This content is machine translated Hepatitis C Combating the epidemic with new knowledge More people die from hepatitis C than from HIV. Half of hepatitis C sufferers are unaware of their infection. Individuals born in the 1960s are at increased risk for hepatitis…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Dizziness “No other cause is as controversial as vestibular migraine” HAUSARZT PRAXIS asked Dr. med. Annika Schade, FMH specialist for ORL and neurology, RehaClinic Bad Zurzach, senior physician in the acute neurorehabilitation department of RehaClinic at the Kantonsspital Baden site,…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated 10th Zurich Hypertension Day Are new antihypertensive agents coming soon? On January 15, 2015, the Zurich Hypertension Day was held at the University Hospital Zurich. The topic of correct blood pressure setting is obviously burning under the nails of primary…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Interdisciplinary symposium on vertigo Video-based techniques simplify quantification of vestibular function An educational event on February 12 at the Inselspital Bern focused on vertigo: Among other topics, the most important vertigo syndromes for the practice, video-oculography and current therapy options were…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Dizziness Meniere’s disease – clarification and therapy options The diagnosis of Meniere’s disease is based on history, audiometry, and instrumental vestibular function tests. Treatment should be provided by an experienced ENT specialist. A variety of therapeutic options exist,…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Born too small “The opportunity for catch-up growth is great”. In Switzerland, about 2500 children are born each year with a weight or height that is too small in relation to the gestational age (Small for Gestational Age). Prof. Dr.…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Specific immunotherapy When, whom and how to treat? If neither exposure prophylaxis nor symptom-oriented medication can provide sufficient relief of allergic symptoms, specific immunotherapy (SIT) is indicated. A distinction is made between subcutaneous and sublingual SIT. Contraindications must…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Pooled analysis of four studies Is a St. John’s wort extract better tolerated than SSRIs? This article is the German abstract of a study [1] published in the journal International Clinical Psychopharmacology. The authors pooled the compatibility data from four studies and evaluated them. They…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Guest article by the Foundation for People with Rare Diseases Ways of diagnostics – genetic testing for medical purposes The enormous progress made in recent years in the field of human genetics has already led to the identification of the cause of more than four thousand genetic (congenital) diseases.…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Pulmonary emphysema When is interventional therapy indicated? Often, even “out of treatment” emphysema patients can be offered improvement in dyspnea and exercise capacity through a lung volume reducing procedure. The postinterventional beneficial effects after surgical or bronchoscopic…
View Post 12 min This content is machine translated Non-necrotizing granulomas Diagnosis and therapy of sarcoidosis Sarcoidosis is a multisystemic granulomatous disease of as yet unclear etiology. The diagnosis of sarcoidosis is based on the typical clinical presentation and histologic evidence of non-necrotizing epithelioid cell granulomas,…
