Middle meningeal artery embolization following surgical evacuation of symptomatic chronic subdural hematoma improves outcomes, interim results of a prospective randomized trial.

Background: Outcomes after surgical treatment of chronic subdural hematoma (cSDH) remain undesirable in a significant proportion of patients. We aimed to show the role of middle meningeal artery (MMA) embolization and to demonstrate its benefits.

Methods: Thirty-five patients with symptomatic cSDH were enrolled in a prospective randomized trial following evacuation surgery.

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Triple-Valve Infective Endocarditis With Multi-Organ Involvement.

Multivalvular endocarditis is a rare and potentially fatal complication that can occur in people who inject drugs. Currently, there are few cases that have been studied or reported in literature. A complication of this manifestation that worsens prognosis and treatment is the distribution of septic emboli throughout the body which highlights the dissemination of the infection.

Industry payments to academic neurosurgeons in 2021: an open payments cross-sectional analysis.

Objective: The Open Payments Program (OPP) was a database started in 2013 by the US government to report payments made by the medical device and pharmaceutical industry to physicians. Neurosurgery is a technologically advanced field that relies heavily on the latest innovations for complex treatment of its patient population. This study sought to explore the financial relationship between academic neurosurgeons and the industry.

Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Financial Hardship Among CVD Patients in the USA During the Pre- and Post-Affordable Care Act Era.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has substantially expanded access to health insurance coverage, resulting in a reduction in financial hardship, defined as ability to pay medical bills, among cardiovascular disease (CVD) patients in the post-ACA era. However, it is not known whether implementation of the ACA improved the racial and ethnic inequity in financial hardship among CVD patients. As such, using data from the 2011 to 2018 waves of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), this paper aims to assess the odds of facing financial hardship among non-Hispanic-White, -Black, -Asian, and Hispanic CVD patients, before and after the implementation of the ACA.