Treatment outcomes of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Switzerland.

abstract：:Patients with a solid organ transplant have increased in numbers and in individual survival in Switzerland over the last decades. As a consequence of long-term immunosuppression, skin cancer in solid organ recipients (SOTRs) has been recognized as an important problem. Screening and education of potential SOTRs about ...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Hofbauer GF,Anliker M,Arnold A,Binet I,Hunger R,Kempf W,Laffitte E,Lapointe AC,Pascual M,Pelloni F,Serra A,SGDV working group for organ transplant recipients.

更新日期：2009-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY:Suicidal behaviour is a major source of burden of disease. While most studies focus on cost associated with completed suicides, data on costs of, non-lethal, suicide attempts are lacking. The aim of this study was to assess direct annual cost of suicide attempts in Basel in 2003 from a health serv...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Czernin S,Vogel M,Flückiger M,Muheim F,Bourgnon JC,Reichelt M,Eichhorn M,Riecher-Rössler A,Stoppe G

更新日期：2012-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:In comparison with other central European countries, Switzerland has a high prevalence of gun ownership and a high rate of suicide by shooting. After the Army XXI reform in 2003, which reduced personnel from about 400,000 to approximately 200,000, a decline in suicides by firearms and a decline in the total number...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Thoeni N,Reisch T,Hemmer A,Bartsch C

更新日期：2018-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is an intracellular compartment dedicated to the synthesis and maturation of secretory and membrane proteins, totalling about 30% of the total eukaryotic cells proteome. The capacity to produce correctly folded polypeptides and to transport them to their correct intra- or extracellular d...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Noack J,Brambilla Pisoni G,Molinari M

更新日期：2014-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Each year, over 5 million people die worldwide from stroke, and at least every sixth patient who survives will experience another stroke within five years [1]. We are therefore eager to advance early and rapid diagnosis, prognosis and optimal risk stratification, as well as secondary prevention. In this context, blood...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Sonderer J,Katan Kahles M

更新日期：2015-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular procedures are rarely complicated by infection, but if prosthetic vascular graft infection (PVGI) occurs, morbidity and mortality are high. Several patient-related, surgery-related and postoperative risk factors are reported, but they are not well validated. PVGI is due to bacterial colonisation of the wound ...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Hasse B,Husmann L,Zinkernagel A,Weber R,Lachat M,Mayer D

更新日期：2013-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine 1) rates of needlestick and sharps injuries (NSSIs) not reported to occupational health services, 2) reasons for underreporting and 3) awareness of reporting procedures in a Swiss university hospital. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We surveyed 6,367 employees having close clinical contact with patients ...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Voide C,Darling KE,Kenfak-Foguena A,Erard V,Cavassini M,Lazor-Blanchet C

更新日期：2012-02-10 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：:In this review article, we aim at analysing the role of stress in addiction and relapse. In order to do so, we first offer a summary of the findings from affective neuroscience trying to understand compulsive reward-seeking behaviours. These behaviours are characterised by an imbalance between the considerable amount ...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Pool ER,Sander D

更新日期：2019-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The transition from undergraduate to postgraduate training is a crucial career step for physicians. Several international studies have shown that graduates feel insufficiently prepared to perform various aspects of clinical practice. The publication of a national framework for undergraduate medical education...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Monti M,Brunet L,Michaud PA

更新日期：2020-11-24 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：:The antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) associated vasculitides (AAV) are a group of primary vasculitides that affect predominantly small- to medium-sized blood vessels. AAV include granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) and eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA). D...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Daikeler T,Kistler AD,Martin PY,Vogt B,Huynh-Do U

更新日期：2015-02-06 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：:Isolated left ventricular hypertrophy, in the absence of hypertension or aortic stenosis, is commonly attributed to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). According to the clinical setting, however, other differential diagnoses should be considered. The diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis may be very challenging especially w...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Bonvini RF,Camenzind E

更新日期：2004-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells reside in mechanically rich and dynamic microenvironments, and the complex interplay between mechanics and biology is widely acknowledged. Recent research has yielded insights linking the mechanobiology of cells, human physiology, and pathophysiology. In particular, we have learned of the cell's astounding abili...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Steward RL Jr,Rosner SR,Zhou EH,Fredberg JJ

