This content is machine translated Cardiac diseases in women Arrhythmias during pregnancy Arrhythmias are one of the most common cardiac complications during pregnancy in women with and without known structural heart disease. Arrhythmias that were previously infrequent may become more frequent during…
View Post 11 min This content is machine translated SSAM Addiction Symposium 2017 Update: Diagnosis and treatment of substance dependence disorders. What are the new findings concerning diagnostic classification systems? Pros and cons of categorical vs. dimensional approaches. How can neurobiological findings be integrated into diagnostic and therapeutic concepts? The problem…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Zurich Review Course in Clinical Cardiology Are mechanical heart valves “out”? It was a long way from the development of the first artificial heart valve in the 1960s to modern biological heart valves made from animal tissue. At least in Europe,…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Pain Somatoform pain disorders ICD-11 will largely assign persistent somatoform pain disorders to the interpretation-neutral category of “primary chronic pain,” abandoning the earlier concept of a “monocausal psychogeny”-an introduction to the clinical picture.
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Alcohol consumption Low-risk consumption limits need to be reconsidered How does regular alcohol consumption of more than 100 g/week affect all-cause mortality and the risk of cardiovascular sequelae? A recent study by the University of Cambridge has recorded the drinking…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated DGIM 2018 Irritable bowel syndrome – disorder at the interface of psyche and abdomen At the DGIM Congress, the various therapeutic options for irritable bowel syndrome were discussed. Apparently, German general practitioners mainly favor probiotics, spasmolytics and phytotherapeutics in treatment. What other measures are…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated 9th Swiss Forum for Mood and Anxiety Disorders (SFMAD), Zurich Mindfulness therapy for anxiety and depression Over the past decade, mindfulness-based therapy for anxiety and depression has evolved from a marginal position in the therapeutic field to a recognized, empirically based practice. In addition to its…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Microbiome as a predictive biomarker The intestine oracle The complexity of the human intestinal flora is increasingly better understood. The gut even seems to have an impact on who responds to cancer immunotherapy and who doesn’t. …
View Post 16 min This content is machine translated Integrated treatment as the key to success Interdisciplinary pain therapy in patients with paraplegia Chronic pain is the most common health problem reported by patients with paraplegia. Due to the occurrence of different types of pain and pain mechanisms within the bio-psycho-social model of…
View Post 15 min This content is machine translated Therapy for urinary incontinence in old age Surgery, drugs and other approaches Stress incontinence is addressed surgically, whereas overactive bladder is primarily addressed with medication. If conservative measures are unsuccessful, urogynecological and urodynamic clarification should be performed.
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Groundbreaking research findings from Ticino The tumor likes “fat Future drugs could reduce fats in the cancer cell by inhibiting a specific, newly researched metabolic component. The tumor would be “starved out.” Results of a research group from Bellinzona.