J Women Aging 2016 18;28(5):395-402. Epub 2016 Apr 18.
c School of Psychological Science , La Trobe University , Melbourne , Australia.
Pneumologie 2021 Feb 12;75(2):142-155. Epub 2021 Feb 12.
Changing demography with more older people and more patients with chronic diseases as well as the progress of medicine leads to more geriatric patients treated in intensive care and requiring mechanical ventilation due to severe respiratory insufficiency.Frailty is associated with a more complicated intensive care stay, more difficult convalescence and with a higher mortality.In principle, geriatric expertise should be brought in as early as possible in the course of intensive care treatment for older patients in order to carry out adequate risk stratification and, depending on the extent of the impairment, to plan discharge or early rehabilitation. Read More
Pediatr Blood Cancer 2021 Apr 12;68(4):e28889. Epub 2021 Jan 12.
Pediatrics 5 (Oncology, Hematology, Immunology), Klinikum Stuttgart - Olgahospital, Stuttgart Cancer Center, Zentrum für Kinder-, Jugend- und Frauenmedizin, Stuttgart, Germany.
Background: Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) of the female genitourinary tract (FGU-RMS) located at the vagina or uterus is one of the most favorable RMS sites. Little is known about treatment and outcome in infants and relapsed disease (RD).Methods: Characteristics, treatment, and outcome of 71 children with FGU-RMS registered within five Cooperative Weichteilsarkom Studiengruppe (CWS) trials and one registry (1981-2019) were evaluated. Read More
Cancer 2021 Jan 6. Epub 2021 Jan 6.
Pediatric Oncology/Hematology, University Children's Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Background: Childhood cancer survivors are at risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) because of intensive cancer therapies often accompanied by an unhealthy lifestyle. This study was aimed at 1) describing modifiable CVD risk factors in survivors and 2) investigating the association between different aspects of physical fitness and CVD risk factors.Methods: The authors analyzed cross-sectional data from ≥5-year survivors who were 16 years old or younger at their cancer diagnosis and 16 years old or older at the time of the study. Read More
Monatsschr Kinderheilkd 2020 Dec 18:1-5. Epub 2020 Dec 18.
Dr. von Hauner'sche Kinderklinik, LMU München, Lindwurmstr. 4, 80337 München, Deutschland.
After initial reluctance masks have emerged as an important means of restricting the spread of SARS-CoV‑2, the new coronavirus causing COVID-19. Other simple measures are keeping a distance of at least 1 ½ m from other persons and observing hygiene recommendations, including washing or even disinfecting the hands, coughing into the crook of the arm and remaining at home when sick. Combining the initial letters of the German words for the three measures ( distance-hygiene-face mask) the acronym AHA was formed, a colloquial German word meaning that the speaker understood the information presented. Read More
J Am Geriatr Soc 2020 Dec 15. Epub 2020 Dec 15.
Veteran Experience Center, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Background/objective: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in rapid changes to end-of-life care for hospitalized older adults and their families, including visitation restrictions. We examined bereaved families' perceptions of the quality of end-of-life communication among Veterans, families and staff in Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers during the COVID-19 pandemic.Design: Qualitative descriptive study using data from a survey of bereaved family members of Veterans administered from March-June 2020. Read More