This content is machine translated Aging skin interview “The trend is toward botulinum preventive.” In this interview, Oliver Ph. Kreyden, MD, Muttenz, Switzerland, talks about intrinsic and extrinsic skin aging and the many therapeutic approaches that can be used to address such changes. Basically,…
View Post 1 min This content is machine translated Award Thierry Carrel: best trainer in Europe Inselspital cardiac surgeon and editor of CARDIOVASC Prof. Thierry Carrel, MD, is the best cardiac surgery educator in Europe. This title was awarded to him by the European Society of…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Benign prostatic hyperplasia Comparison of different therapy methods While a great many 60- to 80-year-olds have prostatic hyperplasia, only about 40% of them show symptoms that include obstructive and irritative micturition symptoms. The following article discusses which examinations…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Follow-up of curatively operated NSCLC. Many questions are still open Lung cancer is the most common fatal cancer worldwide, and its incidence is still increasing in modern times. Despite advances in diagnosis and treatment, the lethality of lung cancer leads…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Cardiac Surgery Humanitarian projects of the Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery at Inselspital Aid projects have a long tradition at the Inselspital in Bern. Often the initiative of an individual is behind it. In the field of cardiac surgery, we have been training…
View Post 12 min This content is machine translated Non-small cell lung cancer Individualized, palliative first-line therapy is possible Therapy for non-small cell lung cancer is individualized and based on tumor stage, histology, and predictive molecular markers, taking into account the patient profile. To maximize the therapeutic outcome for…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Arterio-venous malformations Vascular malformation in the head – What now? The main manifestation of symptomatic arterio-venous malformation (AVM) is intracranial hemorrhage, typically subarachnoid or intracerebral as a result of rupture in localized destructive vessel wall remodeling. Other typical symptoms exist…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) Conservative measures precede surgical compression Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common focal neuropathy, usually with no specific cause. The nightly falling asleep of the hand, especially of the fingers I-IV, combined with pain…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Questionable financial incentives Swiss surgeons want to prevent abuse with charter The Swiss Surgeons (Swiss Society of Surgery [SGC]), represented by its President Prof. Dr. med. Ralph Alexander Schmid and Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Hubert Steinke, called for a charter…
View Post 10 min This content is machine translated Minimally invasive nail surgery Pro nail plate preservation, contra extraction and wedge excision Both most patients and many doctors are uncomfortable with surgical procedures on the nail because they fear – not without good reason – pain and postoperative dystrophy. There are a…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Therapy of funnel chest in children More and more patients want the suction cup For the correction of a funnel chest, open surgery according to Ravitch was performed in particular in earlier years. Currently, the minimally invasive correction according to Nuss (MIRPE) is preferred…
