Abstract: Medical education has to respond to new challenges such as digitalisation, increase of chronic and complex diseases, economisation. The concept of ...

Abstract: End-of life dreams and visions (ELDVs) or so-called death bed phenomena are transcendent experiences at the end of life that can be visual, auditory and/or kinesthetic, and often ...

Abstract: Quality standards and regulations are becoming increasingly important and are promoted in the context of the permission to treat, to bill and via financial incentives. In this ...

Abstract: Functional dyspepsia (FD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), two common gastrointestinal ...

Abstract: Chronic foot wounds are a very common and a growing problem. This review focuses on the treatment and the prophylaxis of diabetic foot ulcers from the perspective ...

Abstract: In the last few years, the cardiovascular outcome trials for SGLT-2 inhibitors and GLP-1 receptor agonists showed them to significantly lower the ...

Abstract: Functional neurological disorders are frequent and diverse in the clinical presentation. Psychological factors are part of the ...

Abstract: Delirium often occurs in elderly hospitalized patients. Multimorbidity and associated polypharmacy are known risk factors for developing delirium. Moreover, delirium itself ...

Abstract: Older patients face an increased risk of complications and adverse outcomes during and after operations, interventions, ...

Abstract: Just a few years ago, no one could imagine that ice swimming could evolve into a competitive sport. In the past, people swimming in ice-cold water were called madmen and, at best, were studied as ...

Abstract: Cardiac wtATTR is caused by extracellular deposition of misfolded proteins in the heart. It mostly affects elderly men and is still clearly underdiagnosed. Recognizing red flags suggesting wtATTR is key for a timely ...