10 results match your criteria: "University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center. Worcester[Affiliation]"
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- Researchers developed a 9-point score to predict positive outcomes for patients undergoing endovascular therapy (EVT) in late-presenting strokes (6-24 hours after last known well), based on a multinational study involving over 3,200 patients.
- The score takes into account factors like age, early CT changes, and stroke severity, with higher scores indicating a better chance of functional recovery at 90 days compared to those receiving only medical management.
- Validation of the score showed it is a useful tool for estimating EVT outcomes, particularly benefiting patients with lower to midrange scores in terms of good functional results and independence.
Disease progression rates in ambulatory Duchenne muscular dystrophy by steroid type, patient age and functional status.
J Comp Eff Res
April 2023
Analysis Group, Inc., Boston, MA 02199, USA.
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- * Data from 231 patients across four clinical trials were evaluated, focusing on improvements in walking ability and timed physical tasks after 48 weeks of treatment.
- * Results indicate that deflazacort offers more significant benefits than prednisone, especially in older patients (8 years and above) or those with advanced disease progression and longer steroid use.
Estimates of throughput and utilization at freestanding compared to low-volume hospital-based emergency departments.
J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open
December 2020
Objective: Our investigation compared throughput metrics and utilization measures for freestanding emergency departments (FSEDs) versus hospital-based emergency departments (HBEDs) of similar volumes in the United States.
Methods: This study is a cross sectional survey of 183 FSEDs and 317 HBEDs located across the United States using the Emergency Department Benchmarking Alliance (EDBA) Database. We measured common emergency department (ED) throughput metrics.
Rates of Potentially Inappropriate Dosing of Direct-Acting Oral Anticoagulants and Associations With Geriatric Conditions Among Older Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: The SAGE-AF Study.
J Am Heart Assoc
March 2020
Cardiology Division Department of Medicine University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester MA.
Background Direct-acting oral anticoagulant (DOAC) dosing guidelines for atrial fibrillation recommend dose alteration based on age, renal function, body weight, and drug-drug interactions. There is paucity of data describing the frequency and factors associated with prescription of potentially inappropriate doses. Methods and Results In the ongoing SAGE-AF (Systematic Assessment of Geriatric Elements in Atrial Fibrillation) study, we performed geriatric assessments (frailty, cognitive impairment, sensory impairments, social isolation, and depression) for participants with atrial fibrillation (age ≥65 years, CHADSVASc ≥2, no anticoagulant contraindications).
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- * Among a large group of STEMI and NSTEMI patients, those with cognitive impairment had lower rates of certain cardiac interventions like angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention compared to those without cognitive impairment.
- * The findings indicated that both mild and moderate/severe cognitive impairment were linked to higher in-hospital mortality rates, suggesting a significant impact on patients' outcomes based on their cognitive health.
Risks factors for significant injury after geriatric falls.
Int J Aging Res
January 2019
Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH (formerly at 1,2).
Elderly falls are a healthcare epidemic. We aimed to identify risk factors of serious falls by linking data on functional status from the Global Longitudinal Study of Osteoporosis in Women (GLOW) and our institutional trauma registry. 124 of 5,091 local women enrolled in GLOW were evaluated by our trauma team for injuries related to a fall during the study period.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDynamic contrast-enhanced MRI findings of acute pancreatitis in ectopic pancreatic tissue: case report and review of the literature.
JOP
July 2014
Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center. Worcester, MA, USA.
Context: Acute pancreatitis in ectopic pancreatic tissue is an uncommon cause of acute abdominal pain and can be difficult to diagnose on imaging. Our aim is to raise awareness and aid in the diagnosis of this entity by highlighting helpful dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI imaging findings.
Case Report: We report a 51-year-old man with acute onset epigastric pain presented to ER.
Ultrasound-guided epidural blood patch.
Anesthesiology
June 2011
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
Commissioning of mini-multi-leaf-collimator (MMLC) for stereotactic radiosurgery and radiotherapy.
J Xray Sci Technol
January 2003
Radiation Oncology, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA Radiation Oncology, University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center Worcester, MA 01655, USA.
Commissioning of a Radionics miniature multi-leaf collimator (MMLC) for stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) is reported. With single isocenter and multi static fields, the MMLC can provide better conformity of dose distributions to the target and/or irregularly shaped target volumes than standard arc (circular) field beams with multiple isocenters. Advantages offered by the MMLC over traditional LINAC based SRS and SRT includes greatly improved dose homogeneity to the target, reduced patient positioning time and reduced treatment time.
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