Academic article

• Hans Kristian Skaug; Bjørg Tilde Svanes Fevang; Jørg Assmus et al. (2026). Patient-reported outcomes and disease activity in giant cell arteritis: a longitudinal registry-based study. (external link)
• Jens Vikse; Marco Lanzillotta; Elisabetta Goni et al. (2026). Rituximab limits glucocorticoid use in IgG4-related disease: Real-world evidence from a large European cohort. (external link)
• Anja Linde; Eva Gerdts; Bjørg Tilde Svanes Fevang et al. (2025). Factors associated with left ventricular mass during disease modifying antirheumatic drug therapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: the Joint Heart study. (external link)
• Sanaa Suleiman Said; Melf-Jakob Kühl; Bjørg Tilde Svanes Fevang et al. (2025). Treating rheumatoid arthritis in Zanzibar: a cost effectiveness study comparing conventional, biologic, and targeted-synthetic disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs. (external link)
• Elisabetta Goni; Jens Vikse; Marco Lanzillotta et al. (2026). Effectiveness and safety of rituximab across the four phenotypes of IgG4-related disease: a European multi-center cohort study. (external link)
• Hans Kristian Skaug; Bjørg Tilde Svanes Fevang; Jørg Assmus et al. (2025). Treatment and risk of relapse in GCA in Western Norway 2013–2020: a retrospective cohort study. (external link)
• Gudrun David Sigmo; Solveig Hauge; Hanne Brit Hetland et al. (2025). Men with psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and axial spondylarthritis have more children and at an earlier age than matched controls: results from a nationwide cohort. (external link)
• Sanaa Suleiman Said; Kjell Arne Johansson; Tone Wikene Nystad et al. (2025). Establishing Rheumatoid Arthritis care in Zanzibar: a year of clinical outcomes and challenges. (external link)
• Christian Lillebø Alsing; Jannicke Igland; Tone Wikene Nystad et al. (2025). Data-driven identification of subgroups in early rheumatoid arthritis: mortality and cardiovascular disease in a cohort from western Norway. (external link)
• Tone Wikene Nystad; Anne Marie Fenstad; Ove Furnes et al. (2016). Reduction in orthopaedic surgery in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a Norwegian register-based study. (external link)
• Bjørg-Tilde Fevang; Tone Wikene Nystad; Arne Kr Skredderstuen et al. (2015). Improved survival for anatomic total shoulder prostheses: Results of 4,173 shoulder arthroplasties reported to the Norwegian Arthroplasty Register from 1994 through 2012. (external link)
• Tone Wikene Nystad; Anne Marie Fenstad; Bjørg-Tilde Svanes Fevang (2020). Major differences in medical and surgical treatment of psoriatic arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis: a comparison of two historic cohorts. (external link)
• Tone Wikene Nystad; Yngvil Solheim Husum; Ove Furnes et al. (2018). Incidence and predictive factors for orthopedic surgery in patients with psoriatic arthritis. (external link)
• Katarzyna Weronika Łosińska; Are Hugo Pripp; Gunnstein Bakland et al. (2024). Comparative Effectiveness and Persistence of SB4 and Reference Etanercept in Patients With Psoriatic Arthritis in Norway. (external link)
• Maria Karolina Jonsson; Nina Beate Paulshus Sundlisæter; Hilde Haugedal Nordal et al. (2017). Calprotectin as a marker of inflammation in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis. (external link)
• Lene Kristin Brekke; Bjørg-Tilde Svanes Fevang; Andreas P Diamantopoulos et al. (2019). Survival and death causes of patients with giant cell arteritis in Western Norway 1972-2012: a retrospective cohort study. (external link)
