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Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital are investigating therapeutic focused ultrasound to enhance antibody delivery to the brain when treating Alzheimer’s disease.
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Delays in stroke treatment were inevitable during the early months of the COVID-19 epidemic, given virus-related precautions and the massive influx of COVID-19 patients into hospitals. Understanding the precise extent of those delays is important to learn what factors lead to late care.
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Marc S. Sabatine, MD, MPH, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and colleagues have completed a phase 2b trial of MEDI6012 in patients with STEMI. They report that MEDI6012 was not associated with significant reductions in infarct size or regression of noncalcified coronary plaque.
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Mass General Brigham clinicians and colleagues showed polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) can be performed minimally invasively and report results from a pilot study that will inform a large clinical trial to determine whether PS-OCT can predict the development of osteoarthritis.
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Members of the Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation and Immunity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital presented over 120 lectures and poster presentations at the 2022 American College of Rheumatology’s annual convergence conference. Learn more about a few of their cutting-edge presentations.
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In two high-definition larynx models, Chan and colleagues recently demonstrated that side-firing laser fibers may substantially increase endoscopic access to difficult lesions. Now, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have built on that work, corroborating the results in additional, more varied anatomic models.
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Thomas L. Carroll, MD, section chief of Laryngology and director of the Voice Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and colleagues recently completed a Delphi process to develop guidance about treating laryngopharyngeal reflux disease (LPR). They report their consensus.
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The Brigham is giving advanced heart failure patients a new option that parallels the life prolongation of heart transplantation: implantation of a fully magnetically levitated left ventricular assist device. Mandeep R. Mehra, MD, and Akinobu Itoh, MD, PhD, are at the forefront of these efforts.
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David M. Levine, MD, MPH, MA, and Jeffrey L. Schnipper, MD, MPH, of the Division of General Internal Medicine & Primary Care, and colleagues found patients who received predominantly remote physician care via videoconference had a noninferior number of adverse events compared with those who had only in-home care.
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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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