This content is machine translated Community-acquired pneumonia Prospective study in primary care Community-acquired pneumonia is one of the most common infectious diseases with high mortality and morbidity worldwide. In a study in France, clinical and microbiological characteristics of patients with radiologically confirmed...…
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 5 min This content is machine translated Uncontrolled type 2 diabetes Empagliflozin as an effective addition to triple therapies In patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), a balanced glucose concentration is mainly achieved through drug therapies. If blood glucose control remains poor despite a triple combination of oral hypoglycaemic...…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Asthma: focus on type 2 inflammation Remission as a new therapeutic goal A paradigm shift is emerging in the management of asthma, where the aim is not only asthma control but also remission. It has been shown that this ambitious goal can...…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Study report: Obesity New findings on the effects of incretin analogs A study by Aronne et al. investigated the effects of the dual GLP1/GIP receptor agonist (RA) tirzepatide in obese patients when it is administered over a longer period of therapy...…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Infectiology “Antibiotic stewardship” in the outpatient setting Over 80% of antibiotic prescriptions in human medicine relate to outpatient care. In order to counteract the increasing spread of antibiotic resistance – one of the greatest challenges of modern...…
View Post 14 min This content is machine translated Artificial intelligence Dr. ChatGPT: Large language models in everyday clinical practice With the public availability of ChatGPT 3.5 in fall 2022 at the latest, artificial intelligence in the sense of large language models (L LMs) is on everyone’s lips. However, it… 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 4 min This content is machine translated Asthma and allergic diseases Adherence as a decisive factor Regular and prescribed drug treatment is particularly important for the course of chronic diseases such as asthma and other atopic diseases, as it can prevent exacerbations and improve disease control....…
View Post 10 min This content is machine translated Basics of patient education Promotion of self-management Patient education is an educationally structured person-centered learning process that supports people living with chronic illnesses in particular to manage their own health, based on their own resources and supported...… CME-Test
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Sponsored Content: Pulmonary hypertension Also consider pulmonary hypertension in case of unexplained shortness of breath! Unexplained breathlessness is a frequent and challenging problem in the daily practice of general practitioners, pulmonologists and cardiologists. One possible underlying clinical picture is pulmonary hypertension (PH), which is often...…