更新日期：2013-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY:Some evidence suggests that a loud voice is a core characteristic of medical professionals. It is unknown whether medical students talk louder than their non-medical peers and, if so, whether they commence their studies with a loud voice, representing a characteristic of admission, or whether soun...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Kiese-Himmel C,Himmel W,Rodenstock M,Scherer M

更新日期：2012-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The principality of Liechtenstein had its first COVID-19 case at the beginning of March 2020. After exponential growth, the pandemic’s first wave was contained, with the last case being diagnosed 52 days after the initial occurrence. AIM:To characterise the COVID-19 pandemic in Liechtenstein. METHODS...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Thiel SL,Weber MC,Risch L,Wohlwend N,Lung T,Hillmann D,Ritzler M,Risch M,Kohler P,Vernazza P,Kahlert CR,Fleisch F,Cusini A,Karajan TV,Copeland S,Paprotny M

更新日期：2020-10-16 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：:Beta-haemolytic streptococci of groups C and G have become increasingly recognized as causes of invasive human infections. We reviewed clinical and molecular characteristics of Streptococcus dysgalactiae isolates that caused bacteraemia in adults from 2006 to 2015. Among 67 episodes, skin and soft-tissue infections (4...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Ruppen C,Rasmussen M,Casanova C,Sendi P

更新日期：2017-07-24 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：BACKGROUND:Hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) plays an important role in tumour progression and metastasis through activation of many target genes that are especially involved in pivotal aspects of cancer biology. However, the prognostic role of HIF-1α has been controversial in primary patients with lung cancer. This...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Ren W,Mi D,Yang K,Cao N,Tian J,Li Z,Ma B

更新日期：2013-09-06 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：AIMS OF THE STUDY:The Cancer Registry Zurich, Zug, Schaffhausen and Schwyz is one of the oldest cancer registries in Switzerland, first registering tumours in 1980 for the canton of Zurich. The aim of this study was to analyse trends in incidence and mortality for the most common types of cancer in the canton of Zurich...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Wanner M,Matthes KL,Karavasiloglou N,Limam M,Korol D,Rohrmann S

更新日期：2020-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With its high incidence and subsequent adverse consequences in the intensive care setting, several instruments have been developed to screen for and detect delirium. One of the more commonly used is the Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist (ICDSC); however, the optimal cut-off score indicating deliriu...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Boettger S,Garcia Nuñez D,Meyer R,Richter A,Rudiger A,Schubert M,Jenewein J

更新日期：2018-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years, several treatment modalities have proved to be effective in the treatment of neuroendocrine tumours (NETs). However, there is currently no consensus on the sequence in which these options are best used. METHODS:In this observational study, we analysed the treatment modalities and sequences ...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Kollar A,Bütikofer L,Ochsenbein A,Stettler C,Trepp R

更新日期：2020-01-15 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：:We report on two toddlers suffering from Mycobacterium bohemicum lymphadenitis. Acid-fast bacilli were cultured from submandibular lymph nodes and identified by molecular methods as Mycobacterium bohemicum. Surgical treatment was successful and complemented by oral treatment with clarithromycin and rifampicin. ...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Schulzke S,Adler H,Bär G,Heininger U,Hammer J

更新日期：2004-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Although progress has been made in the management of acute leukaemias, most patients who fail to respond to front-line therapies with cytostatic agents and stem cell transplantation, or who relapse after an initial response die from progressive disease. Novel treatment modalities exploiting donor-derived natural kille...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Wodnar-Filipowicz A,Kalberer CP

更新日期：2006-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To measure medical care and pharmaceutical drug use among Swiss primary care physicians and its determinants. DESIGN:Cross-sectional mailed survey. SETTING:1784 randomly selected Swiss primary care physicians, including general practitioners, internists and paediatricians. RESULTS:Twenty one percent (95% C...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Schneider M,Bouvier Gallacchi M,Goehring C,Künzi B,Bovier PA

更新日期：2007-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Campylobacteriosis and salmonellosis are important foodborne diseases in Europe, including in Switzerland. In 2014, notification rates for Switzerland were 92.9 per 100 000 population for campylobacteriosis and 15.2 per 100 000 population for salmonellosis. These notification rates originate from laboratory-...

journal_title：Swiss medical weekly

authors： Bless PJ,Schmutz C,Sartori K,Mäusezahl D

更新日期：2017-12-27 00:00:00