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Synkope, Sturz, Schwindel
Schwindel, Stürze und Synkopen gehören zu den häufigsten Gründen für die Inanspruchnahme ärztlicher Hilfe. Pathogenese und klinisches Bild weisen sowohl Gemeinsamkeiten als auch Unterschiede auf, die diagnosti...
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The effect of the ANKK1/DRD2 Taq1A polymorphism on weight changes of dopaminergic treatment in prolactinomas
Treatment with dopamine agonists in patients with prolactinomas has been associated with weight loss in short term studies. However, long-term studies on weight changes are lacking. Taq1A is a restriction fragmen...
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Variation of the baseline characteristics and treatment parameters over time: an analysis of 15 years of growth hormone replacement in adults in the German KIMS database
The purpose of this study is to examine potential implications of changes in the approach to adult growth hormone (GH) replacement (GHR) over the last 15 years. Therefore, we analysed the German KIMS database ...
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Manifesto for the current understanding and management of traumatic brain injury-induced hypopituitarism
Traumatic brain injury (TBI)-induced hypopituitarism remains a relevant medical problem, because it may affect a significant proportion of the population. In the last decade important studies have been publish...
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Open AccessAdverse anthropometric risk profile in biochemically controlled acromegalic patients: comparison with an age- and gender-matched primary care population
GH and IGF-1 play an important role in the regulation of metabolism and body composition. In patients with uncontrolled acromegaly, cardiovascular morbidity and mortality are increased but are supposed to be n...
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Open AccessMacroscopic brain architecture changes and white matter pathology in acromegaly: a clinicoradiological study
Although long-term exposure of the brain to increased GH/IGF-1 likely influences cerebral functions, no in vivo studies have been directed towards changes of the brain structure in acromegaly. Here, we used hi...
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Pituitary imaging abnormalities in patients with and without hypopituitarism after traumatic brain injury
Recent evidence suggests that patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) are at substantial risk of hypopituitarism. The pathomechanisms, however, are not completely understood yet. Little is known about the a...
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Expert meeting: hypopituitarism after traumatic brain injury and subarachnoid haemorrhage
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Endocrine disturbances in depression
Depression is one of the most common psychiatric disorders. For a long time, clinicians suspected a causal link between depression and the endocrine system. The most frequently occurring endocrine abnormality ...
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Mundtrockenheit als Nebenwirkung während der Therapie der Drangsymptomatik mit Anticholinergika
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Dysarthrische Bewegungsstörungen des Velopharynx
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Results of Family Studies in Cystine Calculus Follow-Up
Family studies should be an indispensible part of the clinical investigation of patients with cystine stones.
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Medical Plant Agents in the Treatment and Prophylaxis of Recurrent Urolithiasis
Herbal teas, infusions, and medicinal plant extracts were the first effective agents for the treatment of urinary stones. Even today, these phytopharmaca play a major role in the therapy and prophylaxis of uro...
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Preventing the Recurrence of Kidney Stones with Farnolith Bran Preparation
In industrialized countries, the lack of roughage in people’s diets is one of the reasons for the high incidence of kidney stones. As attempts at changing people’s eating habits are usually unsuccessful, a mix...
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Diskussion V
I’d like to ask Dr. Achilles: how do you measure the rate of crystal growth in a 24-h urine?
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Treatment of Urethral Stones
The Urethra is probably the rarest site for urinary stone formation (SCHREYER 1974). Among a series of 50,000 stones only 0.9% and 0.4% were from the Urethra of men or women respectively (Table 1).
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Ischemia and Regional Hypothermia in Renal Stone Surgery
The aim of renal stone surgery must be the complete clerance of all calculous material. Residual stones grow, provoke the formation of new calculi and hinder the resolution of Pyelonephritis. An attempt should...
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Preventive Measures
Modern diagnostic aids have nowadays rendered the detection of urinary calculi a fairly simple affair. This is true not only of actual detection but equally of the localization of calculi within the urinary tract...
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Pathogenesis, diagnosis and therapy of induratio penis plastica (IPP)
Induratio penis plastica (or Peyronie's disease) is a rather rare malady, probably caused by chronic inflammation or recurrent microtrauma. The most common complaints are pain on erection and difficulties in p...
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Stone Analysis — in the Doctor’S Office or in a Specialized Laboratory?
Knowledge of the cause of calculus formation is a pre-requisite for an effective treatment programme to prevent recurrence. Often clinical and laboratory investigations do not provide the necessary information...