Faculty Publications April 30-May 7

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published April 30-May 7. 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

The 3 Best Ways to Prevent Muscle Loss as You Age | Oprah Daily
Bert Mandelbaum, MD

DDW: Combination Therapy Shows Efficacy for Crohn Disease, Ulcerative Colitis | Healthday
Maria T. Abreu, MD

Spaceflight is Hard on the Heart, Yet Artificial Ones Grow Better in Space Than on Earth | Space
Arun Sharma, PhD

Common IBS Treatments May Carry Hidden Long-Term Risks | Consumer Affairs
Ali Rezaie, MD

From Cedars-Sinai Patient to Advocate: How a Near-Death Experience Sparked a Heart Health Movement | BlackDoctor
Janet Wei, MD 

From Signal to Strategy: How ctDNA is Reshaping Decision Making in mCRC | GI Oncology Now
Jun Gong, MD

Pediatricians Prepared To Manage Mood Disorders With SSRI | Medscape
Nicole Nghiem, MD 

Intrusive Thoughts After Baby? Here’s How to Spot Postpartum OCD and What to Do Next | Babycenter Canada
Eynav Accortt, PhD

Faculty Publications

Biomedical Sciences

Natural History of Coronary Plaque Redistribution After Drug-Coated Balloon Angioplasty. Dobrolińska, Magdalena M., Wojciech J. Skorupski, Mariusz Kruk, Damini Dey, and Maksymilian P. Opolski. EuroIntervention: Journal of EuroPCR in Collaboration With the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology 22 (9): e511–12.

Randomized Controlled Trial of a Peer-Delivered High School Preparatory Intervention for ADHD. Sibley, Margaret H., Shauntal Van Dreel, Stefany J. Coxe, Mercedes Ortiz, Benjamin Aaronson, Alexa Matlack, Taylor Rainwater, Brooke E. Kircher, Joshua Langberg, Aaron Lyon, Autumn Yi, and Carlos E. Yeguez. Journal of Attention Disorders, May, 10870547261440604.

Cardiac Surgery

Exploring Salary Negotiation and Disparities in Thoracic Surgery. Shehata, Dena, Manuel Castillo-Angeles, Zhuxuan Pan, Rajika Jindani, Mariya Samoylova, Laura DiChiacchio, Sara Sakowitz, Stephanie Worrell, Mara Antonoff, Ammara A. Watkins, and Women in Thoracic Surgery Research Committee. JTCVS Open 30 (April): 101592.

The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) 2026 Expert Consensus Document: Guidelines for Donor/Recipient Size-Matching in Lung Transplantation. Chang, Stephanie, Travis Geraci, John W. Stokes, Usman Ahmad, Pedro Catarino, Laurens Celeumans, Marcelo Cypel, Kieran Halloran, John Haney, Matthew G. Hartwig, Shaf Keshavjee, Philippe Lemaitre, Nuria Novoa, Varun Puri, Masaaki Sato, Lara W. Schaheen, Bryan Whitson, and Konrad Hoetzenecker. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, May, S0022-5223(26)00897-4.

Cardiology

A Timely Multi-Disciplinary Framework to Optimize Outcomes for Patients Requiring Large-Bore Arterial Access (or ‘Our Sickest Patients’). Chou, Elizabeth L., and Laura DiChiacchio. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, April, S0003-4975(26)00411-X.

Low Albumin, Heavy Hearts: Role of Hypoalbuminemia in Infiltrative Cardiomyopathies: A Narrative Review. Memon, Roshni Riaz, Niharika Ikkurthy, Muhammed Muzammil Jumani, Syed Fazal Rizvi, and Vicky Kumar. Cardiology in Review, April.

Cardiac Care of Athletes With Disabilities: Are We Prepared to Adapt? Friedman, Eli M., Irfan Asif, and David W. Kruse. British Journal of Sports Medicine, April, bjsports-2026-111584.

Integrated Strain-Flow Analysis for Early Assessment of Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Hashemi, Mohammad Saber, Ahmad Falahatpisheh, Yasaman Farsiani, Yuri Matusov, Siddharth Singh, Kambiz Ghafourian, Gianni Pedrizzetti, and Arash Kheradvar. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, May.

Refining Sudden Cardiac Death Risk in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: The Interplay Between Atrial and Ventricular Arrhythmias. Kukuev, Alexander, Dor Ravid, and Florian Rader. Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, May, S0033-0620(26)00040-X.

