Rolf Hörnsten

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Country: Sweden

Publications

  1. ncbi Ventricular late potentials in familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy
    Rolf Hörnsten
    Clinical Physiology, Heart Centre, University Hospital, Umea, Sweden
    J Electrocardiol 39:57-62. 2006
  2. ncbi Outcome of heart rate variability and ventricular late potentials after liver transplantation for familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy
    Rolf Hörnsten
    Clinical Physiology, Heart Center, University Hospital, Umea, and Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Clinical Physiology, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
    Amyloid 15:187-95. 2008
  3. ncbi Liver transplantation does not prevent the development of life-threatening arrhythmia in familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy, Portuguese-type (ATTR Val30Met) patients
    Rolf Hörnsten
    Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Clinical Physiology, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
    Transplantation 78:112-6. 2004
  4. ncbi Abnormal heart rate variability and subtle atrial arrhythmia in patients with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy
    Urban Wiklund
    Department of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics and Department of Radiation Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, University Hospital, Umea, Sweden
    Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol 13:249-56. 2008
  5. ncbi Changes in heart rate variability among RF plastic sealer operators
    Jonna Wilén
    National Institute for Working Life, Umea, Sweden
    Bioelectromagnetics 28:76-9. 2007
  6. ncbi Electromagnetic field exposure and health among RF plastic sealer operators
    Jonna Wilén
    National Institute for Working Life, Umea, Sweden
    Bioelectromagnetics 25:5-15. 2004
  7. ncbi Continuous development of arrhythmia is observed in Swedish transplant patients with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (amyloidogenic transthyretin Val30Met variant)
    Sadahisa Okamoto
    Departments of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
    Liver Transpl 17:122-8. 2011
  8. ncbi Arrhythmia--a pitfall in tests of cardiac autonomic function after liver transplantation for familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy: a long-term follow-up of Swedish patients
    Rolf Hörnsten
    Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Clinical Physiology, Heart Centre, Umea University, Sweden
    Amyloid 19:81-6. 2012
  9. ncbi Blood pressure overshoot after tilt reversal in patients with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy
    Konen Obayashi
    Department of Medicine, Umea University Hospital, Umea, Sweden
    Hypertens Res 34:133-8. 2011
  10. ncbi Heart complications in familial transthyretin amyloidosis: impact of age and gender
    Rolf Hörnsten
    Department of Surgical and Perioperative Science, Umea University, Clinical Physiology, Heart Centre, Umea, Sweden
    Amyloid 17:63-8. 2010

