This content is machine translated Lower respiratory tract infections Community-acquired pneumonia in Covid times – “Tour d’horizon”. Pneumonia diagnosis and triage is anything but trivial, especially in the context of the current covid pandemic. As a basis for deciding which patients can be managed in the outpatient…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated COPD therapy Increased risk of Pseudomonas due to ICS. Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) are used regularly in COPD patients . It is well known that this is associated with an increased risk of pneumonia. However, what about the risk of Pseudomonas…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Pulmonary hypertension Challenge differential diagnosis The collective term “pulmonary hypertension (PH)” encompasses several life-threatening types of pulmonary hypertension whose therapeutic approaches vary widely and are highly complex. Since the symptoms are often unspecific, even the…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Cystic Fibrosis CF emergencies Cystic fibrosis is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder in which a defect in the CFTR gene causes disease. The defective chloride channel causes the disease to manifest in different organs.… CME-Test
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Vitamin D against acute respiratory infections Risk reduction demonstrated A research team from Queen Mary University conducted a meta-analysis regarding a potential benefit of vitamin D supplementation on the risk of acute respiratory infections. The results, published in the…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Non-small cell lung cancer Molecular diagnostics under the microscope To date, molecular testing in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has been reserved primarily for stage IV patients. However, with the introduction of targeted therapies also in earlier tumor stages,…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Diagnosis and therapy of sarcoidosis Lung disease that also affects the rheumatologist Sarcoidosis most commonly affects the lungs, but extrapulmonary manifestations also occur. Isolated involvement of a single organ or organ system is rare in sarcoidosis, so patients must be thoroughly evaluated…
View Post 15 min This content is machine translated Asthma therapy The mild bronchial asthma Bronchial asthma is a heterogeneous, multifactorial disease characterized by chronic airway inflammation and bronchial hyperresponsiveness. Not only the symptomatology, but also the airway obstruction is variable in time course and… CME-Test
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated GINA Report 2021 Paradigm shift completed The Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) has taken a clear position in its 2021 update [1]: Cases of mild bronchial asthma should also receive an initial inhaled steroid in the…
View Post 14 min This content is machine translated Tuberculosis Hygiene in TB – facts and myths Tuberculosis is becoming increasingly rare in Switzerland, Austria and Germany. For example, only 4791 cases of tuberculosis were reported in Germany in 2019, an incidence of 5.8 new cases per… CME-Test
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) Many ways to restful sleep Both habitual rhonchopathy, or simple snoring, and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) are sleep-related breathing disorders. While snoring is not associated with any consequences for the affected person, because it…
