Svein Faerestrand

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Svein Faerestrand (born 1946) Specialist in Cardiology, with arrhythmia, pacemaker and ICD treatment as fields of specialisation. He is Senior Consultant and head of the Section for Pacing, ICD and Heart Failure Treatment at the Department of Heart Disease, Haukeland University Hospital. He has a PhD and is Professor of Cardiology at the Institute of Medicine, University of Bergen.

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Department of Heart Disease

Haukeland University Hospital

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Institute of Medicine

University of Bergen

Articles by Svein Faerestrand

Cardiovascular complications of spinal cord injury

Ellen Merete Hagen,
Tiina Rekand,
Marit Grønning,
Svein Faerestrand

15.05.2012: Traumatic spinal cord injury is defined as an acute injury of the spinal cord which results in a varying degree of paralysis and/or sensory disorder (1). Injury to the cauda equina is included in the definition, but other isolated injuries to nerve roots are excluded (2). Injuries to the autonomic...