Are normal results on imaging technique (CTPA) safe to rule out blood clot in the lung?

By Nadia Arshad, PhD in TREC

Multidetector Computed Tomographic Pulmonary Angiography (MD CTPA) is an imaging technique used to diagnose pulmonary embolism (blood clots in the lung).

Embolism - Diagnosis on the Display of Medical Tablet and a Black Stethoscope on White Background.

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From the Oven to the Dinner Plate

By Søren Beck Jensen, postdoc TREC

We are back in the laboratory. The ELISA we started yesterday has simmered overnight and is now ready to give us a result. søren3As promised a yellow colour appears in some of the wells in the plate. Some wells are darker yellow than others meaning that some of the samples we measure contains more of the protein we are interested in than other samples. Continue reading

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The Flavour of Lab Work: Cooking an ELISA

By Søren Beck Jensen, postdoc TREC

Good morning, I am Søren Beck Jensen and I am a postdoc at the TREC laboratory. It is Monday morning, and work in the laboratory has already begun. Today we have to perform a technique that is called ELISA.lab_soren
It is able to measure how much of a specific protein that we have in a sample, for example a blood sample. For good work, you need good people. Robin, Ina and Nadja (left to right in the picture) are enthusiastic to see what they have in their samples.

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How does clot lysis time affect risk of a first or recurrent venous thrombosis?

By Robin Liang, PhD in TREC

There is a continuous search for finding laboratory markers that are associated with an increased risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE). While the focus has been mainly on procoagulant pathways that form the clot, there have been relatively few studies that

examine fibrinolytic (clot-breaking) activity in relation to the risk of VTE. Continue reading

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Har vitamin D betydning for blodpropprisiko hos eldre?

Senior woman patient with UK nurse

Av Gro Grimnes, PhD i TREC

Risiko for blodpropp øker med alder, og med økende andel eldre i befolkningen kan vi forvente flere blodpropptilfeller. Mangel på vitamin D er også vanlig hos eldre. I en nylig publisert fransk studie har forskere undersøkt om mangel på vitamin D innvirker på blodpropprisikoen hos de over 75 år. De fant at vitamin D-mangel var svært vanlig i denne aldersgruppen, men at vitamin D-nivået ikke hadde betydning for blodpropprisiko.

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Er DOACs assosiert med færre dødsfall enn Marevan i forebygging av venøs blodpropp?

Av Olga Vikhammer Gran, stipendiat i TREC

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DOAC, forkortelse for direkte orale antikoagulantia testes opp mot medisinen Marevan (Warfarin) i behandling mot venøs blodpropp.

Direkte orale antikoagulantia (DOACs) er en relativt ny type blodfortynnende medisin. DOACs brukes oftest for å redusere risiko for hjerneslag hos pasienter med atrieflimmer (unormal hjerterytme) og i behandling av venøs blodpropp. Før DOACs ble introdusert, var Marevan (Warfarin) medikamentet som hovedsakelig ble brukt for slike tilstander. Det er vist at DOACs har like god effekt som Marevan når det gjelder å forebygge tilbakefall av blodpropp samt forebygge hjerneslag hos pasienter med atrieflimmer. I motsetning til Marevan har DOACs hurtigvirkende effekt, lik daglig dosering og behøver ikke rutinemessig monitorering.

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