This content is machine translated Encephalitis Despite many treatment options, lethality remains high At the annual meeting of the Swiss Neurological Society in late October 2014, a session focused on encephalitides. These acute life-threatening diseases are rare, but the different etiologies and therapies…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Specific oncological and social problems Cancer in young adults: Experts call for treatment protocols Adolescents and young adults are a neglected age group in oncology. Younger cancer patients are also rarely included in studies – accordingly, their survival rate has hardly improved in recent…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Symptomatic vertebral body hemangioma with neurological complaints Minimally invasive interventional therapy Case Report: In a 30-year-old female patient with lower extremity sensory disturbances, an MRI examination revealed multiple, vascular, tumor-like vertebral body lesions in the upper thoracic spine that corresponded to…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Meningiomas Therapeutic options for recurrent or metastatic tumors A “Special Session” at the ESMO Congress focused on meningiomas. Although these brain tumors are primarily treated surgically, higher-grade meningiomas that can grow invasively may require radio or systems therapy.
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Generalized anxiety disorder Is GAD too rarely recognized? Generalized anxiety disorder usually begins between the ages of 20 and 30. It is accompanied by psychological and physical symptoms. Rapid clarification and making the correct diagnosis (especially in the…
View Post 12 min This content is machine translated Psychiatric expertise/legal decisions in social security law Depth of clarification of psychiatric reports From a medical-scientific point of view, an expert opinion can be regarded as a measuring instrument that is intended to provide accurate, reproducible and comprehensible results. It is important to…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Metastatic colorectal cancer Which first-line therapy for patients with wild-type RAS? At this year’s ESMO Congress in Madrid, treatment options for metastatic colorectal cancer were also discussed. Is there an optimal strategy for patients with a wild-type RAS mutation, and would…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Burnout or depression Delimitation in practice Burnout is a stress-associated disorder that, when severe, can be considered a disease. It represents a risk condition that can lead to psychiatric and somatic sequelae if stress levels become…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Medidays: Update Hematology Anemia, new anticoagulants, and CLL. At Medidays, the internal medicine training program of the University Hospital Zurich (USZ), presentations were also given on various hematology topics. How is anemia meaningfully clarified? Which patients should be…
View Post 11 min This content is machine translated Neurocognitive impairment Symptoms that should be taken seriously The brain in multiple sclerosis shows structural and functional changes early in the disease process – even before cognitive deficits become manifest. Brain atrophy is currently considered the best correlate…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated RAINBOW Study New standard in the second line? Drugs that are well established in first-line advanced gastric cancer continue to achieve relatively poor survival prognoses in second-line settings. A new study (RAINBOW) now demonstrates the efficacy of ramucirumab…
