This content is machine translated New guidelines on plasma cell myeloma Contemporary clarification and therapy The treatment strategy is determined according to the patient’s age and general condition. Younger fit patients receive intensive treatment with induction therapy (at least four cycles), followed by high-dose chemotherapy/autologous…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Severe aortic valve stenosis with concomitant mitral regurgitation Does the mitral valve have to be treated as well? Accurate diagnosis lays the foundation in the presence of double valve pathology aortic valve stenosis / mitral valve stenosis. Since the two pathologies influence each other, a multimodality approach including…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Testicular cancer Switzerland is one of the countries with the highest incidence Testicular cancer is becoming increasingly common in industrialized nations. A study that examined development trends in the U.S. and Europe concludes that Switzerland in particular, along with Norway and Denmark,…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Post-traumatic stress disorder How can the consequences of traumatization be differentiated? Psychological traumatization can be described as a progressive disease [1] that involves three distinct phases: traumatic situation, traumatic response (up to approximately four weeks after the traumatic event), and traumatic…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Surgical techniques and perioperative aspects Current standards of dermatosurgery Dermatosurgery deals with the surgical treatment of mainly malignant, but also benign skin neoplasms. While skin neoplasms were previously often treated by radiotherapy, cryotherapy and electrocautery, new surgical techniques and…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Update Refresher Internal Medicine “Fat kills” – or is it? At the Update Refresher Internal Medicine, the two cardiologists from the Stadtspital Triemli Prof. Dr. med. Franz Eberli and PD Dr. med. David Kurz discussed news and views from current…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Chronic hepatitis C New drugs are expensive, but cure many patients Chronic hepatitis C is one of the most common causes of advanced liver disease and liver transplantation in Switzerland. For people with chronic HCV infection, however, the situation has improved…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated An 18 month old girl with redness in the diaper area Red bottom – and now? Case report: The family presents to the emergency department with their 18-month-old daughter because there has been redness in the diaper area for weeks that has not responded to treatment…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Spondylodesis, disc prosthesis and co. - Part 1 Spine surgery for low back pain: what is possible? Chronic low back pain may have a defined pathomorphologic correlate; the main difficulty remains the detection of this correlate. The gold standard of evaluation for back pain is history, clinic,…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated General allergic reactions Emergency management – anaphylaxis is too rarely recognized The most common triggers of anaphylaxis in adults are drugs and insect bites, and food in children. The development and dynamics of anaphylaxis are unpredictable. According to the WAO recommendation…
View Post 10 min This content is machine translated From high-dose chemotherapy to gene expression. Developments in adjuvant chemotherapy of breast carcinoma. The use of multigene testing is currently limited to the adjuvant setting in HER2-negative luminal breast carcinoma and allows reproducible predictions of recurrence risk. The tests will lead to fewer…