• Grunde Wibetoe; Eirik Ikdahl; Silvia Christin Hellerud Rollefstad et al. (2018). Discrepancies in risk age and relative risk estimations of cardiovascular disease in patients with inflammatory joint diseases. (external link)
• Grunde Wibetoe; Eirik Ikdahl; Silvia Christin Hellerud Rollefstad et al. (2017). Cardiovascular disease risk profiles in inflammatory joint disease entities. (external link)
• Alen Brkic; Andreas P Diamantopoulos; Mari Hoff et al. (2023). Exploring the impact of the national tender system on the use of costly drugs treating rheumatoid arthritis patients in ten rheumatology centers in Norway (2010–2019). (external link)
• Christian Lillebø Alsing; Jannicke Igland; Tone Wikene Nystad et al. (2025). Trends in stroke occurrence in rheumatoid arthritis: a retrospective cohort study from Western Norway, 1972 through 2020. (external link)
• Lene Kristin Brekke; Andreas P Diamantopoulos; Bjørg-Tilde Svanes Fevang et al. (2017). Incidence of giant cell arteritis in Western Norway 1972-2012: A retrospective cohort study. (external link)
• Ole Lianes; Tone Wikene Nystad; Svein Aksel Røen et al. (2020). Strukturert pasientforløp ved urinsyregikt. (external link)
• Johannes Cornelis Schrama; Anne Marie Fenstad; Håvard Dale et al. (2015). Increased risk of revision for infection in rheumatoid arthritis patients with total hip replacements. (external link)
• Lene Kristin Brekke; Jörg Assmus; Bjørg Tilde Svanes Fevang (2023). Factors predicting death and cancer in patients with giant cell arteritis in Western Norway 1972–2012: a retrospective observational cohort study. (external link)
• Hans Kristian Skaug; Bjørg Tilde Svanes Fevang; Jörg Assmus et al. (2023). Giant cell arteritis: incidence and phenotypic distribution in Western Norway 2013–2020. (external link)
• Tone Wikene Nystad; Ove Furnes; Leif Ivar Havelin et al. (2014). Hip replacement surgery in patients with ankylosing spondylitis. (external link)
• Johannes Cornelis Schrama; Birgitte Espehaug; Geir Hallan et al. (2010). Risk of Revision for Infection in Primary Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis Compared With Osteoarthritis: A Prospective, Population-Based Study on 108,786 Hip and Knee Joint Arthroplasties From the Norwegian Arthroplasty Register. (external link)
• Bjørg-Tilde Fevang; Stein Håkon Låstad Lygre; Glenn Bertelsen et al. (2012). Good function after shoulder arthroplasty 1,107 patients with 4 different diagnoses from the Norwegian Arthroplasty Register. (external link)
• Anja Linde; Eva Gerdts; Bjørg Tilde Svanes Fevang et al. (2024). Factors associated with change in arterial stiffness in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: the JointHeart study. (external link)
• Tone Wikene Nystad; Karl Ove Hufthammer; Eirik Alnes Buanes et al. (2021). Covid-19 hos pasienter med kronisk inflammatorisk leddsykdom. (external link)
• Tone Wikene Nystad; Anne Marie Fenstad; Ove Furnes et al. (2015). Reduction in orthopaedic surgery in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a Norwegian register-based study.. (external link)
• Bjørg Tilde Svanes Fevang; Stein Atle Lie; Leif Ivar Havelin et al. (2009). Risk factors for revision after shoulder arthroplasty. (external link)
• Tone Wikene Nystad; Anne Marie Fenstad; Ove Furnes et al. (2018). Predictors for orthopaedic surgery in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results from a retrospective cohort study of 1010 patients diagnosed from 1972 to 2009 and followed up until 2015. (external link)
• Jens Vikse; Øyvind Midtvedt; Bjørg Tilde Svanes Fevang et al. (2023). Differential sensitivity of the 2020 revised comprehensive diagnostic criteria and the 2019 ACR/EULAR classification criteria across IgG4-related disease phenotypes: results from a Norwegian cohort. (external link)
