2 results match your criteria: "Germany Center for Internal Medicine[Affiliation]"
Intestinal congestion and right ventricular dysfunction: a link with appetite loss, inflammation, and cachexia in chronic heart failure.
Eur Heart J
June 2016
Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany.
Aims: Mechanisms leading to cachexia in heart failure (HF) are not fully understood. We evaluated signs of intestinal congestion in patients with chronic HF and their relationship with cachexia.
Methods And Results: Of the 165 prospectively enrolled outpatients with left ventricular ejection fraction ≤40%, 29 (18%) were cachectic.
Virological efficacy and safety of antiretroviral therapy-switch to atazanavir-based regimen: a review of the literature.
Expert Opin Pharmacother
November 2012
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany Center for Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases Unit, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, Frankfurt, Germany.
Introduction: Patients on antiretroviral combination therapy, experiencing drug toxicity or inconvenience, require alternative options maintaining virological suppression. The protease inhibitor atazanavir is a promising candidate.
Areas Covered: Published studies exploring a switch to atazanavir-based regimens were systematically reviewed from medical databases and evaluated with regard to efficacy, safety, unboosted use, monotherapy, and hepatitis C coinfection.