abstract：:In this study we addressed the question of whether an underlying hematological malignancy may affect the immune response to vaccination against bacterial polysaccharide antigens (e.g. Haemophilus influenzae type b, Streptococcus pneumoniae) in splenectomized patients. Between 1993 and 2003, 44 splenectomized adults fr...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Eigenberger K,Sillaber C,Greitbauer M,Herkner H,Wolf H,Graninger W,Gattringer R,Burgmann H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To explore general practitioners' (GPs') and nurses' self assessment of professional education, competency and educational needs in palliative care. METHODS:All 897 registered GPs and all 933 registered home care nurses in the Province of Styria/Austria were sent postal questionnaires to evaluate their profess...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Becker G,Momm F,Gigl A,Wagner B,Baumgartner J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blood schizontocidal activity of lumefantrine, monodesbutyl-benflumetol (DBB) and a 999:1 combination of both compounds has been investigated in 26 fresh isolates of Plasmodium falciparum from northwestern Thailand, using the WHO standard protocol Mark II for determining the inhibition of schizont maturation. The ...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Starzengruber P,Wernsdorfer G,Parizek M,Rojanawatsirivet C,Kollaritsch H,Wernsdorfer WH

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle atrophy is associated with situations of acute and chronical illness, such as sepsis, surgery, trauma and immobility. Additionally, it is a common problem during the physiological process of aging. The myofibrillar proteins myosin and actin, which are essential for muscle contraction, are the major tar...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Strasser EM,Wessner B,Roth E

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A breast mass caused by foreign body type granulomatous reaction to surgical material is a very rare lesion and may mimic carcinoma. Reported foreign materials have included suture materials, silicone, paraffin, gunpowder and carbon particles used for localization of a nonpalpable breast lesions. To our knowledge, a f...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Yazici B,Sever AR,Mills P,Fish D,Jones S,Jones P

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Zollinger-Ellison syndrome is characterized pathophysiologically by a significant hypergastrinemia derived from a gastrin-secreting neuroendocrine tumor with a primary location in the pancreas or duodenum. Chronic hypergastrinemia in turn triggers gastric acid hypersecretion yielding in chronic or recurrent or ref...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Banasch M,Schmitz F

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the second half of the 20th century the medical profession has changed considerably. "The golden age of medicine" seems to be over. This study analyses job satisfaction and prospects of Austrian physicians in the twenty-first century. METHODS:A questionnaire was sent to all 289 internal medicine speciali...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Puchner R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of our study was to assess anal function in professional mountain bikers, as an increasing number of cycling enthusiasts report functional and morphological problems in the anal region. We tried to find out if constant saddle vibration suffered by professional cyclists could lead to defecation di...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Sauper T,Lanthaler M,Biebl M,Weiss H,Nehoda H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The goal of cardiac rehabilitation programs is not only to prolong life, but also to improve physical functioning, symptoms, wellbeing and health-related quality of life (HRQL). The aim of the study was to document short-term outcomes of cardiac rehabilitation programs in Austria. METHODS:Consecutive patien...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Höfer S,Kullich W,Graninger U,Brandt D,Gassner A,Klicpera M,Laimer H,Marko C,Schwann H,Müller R

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Therapeutic guidelines for treatment of late manifestations of Lyme borreliosis have not yet become well established. Patients with symptoms suggesting central nervous system involvement are often treated with courses of intravenous ceftriaxone. This is an expensive treatment approach with potentially severe...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Ogrinc K,Logar M,Lotric-Furlan S,Cerar D,Ruzić-Sabljić E,Strle F

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematogenous dissemination has long been considered an important pathogenetic event in Lyme borreliosis but has been hard to document and characterize due to insensitive blood culture methods. In a series of recent investigations involving adult patients from the United States with erythema migrans, it was concluded t...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Wormser GP

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Ephedrine or ephedra herbal products have occasionally been used to enhance sports performance and energy or to aid weight loss. The most serious side effects are those on cardiovascular function, including acute myocardial infarction, severe hypertension, myocarditis and lethal cardiac arrhythmias. CASE ...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Rakovec P,Kozak M,Sebestjen M

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptosporidium is an important cause of community gastroenteritis, usually associated with drinking contaminated water, visits to swimming pools or animal exposure. In immunocompetent patients, cryptosporidiosis is usually a self-limiting disease but it can be devastating illness in immunocompromised persons. This re...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Pandak N,Zeljka K,Cvitkovic A

