Faculty Publications Aug. 14-21

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published Aug. 14-21. 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

Is It Safe to Take Your Baby to a Concert? Here's What Experts Say | Parents Magazine
Abhita Reddy, MD 

How to Use a Walking Pad, According to Physical Therapists | Women's Health
Bert Mandelbaum, MD 

Cardiology Groups Position Heart Failure as Preventable Disease | Medscape
Martha Gulati, MD

Understanding Lactic Acid Build Up In Your Muscles—And What Really Causes That Burning Sensation | Runner’s World
Tracy Zaslow, MD

Black Women Receive Lower Doses of Postpartum Pain Medication, According to New Study | BlackDoctor
Naomi Greene, PhD, MPH; Sarah J. Kilpatrick, MD, PhD 

7 Surprising Triggers of Anaphylaxis | Everyday Health
Daniel J. Stone, MD; Sam Torbati, MD 

Measure Blood Sugar With a Grain of Salt | Science News
Ruchi Mathur, MD

Faculty Publications

Biomedical Sciences

Enhancing Cardiac MRI Reliability at 3 T Using Motion-Adaptive B0 Shimming. Huang, Yuheng, Archana Vadiraj Malagi, Xinqi Li, Xingmin Guan, Chia-Chi Yang, Li-Ting Huang, Ziyang Long, Jeremy Zepeda, Xinheng Zhang, Ghazal Yoosefian, Xioaming Bi, Chang Gao, Yun Shang, Nader Binesh, Hsu-Lei Lee, Debiao Li, Rohan Dharmakumar, Hui Han, and Hsin-Jung R. Yang. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, August.

Palmitoylation: An Emerging Therapeutic Target Bridging Physiology and Disease. Li, Weini, Jie Shen, Aojia Zhuang, Ruiheng Wang, Quanqi Li, Anas Rabata, Yanan Zhang, and DuoYao Cao. Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters 30 (1): 98.

Accelerated 3D qCEST of the Spine in a Porcine Model Using MR Multitasking at 3T. Cheema, Karandeep, Dante Rigo De Righi, Chushu Shen, Hsu-Lei Lee, Giselle Kaneda, Jacob Wechsler, Melissa Chavez, Pablo Avalos, Candace Floyd, Wafa Tawackoli, Yibin Xie, Anthony G. Christodoulou, Dmitriy Sheyn, and Debiao Li. NMR in Biomedicine 38 (9): e70122.

Cardiac Surgery

Not All Ventilator Strategies Are Equal: Prolonged Ventilation of Donor Lungs May Be Safe for Transplantation. Sertic, Federico, and Laura DiChiacchio. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, August, S0003-4975(25)00757-X.

Antepartum Temporary Heart Pump Placement to Support Delivery and Bridge to Transplant. Levy, Lauren E., Alison Brann, Laura DiChiacchio, Jacy Leon, Frederick Welt, Hiroshi Kagawa, Line Kemeyou, and Craig H. Selzman. JACC. Case Reports 30 (23): 104496.

Recurrent Heart Failure From Fulminant Giant Cell Myocarditis Following COVID-19 Infection Requiring Heart Transplantation. Amedi, Alan, Jay N. Patel, Zachary Brennan, Laura Dichiacchio, Michael Bowdish, and Tyler Gunn. JACC. Case Reports 30 (23): 104173.

Integrated Systems Biology Identifies Disruptions in Mitochondrial Function and Metabolism as Key Contributors to HFpEF. Gibb, Andrew A., Kyle LaPenna, Ryan B. Gaspar, Nadina R. Latchman, Yinfei Tan, Carmen Choya-Foces, Jake E. Doiron, Zhen Li, Huijing Xia, Michael P. Lazaropoulos, Mariell Conwell, Thomas E. Sharp, Traci T. Goodchild, David J. Lefer, and John W. Elrod. JACC. Basic to Translational Science 10 (9): 101334.

Cardiology

Oral Bioavailability of a Noncoding RNA Drug, TY1, That Acts on Macrophages. Yamaguchi, Shukuro, Kazutaka Miyamoto, Xaviar M. Jones, Alessandra Ciullo, Kara Tsi, Jessica Anderson, Hiroaki Komuro, Salwa Soussi, Ashley Morris, Diana Kitka, De-Zhao Liu, Anh Nguyen, Eduardo Marbán, and Ahmed G. E. Ibrahim. Journal of Extracellular Biology 4 (8): e70081.

