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Adam S. Kibel, MD, and Jiun-Hung Geng, of the Brigham’s Division of Urology, and colleagues recently conducted the first study of how the combination of metabolic syndrome and its treatment affect response to androgen deprivation therapy in castration-sensitive prostate cancer.
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C. Eduardo Corrales, MD, Ryan A. Bartholomew, MD, and colleagues detected a 21% prevalence of radiologic cranial nerves abnormalities in patients with hereditary neuropathies who underwent MRI. They caution physicians not to assume these findings represent pathologies requiring intervention by an otolaryngologist.
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Having dedicated his career to patient care, education and research, Douglas S. Smink, MD, MPH, embodies the classic tripartite mission of an academic medical center. He discusses his experience leading the Association of Program Directors in Surgery as well as his research on innovative gastrointestinal training.
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In 2018, a multidisciplinary team at Brigham and Women’s Hospital developed a multimodal enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) program to optimize perioperative care in cardiac surgery. They report promising early results in Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
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Wide variability has been reported in the administrative and quality improvement databases that are used to guide evidence-based decision-making in vascular surgery. A Brigham team detected numerous differences in patient populations and outcomes between three national data repositories using OAAA repair as a model.
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The Brigham and Women’s Hospital Rheumatoid Arthritis Sequential Study (BRASS) has played an important role in advancing the study of rheumatic arthritis and development of related therapies. Co-principal investigator Michael E. Weinblatt, MD, discusses what this patient registry has helped make possible.
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Since many patients with diabetes are ineligible for RYGB or decline it, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital developed an orally administered gut barrier coating for improving glucose homeostasis.
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Researchers in the Brigham’s Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, led by Elisabetta Patorno, MD, DrPH, have determined obesity-related International Classification of Disease (ICD) codes accurately identify patients with obesity in claims-based data.
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Several studies of patients undergoing joint arthroplasty and insured by Medicaid report systematically worse patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) scores than patients with other insurance. Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital found the same is true among patients with lumbar spinal stenosis.
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Ariela Orkaby MD, MPH, of the Brigham’s Division of Aging, and colleagues report that increased frailty status as rated on the Clinical Frailty Scale is associated with increased mortality in older adults after in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
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