Brachial Pulse Pressure and Outcomes: A Report From the WISE Study. Vilaro, Juan, Eileen M. Handberg, George Sopko, Galen Cook-Wiens, Carl J. Pepine, and C. Noel Bairey Merz. Hypertension, May.

Sex-Based Patterns and Trends in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation. Nicolas, Johny, Annetine C. Gelijns, Alan J. Moskowitz, Martin B. Leon, Roxana Mehran, Joanna Chikwe, Michael J. Mack, Mayra E. Guerrero, Raj R. Makkar, Mariell Jessup, Patrick T. O’Gara, and Natalia Egorova. JAMA Cardiology, May.

The Association of Time-Restricted Eating and Indices of Organ-Specific Aging in Relation to Metabolic Health and Obesity. Sheng, Liuzexuan, Enze Li, Hongwei Ji, Susan Cheng, Alan Kwan, Evelyne Bischof, Yifan Chen, and Jun Pu. NPJ Science of Food, May.

Variation in Vasoactive Treatment Selection for Cardiogenic Shock: Insights From the Critical Care Cardiology Trials Network (CCCTN). Hamilton, David E., Jackson L. Shriver, Siddharth M. Patel, Jeong-Gun Park, Zoe E. Michos, Michael R. Mathis, Sarah K. Adie, Carlos L. Alviar, Christopher F. Barnett, David D. Berg, Courtney E. Bennett, Erin A. Bohula, Anthony P. Carnicelli, Lori B. Daniels, Mark W. Dodson, Ann Gage, Umesh Gidwani, Michael Goldfarb, Jason N. Katz, Scott W. Ketcham, Younghoon Kwon, Evan S. Leibner, Daniel B. Loriaux, Adriana Luk, Paul Marano, P. Elliott Miller, Srini V. Mukundan, Alexander I. Papolos, Barbara A. Pisani, Alastair G. Proudfoot, Robert O. Roswell, Kevin S. Shah, Michael A. Solomon, Matthew I. Tomey, Sean van Diepen, Sammy Zakaria, David A. Morrow, Andrea D. Thompson, and CCCTN Investigators. Circulation. Heart Failure, May, e013778.

Imaging

Imaging of Ewing Sarcoma: An Updated Analysis Including Presenting Features, Prognostic Imaging Biomarkers, and Treatment Response Assessment. Matcuk, George R., Tanya Tivorsak, Christopher T. Watterson, Costantino Errani, Hisaki Aiba, Amandine Crombé, and Paolo Spinnato. Skeletal Radiology, April.

Medicine

Nivolumab Plus Ipilimumab in Patients With Solid Tumors With High Tumor Mutation Burden: Results From the Targeted Agent and Profiling Utilization Registry Study. Cobain, Erin F., Michael Rothe, Elizabeth Garrett-Mayer, Timothy L. Cannon, John K. Chan, Kathryn F. Mileham, Bamidele Adesunloye, Carmen J. Calfa, Olatunji B. Alese, Kathleen Yost Butler, Elie G. Dib, Evan Pisick, Maria Bell, Kelsey A. Klute, Inderjit Mehmi, Funda Meric-Bernstam, Pam K. Mangat, Dominique C. Hinshaw, Abigail Gregory, Gina N. Grantham, Susan Halabi, and Richard L. Schilsky. JCO Precision Oncology 10 (4): e2501205.

Pertuzumab and Trastuzumab in Patients With ERBB2/3-Altered Urothelial or Ovary/Fallopian Tube Cancer: Results From the Targeted Agent and Profiling Utilization Registry Study. Chan, John K., Michael Rothe, Elizabeth Garrett-Mayer, Evan Pisick, Pooja Ghatalia, Andrew Gregory, Mollie deShazo, Kathryn F. Mileham, Martina C. Murphy, Olatunji B. Alese, Elie G. Dib, Peter C. Kohler, Justin T. Moyers, Pam K. Mangat, Dominique C. Hinshaw, Abigail Gregory, Gina N. Grantham, Susan Halabi, and Richard L. Schilsky. JCO Precision Oncology 10 (4): e2501250.

