This content is machine translated SARS-CoV-2 How Covid-19 leads to neuronal damage A proportion of patients suffer from persistent symptoms after acute covid-19 disease. Neurological symptoms are often in the foreground. Although SARS-CoV-2 does not affect nerve cells, covid-19 disease can cause…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Long-Covid “Brain Fog” – Case series with Ginkgo biloba shows encouraging results A team led by the neurologist and psychiatrist Prim. Univ.-Doz. Dr. Udo Zifko conducted a case series at the neurological Post-Covid Outpatient Clinic headed by him. In patients suffering from…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis Dysphagia – gastric carcinoma Gastric cancer often occurs in middle and later adulthood. More than 90% of gastric malignancies are adenocarcinomas; localized gastric lymphomas and leiomyosarcomas are less common. MRI can be used to…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Multiple Sclerosis: RRMS Therapy change – strategy for follow-up treatment Until the individually appropriate disease-modifying therapy (DMT) is available, there arein the absence of predictive biomarkers, stepwise optimizations are often necessary, possibly resulting in multiple changes of DMT. To reduce…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated "Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement." Health literacy of older people in Switzerland The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) isone of the largest European surveys conducted with people aged 50 and over. Twenty countries are involved in the study,…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Gestational diabetes Postpartum diabetes screening study Women with gestational diabetes have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes after giving birth. In a study of data from more than 12,000 women with a gestational diabetes…
View Post 3 min Education Endocrinology and Diabetology General Internal Medicine Nephrology RX Studies Fluid balance out of balance – findings from large cohort study In the largest study of diabetes insipidus to date, more than 1000 patients were enrolled worldwide. The evaluations show that a large proportion of those affected have care deficiencies and…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Pyoderma gangraenosum Extremely painful ulcerations with systemic inflammatory component Pyoderma gangraenosum is an immunologically induced wound, but the exact pathogenesis is not yet clear. The Paracelsus score is an important validated tool for the diagnosis of these extremely painful…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Colonoscopy Intestinal cleansing recommended in stages To best prepare the bowel for colonoscopy, bowel cleansing is essential. This is because an optimal view of the intestinal mucosa is only guaranteed if the bowel is clean, so…
View Post 1 min This content is machine translated Case study from the clinic Atypical dermal melanocytosis In a pediatric patient, atypical dermal melanocytosis led to the diagnosis of mucopolysaccharidosis type II, also known as “Hunter’s disease.”
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated KDIGO Guidelines 2022 Modern therapy can slow progression of diabetic nephropathy Diabetes is the most common cause of chronic kidney disease (CKD).The international organization Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) recently released new guidelines on the management of type 2 diabetes…
