This content is machine translated Cutaneous Vasculitis - Overview for Practice Cutaneous Vasculitis – Overview for Practice Vasculitides are a very heterogeneous group of diseases, which can occur in all age groups. In principle, these are inflammatory processes in the vessel walls with subsequent tissue damage. The…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Autoimmune bullous dermatoses Autoantibodies attack skin integrity Bullous autoimmune dermatoses represent a heterogeneous group of rare, sometimes severe autoimmune diseases, which include pemphigus and pemphigoid disorders, epidermolysis bullosa acquisita, and dermatitis herpetiformis Duhring. A common feature of…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Autoimmune bullous dermatoses and cutaneous vasculitides How can the manifestations be correctly diagnosed and treated? Almost daily we are confronted with complex autoimmune diseases of the skin in dermatological practice. These include autoimmune bullous dermatoses and cutaneous vasculitides, which are discussed in more detail in…
View Post 14 min This content is machine translated Cardiogenic and transcardiac embolic ischemic strokes. Causes and prophylaxis Cardiogenic emboli are mostly embolized thrombi from the left atrial ear in atrial fibrillation. Primary and secondary prophylaxis of ischemic cerebral events is based on their causality, if this can…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Stroke from a neuroradiological point of view Clarification of some interventional issues Endovascular therapy for acute ischemic stroke focuses primarily on mechanical removal of thrombi from the affected cerebral vessel (mechanical thrombectomy). Using second-generation techniques (stent retrievers), high recanalization rates can be…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated News from nephrology Renal insufficiency and hypertension Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is classified according to the type of underlying disease, filtration rate and extent of proteinuria. Patients with CKD are cardiovascular risk patients. Cardiovascular morbidity increases with…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Gastric and esophageal cancer The scar heals, the questions remain As a therapist in oncology rehabilitation, I once encountered a patient who quoted her surgeon as saying, “I was able to remove your tumor completely. You are healthy again.” At…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Esophageal and gastric cancer Perioperative adjuvant radio-chemotherapy T1-T2 N0 tumors undergo primary surgery. Proximal esophageal cancer is an indication for radio-chemotherapy alone (RCT). In contrast, T3-T4 and N+ carcinomas are treated trimodally when possible. Neoadjuvant RCT increases…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Abdominal wall sparing training after visceral surgical procedures Physical reconditioning and wound healing hand in hand Visceral surgery patient volumes have increased significantly in recent years. After major surgery with opening of the abdominal wall due to chronic, oncological or acute diseases, almost all patients suffer…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Epilepsy MRI Imaging Overview Patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy and children with Rolando’s epilepsy may not require an MRI scan at all. In contrast, high-resolution MRI diagnostics should definitely be pursued in focal epilepsies…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Substitution-assisted treatment for opioid dependence in Switzerland Advanced pharmacotherapy options Substitution for substance dependence is the medically prescribed replacement of a dependence-producing substance with a less harmful drug with the same or similar mechanism of action. The combination of substitution…