The Continuum of Prevention and Heart Failure in Cardiovascular Medicine: A Joint Scientific Statement From the Heart Failure Society of America and The American Society for Preventive Cardiology. Lala, Anuradha, Craig Beavers, Vanessa Blumer, LaPrincess Brewer, Diana De Oliveira-Gomes, Sandra Dunbar, Hannah Every, Richard Ferraro, Bonnie Ky, James Januzzi, Francoise Marvel, Robert Mentz, Erin Michos, Jagat Narula, Khuram Nasir, Pradeep Natarajan, Lori Ann Peterson, Fatima Rodriguez, Michael Shapiro, Jenna Skowronski, Randall Starling, Pam Taub, Ryan Tedford, Quentin Youmans, Shelley Zieroth, and Martha Gulati. Journal of Cardiac Failure, August, S1071-9164(25)00327-6.

Clinical Outcomes in Women and Men With Raphe-Type Bicuspid Aortic Valve Stenosis Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. Gitto, Mauro, Won-Keun Kim, Andrea Buono, Tommaso Fabris, Chiara De Biase, Giuliano Costa, Nicholas Montarello, Pier Pasquale Leone, Andrea Scotti, Michele Bellamoli, Mesfer Alfadhel, Ofir Koren, Roxana Mehran, et al. International Journal of Cardiology, August, 133792.

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in Pure Aortic Regurgitation: One-Year Outcomes of the AURORA Trial. Yu, Fei-Cheng, Xiao-Ping Peng, Jing Yao, Yun-Feng Yan, Silvia Corona, Bo Fu, Sheng Wang, Hai-Ping Wang, Xi-Jin Zhuang, Zheng-Ming Jiang, Yue-Wu Zhao, Yi-Da Tang, Ji-Zhe Xu, Chuan-Bao Li, Hui Chen, Ke Han, Hui Huang, Liang Guo, Walid Ben Ali, Thomas Modine, Hasan Jilaihawi, Nicolo Piazza, and Guang-Yuan Song. EuroIntervention: Journal of EuroPCR in Collaboration with the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology 21 (16): 952–60.

Impact of a Meds-to-Beds PCSK9i Initiation Program on LDL-C in Patients Undergoing ASCVD Revascularization. Lorenzatti, Daniel, Garred S. Greenberg, Annalisa Filtz, Andrea Scotti, Vita N. Jaspan, Christine M. Park, Bethany Kalich, Laney K. Jones, Niranjan Kathe, Katherine E. Di Palo, Constance Browne, Evan Lipsitz, Stephen J. Forest, Azeem Latib, Mario J. Garcia, Carlos J. Rodriguez, Michael D. Shapiro, Martha Gulati, and Leandro Slipczuk. JACC. Advances 4 (9): 102075.

Evidentiary Landscape of Heart Failure Therapies, Regulatory Decisions, and Translation into Guidelines. Kaul, Sanjay. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 86 (8): 610–24.

From the Hazards of Death to the Hazards of Indication Creep for TAVR. Barili, Fabio, Nabil Dib, Rita F. Redberg, William E. Boden, Sanjay Kaul, Alessandro Parolari, Amedeo Anselmi, and INTEGRITTY–International Evidence Grading Research Initiative Targeting Transparency and Data Quality. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 86 (8): e75–76.

Underpinnings of Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction in Women - From Prevention to Improving Function. A Co-Publication with the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology and the Journal of Cardiac Failure. Radakrishnan, Ankitha, Saloni Agrawal, Nausheen Singh, Anna Barbieri, Leslee J. Shaw, Martha Gulati, and Anuradha Lala. American Journal of Preventive Cardiology 23 (September): 100928.

Medicine

Enhancing Management of Pancreatic Cancer: Impact of a Same Day Multidisciplinary Clinic on Access to Guideline-Directed Care. Ebia, Matthew I., Anser A. Abbas, Abrahm Levi, John Davelaar, Elissa Rosenberg, Katelyn M. Atkins, Mitchell Kamrava, Simon Lo, Srinivas Gaddam, Alexandra Gangi, Kambiz Kosari, Arpit Arora, Nanor Haladjian, Meghan Laszlo, Steven Oppenheim, Karen L. Reckamp, Nicholas Nissen, Brent K. Larson, Ashley Wachsman, Jun Gong, Cristina Ferrone, Andrew E. Hendifar, and Arsen Osipov. HPB, July, S1365-182X(25)00671-9.

