Brigham Heart & Vascular at ACC 2024
Brigham and Women’s Hospital cardiovascular experts will present their latest research at this year’s American College of Cardiology 2024 Scientific Session & Expo, held April 6–8 in Atlanta, GA.
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Brigham and Women’s Hospital cardiovascular experts will present their latest research at this year’s American College of Cardiology 2024 Scientific Session & Expo, held April 6–8 in Atlanta, GA.
Read More...An independent association between urinary incontinence (UI) and depression has been established, but it’s unclear which individuals with UI are at greatest risk of depression. In a new analysis, Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers report the risk is greatest among men and socioeconomically disadvantaged people.
Read More...Richard Iorio, MD, in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and team completed the first study to provide evidence that CT scans are not a useful adjunct to MRI when the Revised ARCO Staging System for osteonecrosis of the femoral head is used for diagnosis and treatment decisions.
Read More...Rahul S. Dalal, MD, MPH, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and colleagues recently completed a nationwide study of the use of analgesics for IBD according to age at disease onset. They report individuals with older adult–onset of IBD were more commonly prescribed analgesic medications, compared with other age groups.
Read More...Cerebral proliferative angiopathy (CPA) is a cerebral vascular malformation with distinctive features. Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers present one of the few reports of long-term follow-up of a patient with hemorrhage in CPA: 32 years of data on a patient who had recurrent hemorrhage.
Read More...The Brigham was part of a trial that shows for the first time that the weight loss drug semaglutide lowers the incidence of death from cardiovascular causes in those with overweight or obesity but not diabetes. Jorge Plutzky, MD, discusses the findings and implications for clinical care.
Read More...Paul M. Ridker, MD, MPH, of the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and colleagues found inflammation assessed by hsCRP predicted cardiovascular events and death at least as strongly as LDLC when comparing bempedoic acid with placebo in statin-intolerant patients.
Read More...Timothy Smith, MD, PhD, MPH, a neurosurgeon-scientist in the Brigham’s Department of Neurosurgery, is exploring how to utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning to optimize neurosurgical patient care. He is co-author of three papers that offer a glimpse into how these technologies are transforming the field.
Read More...Shinichi Goto, PhD, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and colleagues have developed a deep learning–based model that detects subtle changes in standard 12-lead electrocardiography data to flag patients who should undergo echocardiography to evaluate possible atrial septal defect.
Read More...Researchers have found that multiple substance use disorders (SUDs) map to their own common brain network, a finding that has therapeutic implications of its own.
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