Faculty Publications Aug. 27-Sept. 3

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published Aug. 27-Sept. 3. 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

CEOs Size Up Site-Neutral Pay Amid Tightening Financial Picture | Becker's Hospital Review
Peter L. Slavin, MD 

Foodborne Illnesses Can Lead to Long-Term Gut Issues | The New York Times
Mark Pimentel, MD 

Orbital Alchemy | Science
Arun Sharma, PhD, and Dhruv Sareen, PhD

Medical Experts Say Young Athletes Are More at Risk of Heat-Related Illnesses | CBS Los Angeles
Carlos Uquillas, MD 

What Are Compounded Medications? 8 Things Older Adults Should Know | AARP
Steven Simons, MD

Smart Toilets Are Scanning Poop and Urine for Health Clues. Should You Trust Them? | Miami Herald
Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSHS

What You Can Do To Slow Hearing Loss as You Age, According to Experts | Health
Yu-Tung Wong, MD 

How Modern Sports Medicine Is Prolonging Careers of Professional Athletes | CBS Los Angeles
Michael Banffy, MD

Good Medicine: Treating mCRPC | HealthCentral
Adam Weiner, MD

Lindsay Clancy Trial: A Closer Look at Postpartum Disorders | ABC 7 Los Angeles
Olusinmi Bamgbose, MD

The Risk of High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy Is Rising—and the Damage Can Be Life-Changing | Scientific American
Sarah Kilpatrick, MD, PhD

Faculty Publications

Anesthesiology

Obesity and Age Increase Hypoxia Risk During Esophagogastroduodenoscopy Under Monitored Anesthesia Care: Risk Stratification and Evaluation of a Procedural Oxygen Mask. Bonge, Sam, Maaz Majid, James M. Mirocha, Theodore Stein, Deena Midani, Derek Cheng, David Padua, Joshua Levy, and Megumi Nakamura. BMC Anesthesiology 26 (1): 534.

Biomedical Sciences

All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality in Chronic Pancreatitis: A Systematic Review. Jiang, Yi, Esther A. Adeniran, Wenmo Hu, Yanna Cai, Drew Fletcher, Zijin Lin, Yuan Li, Ali Badaoui, Jianing Li, Judy Tan, and Stephen J. Pandol. Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology 19: 17562848261483780.

Beyond Stenosis: Imaging Phenotyping and Risk Stratification in Nonobstructive Coronary Artery Disease. Piña, Pamela, Annalisa Filtz, Daniel Lorenzatti, Ankur Srivastava, Jaideep Singh Bhalla, Piotr J. Slomka, Daniel S. Berman, Damini Dey, and Leandro Slipczuk. Current Opinion in Cardiology, September.

Vitamin K2 and D3 Supplementation in Patients With Severe Coronary Artery Calcification: The DANCODE Trial. Hasific, Selma, Kristian Altern Øvrehus, Anna Mejldal, Susanne Hosbond, Jess Lambrechtsen, Preman Kumarathurai, Damini Dey, Emil Johannes Ravn, Lars Melholt Rasmussen, Oke Gerke, Hans Mickley, and Axel Diederichsen. Circulation, August.

Cardiac Surgery

Challenges of Using Fitness Trackers in Critical Care. Kazerouni, Stephanie, Xiaoyu Liu, Tao Shen, Michael Nurok, Abirami Kumaresan, Anahat Dhillon, and Jill Yaung. AACN Advanced Critical Care 37 (3): 287–91.

