{"title":"Infertility Evaluation and Treatment.","authors":"Nanette Santoro, Alex J Polotsky","doi":"10.1056/NEJMcp2311150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMcp2311150","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54725,"journal":{"name":"New England Journal of Medicine","volume":"392 11","pages":"1111-1119"},"PeriodicalIF":96.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143617929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evidence-Based Work Design - Bridging the Divide.","authors":"Marisha Burden, Liselotte Dyrbye","doi":"10.1056/NEJMp2412389","DOIUrl":"10.1056/NEJMp2412389","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54725,"journal":{"name":"New England Journal of Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"1044-1046"},"PeriodicalIF":96.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143588129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What I Wish I Had Done for a Grieving Father.","authors":"Ranjana Srivastava","doi":"10.1056/NEJMp2412541","DOIUrl":"10.1056/NEJMp2412541","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54725,"journal":{"name":"New England Journal of Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"1046-1049"},"PeriodicalIF":96.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143588131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pembrolizumab in Early-Stage Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.","authors":"Ryan Sun, Tyler M Seibert, Lee-Jen Wei","doi":"10.1056/NEJMc2416491","DOIUrl":"10.1056/NEJMc2416491","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54725,"journal":{"name":"New England Journal of Medicine","volume":"392 11","pages":"1141"},"PeriodicalIF":96.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143617989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Middle Meningeal Artery Embolization for Subdural Hematoma.","authors":"Mattis A Madsbu, Sasha Gulati","doi":"10.1056/NEJMc2416123","DOIUrl":"10.1056/NEJMc2416123","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54725,"journal":{"name":"New England Journal of Medicine","volume":"392 11","pages":"1143"},"PeriodicalIF":96.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143617979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Toralf Reimer, Angrit Stachs, Kristina Veselinovic, Thorsten Kühn, Jörg Heil, Silke Polata, Frederik Marmé, Thomas Müller, Guido Hildebrandt, David Krug, Beyhan Ataseven, Roland Reitsamer, Sylvia Ruth, Carsten Denkert, Inga Bekes, Dirk-Michael Zahm, Marc Thill, Michael Golatta, Johannes Holtschmidt, Michael Knauer, Valentina Nekljudova, Sibylle Loibl, Bernd Gerber
{"title":"Axillary Surgery in Breast Cancer - Primary Results of the INSEMA Trial.","authors":"Toralf Reimer, Angrit Stachs, Kristina Veselinovic, Thorsten Kühn, Jörg Heil, Silke Polata, Frederik Marmé, Thomas Müller, Guido Hildebrandt, David Krug, Beyhan Ataseven, Roland Reitsamer, Sylvia Ruth, Carsten Denkert, Inga Bekes, Dirk-Michael Zahm, Marc Thill, Michael Golatta, Johannes Holtschmidt, Michael Knauer, Valentina Nekljudova, Sibylle Loibl, Bernd Gerber","doi":"10.1056/NEJMoa2412063","DOIUrl":"10.1056/NEJMoa2412063","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Whether surgical axillary staging as part of breast-conserving therapy can be omitted without compromising survival has remained unclear.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this prospective, randomized, noninferiority trial, we investigated the omission of axillary surgery as compared with sentinel-lymph-node biopsy in patients with clinically node-negative invasive breast cancer staged as T1 or T2 (tumor size, ≤5 cm) who were scheduled to undergo breast-conserving surgery. We report here the per-protocol analysis of invasive disease-free survival (the primary efficacy outcome). To show the noninferiority of the omission of axillary surgery, the 5-year invasive disease-free survival rate had to be at least 85%, and the upper limit of the confidence interval for the hazard ratio for invasive disease or death had to be below 1.271.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 5502 eligible patients (90% with clinical T1 cancer and 79% with pathological T1 cancer) underwent randomization in a 1:4 ratio. The per-protocol population included 4858 patients; 962 were assigned to undergo treatment without axillary surgery (the surgery-omission group), and 3896 to undergo sentinel-lymph-node biopsy (the surgery group). The median follow-up was 73.6 months. The estimated 5-year invasive disease-free survival rate was 91.9% (95% confidence interval [CI], 89.9 to 93.5) among patients in the surgery-omission group and 91.7% (95% CI, 90.8 to 92.6) among patients in the surgery group, with a hazard ratio of 0.91 (95% CI, 0.73 to 1.14), which was below the prespecified noninferiority margin. The analysis of the first primary-outcome events (occurrence or recurrence of invasive disease or death from any cause), which occurred in a total of 525 patients (10.8%), showed apparent differences between the surgery-omission group and the surgery group in the incidence of axillary recurrence (1.0% vs. 0.3%) and death (1.4% vs. 2.4%). The safety analysis indicates that patients in the surgery-omission group had a lower incidence of lymphedema, greater arm mobility, and less pain with movement of the arm or shoulder than patients who underwent sentinel-lymph-node biopsy.