Evaluating the Effect of KRAS Variants on Survival Outcomes and Therapy Response in Pancreatic Cancer. Ebia, Matthew I., Edik M. Blais, Yujie Cui, Emanuel F. Petricoin, Michael Pishvaian, Srinivas Gaddam, Jun Gong, Arsen Osipov, and Andrew E. Hendifar. JCO Precision Oncology 9 (August): e2400684.

Design and Initial Findings of a Natural History Study of Anal HPV and Associated Lesions Among Young Adult Women in Costa Rica. Haas, Cameron B., Rebeca Ocampo, Danping Liu, Michael Zúñiga, Diego Guillen, Megan A. Clarke, Loretto J. Carvajal, Allan Hildesheim, John Schussler, Mónica Sierra, Teresa M. Darragh, Joel M. Palefsky, Carolina Porras, Costa Rica HPV Vaccine Trial (CVT) Group, Aimée R. Kreimer, and Rolando Herrero. International Journal of Cancer, August.

The Impact of Sedentary Behavior and Physical Activity on Bone Health: A Narrative Review From the Rehabilitation Working Group of the International Osteoporosis Foundation. Bruyère, Olivier, David Scott, Alexandra Papaioannou, Bjoern Buehring, Bruno Muzzi Camargos, Roland Chapurlat, Thierry Chevalley, Elaine M. Dennison, Jean-François Kaux, Nancy E. Lane, Osvaldo Daniel Messina, Rene Rizzoli, Jorge Morales Torres, Julien Paccou, Jean-Yves Reginster, Sansin Tuzun, Robert D. Blank, Stuart Silverman, Daniel Pinto, and Rehabilitation Working Group of IOF Committee of Scientific Advisors. Calcified Tissue International 116 (1): 109.

Young-GRAPPA 2024: Progress, Achievements, and Strategic Developments. Ribeiro, Andre L., Gizem Ayan, Hanna J. Johnsson, Roxana Coras, Michelle Mulder, Daniela B. Tovar-Bastidas, Dimitri L. F. Silva, Arani Vivekanantham, and Fabian Proft. The Journal of Rheumatology, August, jrheum.2025-0263.

National Trends in Treatments and Outcomes for Dermatofibrosarcoma Protuberans: An Analysis of the National Cancer Database. Kodumudi, Vijay, Amanda Rosenthal, and Nima Gharavi. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, August, S0190-9622(25)02602-7.

The Evolution of Irritable Bowel Syndrome as a Group of Organic Diseases: A Narrative Review. Saidara, Evan, Gillian M. Barlow, and Mark Pimentel. Expert Review of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, August.

Antiferroptotic Drugs Reduce sFlt-1 Release and Placenta Damage in Preeclampsia. Lianski, Sapir, Tehila Mizrachi, Oren Barak, Lilah Tsaitlin-Mor, Shirin Elhaik-Goldman, Simcha Yagel, Debra Goldman-Whol, Sarah M. Cohen, Ruth Hefetz Medina, Jacob Rachmilewitz, Haim Michael Barr, Alexander Plotnikov, Yulia Y. Tyurina, Vladimir A. Tyurin, Svetlana N. Samovich, Alexander A. Kapralov, S. Ananth Karumanchi, Valerian E. Kagan, Hülya Bayir, Yoel Sadovsky, and Ofer Beharier. Hypertension (Dallas, Tex.: 1979), August.

Endoscopic Management of Refractory Gastrointestinal-Tracheobronchial Fistulas With Two Novel Occluders: A Comparative Cohort Study. Qian, Haisheng, Huaiming Sang, Yun Wang, Lurong Li, Junjun Xia, Jiahao Liu, Wei Jiang, Bixing Ye, Weifeng Zhang, Ping Zhao, Simon K. Lo, and Guoxin Zhang. Endoscopy, August.

Integrated Molecular and Clinical Characterization of Pulmonary Large Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma. Nassar, Amin H., Chul Kim, Tolulope Adeyelu, Elias Bou Farhat, Hassan Abushukair, Mehrdad Rakaee, Kelsey Matteson, Shun-Fat Lau, Yamato Takabe, Antonio Ocejo, Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani, Ticiana Leal, Anne C. Chiang, et al. Nature Communications 16 (1): 7717.

Next-Generation Flow Cytometry Analysis of Clonal Bone Marrow Plasma Cells Identifies an Indolent Subset of MGUS. Oskarsson, Jon Thorir, Sigrún Thorsteinsdóttir, Sæmundur Rögnvaldsson, Andri Ólafsson, Gunnhildur Viðarsdóttir, Elfa Rún Guðmundsdóttir, Elias Eythorsson, Asbjorn Jonsson, Bryjnar Vidarsson, Pall T. Onundarson, Bjarni A. Agnarsson, Margret Sigurdardottir, Ingunn Þorsteinsdóttir, Isleifur Olafsson, Stephen Harding, Brian G. M. Durie, Thorvardur Jon Love, and Sigurdur Yngvi Kristinsson. Blood Advances, August, bloodadvances.2025017270.

