Faculty Publications April 24-May1

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published April 24-May 1. If you have a published paper from this period that does not appear on this list, please contact Sue Marone.

Cedars-Sinai in the News

7 Signs It’s Time to Take Your Memory Issues Seriously | TIME 
Zaldy Tan, MD, MPH

HPV Infection May Increase The Risk Of Heart Disease. Could Vaccination Lower It? | Scientific American
Noel Bairey Merz, MD 

Common Medications Tied to Older Age at Onset of Parkinson Disease | HealthDay
Camille Malatt, MD; Michele Tagliati, MD 

Trial Reinforces Superiority of VT Ablation for Patients With Ischemic Heart Disease | Healio Cardiology Today
Christine Albert, MD 

Hospitalists’ Role in Bridging Inpatient and Outpatient Care: Strategies for Successful Discharge Planning | Medscape
Brad Rosen, MD 

Subgroup Analyses and Clinical Insights in Metastatic Hormone-Sensitive Prostate Cancer Treatment | Urology Times
Edwin Posadas, MD 

New AACE Guidance Highlights Treatments, Genetic Testing for MEN1-Associated Tumors | Healio 
Alexandra Gangi, MD

Investigating the Addition of Surgery to ICI Therapy in Kidney Cancer | Cure
Hyung Kim, MD

Faculty Publications

Anesthesiology

Challenges in Achieving More Sustainable Anaesthesia Practices: A Narrative Review of Waste Reduction. Skraastad, Erlend J., Ofelia L. Elvir-Lazo, Paul F. White, David Chernobylsky, Ravina Brring, and Roya Yumul. BJA Open 14 (June): 100406.

Biomedical Sciences

Quantification of Carotid Artery Plaque and Peri-Vascular Adipose Tissue Attenuation on Computed Tomography. Whittington, Beth, Viswan Thiagarajah, Evangelos Tzolos, Jakub Kaczynski, Caelan Taggart, Alex Vesey, Damini Dey, Rachael O. Forsythe, Andrew Tambyraja, Edwin J. R. van Beek, Marc R. Dweck, David E. Newby, and Michelle C. Williams. European Heart Journal. Imaging Methods and Practice 3 (1): qyaf040.

The Honest Enterprise Research Broker: Facilitating Ethical, Efficient, and Secure Access to Health Data for Research. Keller, Michelle S., Pamela Roberts, Kevin Japardi, Joseph E. Ebinger, Tod Davis, Joshua Pevnick, Sivathmika Chevvuri, Hudson Stuck, Shao-Chi Huang, Edward Kowalewski, Ashley Lin, Andrew Sanapanya, Alan Tomines, and Spencer SooHoo. Applied Clinical Informatics 16 (2): 362–68.

Changes in Diabetes Screening and Exercise during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Adults With Prediabetes. Rodriguez, Luis A., Maher Yassin, O. Kenrik Duru, Romain S. Neugebauer, Susan D. Brown, Yelba Castellon-Lopez, Tainayah W. Thomas, and Julie A. Schmittdiel. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, April, 112195.

Preprocedural CT Angiography and Machine Learning for Mortality Prediction After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. Kwiecinski, Jacek, Kajetan Grodecki, Konrad Pieszko, Maciej Dabrowski, Zbigniew Chmielak, Wojciech Wojakowski, Julia Niemierko, Jadwiga Fijalkowska, Dariusz Jagielak, Philipp Ruile, Simon Schoechlin, Hesham Elzomor, Piotr Slomka, Adam Witkowski, and Damini Dey. Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, April, S0033-0620(25)00061-1.

Assessing the Diagnostic, Prognostic, and Therapeutic Potential of the Somatostatin/Cortistatin System in Glioblastoma. G-García, Miguel E., Ana S. De la Rosa-Herencia, Álvaro Flores-Martínez, María Ortega-Bellido, Rafael Sánchez-Sánchez, Cristóbal Blanco-Acevedo, Manuel D. Gahete, Juan Solivera, Raúl M. Luque, and Antonio C. Fuentes-Fayos. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences: CMLS 82 (1): 173.

DHODH Modulates Immune Evasion of Cancer Cells via CDP-Choline Dependent Regulation of Phospholipid Metabolism and Ferroptosis. Teng, Da, Kenneth D. Swanson, Ruiheng Wang, Aojia Zhuang, Haofeng Wu, Zhixin Niu, Li Cai, Faith R. Avritt, Lei Gu, John M. Asara, Yaqing Zhang, and Bin Zheng. Nature Communications 16 (1): 3867.

