Dementia with lewy bodies--diagnosis and treatment.

abstract：:Advance directives emerged in the 1960s with the goal of empowering people to exert control over their future medical decisions. However, it has become apparent, over recent years, that advance directives do not sufficiently capture the temporal and relational aspects of planning treatment and care. Advance care plann...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Bosisio F,Jox RJ,Jones L,Rubli Truchard E

更新日期：2018-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the two million people estimated to be newly infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) every year, 95% live in poorer regions of the world where effective HIV treatment is not universally available. Strategies to reduce the spread of HIV infection, which predominantly occurs via sexual contact, are urgently ...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Hartley O,Martins E,Scurci I

更新日期：2018-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glomerulonephritis is a rare yet serious group of diseases with a high risk of progression to end-stage renal disease. For optimal healthcare planning, detailed epidemiological and demographic data are essential. Despite their clinical relevance, these data are largely lacking in Switzerland. OBJECTIVE:The ...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Nanchen G,Schutzbach K,Rotman S,Winzeler R,Ambühl P,Halfon M,Pruijm M

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) has been reported to be safe and the ultimate treatment option in lung transplant recipients with chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD), the main overall cause of mortality in lung transplant recipients. However, ECP is not reimbursed in selected health jurisdictions, a...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Robinson CA,Huber L,Murer C,Schuurmans M,Kohler M,Hofbauer G,Benden C

更新日期：2017-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Stress ulcer prophylaxis prescriptions might not be sufficiently challenged throughout a patient's stay in an intensive care unit (ICU) and might be erroneously maintained after ICU discharge. This study aimed to determine (1) stress ulcer prophylaxis adequacy in ICU and (2) the proportion of patients recei...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Franchitti M,Piubellini J,Sadeghipour F,Eckert P,Voirol P,Schneider AG

更新日期：2020-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Malnutrition has been defined as a “state resulting from lack of uptake or intake of nutrition, leading to altered body composition and body cell mass, as well as to diminished physical and mental function and impaired clinical outcome from disease.” Particularly for the multimorbid medical inpatient, ther...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Baumgartner A,Kägi-Braun N,Tribolet P,Gomes F,Stanga Z,Schuetz P

更新日期：2020-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：PRINCIPLES:Heart failure is associated with a grim prognosis. Disease management programmes can improve prognosis in heart failure patients but the applicability to the general population remains limited. We aimed to compare the outcome, pharmacological therapy, and quality of life in unselected heart failure patients ...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Lainscak M,Keber I

更新日期：2006-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Low-molecular-weight heparins (LMWH) have been shown to be safer, more effective and more convenient than unfractionated heparin (UFH) in many clinical situations. However, their use is limited in patients with renal insufficiency (RI) due to bioaccumulation. METHOD:The literature is critically reviewed and...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Schmid P,Fischer AG,Wuillemin WA

更新日期：2009-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:No abstract available (Letter to the editor). ...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

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更新日期：2012-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the increase of the organ shortage, several authors assume that financial incentives would improve organ donation rates and fill the unbalance between the demand and the organs available for transplant medicine. This line of argument has been criticised with people arguing that an exchange of money for ...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Bosisio F,Santiago M,Benaroyo L

更新日期：2011-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Cartilage hair hypoplasia (CHH) is a rare autosomal recessive ribosomopathy characterised by skeletal and integumentary system manifestations. It may also present with varied forms and intensities of haematopoietic and/or immune disorders. We report a 27-year-old female who presented a picture of combined immunodefici...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Nguyen A,Martin Silva N,de Boysson H,Damaj G,Aouba A

更新日期：2018-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe alcohol and tobacco consumption during pregnancy in women giving birth in a public hospital in Geneva, to evaluate risk factors related to these consumptions and to explore the influence of close relatives on the consumption habits of pregnant women. METHODS:A cross-sectional questionnaire surve...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Dupraz J,Graff V,Barasche J,Etter JF,Boulvain M

更新日期：2013-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcitonin was discovered in the early 1960s [1], at which time it was assumed to be a single hormone with a yet-to-be-determined role in human physiology. Since then it has been found to be only one entity among a large array of related circulating peptides, at least one of which has a pivotal role in the host respon...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Müller B,Becker KL

更新日期：2001-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) has been proven to be a biochemical marker of severity of congestive heart failure. We are aware of only few papers reporting the association of BNP elevation and pulmonary hypertension (primary, thromboembolic, or as a consequence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). L...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Maeder M,Ammann P,Rickli H,Diethelm M

更新日期：2003-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequencing the human genome was the big challenge of the last decade. Ten years later, the large amount of DNA sequences accumulated in our databases allows us to look at genome variations between humans. The level of complexity of these variations is much higher than previously expected. It goes from changes in the n...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Paoloni-Giacobino A

更新日期：2011-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:There is increasing pressure on general practitioners (GPs) to identify patients with abdominal obesity in order to reduce the life-threatening consequences of this condition in the population. We aimed to confirm previous findings on the inaccuracy of anthropometric measurements performed by GPs in an academic...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Sebo P,Haller D,Pechère-Bertschi A,Bovier P,Herrmann F

