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Nevrologisk avdeling
Akershus universitetssykehus
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Universitetet i Oslo
Forfatterbidrag: utforming, utarbeiding, revisjon og godkjenning av innsendte manusversjon.
Trygve Holmøy er overlege og professor.
Articles by Trygve Holmøy
A woman in her fifties with progressive walking difficulties
- Amanuel Hassen Ali,
- Helle Høyer,
- Eyvind Rugland,
- Trygve Holmøy
08.08.2022:
A woman in her fifties developed gradually increasing unsteadiness and weakness in her legs. Clinical investigation raised suspicion of an immunological disorder. However, immunomodulatory therapy had no effect. Further investigation two and a half years after the initial contact with a doctor...
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...
Ventilation of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Ole-Bjørn Tysnes,
- Trygve Holmøy,
- Solfrid Indrekvam,
- Ove Fondenæs
14.05.2021:
Just under 10 % of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis receive life-prolonging ventilation via a tracheostomy. There is no international consensus on the planning of life-prolonging invasive ventilation for patients with this disease. The annual incidence rate of amyotrophic lateral...
Disease-modifying therapy for multiple sclerosis
- Trygve Holmøy,
- Gro Owren Nygaard,
- Kjell-Morten Myhr,
- Lars Bø
10.05.2021:
High-efficacy therapy from the time of diagnosis substantially improves the prognosis for multiple sclerosis. The national guidelines on MS nevertheless recommend less effective therapy for many patients, and must be updated in pace with medical advances. We consider in the following how multiple...
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...
Treatment of multiple sclerosis under the COVID-19 pandemic
- Trygve Holmøy,
- Øivind Torkildsen,
- Lars Bø
29.04.2020:
Patients with multiple sclerosis are often treated with immunosuppressants and frequently have comorbidities or functional decline. They may therefore be at increased risk of a serious course of COVID-19 if they are infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The Norwegian Multiple Sclerosis Competence Centre...
A young woman with seizures, visual impairment, and paralysis
- Rune A. Høglund,
- Aija Z. Myro,
- Svetozar Zarnovicky,
- Trygve Holmøy
19.08.2019:
A young woman arrived at hospital after a new-onset seizure. Over the following months, she was hospitalised multiple times with serious neurological deficits, which turned out to be due to a relatively newly described neurological disorder. A previously healthy woman in her early twenties arrived...
Genetic testing in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Ola Nakken,
- Lillian Sørum,
- Trygve Holmøy
03.09.2018:
About 150 persons develop amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) each year in Norway and this number is increasing (1). Traditionally, the condition has been regarded as a purely motor disorder characterised by progressive paralysis, but up to half of patients also develop signs of cognitive failure...