Augmenting Parenting Programs With the Pause Mobile App: Mixed Methods Evaluation. Hodson, Nathan, Peter Ivor Woods, Stephanie Donohoe, Juan Luque Solano, James Gardner, Manuel Giardino, Michael Sobolev, and Domenico Giacco. JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting 8 (April): e68807.

DON-Apt19S Bioactive Scaffold Transplantation Promotes In Situ Spinal Cord Repair in Rats With Transected Spinal Cord Injury by Effectively Recruiting Endogenous Neural Stem Cells and Mesenchymal Stem Cells. Lai, Bi-Qin, Rong-Jie Wu, Chuang-Ran Wu, Hai-Yang Yu, Jing Xu, Shang-Bin Yang, Zheng-Hong Chen, Xing Li, Yi-Nan Guo, Yue Yang, Ming-Tian Che, Ting-Ting Wu, Guang-Tao Fu, Yu-Hui Yang, Zhen Chen, Nan Hua, Rui Liu, Qiu-Jian Zheng, and Yuan-Feng Chen. Materials Today. Bio 32 (June): 101753.

Cardiac Surgery

The Current State of Redo Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) and Limitations: Why TAVR Explant Is Important as the Valve Reintervention Strategy. Lee, Grace S., Gilbert Tang, Syed Zaid, and Derrick Y. Tam. Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery 14 (2): 98–111.

The Future Direction of Post-Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Re-Interventions: Insights From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Database. Bowdish, Michael E., and Vinay Badhwar. Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery 14 (2): 151–53.

Chronic Extraction of Stylet-Driven Leads Implanted at the Left Bundle Branch Area in a Preclinical Model. Schaller, Robert D., Eric A. Johnson, Raymond H. Schaerf, Shunmuga Sundaram Ponnusamy, Mark Sprowls, Laukik Nagawekar, Wes Alleman, Leyla Sabet, Vishnu Charan, and Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman. Heart Rhythm, April, S1547-5271(25)02382-3.

Racial and Gender Disparities in the Management and Outcomes of Patients With Acute Mesenteric Ischemia: A Nationwide Retrospective Cohort Analysis. Bhatti, Umar F., Eileen Lu, Mohammed A. Quazi, Amir H. Sohail, Sage E. Templeton, Hamza Hanif, Yassine Kilani, Saqr Alsakarneh, Abu Baker Sheikh, Rozi Khan, Galinos Barmparas, and Hasan B. Alam. The Journal of Surgical Research 309 (April): 257–68.

Cardiology

Impact of Climate Change and the Environment on Cardiovascular Health and Role of Healthcare. Mihailidou, Anastasia S., and Martha Gulati. American Heart Journal Plus: Cardiology Research and Practice 52 (April): 100510.

Reply: Macrophage Activation in Systemic Sclerosis. Jones, Xaviar M., Salwa Soussi, Nunzio Bottini, Ahmed G. E. Ibrahim, and Eduardo Marbán. JACC. Basic to Translational Science 10 (4): 507.

Age-Dependent Risk of Long-Term All-Cause Mortality in Patients Post-Myocardial Infarction and Acute Kidney Injury. Skalsky, Keren, Mashav Romi, Arthur Shiyovich, Alon Shechter, Tzlil Grinberg, Harel Gilutz, and Ygal Plakht. Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease 12 (4): 133.

Healthcare Expenditure on Atrial Fibrillation in the United States: The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey 2016 to 2021. See, Claudia, Scott Grubman, Nisarg Shah, Jiun-Ruey Hu, Michael Nanna, James V. Freeman, and Karthik Murugiah. JACC. Advances 4 (5): 101716.

