This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis Abdominal pain – pancreatic pseudocyst Most pancreatic pseudocysts are associated with pancreatitis and regress spontaneously. If pseudocysts cause symptoms or lead to complications, they can be treated endoscopically-interventional or surgically. Pancreatic pseudocysts can be differentiated...…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Case report: 72-year-old with pancytopenia and pyrexia Visceral leishmaniasis or autoimmune hepatitis? After the patient had been admitted to hospital for investigation of fever attacks, night sweats and an unintentional weight loss of 18 kg within six months, pancytopenia was diagnosed with...…
View Post 14 min This content is machine translated IBDmatters - Advanced Therapeutic Treatments Examinations and considerations before therapy Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are chronic inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (inflammatory bowel disease, IBD). Aspects that should be considered in particular before starting treatment, but...… CME-Test
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis Abdominal pain – chronic pancreatitis Upper abdominal pain of varying intensity is the main symptom of chronic pancreatitis. If acute or chronic pancreatitis is suspected, transabdominal sonography is an established examination method for assessing morphological...…
View Post 1 min This content is machine translated Invitation to the 12th IBD Roadshow | June 23-25, 2025 | with Professor Bruce Sands Acceleration in IBD Treatment: How early and holistic care leads to better outcomes We cordially invite you to the 12th IBD Roadshow from June 23-25, 2025! The internationally renowned expert Professor Bruce Sands (Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York, USA) is...…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis Abdominal pain – liver metastases Contrast-enhanced imaging examinations have a high sensitivity and specificity for the detection of liver metastases, whereby sonographic as well as computer and magnetic resonance imaging examinations can be used. The...…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis Abdominal pain – Liver cirrhosis Liver cirrhosis – a term coined by the French doctor René Laënnec at the beginning of the 19th century – is the final stage of chronic liver disease. The connective...…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Functional gastrointestinal disorders Women and men of all ages benefit from the peppermint/caraway oil combination After Madisch et al. provided convincing evidence for a proprietary combination of peppermint and caraway oil for functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID) in a meta-analysis, Storr et al. recently conducted a...…
View Post 10 min This content is machine translated Rumination syndrome A frequently underdiagnosed disorder Rumination syndrome, derived from the Latin verb “ruminare”, is a disorder that appears both in the classification of “functional gastrointestinal disorders” (ROME IV) and in the “eating disorders” of the...… CME-Test
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis Abdominal pain – polycystic liver disease Polycystic liver disease (PLD) is characterized by multiple, usually progressively increasing cysts of the liver. It is the most common extrarenal manifestation of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). The...…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Reflux diagnostics Updated Lyon Consensus and other updates The Lyon consensus decision published last year included some important innovations. The criteria for confirming the diagnosis of GERD and the exclusion criteria have been slightly modified. There are slightly…