Micronutrients Are Associated With Endoscopic Postoperative Recurrence in Crohn’s Disease: A Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study in North America. Bak, Michiel T. J., Karen Boland, Shadi Nayeri, Krzysztof Borowksi, Pablo A. Olivera, Cristian Hernandez-Rocha, Williams Turpin, Joanne M. Stempak, Steven R. Brant, Judy H. Cho, Richard H. Duerr, Talin Haritunians, Mark G. Lazarev, Emebet Mengesha, Dermot P. B. McGovern, John D. Rioux, L. Philip Schumm, Sun-Ho Lee, Mark S. Silverberg, and NIDDK Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics Consortium. Journal of Crohn’s & Colitis, August, jjaf148.

Value of HCC Surveillance in a Landscape of Emerging Surveillance Options: Perspectives of a Multi-Stakeholder Modified Delphi Panel. Singal, Amit G., Lisa Quirk, Justin Boike, Victoria Chernyak, Ziding Feng, Giamarqo Giamarqo, Fasiha Kanwal, George N. Ioannou, Sarah Manes, Jorge A. Marrero, Neil Mehta, Anjana Pillai, Nicholas J. Shaheen, Aasma Shaukat, Claude B. Sirlin, Elizabeth Verna, Sachin Wani, Andrea Wilson Woods, Ju Dong Yang, and Neehar D. Parikh. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 82 (3): 794–809.

Neurosurgery

Hypoperfusion Intensity Ratio Is Associated With Follow-up Infarct Volume in Medium Vessel Occlusions: A Multicenter Multinational Study. Yedavalli, Vivek, Hamza Adel Salim, Dhairya Lakhani, Basel Musmar, Nimer Adeeb, Davide Simonato, Yan-Lin Li, Orabi Hajjeh, Muhammed Amir Essibayi, Nils Henninger, Sri Hari Sundararajan, Anna Luisa Kühn, MAD MT Investigators, et al. Neurotherapeutics: The Journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, August, e00713.

Orthopaedics 

Arthroscopic Shoulder Labral Repair Using Knotless All-Suture Anchor With Suture Tape. Lian, Jayson, and Michael B. Banffy. Arthroscopy Techniques 14 (7): 103598.

Single-Stage Distal Femur Osteotomy Using Patient-Specific Instrumentation, Lateral Meniscus Allograft Transplantation, and Lateral Femoral Condyle Osteochondral Allograft Transplantation. Lian, Jayson, and Michael B. Banffy. Arthroscopy Techniques 14 (7): 103640.

Prevalence and Success of Pediatric Orthopaedic Trainee Research Grants. Liu, Andy M., Mackenzie Bird, Adeesya Gausper, Nora Galoustian, Suhas Etigunta, Vivien Chan, Amelia Lindgren, David Skaggs, and Kenneth Illingworth. Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics, August.

Return-to-Sport Recommendations in Athletes Requiring Cervical Spine Surgery: A Modified Delphi Consensus Survey of Expert Opinion. Zuckerman, Scott L., Michael White, Grant H. Rigney, Jacob Jo, Julian E. Bailes, Christopher M. Bonfield, Robert C. Cantu, Patrick C. H. Chan, Andrew M. Cordover, Domagoj Coric, Hank Feuer, Raymond J. Gardocki, Andrew C. Hecht, Wellington K. Hsu, Jacob R. Joseph, Ronald A. Lehman, Allan D. Levi, Susan M. Liew, Philip K. Louie, Steven C. Ludwig, Joseph Maroon, Vincent J. Miele, Jeff Mullin, Venu M. Nemani, Frank M. Phillips, Sheeraz Qureshi, K. Daniel Riew, Myron A. Rogers, Rick C. Sasso, Gabriel A. Smith, Jay D. Turner, Alexander R. Vaccaro, Robert G. Watkins, Nicholas Theodore, David O. Okonkwo, Allen K. Sills, and Gavin A. Davis. Spine, August.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Late BK Nephropathy 15 Years Post Kidney Transplant Following Chemotherapy: A Case Report. Hamiduzzaman, Anum, Jean Hou, Tram Higgins, Pryce Gaynor, Abhirami Shankar, and Erik L. Lum. IDCases 41: e02340.