Cardiology

Aficamten for Symptomatic Nonobstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Masri, Ahmad, Martin S. Maron, Ankit Bhatia, Maria Luisa Peña-Peña, Mark V. Sherrid, Estevao Lanna Figueiredo, Michael Arad, Roberto Barriales-Villa, Lubna Choudhury, Brian L. Claggett, Caroline J. Coats, Edileide de Barros Correia, Juan Pablo Costabel, Perry M. Elliott, Jorge E. Silva Enciso, Pablo Garcia-Pavia, Junbo Ge, Sheila M. Hegde, Gregory D. Lewis, Renato D. Lopes, Matthew W. Martinez, Mathew S. Maurer, Zi Michael Miao, Michelle Michels, Sumeet S. Mitter, Jesus E. Pino Moreno, Iacopo Olivotto, Anjali T. Owens, Steen H. Poulsen, Florian Rader, Ethan J. Rowin, P. Christian Schulze, Robert Sepp, Nikhil Sikand, Scott D. Solomon, John A. Spertus, Charles Teale, Xiaoyan Zhao, Punag H. Divanji, Stephen B. Heitner, Daniel L. Jacoby, Stuart Kupfer, Fady I. Malik, Joel Salazar-Mendiguchía, Amy Wohltman, Shu Zhuo, Carolyn Y. Ho, and ACACIA-HCM Investigators. The New England Journal of Medicine, August.

Association of Eicosanoids and Eicosanoid-Related Metabolites With Obesity and Cardiometabolic Traits. Chitsazan, Mandana, Juhi K. Parekh, Amanda L. Grundmann, Emily S. Lau, Mona Alotaibi, Bing Yu, Casey M. Rebholz, Elizabeth Selvin, Norrina B. Allen, Matthew A. Allison, Mohit Jain, Susan Cheng, and Jennifer E. Ho. Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism, September.

Beyond Lactate: Proteomic Prediction of Primary Graft Dysfunction in DCD Donor Hearts. Khush, Kiran K., and Jon A. Kobashigawa. JACC. Heart Failure, August, 103320.

Care Models for the Genetic Evaluation of Dilated Cardiomyopathy at Sites of the DCM Consortium. Jordan, Elizabeth, Tia Moscarello, Hibatallah Khafagy, Patricia Parker, Phoenix Grover, Simone Weinmann, Joseph Liu, Alberta Nomo, Naomi Barker, Emily E. Brown, Akos Berthold, Jessica Chowns, Ray E. Hershberger, et al. Circulation. Heart Failure, September, e014544.

Completeness of Revascularization in Coronary Three-Vessel Disease and Outcomes in the FAME 3 Trial. Otsuki, Hisao, Kuniaki Takahashi, Yuhei Kobayashi, Frederik M. Zimmermann, Mohamed El Farissi, Lennert Minten, Tatsunori Takahashi, Oskar Angerås, Steve E. S. Miner, Jaydeep Sarma, Evald H. Christiansen, Rana Sayeed, Kreton Mavromatis, Filip Casselman, Alan C. Yeung, Nico H. J. Pijls, Bernard De Bruyne, William F. Fearon, and FAME 3 Trial Investigators. European Heart Journal, August, ehag630.

Effect of Aficamten on Cardiac Structure and Function in Patients With Symptomatic Nonobstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Hegde, Sheila M., Xiaowen Wang, Ankit Bhatia, Maria Luisa Peña-Peña, Mark V. Sherrid, Estevao Lanna Figueiredo, Michael Arad, Roberto Barriales-Villa, Lubna Choudhury, Brian L. Claggett, Caroline J. Coats, Edileide de Barros Correia, Juan Pablo Costabel, Perry M. Elliott, Jorge E. Silva Enciso, Pablo Garcia-Pavia, Junbo Ge, Carolyn Y. Ho, Neal K. Lakdawala, Gregory D. Lewis, Martin S. Maron, Matthew W. Martinez, Ahmad Masri, Mathew S. Maurer, Michelle Michels, Sumeet S. Mitter, Jesus E. Pino Moreno, Viktória Nagy, Iacopo Olivotto, Anjali T. Owens, Steen H. Poulsen, Florian Rader, Ethan J. Rowin, Maria Ruda, P. Christian Schulze, Nikhil Sikand, John A. Spertus, Xiaoyan Zhao, Punag H. Divanji, Stephen B. Heitner, Daniel L. Jacoby, Stuart Kupfer, Fady I. Malik, Joel Salazar-Mendiguchía, Amy Wohltman, Shu Zhuo, Scott D. Solomon, and ACACIA-HCM Investigators. Circulation, August.

