Objective To study factors influencing complications and death after operations for small
bowel obstruction (SBO) using multifactorial statistical methods. Summary Background Data …

Background Patients with inflammatory joint diseases (IJD) have increased risk of
cardiovascular disease (CVD). Our aim was to compare CVD risk profiles in patients with IJD, …

Background and purpose — Medical treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has changed
dramatically over the last 15 years, including immune modulation. We investigated the risk of …

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common systemic vasculitis in adults. The pathogenesis
and the etiology of the disease are not fully understood, and environmental factors, which …

Objective The European guidelines on cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention advise use
of relative risk and risk age algorithms for estimating CVD risk in patients with low estimated …

Background: Patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA) risk a number of disease-related complications
and the current cornerstone of GCA-treatment, glucocorticoids, have serious adverse …

Aim of Study: The objective of this study was to determine the pattern of recurrence after one
or more episodes of adhesive small bowel obstruction (ASBO) during a follow-up period of …

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to give results of elbow arthroplasty for a relatively
large population and compare different prosthesis brands and different patient subgroups. …

Objective To compare differences in the risk of revision for infection and changes in risk over
time and in time from primary surgery to revision for infection after total hip replacement (…

Background and purpose Previous studies on shoulder arthroplasty have usually described
small patient populations, and few articles have addressed the survival of shoulder implants. …