Gerhard Wikström
Visiting professor at Department of Medical Sciences; Clinical Epidemiology
- E-mail:
- Gerhard.Wikstrom@medsci.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset, Ingång 40, 5 tr
751 85 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset, Ingång 40, 5 tr
751 85 UPPSALA
Publications
Recent publications
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Part of Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, 2026
- DOI for Isolated atrial amyloidosis from atrial natriuretic peptide: a common but overlooked cardiac condition
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Part of Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, 2025
- DOI for Risk assessment for vaccination programmes in a pandemic: A Swedish model for efficacy and safety during COVID-19
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Part of European Heart Journal, Supplement, 2025
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Part of ESC Heart Failure, p. 44-53, 2024
- DOI for Outcome prediction by myocardial external efficiency from 11C-acetate positron emission tomography in cardiac amyloidosis
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Part of Annals of Medicine, 2023
- DOI for Health care resource use, diagnostic delay and disease burden in transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy in Sweden
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All publications
Articles in journal
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Part of Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, 2025
- DOI for Risk assessment for vaccination programmes in a pandemic: A Swedish model for efficacy and safety during COVID-19
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Part of European Heart Journal, Supplement, 2025
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Part of ESC Heart Failure, p. 44-53, 2024
- DOI for Outcome prediction by myocardial external efficiency from 11C-acetate positron emission tomography in cardiac amyloidosis
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Part of Annals of Medicine, 2023
- DOI for Health care resource use, diagnostic delay and disease burden in transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy in Sweden
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Part of ESC Heart Failure, p. 295-302, 2023
- DOI for Characteristics and management of very elderly patients with heart failure: a retrospective, population cohort study
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Part of JACC Cardiovascular Imaging, p. 1193-1204, 2023
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Part of European Journal of Heart Failure, p. 2007-2017, 2023
- DOI for Repetitive levosimendan infusions for patients with advanced chronic heart failure in the vulnerable post-discharge period: The multinational randomized LeoDOR trial
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Part of Heart, Lung and Circulation, p. 338-347, 2023
- DOI for Peripheral Vascular Ageing in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension as Assessed by Common Carotid Artery Intima Thickness and Intima/Media Thickness Ratio: An Investigation Using Non-Invasive High-Resolution Ultrasound
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Part of Platelets, p. 1199-1207, 2022
- DOI for Platelet-leukocyte aggregate formation and inflammation in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension and CTEPH
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Part of BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2022
- DOI for Pharmacodynamic evaluation and safety assessment of treatment with antibodies to serum amyloid P component in patients with cardiac amyloidosis: an open-label Phase 2 study and an adjunctive immuno-PET imaging study
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Part of International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022
- DOI for MircoRNA in Extracellular Vesicles from Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Alters Endothelial Angiogenic Response
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Part of Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, 2022
- DOI for The retirement of Editor-in-Chief Arne Andersson, Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences 2006–2022: an amazing journey under Arne's stewardship
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Part of ERJ Open Research, 2021
- DOI for Early risk prediction in idiopathic versus connective tissue disease-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension: call for a refined assessment
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Part of European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, p. 288-293, 2021
- DOI for Dimethylarginines correlate to common carotid artery wall layer dimensions and cardiovascular risk factors in pregnant women with/without preeclampsia: A group comparative study
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Risk stratification in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension predicts survival
Part of Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal, p. 43-49, 2021
- DOI for Risk stratification in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension predicts survival
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Part of ESC Heart Failure, p. 2144-2153, 2021
- DOI for Recurrent heart failure hospitalizations increase the risk of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in patients with heart failure in Sweden: a real-world study
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Part of BMJ Open, 2021
- DOI for Healthcare resource utilisation and costs associated with a heart failure diagnosis: a retrospective, population-based cohort study in Sweden
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Levosimendan Efficacy and Safety: 20 Years of SIMDAX in Clinical Use
Part of Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, p. 4-22, 2020
- DOI for Levosimendan Efficacy and Safety: 20 Years of SIMDAX in Clinical Use
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Part of Clinical Research in Cardiology, p. 498-507, 2020
- DOI for Passive leg-lifting in heart failure patients predicts exercise-induced rise in left ventricular filling pressures
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Part of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, p. 2293-2309, 2020
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Quantification of (11)C-PIB kinetics in cardiac amyloidosis
Part of Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, p. 774-784, 2020
- DOI for Quantification of (11)C-PIB kinetics in cardiac amyloidosis
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Diagnostic Accuracy of [11C]PIB Positron Emission Tomography for Detection of Cardiac Amyloidosis
Part of JACC Cardiovascular Imaging, p. 1337-1347, 2020
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Chytrid fungus dynamics and infections associated with movement distances in a red-listed amphibian
Part of Journal of Zoology, p. 164-174, 2020
- DOI for Chytrid fungus dynamics and infections associated with movement distances in a red-listed amphibian
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Part of Clinical Epidemiology, p. 231-244, 2019
- DOI for Epidemiology of heart failure and trends in diagnostic work-up: a retrospective, population-based cohort study in Sweden
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Part of ESC Heart Failure, p. 174-181, 2019
- DOI for Repetitive levosimendan infusions for patients with advanced chronic heart failure in the vulnerable post-discharge period
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y Effects of Serelaxin in Patients with Acute Heart Failure
Part of New England Journal of Medicine, p. 716-726, 2019
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Right ventricular involvement in transthyretin amyloidosis
Part of Amyloid, p. 160-166, 2018
- DOI for Right ventricular involvement in transthyretin amyloidosis
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Part of European Heart Journal, p. 4175-4181, 2018
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Part of Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal, p. 196-204, 2018
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Part of European Journal of Heart Failure, p. 6-6, 2018
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Part of Atherosclerosis, 2018
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Part of Heart and Vessels, p. 255-263, 2018
- DOI for Plasma l-arginine levels distinguish pulmonary arterial hypertension from left ventricular systolic dysfunction
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Part of Journal of Cardiac Failure, p. 640-653, 2018
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Serum Pentraxin 3 is associated with signs of arterial alteration in women with preeclampsia.
Part of International Journal of Cardiology, p. 417-422, 2017
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Association between angiogenic factors and signs of arterial aging in women with pre-eclampsia
Part of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, p. 93-99, 2017
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Part of European Heart Journal, Supplement, 2017
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Part of Clinical Research in Cardiology, p. 960-973, 2017
- DOI for Adherence to optimal heart rate control in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: insight from a survey of heart rate in heart failure in Sweden (HR-HF study)
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Epidemiology of heart failure in Sweden: a retrospective population-based cohort study
Part of European Journal of Heart Failure, p. 364-364, 2017
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Part of International Journal of Cardiology, p. 389-395, 2017
- DOI for Repetitive use of levosimendan in advanced heart failure: need for stronger evidence in a field in dire need of a useful therapy
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L-Arginine and Methylarginines Prior to and After Heart Transplantation
Part of The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2017
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Part of European Journal of Heart Failure, p. 54-55, 2017
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Part of European Journal of Heart Failure, p. 346-346, 2017
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Part of European Journal of Heart Failure, p. 346-347, 2017
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Part of European Journal of Heart Failure, p. 54-54, 2017
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Part of European Journal of Heart Failure, p. 55-55, 2017
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Part of European Journal of Heart Failure, p. 362-362, 2017
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Part of European Journal of Heart Failure, p. 341-341, 2016
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Part of European Journal of Heart Failure, p. 54-55, 2016
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Part of Journal of Interventional Cardiology, p. 341-347, 2016
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A description of unselected patients with heart failure: a swedish population-based study
Part of European Journal of Heart Failure, p. 195-195, 2016
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Exposure to heart failure treatments in newly diagnosed patients in Sweden
Part of European Journal of Heart Failure, p. 48-48, 2016
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Characteristics and survival of adult Swedish PAH and CTEPH patients 2000-2014
Part of Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal, p. 243-250, 2016
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Part of Vascular pharmacology, p. 71-77, 2015
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Pharmaco-economics of levosimendan in cardiology: A European perspective
Part of International Journal of Cardiology, p. 337-341, 2015
- DOI for Pharmaco-economics of levosimendan in cardiology: A European perspective
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Right ventricular wave reflection relate to clinical measures in pulmonary arterial hypertension
Part of Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal, p. 235-239, 2015
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Part of European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, p. 1165-1173, 2015
