Publications by authors named "M P LaValley"
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- Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) may be an innovative treatment for knee osteoarthritis (OA), investigating its safety and preliminary effects on pain relief.
- A pilot trial with 30 participants found significant reductions in knee pain immediately and shortly after tVNS, with improvements in conditioned pain modulation and heart rate variability, indicating better parasympathetic function.
- While tVNS shows promise as a non-invasive pain-relief option for knee OA, further research with larger samples is necessary to validate these findings.
Patent productivity among academic plastic surgeons in the United States over 20 years.
J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg
January 2025
Background: Innovation is a cornerstone of plastic and reconstructive surgery. Patents are a way to measure innovation. The objective of this study was to quantify and understand patent productivity in the career of academic plastic surgeons.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Systemic sclerosis-related pulmonary hypertension (SSc-PH) is a heterogeneous disease, often complicated by concomitant left ventricular (LV) dysfunction. However, the contribution of heterogeneity in LV dysfunction is unclear. The objective in this study was to identify regional clusters of LV longitudinal strain via echocardiography to determine how subgroups of LV dysfunction contribute to mortality in SSc-PH.
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- This study examines the use of muscle flap reconstruction for patients who developed complications at the groin site after undergoing venous-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO), which is often necessary for patients with severe medical issues.
- Fifteen patients were analyzed, with common issues including groin lymphocele and exposed femoral vessels; the most frequently used reconstruction method was a rectus femoris flap.
- The results indicated that muscle flap reconstruction was generally successful, with no cases of lymphocele recurrence and minimal flap-specific complications, although some patients did experience other postoperative issues.
Background: Preventing worsening osteoarthritis (OA) in persons with early OA is a major treatment goal. We evaluated if different early OA definitions yielded enough cases of worsening OA within 2-5 years to make trial testing treatments feasible.
Methods: We assessed different definitions of early OA using data from Multicenter Osteoarthritis (MOST) Study participants who were followed up longitudinally.