Key Advances in Cardiac Computed Tomography: A Review of the Most Relevant Studies Published in 2024 on Coronary and Structural Heart Disease. Rubio, Pablo M., Hector M. Garcia-Garcia, Agostina A. Sanchez, Abdulhamied Alfaddagh, Daniele Andreini, Andrea Baggiano, Arzu Canan, Marcus Chen, Benjamin J. W. Chow, Anjali Chelliah, Edoardo Conte, Carlo N. DeCecco, Timothy Fairbairn, Maros Ferencik, Grudun Feuchtner, Bernhard Föellmer, Cristina Fuss, Heidi Gransar, Ashraf Hamdan, B. Kelly Han, Sandina Jamieson, Brian Ko, Jonathan A. Leipsic, Nidhi Madan, Florian Michallek, Saima Mushtaq, Prashant Nagpal, Ming-Yen Ng, Edward Nicol, Hiroyuki Niinuma, Gianluca Pontone, Amir Pourmorteza, Anna Reid, Jonathan R. Weir-McCall, Seamus Whelton, Michelle Williams, Jeannie Yu, and Armin Arbab-Zadeh. Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, April, S1934-5925(25)00081-4.

Pulsed Field Ablation of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation With Continuous ECG Monitoring Follow-Up: ADVANTAGE AF-Phase 2. Reddy, Vivek Y., Edward P. Gerstenfeld, Boris Schmidt, Jason G. Andrade, Devi Nair, Andrea Natale, Walid Saliba, Philipp Sommer, Andreas Metzner, Atul Verma, Troy Hounshell, Anish Amin, Philip Gentlesk, Stanislav Weiner, Frank A. Cuoco, Jamie Kim, Mohit K. Turagam, Gery Tomassoni, Chinmay Patel, Ziad Issa, Michael Shehata, Allison M. Anderson, Thomas J. Stoltz, Jonathan D. Raybuck, Torri Schwartz, Brad S. Sutton, Moussa Mansour, and ADVANTAGE-AF Investigators. Circulation, April.

Temporal Trends in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Outcomes in Patients With Low-Flow, Low-Gradient Aortic Stenosis: Insights from The TOPAS -TAVI Registry. Mengi, Siddhartha, Luis Nombela-Franco, Pedro Cepas-Guillén, Stamatios Lerakis, Raj Makkar, Tarun Chakravarty, Vassilis Babaliaros, Henrique Barbosa Ribeiro, Emilie Pelletier-Beaumont, Philippe Pibarot, and Josep Rodés-Cabau. The Canadian Journal of Cardiology, April, S0828-282X(25)00318-6.

Pulsed Field Ablation for Persistent Atrial Fibrillation: 1-Year Results of ADVANTAGE AF. Reddy, Vivek Y., Edward P. Gerstenfeld, Boris Schmidt, Devi Nair, Andrea Natale, Walid Saliba, Atul Verma, Philipp Sommer, Andreas Metzner, Mohit Turagam, Stanislav Weiner, Jean Champagne, Ignacio Garcio-Bolao, Hugh Calkins, Jeffrey Olson, Ziad Issa, Marshall Winner, Wilber Su, Gery Tomassoni, Jamie Kim, Bruce Hook, David B. Delurgio, Douglas N. Gibson, Marcos Daccarett, Chinmay Patel, Karan Bhalla, Michael Shehata, John D. Harding, Jim W. Cheung, Jonathan D. Raybuck, Stephanie Roelke, Torri Schwartz, Brad S. Sutton, Moussa Mansour, and ADVANTAGE-AF Investigators. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 85 (17): 1664–78.

Computational Biomedicine

Multi-Year Analysis of Respiratory Viral Dynamics Reveals Significance of Rhinovirus in Young Children With Severe Respiratory Illness. Caldera, Juan Raphael, Tawny Saleh, Trevon Fuller, Shangxin Yang, and Karin Nielsen-Saines. Infectious Disease Reports 17 (2): 29.

Imaging

The Role of Serum Calcium Levels in the Progression of Arterial Stiffness: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses in a Multicenter Cohort. Kim, Kyung An, Hae-Ok Jung, Mi-Jeong Kim, So-Young Lee, Dong-Hyeon Lee, Donghee Han, Hyuk-Jae Chang, Su-Yeon Choi, Jidong Sung, and Eun Ju Chun. Journal of Clinical Hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) 27 (4): e70055.

Medicine

Mechanical Thrombectomy vs Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis for High-Risk Pulmonary Embolism: A Target Trial Emulation. Watanabe, Atsuyuki, Toshiki Kuno, Yoshihisa Miyamoto, Hiroki A. Ueyama, Hiroshi Gotanda, Sripal Bangalore, and Yusuke Tsugawa. JACC. Advances 4 (5): 101706.