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Publications17

  1. ncbi Ventricular late potentials in familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy
    Rolf Hörnsten
    Clinical Physiology, Heart Centre, University Hospital, Umea, Sweden
    J Electrocardiol 39:57-62. 2006
    ..Long-term follow-up studies are required to find the prognostic significance of these new findings...
  2. ncbi Outcome of heart rate variability and ventricular late potentials after liver transplantation for familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy
    Rolf Hörnsten
    Clinical Physiology, Heart Center, University Hospital, Umea, and Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Clinical Physiology, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
    Amyloid 15:187-95. 2008
    ..If an increase of HRV after transplantation is observed, it should raise the suspicion that the patient has developed subtle atrial arrhythmia...
  3. ncbi Liver transplantation does not prevent the development of life-threatening arrhythmia in familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy, Portuguese-type (ATTR Val30Met) patients
    Rolf Hörnsten
    Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Clinical Physiology, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
    Transplantation 78:112-6. 2004
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  4. ncbi Abnormal heart rate variability and subtle atrial arrhythmia in patients with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy
    Urban Wiklund
    Department of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics and Department of Radiation Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, University Hospital, Umea, Sweden
    Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol 13:249-56. 2008
    ..We analyzed heart rate variability (HRV) in FAP patients using power spectrum analysis and Poincaré plot analysis...
  5. ncbi Changes in heart rate variability among RF plastic sealer operators
    Jonna Wilén
    National Institute for Working Life, Umea, Sweden
    Bioelectromagnetics 28:76-9. 2007
    ..This could in turn be due to an adaptation of the thermoregulatory system and the cardiac autonomic modulation to a long-term low-level thermal exposure in the RF operators...
  6. ncbi Electromagnetic field exposure and health among RF plastic sealer operators
    Jonna Wilén
    National Institute for Working Life, Umea, Sweden
    Bioelectromagnetics 25:5-15. 2004
    ..Further, RF operators had a significantly lower heart rate (24 h registration) and more episodes of bradycardia compared to controls...
  7. ncbi Continuous development of arrhythmia is observed in Swedish transplant patients with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (amyloidogenic transthyretin Val30Met variant)
    Sadahisa Okamoto
    Departments of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
    Liver Transpl 17:122-8. 2011
    ..The development of arrhythmia is unrelated to gender or age at disease onset, and the yearly risk does not appear to decrease with time after LT...
  8. ncbi Arrhythmia--a pitfall in tests of cardiac autonomic function after liver transplantation for familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy: a long-term follow-up of Swedish patients
    Rolf Hörnsten
    Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Clinical Physiology, Heart Centre, Umea University, Sweden
    Amyloid 19:81-6. 2012
    ..In the minority of patients with sinus rhythm in all recordings, cardiac autonomic modulation remained stable after transplantation and no improvement was noted...
  9. ncbi Blood pressure overshoot after tilt reversal in patients with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy
    Konen Obayashi
    Department of Medicine, Umea University Hospital, Umea, Sweden
    Hypertens Res 34:133-8. 2011
    ..In addition, assessment of the post-tilt BP reaction points to possible treatment modalities for orthostatic hypotension at least in the early stages of the disease...
  10. ncbi Heart complications in familial transthyretin amyloidosis: impact of age and gender
    Rolf Hörnsten
    Department of Surgical and Perioperative Science, Umea University, Clinical Physiology, Heart Centre, Umea, Sweden
    Amyloid 17:63-8. 2010
    ..These findings highlight the necessity of 24-h ECGs to detect conduction disturbances, due to their occurrence in the absence of echocardiographic evidence of amyloid deposition in the myocardium...
  11. ncbi Heart rate variability in children with Fontan circulation: lateral tunnel and extracardiac conduit
    Jenny Alenius Dahlqvist
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
    Pediatr Cardiol 33:307-15. 2012
    ..0001), and HF (P = 0.001) compared with the control subjects. The LT and EC patients did not differ significantly. Reduced HRV was found in both the LT and EC patients. In terms of HRV reduction, EC was not superior to LT...
  12. ncbi Automatic filtering of outliers in RR intervals before analysis of heart rate variability in Holter recordings: a comparison with carefully edited data
    Marcus Karlsson
    Department of Radiation Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Centre of Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
    Biomed Eng Online 11:2. 2012
    ..This study compared common frequency domain indices of HRV when determined from manually edited and automatically filtered RR intervals...
  13. ncbi Comparison of quantitative sensory testing and heart rate variability in Swedish Val30Met ATTR
    Victoria Heldestad
    Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Neurosciences, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
    Amyloid 18:183-90. 2011
    ..This is of particular importance as the phenotype of the ATTR disease varies between groups with different age of onset...
  14. ncbi Cardiac autonomic function does not improve after liver transplantation for familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy
    Urban Wiklund
    Department of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, University Hospital, SE 901 85 Umea, Sweden
    Auton Neurosci 156:124-30. 2010
    ..Liver transplantation is the only potentially curative treatment for familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP). We investigated cardiac autonomic function in 63 transplanted Swedish FAP patients...
  15. ncbi Serial assessment of variability in heart rate in children with the Fontan circulation
    Annika Rydberg
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Section of Paediatric Cardiology, University Hospital, Umea, Sweden
    Cardiol Young 15:498-503. 2005
    ..Our study shows that, in patients with the Fontan circulation, routine ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring including analysis of variability in heart rate, detects over time a progressive sympatovagal imbalance...
  16. ncbi Left ventricular dyssynchrony is associated with reduced heart rate variability in familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy
    Ying Zhao
    Heart Centre, Umea University Hospital, Sweden
    Int J Cardiol 155:273-8. 2012
    ..Although autonomic disturbances are well-established, mechanisms for reduced HRV, their relationship with left ventricular (LV) function in FAP are not well understood...
  17. ncbi Holter ECG monitoring in patients with perceived electrical hypersensitivity
    Monica Sandström
    National Institute for Working Life, P O Box 7654, S 907 13, Umea, Sweden
    Int J Psychophysiol 49:227-35. 2003
    ..EHS patients had a disturbed pattern of circadian rhythms of HRV and showed a relatively 'flat' representation of hourly-recorded spectral power of the HF component of HRV...