Neurosurgery News

• When Do Older Adults Need CT in the ED After a Fall? A new decision rule could help emergency physicians identify which older adults need CT imaging for head injuries after a fall.
  Medscape Medical News, December 04, 2023
• Experimental Tx Restores Cognitive Function in Chronic TBI In a first-in-humans trial, deep brain stimulation restored executive function in five individuals with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury 3-18 years after injury.
  Medscape Medical News, December 04, 2023
• Safeguarding Physician Wellness: Preventing Disabilities Between 2% and 5% of physicians may become disabled. Take proactive measures to safeguard your well-being and prevent disabilities.
  Medscape Medical News, November 21, 2023
• New Findings Support DBS in Parkinson's With GBA Mutation Outcomes after deep brain stimulation in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) with a mutation in the GBA gene are generally comparable to those of patients with PD not carrying this mutation.
  Medscape Medical News, November 10, 2023
• No Increase in MS Disease Activity Due to COVID-19 COVID-19 has no impact on disease activity, progression, or cognitive performance in patients with multiple sclerosis.
  Medscape Medical News, November 02, 2023
• WSC 2023 Tenecteplase Non-inferior to Alteplase in Stroke: ATTEST-2 This result, along with its ease of use, adds to the growing evidence that tenecteplase should be a first-line thrombolytic agent, trial investigators say.
  Medscape Medical News, October 20, 2023
• WSC 2023 Thrombectomy Benefits Large-Strokes After Simple Imaging The TENSION trial, which was stopped early for efficacy, selected patients using widely available non-contrast CT or CT angiography and should lead to more patients being considered for treatment.
  Medscape Medical News, October 13, 2023
• Time to Add aHSCT to Standard Care in RRMS? 73% of patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis were disease free 5 years after aHSCT treatment, and more than half reported improved disability.
  Medscape Medical News, October 02, 2023
• Pair of Trailblazers of mRNA Vaccine Science Win Nobel Prize Scientists who pioneered an underlying technology to harness fragile genetic material in a way that ultimately resulted in the mRNA vaccines used to combat the COVID-19 pandemic were honored Monday.
  Medscape Medical News, October 02, 2023
• No Benefit of EC/IC Bypass vs Meds in Large-Artery Stroke Despite surgical advances, adding extracranial-intracranial bypass to medical therapy does not reduce stroke or death in symptomatic occlusion of the internal carotid or middle cerebral artery.
  Medscape Medical News, September 26, 2023
• From Sci-Fi to Reality: Robotic Surgery's 'Exciting' Time Driving the technology forward are advances in materials science and AI, plus patient benefits like shorter recovery times and less pain.
  WebMD Health News, September 26, 2023
• Artificial Intelligence Gives Paralyzed Woman Voice Back A brain-computer interface translates neural signals of a woman who is unable to speak, not only into text on a screen but into audible speech using a digital avatar.
  Medscape Medical News, August 23, 2023
• Expert Calls for Sparing Use of Oxygen for Dyspnea in the ED A clinician argues that oxygen therapy is given too readily even though data indicate that excess oxygen is harmful.
  Medscape Medical News, August 22, 2023
• Deep Brain Stimulation Promising in Post-Stroke Recovery A small pilot study shows DBS to be both safe and efficacious in reducing motor impairment and improving recovery of upper limb function after stroke.
  Medscape Medical News, August 18, 2023
• Top US Neurology, Neurosurgery Hospitals Ranked NYU Langone Hospitals, New York, and UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, remain the top two US hospitals for neurology and neurosurgery, according to US News & World Report's latest rankings.
  Medscape Medical News, August 02, 2023
• Oral Tobacco Use Linked to Slower MS Progression Smoking has been linked to more rapid MS progression and greater disease severity but new data suggest oral tobacco use tied to slower disease progression.
  Medscape Medical News, August 02, 2023
• AANS 2023 1 in 5 Brain Injury Trials Show Errors, Signs of Spin Researchers examined 150 randomized traumatic brain injury studies from 1960 to 2020 in top neurosurgery medical journals and found that 21% of them had mathematical errors or exaggerated results.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2023
• AAN 2023 Stroke Scale Cutoff Might Not Be Ideal Guide 'When you are discussing when to perform CTA in patients with a low NIHSS score, you are discussing the majority of patients,' said Dr Theresa Sevilis regional medical director for TeleSpecialists.
  MDedge News, May 05, 2023
• AAN 2023 Teriflunomide Delays MS Symptoms in RIS For patients with radiologically isolated syndrome (RIS) predictive of multiple sclerosis (MS), teriflunomide reduced the risk of a demyelinating event over a 2-year period in a phase 3 trial.
  MDedge News, May 05, 2023
• AANS 2023 Neurosurgery Medicare Payments Down 11% Over 19 Years The inflation-adjusted drop reflects an overall decline in physician reimbursements due to cutbacks.
  Medscape Medical News, May 04, 2023
• First In Utero Cerebrovascular Surgery Success In a first-of-its-kind in utero surgery, researchers have successfully repaired a vein of Galen malformation, which often leads to heart failure, severe brain injury, or possibly death soon after birth.
  Medscape Medical News, May 04, 2023
• AANS 2023 History Mystery: Did Subdural Hematoma Kill Thomas Aquinas? Researchers believe they've diagnosed the cause of the great theologian's protracted death.
  Medscape Medical News, April 28, 2023
• AANS 2023 Decompression, Fusion Better for Slipped Vertebrae? Surprising data in a 5-year retrospective analysis after degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis surgery go against previous findings.
  Medscape Medical News, April 27, 2023
• AANS 2023 Similar Result for Craniotomy, Craniectomy in Acute Hematoma A randomized trial in acute subdural hematoma shows similar outcome whether the bone flap is replaced or not during decompressive surgery, although replacing the bone flap avoids another surgery.
  Medscape Medical News, April 27, 2023