Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center

Details about researcher: Svend Ulstein

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Svend Ulstein is a MD and board certified specialist in orthopeadic surgery at Akershus University hospital. There, he is sharing his full time position between 50% research and 50% clinical work.

Svend´s PhD work is concentrating on cartilage injuries in ACL injured patients. His supervisors are Dr. Jan Harald Røtterud and professor Asbjørn Årøen (both PhD students themselves at the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center). 

Svend has published 4 papers on this subject matter and defended his PhD thesis defence in June 2019. 

Projects

• Is there a negative effect on patient-reported outcomes in patients with concomitant cartilage lesions 12-15 years after ACL-reconstruction?

  Project manager: Katherine Wang

Publications

• 2024

  • Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction and Concomitant Focal Cartilage Lesions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prognosis after Surgical Treatment

    Jevremovic, Diko; Årøen, Asbjørn; Truscott Thomas, Owen Matthew; Moseby Berge, Hilde; Ayub Khan, Ahsan; Ulstein, Svend

    Cartilage 2024 Nov 20:19476035241292719. doi: 10.1177/19476035241292719. Online ahead of print

• 2021

  • Effect of concomitant meniscal lesions and meniscal surgery in ACL reconstruction with 5-year follow-up - a nationwide prospective cohort study from Norway and Sweden of 8408 patients

    Ulstein, Svend; Årøen, Asbjørn; Engebretsen, Lars; Forssblad, Magnus; Røtterud, Jan Harald

    The Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine 2021, 9(10), 23259671211038375 DOI: 10.1177/23259671211038375

  • Concomitant full-thickness cartilage lesions do not affect patient-reported outcomes at minimum 10-year follow-up after ACL reconstruction

    Wang, Katherine; Eftang, Cathrine Nørstad; Ulstein, Svend; Årøen, Asbjørn; Jakobsen, Rune Bruhn

    Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy 2021 Oct 9;1-10 (Online ahead of print)

• 2019

  • Prognosis and treatement of focal cartilage lesions of the knee joint. Medium to long-term results (PhD thesis)

    Ullstein, Svend

    Oslo University, PhD thesis, 2019

• 2018

  • Effect of concomitant cartilage lesions on patient-reported outcomes after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a nationwide cohort study from Norway and Sweden of 8470 patients with 5-year follow-up

    Ulstein, Svend; Årøen, Asbjørn; Engebretsen, Lars; Forssblad, Magnus; Lygre, S; Røtterud, Jan Harald

    Orthopeadic Journal of Sports Medicine 2018:24:6(7):2325967118786219

• 2016

  • No negative effect on patient-reported outcome of concomitant cartilage lesions 5–9 years after ACL reconstruction

    Ulstein, Svend; Bredeland, Karin; Årøen, Asbjørn; Engebretsen, Lars; Røtterud, Jan Harald

    Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy 2017:25(5):1482-1488

• 2014

  • Microfracture technique versus osteochondral autologous transplantation mosaicplasty in patients with articular chondral lesions of the knee: a prospective randomized trial with long-term follow-up

    Ulstein, Svend; Årøen, Asbjørn; Røtterud, Jan Harald; Løken, Sverre; Engebretsen, Lars; Heir, Stig

    Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy 2014:22(6):1207-1215