Lars Thomassen

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Lars Thomassen er spesialist i nevrologi, professor emeritus ved Universitetet i Bergen, tidligere overlege og leder av slagenheten ved Nevrologisk avdeling, nå forsker ved Nevroklinikken, Haukeland universitetssjukehus.

Articles by Lars Thomassen

Stroke as a separate field of medicine

Lars Thomassen,
Martin Kurz,
Ole Morten Rønning

22.11.2021: Vascular neurology is different from general neurology, and in practice is a separate field of emergency medicine. Should formal qualifications and a defined framework for education in vascular neurology be introduced? Every year, around 10 000 people in Norway suffer a stroke, and approximately 60...

Transcranial ultrasound monitoring in acute stroke

Lars Thomassen,
Annette Fromm,
Sander Aarli,
Nicola Logallo

10.08.2021: Acute stroke results in unstable cerebral blood circulation and a brain in crisis. Should we be satisfied with a snapshot X-ray image on admission, or do we also need to monitor cerebral blood circulation over time? When patients with symptoms of acute cerebral infarction or cerebral haemorrhage...

Ischaemic stroke with patent foramen ovale

Mirza Jusufovic,
Lars Thomassen,
Mona Skjelland

28.01.2014: Antithrombotic treatment and/or transcatheter closure may prevent recurrent cerebrovascular episodes in patients with patent (open) foramen ovale and transitory ischaemic attacks (TIA)/ embolic stroke. The Norwegian guidelines for transcatheter closure are based on systematic reviews (1), and the...

Cerebral arterial vasospasm

Marte Helene Bjørk,
Lars Thomassen,
Ulrike Waje-Andreassen

23.08.2011: A person in his 20s with known migraine with aura developed infarcts in the right middle cerebral artery and both anterior fields of supply (Figure 1 shows a magnetic tomography diffusion weighted series). Cerebral computed and magnetic tomography with magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) after...