female – could there be a hormonal explanation?

Amanda Pettersen Kasumi*,
Linnea Witberg Moen*,
Jana Midelfart-Hoff,
Yngvild Skåtun Hannestad,
Frederik Kragerud Goplen

18.03.2024: Several studies suggest that hormonal factors play a key role in the development of dizziness. This ought to have an impact on the treatment. Dizziness most commonly affects women, and it has recently been pointed out by the Women's Health Commission that sex is of relevance in respect of several...

A woman in her sixties with epilepsy and syncope

Jana Midelfart-Hoff,
Gregorz Gradek,
Øystein Wendelbo,
Bernt Andreas Engelsen

26.01.2022: At a routine neurology outpatient appointment, a woman in her sixties with a 30-year history of well-controlled epilepsy reported a recent seizure. The dose of her antiepileptic medication was therefore increased. However, the cause of the seizure turned out to be something else entirely. A woman in...

The ocular fundus in cerebral vasculitis

Anna Midelfart,
Jana Midelfart-Hoff,
Tor Johansen

27.11.2012: A man in his twenties was admitted to hospital with headache, dizziness, vomiting, lethargy and weight loss. Cerebral MRI showed diffuse, confluent changes in white matter, consistent with cerebral vasculitis. Conventional angiography with selective injection in both carotids and the right vertebral...