{"title":"Care Models for Psychosocial Problems in Primary Care—A Survey on Awareness and Health Policy Assessment.","authors":"Wolfram J Herrmann, Hendrik Napierala","doi":"10.3238/arztebl.m2024.0116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.m2024.0116","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11258,"journal":{"name":"Deutsches Arzteblatt international","volume":"121 22","pages":"748-749"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143001860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Better Health Strategies for Men.","authors":"Doris Bardehle","doi":"10.3238/arztebl.m2024.0084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.m2024.0084","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11258,"journal":{"name":"Deutsches Arzteblatt international","volume":"121 22","pages":"752"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143001859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jonas Willmann, Nicolaus Andratschke, Jens Peter Klußmann, Jürgen E Gschwend, Ghazaleh Tabatabai, Maximilian Niyazi
{"title":"Criteria for Re-Irradiation.","authors":"Jonas Willmann, Nicolaus Andratschke, Jens Peter Klußmann, Jürgen E Gschwend, Ghazaleh Tabatabai, Maximilian Niyazi","doi":"10.3238/arztebl.m2024.0156","DOIUrl":"10.3238/arztebl.m2024.0156","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The treatment options for patients with progressive malignant tumors despite primary radiotherapy are often limited. In selected cases, re-irradiation can be offered. This article concerns the selection criteria and results of re-irradiation for certain types of cancer.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This review is based on pertinent publications retrieved by a selective search in PubMed, with particular attention to glio - blastoma, head and neck tumors, and prostatic carcinoma.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The published studies of re-irradiation are few in number and often of limited methodological quality. For glioblastoma, a randomized controlled trial (RCT) found that adding re-irradiation to treatment with bevacizumab yielded no significant improvement in either median progression-free survival or median overall survival (hazard ratio [HR] 0.73; p = 0.05 and HR 0.98; p = 0.46, respec - tively). Re-irradiation is a treatment option for locoregional recurrences of head and neck tumors after primary radiotherapy, but it carries a risk of serious side effects. For unresectable recurrences of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, an RCT has shown that hyperfractionated re-irradiation is more effective than normofractionated re-irradiation (overall survival: HR 0.54, p = 0.014). For locally recurrent prostatic carcinoma after radiotherapy, re-irradiation can yield good oncologic outcomes with an acceptable level of urogenital and gastrointestinal side effects (5-year recurrence-free survival: stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), 58%; high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy, 77%; versus salvage prostatectomy, 72%). RCTs on this topic are lacking.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Re-irradiation is a treatment option for selected cancer patients. As the available scientific evidence is limited, multidisciplinary collaboration and participatory decision-making are particularly important.</p>","PeriodicalId":11258,"journal":{"name":"Deutsches Arzteblatt international","volume":" Forthcoming","pages":"725-732"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142079657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tina Gürlich, Peter Szatmary, Ulrich Ronellenfitsch, Heike Schmidt, Jörg Kleeff
{"title":"The Understanding and Emotional State of Patients About to Undergo Visceral Surgery for Cancer.","authors":"Tina Gürlich, Peter Szatmary, Ulrich Ronellenfitsch, Heike Schmidt, Jörg Kleeff","doi":"10.3238/arztebl.m2024.0119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.m2024.0119","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11258,"journal":{"name":"Deutsches Arzteblatt international","volume":"121 22","pages":"750-751"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143001870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cornelius Sebastian Fischer, Tina Histing, Gabriel Keller
{"title":"Movement-Induced Throat Irritation in Sternoclavicular Dislocation.","authors":"Cornelius Sebastian Fischer, Tina Histing, Gabriel Keller","doi":"10.3238/arztebl.m2024.0103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.m2024.0103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11258,"journal":{"name":"Deutsches Arzteblatt international","volume":"121 22","pages":"753"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143001866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joachim Dissemond, Jan-Malte Placke, Maurice Moelleken, Knut Kröger
{"title":"The Differential Diagnosis of Leg Ulcers.","authors":"Joachim Dissemond, Jan-Malte Placke, Maurice Moelleken, Knut Kröger","doi":"10.3238/arztebl.m2024.0133","DOIUrl":"10.3238/arztebl.m2024.0133","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Chronic wounds on the leg (below the knee) are called leg ulcers. They have many causes, and thus patients with leg ulcers are treated by many different kinds of medical specialist. Appproximately 80% of sufferers have chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) and/ or peripheral arterial occlusive disease (PAOD). Knowledge of the relevant differential diagnoses is important for appropriate treatment, particularly for patients with atypical findings or an intractable course.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This article is based on publications retrieved by a selective search in PubMed, including current guidelines and expert recommendations.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The diagnostic evaluation of a leg ulcer can be structured according to the ABCDE rule. This involves individualized, targeted history-taking (anamnesis); bacteriological testing; clinical exami - nation; ancillary testing, particularly for perfusion (defective vascular system); and extras, such as biopsies. Specifically, we present in this article the main aspects of the complex diagnostic evaluation of venous leg ulcers, arterial leg ulcers, vasculitis, vasculopathy, calciphylaxis, pyoderma gangrenosum, necrobiosis lipoidica, ecthyma, and squamous cell carcinoma. There remain many unsolved problems, including interactions between the various areas of clinical treatment and the relative paucity of relevant highquality research.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>A timely differential-diagnostic evaluation for the many diseases that can cause leg ulcers, which require treatment from representatives of many different medical specialties and health professions, is a prerequisite for their effective individualized treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":11258,"journal":{"name":"Deutsches Arzteblatt international","volume":" Forthcoming","pages":"733-739"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141901278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sometimes Less Is More.","authors":"Nicolaus Dahlmann, Dietrich Klingmüller","doi":"10.3238/arztebl.m2024.0140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.m2024.0140","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11258,"journal":{"name":"Deutsches Arzteblatt international","volume":"121 22","pages":"754"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143001868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}