Summary: Cognitive impairment classifying for dementia syndrome is occasionally detected in patients suffering from old-age depression. When depression improves, cognitive function also may reverse to normal, but these patients are at greater risk for ...
In human medicine the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score is one of the most commonly organ dysfunction scoring systems used to assess critically ill patients and to predict the outcome in Intensive Care Units (ICUs). It is composed of scores ...
Anhand eines Fallbeispieles wird die Prognose, die Therapieoptionen und ein mögliches endoskopisches Nachkontroll-Schema bei Barrett-Ösophagus besprochen. Grundlage für die Diskussion bilden Fragen, welche von einem betroffenen Patienten anlässlich einer ...
18-jähriger Patient mit idiopathischer Perikarditis, die in einem Zeitraum von 20 Monaten sechsmal rezidiviert. Im Rahmen des ersten Rezidivs Auftreten einer Perikardtamponade. Die Prognose der rezidivierenden idiopathischen Perikarditis ist günstig und ...
Das Prostatakarzinom ist der häufigste maligne Tumor des Mannes und die zweithäufigste krebsbedingte Todesursache. Klinische und morphologische Parameter des Prostatakarzinoms erlauben beim individuellen Patienten nur eine beschränkte Vorhersage von ...
Prediction of developmental Hazards in Adolescents after Alcohol IntoxicationAbstract.Background: It is assumed that one third of adolescents hospitalized for alcohol intoxication are at risk for developmental hazards. But little is known about the ...
Duration of Treatment and Therapy Success in Inpatient Behaviour Therapy for Alcohol-Dependent PersonsAbstract:Background: Differential treatment durations in the inpatient treatment of alcohol-dependent persons ...
Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) following cardiac arrest (CA) – pathophysiology, prognosis and outcome of a “neglected” clinical pictureAdvances in resuscitation medicine and intensive care have lead to an increase in patients with hypoxic-ischemic ...
What happens to children and adolescents with mental disorders? Findings from long-term outcome researchResearch on the long-term outcome of mental disorders originating in childhood and adolescence is an important part of developmental psychopathology. ...
Epidemiology and course of personality disordersAbstract. Community studies conducted over the past decade have greatly increased our knowledge of the epidemiology of personality disorders. Here, we review the prevalence, ...
Historically, the presence of skin involvement results in the classification of a breast carcinoma into the highest tumor category, or accordingly into the highest non-metastatic disease stage (current TNM classification: T4/stage III). However, probably ...
Greater body fatness was found to be a risk factor for postmenopausal breast cancer (BC); furthermore this factor appears to be associated with poor prognosis. These findings were tested by analyzing 1459 patients whose cases were recorded in the Basler ...
Acute exacerbation of COPD is one of the most common causes of hospital admission in patients affected with this disease. In most cases, consideration of differential diagnoses and assessment of important comorbidities will allow to make the decision ...
Follow-up Care of Patients after Heart AttackAbstract. Survivors of a myocardial infarction are at increased risk for future cardiac events, including recurrent infarction, heart failure, arrhythmia, stroke, and sudden cardiac death. The primary care ...