• Christian Lillebø Alsing; Tone Wikene Nystad; Jannicke Igland et al. (2022). Trends in the occurrence of ischaemic heart disease over time in rheumatoid arthritis: 1821 patients from 1972 to 2017. (external link)
• Alen Brkic; Andreas P Diamantopoulos; Espen A. Haavardsholm et al. (2022). Exploring drug cost and disease outcome in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with biologic and targeted synthetic DMARDs in Norway in 2010–2019 – a country with a national tender system for prescription of costly drugs. (external link)
• Guro Løvik Goll; Kristin Kaasen Jørgensen; Joseph Sexton et al. (2019). Long‐term efficacy and safety of biosimilar infliximab (CT‐P13) after switching from originator infliximab: Open‐label extension of the NOR‐SWITCH trial. (external link)
• Odd-Olav Aga; Anne Isine Bolstad; Stein Atle Lie et al. (2023). Periodontitis in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome: A nation-wide register study. (external link)
• Anne Isine Bolstad; Bjørg Tilde Svanes Fevang; Stein Atle Lie (2023). Increased risk of periodontitis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A nationwide register study in Norway. (external link)
• Anne Isine Bolstad; Pria Sehjpal; Stein Atle Lie et al. (2021). Periodontitis in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: A nation-wide study of 1990 patients. (external link)
• Eirik Ikdahl; Grunde Wibetoe; Silvia Christin Hellerud Rollefstad et al. (2018). Guideline recommended treatment to targets of cardiovascular risk is inadequate in patients with inflammatory joint diseases. (external link)
• Maria Karolina Jonsson; Aase Haj Hensvold; Monika Hansson et al. (2018). The role of anti-citrullinated protein antibody reactivities in an inception cohort of patients with rheumatoid arthritis receiving treat-to-target therapy. (external link)
• Maria Karolina Jonsson; Tomasz Tadeusz Kantyka; Katherine Falkowski et al. (2019). Peptidylarginine deiminase 4 (PAD4) activity in early rheumatoid arthritis. (external link)
• Bjørg Tilde Svanes Fevang; Stein Atle Lie; Leif Ivar Havelin et al. (2010). Improved results of primary total hip replacement. (external link)
• Gudrun David Sigmo; Solveig Hauge; Karl Ove Hufthammer et al. (2024). Male patients with inflammatory joint diseases are less likely than controls to be childless: Results from a Norwegian population-based cohort study of 10 865 patients. (external link)
• Lene Kristin Brekke; Bjørg-Tilde Svanes Fevang; Andreas P Diamantopoulos et al. (2020). Risk of cancer in 767 patients with giant cell arteritis in Western Norway: a retrospective cohort with matched controls. (external link)
• Sanaa Suleiman Said; Kjell Arne Johansson; Tone Wikene Nystad et al. (2025). Health-related quality of life among patients with rheumatoid arthritis in Zanzibar: a prospective cohort study. (external link)
• Bjørg Tilde Svanes Fevang; Stein Atle Lie; Leif Ivar Havelin et al. (2007). 257 ankle arthroplasties performed in Norway between 1994 and 2005. (external link)
• Bjørg Tilde Svanes Fevang; Stein Atle Lie; Leif Ivar Havelin et al. (2007). Reduction in orthopedic surgery among patients with chronic inflammatory joint disease in Norway, 1994-2004. (external link)
• Bjørg Tilde Svanes Fevang; Stein Atle Lie; Leif Ivar Havelin et al. (2009). Results after 562 total elbow replacements: A report from the Norwegian Arthroplasty Register. (external link)
• Bjørg-Tilde Fevang; Stein Håkon Låstad Lygre; Glenn Bertelsen et al. (2013). Pain and function in eight hundred and fifty nine patients comparing shoulder hemiprostheses, resurfacing prostheses, reversed total and conventional total prostheses. (external link)

