This content is machine translated Dyschondroplasia/Ollier's disease A very rare disease with a difficult prognosis In the course of my many years of foundation work, I have been confronted with many cases of rare diseases. Nevertheless, one case particularly concerns me. It is about a…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Diagnostic options for acute and chronic vertigo “Everything is spinning!” In the case of the leading symptom of dizziness, a structured procedure incl. targeted questioning of the duration and frequency of episodes as well as provocation factors and a focused…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated More than blood count and iron paramenter Laboratory analyses in athletes – what is useful? Sports medical examinations check the state of health and the fitness for training and competition, but also serve to detect functional disorders such as overtraining or an increased susceptibility to…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated The AIDA antidepressant discontinuation study. Relapse prediction after discontinuation of antidepressants. Not all depressed patients in remission benefit from antidepressants in terms of relapse prevention. Many patients want to discontinue their antidepressant, in part because of unwanted side effects. Currently, there…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Annual Meeting of the Brain Stroke Society Cerebral amyloid angiopathy – a not so rare cause of cerebral hemorrhage At this year’s annual meeting of the Brain Stroke Society in Aarau, Prof. David Werring, UCL, Institute of Neurology, London (UK), provided information on cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). This disease…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Unipolar depression What innovations does the modified S3 guideline bring? At the end of last year, a comprehensively revised version of the S3 guideline on unipolar depression, first published in 2009, was published. What are the most important changes? What…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Multiple Sclerosis Symposium in Bern How to increase the benefit of therapy and minimize the risk? At the Multiple Sclerosis Symposium in Bern, experts took a close look at current symptomatic and disease-modifying therapy. With the rapid advances made in recent years, it is important to…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Balance training, vitamin D, and structured gait assessment. Fall prevention in the elderly – 10 questions, 10 answers The history of falls in geriatric patients is usually fuzzy and not very purposeful. In the search for possible causes of falls, the structured assessment of the gait pattern is…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Prostate Cancer Statins plus hormone therapy prolong progression-free survival We previously reported on the risk-reducing effect of statins in liver cancer prevention. Now, a retrospective study shows intriguing results in prostate cancer: when cholesterol-lowering drugs are used in parallel…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Infantile hemangiomas Know differential diagnoses and initiate the correct therapy Most hemangiomas do not require therapy due to their large regression potential. Up to an area of about 2× 2cm and a raised area of about 4 mm, electric cryotherapy at…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Training process How important is recovery? Studies of athletes with ambitions show that many do not pay the necessary attention to recovery after training. It is therefore not surprising that some performance curves do not point…
