Publications by authors named "I Tammer"
Patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP) as well as with pancreatic head carcinoma (CA) undergo the surgical intervention named "pylorus-preserving pancreatoduodenectomy according to Traverso-Longmire (PPPD)", which allowed a comparative analysis of the postoperative courses. The hypothesis was that patients with CA would have worse general as well as immune status than patients with CP due to the severity of the tumor disease and that this would be reflected in the more disadvantageous early postoperative outcome after PPPD. : With the aim of eliciting the influence of the different diagnoses, the surgical outcome of all consecutive patients who underwent surgery at the Dept.
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- The study investigates how antibiotic resistance in stomach bacteria varies with the severity of atrophic gastritis in patients undergoing gastrointestinal endoscopy.
- It involved 110 patients, categorizing them based on the level of atrophy, and testing bacterial strains for resistance to various antibiotics using standard methods.
- The results showed notable resistance rates to clarithromycin, metronidazole, and levofloxacin, with significant differences in resistance observed between antrum and corpus biopsies, especially as gastritis severity increased.
Objectives: The optimal diagnostic specimen to detect SARS-CoV-2 by PCR in the upper respiratory tract is unclear. Mouthwash fluid has been reported as an alternative to nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swabs. We compared mouthwash fluid with a combined oro-nasopharyngeal swab regarding test performance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Atypical mycobacteria form a heterogeneous group. Although more than 140 species have been identified, only 25 of them are considered responsible for infection in humans. The most frequent manifestation of the disease in immunocompetent children is the cervical lymphadenitis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To report on a wearer of rigid gas-permeable contact lenses with a keratomycosis due to Tintelnotia-a new genus of Phaeosphaeriaceae-treated with terbinafine and polyhexamethylene biguanide.
Methods: Chart review of a patient with fungal keratitis treated additionally with systemic and topical terbinafine 0.25% after symptoms increased under conventional antimycotic therapy with voriconazole.