Caveolin Scaffolding Domain (CSD) Peptide LTI-2355 Modulates the Phagocytic and Synthetic Activity of Lung-Derived Myeloid Cells in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) and Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID Fibrosis (PASC-F). Creyns, Brecht, BreAnne MacKenzie, Yago Amigo Pinho Jannini Sa, Ana Lucia Coelho, Dale Christensen, Tanyalak Parimon, Brian Windsor, and Cory M. Hogaboam. Biomedicines 13 (4): 796.

The Clinical Utility of Precision-Guided Dosing for Adalimumab Therapy Optimization in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Clinical Experience Program. Hanauer, Stephen B., Esther A. Torres, Patricia Aragon-Han, Jonathon C. Chapman, Arun C. Swaminath, Ronen Arai, Mandalina Butnariu, Thomas C. Lee, Shervin Rabizadeh, Morgan Check, Terrence A. Barrett, Jana G. Hashash, Thomas Meister, Eugene F. Yen, Jami Kinnucan, Daniel J. Stein, David Ziring, Rimma Shaposhnikov, Preetika Sinh, Taha M. Qazi, Andres J. Yarur, Farah Monzur, Thierry Dervieux, and Bincy P. Abraham. Pharmaceutics 17 (4): 428.

From Food Fears to Food Freedom: How Do We Best Manage Restrictive Eating in Inflammatory Bowel Disease? Simons, Madison, and Kelly Issokson. Crohn’s & Colitis 360 7 (2): otaf019.

Hospitalized Cancer Patients With Opioid Management for Chemo-Induced Ulcerative Mucositis Lessens the Patients’ Overall Burden of Illness. Mohan, Minu Ponnamma, Joel B. Epstein, Kapil S. Meleveedu, Parikshit Padhi, Roberto Pili, and Poolakkad S. Satheeshkumar. Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) 18 (4): 536.

Patient-Perceived Risk of HCC and Net Benefit of Surveillance: A Multi-Center Survey Study. Singal, Amit G., Ju Dong Yang, Prasun K. Jalal, Reena Salgia, Neil Mehta, Maarouf A. Hoteit, Karissa Kao, Darine Daher, Karim Seif El Dahan, Perla Hernandez, Anish Nayak, Naomy Kim, Sarah Pham, Jamine Gamez, Jonathan P. Troost, and Neehar D. Parikh. The American Journal of Gastroenterology, April.

Recruitment Rate Comparison Between a Virtual Tele-Research Cohort and a Traditional Center-Based Cohort in Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy. Moghadam-Kia, Siamak, Anushka Aggarwal, Swamy Venuturupalli, Shiri Keret, Nantakarn Pongtarakulpanit, Mark Riley, Shalini Mahajan, Daphne Scaramangas-Plumley, Aarat Patel, Joe Kelley, Eleni Tiniakou, Chester V. Oddis, Rohit Aggarwal, and MyPacer Study Group. Rheumatology (Oxford, England), April, keaf217.

A Multicenter Study of the Real-World Effectiveness and Safety of Risankizumab in Crohn’s Disease. Johnson, Amanda M., Manar Askar, Seema Belani, Abdul Khan, Anthony A. Xu, Blake Kassmeyer, Hyder Said, Michael Santiago-Castro, Jalpa Devi, Katherine Huang, Fnu Jaiprada, Nickhil Seth, David Dulaney, Edward V. Loftus, Marc Fenster, Anish Patel, Shrinivas Bishu, Ryan C. Ungaro, Richa Shukla, Andres J. Yarur, and Parakkal Deepak. Journal of Crohn’s & Colitis, April, jjaf070.

Abatacept for the Treatment of Myositis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease (ATtackMy-ILD). Aggarwal, Rohit, Nantakarn Pongtarakulpanit, Daniel I. Sullivan, Siamak Moghadam-Kia, Sangmee Sharon Bae, Jesse Wilkerson, Didem Saygin, Galina Marder, Swamy Venuturupalli, Paul F. Dellaripa, Sonye K. Danoff, Tracy Doyle, Gary M. Hunninghake, Joyce S. Lee, Aryeh Fischer, Jeremy Falk, Cheilonda Johnson, Diane Koontz, Dana P. Ascherman, and Chester V. Oddis. Rheumatology (Oxford, England), April, keaf218.

Association of CAR-T Approval on Outcomes in Patients With Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma at the Population Level in the United States. Vaughn, John L., Angela Ramdhanny, Malak Munir, Sravani Rimmalapudi, and Narendranath Epperla. Biomarker Research 13 (1): 64.

