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Guideline vulvovaginal candidosis (2010) of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics, the Working Group for Infections and Infectimmunology in Gynecology and Obstetrics, the German Society of Dermatology, the Board of German Dermatologists and the German Speaking Mycological Society.

Candida (C.) species colonize the estrogenized vagina in at least 20% of all women. This statistic rises to 30% in late pregnancy and in immunosuppressed patients. The most often occurring species is Candida albicans. Host factors, especially local defense deficiencies, gene polymorphisms, allergic factors, serum glucose levels, antibiotics, psychosocial stress and estrogens influence the risk ...

33rd International Meeting of the German Society for Cardiovascular Engineering

OXYGENATOR TYPE AND BLOOD CELL TRAUMA IN CARDIAC SURGERY Objective: Blood cell trauma in cardiac surgery is mainly attributed to the use of the heart lung machine and the oxygenator. The optimization of oxygenator design and membrane technology (e.g., chemical properties of surface material), aiming at reducing the blood cell alterations, is an objective of current developments. Clinical evalua...

Proceedings of German Society for Stem Cell Research (PGSSCR)

[S3-guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of gallstones. German Society for Digestive and Metabolic Diseases and German Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract].

This guideline provides evidence-based key recommendations for diagnosis and therapy of gallstones and upgrades version 2000. It was developed by an interdisciplinary team of gastroenterologists, surgeons, radiologists, geneticists, external comparative quality assurance and patient support groups under the auspices of the German Society for Digestive and Metabolic Diseases and the German Socie...

A Crowdsourcing Smartphone Application for Swiss German: Putting Language Documentation in the Hands of the Users

This contribution describes an on-going projects a smartphone application called Voice Äpp, which is a follow-up of a previous application called Dialäkt Äpp. The main purpose of both apps is to identify the user’s Swiss German dialect on the basis of the dialectal variations of 15 words. The result is returned as one or more geographical points on a map. In Dialäkt Äpp, launched in 2013, the u...