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Specialty: Pulmonary & Thoracic Surgery
Farhad R. Nezami, PhD, lead investigator in the Division of Cardiac Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is a mechanical and aerospace engineer by training. His lab pulls from engineering, computer science, and bioinformatics to uncover better diagnostic tools and predictors of clinical events.
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Physicians at Brigham and Women’s Hospital recently encountered a patient with exertional dyspnea and inducible laryngeal obstruction at rest who was ultimately diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy as the cause of his symptoms.
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Wai-Kit Lo, MD, MPH, Walter W. Chan, MD, MPH, and colleagues propose a standardized GERD reflux evaluation and management approach in lung transplant recipients.
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Brigham researchers believe a new host-directed treatment approach to secondary bacterial pneumonia, a serious and common complication of infection with the influenza A virus (IAV) that can also occur after SARS-CoV-2 infection, might complement antibiotic therapy.
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The Brigham’s Division of Thoracic Surgery launched a care continuum collaborative in 2011 to monitor the progress of patients discharged to Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital after thoracic surgery. Namrata Patil, MD, MPH, details why she founded the collaboration and its beneficial impact on patient care.
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Brigham researchers recently completed the first proteomic analysis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD). They identify molecular signatures strongly associated with the presence and severity of RA-ILD and provide insight into unexplored disease pathways.
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Guo-Ping Shi, ScD, in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and colleagues review how allergic asthma affects the risk of cardiovascular disease.
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Once the final chest drain is removed after cardiothoracic surgery, it is common practice to obtain a chest X-ray to evaluate for air or fluid that may have accumulated in the process of drain removal. However, the results of a retrospective study at Brigham and Women’s Hospital suggest routine imaging isn’t necessary.
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Brigham researchers conducted a prospective trial in which Black and Latinx adults with asthma, whose mortality rates from asthma are twice as high as those of white individuals, were asked to use an inhaled glucocorticoid whenever they used a quick reliever. They reported improvements on every outcome measure studied.
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COVIDprotocols.org, the world’s first and most comprehensive searchable website for step-by-step COVID-19 clinical guidelines, has its roots at the Brigham. Managing editor Edy Yong Kim, MD, PhD, of the Division of Pulmonary Care and Critical Care Medicine, provides a behind-the-scenes look at this valuable resource.
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