Economic Evaluations of Quality Improvement Interventions: Towards Simpler Analyses and More Informative Publications. Nuckols, Teryl K. BMJ Quality & Safety, April, bmjqs-2024-018349.

Risk Factors for Chronic Kidney Disease in Patients With Crohn’s Disease. Rodriguez, Andres, Maria Alejandra Quintero, Hajar Hazime, Rose Killian, Gloria Michelle Ducasa, Katerina M. Faust, and Maria T. Abreu. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, April, izaf039.

Alcohol-Attributable Cancer: Update From the Global Burden of Disease 2021 Study. Danpanichkul, Pojsakorn, Yanfang Pang, Luis Antonio Díaz, Trenton M. White, Supapitch Sirimangklanurak, Thanida Auttapracha, Kanokphong Suparan, Nicholas Syn, Pimtawan Jatupornpakdee, Sakditad Saowapa, Cheng Han Ng, Apichat Kaewdech, Rashid N. Lui, Michael B. Fallon, Ju Dong Yang, Alexandre Louvet, Mazen Noureddin, Suthat Liangpunsakul, Peter Jepsen, Jeffrey V. Lazarus, Juan Pablo Arab, and Karn Wijarnpreecha. Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, April.

A Cyanobacteria-Derived RNA Aptamer Resensitizes Prostate Cancer to Hormone Therapy. Cruz-Hernández, Carlos D., Bethany Smith, Sandrine Billet, Manish Thiruvalluvan, Gabrielle Gonzales, David M. Underhill, Ekihiro Seki, Shelly C. Lu, and Neil A. Bhowmick. Cancer Research, April.

Multisociety Guidance for Sterilization and High-Level Disinfection. Shenoy, Erica S., David J. Weber, Kathleen McMullen, Zachary Rubin, Priya Sampathkumar, Joshua K. Schaffzin, Emily Sickbert-Bennett, Laraine Washer, Deborah S. Yokoe, Audrey H. Calderwood, Raymond Chinn, Michelle Day, Sylvia Garcia-Houchins, Waleed Javaid, Susan Klacik, Erin Kyle, Rekha K. Murthy, Amber Wood, and William A. Rutala. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, April, 1–23.

Characterizing Somatic Mutations in Ovarian Cancer Germline Risk Regions. Lai, Ping-Hung, Jonathan P. Tyrer, Paul Pharoah, Simon A. Gayther, Michelle R. Jones, and Pei-Chen Peng. Communications Biology 8 (1): 676. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08072-1.

DUOX2 Activation Drives Bacterial Translocation and Subclinical Inflammation in IBD-Associated Dysbiosis. Hazime, Hajar, Gloria Michelle Ducasa, Ana M. Santander, Nivis Brito, Eddy Ernesto Gonzalez-Horta, Maria A. Quintero, Stephen Barnes, Landon Wilson, Yanping Zhang, Fahong Yu, Raad Z. Gharaibeh, Christian Jobin, Katerina M. Faust, Oriana M. Damas, Amar Deshpande, David H. Kerman, Siobhan Proksell, Judith Pignac-Kobinger, Irina Fernández, Juan F. Burgueño, and Maria T. Abreu. Gut, April, gutjnl-2024-334346.

Expert Recommendations to Standardise Transcriptomic Analysis in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Trials. Linggi, Bryan, Azucena Salas, Boyd Steere, Bram Verstockt, Dahham Alsoud, David Casero, Dermot McGovern, Eileen Chan, Michelle I. Smith, Federica Ungaro, Florian Rieder, Konrad Aden, Lisa M. Shackelton, Luca Massimino, Markus Neurath, Matthieu Allez, Raja Atreya, Scott B. Snapper, Tim Raine, Vineet Ahuja, Yael Haberman, Brian G. Feagan, Vipul Jairath, and Niels Vande Casteele. Journal of Crohn’s & Colitis, April, jjaf068.

Global Evolution of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Across Epidemiologic Stages. Hracs, Lindsay, Joseph W. Windsor, Julia Gorospe, Michael Cummings, Stephanie Coward, Michael J. Buie, Joshua Quan, Quinn Goddard, Léa Caplan, Ante Markovinović, Tyler Williamson, Yvonne Abbey, Global IBD Visualization of Epidemiology Studies in the 21st Century (GIVES-21) Research Group, et al. Nature, April.

