This content is machine translated HER2-positive breast carcinoma New substances enable targeted therapy The HER2 receptor belongs to the family of four transmembrane receptor tyrosine kinases (EGFR/HER1, HER2, HER3, and HER4) that influence cell growth, differentiation, and survival. Overexpression of HER2 occurs in…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Aortic valve stenosis Catheter-based Aortic Valve Replacement – Useful for Which Patients? Catheter-based aortic valve replacement is an innovative treatment option for elderly and critically ill patients with aortic valve stenosis requiring surgery. Approximately 30-40% of these patients were previously not even…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Scars A diverse appearance requires targeted therapeutic approaches Scars can be outwardly disfiguring and can negatively affect a person’s self-esteem. They differ not only in shape, size and elasticity, but also in their cause. Some, such as the…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated 100 years of dermatology at Triemli From the “Tièche” Clinic to the Dermatological Outpatient Clinic “In literature, art and music, extremes are being pushed to the limit as if there were no tomorrow” – this is how Florian Illies’ current bestseller portrays the monstrous year…
View Post 4 min 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…
