{"title":"Linking a Neurodevelopmental Disorder with a lncRNA Deletion.","authors":"Ling-Ling Chen","doi":"10.1056/nejme2411291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1056/nejme2411291","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54725,"journal":{"name":"New England Journal of Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":158.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142489498","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":"Osimertinib after Chemoradiotherapy in Stage III EGFR-Mutated NSCLC","authors":"","doi":"10.1056/nejmc2411471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmc2411471","url":null,"abstract":"To the Editor: The trial by Lu et al. (Aug. 15 issue)1 showed a significant progression-free survival benefit with osimertinib in patients with stage III non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with an ...","PeriodicalId":54725,"journal":{"name":"New England Journal of Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":158.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142488511","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":"Parkinson's Disease.","authors":"Nathan Beucler","doi":"10.1056/NEJMc2410843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMc2410843","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54725,"journal":{"name":"New England Journal of Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":96.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142513153","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":"Crinecerfont in Adult Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia.","authors":"Nikolai P Jaschke","doi":"10.1056/NEJMc2411263","DOIUrl":"10.1056/NEJMc2411263","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54725,"journal":{"name":"New England Journal of Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":96.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142513149","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}
Joseph Dias, Puvanendran Tharmanathan, Catherine Arundel, Charlie Welch, Qi Wu, Paul Leighton, Maria Armaou, Nick Johnson, Sophie James, John Cooke, Lionel Bainbridge, Michael Craigen, David Warwick, Samantha Brady, Lydia G Flett, Judy Jones, Catherine N Knowlson, Michelle Watson, Ada Keding, Catherine E Hewitt, David Torgerson
{"title":"Collagenase Injection versus Limited Fasciectomy for Dupuytren's Contracture.","authors":"Joseph Dias, Puvanendran Tharmanathan, Catherine Arundel, Charlie Welch, Qi Wu, Paul Leighton, Maria Armaou, Nick Johnson, Sophie James, John Cooke, Lionel Bainbridge, Michael Craigen, David Warwick, Samantha Brady, Lydia G Flett, Judy Jones, Catherine N Knowlson, Michelle Watson, Ada Keding, Catherine E Hewitt, David Torgerson","doi":"10.1056/NEJMoa2312631","DOIUrl":"10.1056/NEJMoa2312631","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Treatments for Dupuytren's contracture include limited fasciectomy and collagenase injection. Comparisons of the effectiveness of these treatments have been limited.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We performed an unblinded, multicenter, pragmatic, two-group, randomized, controlled noninferiority trial comparing collagenase injection with limited fasciectomy in persons with moderate Dupuytren's contracture. The primary outcome was the score on the Patient Evaluation Measure-Hand Health Profile (PEM), a questionnaire for assessing hand health as reported by the patient, at 1 year after treatment. Scores on the PEM range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating worse outcomes. The prespecified noninferiority margin was 6 points.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 672 persons (336 per group) were assigned to receive collagenase injection or to undergo limited fasciectomy. The primary analysis included 599 persons: 314 in the collagenase group and 285 in the limited-fasciectomy group. The mean score on the PEM at 1 year was 17.8 among the 284 patients with available data in the collagenase group and 11.9 among the 250 patients with available data in the limited-fasciectomy group (estimated difference, 5.9 points; 95% confidence interval [CI], 3.1 to 8.8; one-sided P = 0.49 for noninferiority). Among the patients with available data (229 patients in the collagenase group and 197 patients in the limited-fasciectomy group), the estimated difference in the mean score on the PEM at 2 years was 7.2 points (95% CI, 4.2 to 10.9). Moderate or severe complications of treatment occurred in 1.8% of the patients in the collagenase group and in 5.1% of those in the limited-fasciectomy group; recurrent contracture resulted in reintervention in 14.6% and 3.4%, respectively.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Collagenase injection was not noninferior to limited fasciectomy with respect to the score on the PEM at 1 year after treatment. (Funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research Health Technology Assessment Programme; DISC ISRCTN Registry number ISRCTN18254597.).</p>","PeriodicalId":54725,"journal":{"name":"New England Journal of Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":96.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7616701/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142395345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scott D Solomon, John J V McMurray, Muthiah Vaduganathan, Brian Claggett, Pardeep S Jhund, Akshay S Desai, Alasdair D Henderson, Carolyn S P Lam, Bertram Pitt, Michele Senni, Sanjiv J Shah, Adriaan A Voors, Faiez Zannad, Imran Zainal Abidin, Marco Antonio Alcocer-Gamba, John J Atherton, Johann Bauersachs, Ma Chang-Sheng, Chern-En Chiang, Ovidiu Chioncel, Vijay Chopra, Josep Comin-Colet, Gerasimos Filippatos, Cândida Fonseca, Grzegorz Gajos, Sorel Goland, Eva Goncalvesova, Seokmin Kang, Tzvetana Katova, Mikhail N Kosiborod, Gustavs Latkovskis, Alex Pui-Wai Lee, Gerard C M Linssen, Guillermo Llamas-Esperón, Vyacheslav Mareev, Felipe A Martinez, Vojtěch Melenovský, Béla Merkely, Savina Nodari, Mark C Petrie, Clara Inés Saldarriaga, Jose Francisco Kerr Saraiva, Naoki Sato, Morten Schou, Kavita Sharma, Richard Troughton, Jacob A Udell, Heikki Ukkonen, Orly Vardeny, Subodh Verma, Dirk von Lewinski, Leonid Voronkov, Mehmet Birhan Yilmaz, Shelley Zieroth, James Lay-Flurrie, Ilse van Gameren, Flaviana Amarante, Peter Kolkhof, Prabhakar Viswanathan
