This content is machine translated GINA Guideline 2020 New weapon at level 5 The Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) has also updated its recommendations for asthma management in 2020. The most important announcement in it for the occasion: during the COVID-19 pandemic, patients…
View Post 11 min This content is machine translated Thoracic surgery operations Prevention and treatment of respiratory and cardiac disorders. Any surgery can cause problems with the circulation, heart or lungs postoperatively. The prevention of such complications and their treatment is of great importance, because otherwise the perioperative risk increases… CME-Test
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Non-infectious complications after HSCT Lungs at high risk! Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is an established treatment for a variety of malignant and non-malignant diseases. However, both infectious and noninfectious pulmonary complications can lead to increased morbidity and…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) Reduce exacerbation rate and improve quality of life Assessment of symptoms and exacerbation risks is central to effective drug therapy. The ABCD risk classification serves as a basis for this. Here, the indication for therapy is based on…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Antisynthetase syndromes Watch your fingers The antisynthetase syndromes are a subgroup of the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies and account for approximately 35-40% of cases here. However, if detected in time, the long-term prognosis for affected individuals…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Update GINA Guidelines 2020 Asthma therapy in transition During several decades, short-acting beta-mimetics (SABA) were recommended as first-line therapy. This has changed in the meantime. The current GINA treatment recommendations advise instead the use of an anti-inflammatory demand…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated COPD therapy The less eosinophilic the COPDer, the more unnecessary the ICS “Treatable traits” is the new magic term in the treatment of COPD, and the current guidelines are modeled after it. With regard to the structure of therapy, the focus should…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Cystic fibrosis In the sweat of the CF Next to hematomatosis, cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most common genetic disease and the most common genetic disease with lung involvement. In adult patients, the symptoms are varied and often…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated The somewhat different knowledge Where does the name “Pancoast tumor” actually come from? The clinical picture of Pancoast tumor is widely known. But where does the somewhat strange name actually come from? We got to the bottom of it.
View Post 12 min This content is machine translated Subsegmental pulmonary emboli In need of therapy or clinically irrelevant? Pulmonary embolism (LE) is grouped together with deep vein thrombosis as venous thromboembolism. Whereas 50 years ago the diagnosis was usually made post-mortem or in the presence of definite clinical… CME-Test
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Hypoxemia New insights into treatment with oxygen in intensive care medicine The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) recently published the large-scale multinational study “Handling Oxygenation Targets in the Intensive Care Unit” (HOT-ICU). Under the direction of Aalborg University Hospital, the…
