Uppsala University Hospital

Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis

EWGSOP2's updated recommendations aim to increase awareness of sarcopenia and its risk. With these new recommendations, EWGSOP2 calls for healthcare professionals who treat pati...

Clonal Hematopoiesis and Blood-Cancer Risk Inferred from Blood DNA Sequence

Clonal hematopoiesis with somatic mutations is readily detected by means of DNA sequencing, is increasingly common as people age, and is associated with increased risks of hemat...

European LeukemiaNet recommendations for the management of chronic myeloid leukemia: 2013

Abstract Advances in chronic myeloid leukemia treatment, particularly regarding tyrosine kinase inhibitors, mandate regular updating of concepts and management. A European Leuke...

A progressive syndrome of autism, dementia, ataxia, and loss of purposeful hand use in girls: Rett's syndrome: Report of 35 cases

Abstract Thirty‐five patients, exclusively girls, from three countries had a uniform and striking progressive encephalopathy. After normal general and psychomotor development up...

Phenotypically Concordant and Discordant Monozygotic Twins Display Different DNA Copy-Number-Variation Profiles

Uptake of Active Surveillance for Very-Low-Risk Prostate Cancer in Sweden

Active surveillance has become the dominant management for low-risk prostate cancer among men in Sweden, with the highest rates yet reported and almost complete uptake for very-...

Nutrition and renal cell cancer

A review of axonal transport of metals

Quantitative sensory tests in patients with neuralgia 11 to 25 years after injury

In a previous study quantitative sensory tests were used to characterize the symptoms in patients with post-traumatic neuralgia in the hand. Two types of pain syndromes were ide...

European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) position paper on arrhythmia management and device therapies in endocrine disorders, endorsed by Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS) and Latin American Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS)

Endocrine disorders are associated with various tachyarrhythmias, including atrial fibrillation (AF), ventricular tachycardia (VT), ventricular fibrillation (VF), and bradyarrhy...