Op til 20% af COVID-19-tilfælde har vist hudmanifestationer. I forsøget på at opdage og håndtere sygdommen tidligere og mere effektivt, er det derfor vigtigt at forstå, hvordan COVID-19 kan vise sig på huden. I dette COVID-19 perspektiv rapporterer og gennemgår 3 specialister i dermato-venereologi og 1 specialist i kirurgi data fra en række af nye ...

Dyk ned i det udenlandske COVID-19-informationsflow. Vi har udvalgt tre COVID-19-overskrifter fra tre store medicinske tidsskrifter: the British Medical Journal, JAMA Network & The Lancet. Læs om vurdering af astma under pandemien, risikoen for at udvikle invasiv pulmonal aspergillose og om konsekvenserne ved USAs unøjagtighed i registrering af dødsårssager.  The Lancet Microbe: COVID-19 og pulmonal ...

Coronavirus-sygdommen (COVID-19), som er den almindelige betegnelse for akut respiratorisk syndrom SARS-CoV-2 (ARDS), er et nyt beta-corona virus, der er isoleret ved lungeskylning fra sygdomsramte. Sygdommen har spredt sig ud over verden fra epicenteret i Wuhan i Kina (Huanan Seafood Market). En sammenlignende undersøgelse mellem virus-udbredningen i Wuhan samt udenfor Wuhan (Guangzhou-provinsen) viser, at virus ...

Patients with multiple myeloma (MM) could be in an increased risk of a more severe COVID-19 infection and of more severe associated complications. In this COVID-19 perspective, associate professor Annette Juul Vangsted goes through newly made clinical guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic created by The European Myeloma Network.  Multiple myeloma is an incurable cancer in ...

As most EU/EEA countries are starting to ease the current lock down, we at BestPractice Nordic think it is time to zoom out and get an overview of the situation. In this COVID-19 perspective MD and professor at Institute for Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University Denmark, Eskild Petersen gives an overview and share his thoughts about ...

Keep up with the mass amount of information about COVID-19 being rolled out online. In this perspective we present three of this week’s COVID-19 headlines from Medscape, JAMA Network & The Lancet. Read about the susceptibility and severity of COVID-19 described from the human genome, managent of ADHD during the pandemic and gastrointestinal involvement in ...

In this COVID-19 perspective Ane Gerda Zahl Eriksson describes current considerations regarding options for management of women with gynecologic cancers in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.  As we face the initial wave of COVID-19, we are aware of the concerns of patients and physicians related to the management of women with gynecologic cancer during ...

Our globe has changed dramatically since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The novel corona virus disease poses enormous challenges for society as a whole, and for all health care workers, including dermatologists.1 As the virus is highly contagious via respiratory transmission and via contact with contaminated surfaces, community transmission can be decreased through the ...

The ongoing pandemic due to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has affected oncology departments across the globe with different means of precautions to protect cancer patients from COVID-19. In Copenhagen, Denmark we reported a case of a patient with pulmonary adenocarcinoma undergoing concomitant chemoradiotherapy with a platinum doublet regime and radiation of 60 ...

Den igangværende Covid-19 pandemi har sat fokus på patienter med behov for intensiv behandling. Antallet af patienter i respiratorbehandling er blevet en faktor for, hvordan det går med pandemien. For den svært syge patient er iltbehandling et centralt lægemiddel – men det er et tveægget svær, idet både for lidt og for meget ilt kan have ...