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Marte-Helene Bjørk er overlege ved Nevrologisk avdeling, Haukeland universitetssjukehus, professor ved Universitetet i Bergen, leder av Bergen Epilepsy Research Group og nestleder av Norsk senter for hodepineforskning.
Articles by Marte-Helene Bjørk
Room for improvement in the follow-up for unilateral headache with autonomic symptoms
- Knut Hagen,
- Bendik S. Winsvold,
- Marte-Helene Bjørk,
- Erling Tronvik,
- Laila Bratterud Mathiesen,
- Hilde Karen Ofte,
- Christofer Lundqvist,
- Julie Sønnervik,
- Nina Bäcklund
16.05.2024:
Quicker diagnosis and a higher standard of follow-up for trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia is possible – and necessary. The Norwegian Quality Register for Severe Primary Headaches, established in 2022, is a consent-based national quality register of patients with cluster headache, paroxysmal...
Treating women of reproductive age with valproate
- Marte-Helene Bjørk,
- Thorsten Alfons Gerstner,
- Erik Taubøll
04.05.2020:
The question of valproate use by women of reproductive age is important, complicated and timely. The drug can be extremely harmful to the fetus, but some pregnant women with epilepsy will continue to have seizures if they don't take it. Valproate came on the market in France in 1967. It is one of...
A man in his 50s with high ferritin levels and increasing cognitive impairment
- Marte-Helene Bjørk,
- Ivar Otto Gjerde,
- Charalampos Tzoulis,
- Rune Johan Ulvik,
- Laurence Albert Bindoff
25.08.2015:
A healthy man in his late 30s was found to have elevated ferritin levels, which raised suspicion of haemochromatosis. He was treated for many years with phlebotomy, but in his 50s developed progressive neuropsychiatric symptoms. A blood test finally provided a diagnosis – more than 20 years after...