This content is machine translated Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Hope through rituximab? Purpose: Does immunomodulatory therapy with rituximab (Mabthera®) lead to sustained symptom improvement in patients suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)?
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Nerve bottleneck syndrome Diagnostic value of nerve sonography in carpal tunnel syndrome Carpal tunnel syndrome is the most common nerve constriction syndrome. The diagnosis can often be made clinically with a focused history and neurologic examination. To assess nerve function as well…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated SGBS Symposium Bipolar 2016 in Zurich Grasping the complexity of bipolar disorder Bipolar disorder has many faces. These are clinically relevant because they influence response to drug and psychosocial treatments. When bipolar disorder is actually present, how it is differentiated from other…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated SGAMPSP 14th Annual Meeting Pharmacotherapy: Optimize benefits, minimize risks The SGAMSP Annual Meeting in Liestal focused on the psychological and physical factors in the course of the disease. Particularly in polymorbid patients treated with psychotropic and somatic medications, there…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated ECTRIMS Hot Topic Session The role of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in MS. In recent years, impressive results have been published on autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in patients with multiple sclerosis. In a pro-con debate at the 32nd Congress of the European…
View Post 11 min This content is machine translated Update inhalation therapy Optimal device selection for asthma and COPD The first step in prescribing inhalation therapy is to select the optimal device. This must be based on patient factors (ability to cooperate, achievable inspiratory flow, and severity of obstruction)…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Cat scratch disease (KKK) An unexpected cause of abscess after moped accident in Bali Cat scratch disease KKK is a self-limiting infection with regional lymphadenopathy. The causative agent is usually Bartonella henselae, and transmission occurs through cat scratches or bites. Diagnosis is based on…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated International Symposium at Ittingen Charterhouse September 2016 Translational research: step by step forward or great leap forward For the first time, four internationally known foundations, all with paraplegia research as their purpose, have organized a meeting together. At the invitation of the International Foundation for Research in…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated From "Athlete's Foot" to Tennis Elbow Small lexicon of sports-related medical terms (Part 1) The fact that sport, as the most important secondary matter in the world, is closely linked to the world of medicine is something that pharmaceutical advertising in particular likes to…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Phytotherapy for gastrointestinal complaints Herbal preparations from different traditions lead to success The following article presents two completely different herbal preparations, both of which have documented efficacy in functional dyspepsia. One comes from Western phytotherapy and corresponds to the way of thinking…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Medidays Zurich 2016 Neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia – how to treat? At Medidays Zurich 2016, the advanced training for general internal medicine in practice and hospital, Alzheimer’s dementia was a topic: its pathology is very complex and a causal therapy is…
