Constipation - current views on diagnostic procedures and therapy

Current diagnostic procedures for diagnosing vertigo and dizziness

Modern diagnostic methods such as video head impulse test and cervical and ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials allow to measure canal and otolith function quantitatively and objectively. These methods contribute to a complex assessment of the functional integrity of all 5 sensory elements of the vestibular organ for the first time. Moreover, in combination with additional vestibular te...

Neonatal Cholestasis – Differential Diagnoses, Current Diagnostic Procedures, and Treatment

Cholestatic jaundice in early infancy is a complex diagnostic problem. Misdiagnosis of cholestasis as physiologic jaundice delays the identification of severe liver diseases. In the majority of infants, prolonged physiologic jaundice represent benign cases of breast milk jaundice, but few among them are masked and caused by neonatal cholestasis (NC) that requires a prompt diagnosis and treatmen...

Current Views and Practices in Psychiatric Shock Therapy

This is a pamphlet of 30 pages embodying a great number of questionnaire statistics. It is issued by the Manfred Sakel Foundation. As is well known, Manfred Sakel was the originator of insulin shock therapy. It would appear that his teaching is being ignored or criticized in one way or another, and this questionnaire has been sponsored and supported by the Manfred Sakel Foundation. On almost ev...

Current views on cervical neoplasia.

Myocardial Diseases: Current Views on Etiopathogenesis, Diagnostic Modalities, and Therapeutic Options

According to current European classification, cardiomy-opathies are defined as myocardial disorders that cannot be explained by coronary artery disease or abnormal loading conditions including valvular and congenital diseases. Six specific morphological and functional phenotypes are distinguished: hypertrophic, dilated, restrictive, and arrhyth-mogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy together ...