Liver Transplantation: A Decade of Progress. Bhamidimarri, Kalyan Ram, and Paul Martin. Clinics in Liver Disease 29 (2): xiii–xv.

Long-Term Care of the Liver Transplant Recipient. Scheinberg, Andrew R., Paul Martin, and Joshua A. Turkeltaub. Clinics in Liver Disease 29 (2): 303–12.

Extracellular Vesicle Digital Scoring Assay for Assessment of Treatment Responses in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients. Zhao, Chen, Yi-Te Lee, Andrew Melehy, Minhyung Kim, Jacqueline Ziqian Yang, Ceng Zhang, Jina Kim, Ryan Y. Zhang, Junseok Lee, Hyoyong Kim, Yong Ju, Yuan-Jen Tsai, Xianghong Jasmine Zhou, Steven-Huy B. Han, Saeed Sadeghi, Richard S. Finn, Sammy Saab, David S. Lu, Jason Chiang, Jae-Ho Park, Todd V. Brennan, Steven A. Wisel, Manaf Alsudaney, Alexander Kuo, Walid S. Ayoub, Hyunseok Kim, Hirsh D. Trivedi, Yun Wang, Aarshi Vipani, Irene K. Kim, Tsuyoshi Todo, Justin A. Steggerda, Georgios Voidonikolas, Kambiz Kosari, Nicholas N. Nissen, Rola Saouaf, Amit G. Singal, Myung Shin Sim, David A. Elashoff, Sungyong You, Vatche G. Agopian, Ju Dong Yang, Hsian-Rong Tseng, and Yazhen Zhu. Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research: CR 44 (1): 136.

Neurology

Elevated Serum Cortisol Associated With Early-Detected Increase of Brain Amyloid Deposition in Alzheimer’s Disease Imaging Biomarkers Among Menopausal Women: The Framingham Heart Study. Salardini, Arash, Jayandra J. Himali, Muhammad S. Abdullah, Rima Chaudhari, Vanessa Young, Eduardo M. Zilli, Emer R. McGrath, Mitzi M. Gonzales, Emma G. Thibault, Joel Salinas, Hugo J. Aparicio, Dibya Himali, Saptaparni Ghosh, Rachel F. Buckley, Claudia L. Satizabal, Keith A. Johnson, Charles DeCarli, Georges El Fakhri, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Alexa S. Beiser, and Sudha Seshadri. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association 21 (4): e70179.

Evaluation of Exploratory Fluid Biomarkers From a Phase 1 Senolytic Trial in Mild Alzheimer’s Disease. Garbarino, Valentina R., Juan Pablo Palavicini, Justin Melendez, Nicolas R. Barthelemy, Yingxin He, Tiffany F. Kautz, Marisa Lopez-Cruzan, Julia J. Mathews, Peng Xu, Bin Zhang, Afaf Saliba, Nagarjunachary Ragi, Kumar Sharma, Dallin Mason, Samuel Johnson, Suzanne Hendrix, Suzanne Craft, Ronald C. Petersen, Jair Machado Espindola-Netto, Ailing Xue, Tamara Tchkonia, James L. Kirkland, Arash Salardini, Nicolas Musi, Randall J. Bateman, Mitzi M. Gonzales, and Miranda E. Orr. Neurotherapeutics: The Journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, April, e00591.

Neurosurgery

Predicting Hospital Outcomes in Concussion and TBI: A Mixed-Effects Analysis Utilizing the Nationwide Readmissions Database. Chandla, Anubhav, Shane Shahrestani, Gabrielle E. A. Hovis, Mahlet Mekonnen, Andre E. Boyke, Anna Furton, Diya Dhawan, Chirag Patil, and Isaac Yang. Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery 253 (April): 108893.

OBGYN

Examining the Association of Body Mass Index and Complications When Including Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Minimally Invasive Surgery for Endometrial Intraepithelial Neoplasia. Levin, Gabriel, Pedro T. Ramirez, Jason D. Wright, Brian M. Slomovitz, Walter H. Gotlieb, Matthew T. Siedhoff, Kelly N. Wright, and Raanan Meyer. Cancers 17 (8): 1257.

Impact of Fibroids on Fertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Preconception Management. Ezike, Ogechukwu, Rebecca Schneyer, Kelly Wright, and Kacey Hamilton. Current Opinion in Obstetrics & Gynecology, April.

