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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.
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Experts from the Department of Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital join other neurosurgical leaders at this year’s AANS Annual Scientific Meeting, “Neurosurgeons as Advocates,” held April 21 – 24, 2023, in Los Angeles, CA.
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Walter Chan, MD, PhD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and colleagues have reported supporting evidence that proton pump inhibitor (PPI)–responsive eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is clinically similar to PPI-nonresponsive EoE and significantly different from erosive esophagitis.
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Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is the most common cause of viral encephalitis. The brain lesions in HSV encephalitis (HSVE) primarily involve the temporal and frontal lobes. About half of patients develop seizures, which may progress to chronic seizure disorders or status epilepticus.
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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.
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Few surgeons perform metabolic surgery for type 2 diabetes treatment, citing inadequate evidence, and for the same reason, many health insurance plans don’t cover it. Long-term supportive efficacy data from the largest randomized cohort has been published.
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Gary P.H. Ho, MD, PhD, neurologist in the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dennis J. Selkoe, MD, co-director of the Center, and colleagues suspected there might be a functional link between Syt11 and αS in the context of Parkinson’s disease.
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Surgeons at Brigham and Women’s Hospital recently reviewed the causes, treatment, and prevention of mechanically assisted crevice corrosion (MACC, commonly called tunnionosis).
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Behnood Bikdeli, MD, MS, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and team reported favorable longer-term catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT) results for pulmonary embolism. In a randomized clinical trial, they observed a more durable effect of CDT plus anticoagulation than with anticoagulation monotherapy on several metrics.
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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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