Plasma Metabolomic Profiles Associated With Cardiovascular Disease in Type 2 Diabetes From the Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Program. Zhang, Yixin, Ngoc Quynh H. Nguyen, Paul A. Hanson, Magdalena Sevilla-Gonzalez, Jeffrey Haessler, Chloé Sarnowski, Jie Yao, Bing Yu, Afshin Jamshidi, Eric Boerwinkle, Michael R. Brown, Zsu-Zsu Chen, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Clary Clish, Daniel DiCorpo, Peter Durda, Robert Gerszten, Mark O. Goodarzi, Xiuqing Guo, Nancy L. Heard-Costa, W. Craig Johnson, Charles Kooperberg, James S. Pankow, Wendy S. Post, Alexander P. Reiner, Stephen S. Rich, Jerome I. Rotter, Paul S. de Vries, Alexis C. Wood, Kent D. Taylor, Alisa K. Manning, Josée Dupuis, James B. Meigs, and Ching-Ti Liu. Atherosclerosis 417 (April): 120758.

Portal Fibroblasts: A Hidden Driver of Cholestasis-Associated Liver Cancer. Bhat, Sadam H., and Ekihiro Seki. Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, April, 101798.

The Equivalents Are Coming! Developing a Shared Nomenclature for Radiopharmaceutical Therapy of Neuroendocrine Tumors, Prostate Cancer, and Beyond. Chauhan, Aman, Andrew E. Hendifar, Ghassan El-Haddad, Heloisa P. Soares, and Ken Herrmann. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, April, jnumed.126.272026.

Preferences for Blood-Based Versus Traditional Screening Modalities for Lung and Colorectal Cancers: Insights From a Conjoint Analysis Among US Adults. Ballesteros, Jan, Ayako Ikenouchi, So Yung Choi, Allistair Clark, Brennan M. R. Spiegel, and Christopher V. Almario. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention: A Publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, Cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology, May.

Single-Cell Imaging Analysis, Therapeutic Modeling and a Phase Ib Trial Validate BCL-2 as a Target Across Heterogeneous Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. Jamroze, Anmbreen, Xiaozhuo Liu, Surui Hou, Wen Jess Li, Han Yu, Amanda Tracz, Justine Jacobi, Qiuhui Li, Kent Nastiuk, Xin Chen, Jiaoti Huang, Kevin Lin, Mingyu Liu, Changmeng Cai, Yue Lu, Igor Puzanov, Jason S. Kirk, Gurkamal Chatta, and Dean G. Tang. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy 11 (1): 161.

An IL-17-DUOX2 Axis Controls Gastrointestinal Colonization by Candida Albicans. Kakade, Pallavi, Juan F. Burgueno, Shabnam Sircaik, Nicole O. Ponde, Jinke Li, Iuliana V. Ene, Jiwoong Kim, Shen-Huan Liang, Rebecca Yunker, Ipsita Dey, Yasutada Akiba, Shipra Vaishnava, Jonathan D. Kaunitz, Sing Sing Way, Andrew Y. Koh, Sarah L. Gaffen, Maria T. Abreu, and Richard J. Bennett. Nature Communications, May.

Safety and Efficacy of Allogeneic CD19-Directed CAR-T Therapy CTX110 in Relapsed/Refractory B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. McGuirk, Joseph P., Armin Ghobadi, Carlos R. Bachier, Paul J. Shaughnessy, Farrukh T. Awan, Joseph E. Maakaron, Michael R. Bishop, P. Joy Ho, Constantine S. Tam, Michael J. Dickinson, Justin M. Darrah, Edmund K. Waller, Hemant S. Murthy, Ainsley Ross, Leah M. Williams, Chenyi Pan, William N. Stevens, Laura Serwer, Thao Nguyen, Jonathan Terrett, Demetrios Kalaitzidis, Anna Ma, Huansheng Xu, Mark Daniel Benton, Annie Weaver, Sarah Beaussant Cohen, Richard T. Maziarz, and Chan Y. Cheah. Blood Advances, May, bloodadvances.2026020123.

Improving Follow-Up After Fall Risk Screening: A Quality Improvement Initiative in Primary Care After the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit. Keller, Michelle S., Hiroshi Gotanda, Allison M. Mays, Ha Hoang, and Sonja Rosen. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, May.

