Published in Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
A new European guideline for the diagnostics and therapy of venous thromboembolism has been published in 2014. As previously, high-risk and low-risk pulmonary embolism is distinguished, however, in the new guideline there is also a definition of intermediate risk PE. The risk finally decides about the diagnostic and therapeutic procedure.Previously...
Published in Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
Cardiac rehabilitation is a class 1 level A indication for the treatment of cardiac diseases. In the following text, details and particularities of the Austrian system will be explained and discussed.
Published in Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
Hydrogen peroxide has been used in medicine for more than 100 years. It is known in surgery as a highly useful irrigation solution by virtue of both its hemostatic and its antimicrobial effects. Due to its possible negative effect on wound healing and its cytotoxic effect in higher concentrations, there are concerns about the safety of its use. The...
Published in Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
Changes in medical curricula have led to a shift of focus in medical education. The goal was to implement a more practical approach to teaching and thereby create better doctors. However, the question of what makes a good doctor is not easy to answer. This article gives an overview on the literature about this topic. A systematized review and narra...
Published in Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
Vaccinations belong to the ten most effective public health achievements worldwide. While immunization programms for children are installed in Europe, vaccinations for adults are not established. However, adult vaccination is extremely meaningful: increasing age means a higher susceptibility to infectious diseases, health problems and multimorbidit...
Published in Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
Metatarsalgia refers to localized or generalized forefoot pain in the region of the metatarsal heads. Symptoms can be isolated or in combination with accompanying deformities occurring in the forefoot and/or hindfoot. Anamnesis and clinical investigation usually yield to the diagnosis, the underlying cause on the other hand is not always easy to id...
Published in Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
According to the used protocol, pathological EEG findings were very infrequent in our study cohort. The routine and indiscriminative recording of EEGs in children before and after corrective or palliative cardiac surgery for congenital heart disease using CPB is not recommended. Further intra-operative neuromonitoring methods with immediate interve...
Published in Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
After bariatric surgery there are some favourable effects on comorbidities of obesity as glucose and lipid metabolism besides weight loss. Therefore surgical measures targeting at improvement of such metabolic disorders especially diabetes type 2 has been called "metabolic surgery". The complexity of its underlying metabolic mechanisms is not yet c...
Published in Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
Since 1983 more than 300 drugs have been developed and approved for orphan diseases. However, considering the development of novel diagnosis tools, the number of rare diseases vastly outpaces therapeutic discovery. Academic centers and nonprofit institutes are now at the forefront of rare disease R&D, partnering with pharmaceutical companies when a...
Published in Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
Angelman syndrome (AS) is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder caused by a loss of the maternally inherited UBE3A; the paternal UBE3A is silenced in neurons by a mechanism involving an antisense transcript (UBE3A-AS). We reviewed the published information on clinical trials that have been completed as well as the publicly available information on o...
