Ola Gjesdal
Position: PhD Student
Phone: (230) 73672
Email:

PubMed registered articles

 

Scientific activities

Project:

Regional heart failure

Supervisors:

Thor Edvardsen and Hans-Jørgen Smith (co-supervisor)

Collaborators:

Halfdan Ihlen, Svend Aakhus, Eirik Pettersen, Ketil Lunde, Trond Vartdal, Thomas Helle-Valle, Marit Kristine Smedsrud, Einar Hopp

Aim:

Visualize and quantify heart failure at an early stage by new echocardiography and MRI techniques

Methods:

Echocardiography (speckle tracking), MRI

 

Author network for Ola Gjesdal by COREMINE medical


Publications 2011

Beitnes JO, Gjesdal O, Lunde K, Solheim S, Edvardsen T, Arnesen H, Forfang K, Aakhus S (2011)
Left ventricular systolic and diastolic function improve after acute myocardial infarction treated with acute percutaneous coronary intervention, but are not influenced by intracoronary injection of autologous mononuclear bone marrow cells: a 3 year serial echocardiographic sub-study of the randomized-controlled ASTAMI study
Eur J Echocardiogr, 12 (2), 98-106
PubMed 20851818

Gjesdal O, Bluemke DA, Lima JA (2011)
Cardiac remodeling at the population level--risk factors, screening, and outcomes
Nat Rev Cardiol, 8 (12), 673-85
PubMed 22027657

Gjesdal O, Remme EW, Opdahl A, Skulstad H, Russell K, Kongsgaard E, Edvardsen T, Smiseth OA (2011)
Mechanisms of abnormal systolic motion of the interventricular septum during left bundle-branch block
Circ Cardiovasc Imaging, 4 (3), 264-73
PubMed 21393502

Goebel B, Gjesdal O, Kottke D, Otto S, Jung C, Lauten A, Figulla HR, Edvardsen T, Poerner TC (2011)
Detection of irregular patterns of myocardial contraction in patients with hypertensive heart disease: a two-dimensional ultrasound speckle tracking study
J Hypertens, 29 (11), 2255-64
PubMed 21946697

Russell K, Smiseth OA, Gjesdal O, Qvigstad E, Norseng PA, Sjaastad I, Opdahl A, Skulstad H, Edvardsen T, Remme EW (2011)
Mechanism of prolonged electromechanical delay in late activated myocardium during left bundle branch block
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol, 301 (6), H2334-43
PubMed 21984549

Smedsrud MK, Pettersen E, Gjesdal O, Svennevig JL, Andersen K, Ihlen H, Edvardsen T (2011)
Detection of left ventricular dysfunction by global longitudinal systolic strain in patients with chronic aortic regurgitation
J Am Soc Echocardiogr, 24 (11), 1253-9
PubMed 21908174

Tsai HR, Gjesdal O, Wethal T, Haugaa KH, Fosså A, Fosså SD, Edvardsen T (2011)
Left ventricular function assessed by two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography in long-term survivors of Hodgkin's lymphoma treated by mediastinal radiotherapy with or without anthracycline therapy
Am J Cardiol, 107 (3), 472-7
PubMed 21257017

Publications 2010

Russell K, Opdahl A, Remme EW, Gjesdal O, Skulstad H, Kongsgaard E, Edvardsen T, Smiseth OA (2010)
Evaluation of left ventricular dyssynchrony by onset of active myocardial force generation: a novel method that differentiates between electrical and mechanical etiologies
Circ Cardiovasc Imaging, 3 (4), 405-14
PubMed 20494943

Publications 2009

Gjesdal O, Gude E, Arora S, Leivestad T, Andreassen AK, Gullestad L, Aaberge L, Brunvand H, Edvardsen T, Geiran OR, Simonsen S (2009)
Intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation as a bridge to heart transplantation does not impair long-term survival
Eur J Heart Fail, 11 (7), 709-14
PubMed 19515719

Gjesdal O, Vartdal T, Hopp E, Lunde K, Brunvand H, Smith HJ, Edvardsen T (2009)
Left ventricle longitudinal deformation assessment by mitral annulus displacement or global longitudinal strain in chronic ischemic heart disease: are they interchangeable?
J Am Soc Echocardiogr, 22 (7), 823-30
PubMed 19505792

Publications 2008

Gjesdal O, Helle-Valle T, Hopp E, Lunde K, Vartdal T, Aakhus S, Smith HJ, Ihlen H, Edvardsen T (2008)
Noninvasive separation of large, medium, and small myocardial infarcts in survivors of reperfused ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a comprehensive tissue Doppler and speckle-tracking echocardiography study
Circ Cardiovasc Imaging, 1 (3), 189-96, 2 p following 196
PubMed 19808542

Publications 2007

Gjesdal O, Hopp E, Vartdal T, Lunde K, Helle-Valle T, Aakhus S, Smith HJ, Ihlen H, Edvardsen T (2007)
Global longitudinal strain measured by two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography is closely related to myocardial infarct size in chronic ischaemic heart disease
Clin Sci (Lond), 113 (6), 287-96
PubMed 17501720

Publications 1996

Bjørås M, Gjesdal O, Erickson JD, Torp R, Levy LM, Ottersen OP, Degree M, Storm-Mathisen J, Seeberg E, Danbolt NC (1996)
Cloning and expression of a neuronal rat brain glutamate transporter
Brain Res Mol Brain Res, 36 (1), 163-8
PubMed 9011753

Trotti D, Rossi D, Gjesdal O, Levy LM, Racagni G, Danbolt NC, Volterra A (1996)
Peroxynitrite inhibits glutamate transporter subtypes
J Biol Chem, 271 (11), 5976-9
PubMed 8626378

Publications 1995

Trotti D, Volterra A, Lehre KP, Rossi D, Gjesdal O, Racagni G, Danbolt NC (1995)
Arachidonic acid inhibits a purified and reconstituted glutamate transporter directly from the water phase and not via the phospholipid membrane
J Biol Chem, 270 (17), 9890-5
PubMed 7730372