Lynch Syndrome Integrative Epidemiology and Genetics (LINEAGE): Rationale for Cohort Design. Patel, Swati G., Holli A. Loomans-Kropp, Zachariah H. Foda, Bryson W. Katona, Suzi Birz, Carol A. Burke, Jordan Clawson, Brian Furner, Camille Hochheimer, Elizabeth Magnan, Luigi Ricciardiello, Harminder Singh, Samuel Volchenboum, Michael Watkins, Timothy Yen, Mohammad Abbass, Nicholas J. Bartell, Beth Dudley, Luke Engelking, Jose Guillem, Robert Hollis, Gregory Idos, Blake A. Jones, Priyanka Kanth, Fay Kastrinos, Dan Li, Aimee L. Lucas, Gautam N. Mankaney, Jennifer K. Maratt, Danielle Marino, Joshua Melson, Long H. Nguyen, Kavya M. Reddy, Kasmintan A. Schrader, Rachel Silva-Smith, Aparajita Singh, Peter P. Stanich, Elena M. Stoffel, Sapna Syngal, Jennifer M. Weiss, Matthew B. Yurgelun, Dana Zakalik, Samir Gupta, Ajay Bansal, Sonia S. Kupfer, and LINEAGE Consortium. Familial Cancer 25 (2): 49.

A Machine-Learning Assisted Genetic Risk Score Identifies Improved Weight Loss After Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty. Fredrick, Thomas, Daniel Maselli, Eric Vargas, Chase Wooley, Khushboo Gala, Diego Anazco, Serban Ciotlos, Timothy O’Connor, Barham Abu Dayyeh, Christopher McGowan, and Andres Acosta. Obesity Surgery, May.

Neurology

Plasticity and Language in the Anaesthetized Human Hippocampus. Katlowitz, Kalman A., Eric R. Cole, Elizabeth A. Mickiewicz, Shraddha Shah, Melissa Franch, Joshua A. Adkinson, James L. Belanger, Raissa K. Mathura, Domokos Meszéna, Matthew McGinley, William Muñoz, Garrett P. Banks, Sydney S. Cash, Chih-Wei Hsu, Angelique C. Paulk, Nicole R. Provenza, Andrew J. Watrous, Ziv Williams, Alica M. Goldman, Vaishnav Krishnan, Atul Maheshwari, Sarah R. Heilbronner, Robert Kim, Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana, Benjamin Y. Hayden, and Sameer A. Sheth. Nature, May.

Treatment and Outcomes for Acute Ischemic Stroke in Cardiomyopathy Patients With Heart Failure: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study. Kishore Jain, Aarti, Nimrod Gozum, Serena Wong, Bridget E. Nolan, Kevin M. Clare, Eric Feldstein, Sima Vazquez, Brittany Russo, Anish Thomas, Aiden Lui, Maya Pandit, Gurmeen Kaur, Chaitanya Medicherla, Chirag D. Gandhi, and Fawaz Al-Mufti. Cardiology in Review, May.

Neurosurgery

Adamantinomatous Craniopharyngioma: Outcomes From a US Multicenter Registry Cohort (RAPID Consortium Study). Shinya, Yuki, Sandhya R. Palit, Maria Peris Celda, Andrew S. Little, Mark A. Pacult, Paul Gardner, Georgios Zenonos, James Evans, Juan Fernandez-Miranda, Adam Mamelak, Robert C. Rennert, William T. Couldwell, Gabriel Zada, Albert H. Kim, Julie M. Silverstein, Won Kim, Marvin Bergsneider, Kyle C. Wu, Daniel M. Prevedello, Nathan Zwagerman, Stephanie Cheok, Michael P. Catalino, Varun R. Kshettry, Michael Karsy, and Jamie J. Van Gompel. Journal of Neurosurgery, May, 1–11.

Androgen Loss Accelerates Brain Tumour Growth via HPA Axis Activation. Lee, Juyeun, Yoon-Mi Chung, Daniel J. Silver, Yue Hao, Dylan Scott Lykke Harwood, Alyssa Ealy, Amanda M. Serapiglia, Lee Curtin, Julia R. Benedetti, Christine Ann Pittman Ballard, Kamya Lapsley, Andrea Alvarez-Vazquez, Jessica Goldberg, Cathy Li, Sehaj Kaur, Rian Neal, Sabrina Z. Wang, Kristen E. Kay, Josephine Volovetz, Ellen S. Hong, R’ay Fodor, Jakub Jarmula, Michael Nicosia, Joshua B. Rubin, Kristin R. Swanson, Quinn T. Ostrom, Nikhil Panicker, Bjarne Winther Kristensen, Michael Berens, Nima Sharifi, and Justin D. Lathia. Nature, May.

