Øystein Kalsnes Jørstad

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Øystein Kalsnes Jørstad er ph.d., spesialist i øyesykdommer, seksjonsleder ved Øyeavdelingen, Oslo universitetssykehus og professor ved Det medisinske fakultet, Universitetet i Oslo.

Articles by Øystein Kalsnes Jørstad

A woman in her forties with unilateral blurred vision and pain upon eye movement

Gorm Pihl-Jensen,
Eva Meling Ødegaard,
Karoline Skogen,
Øystein Kalsnes Jørstad,
Trygve Holmøy

03.06.2021: A woman in her forties presented with subacute onset of unilateral blurred vision with pain upon eye movement. Although findings from MRI and cerebrospinal fluid analysis were typical of demyelinating disease, the final diagnosis was a condition requiring an entirely different therapeutic approach...

The first Norwegian doctorate in multiple sclerosis

Trygve Holmøy,
Øystein Kalsnes Jørstad

22.03.2021: The story of research on multiple sclerosis in Norway starts in 1945 at a private Catholic hospital in the town of Hamar, where the ophthalmologist Marius Haarr was treating patients with retinal periphlebitis and neurological symptoms. He completed his doctoral degree while raising two young...

A woman in her 50s with chronic fatigue syndrome, sepsis and hyponatraemia

Kiarash Tazmini,
Torstein R. Meling,
Thor Håkon Skattør,
Øystein Kalsnes Jørstad,
Anders Palmstrøm Jørgensen

07.03.2017: A woman who had had chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) for almost ten years was hospitalised because of pneumonia with sepsis. While in hospital she developed hyponatraemia, and another underlying diagnosis was revealed. A woman in her 50s was found at home by her husband...