Updates on Adenomyosis and Fertility. Shats, Maya, Michal Zajicek, Matthew T. Siedhoff, and Raanan Meyer. Current Opinion in Obstetrics & Gynecology, April.

Orthopaedics

Analysis of Injury Epidemiology in Soccer Players in the 2019 Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football Gold Cup as Reported by Team Physicians. Forsythe, Brian, Derrick M. Knapik, Daanish Khazi-Syed, Joshua Chang, Camden Bohn, Catherine Hand, Avinaash Korrapati, Ophelie Lavoie-Gagne, George Chiampas, Bert R. Mandelbaum, and Jorge Chahla. Arthroscopy, Sports Medicine, and Rehabilitation 7 (2): 101074.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Bartonella Endocarditis-Associated Glomerulonephritis: A Mimicker of Autoimmunity and Vasculitis. Andeen, Nicole K., Vanderlene L. Kung, Jane K. Nguyen, Rupali S. Avasare, Georges N. Nakhoul, Nabin K. Shrestha, Jina T. Makadia, Tricia Jesperson, Cynthia C. Nast, Grace Hae Yoon Choung, and Leal Herlitz. Kidney International Reports 10 (4): 1237–47.

Pediatrics

Engineered Epithelial Curvature Controls Paneth Cell Localization in Intestinal Organoids. Yavitt, F. Max, Alex Khang, Kaustav Bera, Delaney L. McNally, Michael R. Blatchley, Aaron P. Gallagher, Ophir D. Klein, David Castillo-Azofeifa, Peter J. Dempsey, and Kristi S. Anseth. Cell Biomaterials 1 (3): 100046.

Artificial Intelligence-Driven Genotype-Epigenotype-Phenotype Approaches to Resolve Challenges in Syndrome Diagnostics. Mak, Christopher C. Y., Hannah Klinkhammer, Sanaa Choufani, Nikola Reko, Angela K. Christman, Elise Pisan, Martin M. C. Chui, Mianne Lee, Fiona Leduc, Jennifer C. Dempsey, Pedro A. Sanchez-Lara, Hannah M. Bombei, John A. Bernat, Laurence Faivre, Frederic Tran Mau-Them, Irene Valenzuela Palafoll, Natalie Canham, Ajoy Sarkar, Yuri A. Zarate, Bert Callewaert, Ewelina Bukowska-Olech, Aleksander Jamsheer, Andreas Zankl, Marjolaine Willems, Laura Duncan, Bertrand Isidor, Benjamin Cogne, Odile Boute, Clémence Vanlerberghe, Alice Goldenberg, Elliot Stolerman, Karen J. Low, Vianney Gilard, Jeanne Amiel, Angela E. Lin, Christopher T. Gordon, Dan Doherty, Peter M. Krawitz, Rosanna Weksberg, Tzung-Chien Hsieh, and Brian H. Y. Chung. EBioMedicine 115 (April): 105677.

The PICU Data Collaborative: A Novel, Multi-Institutional, Pediatric Critical Care Dataset. Farris, Reid W. D., Sareen S. Shah, Tellen D. Bennett, Stephanie R. Brown, Timothy T. Cornell, Adam C. Dziorny, Alysia Flynn, Jocelyn Grunwell, Julia A. Heneghan, Curt E. Kennedy, Aleksandra Kretsu, Eneida Mendonca, Akira Nishisaki, Colin Rogerson, Daniel S. Tawfik, Randall C. Wetzel, L. Nelson Sanchez-Pinto, and PICU Data Collaborative. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: A Journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies, April.

Low Incidence of Rejection and De Novo Donor-Specific Antibody Formation Following COVID-19 Vaccination or Infection Among Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients. Pizzo, Helen, Jonathan Garrison, Kelly Kirshner, and Dechu Puliyanda. Pediatric Transplantation 29 (4): e70084.

Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences

Evaluating the Ability of Artificial Intelligence to Predict Suicide: A Systematic Review of Reviews. Abdelmoteleb, Salma, Muhammad Ghallab, and Waguih William IsHak. Journal of Affective Disorders 382 (April): 525–39.

Radiation Oncology

Enhancing CT Image Segmentation Accuracy Through Ensemble Loss Function Optimization. Li, Chengyin, Rafi Ibn Sultan, Hassan Bagher-Ebadian, Yao Qiang, Kundan Thind, Dongxiao Zhu, and Indrin J. Chetty. Medical Physics, April.

