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 6 min This content is machine translated Acute pulmonary embolism Diagnostics and therapy The third leading cause of cardiovascular disease death is acute pulmonary embolism. The determination of D-dimers is highly sensitive in the exclusion of acute pulmonary embolism. CT angiography is nowadays…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Current overview New Anticoagulants in Prevention and Therapy of Thromboembolism The standard treatment for acute venous thromboembolism currently includes parenteral heparin administration, overlapping with the administration of a vitamin K antagonist (VKA). New oral anticoagulants (NOACs) and VKAs show different…
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…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Treatment for resistant hypertension using renal denervation Diabetics could benefit from reduction of sympathetic tone About ten percent of treated hypertensives have high blood pressure that cannot be adequately controlled despite combinations of three or more antihypertensives. These patients may be helped by interrupting sympathetic…
View Post 1 min This content is machine translated Thromboembolic diseases Management of thrombosis and pulmonary embolism In this issue of CARDIOVASC, a significant focus is on the procedure surrounding the occurrence of thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Individual diabetes therapy Patients’ living conditions too seldom a topic of discussion with doctors Individual therapy for type 2 diabetes is now widely recommended. However, if one looks at the extent to which patients’ personal circumstances are discussed in doctor-patient conversations, deficits are apparent,…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Sleep apnea More women affected Around 150,000 people in Switzerland are affected by sleep apnea. The disease with the symptoms of snoring, breathing pauses and daytime sleepiness, is still considered predominantly a “men’s problem”, as…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Visually impaired or blind? Visual impairment in Switzerland more frequent than previously assumed A study now published by the Swiss National Association for the Blind SZB calculates the current number of blind and visually impaired people in Switzerland to be over 300,000. According…
