This content is machine translated Chronic spontaneous urticaria When antihistamines are not enough – ligelizumab soon available in addition to omalizumab? The biologic omalizumab has empirically well-documented efficacy and safety and is considered the treatment of choice in international guidelines for cases of chronic spontaneous urticaria with inadequate response to antihistamines.…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated COVID-19 in hematologic patients. Lessons learned from the pandemic The SARS-CoV-2 virus poses a particular challenge for hematologic patients. hazard. On the one hand, their immune system is often weakened by the disease and, on the other hand, numerous therapies…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Non-melanocytic skin cancer Topical treatment of actinic keratoses – what’s new? If actinic keratoses form on sun-damaged skin, treatment is recommended to reduce the risk of progression to carcinoma. The spectrum of topical treatment options has recently expanded. First, the novel…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Skin cancer and precancerous lesions Non-invasive laser-based methods in routine diagnostics With optical coherence tomography and confocal laser scanning microscopy, state-of-the-art high-tech methods are available for the non-invasive diagnosis of non-melanocytic skin cancer and melanoma. Both methods are painless for patients…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Ovarian tumors Therapy Update For both germ cell and epithelial ovarian tumors, the first line of therapy is surgery and chemotherapy. However, there has been a lot of progress over the last few years,…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Hidradenitis suppurativa Deciphering inflammatory pathways as the basis for new therapeutic approaches Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) has a multifactorial etiopathogenesis and is associated with high impairment of quality of life. Empirical findings of increased expression of inflammatory cytokines suggest an immunologic genesis of…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Hypertension Uncontrolled hypertension in the elderly: dose increase or another drug? If the target blood pressure is not achieved, there are two approaches to intensify antihypertensive treatment: adding a new drug or maximizing the dose. A large-scale cohort study involving researchers from…
View Post 12 min This content is machine translated Malignant melanoma Adjuvant Therapy: State of the Art The annual incidence of malignant melanoma has steadily increased over the past 40 years. While the prognosis is good in the early stages, it worsens as the tumor stage increases.… CME-Test
View Post 11 min This content is machine translated Therapy of rheumatoid arthritis Long-term safety for RA patients under JAK inhibition The treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has made great progress over the past 20 years. This relates both to the range of drugs available and to developments in terms of… CME-Test
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) Guselkumab in joint involvement – successful interim results Long-term data from the pivotal DISCOVER-2 study show that treatment with guselkumab resulted in sustained improvements in joint and skin symptoms and functional capacity over a two-year period in biologic-naïve…
View Post 15 min This content is machine translated Asthma therapy The mild bronchial asthma Bronchial asthma is a heterogeneous, multifactorial disease characterized by chronic airway inflammation and bronchial hyperresponsiveness. Not only the symptomatology, but also the airway obstruction is variable in time course and…
