NEW STUDY. An advanced surgical therapy has proved considerably more efficacious than conventional treatments for patients with melanoma in the eye (uveal) that has spread to the liver, a University of Gothenburg study shows. The treatment involves perfusing the liver with very high doses of chemotherapy. Melanoma in the eye (uveal) is an unusual form of melanoma that arises not in the pigment cells of the skin but in the…
Adults with congenital heart disease living longer
NEW STUDY. Adult patients with congenital heart disease are living longer but have a greater risk of heart failure and other heart complications. This is the finding of a new study by researchers at the University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital. Zacharias Mandalenakis is the last author of the article now being published in the journal Circulation. Zacharias is a chief physician at the ACHD Center at Sahlgrenska University…
Study in Science: Electrodes can grow in living tissue
NEW STUDY. Researchers at the Department of Chemistry & Molecular Biology at University of Gothenburg are partners in a research collaboration that successfully has grown electrodes in living tissue using the body’s molecules as triggers. The result, published in the journal Science, paves the way for the formation of fully integrated electronic circuits in living organisms. Linking electronics to biological tissue is important to understand complex biological functions, combat diseases…
Lower fracture risk for older wheelchair users
NEW STUDY. Being a frail elderly person and using a wheelchair involves a substantially reduced risk of fractures, a University of Gothenburg study shows. More prescriptions for wheelchairs may result. Wheelchair use often means spending many hours in the same, seated position with no load on the legs, which can cause functional deterioration and loss of bone mass. This in turn makes the skeleton more brittle and thus subject to…
AI supports doctors’ hard decisions on cardiac arrest
NEW STUDY. When patients receive care after cardiac arrest, doctors can now — by entering patient data in a web-based app — find out how thousands of similar patients have fared. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have developed three such systems of decision support for cardiac arrest that may, in the future, make a major difference to doctors’ work. One of these decision support tools (SCARS-1), now published, is…