{"title":"Finerenone in Heart Failure with Mildly Reduced or Preserved Ejection Fraction.","authors":"Scott D Solomon, John J V McMurray, Muthiah Vaduganathan, Brian Claggett, Pardeep S Jhund, Akshay S Desai, Alasdair D Henderson, Carolyn S P Lam, Bertram Pitt, Michele Senni, Sanjiv J Shah, Adriaan A Voors, Faiez Zannad, Imran Zainal Abidin, Marco Antonio Alcocer-Gamba, John J Atherton, Johann Bauersachs, Ma Chang-Sheng, Chern-En Chiang, Ovidiu Chioncel, Vijay Chopra, Josep Comin-Colet, Gerasimos Filippatos, Cândida Fonseca, Grzegorz Gajos, Sorel Goland, Eva Goncalvesova, Seokmin Kang, Tzvetana Katova, Mikhail N Kosiborod, Gustavs Latkovskis, Alex Pui-Wai Lee, Gerard C M Linssen, Guillermo Llamas-Esperón, Vyacheslav Mareev, Felipe A Martinez, Vojtěch Melenovský, Béla Merkely, Savina Nodari, Mark C Petrie, Clara Inés Saldarriaga, Jose Francisco Kerr Saraiva, Naoki Sato, Morten Schou, Kavita Sharma, Richard Troughton, Jacob A Udell, Heikki Ukkonen, Orly Vardeny, Subodh Verma, Dirk von Lewinski, Leonid Voronkov, Mehmet Birhan Yilmaz, Shelley Zieroth, James Lay-Flurrie, Ilse van Gameren, Flaviana Amarante, Peter Kolkhof, Prabhakar Viswanathan","doi":"10.1056/NEJMoa2407107","DOIUrl":"10.1056/NEJMoa2407107","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists reduce morbidity and mortality among patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction, but their efficacy in those with heart failure and mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction has not been established. Data regarding the efficacy and safety of the nonsteroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist finerenone in patients with heart failure and mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction are needed.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this international, double-blind trial, we randomly assigned patients with heart failure and a left ventricular ejection fraction of 40% or greater, in a 1:1 ratio, to receive finerenone (at a maximum dose of 20 mg or 40 mg once daily) or matching placebo, in addition to usual therapy. The primary outcome was a composite of total worsening heart failure events (with an event defined as a first or recurrent unplanned hospitalization or urgent visit for heart failure) and death from cardiovascular causes. The components of the primary outcome and safety were also assessed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Over a median follow-up of 32 months, 1083 primary-outcome events occurred in 624 of 3003 patients in the finerenone group, and 1283 primary-outcome events occurred in 719 of 2998 patients in the placebo group (rate ratio, 0.84; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.74 to 0.95; P = 0.007). The total number of worsening heart failure events was 842 in the finerenone group and 1024 in the placebo group (rate ratio, 0.82; 95% CI, 0.71 to 0.94; P = 0.006). The percentage of patients who died from cardiovascular causes was 8.1% and 8.7%, respectively (hazard ratio, 0.93; 95% CI, 0.78 to 1.11). Finerenone was associated with an increased risk of hyperkalemia and a reduced risk of hypokalemia.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In patients with heart failure and mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction, finerenone resulted in a significantly lower rate of a composite of total worsening heart failure events and death from cardiovascular causes than placebo. (Funded by Bayer; FINEARTS-HF ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT04435626.).</p>","PeriodicalId":54725,"journal":{"name":"New England Journal of Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":96.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142121187","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":"Crinecerfont in Adult Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia","authors":"","doi":"10.1056/nejmc2411263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmc2411263","url":null,"abstract":"To the Editor: In the phase 3 CAHtalyst trial reported by Auchus et al. (Aug. 8 issue),1 the use of crinecerfont allowed for a greater reduction in the mean daily glucocorticoid dose than placebo (...","PeriodicalId":54725,"journal":{"name":"New England Journal of Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":158.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142488370","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":"FINEARTS-HF - The Latest Masterpiece for MRAs in Heart Failure.","authors":"Theresa A McDonagh","doi":"10.1056/nejme2411214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1056/nejme2411214","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54725,"journal":{"name":"New England Journal of Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":158.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142489497","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":"Burnout, Depression, and Diminished Well-Being among Physicians.","authors":"Constance Guille,Srijan Sen","doi":"10.1056/nejmra2302878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmra2302878","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54725,"journal":{"name":"New England Journal of Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":158.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142489496","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":"NEJM at ESC - Finerenone in Heart Failure for Mildly Reduced or Preserved Ejection Fraction.","authors":"Eric J Rubin, Jane Leopold, Stephen Morrissey","doi":"10.1056/NEJMe2410904","DOIUrl":"10.1056/NEJMe2410904","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54725,"journal":{"name":"New England Journal of Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":96.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142121193","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}