Genetics, has tackled this problem and set up a cooperation network. It provides local care for patients with a genetic tumor risk in Lower Saxony and Saxony."In Germany, around half a million people are [...] Schlegelberger, Director of the Institute of Human Genetics until May 2023, adds: "We see that cancer patients in this stressful situation often cannot find the long way to an institute of human genetics. It [...] private practice, it now offers support in determining indications and interpreting findings and gives patients access to telemedical genetic counseling."We want to reach those affected and their families where
Medical Centre Göttingen (UMG) not only to further increase and ensure the quality of care for patients in Lower Saxony, but also to play a pioneering role in the implementation of highly technological [...] ally renowned university hospitals. In order to eliminate the investment backlog in the area of patient care at both university medical centres, the state had set up a special fund with a volume of 2.1 [...] the implementation of the measures. Unique opportunity for development "I see the new building for patient care, together with the implementation of the operational security concept for the existing research
analysed 225 scientific publications for their article. "Gene therapies are increasingly reaching patients, as the many clinical studies that we have analysed show," explains Professor Büning. But this is [...] particularly important to the authors that the approved gene therapies are then also accessible to patients. "Unfortunately, this has not yet been ensured," emphasises Professor Schambach. Success is based [...] interdisciplinary collaboration between doctors, researchers, ethicists, regulatory authorities and patient organisations," Professor Schambach is certain. It is also always necessary to critically assess
a new electrophysiology laboratory: this is a cardiac catheterisation laboratory especially for patients with cardiac arrhythmias. The modern facility offers all diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities [...] Examination with the aid of magnetic field navigation There are many proven treatment options for patients with cardiac arrhythmias. They range from medication to catheter ablation, i.e. the obliteration [...] the new procedure as a great gain. "It is gentler and faster and thus offers more safety for our patients." The HHC is the first facility in Hanover to offer pulsed field ablation. New opportunities for
logy, Hepatology and Endocrinology at the MHH. As a Clinical Scientist at the interface between patient care and basic research, she significantly advances the further development of therapeutic approaches [...] innere Medizin" (Internal Medicine) and of the first guide to cancer immunotherapy. Treating cancer patients in an appropriate way Cancers of the bile ducts and liver are the special field of PD Dr. Anna [...] challenges of a "dual career" in science and research: on the one hand, she is involved in the care of patients with gastrointestinal tumour diseases as a doctor, and on the other, she heads a basic science research
single-chamber heart with three million euros for three years. Such an implant could, for example, help patients with congenital heart defects in whom only one chamber of the heart works for hereditary reasons [...] ventricle is present or functional from birth, it supplies both the body and lung arteries. "These patients have mixed blood in the heart and have to undergo a so-called Fontan operation in childhood, in [...] ventricle is present or functional from birth, it supplies both the body and lung arteries. "These patients have mixed blood in the heart and have to undergo a so-called Fontan operation in childhood, in
School (MHH) wants to change this situation. The Amyloidosis Centre Lower Saxony founded there offers patients diagnostics, care and therapy at one location. Many experts work together on an interdisciplinary [...] the Centre for Rare Diseases (ZSE) at the MHH. It was founded at the end of 2020, and around 200 patients with amyloidosis are now being cared for there. Since the centre was founded, the numbers and referrals [...] investigating the causes of amyloidosis, the effect of drugs against the disease and the development of patients during therapy," explains Professor Skripuletz. Contact: Hanover Medical School, Centre for Rare
seven years after diagnosis. New hope has now been given by an international clinical trial in which patients were treated with the new drug Sotatercept in addition to their existing therapy. "We were able [...] performance as well as a reduction in blood pressure in the lungs. At the same time, the risk of the patients' condition worsening or dying decreased by more than 80 per cent compared to standard therapy. "Some [...] Olsson, senior physician at the MHH clinic and co-author of the study. "We were even able to take patients off the transplant list who were already scheduled for a lung transplant." In most cases, pulmonary
1968. In 1975, Borst's team had treated more than 1,000 patients with the support of the heart-lung machine, and by 1986 the number of patients had risen to 10,000. By this time, the MHH had already developed [...] Dr. Rudolf Zenker was one of the first in the German-speaking area to successfully operate on a patient's open heart with its help at the University Hospital in Marburg. At the MHH, Professor Borst first
increased pressure. Blood samples from these patients showed significantly elevated levels of MYDGF. When an artificial heart valve was implanted in the patients in the cardiac catheterisation laboratory [...] of the study. Whether all of this is also significant for humans was investigated by the team in patients with heart failure due to aortic stenosis. In this disease, the heart valve between the ventricle