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New PhD Dissertation on Patient-reported outcomes following living donor nephrectomy
– On November 26 2008 Marit Helen Andersen from the Interventional Centre and The Department of Surgery at Rikshospitalet University Hospital defended her Doctoral Thesis at Faculty of Medicine at University of Oslo. The topic was Patient-reported outcomes following living donor nephrectomy. The purpose of her study was to assess clinical and patient reported outcomes following living kidney donor neprectomy, with particular focus on patient reported outcomes. A combination of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies was used. In a randomized controlled trial with 122 donors a comparison of laparoscopic and open donor nephrectomy was made focusing on donor safety, perioperative pain, convalesence, health status and over all quality of life at 1, 6, and 12 months. The results demonstrated that the conventional open donor nephrectomy is superior to laparoscopic donor nephrectomy with regard to donor safety. Yet, an uncomplicated laparoscopic donor neprectomy has impotant short trem advantages such as less analgesic requiremets, less post operative pain, better health status and a shorter sick leave as compared to to the open approach. However, long term follow up only revealed significant differences in favour of laparoscopy when adjusting for reoperations and conversions. She therefore concluded that long term benefits are hard to prove in favour of lapasoscopic technique. The image shows Marit after receiving a present from her main superviser professor Erik Fosse from the Interventional Centre.
Automated catheter placement system
– An automated catheter placement system for safe and accurate automatic positioning and monitoring of the endoclamp balloon for minimally invasive cardiac procedures has been developed in the ARIS*ER Project.ARIS*ER is a Marie Curie Research Training Network funded by the EU and coordinated by the Interventional Centre. It aims at developing an augmented reality system supporting minimally invasive procedures. An innovative solution for improved control of aortic clamping during minimally invasive cardiac surgery is developed and demonstrated.Minimally invasive cardiac surgery uses small incisions in order to reduce trauma and risk of infection for the patient. Nevertheless this kind of surgery represents a great challenge for the surgeon, as visual guidance and dexterity are severely impaired.In order to minimally invasively stop the blood to the heart, a catheter with a balloon at its tip is inserted through the aortic arch close to the aortic valve and inflated in this specific position. Movement either towards the heart or away from it can have serious consequences and so, the knowledge and control of the position of this balloon is a key issue.
Best Paper Award at ICSNC
– The paper on "Use of MPEG-21 for Security and Authentication in Biomedical Sensor Networks" by Wolfgang Leister, Truls Fretland and Ilangko Balasingham has been awarded the "Best Paper award" by ICSNC (3rd International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications), in Malta on Oct. 2008.
Best Paper Award at ISABEL 2008
– Stig Støa from the Interventional Centre and Morten Lindberg and Vera Goebel from Department of Informatics at University of Oslo received the Best Paper Award in the cathegory "Biomedical related topics" at ISABEL 2008 -the First International Symposium on Applied Scineces in Biomedical and Communication Technologies. The paper title is "Online Analysis of Myocardial Ischemia From Medical Sensor Data Streams with Esper".The ISABEL event took place on 25-28 October 2008 and was hosted by Aalborg University in Denmark.

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