Eplontersen for Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy. Fontana, Marianna, Ahmad Masri, Scott D. Solomon, Francesco Cappelli, Margot K. Davis, Pablo García-Pavía, Julian D. Gillmore, Mazen Hanna, Laura Obici, Brett W. Sperry, Nobuhiro Tahara, Márcia Waddington-Cruz, Olga Azevedo, Thibaud Damy, Edileide de Barros Correia, Michel G. Khouri, Andriana P. Nikolova, Stefan Störk, Tom Conrad, Qingqing Yang, Brian L. Claggett, Jersey Chen, Gary T. Brice, Sotirios Tsimikas, Mathew S. Maurer, and CARDIO-TTRansform Investigators. The New England Journal of Medicine, August.

Global Efficacy of Aficamten in Nonobstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Results From ACACIA-HCM. Maron, Martin S., Ahmad Masri, Ankit Bhatia, Maria Luisa Peña-Peña, Mark V. Sherrid, Estevao Lanna Figueiredo, Michael Arad, Lubna Choudhury, Brian L. Claggett, Caroline J. Coats, Edileide de Barros Correia, Juan Pablo Costabel, Perry M. Elliott, Jorge E. Silva Enciso, Junbo Ge, Carolyn Y. Ho, Ian Kulac, Gregory D. Lewis, Matthew W. Martinez, Mathew S. Maurer, Michelle Michels, Sumeet S. Mitter, Jesus E. Pino Moreno, Iacopo Olivotto, Anjali T. Owens, Steen H. Poulsen, Florian Rader, Ethan J. Rowin, P. Christian Schulze, Robert Sepp, Nikhil Sikand, Scott D. Solomon, John A. Spertus, Xiaoyan Zhao, Punag H. Divanji, Stephen B. Heitner, Daniel L. Jacoby, Stuart Kupfer, Fady I. Malik, Joel Salazar-Mendiguchía, Amy Wohltman, Shu Zhuo, Roberto Barriales-Villa, and ACACIA-HCM Investigators. Circulation, August.

Long-Term Effects of Acoramidis on Mortality in Variant Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy, Including p.Val142Ile: Findings From the Open-Label Extension of ATTRibute-CM. Ruberg, Frederick L., Margot K. Davis, Sarah A. M. Cuddy, Lily K. Stern, Olakunle Akinboboye, Keyur Shah, Nitasha Sarswat, Michel G. Khouri, Daniel P. Judge, Jan M. Griffin, Justin L. Grodin, Souhiela Fawaz, Bret Zeldow, Jean-François Tamby, Adam Castaño, Uma Sinha, Marianna Fontana, Julian Gillmore, and Kevin M. Alexander. European Journal of Heart Failure, August, xuag258.

Noninvasive Thrombus Imaging in Patients With Ischemic Stroke. Whittington, Beth, Craig Balmforth, Alessandro Giaj Levra, Laura Clark, Neil Craig, Audrey White, Krithika Loganath, Evangelos Tzolos, Allison Winarski, Rachael O. Forsythe, Michael McDermott, Tariq Ramtoola, Phyo H. Khaing, Sphamandla Ntshangase, Mark G. Macaskill, Stefan Veizades, Mairi Brittan, Tim Clark, Michelle Rooney, Christophe Lucatelli, Piotr J. Slomka, Norman Koglin, Andrew W. Stephens, Iris Hardewig, Edwin J. R. van Beek, Marc R. Dweck, Joanna Wardlaw, Michelle C. Williams, William N. Whiteley, and David E. Newby. Circulation, September.

Percutaneous Epicardial Entry With a Novel Videoscope-Guided Epicardial Access Device: Initial Multicenter Experience. Ehdaie, Ashkan, Henry D. Huang, Jackson J. Liang, Ammar M. Killu, Alan Sugrue, Eric D. Braunstein, and Michael Shehata. JACC. Clinical Electrophysiology, August, S2405-500X(26)00743-7.