Kidney Transplant Outcomes in Recurrent Versus De Novo IgA Nephropathy. Haas, Mark, James Mirocha, Hae Yoon Grace Choung, Jean Hou, Mercury Y. Lin, Michifumi Yamashita, and Cynthia C. Nast. Kidney International Reports 10 (8): 2659–67.

Pediatrics

Effects of the Flavonoid Diosmin on Post Exercise Muscle Soreness - A Randomized Controlled Trial. Cunha, Fabiana Cristina Barreiros da, Giovana Bobato Cortez, Isabela Mayer Pucci, Mariana Martins Silva, Jayne Maria Borim, Mariana M. Bertozzi, Jeferson L. Jacinto, Thacyana T. Carvalho, Andreo F. Aguiar, Juliano Casonatto, Eros de Oliveira Júnior, Waldiceu Aparecido Verri, and Sergio Marques Borghi. Journal of Dietary Supplements, August, 1–22.

Surgery 

Instrument Tray Standardization for Pediatric Laparoscopic Appendectomy: A Sustainability Initiative. Lee, William G., Shannon T. Wong-Michalak, Vikram Krishna, Eveline H. Shue, Juan Carlos Pelayo, and Eugene S. Kim. The Journal of Surgical Research 314 (August): 334–39.

SCAN-ACT: Adoptive T Cell Therapy Target Discovery Through Single-Cell Transcriptomics. Testa, Stefano, Aastha Pal, Ajay Subramanian, Sushama Varma, Jack Pengfei Tang, Danielle Graham, Sara Arfan, Minggui Pan, Nam Q. Bui, Kristen N. Ganjoo, Sarah Dry, Paul Huang, Matt van de Rijn, Wei Jiang, Anusha Kalbasi, and Everett J. Moding. Genome Medicine 17 (1): 89.

Association Between Opioid Use and Survival in Advanced Non Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients Treated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors. Liguori, Luigi, Stefano Pepe, Valentina Pagliara, Rosario De Feo, Alessandro Ottaiano, Francesco Perri, Giovanna Polcaro, Valeria Conti, Cristina R. Ferrone, Francesco Sabbatino, and Marco Cascella. Scientific Reports 15 (1): 30267.

Evolution of Multidisciplinary Obesity Treatments: Past, Present, and Future Role of Nutrition. Heymsfield, Steven B., Philip J. Atherton, Sandra Christensen, Colleen Tewksbury, Amanda Velazquez, Jens Walter, and Ellen E. Blaak. Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.), August.

Urology

Adherence and Persistence on Relugolix for the Treatment of Prostate Cancer in the US Medicare Fee-For-Service Population. McKay, Rana R., Agnes Hong, Juan F. Razo, Scott C. Flanders, Christine Ferro, Mila Shapoval, Benjamin Li, and Stephen J. Freedland. Urology Practice, August, 101097UPJ0000000000000886.

Dietary Patterns in Prostate Cancer Prevention and Management: A Systematic Review of Prospective Cohort Studies and Randomized Clinical Trials. Lin, Pao-Hwa, Alanna D. Burwell, Edward L. Giovannucci, Stacy Loeb, June M. Chan, Brandi Tuttle, Cosimo De Nunzio, Anders Bjartell, William Aronson, and Stephen J. Freedland. European Urology, August, S0302-2838(25)00433-6.

APOE-High Myeloid Cells Are Uniquely Associated With Metastatic Intrathoracic Lymph Nodes Obtained by EBUS-TBNA in Primary Lung Cancer. Kim, Seung-Jae, Minhyung Kim, Ki-Hyun Kim, Jacob D. Eccles, Bumseo Baek, Catherine Dell, Kevin Haas, Christopher M. Kapp, Christian Ascoli, Sungyong You, and Gye Young Park. NPJ Precision Oncology 9 (1): 292.

Current and Future Pharmacotherapy for Female Sexual Dysfunction. Reisman, Yacov, Alexandra Dubinskaya, and Anna Padoa. Nature Reviews. Urology, August.

Impact of Treatment Suspension on Health-Related Quality of Life in the EMBARK Trial: A Post Hoc Analysis. Freedland, Stephen J., Ugo De Giorgi, Antti Rannikko, Fred Saad, Miguel Ramirez-Backhaus, Anchen F. Nasr, Jasmina I. Ivanova, Arijit Ganguli, Pavol Kral, Arlene L. Reisman, and Neal D. Shore. EClinicalMedicine 87 (September): 103429.

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