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study aims to provide empirical data on physicians' intentions in withholding and withdrawing treatment, and to discuss possible implications for the ethical debate. BASIC PROCEDURES:The data presented come from EURELD, a large research project designed to investigate medical end-of-life decisions in six ...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Bosshard G,Fischer S,van der Heide A,Miccinesi G,Faisst K

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Patients with localized prostate cancer are treated with 3D radiotherapy using a rectal balloon catheter for internal immobilization of the prostate, thereby reducing the radiation dose to the dorsal rectal wall. The purpose of the study was to investigate clinical feasibility and the influence of acute rectal ...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Goldner G,Geinitz H,Wachter S,Becker G,Zimmermann F,Wachter-Gerstner N,Glocker S,Pötzi R,Wambersie A,Bamberg M,Molls M,Feldmann H,Pötter R

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disturbances of thyroid function occur more often in the elderly than in the young. This short review gives an up-to-date overview of this topic. After discussing the difference in epidemiology of thyroid dysfunction in elderly persons in areas with different iodine nutrient status, the physiologic age-induced changes...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Weissel M

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To present our innovative surgical method for prevention of early preterm delivery in women with cervical dilatation and membrane herniation. STUDY DESIGN:A woman in the 24th gestational week, with membrane herniation due to a 2-3 cm dilatation of the cervix, is presented. The surgical technique for occlusio...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Luznik M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polyneuropathy (PNP) is a common complication in hemodialysis (HD) patients. Electrophysiological parameters are quantitative indices of its severity. The aim of our study was to find the prevalence of pathologic electrophysiological parameters, to assess their prevalence in relation to duration of HD treatm...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Hojs-Fabjan T,Hojs R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Crithidia is a member of the family Trypanosomatidae and is related to the genera Leishmania and Trypanosoma with which it shares a variety of biochemical mechanisms, such as polyamine synthesis and methionin salvage. In consequence, a screening system for antiparasitic candidate material has been developed ...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Tasanor O,Engelmeier D,Brem B,Wiedermann-Schmidt U,Greger H,Wernsdorfer WH

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify predictors of students' success in the first-year exam in a new curriculum in the study of medicine in Vienna. DESIGN:We tested 11 topics (including socio-demographic variables, family background, school performance, economic situation, living conditions, social integration and health, learning c...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Haidinger G,Frischenschlager O,Mitterauer L

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diphyllobothriosis is infestation with the fish tapeworm. Although the worldwide incidence has decreased in recent decades, increased travel and the new popularity of dishes involving raw fish (e.g. sushi) may provide a higher risk of infestation in formerly low-risk areas. We report an Austrian fisherman who passed a...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Stadlbauer V,Haberl R,Langner C,Krejs GJ,Eherer A

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas recent research has demonstrated clear evidence for beneficial effects of early referral to the nephrologist in chronic renal insufficiency in adults, no such data exist for the pediatric population. In this study, we therefore correlated patient age and residual renal function at first presentation to a speci...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Böhm M,Arbeiter K,Müller T,Raffelsberger N,Falger J,Balzar E,Aufricht C

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endemic nephropathy (EN) is a renal disease of unknown etiology. In Croatia it occurs in the rural population in 14 villages located in the western part of Brodsko-Posavska county. This region also has an unusually high incidence of otherwise rare upper urothelial cancers. Between 1991 and 2002 the average general mor...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Miletić-Medved M,Domijan AM,Peraica M

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Side effects of vaccinations can have different causes. Substances admixed to vaccines may produce allergic or toxic reactions. The significance and importance of causal associations is discussed in this paper. A table is added listing the most important substances in vaccines, such as inactivating substances, preserv...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Wiedermann-Schmidt U,Maurer W

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All stages of atherosclerotic plaques are characterized by an inflammatory component, in which T lymphocytes and macrophages orchestrate lesion progression and destabilization by releasing cytokines (e.g., interferon-gamma, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, tissue factor). At the extreme end of this process plaque rupture ...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Alber HF,Suessenbacher A,Weidinger F

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Borrelia lusitaniae was isolated from an Ixodes ricinus tick in Portugal in 1993 for the first time. Further, this borrelia genospecies has been found in ixodid ticks collected around the coasts of southern Portugal and North Africa. Its reservoir has not been defined yet. B. lusitaniae was isolated once unt...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： da Franca I,Santos L,Mesquita T,Collares-Pereira M,Baptista S,Vieira L,Viana I,Vale E,Prates C