Platelet Activation and Thrombosis in Microvascular Obstruction. Balmforth, Craig, Alessandro Giaj Levra, Beth Whittington, Aidan Morgan, Mark G. Macaskill, Evangelos Tzolos, Alex J. Jordan, Tariq Ramtoola, Tim Clark, Michelle Rooney, Christophe Lucatelli, Edwin J. R. van Beek, Piotr J. Slomka, Stephanie L. Sellers, Norman Koglin, Andrew W. Stephens, Iris Hardewig, David E. Newby, Michelle C. Williams, and Marc R. Dweck. European Heart Journal. Cardiovascular Imaging, August, jeag225.

Short-, Medium-, and Long-Term Temperature and Sudden Cardiac Death in a Cohort of US Women. Borchert, William, Rachel C. Nethery, Christine M. Albert, Jochem O. Klompmaker, Charlotte Roscoe, Grete E. Wilt, Francine Laden, and Jaime E. Hart. Journal of the American Heart Association, August, e033829.

The Return of Thallium-201 for American Patients: History, Radiopharmaceutical Features, and Current Applications. Einstein, Andrew J., Daniel S. Berman, Yosef A. Cohen, Richard Green, Joshua Mailman, and Vasken Dilsizian. Current Cardiology Reports 28 (1): 86.

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement for Severe Bicuspid Aortic Valve Stenosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Kumar, Sant, Jung-Min Ahn, Euihong Ko, Gossadi Mohammed, Kentaro Hayashida, Wei-Hsian Yin, Hasan Jilaihawi, Raj Makkar, Won-Keun Kim, Tullio Palmerini, Christine J. Chung, David Elison, Soo Yeon An, Ju Hyeon Kim, Do-Yoon Kang, Joon Bum Kim, David J. Cohen, Davide Capodanno, Duk-Woo Park, and Seung-Jung Park. JACC. Advances 5 (8): 103052.

Computational Biomedicine

Audience-Customized Translation of Rule-Based Evidence With Large Language Models Across Multiplexer Benchmarks. Bandhey, Harsh, Gabriel Lipschutz-Villa, Khoi Dinh, Malek Kamoun, and Ryan J. Urbanowicz. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference: [Proceedings]. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2026 (Companion): 1175–83.

Phase-Alternation and Tree-Initialization to Facilitate Interpretable Rule-Based Machine Learning. Lipschutz-Villa, Gabriel, Harsh Bandhey, Khoi Dinh, Michael Heider, Malek Kamoun, and Ryan J. Urbanowicz. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference: [Proceedings]. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2026: 300–309.

ScaleBarOn and Muad’Data: Simple Python Tools for Elemental Imaging Data Visualization and Comparative Scaling. Punshon, Tracy, Brian P. Jackson, and Joshua Levy. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, August.

Survival-LCS: Rule-Based Survival Analysis Without Proportional Hazard Assumptions. Woodward, Alexa A., Harsh Bandhey, Jason H. Moore, and Ryan J. Urbanowicz. ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization 6 (2): 13.

Medicine

Advancing Equity and Patient Partnership in Clinical Trials for Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Model for Inclusive Trial Design. Rubin, David T., Andres Yarur, Renika Wood, Brian Po-Han Chen, Lisa E. Young, Megan Gower, and Vijay Yajnik. Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology 19: 603005.

Black Race Predicts Poor Compliance and Higher Prostate Cancer Risk in a Multinational Repeat Biopsy Cohort: Secondary Analysis From the Reduction by Dutasteride of Prostate Cancer Events (REDUCE) Clinical Trial. Freedland, Alexis R., Daniel M. Moriera, Jun Gong, and Stephen J. Freedland. The Prostate, August.

