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Specialty: Pulmonary & Thoracic Surgery
A Mass General Brigham study suggests nirmatrelvir plus ritonavir (Paxlovid) reduces COVID-19 severity even in highly vaccinated adults over the age of 50. In this Q&A, Scott Dryden-Peterson, MD, MSc, and Ann Woolley, MD, MPH, discuss key takeaways from the study and describe best methods for prescribing Paxlovid.
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Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers are the first to characterize Plpp6, a mouse homolog of PLPP6, as a polyisoprenyl diphosphate phosphatase that’s activated in dendritic cells after airway exposure to an aeroallergen. They suggest PLPP6 is likely a targetable regulatory checkpoint for allergic inflammation.
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Brigham researchers previously reported that first-degree relatives of patients with pulmonary fibrosis have high rates of interstitial lung abnormalities (ILA). Their two-year follow-up indicates radiologic progression of ILA was common in relatives and may be associated with accelerated loss of lung function.
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Farhad R. Nezami, PhD, lead investigator in the Division of Cardiac Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is a mechanical and aerospace engineer by training. His lab pulls from engineering, computer science, and bioinformatics to uncover better diagnostic tools and predictors of clinical events.
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Physicians at Brigham and Women’s Hospital recently encountered a patient with exertional dyspnea and inducible laryngeal obstruction at rest who was ultimately diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy as the cause of his symptoms.
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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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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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The Brigham’s Division of Thoracic Surgery launched a care continuum collaborative in 2011 to monitor the progress of patients discharged to Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital after thoracic surgery. Namrata Patil, MD, MPH, details why she founded the collaboration and its beneficial impact on patient care.
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Brigham researchers recently completed the first proteomic analysis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD). They identify molecular signatures strongly associated with the presence and severity of RA-ILD and provide insight into unexplored disease pathways.
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Guo-Ping Shi, ScD, in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and colleagues review how allergic asthma affects the risk of cardiovascular disease.
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