Surgery

Preservation Arthroplasty for Basal Joint Arthritis Using Arthroscopy and Autologous Fat Grafting With Platelet-Rich Plasma. Deptula, Peter, Meghan McCullough, Theodore Brown, Dylan Singh, Kylie Tanabe, Eugene Tsai, and David Kulber. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Global Open 13 (4): e6720.

Decellularization of Human Digits: A Step Towards Off-the-Shelf Composite Allograft Transplantation. McCarthy, Michelle E., Irina Filz von Reiterdank, Oliver H. Parfitt van Pallandt, McLean S. Taggart, Laura Charlès, Korkut Uygun, Alexandre G. Lellouch, Curtis L. Cetrulo, and Basak E. Uygun. Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) 12 (4): 383.

Goodbye Dr. Google, Hello Dr. ChatGPT: Advancing a New Frontier for ENT Medical Information Online. Lu, Richard J., and Babak Azizzadeh. American Journal of Otolaryngology 46 (3): 104618.

Association of Tracheostomy Timing With Outcomes Following Traumatic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury. Ali, Syed Shaheer, Troy Coaston, Konmal Ali, Saad Mallick, Esteban Aguayo, Areti Tillou, Peyman Benharash, Galinos Barmparas, and Academic Trauma Research Consortium (ATRIUM). The American Surgeon, April, 31348251337147.

A Review of Histopathologic Assessment for Head and Neck Oncologists. Bastien, Amanda J., Daniel Manzoor, Horacio Maluf, Bonnie Balzer, Matthew Leong, Evan S. Walgama, Kevin C. Scher, Julie K. Jang, Justin Moyers, Jon Mallen-St Clair, Zachary S. Zumsteg, and Allen S. Ho. Oral Oncology 165 (April): 107286.

Timeliness of Care for Nonelective Cholecystectomy: A Comparison of Surgical Practice Models. Shen, Aricia, Andrew Wang, Nicolas Melo, Rex Chung, Miguel Burch, Tejal Brahmbhatt, Daniel R. Margulies, and Galinos Barmparas. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, April.

Urology

Expert Opinions on Best Practices for Overactive Bladder Management With onabotulinumtoxinA. Eilber, Karyn S., Benjamin M. Brucker, Andrea Pezzella, Vincent Lucente, Kevin Benson, and Michael J. Kennelly. Toxins 17 (4): 207.

Plain Language Summary: Does Race or Income Status Affect the Cancer Treatments That Patients With Metastatic Castration-Sensitive Prostate Cancer (mCSPC) Receive in the United States? George, Daniel J., Neeraj Agarwal, Krishnan Ramaswamy, Zachary Klaassen, Rhonda L. Bitting, David Russell, Rickard Sandin, Birol Emir, Hongbo Yang, Wei Song, Yilu Lin, Agnes Hong, Wei Gao, and Stephen J. Freedland. Future Oncology (London, England), April, 1–9.

Plain Language Summary: How Long Do Patients with Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC) Live When Taking Abiraterone or Enzalutamide in the Real World? George, Daniel J., Krishnan Ramaswamy, Hongbo Yang, Qing Liu, Adina Zhang, Alexandra Greatsinger, Jasmina Ivanova, Betty Thompson, Birol Emir, Agnes Hong, and Stephen J. Freedland. Future Oncology (London, England), April, 1–10.

Infection, Inflammation, and Sexual Function in Male and Female Patients-Recommendations From the Fifth International Consultation on Sexual Medicine (ICSM 2024). Facio, Fernando, Elena Colonnello, Laith Alzweri, Estela Citrin, Alexandra Dubinskaya, Megan Falsetta, Adriano Fregonesi, Susan Kellogg-Spadt, Leonardo Seligra Lopes, and Emmanuele A. Jannini. Sexual Medicine Reviews, April, qeaf021.

Surgical Performance Metrics for 1-Year Patient-Reported Outcomes After Radical Prostatectomy. Heard, John R., Umar Ghaffar, Runzhuo Ma, Cherine H. Yang, Melissa Assel, Christian Wagner, Geoffrey A. Sonn, Alvin C. Goh, Shady Saikali, Vipul Patel, Andrew Vickers, Jim C. Hu, and Andrew J. Hung. JAMA Surgery, April.

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