Diagnosis & treatment - page 24

Germany has one of the highest level of medical services in Europe and the world. Such acclaim is possible thanks to generous state funding, which allocates more than 300 billion euros into the healthcare system annually. This allows for new methods of diagnosis and treatment of various diseases to be developed and applied here.

According to the World Cancer Research Fund, kidney cancer was ranked 9th among the most common oncological pathologies in the world in 2018. Most tumors develop from the renal tubules, which actively filter up to 2000 liters of blood per day. As a result, kidney cancer is mostly diagnosed at an early stage, before metastasizing.

Surgical reconstruction, or mitral valve replacement, is the second most common surgery on the heart valves. In European countries with developed medicine...

Coronary artery disease (CAD), or coronary heart disease, is an extremely widespread condition in the modern world, when the excessive amount of LDL cholesterol in the blood stream damages coronary vessels and causes hypoxia and death of the heart muscle (myocardium). The problem is that at early stages...

Cancer is one of most common causes of human morbidity in the modern world. According to statistics, malignant formations is  the second most common factor contributing to death after cardiovascular diseases. Taking into account deteriorating ecology and increasing amount of carcinogens in the food, incidence of...

The pilonidal sinus can be a reason of abscesses and other complications. The only way to get rid of this pathology radically is the surgical intervention. However, the operation poses certain risks and is associated with need for a postoperative recovery. Therefore, minimally invasive pilonidal sinus treatment methods are used...

Alopecia treatment is one of the most topical branches of aesthetic medicine in the 21st century. Actually, hair transplantation is the only technique that completely solves the problem of hair loss. This kind of treatment was first proposed in the 1950s by Dr. Orentreich. At that time surgeons used transplantation of whole skin flaps up to 5 mm...

Brain tumors are always very complex and serious, as they are located in one of the most important organ of the human body. The extent of danger of these tumors depends on the area of ​ location on the brain. The closer the brain tumor is to the vital centers, the more likely it will be fatal. However, not every brain tumor is...