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In this trial involving patients with clinically node-negative, T1 or T2 invasive breast cancer (90% with clinical T1 cancer and 79% with pathological T1 cancer), omission of surgical axillary staging was noninferior to sentinel-lymph-node biopsy after a median follow-up of 6 years. (Funded by the German Cancer Aid; INSEMA ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02466737.).</p>","PeriodicalId":54725,"journal":{"name":"New England Journal of Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"1051-1064"},"PeriodicalIF":96.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142814686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gastric Adenocarcinoma and Proximal Polyposis of the Stomach.","authors":"Kosuke Tanaka, Toshiaki Hirasawa","doi":"10.1056/NEJMicm2413107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMicm2413107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54725,"journal":{"name":"New England Journal of Medicine","volume":"392 11","pages":"e29"},"PeriodicalIF":96.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143617920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Linear IgA Bullous Dermatosis of Childhood.","authors":"Arjun Pandya, Mikael Horissian","doi":"10.1056/NEJMicm2413814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMicm2413814","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54725,"journal":{"name":"New England Journal of Medicine","volume":"392 11","pages":"1120"},"PeriodicalIF":96.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143617933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Benjamin A Kamala, Hege L Ersdal, Robert D Moshiro, Godfrey Guga, Ingvild Dalen, Jan T Kvaløy, Felix A Bundala, Ahmad Makuwani, Ntuli A Kapologwe, Rashid S Mfaume, Esto R Mduma, Paschal Mdoe
{"title":"Outcomes of a Program to Reduce Birth-Related Mortality in Tanzania.","authors":"Benjamin A Kamala, Hege L Ersdal, Robert D Moshiro, Godfrey Guga, Ingvild Dalen, Jan T Kvaløy, Felix A Bundala, Ahmad Makuwani, Ntuli A Kapologwe, Rashid S Mfaume, Esto R Mduma, Paschal Mdoe","doi":"10.1056/NEJMoa2406295","DOIUrl":"10.1056/NEJMoa2406295","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Birth-related mortality is a major contributor to the burden of deaths worldwide, especially in low-income countries. The Safer Births Bundle of Care program is a combination of interventions developed to improve the quality of care for mother and baby with the goal of reducing birth-related mortality.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We performed a 3-year stepped-wedge cluster-randomized study of the Safer Births program at 30 high-burden facilities in five regions in Tanzania. The bundle of interventions in the program was aimed at continuous quality improvement through regular onsite simulation-based training, the collection and use of local clinical data, the assistance of trained local facilitators, and the use of innovative tools for perinatal care. The primary outcome was perinatal death, which included intrapartum stillbirth (suspected death during labor) and neonatal death within the first 24 hours after birth.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 281,165 mothers and 277,734 babies were included in the final analysis. The estimated incidence of perinatal death decreased from 15.3 deaths per 1000 births in the baseline period of the program to 12.5 deaths per 1000 births after implementation (adjusted relative risk, 0.82; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.73 to 0.92; P = 0.001), with substantial heterogeneity among regions. The incidence of intrapartum stillbirths was 8.6 deaths per 1000 births in the baseline period and 8.7 deaths per 1000 births after implementation (adjusted relative risk, 1.01; 95% CI, 0.87 to 1.17), and the incidence of neonatal deaths within the first 24 hours after birth was 6.4 and 3.9 deaths per 1000 births, respectively (adjusted relative risk, 0.61; 95% CI, 0.49 to 0.77). No serious adverse events were reported.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Implementation of the Safer Births Bundle of Care program showed the feasibility of integrating quality-improvement efforts targeting birth-related emergencies in resource-limited settings and was associated with a significant reduction in perinatal mortality. (Funded by the Global Financing Facility; ISRCTN Registry number, ISRCTN30541755.).</p>","PeriodicalId":54725,"journal":{"name":"New England Journal of Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"1100-1110"},"PeriodicalIF":96.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143517446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Petra Simic, David M Dudzinski, Behrooz Masuodi, Caitlin Colling, Li Liu
{"title":"Case 8-2025: A 72-Year-Old Woman with Altered Mental Status and Acidemia.","authors":"Petra Simic, David M Dudzinski, Behrooz Masuodi, Caitlin Colling, Li Liu","doi":"10.1056/NEJMcpc2312727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMcpc2312727","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54725,"journal":{"name":"New England Journal of Medicine","volume":"392 11","pages":"1121-1132"},"PeriodicalIF":96.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143617872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}