Post-migration living difficulties, discrimination, and mental health of traumatized refugees in Germany: data from the project for timely and need-adapted treatment in a stepped-care setting.

Asylum seekers and refugees (ASR) experience many short-term and long-term post-migration stressors, e.g. discrimination after resettlement, leading to increased psychiatric morbidity in this population.

Improved Segmentation with Dynamic Threshold Adjustment for Phonocardiography Recordings.

In this study with the intent to segment phonocardiography (PCG) recordings, an algorithm that processes a feature vector obtained by jointly using wavelet transform and mel scaled energy spectrum of the PCG signal is proposed. The feature vector is processed by a peak detection algorithm which results in a set of peaks that meet some certain criteria and will be exploited in the succeeding stages of the algorithm. Heart sounds are labeled by convolving circularly a template and a fragment of the feature vector which is picked up with the guidance of the peaks.

Implementing a Need-Adapted Stepped-Care Model for Mental Health of Refugees: Preliminary Data of the State-Funded Project "RefuKey".

Refugees have been shown to be a rather vulnerable population with increased psychiatric morbidity and lack of access to adequate mental health care. By expanding regional psychosocial and psychiatric-psychotherapeutic care structures and adapting psychiatric routine care to refugees' needs, the state-funded project "refuKey" based in Lower Saxony, Germany, pursues to ease access to mental health care and increase service quality for refugees. A stepped-care treatment model along with intercultural opening of mental health care services is proposed.

Posttraumatic stress disorder and comorbid depression among refugees: Assessment of a sample from a German refugee reception center.

In 2015, a large number of refugees arrived in Germany, mostly driven to emigrate by devastating circumstances in their countries of origin. Arriving refugees are distributed to reception centers within the German federal states, frequently facing marginal conditions in terms of overcrowding or waiting time of several months until their application for asylum is processed. Most of these refugees underwent numerous traumatizing experiences-both in their country of origin and while fleeing from their country of origin.

Patients' transcultural needs and carers' ethical responses.

Many Turkish people migrated to Germany between 1955 and 1975. This study was carried out in Göttingen, Germany. Fifty Turkish people (described as patients) were asked about the care they had received from German health care personnel, and 50 German nurses and 50 German physiotherapists were questioned about care they had given to Turkish patients.

The interobserver agreement between residents and experienced radiologists for detecting pulmonary embolism and DVT with using CT pulmonary angiography and indirect CT venography.

Objective: We wanted to prospectively evaluate the interobserver agreement between radiology residents and expert radiologists for interpreting CT images for making the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE).

Materials And Methods: We assessed 112 consecutive patients, from April 2007 to August 2007, who were referred for combined CT pulmonary angiography and indirect CT venography for clinically suspected acute PE. CT scanning was performed with a 64x0.

Performance of the Wells and Revised Geneva scores for predicting pulmonary embolism.

Objective: The objective of the study was to compare two scoring methods to predict the risk of pulmonary embolism (PE) as diagnosed with computed tomography angiography (CTA) and/or CT venography (CTV).

Methods: Prospectively over a 8-month period, emergency department patients and hospital inpatients with suspected PE were consecutively examined and their Wells and Revised Geneva scores calculated to stratify them into a risk group for PE probability. Then all patients were examined with CTA and CTV to determine the presence or absence of PE, as diagnosed by experienced radiology staff physicians.

Effects of cyanocobalamin on immunity in patients with pernicious anemia.

Objective: The aim of the study was to evaluate the role of vitamin B(12) in patients with pernicious anemia.

Materials And Methods: This study was conducted prospectively at the Turgut Ozal Medical Center, Department of Hematology, between April and November 2002. Absolute numbers and ratio of the surface antigens of T and B lymphocyte subgroups, CD4/CD8 ratio were calculated in order to evaluate changes in leukocyte and lymphocyte numbers; natural killer (NK) cell count, serum C3, C4, and levels of immunoglobulins G, A, and M were also measured to evaluate vitamin B(12) effect on immunity.