更新日期：2015-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In his 1966 monograph "Charcot joints", Sidney N. Eichenholtz (1909-2000) described "three well defined stages … in the course and development of a Charcot joint", based on plain X-rays of 68 patients. Since then, medical imaging has advanced very much: computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans ex...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Chantelau EA,Grützner G

更新日期：2014-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a rare tumor entity in Switzerland. In contrast, it is endemic in Asian and African countries. Retrospective studies have been conducted in order to identify risk factors and prognostic determinants of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Nonetheless, these trials were mostly conducted in re...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Sidler D,Thum P,Winterhalder R,Huber G,Haerle SK

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case series of 11 patients with severe E. faecium infections treated with daptomycin. All strains were resistant to ampicillin (MIC >8 mg/l), but susceptible to vancomycin. Seven out of 11 strains were also highly resistant to gentamicin (MIC >500 mg/l). All patients were treated with multiple broad-spectr...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Rosin C,Bernsmeier C,Entenza JM,Moreillon P,Frei R,Weisser M,Flückiger U

更新日期：2012-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Switzerland has the longest history of the legal practice of non-physician assisted suicide of any country. Assisted suicide is not very tightly regulated in Switzerland, and almost all assisted suicides are supported by a right-to-die organisation. Our study investigates older adults’ attitudes and behaviour to...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Vilpert S,Bolliger E,Borrat-Besson C,Borasio GD,Maurer J

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Epidemological studies suggest that farmers are at an increased risk for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease because of exposure to organic dust. We assessed the proportion of farmers among patients with end stage lung disease and we measured the seasonal exposure of dairy farmers to organic dust in a rura...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Cathomas RL,Brüesch H,Fehr R,Reinhart WH,Kuhn M

更新日期：2002-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, or statins, are lipid-lowering agents that have been shown to effectively decrease severe rejection periods and development of transplant coronary artery disease after heart transplantation. Precise regulation of major histocompatibility complex class II (MHC class II) gene expression pla...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Kwak B,Mulhaupt F,Veillard N,Pelli G,Mach F

更新日期：2001-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS OF THE STUDY:To describe patterns of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) care and the clinical effectiveness of belimumab plus standard of care therapy in a real-world clinical setting in Switzerland. METHODS:This multicentre, observational, retrospective cohort study included adults with SLE who initiated belimum...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： von Kempis J,Duetsch S,Reuschling N,Villiger R,Villiger PM,Vallelian F,Schaer DJ,Mueller RB

更新日期：2019-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common of the vasculitis syndromes and, being a disease of the elderly, its incidence is increasing with the general ageing of the population. GCA is most feared for its early complications, namely blindness and stroke, resulting from inflammation and subsequent occlusion of ocul...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Kesten F,Aschwanden M,Gubser P,Glatz K,Daikeler T,Hess C

更新日期：2011-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:First, to test whether current injury is more closely related to acute intake than to usual consumption patterns, and second, to test whether repeated injury is more closely related to general consumption patterns than to acute intake. METHODS:Screening of alcohol consumption of 7,872 patients enrolling bet...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Gmel G,Givel JC,Yersin B,Daeppen JB

更新日期：2007-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Sports-practicing youths are at an elevated risk for alcohol use and misuse. Although much attention has recently been given to depicting subgroups facing the greatest threats, little evidence exists on the contexts in which their drinking takes place. Using data from a cross-sectional study on youth sports participat...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Bélanger RE,Ohl F,Berchtold A,Akre C,Suris JC

更新日期：2012-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Considerable criticism has lately been raised by the media regarding the quality of Swiss medical expertises. The present investigation was therefore undertaken to assess the professional quality of Swiss medical expertises. The study was part of a market analysis of medical expertises (MGS study). METHODS:...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Stöhr S,Bollag Y,Auerbach H,Eichler K,Imhof D,Fabbro T,Gyr N

更新日期：2011-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiosteoporotic drugs are recommended in patients with fragility fractures and in patients considered to be at high fracture risk on the basis of clinical risk factors and/or low bone mineral density. As first-line treatment most patients are started with an antiresorptive treatment, i.e. drugs that inhibit osteoclas...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Meier C,Uebelhart B,Aubry-Rozier B,Birkhäuser M,Bischoff-Ferrari HA,Frey D,Kressig RW,Lamy O,Lippuner K,Stute P,Suhm N,Ferrari S

更新日期：2017-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial arrhythmias complicate the clinical course of adult patients with an atrial septal defect. Atrial flutter is more prevalent in younger patients, and frequently regresses after surgical defect closure. Atrial fibrillation however, which results from a chronic underlying disease, rarely reverts to sinus rhythm af...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Berger F,Vogel M,Kretschmar O,Dave H,Prêtre R,Dodge-Khatami A

更新日期：2005-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess outcomes 24 months after treatment start for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). METHODS:Cohort study of all culture-positive MDR-TB cases notified in Switzerland from 01/2003 to 07/2010. RESULTS:Fifty-one cases were observed, with a median age of 26 years (range 2-56). Twenty-seven were ma...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Helbling P,Altpeter E,Egger JM,Zellweger JP

更新日期：2014-12-04 00:00:00