This content is machine translated ECCO/ESMO 2015 Care of cancer patients in European comparison At the European Cancer Congress in Vienna, there were new insights into the possible etiology of Hodgkin’s lymphoma. In addition, a comprehensive European comparison of cancer care was presented. In…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Fall prevention in family practice Address problems, perform risk screening and initiate prevention Fall prevention measures can reduce the rate of falls by up to 50%. Family physicians are suited to play a key role in the primary and secondary prevention of falls…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Neurological aspects of HIV and syphilis. How do infectious diseases manifest themselves on the nervous system? More than half of all HIV patients suffer from sensory neuropathy, which is one of the most common HIV-associated diseases. There is no causal therapy for HIV-associated neuropathies; therefore, symptomatic…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Oncology Annual Congress in Basel Risk- and age-adapted approach to multiple myeloma In October, the annual congress of the German, Austrian and Swiss Societies of Hematology and Medical Oncology was held in Basel. A scientific symposium focused on risk- and age-adapted management…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Crooked letters, poorer reading ability The age-related macular degeneration The most important risk factors for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are age and smoking. Cardinal symptoms of AMD are a decrease in reading ability, metamorphopsia, and small scotomas. Complete blindness…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated After kidney transplantation Follow-up of kidney transplant patients in family practice. Teamwork between primary care physician, nephrologist, transplant center and patient is essential. 50% of transplanted patients die with functioning kidney transplant. In the early phase after transplantation, the focus is…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Infantile hemangiomas Development, course, complications and diagnostics Infantile hemangioma has a characteristic course with a growth, arrest, and regression phase. Regression potential exists until the onset of puberty. 70% of hemangiomas completely regress without therapy by the…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated How to proceed with joint pain? Differential diagnostics in rheumatology At the Update Refresher General Internal Medicine, Michael Andor, MD, Center for Spine Medicine PRODORSO, Zurich, gave an overview of the most important diseases in rheumatology. When a patient complains…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Benign thyroid nodules What diagnostic and preventive steps are indicated? Benign small nodules in the thyroid gland are common. Since the (mostly incidental) detection of such asymptomatic nodules has also increased in recent years, the question arises as to how…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Diabetes therapy Status of bariatric and metabolic surgery. Bariatric and metabolic surgery is not only one, but the most effective treatment option for overweight type 2 diabetic patients. For the most important procedures performed today (gastric bypass Y-Roux…
View Post 11 min This content is machine translated Castration refractory prostate cancer (CRPC). What are the new treatment options? The significant increase in available therapeutic agents in CRPC is encouraging. The focus of any therapy should be the preservation of quality of life with a reduction of tumor-specific complications.…
