Anticoagulant treatment: the end of the old agents?

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：BACKGROUND:In Switzerland, intravenous drug use accounts for the majority of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections. Early HCV treatment prevents further transmissions and reduces morbidity and mortality due to decompensated liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Nevertheless, patients in drug substitution programme...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Bregenzer A,Conen A,Knuchel J,Friedl A,Eigenmann F,Näf M,Ackle P,Roth M,Fux CA

更新日期：2017-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Tonsillectomy is one of the most frequently performed surgical procedures. Nevertheless there is less known about the impact of this procedure on Health-Related Quality of life (HRQOL). The two different most common used surgical techniques are "cold" (CT) and "hot" (HT) tonsillectomy. The aim of this study ...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Schwentner I,Höfer S,Schmutzhard J,Deibl M,Sprinzl GM

更新日期：2007-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：QUESTION UNDER STUDY:Switzerland has been receiving migrants of various origins for more than 50 years. The adoption of risk-taking behaviours among migrant youths is unclear. Moreover, when studied, migrant youths are rarely analysed according to whether they are first or second generation, or just young people with m...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Campisi L,Berchtold A,Barrense-Dias Y,Akre C,Gehri M,Suris JC

更新日期：2017-11-08 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：:Better recipient selection, sophisticated postoperative surveillance and new immunosuppressive and anti-infective regimens can improve the results of lung transplantation. We compared the results of lung transplants performed between 1992 and 1996 (early period; 47) and between 1997 and 2000 (recent period; 46) in a c...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Speich R,Boehler A,Zalunardo MP,Stocker R,Russi EW,Weder W

更新日期：2001-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY:In this work we wanted to evaluate the effect of intra-articular injection (IAI) at the knee joint of 1 ml of Diprospan on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. METHODS:Consecutive patients attending the rheumatology or orthopaedic clinic with osteoarthritic knee pain not responding sati...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Habib G,Zahran R,Najjar R,Badarny S,Jabbour A,Artul S,Hakim G,Jabaly-Habib H

更新日期：2015-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High quality chest compression is one of the key factors in successful resuscitation. A high standard of training is therefore decisive. We aimed to investigate the strengths and weaknesses of teaching chest compression in a study designed to highlight where targeted improvements in the quality of our chest ...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Osterwalder JJ,Braun D

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：: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:Women are still underrepresented in the senior ranks of medical school faculties. Thus far information has been lacking on gendersensitive career paths for professorial and nonprofessorial staff of Swiss medical schools. The aim of this study was to survey faculty members of all Swiss medical schools on soci...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Buddeberg-Fischer B,Leemann R,Klaghofer R

更新日期：2003-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoarticular infections remain a significant cause of morbidity worldwide in young children. They can have a devastating impact with a high rate of serious and long-lasting sequelae, especially on remaining growth. Depending on the localisation of infection, they manifest as osteomyelitis, septic arthritis, a combin...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Ceroni D,Kampouroglou G,Valaikaite R,Anderson della Llana R,Salvo D

更新日期：2014-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with chronic heart failure who are not eligible for heart transplant and whose life expectancy depends mainly on the heart disease may benefit from mechanical circulatory support. Mechanical circulatory support restores adequate cardiac output and organ perfusion and eventually improves patients' clinical con...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Tozzi P,Hullin R

更新日期：2016-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1946 the development of fractionation and purification methods of human plasma led to biologic immunoglobulin for intravenous use (IVIG). In 1980 a child with refractory immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), bleeding and secondary hypogammaglobulinaemia due to long term immunosuppressive treatment got IVIG. His platele...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Imbach P

更新日期：2012-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The methods used to diagnose and classify ovarian cancer have changed over the past decade. We used hospital registry data to assess the incidence, treatment durations and hospital costs of ovarian cancer in Switzerland. METHODS:We carried out a retrospective analysis of a hospital registry covering all inpa...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Wieser S,Schmidt M,Kind AB,Heinzelmann-Schwarz VA

更新日期：2018-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：AIM OF THE STUDY:In Switzerland, screening concepts for the prevention of sports-associated sudden cardiac death are still insufficiently established in the large group of competitive athletes who are not integrated in an Olympic- or other high-level squad. The aim of the present study was to objectively determine the ...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Schmied C,Notz S,Cribari M,Gähwiler R,Keller DI,Lüscher TF

