Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have created a quantitative tool that can be used for patient-specific preoperative planning and intraoperative adjustment of acetabular component position during total hip arthroplasty, with or without assistive intraoperative technology.

Andrew J. Schoenfeld, MD, MSc, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Peter G. Passias, MD, and colleagues are the first to examine longer-term outcomes of the prone-lateral variation of circumferential lumbar fusion.

Elizabeth G. Matzkin, MD, of the Women’s Sports Medicine Program, and colleagues study the benefit of arthroscopy for individual knee symptoms. They report two-thirds of patients experienced resolution of grinding/clicking and pivot pain, but fewer had resolution of catching/locking.

Surgeons at Brigham and Women’s Hospital recently reviewed the causes, treatment, and prevention of mechanically assisted crevice corrosion (MACC, commonly called tunnionosis).

Nathan P. Thomas, MD, PhD, Antonia F. Chen, MD, MBA, in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and colleagues compared manipulation under anesthesia or arthroscopic lysis of adhesions in the largest cohort in current literature.

Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital recently demonstrated that the post-surgical global period is a critical timepoint influencing follow-up rates. At six months, follow-up was lowest for patients on Medicaid.

Mass General Brigham physicians are working together to offer accurate diagnosis and timely, minimally invasive treatments for complex brachial plexus injuries.

Christian Lattermann, MD, Mass General Brigham director of Sports Medicine Research, Alexa K. Johnson, PhD, and colleagues recently conducted a pilot study of what factors contribute to altered loading after ACL reconstruction.

From March 7 – 11, leaders from the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital will present their latest advancements at the 2023 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada.