Reidar Bjørnerheim group
Group strategy
The research is divided into two main projects:
- Clinical research with special focus on echoccardiographic methods in heart failure, hypertension and myocardial infarction.
- Clinical research targeting patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) treated by PCI. Projects are focusing on (in patients with STEMI):
a) Undiagnosed impaired glucose tolerance
b) Treatment of complications like acute heart failure.
c) Reperfusion damage, stunning, infarct size.
d) Mechanical postconditiong.
e) Biobanking in STEMI-patients. Identification of new prognostic factors.
3) NORCAST- prognostication after cardiac and/or respiratory arrest
- an observation study at Oslo University Hospital - Ullevaal
Additional resarch projects on:
Treatment of chronic heart failure. Training of patients with heart failure.
Head of group
Group members
- Jan Eritsland Senior Cardiologist, MD, PhD
- Sigrun Halvorsen Senior Cardiologist, MD, PhD
- Arild Mangschau Senior Cardiologist, MD, PhD
- Arne Westheim Senior Cardiologist, MD, PhD
- Ivar Sjaastad Professor, MD, PhD
- Limalanathan Shanmuganathan MD, cand mag
- Trygve Husebye Senior cardiologist, MD, PhD student
- Espen R Nakstad MD, PhD student
- Thomas Schwartz MD, PhD student
- Nisha Mistry PhD student
- Birgitta Blakstad Nilsson PT, MSc, PhD student
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