Arne K. Andreassen

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Kardiologisk avdeling

Oslo universitetssykehus, Rikshospitalet

Forfatterbidrag: idé, utforming/design, datainnsamling, analyse av data, litteratursøk, utarbeiding av manus og godkjenning av innsendte manusversjon.

Arne K. Andreassen er dr.med., spesialist i hjertesykdommer, overlege og medisinsk fagansvarlig for hjertetransplantasjon.

Articles by Arne K. Andreassen

Heart transplantation in Norway 1983–2023

Arne K. Andreassen,
Johannes L. Bjørnstad,
Einar Gude,
Tom N. Hoel,
Kaspar Broch,
Håvard Ravnestad,
Odd R. Geiran,
Arnt E. Fiane

22.10.2025: After Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant in Cape Town in 1967, the following years were marked by poor outcomes. Organ rejection and complicating infections often limited survival times to just days or weeks, and several centres discontinued their transplantation programme...

Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

John-Peder Escobar Kvitting,
Håvard Ravnestad,
Rune Andersen,
Eyvind Gjønnæss,
Natasha Moe,
Sigurd Birkeland,
Morten Svalebjørg,
Per Snorre Lingaas,
Einar Gude,
Lars Gullestad,
Kaspar Broch,
Arne K. Andreassen

26.03.2025: Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is a rare complication of pulmonary embolism and entails high morbidity and mortality. The gold standard for treatment is pulmonary endarterectomy, which improves haemodynamics and exercise capacity, and is potentially curative. Alternative options for...

Points in common, but different origins

Arne K. Andreassen

04.09.2012: Pulmonary hypertension is a complex, multidisciplinary disease for which the classification and guidelines for diagnostics and treatment were revised in 2009 (1, 2). The mean pressure in arteria pulmonalis is by definition ≥ 25 mm Hg at rest, determined by means of right-sided heart catheterisation...