LITTERATURE. The medical students in the novel know. That the kidney is a silent organ, that the heart is a muscle – and that there is no way to save all patients. The author and medical resident Annika Paldanius is using her medical knowledge to help in her literary debut. “I know all this” is an internal medicine fictional novel, perhaps the first ever. The doctor and author Annika Paldanius…
Hospital Director Barbro Friden moving on to new assignment
SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL. Barbro Friden will soon leave her position as Hospital Director at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital and assume new tasks. The change takes place after the summer and recruitment of a replacement has begun. “I’ve had a great time here at Sahlgrenska University Hospital and the decision was not easy to make”, says Barbro Friden. Her new assignment is a position as CEO for an endevour to build…
Research Day offered a jam-packed program
COLLABORATION. All seats were reserved before this year’s Research Day, both for Sahlgrenska Academy and Sahlgrenska University Hospital. Over three hundred listeners filled the seats of the Wallenberg Auditorium where both pre-clinical and clinical cutting edge research were presented. Sahlgrenska University Hospital Director Barbro Fridén started the day together with Olle Larkö, Dean at Sahlgrenska Academy. “A neuroscientist once told me that daydreaming is good, it makes you more creative.…
Six reseacrhers report on uterine transplants in Läkartidningen
CLINICAL RESEARCH. Sex researchers and consultants at Sahlgrenska Academy and Sahlgrenska University Hospital describe the outcome of the clinical study of uterine transplants in Läkartidningen. Five children were born, and all five are doing well. In the clinical study, which began in 2013, nine women received transplanted uteri from living donors. Two of the transplanted uteri were surgically removed during the first few months – in one case because of…
Sahlgrenska initiates external investigation of transplant operations
CLINICAL RESEARCH. Sahlgrenska University Hospital has initiated an external investigation of its transplant operations. The investigation is conducted in order make sure that transplantation of the trachea and other organs has been done by the book. Sahlgrenska University Hospital has asked the external investigator Bengt Gerdin, professor emeritus at the Uppsala University, to review a unit at the hospital’s transplant center. In focus for the investigations are transplantation of the trachea and…