Comparative Efficacy of Herbal Products on Metabolic Parameters in Metabolic-Dysfunction Associated Liver Disease: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis. Sairaj, Revathi Thirumushi, Alejandro Chen Liang, Yeison Cruz Castillo, Mariela Denise Fermin Madera, Jose Medina, Tatiana Alexandra Moreno Díaz, Gabriela Flores Monar, Supritha Chintamaneni, Camila Sanchez Cruz, Rashmi Advani, Sushovan Guha, and Ernesto Calderón-Martinez. Gastro Hep Advances 5 (10): 101040.

Driver Genomic Lesions in MDM2, CDK4, and JUN Co-Opt Targetable Super-Enhancer Networks to Impose Liposarcomagenic Core Regulatory Circuitry. Chen, Ye, Ying Zhang, Long Xie, Xiaorui Fan, Jiyang Liu, Tuan Zea Tan, Zhengming Yang, Pushkar Dakle, Suya Zheng, Nan Li, Chenying Wang, Victor Kwanmin Lee, Lingwen Ding, Qiaoyang Sun, Wen Yi, H. Phillip Koeffler, and Liang Xu. Journal of Advanced Research, August, S2090-1232(26)00687-9.

L-Glutamine in Combination With First-Line Gemcitabine and Nab-Paclitaxel in Advanced Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma: An Open-Label, Single-Arm, Phase 1 GlutaPanc Trial. Gong, Jun, Hayato Muranaka, So Yung Choi, Mourad Tighiouart, Shrikant Bhute, Ezinne R. Aja, Jonathan P. Jacobs, Aleksandr Stotland, Jennifer Van Eyk, Omer H. M. Elmadbouh, Mouad Edderkaoui, Sunao Tanaka, Hideki Furuya, Arsen Osipov, Jeremy Lorber, Sandrine Billet, Alexzandra Morris, Johanna Ten Hoeve-Scott, Thomas Graeber, Stephen J. Pandol, Andrew Hendifar, and Neil A. Bhowmick. Nature Cancer, August.

Nirmatrelvir-Ritonavir Targeting Viral Persistence in Post-COVID-19 Condition (Long COVID) in the USA (RECOVER-VITAL): A Randomised, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Phase 2 Trial. Baden, Lindsey R., Nirav S. Shah, Sean T. H. Liu, Jonathan Cohen, James Moy, Andre Kumar, Grace A. McComsey, Peter Chen, Michelle Floris-Moore, Nora G. Singer, Inti Fernandez, Alex J. Slandzicki, RECOVER-VITAL Clinical Trial Group, et al. The Lancet. Infectious Diseases, August, S1473-3099(26)00406-8.

Noninvasive Positive Airway Pressure for Hypoxemia Prevention During Sedated Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in Adults With Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Pérez, Jariel Abreu, Valeria Esther Acosta Casana, Carlos Josue Alfaro Lazo, Valentina Alonzo, Carla Daniela Calizaya Baldellon, Alejandro Chen Liang, Macarena Chalbaud, Edgar Lozano, Suleen Daniela Barrera Mosquera, Alejandra Anez Gonzalez, Alexander Vega, Rashmi Advani, and Ernesto Calderón Martínez. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, September, S0016-5107(26)07018-5.

Remission Rates of Patients With Axial Spondyloarthritis in a Tertiary Care Center. Kluempers, Franziska, Imke Redeker, Abin P. Puravath, Omar Javier Calixto, Styliani Tsiami, David Kiefer, Xenofon Baraliakos, and Uta Kiltz. The Journal of Rheumatology, September, jrheum.2025-1143.

The Cognitive Effects of Creatine Supplementation in Older Adults and Preclinical Models of Dementia: A Scoping Review. Whitford, Tobias, Christian Donlon, Aidan Pech, Chase Goldberg, Harris Whiteson, and Mill Etienne. Ageing Research Reviews, August, 103317.

