This content is machine translated FomF General Internal Medicine Update Refresher Dementia – early diagnosis is important The diagnosis of dementia should not be made lightly. It triggers a similar amount in the patient’s social environment as a cancer diagnosis. And yet it is important to educate…
View Post 10 min This content is machine translated Carotid stenosis Overview of current treatment options Today, the treatment of carotid stenosis is interdisciplinary and individualized. Findings from earlier studies cannot be readily applied to today’s situation because medical advances have changed the boundary conditions. What…
View Post 11 min This content is machine translated Current analysis of ultra-high field MRI Clinical applications in neuroradiology. One advantage of ultra-high-field (7T) MRI is high-resolution imaging due to an increased signal-to-noise ratio. This is of particular interest for functional MRI and spectroscopy. However, in clinical application, 7T…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated ECTRIMS Congress in Berlin International MS experts provided an update on research and therapy How can Big Data be used in the field of multiple sclerosis? And what’s the latest on existing treatment options? The ECTRIMS congress in Berlin clarified.
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated German Pain Congress in Mannheim Fit for the future – modern migraine prophylaxis CGRP has potent vasodilatory properties and plays a central role in pain initiation as well as neurogenic inflammation. This knowledge gave rise to a completely new class of substances that,…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Psychosomatics for headaches Breaking the vicious circle Causes and causal relationships of headaches are complex. Isabelle Rittmeyer, MD, Chief of Psychosomatic Medicine at the Zurich Rehab Center Davos, focused on psychosomatic aspects at the SGAIM Fall Congress…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Diagnosis and therapy of polyneuropathies The paranodopathies as a new entity among the immune neuropathies. Paranodopathies are a new special form of inflammatory polyneuropathies, mediated by autoantibody-induced damage at Ranvier’s lacing ring. What are characteristics of this disease and how can it be treated?
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Outstanding research The IRP Schellenberg Research Prize 2018 goes to two female researchers The IRP Schellenberg Research Prize, endowed with CHF 100,000, was awarded in equal parts to Prof. Dr. Claire Jacob, University of Fribourg (Switzerland), and Prof. Dr. Magdalena Götz, Helmholtz Zentrum…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Medidays Zurich Update on the workup of incidentalomas of the pituitary gland What should be considered regarding diagnosis and treatment of pituitary adenomas? To what extent is a distinction between hormone-secreting and hormone-inactive incidentalomas relevant to treatment? The endocrinology session at this…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Multiple sclerosis and pregnancy Recommendation status on childbearing and medication Multiple sclerosis (MS) does not adversely affect fertility, pregnancy, fetal development, or birth. Post partum, there is a 30% increased risk of relapse, although this depends on the relapse rate…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Critical for the course of the disease Psychiatric comorbidities in epilepsy. In refractory epilepsies, the rate of mental syndromes is significantly higher than in the general population, occurring in one in three patients [1]. Here, affective and anxiety disorders are in…
