Brigham And Womens Hospital

SAN DIEGO — Standardized documentation of surgical decision-making and preoperative surgical care may reduce Medicare audit requests for total joint arthroplasty cases, according to results.

According to published results, increased surgeon stress in the first 5 minutes of surgery was associated with a significant decrease in major postoperative surgical complications.

Updates in new antiplatelet therapies, new patient populations for PCI and AI to guide CAD staging were among the top developments in thrombosis and coronary disease from 2024.

Glucarpidase significantly improved kidney function for patients who developed acute kidney injury from high-dose methotrexate, according to results of a large, multicenter observational study.

Increased intermuscular fat, not BMI, was independently associated with coronary microvascular function and major adverse CV events, according to new data published in the European Heart Journal.

Men were less likely than women to have weight-loss surgery, and that gap has widened over time, while Black patients were less likely than those of other races to have a procedure, and that gap has narrowed slightly, new data show.

WASHINGTON — In this video, Jeffrey A. Sparks, MD, MMSc, spotlights a study evaluating the impact of remote monitoring of rheumatoid arthritis.

WASHINGTON — Healio spoke with Jeffrey A. Sparks, MD, MMSc, about baseline results from the SAIL-RA study, which assesses which patients with rheumatoid arthritis may be at risk for developing interstitial lung disease.

WASHINGTON — In this video, Jeffrey A. Sparks, MD, MMSc, highlights an observational study investigating the impact of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs on rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease.

WASHINGTON — In this video, Jeffrey A. Sparks, MD, MMSc, discusses two translational studies focused on human tissue for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.