Waist-to-Height Ratio as a Practical Indicator for Screening Pediatric Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease in Diverse Populations and Genetic Backgrounds. Liu, Yun-Fei, You-Xin Wang, Li Li, Di Shi, Maike Wolters, Ping-Ping Zhang, Jia-Jia Dang, Shan Cai, Tian-Yu Huang, Ya-Qi Wang, Jie-Yu Liu, Ming-Yue Wang, Yu-Ying Wu, Enkar Nur, Wen-Jia Lian, Li-Po Guo, Yuan-Yuan Li, Jie-Yun Song, Jing Li, Yan-Hui Dong, Yan-Chun Cui, Antje Hebestreit, Yee Hui Yeo, Susan M. Sawyer, Hui Wang, and Yi Song. World Journal of Pediatrics: WJP, August.

Neurology

No Evidence for Modulation of the Readiness Potential by Respiratory Phase During Natural Breathing. Jeay-Bizot, Lucas, Raniyah Chishti, Uri Maoz, and Aaron Schurger. PLoS Biology 24 (9): e3003982.

Priorities for Advancing Palliative Care for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Consensus Report From a Palliative Care for ALS Working Group in the United States. Bischoff, Kara E., Yaowaree L. Leavell, Jessica M. Besbris, Christi Lero, Kelsey Noble, Astrid Grouls, Jerome Kurent, Benzi M. Kluger, Steven Z. Pantilat, Ambereen K. Mehta, and International Neuropalliative Care Society’s Palliative Care for ALS Working Group. Muscle & Nerve, August.

Neurosurgery

Early Retinal UCHL1 Dysregulation Coupled With Synaptic Loss Reflects Alzheimer’s Disease Severity. Rentsendorj, Altan, Jean-Philippe Vit, Alexandre Hutton, Yosef Koronyo, Saba Shahin, Edward Robinson, Ernesto Barron, Anthony Rodriguez, Ousman Jallow, Julia Sheyn, Bhakta Prasad Gaire, Lalita Subedi, Miyah R. Davis, Barathan Gnanabharathi, Alexander V. Ljubimov, Stuart L. Graham, Vivek K. Gupta, Mehdi Mirzaei, Debra Hawes, Katlin Silm, Keith L. Black, Lon S. Schneider, Alfredo A. Sadun, Jesse G. Meyer, Dieu-Trang Fuchs, and Maya Koronyo-Hamaoui. Advanced Science, August, e00020.

Predicting Craniospinal Surgery in Pediatric Achondroplasia: Benchmarking Statistical Inference and Explainable AI Under Rare-Disease Constraints. Gholampour, Seifollah, Jesse Huang, Dylan Keusch, Carolina Lopes, Aseel Masarwy, James Obayashi, Marcella Ruppert-Gomez, Christina M. Sayama, Lissa C. Baird, Moise Danielpour, and David F. Bauer. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, September.

Refining the Posterior Compartment of the Cavernous Sinus: A Detailed Reappraisal of Surgical Anatomy and Techniques for Invasive Pituitary Adenoma Resection. Xu, Yuanzhi, Tatsuya Uchida, Erik Burgos-Sosa, Ana Sofia Alvarez, Mariano Rinaldi, Taishi Nakase, Matei Alexandru Banu, Ludovico Agostini, Limin Xiao, Vera Vigo, Peyton L. Nisson, Simon A. Menaker, Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol, and Juan C. Fernandez-Miranda. Journal of Neurosurgery, August, 1–13.

Nursing

Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Nursing Leadership: From Innovation to Stewardship. Marshall, David, and Nancye R. Feistritzer. Nursing Administration Quarterly 50 (4): 177–78.

Critical Care Nurses in Organ Donation and Transplantation, Part 2. Coleman, Bernice, and Linda Ohler. AACN Advanced Critical Care 37 (3): 293–94.

System-Level AI Governance in Nursing: A Practical Framework for Safe and Scalable Adoption. Wang, Jing, Yijiong Yang, David Marshall, Patricia Shucoski, Tera Gross, Ryannon Frederick, and Sharon Pappas. Nursing Administration Quarterly 50 (4): 208–13.

