This content is machine translated Measures for hearing loss Hearing aids, hearing amplifiers – which patient needs what? Hearing loss often goes unnoticed or uncompensated for a long time, but affects the lives of those affected in many ways. It is useful to systematically include questions about hearing…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Update burn treatment Which patients to treat yourself and which to send on? To assess the severity of the burn/scald, one needs an estimate of the area extent and depth of the burn after debridement. The degree of burn is determined by the…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Specific immunotherapy When, whom and how to treat? If neither exposure prophylaxis nor symptom-oriented medication can provide sufficient relief of allergic symptoms, specific immunotherapy (SIT) is indicated. A distinction is made between subcutaneous and sublingual SIT. Contraindications must…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Pooled analysis of four studies Is a St. John’s wort extract better tolerated than SSRIs? This article is the German abstract of a study [1] published in the journal International Clinical Psychopharmacology. The authors pooled the compatibility data from four studies and evaluated them. They…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Guest article by the Foundation for People with Rare Diseases Ways of diagnostics – genetic testing for medical purposes The enormous progress made in recent years in the field of human genetics has already led to the identification of the cause of more than four thousand genetic (congenital) diseases.…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Malignant hematological diseases One tablet – no chemotherapy Will there soon be a once-daily tablet that will eliminate the need for chemotherapy for malignant hematologic diseases such as acute myeloid leukemia? This question is being investigated in an…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Teeth and sport Why you should take care of your teeth, especially as an athlete In sports medicine, as in medicine in general, teeth are often treated stepmotherly, although in a person like the athlete, who wants to push his organism to peak performance, damage…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Pulmonary emphysema When is interventional therapy indicated? Often, even “out of treatment” emphysema patients can be offered improvement in dyspnea and exercise capacity through a lung volume reducing procedure. The postinterventional beneficial effects after surgical or bronchoscopic…
View Post 12 min This content is machine translated Non-necrotizing granulomas Diagnosis and therapy of sarcoidosis Sarcoidosis is a multisystemic granulomatous disease of as yet unclear etiology. The diagnosis of sarcoidosis is based on the typical clinical presentation and histologic evidence of non-necrotizing epithelioid cell granulomas,…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated EADV Congress A tattoo leaves not only beautiful traces The EADV Congress is the largest dermatological and venereological educational event in Europe. In 2014, the numerous international clinical and research experts met in Amsterdam. The official press conference on…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Mantle cell lymphoma First- and second-line lenalidomide Mantle cell lymphoma (MZL) is an aggressive non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that accounts for approximately 3-6% of all NHL cases. It has a poor prognosis, especially after failure of first-line therapy. Lenalidomide…
