Swiss Medical Weekly: Newsletter 18 February 2018

View this email in your browser 18 February 2018 Dear Colleagues We are happy to send you the list of our newly published articles. You will find the full text of every article as an open access publication on the website www.smw.ch. There, you also have the possibility to post comments and to share the articles with your colleagues. With kind regards Professor Adriano Aguzzi, Editor-in-chief, Swiss Medical Weekly Viewpoint HERMANN MÜLLER Craniopharyngioma – a chronic disease As surgical expertise has a proven impact on post-treatment morbidity, medical societies should establish criteria of adequate professional expertise for surgical treatment of craniopharyngioma.   ANTONIOS KOUTELIDAKIS Diet, medication use and drug intake during pregnancy: data from the Swiss Health Surveys 2007 and 2012 Adoption of a healthy lifestyle during pregnancy should remain a basic aim of national policies for health promotion and prevention of unexpected pregnancy outcomes.   Review article: Biomedical intelligence MICHAEL HAGNER Open Access, data capitalism and academic publishing There is a significant discrepancy between the reality of academic publishing and the optimism of politicians and science functionaries who praise OA as a panacea for all the ills afflicting science culture.   Original article CHRISTIAN MURER, LARS CHRISTIAN HUBER, THOMAS KUROWSKI, ASTRID HIRT, CÉCILE A. ROBINSON, URS BÜRGI, CHRISTIAN BENDEN First experience in Switzerland in Phe508del homozygous cystic fibrosis patients with end-stage pulmonary disease enrolled in a lumacaftor-ivacaftor therapy trial – preliminary results The authors propose that all suitable Phe508del homozygous cystic fibrosis patients with end-stage pulmonary disease should have a trial of LUM/IVA treatment in experienced centres.   OLIVER REUTHEBUCH, LUCA KOECHLIN, ULRICH SCHURR, MARTIN GRAPOW, JENS FASSL, FRIEDRICH S. ECKSTEIN Aortic valve replacement using autologous pericardium: single centre experience with the Ozaki technique The Ozaki procedure for aortic valve replacement involves reconstructing the valve leaflets from autologous pericardium. Potential benefits include avoidance of oral anticoagulation and suitability for patients with small aortic annuli.   THOMAS GRIMMSMANN, MARKUS HARDEN, THOMAS FIß, WOLFGANG HIMMEL The influence of hospitalisation on the initiation, continuation and discontinuation of benzodiazepines and Z-drugs – an observational study A few studies have explored changes in benzodiazepine or sleep medication use as a function of hospitalisation, but failed to precisely determine the hospital's role in initiating, continuing and discontinuing these drugs.   LUKAS ANDEREGGEN, BENJAMIN HESS, ROBERT ANDRES, MARWAN EL-KOUSSY, LUIGI MARIANI, ANDREAS RAABE, ROLF W SEILER, EMANUEL CHRIST A ten-year follow-up study of treatment outcome of craniopharyngiomas Craniopharyngioma-related hypothalamic obesity is a devastating complication. There is limited data on whether long-term follow-up of craniopharyngioma patients should focus on problems other than endocrine deficiencies and weight gain.   ALEXANDRE DUMUSC, WAN-FAI NG, KATHERINE JAMES, BRIDGET GRIFFITHS, ELIZABETH PRICE, COLIN PEASE, PAUL EMERY, PETER LANYON, ADRIAN JONES, MICHELE BOMBARDIERI, NURHAN SUTCLIFFE, COSTANTINO PITZALIS, MONICA GUPTA, JOHN MCLAREN, ANNIE COOPER, IAN GILES, DAVID ISENBERG, VADIVELU SARAVANAN, DAVID COADY, BHASKAR DASGUPTA, NEIL MCHUGH, STEVEN YOUNG-MIN, ROBERT MOOTS, NAGUI GENDI, MOHAMMED AKIL, FRANCESCA BARONE, BENJAMIN FISHER, SAAEHA RAUZ, ANDREA RICHARDS, SIMON BOWMAN Comparison of ESSDAI and ClinESSDAI in potential optimisation of trial outcomes in primary Sjögren's syndrome: examination of data from the UK Primary Sjögren's Syndrome Registry There is no definitive treatment for primary Sjögren's syndrome, but several clinical trials are ongoing or planned. The disease activity indexes (ESSDAI and ClinESSDAI) are used to assess eligibility and outcomes in clinical trials.   Latest op-eds PETER J. MEIER-ABT, ADRIEN K. LAWRENCE, LISELOTTE SELTER, EFFY VAYENA, TORSTEN SCHWEDE The Swiss approach to precision medicine Precision or personalised medicine/health aims to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases by taking into account individual variability of genes, environment and lifestyle for each person.   ANDREAS PERREN, ILARIA JERMINI GIANINAZZI, VASCO PIFFARETTI, SIMONE DE GOTTARDI, BERNARD CERUTTI Black clouds in the Emergency Room: myth or fact? The reliability of anecdotes regarding the presence of unfortunate junior doctors in the Emergency Department, so-called black clouds, is unknown. The authors tested this myth by identifying physicians who habitually present an outstandingly high workload. Copyright © 2018 EMH Schweizerischer Ärzteverlag AG, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: office@smw.ch