This content is machine translated Focal hyperhidrosis Botulinum versus surgery: A quick guide Hyperhidrosis is a serious disease, as sufferers have a high level of suffering which can have a major impact on their quality of life. In addition, the number of unreported…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated To the point Freedom of choice After the Zurich electorate approved the initiative “Yes to freedom of choice in obtaining medicines” on November 30, 2008, residents of the cities of Zurich and Winterthur have finally been…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated To the point “Watch and Wait? A 30-year-old previously healthy woman suffers from a mild cough for two weeks. New increasingly abdominal pain occurs. During the day she feels feverish. The fever gauge shows 38.4 degrees…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Irritable Bowel Syndrome It is not a diagnosis of exclusion The cause of IBS should be identified by taking a medical history and performing a symptom-specific workup. Which combination therapy can be used to treat irritable bowel syndrome is clarified…
View Post 1 min This content is machine translated Gastroenterology and Hepatology Listen to the gut feeling I am pleased to present two exciting topics in gastroenterology and hepatology in the current issue of HAUSARZT PRAXIS. Especially non-specific complaints and symptoms are a daily challenge in primary…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Award ceremony 22nd Pfizer Research Prize 2013 awarded The Pfizer Research Prize, endowed with a total of CHF 105,000, was awarded on February 7, 2013 in Zurich to nine outstanding papers in basic and clinical research in various…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Autoimmune Hepatitis How to diagnose and treat correctly Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a chronic, progressive liver disease characterized by the histologic picture of interface hepatitis, hypergammaglobulinemia, and circulating autoantibodies. AIH occurs in all age groups and affects women…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Multiple causes, multiple clinical pictures Glomerulonephritis Renal insufficiency requiring dialysis can be the result of glomerular disease that is recognized too late, usually with nonspecific symptoms and signs. Screening for renal pathologies therefore includes not only…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Kidney disease in family practice. Nephrology diagnoses Diseases of the kidney are difficult to diagnose because they lack a typical clinically detectable symptom. In general, such a disease can only be detected by a pattern analysis of…
View Post 12 min This content is machine translated Diagnosis & Therapy of Chronic Heart Failure When the heart weakens in old age With increasing age, both the incidence of heart failure and the importance of diastolic dysfunction increase. Symptoms are often nonspecific in old age. Diagnosis is no different from that in…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Thrombophilia diagnostics Decision support in complex risk analyses In approximately half of the patients with a venous thromboembolic event (VTE), a thrombophilic diathesis can be found with an appropriate coagulation evaluation. A coagulation test is not mandatory or…
