Publications by authors named "B Stahn"

[The Schmidt's Syndrome].

Dtsch Med Wochenschr

December 2019

History And Clinical Findings: We report the case within a 22-year-old patient, initially seen because of fatigue, weight loss and discoloration of the skin. A Hashimoto-Thyroditis had been diagnosed a few months prior to the clinical presentation.

Diagnostics: Blood samples showed a hyponatremia and hyperkalemia.

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A 45-year-old woman presented at the outpatient department of a center for tropical diseases with fever, diarrhea, headache, myalgia, malaise, and an itchy papular rash. She had been on holiday with her family for 11 days in a mountain village in northern Cyprus. The place was infested with a lot of small, stinging flies or mosquitoes.

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 We report the case of a 57-year-old patient initially seen with stool irregularities and malignant ascites.  Through further examinations we diagnosed a long standing untreated ulcerative colitis with endoscopic signs of a massive chronic inflammation of the entire colon. The origin of the malignant cells in the ascites remained unknown despite the exhaustion of all diagnostic means available.

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Objective: Why physicians choose a certain specialty at a university hospital for their postgraduate training is incompletely understood. Our aim was to identify factors that led physicians from different generations to opt for postgraduate training in a specialty with high or low patient contact at a university hospital.

Methods: We conducted 14 semi-structured interviews with residents and attending physicians from the departments of Internal Medicine (high patient contact) and Laboratory Medicine (low patient contact) at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany.

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