Andreas Krebs
Andreas Krebs
Gout is a common form of inflammation, characterized by sudden, severe attacks of pain, swelling, redness and tenderness. The diagnosis is based on the typical clinical pattern, but the definitive diagnosis requires the identification of ur...
[Calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD) disease - more than just "pseudogout"] [0.03%]
[钙焦磷酸盐沉积病（CPPD）不仅仅是“假痛风”]
Tobias Manigold
Tobias Manigold
Calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD) disease plays an important - and sometimes underestimated - role in rheumatology practice. Clinically, CPP-arthritis is often indistinguishable from gout and is therefore commonly referred to as "pseu...
Adrian Forster
Adrian Forster
The treatment of gout includes anti-inflammatory therapy and prophylaxis of flare-ups on the one hand and measures for long-term uric acid reduction on the other. Acute arthritis urica is best relieved by intra-articular steroids; systemic ...
[Gout and Nutrition] [0.03%]
[痛风与营养]
Barbara Ankli
Barbara Ankli
Gout, the most common arthritis worldwide, is closely linked to cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome. The most impor-tant risk factor for developing gout is hyperuricemia. Serum uric acid is the end product of purine metabolism and...
Alexandre Dumusc,Alexander So
Alexandre Dumusc
Gout is an inflammatory arthritis that is commonly associated with chronic diseases such as chronic kidney disease (CKD), hypertension, coronary vascular disease, and the metabolic syndrome. Therefore, the management of gout (treatment of t...
Florian Alexander Huber,Roman Guggenberger
Florian Alexander Huber
Crystal arthropathies present a complex entity for radiological diagnostics, often reflecting rheumatologic and other diseases. Over the past decades, the evidence and applicability of various radiological techniques, with and without the u...
Palliative Care – eine Herausforderung auch für die medizinische Grundversorgung [0.03%]
姑息治疗——基层医疗服务的挑战之一
Klaus Bally
Klaus Bally
Roland Kunz
Roland Kunz
Palliative care for elderly, mostly multimorbid people is an integrative concept that is included at an early stage of illness in addition to curative and rehabilitative treatments. Goals of treatment and in the rest of life are regularly d...
Manuel Trachsel,Scott A Irwin,Harvey Max Chochinov
Manuel Trachsel
Fears and anxieties are a common cause of suffering for patients at the end of life. These are often either fears about dying - for example, fear of unbearable pain or fear of suffocation - or fear of death itself. If unrecognized and untre...
Mirjam Buschor-Bichsel,Andrea Berendes,Katelijne De Nys
Mirjam Buschor-Bichsel
Complex pain is common in palliative care. The bio-psycho-social and spiritual model is important for understanding and treatment. Differentiation according to nociceptive, neuropathic and mixed pain should be considered. Analgesic therapy ...