Neurosurgery News

• Moderate Exercise in Midlife Linked to Lower Risk for ALS Moderate exercise in midlife is associated with a reduced risk for ALS later in life, but this benefit appears to be limited to men, findings from a large prospective study showed.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2024
• PNS 2024 Combo Therapy for CIDP Benefits Despite Clotting Risk OPTIC trial investigators reported sustained improvements in CIPD with intravenous immunoglobulin plus methylprednisolone after early termination for thromboembolic events.
  Medscape Medical News, July 03, 2024
• AHS 2024 Potential Genes Identified for Posttraumatic Headache Susceptibility to posttraumatic headache could be linked to mutations in ion channel and ion transporter genes, according to results from a preliminary study.
  MDedge News, June 21, 2024
• How a Mindset Shift Can Transform the Way You Practice Life-changing insights and reflection — some mundane, some extreme — helped these MDs forge a more meaningful connection with their work and patients.
  Medscape Medical News, June 12, 2024
• Blood Test a 'Game Changer' for Faster Stroke Diagnosis, Tx When combined with clinical scores, a "game-changing" blood test can expedite the diagnosis and treatment of large vessel occlusion (LVO) stroke, new data suggested.
  Medscape Medical News, June 10, 2024
• Commonly Used Meds Tied to Lower Risk for Aneurysm Rupture Commonly prescribed drugs are associated with lower risk for aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Conversely, four other meds were tied to an increased risk for the condition.
  Medscape Medical News, June 07, 2024
• ESOC 2024 Decompressive Craniectomy Beneficial in Severe, Deep ICH Decompressive craniectomy appears to benefit patients with severe deep intracerebral hemorrhage, new research showed.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2024
• AANS 2024 Suicide in Surgeons: The Toll of a High-Stakes Career Physicians are more than twice as likely to die by suicide, and surgeons are at particularly high risk due at least in part to the US neurosurgeon shortage.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2024
• AANS 2024 Diabetes/Weight Loss Med Linked to Repeat Spinal Surgery The diabetes/weight loss drug semaglutide is associated with a significantly greater risk for repeat operations in patients with diabetes who require lumbar surgery.
  Medscape Medical News, May 08, 2024
• Study Identifies Risk Factors for TBI in Elderly Clinically important traumatic brain injury occurred in one in 5 older patients with head injuries.
  Medscape Medical News, May 06, 2024
• Where Do Postoperative Infections Come From? In most cases, the bacteria causing infection are genetically similar to those present on the patient's body before the operation, data indicate.
  Medscape Medical News, May 03, 2024
• Surgical Clot Removal Superior to Meds Alone in ICH The benefit in functional outcome is a welcome finding for these deadly strokes but was restricted to a select patient population, one expert suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2024
• Can Serum S100B Monitoring Help Kids' Head Trauma? Monitoring serum S100B levels may reduce exposure to cranial CT scans, thereby reducing their number, in children with mild head trauma when a clinical decision algorithm is followed.
  Medscape Medical News, April 01, 2024
• Class I Recall of Medtronic Duet EDMS Catheter Tubing Medtronic has recalled Duet External Drainage and Monitoring System (EDMS) catheter tubing due to the potential for the catheter to disconnect from the line stopcock connector.
  Medscape Medical News, March 14, 2024
• Deterioration and ICU Admission in Nunavik Trauma Patients A retrospective study identified several predictors of clinical deterioration and ICU admission for trauma patients transferred from Nunavik, Quebec.
  Medscape Medical News, March 06, 2024
• Seizure Risk Nearly Double in Patients With MS The risk for seizure is almost twofold higher in patients with multiple sclerosis than in those without MS and higher still among those taking an S1PR modulator.
  Medscape Medical News, March 06, 2024
• Risk of Serious Head Injuries Higher in Elderly An analysis of the NEXUS Head CT database offered key insights into blunt head trauma epidemiology, presentations, and injury patterns, particularly in older patients.
  Medscape Medical News, February 29, 2024
• Flavonoids Not Tied to Reduced Parkinson's Risk Flavonoids have been proposed as an approach to reducing Parkinson's disease risk, but new data showed no association of flavonoid intake with protective benefit.
  Medscape Medical News, February 15, 2024
• Virus and Booster Apathy Could Be Fueling Long COVID "Stupidest thing I've ever done": A lack of urgency surrounding virus spread and boosters may be triggering additional long COVID cases.
  Medscape Medical News, February 14, 2024
• ISC 2024 Subdural Hematoma Embolization Success Cuts Surgery Need Three new randomized trials, EMBOLISE, MAGIC-MT, and STEM, showed convincing benefits for use of an endovascular embolization procedure in patients with a subdural hematoma.
  Medscape Medical News, February 13, 2024