This content is machine translated Renal failure A booming disease? Dear colleagues, are your patients also becoming increasingly ill with renal insufficiency? Among my elderly patients, the disease has reached epidemic proportions in recent years.
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Comprehensive world atlas of allergies More than 300 physicians and researchers from 40 countries met in Copenhagen from June 7-11, 2014, at the Congress of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. In addition…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated EULAR Congress Systemic lupus erythematosus – How to manage? At the EULAR congress in Paris, systemic lupus erythematosus was also addressed. Points of discussion were the study situation on antimalarials, the optimized use of glucocorticoids, concomitant measures such as…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Interdisciplinary care for skin cancer patients New drugs for the clinician What’s new in skin cancer therapy? An educational session at UniversitySpital Zurich focused on the options available to patients from improved immunotherapy and targeted treatments with BRAF and MEK inhibitors…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated 4th Zurich Dermatology Training Days Regional dermatoses under the microscope At the Dermatological Training Days in Zurich, various regional dermatoses were presented on the basis of case histories: How do dermatoses of the ear, diseases of the mucous membranes and…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Unknown recurrent anaphylaxis Conversation in private led to surprising diagnosis Daniela, who is not yet sixteen and lives in Ticino, suffered from allergic bronchial asthma as a child. Recently, acute attacks of generalized urticaria with Quincke’s edema of the eyelids…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Pathological scars - pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment “There are no quick therapy successes in the treatment of scars” Severin Läuchli, MD, senior physician and head of dermatosurgery at the Dermatology Clinic at the USZ, discussed the development and therapy of pathological scars with DERMATOLOGIE PRAXIS. From a broad…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Aesthetic treatment of the back of the hand When hands still spoke the truth The hands reveal the true age – so they say. In fact, they usually show the most pronounced symptoms of so-called extrinsic skin aging, also called photoaging. Consistent sun protection…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Hairless area in a ten year old girl Temporal alopecia areata? Case report: At the age of two years the parents of the now ten-year-old girl noticed for the first time a hairless area temporally on the left side. At the…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) A disease in upheaval COPD is considered a preventable and treatable disease, but this is only partially true. Cigarette smoking is the most commonly identified and preventable risk factor in this country – but…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Dyspnea Important questions, dangerous traps, special facets “Try to relax and breathe calmly. Very calmly. If you now find breathing uncomfortable, you have already experienced the problem of dyspnea” – in this or a similar way, the…
