This content is machine translated Cancer prevention Poorer prognosis for men who avoid prostate cancer screening Men who consistently avoid prostate cancer screening appointments have a disproportionately higher risk of dying from the disease. This is shown by a study that has also identified a new...…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Update ESC Guidelines 2023 Detailed recommendations for cardiovascular diseases in diabetes The updated guideline recommends important innovations in the areas of screening, cardiovascular risk assessment in diabetes mellitus and aspects of evidence-based cardiovascular risk reduction in type 2 diabetes patients with…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated ESC Guideline 2023 on ACS What is new in antithrombotic therapy? The clinical presentation of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is broad and ranges from asymptomatic to persistent chest discomfort to cardiac arrest, electrical/hemodynamic instability and cardiogenic shock. The European Society of…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Adjuvant chemotherapy in breast carcinoma Multitests for individual indication The use of the four multigene tests MammaPrint, Oncotype DX, EndoPredict and Prosigna may be useful in deciding on adjuvant chemotherapy. In which patients in particular should they be used?
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Cardiopulmonary resuscitation Forecast assessment More and more patients express that they do not want any therapeutic measures in case of foreseeable irreversible unconsciousness or severe permanent brain damage. Valid forecast parameters are needed for…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Multiple sclerosis Neurofilament serum levels as a marker for disease activity and therapeutic success. Neurofilaments (NFL) are components of the neuronal cytoskeleton and are released into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) both as part of physiological degradation processes and in increased amounts in the event…
View Post 10 min This content is machine translated Meningiomas Update 2017 Surgery is the main form of therapy for meningioma, followed by radiotherapy. The latter is used for higher grade tumors, those with non-removable remnants, or for certain meningiomas in the…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Prognosis and biology of gliomas Why low-malignant gliomas are currently not curable Grade II gliomas tend to be underestimated in their malignancy in the early stages. There is no standard for treatment. In addition to wait-and-see, aggressive surgical tactics are becoming more…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Acute lymphoblastic leukemias in children and adolescents Progress through better risk stratification Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is the most common childhood cancer. It is treated in a risk-adapted manner and is curable in the majority of cases. New innovative drugs such as immunotherapies…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Annual Meeting DGHO, OeGHO, SGMO and SGH+SSH in Stuttgart, Germany Update hepatocellular carcinoma – news from the system therapy In hepatocellular carcinoma, an increase in incidence has been observed in industrialized countries. HCC patients have at least two diseases, namely carcinoma as well as severe liver disease. The interaction…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated "Whiplash" Psychosocial factors play a decisive role Psychosocial factors are usually more important than organic factors for the different course forms and lengths of a whiplash injury. In the case of fresh whiplash injuries, factual clarification is…