Orthopaedics

ICRS-FIFA-Aspetar Consensus on the Management of Knee Cartilage Injuries in Football Players: Part 2-Appropriateness of Specific Surgical Procedures to Address Articular Cartilage Lesions in Different Clinical Scenarios Using the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method. Papakostas, Emmanuel, Elizaveta Kon, Luca Andriolo, Andreas Serner, Andrew Massey, Peter Verdonk, Peter Angele, Claudia Arias, Camila Cohen Kaleka, Ramon Cugat, Pieter D’Hooghe, Francesco Della Villa, Cristiano Eirale, Christoph Erggelet, João Espregueira-Mendes, Christian Fink, Celeste Geertsema, Liesel Geertsema, Cassandra A. Lee, Bert Mandelbaum, Norimasa Nakamura, David A. Parker, Kristof Sas, Bertrand Sonnery-Cottet, Willem van der Merwe, Andy Williams, Stefano Zaffagnini, Bashir Ahmed Zikria, and Giuseppe Filardo. British Journal of Sports Medicine, April, bjsports-2025-110676.

Age Matters: Increased Perioperative Morbidity in Young Adults Compared to Adolescents Undergoing Posterior Spinal Fusion for Idiopathic Scoliosis. Chan, Vivien, Prudhvi Kodali, Jacqueline Borissov, Luke Maclean, Michael G. Vitale, Justin L. Reyes, Mehdi Elfilali, Zeeshan M. Sardar, and David L. Skaggs. Spine Deformity, May.

Intraoperative Liposomal Bupivacaine Is Associated With Reduced Opioid Use and Enhanced Recovery After Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Multicenter Registry Study. Ng, Mitchell K., Jennifer H. Lin, Andrew I. Spitzer, Vinod Dasa, Adam Rivadeneyra, David Rogenmoser, Andrew L. Concoff, Mary DiGiorgi, Joshua Urban, William M. Mihalko, and Michael A. Mont. Arthroplasty Today 39 (June): 101968.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Overexpression in Mouse Neutrophils Prevents Alzheimer’s-like Cognitive Decline. Shibata, Tomohiro, Shabir A. Bhat, DuoYao Cao, Suguru Saito, Ellen A. Bernstein, Derick Okwan-Duodu, Warren G. Tourtellotte, Kenneth E. Bernstein, and Zakir Khan. Frontiers in Immunology 17: 1674330.

An Overview of Human Inflammasomes: Activation and Regulation. Jäger, Elisabeth, Sana Ismaeel, Christian Stehlik, and Andrea Dorfleutner. Journal of Immunology 215 (4): vkag081.

Pediatrics

Providing Care at a Most Vulnerable Time. Tizzard, Paula Prieto, Shervin Rabizadeh, and Joel R. Rosh. Crohn’s & Colitis 360 8 (2): otag030.

Surgery

Current Status of Drug Treatment of Cholangiocarcinoma-Updated Progress and Critical Limitations. Cillis, Jennifer, Courtney Chen, Supriya Deshpande, Yuman Fong, and Shyambabu Chaurasiya. Pharmaceuticals 19 (4): 554.

Salvaging the Compromised Soft-Tissue Envelope in Revision Rhinoplasty. Deot, Neal, and Paul S. Nassif. Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America 34 (2): 237–44.

Circulating Biomarkers of Vascular Regeneration Are Not Associated With Residual Pulmonary Vascular Obstruction After Pulmonary Embolism: A Retrospective Observational Biomarker Study. Margotonne, Menfild, Nicolas Gendron, Olivier Sanchez, Samuel Benarroch, Alexandre G. Lellouch, Katharina Rus, Isabelle Mahé, Dominique Helley, and David M. Smadja. Stem Cell Reviews and Reports, May.

Urology

Advocacy Convergence in Medicine: Analyzing Legislative Priorities and Political Action Committee Overlap Among Major Medical Societies. Puri, Dhruv, Kaitlyn P. Lew, Isaac E. Kim, Michelle Li, Jessica Y. Hsueh, Anthony Galvez, Kshitij Pandit, Sirpi Nackeeran, Aditya Bagrodia, Hans C. Arora, and Yahir Santiago Lastra. Urology Practice, April, 101097UPJ0000000000001021.

Diet in Prostate Cancer: Promising Side Dish or Main Course? Galván, Gloria Cecilia, Alexander Hernandez-Tirado, Nadine A. Friedrich, and Stephen J. Freedland. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention: A Publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, Cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 35 (5): 689–91.

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