更新日期：2012-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY:Measuring the patient safety climate in the organisation of healthcare can help to identify problematic issues with a view to improving patient safety. We aimed (1) to describe the nurse-reported engagement in safety behaviours, (2) to describe the prevailing nurse-reported patient safety climate ...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Ausserhofer D,Schubert M,Engberg S,Blegen M,De G,Schwendimann R

更新日期：2012-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：PRINCIPLES:We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of, and treatment satisfaction with, insulin glargine administered with SoloSTAR® or ClikSTAR® pens in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus managed by primary care physicians in Switzerland. METHODS:A total of 327 patients with inadequately controlled type 2 diabetes were...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Riebenfeld D,Spirk D,Mathis A,Villiger L,Gerber PA,Gasser UE,Lehmann R

更新日期：2015-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The atherogenic lipoprotein phenotype is characterised by a moderate increase in plasma triglycerides, a decrease in high density lipoprotein cholesterol and the prevalence of smaller denser low density lipoprotein particles. The prevalence of this partially inheritable phenotype is approximately 30% and is a feature ...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Berneis K,Rizzo M

更新日期：2004-12-18 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：: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：BACKGROUND:To compare the efficacy of two different regimens in treatment of brucellosis. METHODS:This randomised clinical trial study was conducted on 280 patients with brucellosis in Babol, Iran, from April 1999 to January 2002. One of the following two regimens was randomly prescribed for two months: co-trimoxazole...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Roushan MR,Gangi SM,Ahmadi SA

更新日期：2004-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) is a heterogeneous group of rare inherited diseases involving connective tissue. Vascular EDS (vEDS) is associated with abnormal type III collagen, which is an essential component of skin, hollow organs and arterial walls, and causes potentially fatal visceral and arterial compli...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： da Rocha de Sousa F,Colucci N,Dupuis A,Toso C,Buchs NC,Abbassi Z

更新日期：2020-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY:Postmenopausal women are more likely to develop coronary artery disease than premenopausal women of the same age. Postmenopausal oral oestrogen therapy is associated with increased levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol and decreased levels of lowdensity lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Delibasi T,Kockar C,Celik A,Kockar O

更新日期：2006-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The awareness of Cheyne-Stokes respiration (CSR) and of the co-existence of the obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome and central breathing disturbances has rapidly grown in recent years. CSR is defined by a waxing and waning pattern of the breathing amplitude. Sleep related breathing disorders in patients with heart fail...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Randerath WJ

更新日期：2009-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY/PRINCIPLES:Although probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE) is on the edge of entering daily practice in gastroenterological endoscopy, findings in the field of respiratory medicine are only rarely reported, keeping pCLE during flexible bronchoscopy as a mere preclinical research tool. Si...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Yserbyt J,Dooms C,Ninane V,Decramer M,Verleden G

更新日期：2013-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：QUESTION UNDER STUDY:Domestic accidents are an important problem in paediatric medicine. This study was designed to gain a better understanding of burn mechanisms and target prevention. METHODS:Children treated for burn lesions in the Department of Paediatric Surgery between August 2004 and August 2005 were included i...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Natterer J,de Buys Roessingh A,Reinberg O,Hohlfeld J

更新日期：2009-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：QUESTION UNDER STUDY:To investigate the change over time in the number of ED admissions with positive blood alcohol concentration (BAC) and to evaluate predictors of BAC level. METHODS:We conducted a single site retrospective study at the ED of a tertiary referral hospital (western part of Switzerland) and obtained al...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Bertholet N,Adam A,Faouzi M,Boulat O,Yersin B,Daeppen JB,Clerc D

更新日期：2014-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:since 1999 data from pulmonary hypertension (PH) patients from all PH centres in Switzerland were prospectively collected. We analyse the epidemiological aspects of these data. METHODS:PH was defined as a mean pulmonary artery pressure of >25 mm Hg at rest or >30 mm Hg during exercise. Patients with pulmona...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Tueller C,Stricker H,Soccal P,Tamm M,Aubert JD,Maggiorini M,Zwahlen M,Nicod L,Swiss Society for Pulmonary Hypertension.

更新日期：2008-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the subjective treatment goals of insulin-treated diabetic patients. METHODS:297 type 1 and 205 type 2 diabetic patients, representative of the North-western Swiss population, filled out a self report questionnaire focusing on their own treatment goals using standardized measures wherever ava...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Puder JJ,Endrass J,Moriconi N,Keller U

更新日期：2006-09-02 00:00:00