Wangler, Julian Jansky, Michael
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Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
General practitioner (GP) treatment of dementia is often criticized as being ineffective and not implemented consistently enough. The causes and specific standpoints of GPs have not previously been thoroughly investigated. This paper focuses on the reasons and the criticisms levelled at GPs with regard to diagnosing dementia, and identifies approac...
Polt, Günter Bruchmann, Ingrid
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Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
A PICC line is a peripheral, through a vein inserted, central venous catheter. There are different engineered stabilisation devices - some are with and some without a sutural. This is an individual case-report which only looks at one concrete fixing system with an adhesive plate (StatLock®).In an internet search on 12/2017 the usual care-recommenda...
Polt, Günter Weixler, Dietmar Bauer, Norbert
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Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
In palliative medicine planning in advance is important for critical care situations. It is highly significant to make useful and by the patient and his relatives desired decisions. These concern transport in a situation of crisis and the venue of death (either death at home or transfer to a hospital).In this study the effect of a new Emergency Inf...
Wollina, Uwe Brzezinski, Piotr
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Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
Cutaneous melanoma is an aggressive neoplasia of melanocytes. Prognosis is dependent on tumor stage. Stage IV melanoma is characterized by the occurrence of distant metastases. Response of metastases to classical chemotherapy is limited and toxicity of treatment is high. In recent years, new developments in immunotherapy and targeted therapies impr...
Feichtenschlager, Valentin Weihsengruber, Felix Richter, Leo Vujic, Igor Rappersberger, Klemens Posch, Christian
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Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
The aim of this study was to characterize clinical, histological, and outcome features of primary melanoma in 1329 patients managed at a single-center institution between 2000 and 2010. Parameters included age at diagnosis, sex, tumor location, histology, stage, Breslow thickness, and sentinel lymph node status among others. The mean age at diagnos...
Kwong, Andrew Sanlorenzo, Martina Rappersberger, Klemens Vujic, Igor
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Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
Early stage melanomas can achieve remarkable outcomes with surgery alone, but stage IV metastatic melanoma requires significant intervention and has poor outcomes. Here we present evidence on the latest advances in melanoma treatment, discuss the scientific concepts behind new therapies, and analyze the potential of future treatment combinations.
Fruhwirth, Viktoria Enzinger, Christian Weiss, Elisabeth Schwerdtfeger, Andreas Gattringer, Thomas Pinter, Daniela
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Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
Modifiable risk factors such as hypertension, obesity or smoking have been reported to explain up to 90% of risk for ischemic stroke. Treatment of these risk factors is known to decrease the risk of recurrent stroke events. We performed a computer-based literature research from June to August 2018 using the electronic database PubMed to investigate...
Wolf, Sarah Fischer, Stefan
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Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
To investigate health-economic evaluations of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI). Systematic literature search of health-economic evaluations of TAVI comparing Standard Management (Medical Management in combination with Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty) in inoperable patients and to Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in operable patients wit...
Flamm, Heinz
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Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
After the battle of Bosworth in 1485 London was frightened by a severe epidemic of Sweating Disease. Until 1551 four more followed of which only the 1525 epidemic invaded Central and Northern Europe harassing Vienna during its "First Turkish Siege".People abruptly fell ill with headache, tachycardia, fever and secretion of stinking sweat. They were...
Urban, Michael Vincent Rath, Thomas Radtke, Christine
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Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift
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...
