Immunoadsorption is equally effective as plasma exchange in paediatric neuroimmunological disorders - A retrospective multicentre study.

Background: Therapeutic apheresis (TA) are promising treatment option for neuroimmunological disorders. In paediatrics, the available data is limited, particularly for the use of IA. The aim of this study was to analyse the use of PE and IA in children and adolescents, with emphasis on outcome and neurological course after treatment as well as the safety of the two modalities.

National and International Comparisons of Gynecological Research in Germany Based on a Bibliometric Analysis of Publications.

Background: Recent years have seen a considerable shift from male doctors to female doctors in the field of gynecology. Female doctors are traditionally more involved with planning and maintaining their family. For gynecology, this could be associated with a risk that research activities will decrease, particularly if results are published in scientific journals.

Time-reversal and parity-time symmetry breaking in non-Hermitian field theories.

We study time-reversal symmetry breaking in non-Hermitian fluctuating field theories with conserved dynamics, comprising the mesoscopic descriptions of a wide range of nonequilibrium phenomena. They exhibit continuous parity-time (PT) symmetry-breaking phase transitions to dynamical phases. For two concrete transition scenarios, exclusive to non-Hermitian dynamics, namely, oscillatory instabilities and critical exceptional points, a low-noise expansion exposes a pretransitional surge of the mesoscale (informatic) entropy production rate, inside the static phases.

Entropy production in the nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard model.

We study the nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard model with thermal noise as a prototypical example of a generic class of non-Hermitian stochastic field theories, analyzed in two companion papers [Suchanek, Kroy, and Loos, Phys. Rev. Lett.

Volume expansion mitigates Shiga toxin-producing E. coli-hemolytic uremic syndrome in children.

Background: Shiga toxin-producing E. coli-hemolytic uremic syndrome (STEC-HUS) is associated with high morbidity and relevant mortality. Previous small studies showed that volume expansion could improve the course and outcome of STEC-HUS.