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MUST (Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool) is a nutritional screening tool easy to use by any trained care-giver and valid for any adult patient. It considers body mass index, weight change and acute disease effect equally and determines a malnutrition risk score. If necessary, anthropometric measures may be simpliyfied by alternative methods. MU...
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The deleterious consequences of hospital malnutrition are progressively being recognized by the public. The Committee of the Ministers of the European Council has released a resolution for food and nutrition and ask the state members to apply national recommendations in their hospitals. The evaluated domains and actions to be undertaken are based o...
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No rates of pregnancy termination are available for Switzerland as a whole. In the canton of Vaud, however, pregnancy termination has been monitored for over ten years. The annual incidence (10.9 per 1000 residents in 2002) is one of the lowest recorded worldwide, but considerable variations are observed depending on age and on nationality; the inc...
Published in Revue médicale de la Suisse romande
Published in Revue médicale de la Suisse romande
Nutritional status has a prognostic value in the clinical evolution of patients who are malnourished, are becoming malnourished or are in process of being rehabilitated. The evaluation of nutritional status is based on a comprehensive approach, and includes body composition measurement by bio-impedance analysis (BIA). BIA determines the quantity of...
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The subjective global assessment (SGA) defines nutritional and functional status of patients with the aim of identifying who could benefit from a nutritional intervention. The SGA was designed to evaluate the nutritional risk of infectious complications among the surgical patients. Later on, it became largely utilized to evaluate the nutritional st...
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This article reviews, through illustrative cases, five rheumatic diseases associated with drug treatments: statins and myopathy, quinolones and tendinopathy, viscosupplementation and pseudoseptic arthritis, diuretics and gout, barbiturates and adhesive capsulitis. Due to the rarity of such cases, we lack validated therapeutic recommendations. Annou...
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Postmenopausal osteoporosis is a major challenge in Medicine. From a simple 10 points questionnaire allowing the detection of the main risks of the disease, different treatment options, based on mineral density, are now available. Treatment should be adapted to age and way of life of the patient.
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We propose a revision centered on the primary care physician practice of a few beliefs on frequency, diagnostic, natural history and classical treatment of ankylosing spondylitis as a help to optimize management at a time of availability of new treatments.
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A radiologist should be included in the multidisciplinary approach which will allow optimal diagnostic evaluation and treatment of sarcoma. The appropriate use of ultrasound, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging plays a significant role in the evaluation of these tumors and their recurrences. The potential role of dynamic magnetic res...
