The theme of this year’s congress is “Symptoms and signs – the path to diagnosis”, and our valuable lecturers, together with domestic and foreign guests, prepare interesting and instructive presentations, which we hope will be useful in your daily work. At the congress you will hear about the following topics:
- How to avoid unnecessary tests on the way to an accurate diagnosis (laboratory and microbiological tests – less is more, cardiovascular diseases – what, for whom and when, is all back pain the same)
- Peripheral joint pain (causes of pain , pharmacological arthritis and arthralgias, metabolic and endocrine diseases, neuropathic disorders, phlebartritis)
- Symptoms of the digestive system (bad breath, constipation and flatulence, hiccups, stool disorders, burning in the mouth, belching, “lumps in the throat”)
- Dementia (early signs and prevention, therapeutic options, dementia patient as a complex patient, hospital care options)
- Symptoms in children, the elderly and the infirm (symptoms in oncology patients, weight loss)
- Symptoms of insomnia in the family doctor’s office (sleep architecture, insomnia in psychiatric patients, metabolism, sexual function)
- Weakness and fatigue (thyroid dysfunction, digestive system diseases, neurological diseases, anemia and metabolic disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome)
- Syncope – approach, diagnostics and treatment (approach in family medicine, reflex and cardiac syncope, syncope due to orthostatic hypotension)
- Fever as a symptom in the family doctor’s office (diagnostic significance, interdisciplinary approach, fever in kidney transplant patients and in oncology patients)
- Cough, dyspnea, hemoptysis (what is behind the cough, approach to a patient with hemoptysis, characteristics of cough in patients with heart disease, allergic and psychogenic cough)
- Skin itching (most common dermatitis, infections and systemic diseases, allergies)
- From symptoms to health anxiety (health anxiety or health concerns, health-anxious person in a family environment, psychological approach, orthorexia, social networks as a cause of health anxiety)
