Fachbeiträge – For our English readers

A number of different chronic diseases of the skeletal muscles are summarized under the term…

Expert article in English on lung cancer

Expert article on the transmission of the alpha-gal syndrome via ticks

English expert article on dementia

Expert article on diabetes mellitus in dogs

This article addresses the symptoms and therapy options for Kearns-Sayre syndrome, which is classed…

English expert article on neuroinfections

Dr Kiyoshi Shiga (1871-1957) was the first to identify the causative agent during a massive epidemic…

Expert article on food poisoning

Expert article on different opioids

These parasites are also commonly known as lamblia, after the Bohemian physician Vilém Dušan Lambl…

Expert article about the prospects of virtual reality in radiology

Expert article about biotinidase deficiency, a genetic disorder that affects the hearing

Expert article on Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)

Expert article on Cardiac MRI

What does it look like in a sleep laboratory? Sleep laboratories are often located in departments of…

Case study on a hookworm infection

English expert article on cataracts

English expert article with facts about pregnancy testing

English expert article on pneumonia

Second part of the expert article on bacteriophages, esp. lysotyping

A semen analysis, also called a sperm count, measures the volume and analyses the quality of semen…

Expert article on urinary tract infections (UTI)

Expert article on quality management systems

Expert article about the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)

Expert article about bacteriophages

Expert article about an exoskeleton suit for radiology technicians

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Expert article on the effectiveness of vaccination on Long COVID

Expert article on the Merkel cell polyomavirus

Expert article on radiological diagnosis of head injuries with a CT scan

Expert article on immunological techniques, especially western blot

English expert article on endometriosis: meaning, symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment, perception…

English expert article on monkeypox: epidemiology, diagnostics, vaccines, risks

Expert article with important facts on Lyme disease

Expert article on the basic principles of the spread of infectious diseases.

In this article, the potential of novel therapeutic options affecting the UPR and XBP1s will be…

Hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) is a highly contagious but mostly harmless disease in children.…

Cholesterol is a crucial element of the cell membrane. Our body also needs this naturally occurring…

Bone is a living tissue. It is persistently broken down and renewed. Osteoporosis occurs when the…

Avian influenza (abbreviated: avian flu/bird flu) is a zoonosis. This means that a disease is…

Booster vaccination” generally means that people receive an additional vaccine injection sometime…

In the tarsal region, accessory bones are repeatedly detected in skeletal and joint diagnostics of…

The syndrome was described for the first time by the Dutch ophthalmologist Petrus Johannes…

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The detection of antibodies for SARS-CoV-2 is important, because this identifies whether patients…

1. Principle: As with all other immunological techniques, particle-enhanced agglutination, commonly…

Tuberculosis (TB) is a notifiable infectious disease that is widespread worldwide and was one of the…

The University Medical Center Essen committed itself to a long-term course back in 2015: Building on…

How can Artificial Intelligence Support Radiologists? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is based on…

Where is the clavicle and how can it fracture? The clavicle is the only bone connecting the bones…

Which germ causes the disease botulism?

Recent developments in CT technology have progressed to the point where diagnostic images of the…

Parasites are both fascinating and terrifying organisms. They infest their host, which are often…

Terminology The abbreviation HPLC stands either for high pressure liquid chromatography or, more…

Second part of the article on the most important blood tests. Published so far: The most important…

The most versatile method of determining the specific needs and deficiencies of a patient’s body is…

Case study: Sarah (37) brings her daughter Joy (3 months) to the hospital emergency department. She…

What is forensic toxicology? Forensic toxicology is a field of forensic medicine concerned with the…

Organs and tissues can be donated by living people, called „the donors“. However, most organs and…

Principle: Gas chromatography (GC) is a chromatographic technique for separation of mixtures of…

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Who discovered it and how has the technology been developed? The German physicist Wilhelm Conrad…

The symptoms of this metabolic disease are very non-specific. Patients experience: • Shortness of…

In general, focused radiation produces chemical radicals that impair tumour (and other) cells and…

Colonoscopy means the examination of the colon with a colonoscope. Additionally, tissue samples can…

Pleural mesothelioma is a rare type of cancer which causes the development of a pleural (pulmonary…

There are four types of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) classified by their pathogens:…

There are four types of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) classified by their pathogens:…

Sarcoidosis is a general systemic disease, that is, a disease of the entire body, and not a lung…

What are Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)? STDs are diseases that are transmitted via various…

A call comes in to the CVUA in Stuttgart from a veterinary office: an old gentleman is lying in the…

Repeatedly, newspaper headlines feature corporate scandals concerning germs in food. Most recently…

In the January issue 2020, I described the basics of skin cancer. In this issue I am going to…

Allergic contact eczema Allergic contact eczema is a Coombs and Gell type IV hypersensitivity…

In December 2019 there was a cluster of pneumoniae cases in the Chinese city of Wuhan (pop. approx.…

