This content is machine translated Upper respiratory tract comorbidities When asthma and rhinosinusitis go hand in hand Almost half (45%) of all patients with – mainly severe – asthma are also affected by chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP). As many as 60% have allergic rhinitis as a…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Off-label use of dupilumab 16-year-old can breathe again Physicians from the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at the University Hospital of Giessen and Marburg were dealing with a 16-year-old patient with a particularly pronounced chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRScNP)…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated 25th Hirslanden Academy Gastroesophageal reflux – normally well treatable conservatively Approximately 20% of the Western population is currently affected by gastroesophageal reflux disease. Along with the increasing incidence, its health economic importance grew over the years and scientific activity increased.…
View Post 11 min This content is machine translated Diagnostics and therapy in gastroesophageal reflux Reflux – a widespread disease? The increasing incidence of gastroesophageal reflux disease and the concomitant growing incidence and mortality of adenocarcinoma of the esophagus lead to an increasing health economic importance. Hand in hand with…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Reflux and ulcer Proton pump inhibitors as first-choice therapeutic agents If alarm symptoms are present with reflux symptoms, esophagogastroduodenoscopy should be performed. Therapy is primarily by means of proton pump inhibitors (PPI). Probatory it is justifiable if there are no…