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Part of International Journal of Cardiology, p. 360-367, 2014
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The burden of preserved ejection fraction heart failure in a real-world Swedish patient population
Part of Journal of Medical Economics, p. 43-51, 2014
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Life science applications utilizing radiocarbon tracing
Part of Radiocarbon, p. 865-873, 2013
- DOI for Life science applications utilizing radiocarbon tracing
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Part of Cardiovascular Ultrasound, p. 7, 2013
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Part of Amyloid, p. 27-33, 2013
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In Vivo Visualization of Amyloid Deposits in the Heart with 11C-PIB and PET
Part of Journal of Nuclear Medicine, p. 213-220, 2013
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Life science application utilizing radiocarbon tracing
Part of Radiocarbon, p. 865-873, 2013
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Part of British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, p. 990-998, 2012
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Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Sweden: First Data from a National Registry
Part of The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2012
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Livshotande hjärtsvikt av ADHD-medicinering: Fem patientfall beskrivs
Part of Läkartidningen, p. 2016-2018, 2012
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Part of Journal of medical economics, p. 938-946, 2012
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Part of Läkartidningen, p. 1316-1317; discussion 1318, 2011
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Part of European Journal of Pharmacology, p. 146-151, 2011
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Part of Clinica Chimica Acta, p. 1582-1588, 2011
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Part of European Journal of Clinical Investigation, p. 889-897, 2011
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Part of European Journal of Heart Failure, p. 893-893, 2010
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Part of Acta Physiologica, p. 1-9, 2010
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Part of European Journal of Heart Failure, p. 404-410, 2010
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Part of Arthritis and Rheumatism, p. 1137-1144, 2009
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Part of European Heart Journal, p. 782-788, 2009
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Part of Journal of clinical pharmacology, p. 109-115, 2009
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Right ventricular myocardial velocities and timing estimate pulmonary artery systolic pressure
Part of International Journal of Cardiology, p. 130-136, 2009
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Part of European Journal of Heart Failure, p. 869-877, 2008
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Part of European Journal of Heart Failure, p. 490-497, 2008
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Part of European Journal of Echocardiography, p. 252-258, 2007
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Etanercept reduces late endotoxin-induced pulmonary hypertension in the pig
Part of Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research, p. 661-667, 2006
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Left ventricular reconstruction as an alternative to heart transplantation: a case report
Part of Heart Surgery Forum, 2006
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Right ventricular myocardial isovolumic relaxation time and pulmonary pressure
Part of Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging, p. 1-8, 2006
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Part of Eur J Echocardiogr, p. 264-70, 2005
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Part of Investigative Radiology, p. 479-486, 2004
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Part of Investigative Radiology, p. 470-478, 2004
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Validity of elevated interstitial levels of taurine as a predictor of myocardial ischemic injury.
Part of Amino Acids, p. 107-11, 2004
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Part of Journal of Nuclear Medicine, p. 1176-1183, 2003
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Part of Peptides, p. 569-78, 2003
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Part of Acta Physiol Scand, p. 61-5, 2003
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Part of Acta Physiol Scand, p. 129-37, 2003
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Part of J Cardiovasc Pharmacol, p. 240-8, 2003
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Part of Acta Physiologica Scandinavica, p. 129-143, 2001
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Nucleoside transport inhibition in ischemic myocardium results in enhanced taurine efflux
Part of European Journal of Pharmacology, p. 143-154, 2001
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Part of Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation, p. 651-662, 2001
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Part of Acta Physiol Scand, p. 185-94, 2001
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Part of Ann Neurol, p. 684-92, 1999
Articles, review/survey
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Part of Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, 2026
- DOI for Isolated atrial amyloidosis from atrial natriuretic peptide: a common but overlooked cardiac condition
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The patient perspective: Quality of life in advanced heart failure with frequent hospitalisations
Part of International Journal of Cardiology, p. 256-264, 2015
- DOI for The patient perspective: Quality of life in advanced heart failure with frequent hospitalisations
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Renal Effects of Levosimendan: A Consensus Report
Part of Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy, p. 581-590, 2013
- DOI for Renal Effects of Levosimendan: A Consensus Report
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