Institute of Clinical Medicine - News

Postoperative drug administration is essential to help cardiac surgery patients recover without undesired events and reap long-term benefits from the surgical procedure.

Wearable sensor technology can be used to reliably assess the occurrence of myoclonic jerks in patients with epilepsy also in the home environment.

A new study by researchers at the University of Eastern Finland shows for the first time that blood-based measurement of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) enables distinguishing patients with frontotemporal dementia from those with primary psychiatric disorders or healthy individuals.

A family history of cough increases the risk of both the onset and persistence of cough, according to the PhD study of Anne Lätti, Lic Med.

Spinal cord stimulation is an effective and safe treatment for persistent lower extremity radicular nerve pain after spinal surgery, according to the doctoral thesis of Mette Nissen, MD.

In his PhD study, Toni Luokkala, Lic Med., investigated the soft tissue injuries related to elbow collateral ligaments and distal biceps tendon tears.

People with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are less likely to have cataract surgery than people without Alzheimer’s disease. The procedure rate starts to decrease already one year after the diagnosis.

A top-level international research team including researchers from the University of Eastern Finland has developed a new algorithm for the diagnostics of dementia.

The Proof of Concept ideas funded in 2021 included a functional biomarker for Alzheimer's disease, a mathematic algorithm for the personalized prediction of aortic rupture, and enzymes cleaving biomass fibers.