This content is machine translated Evidence-based diagnostics and treatment in the medical setting Anxiety and depression disorders in adolescence The prevalence of clinically relevant anxiety and depression symptoms in children and adolescents has increased significantly in recent years. While around 7% of adolescents worldwide reported elevated anxiety symptoms and...…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Early detection of type 1 diabetes Detection of insulin autoantibodies as an early marker Type 1 diabetes develops in several stages, whereby in the first preclinical phase only diabetes-specific autoantibodies are initially present in the blood, but the patients are normoglycaemic. Targeted screening is...…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Atopic dermatitis: proven therapeutic principles and innovations From healthcare research to precision medicine In Switzerland, around 20 percent of children are affected by atopic eczema, compared to 4-5 percent of adults. The disease burden of AD is considerable, which is also related to...…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Study report Long-term data on CFTR modulators in children with cystic fibrosis Cystic fibrosis (CF) is one of the most common congenital metabolic diseases in Europe. The treatment options for CF patients have expanded significantly in recent years. CFTR modulators improve the...…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Antithymocyte globulin in children with T1D Old medicine, new hope The well-known immunomodulatory drug antithymocyte globulin (ATG) can effectively inhibit the progression of type 1 diabetes (T1D) in young patients at low doses, while at the same time having a...…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Case study Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome in a 2-year-old girl The patient, who had a phenotype characterized by hypertelorism, thick eyebrows and other features, was found to have a c.517C>T nonsense mutation in the KMT2A gene. This rare heterozygous mutation...…
View Post 16 min This content is machine translated Low-grade pediatric gliomas Consideration of the tumor microenvironment opens up new treatment options Low-grade gliomas are among the most common primary brain tumors in childhood and can affect patients for life, which is why early diagnosis involving the tumor microenvironment is of significant...… CME-Test
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Pediatric multiple sclerosis Early high efficacy as the key to improving prognosis Pediatric multiple sclerosis (POMS) is a rare but particularly challenging form of the disease. Children and adolescents with MS often experience more relapses, a greater lesion burden on MRI and...…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Case Report Mycosis fungoides in an 11-year-old child Primary cutaneous lymphomas belong to the group of non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas. The most common form of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma is mycosis fungoides. Folliculotropic mycosis fungoides is a subtype that affects the...…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases RSV and pneumococci: recommendations for risk groups In addition to the known risks of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections in newborns, infants and young children, it has recently emerged thatS RSV also poses significant health risks for...…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Findings from the TRACK-FA study Neuroimaging biomarkers in Friedreich’s ataxia Friedreich’s ataxia (FA) is a rare, autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disease whose natural history and clinical characterization have made significant progress in recent decades. Nevertheless, there is still a lack of...…
