Publications by authors named "O Stalder"
Background/objectives: Parents of premature infants experience depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, and increased stress, which can negatively impact parent-infant relationships and infant development. To reduce negative consequences and optimally support families, we developed the Transition to Home model (TtH). In this randomized controlled pilot trial (RCT), the feasibility of performing an experimental study to analyse the effects of TtH on parental mental health over time was evaluated.
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- The study focuses on improving follow-up care for patients with testicular cancer to detect relapses early by analyzing different imaging methods used for relapse detection in a large cohort of patients (1175 enrolled) from the Swiss Austrian German Testicular Cancer Cohort Study.
- Key findings included that 76% of analyzed patients had stage I disease, with a high 5-year relapse-free survival rate of 90.1%. Cross-sectional imaging of the abdomen was found to be the most effective method for detecting relapses, especially abdominal CT scans.
- The researchers proposed updated follow-up schedules emphasizing abdominal imaging while reducing reliance on chest X-rays, aiming to guide clinicians in future patient management strategies.
An abnormal platelet count (PC) is common in acute venous thromboembolism (VTE) but its relationship with clinical outcomes remains ill-defined. We aimed to explore the association between baseline PC and the long-term risk of clinically relevant outcomes in a prospective cohort of 991 patients with acute VTE. We classified patients into four PC groups: very low (< 100 G/l), low (≥ 100 to < 150 G/l), normal (≥ 150 G/l to ≤ 450 G/l), and high (> 450 G/l).
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- After experiencing a pulmonary embolism (PE), many patients struggle with their health-related quality of life (QoL), and this study aimed to see if the severity of PE affects QoL over time.
- Researchers assessed QoL in 546 older patients using specific and generic questionnaires at baseline, 3 months, and 12 months, discovering that those with severe PE had significantly worse QoL scores compared to those with nonsevere PE.
- The findings suggest that severe PE is associated with ongoing impairments in both PE-specific and physical QoL throughout the year following the event.
Objective: Evaluation at long term of the impact of the stereotactic surgery (SRS) on the vestibular function in vestibular schwannoma (VS) patients.
Study Design And Setting: Retrospective study in a tertiary referral center.
Patients: Fifty-one VS patients were included (34 females;17 males), aged from 41 to 78 years treated exclusively with SRS.