This content is machine translated AHF and its complications Follow-up of children with congenital heart defect Congenital heart defects are the most common organ malformation in children. Every cardiac defect requires pediatric cardiology evaluation and classification. Specialized pediatric cardiology follow-up is essential throughout childhood and adolescence…
View Post 12 min This content is machine translated Earlier and more often? Epidural spinal cord stimulation for chronic pain. Spinal cord stimulation is a neurosurgical, evidence-based, minimally invasive, and safe electrical neuromodulatory method for the treatment of chronic pain. Interdisciplinary patient selection and indication after multimodal therapy trials are…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Rheumatoid arthritis A multisystem disease and its dermatological changes It’s only when you get into rheumatoid arthritis and all of its facets that you realize how multifaceted this disease can be and that it plays into dermatology in so…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Psychiatric and internal diseases Body and mind in interplay The number of psychiatric disorders in internal diseases is up to 35% [1]. Internal diseases can interact with psychiatric diseases. Furthermore, the two can be mutually dependent. Both dementia and…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Eye pressure measurement is one of the most important preventive examinations Glaucoma – what does the family doctor need to know about it? A detailed ophthalmologic examination with eye pressure measurement should be performed in everyone from about the age of 40 (depending on the risk profile). Adherence and persistence of patients with…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Intracerebral hemorrhage Blood pressure reduction – the lower, the better? Purpose: To compare the benefit of rapid blood pressure reduction in acute intracerebral hemorrhage (ICB) with standard therapy.
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Autoimmune inflammation of the temporal artery News in the diagnosis and therapy of giant cell arteritis If giant cell arteritis is suspected, further evaluation and treatment should be undertaken immediately. Typical symptoms such as headache or chewing pain and visual disturbances may be absent. Oligosymptomatic RZA…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated 98th Annual Meeting of the SGDV Lesions of the oral mucosa and new technologies for topical therapies. This year’s congress of the Swiss Society of Dermatology and Venereology (SGDV) took place in Geneva at the end of August. Apart from the key lectures on important topics and…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Mania and depression Two sides of one coin or two different coins? Purpose: To examine the strength and specificity of the association between a manic episode and other common mental disorders at follow-up.
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Paraplegia - Step by step to the goal IRP Schellenberg Research Prize 2016 The IRP – International Foundation for Research in Paraplegia, Zurich, has been awarding the CHF 100,000 research prize every two years since 2003. The IRP Schellenberg Research Prize thus honors…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated HIV and cancer Why do some tumors occur more frequently under HAART? The incidence of white skin cancer is three to five times higher in HIV-infected individuals. Squamous cell and basal cell carcinomas occur at younger ages in HIV-infected individuals, are more…