Conference abstract

• Even Lillejordet; Nina Paulshus Sundlisæter; Joseph Sexton et al. (2025). POS1047 CLINICAL AND ULTRASOUND FEATURES IN AN INCEPTION COHORT OF TREATMENT NAÏVE PATIENTS WITH PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS. (external link)
• Lene Kristin Brekke; Bjørg-Tilde Svanes Fevang; Andreas P Diamantopoulos et al. (2019). 131. Survival of patients diagnosed with GCA in western Norway 1972-2012: A case-control study. (external link)
• Lene Kristin Brekke; Andreas Diamantopoulos; Elisabeth Langseth Esperø et al. (2015). Epidemiology of GCA in Bergen (Western Norway) 1972-2012. (external link)
• Lene Kristin Brekke; Andreas P Diamantopoulos; Bjørg-Tilde Svanes Fevang et al. (2018). FRI0502 Risk of cancer in patients diagnosed with giant cell arteritis in Western Norway 1972-2012. (external link)
• Lene Kristin Brekke; Bjørg-Tilde Svanes Fevang; Andreas P Diamantopoulos et al. (2019). 130. Cause of death in patients diagnosed with GCA in western Norway 1972-2012: A case-control study. (external link)
• Lene Kristin Brekke; Andreas Diamantopoulos; Bjørg-Tilde Svanes Fevang et al. (2016). Mortality and survival of patients diagnosed with GCA in Bergen (Western Norway) 1972-2012. (external link)
• Lene Kristin Brekke; Andreas P Diamantopoulos; Bjørg-Tilde Svanes Fevang et al. (2018). THU0451 Cause of death in patients diagnosed with giant cell arteritis in Western Norway 1972-2012. (external link)
• Lene Kristin Brekke; Bjørg-Tilde Svanes Fevang; Geirmund Myklebust (2018). SAT0534 Annual incidence of giant cell arteritis in urban and rural areas in Western Norway 1972-2012. (external link)
• Bjørg-Tilde Fevang (2010). Norwegian Arthroplasty Register: What can it tell us about trends in disease severity in RA patients?. (external link)
• Lene Kristin Brekke; Bjørg Tilde Svanes Fevang; Jörg Assmus (2021). POS0339 Predictors of death in patients diagnosed with giant cell arteritis in Western Norway 1972-2012. (external link)

Letter to the editor

• Stein Atle Lie; Leif Ivar Havelin; Anne Marie Fenstad et al. (2014). Re: a statistical analysis of ankle prosthesis from the Norwegian Arthroplasty Register. (external link)
• Maria Karolina Jonsson; Nina Beate Paulshus Sundlisæter; Hilde Haugedal Nordal et al. (2018). Response to: 'Calprotectin is not independent from baseline erosion in predicting radiological progression in early rheumatoid arthritis' by Chevreau et al. (external link)
• Lene Kristin Brekke; Bjørg-Tilde Svanes Fevang; Geirmund Myklebust (2019). Increased incidence of giant cell arteritis in urban areas?. (external link)

Academic literature review

• Jeppe Rasmussen; Bo S Olsen; Bjørg-Tilde Fevang et al. (2012). A review of national shoulder and elbow joint replacement registries. (external link)

Journal corrigendum

• Lene Kristin Brekke; Andreas P Diamantopoulos; Bjørg-Tilde Svanes Fevang et al. (2018). Correction to: Incidence of giant cell arteritis in Western Norway 1972-2012: a retrospective cohort study. (external link)

Conference lecture

• Anne Marie Fenstad; Ove Furnes; Geir Hallan et al. (2013). Using the Norwegian arthroplasty register to generate a DNA biobank. (external link)

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Tone Wikene Nystad; Bjørg-Tilde Svanes Fevang (2019). Orthopaedic surgery in patients with inflammatory rheumatic joint disease. An investigation of changes over time and with improved medical treatment. (external link)
• Maria Karolina Jonsson; Espen A. Haavardsholm; Bjørg-Tilde Svanes Fevang et al. (2018). Biomarkers in early rheumatoid arthritis. Disease activity measures, prediction of treatment response and progression of radiographic damage. (external link)

Non-fiction book chapter

• Jens Vikse; Bjørg Tilde Svanes Fevang; Espen A. Haavardsholm (2024). Artrittsykdommer: en oversikt. (external link)
• Jens Vikse; Anna-Birgitte Aga; Bjørg Tilde Svanes Fevang et al. (2024). Revmatoid artritt. (external link)
• Jens Vikse; Bjørg Tilde Svanes Fevang; Glenn Haugeberg et al. (2024). Revmatologi: en oversikt. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in NVA.