“WHY THEN, CAN ONE DESIRE TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING?” William Shakespeare, As You Like It (1600 AD)

It’s winter and it’ll take a while until next summer: nevertheless, this article provides general…

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Tsutsugamushi fever (scrub typhus) is an infectious disease that is endemic in South, East and…

In various professions where people are exposed to radiation it is very important to know how that…

Worldwide, about 390 million people are infected with the Dengue virus each year. The number of…

In contrast to Alzheimer‘s dementia, frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a rare form of dementia. Only…

A stroke can happen to anyone at any time and to all age groups – from unborns, to newborns,…

What is HPV? We know about 200 different types of human papillomaviruses (HPV) of which about 40…

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women worldwide, accounting for 32 % of cases. In…

What is an insect venom allergy? This is when someone gets bitten or stung by an insect and shows an…

As a result of an iron deficiency, a typical complex of symptoms develops with Plummer-Vinson…

The world has heard about magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanning as a diagnostic tool for human…

What are senses? A sense is the ability to perceive stimuli from the environment and the own body.…

The terms digitization, digitalization and digital transformation can often be confused due to their…

The development of a reliable, rapid, sensitive and specific laboratory test for the diagnosis of…

In health care facilities, risks exist. The employees are the most at risk. Firstly, the risk of…

Less than ten years ago, most people were unaware of the critical role the microbiome plays within…

Gender medicine investigates gender-specific differences in the symptoms, diagnosis and therapy of…

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Breast cancer is the most common malignant disease diagnosed in women in Germany, accounting for…

The heart lies in the center of the thoracic cavity, also called the mediastinum. It has four…

What is ultrasound? Ultrasound is a sound wave with a frequency in the megahertz range (between 1…

Generalized Anxiety Disorder is characterized by persistent and excessive anxiety and worry.…

What is African swine fever? African swine fever is a deadly animal disease that only appears among…

What is known about the Nipah virus disease? The Nipah virus (NiV) causes a severe infectious…

The thyroid produces the hormones triiodothyronine (T3, biologically the more active form) and…

The two adrenal glands of the human body are very important and secrete various hormones.

How is the thyroid gland structured? The thyroid gland surrounds the trachea, just below the larynx.…

The spinal cord is of great importance to the nervous system and to the whole body.

What kind of brain regions do we distinguish?

Aetiology: Status epilepticus can be triggered by infection, withdrawal of drugs or medications used…

A nerve is a bundle of nerve fibers, which are the axons of the neurons. A nerve connects the CNS…

What are the components of the nervous system? The nervous system has two complimentary parts: the…

The kidneys can exhibit various variants and anomalies. The incidence of horseshoe kidneys is 1 in…

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Worldwide, around 24 million people are affected by dementia. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a form of…

Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is an infectious disease caused by the…

The cases of kidney diseases can be classified as acute or chronic diseases. Unfortunately, some…

Cardiovascular disorders represent the most common cause of death in industrialised countries.…

As described in the last issue, the kidneys are essential and hardworking organs. Many diseases can…

The kidneys are essential and hardworking organs, one might compare them to the liver. Many…

First, I would like to explain what schizophrenia is. One common myth is, that a schizophrenic…

The head impulse test (HIT), and in particular the instrumental setup (video head impulse test,…

Tumor markers are efficient biomarkers for the monitoring of malignant diseases. For screening…

If a patient has a liver disease, laboratory tests, radiologic diagnostic and possibly histological…

Regardless the cause of a liver disease – they can be inherited (genetic) or caused by a variety of…

The liver function is essential for the human physiology. Without the liver we could not live.

In outpatient clinics and hospitals, the occurence of unexpected cases of active tuberculosis (TB)…

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna discovered the CRISPR-Cas9 system in 2011.

DNA microarray analysis has recently become one of the fastest growing new technologies in the field…

HIV stands for “Human Immuno Deficiency Virus”. During this infection the body is no longer able to…

Malassezia furfur is a saprophyte of the physiological microflora of the human skin. This obligate…

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Urinalyses are very helpful if there’s a suspicion on a disease an animal might have.

A few bacteria may enter the bloodstream (bacteremia), in case of a localized infection, but they…

The occurrence of irregular cell contours especially in B lymphocytes is physiologically and…

Side effects and body reactions of contrast media are rare and usually very mild. Nevertheless, some…

Distinguishing normal from abnormal conditions in internal organs, contrast materials, also called…

Clinical reasoning refers to all of the thinking and decision-making processes used by the therapist…

Aortic sclerosis and atherosclerosis are also secondary findings in cross-sectional imaging…

Spiegel online titled on May 30th 2016: „Listerien-Fund: Wurstfirma ruft alle Produkte zurück“…

The AB0 grouping system is of primary importance. Since every human has one of the four blood types…

Med Techs need to know the latest methods about blood screening for transfusions, since patients are…