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prolonged pregnancy is the most frequent reason for induction of labor. This study aims to determine the effects of labor induction on delivery outcome and to quantify the risks of cesarean delivery associated with labor induction in post-date pregnancies. PATIENTS AND METHODS:This retrospective case-contro...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Bodner-Adler B,Bodner K,Pateisky N,Kimberger O,Chalubinski K,Mayerhofer K,Husslein P

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The insertion (I)/deletion (D) polymorphism of the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene has been associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases. In patients with primary pulmonary hypertension, the homozygous ACE DD genotype is more prevalent than the non-DD genotype. However, the relationsh...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Tkácová R,Joppa P,Stancák B,Salagovic J,Misíková S,Kalina I

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sentinel node biopsy (SNB) has proved to be a useful and accurate procedure for lymph node staging in breast cancer and melanoma and should be standard of care in the treatment of these tumors. In other malignancies (colon, rectum, stomach, esophagus, head and neck and thyroid, cervix uteri) it is still under investig...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Haid A,Knauer M,Köberle-Wührer R,Wenzl E

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in the knowledge of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) replication and transmission as well as the emergence of effective antiretroviral therapies are leading to longer survival times for HIV-infected individuals. As a result, organ related manifestations of late stage HIV infection, including HIV-rela...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Sani MU,Okeahialam BN,Aliyu SH,Enoch DA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM OF THE STUDY:To establish the prevalence of vertebral fractures according to age groups, sex and vertebral level in a sample of a Croatian urban population aged > or =50. We also tried to establish how many people had been diagnosed with osteoporosis by their family physician. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS:Lateral thor...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Grazio S,Korsić M,Jajić I

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the last years, an increasing trend of voyages to Central and Eastern European destinations could be observed. However, Europeans travelling within their own continent do not consider themselves as travellers exposed to possibly travel-associated infections since problem awareness among tourists as well as cons...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Rendi-Wagner P,Jeschko E,Kollaritsch H,österreichische Expertengruppe für Reisemedizin.

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) is an important treatment option in PD patients with high peritoneal transport rates, in patients with inadequate small-solute clearances during continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) treatment, and in patients with complications associated with high intraperitoneal pressu...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Vychytil A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the introduction of peritoneal dialysis (PD) into clinical nephrology at the end of the 1970s, many improvements have led to acceptance of this method as renal replacement therapy equivalent to hemodialysis. It is unclear whether the diabetic patient is the ideal candidate for PD and if this procedure should be ...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Auinger M,Edlinger R,Prager R

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacterial infections are associated with a high morbidity and mortality rate in patients with acute and chronic renal failure. Because C-reactive-protein (CRP) is elevated in many patients with renal failure, even in the absence of infection, procalcitonin (PCT) might be useful for the detection of systemic ...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Steinbach G,Bölke E,Grünert A,Störck M,Orth K

更新日期：2004-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Rupture of the membranes before the fetus has achieved viability within the womb is an event of enormous importance for both mother and physician. The potential outcome ranges from fetal death, a frequent occurrence, to a severely disabled life or a happy (but rare) birth without any mental or physical retar...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Tews G,Shebl O,Ebner T,Sommergruber M,Jesacher K

更新日期：2004-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:An association between malnutrition, weight loss and mortality has been demonstrated in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but the prognostic influence of low body-mass index (BMI) and plasma concentrations of albumin and cholesterol is less clear in patients with chronic respiratory ...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Tóth S,Tkácová R,Matula P,Stubna J

更新日期：2004-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:There is currently no accepted therapeutic regimen for patients with chronic hepatitis C who failed to respond to standard combination treatment with interferon-alpha plus ribavirin. We investigated triple combination treatment with induction dosing of interferon-alpha plus ribavirin plus amantadine in these difficult...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Stauber RE,Hofer H,Hackl F,Schütze K,Datz C,Hegenbarth K,Jessner W,Steindl-Munda P,Peter F,Austrian Hepatitis Study Group.

更新日期：2004-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Advance directive legislation has been in place throughout much of the United States for nearly 3 decades. The right to give an informed consent to or refusal of medical treatment has been recognized by state and federal courts, and that right has been determined to survive the loss of decisional capacity and may be e...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Rich BA

更新日期：2004-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to compare the obstetric outcome of low-risk maternity patients attended by certified midwives with that of low-risk maternity patients attended by obstetricians. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Obstetric outcome of 1352 midwife patients was compared with that of 1352 age- and parity-matc...

journal_title：Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

authors： Bodner-Adler B,Bodner K,Kimberger O,Lozanov P,Husslein P,Mayerhofer K

更新日期：2004-06-30 00:00:00