This content is machine translated Pharmacotherapy-resistant epilepsies. Epilepsy surgery: an important option for affected patients Well over one-third of all epilepsy cases are not adequately treatable with conservative measures, and very many of these patients are suitable for surgical treatment. Diagnostic epilepsy surgery allows precise…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Cavernomas in the brain stem Perioperative imaging and microsurgical strategies. Case report: In 2011, a 50-year-old patient was diagnosed with a cavernoma of almost 2 cm in the area of the pons, after passive mild sensory disturbances of the right side…
View Post 11 min This content is machine translated Spondylodesis, disc prosthesis and co. - Part 2 Spine surgery for low back pain: what is possible when and how? Tailored individual surgical treatment is sought for surgical candidates with low back pain. With fusion surgery, good and very good results can be achieved in selected cases, superior to non-surgical…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Severe aortic valve stenosis with concomitant mitral regurgitation Does the mitral valve have to be treated as well? Accurate diagnosis lays the foundation in the presence of double valve pathology aortic valve stenosis / mitral valve stenosis. Since the two pathologies influence each other, a multimodality approach including…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Surgical techniques and perioperative aspects Current standards of dermatosurgery Dermatosurgery deals with the surgical treatment of mainly malignant, but also benign skin neoplasms. While skin neoplasms were previously often treated by radiotherapy, cryotherapy and electrocautery, new surgical techniques and…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Spondylodesis, disc prosthesis and co. - Part 1 Spine surgery for low back pain: what is possible? Chronic low back pain may have a defined pathomorphologic correlate; the main difficulty remains the detection of this correlate. The gold standard of evaluation for back pain is history, clinic,…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Acute pulmonary embolism The role of surgery Pulmonary embolectomy has become an important therapeutic option in patients with acute massive pulmonary embolism with present signs of right ventricular strain when the indication is carefully and interdisciplinary (cardiac…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Aortic valve replacement Risk stratification and effective surgery outcomes. Patients with biologic valve replacements have a higher likelihood of reoperation but a smaller likelihood of major bleeding compared with patients with mechanical aortic valve prostheses. Current studies show no…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Modern concept of coronary surgery Improving the gold standard Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with heart-lung machine is the gold standard of myocardial revascularization. The results of off-pump surgery and percutaneous intervention (PCI) should be measured against this. Bypass…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Diabetes therapy Status of bariatric and metabolic surgery. Bariatric and metabolic surgery is not only one, but the most effective treatment option for overweight type 2 diabetic patients. For the most important procedures performed today (gastric bypass Y-Roux…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Patient-based decisions are important Surgical treatment of intracerebral hemorrhage Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICB) accounts for approximately 15-20% of all strokes. Although a large proportion of ICB can be treated conservatively, surgical treatment has a high priority. Surgical therapy subsets…