OBGYN

Seeing But Not Foreseeing: O-RADS Stratification and Surgical Outcomes in Benign Ovarian Cysts Engel, O., M. Weiss, R. Meyer, M. Tenne, N. Paul, O. Markovitch, Y. Dykan, Z. Klein, R. Schonman, and Y. Yagur. Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology 68 Suppl 1 (September): 99.

Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine

Decompression and Dynamic Sagittal Tether Stabilization for Degenerative Spondylolisthesis: Primary Outcomes of a Multicenter FDA IDE Trial. Sasso, Rick C., Hyun Bae, Ivan Cheng, Jeffrey L. Gum, Alan T. Villavicencio, Mick Perez-Cruet, S. Tim Yoon, William F. Lavelle, Kee D. Kim, Michael Y. Wang, Ravinder S. Bains, Calvin C. Kuo, Harvinder S. Sandhu, Michael P. Stauff, Dennis G. Crandall, Sigurd H. Berven, Harel Deutsch, Jeffrey S. Fischgrund, Adam L. Shimer, Khalid Sethi, Wilson Z. Ray, Matthew J. Mermer, Reginald J. Davis, Elizabeth Yu, Todd F. Alamin, Louis C. Fielding, Jens R. Chapman, Richard D. Guyer, and William C. Welch. Spine, August.

Trends in the Distribution of Skeletal Compensation Based on Severity and Correction in Adult Spinal Deformity Patients. Onafowokan, Oluwatobi O., Mohammad Daher, Renaud Lafage, Virginie Lafage, Justin S. Smith, D. Kojo Hamilton, Max R. Fisher, Bassel G. Diebo, Alan H. Daniels, Robert Eastlack, Gregory Mundis, Breton G. Line, Pierce Nunley, Neel Anand, Themistocles Protopsaltis, David O. Okonkwo, Khaled M. Kebaish, Justin K. Scheer, Praveen V. Mummaneni, Dean Chou, Han Jo Kim, Richard Hostin, Munish Gupta, Douglas Burton, Christopher P. Ames, Frank Schwab, Christopher I. Shaffrey, Shay Bess, Lawrence Lenke, and Peter G. Passias. Journal of Neurosurgery. Spine, August, 1–8.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Examining Inflammatory Effects of Reticulocyte Erythrophagocytosis in Human Macrophage Cultures. Hernández-Armengol, Rosario, Kausik Paul, Che-Yu Chang, June Young Lee, Krystalyn E. Hudson, and David R. Gibb. Methods in Molecular Biology 3053: 641–58.

Lessons Learned From the Validation of a Machine Learning-Based Colorectal Carcinoma Screening Pipeline in Sub-Saharan Africa. Githuka, Alfred, Ulysses G. J. Balis, Ye Chan Kim, Eileen M. Weinheimer-Haus, Christopher L. Williams, Jerome Y. Cheng, Kelou Yao, John Blau, Jessica A. Baker, Priscilla Njenga, Winny Chepkemoi, Robert K. Parker, Akbar K. Waljee, Shahin Sayed, and Mansoor N. Saleh. Journal of Pathology Informatics 22 (August): 100691.

Pediatrics

Analysis of Neonatal Resuscitation Debriefings: Mixed-Methods Results From a Multicenter Pilot Study. Dadiz, Rita, Louis P. Halamek, Julie E. Riccio, Daniel Chiou, Michelle Olech Smith, Len Y. Tanaka, Debra L. Weiner, American Academy of Pediatrics WHiCED Task Force, and Theodora A. Stavroudis. Journal of Perinatology, August.

Mechanistic Characterization and Inhibition of PAD4-Dependent NETosis Following Experimental Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury. Bremer, Anna-Sophie, Maria Eugenia Bernis, Hannah Burkard, Elke Maes, Aimee S. Wilson, Zhaoyang Xu, David H. Rowitch, Waqar Hanif, Riki Kawaguchi, Thomas Ulas, and Hemmen Sabir. Experimental Neurology 406 (August): 115994.

Randomized Controlled Trials Evaluating Exercise Interventions for Plantar Fasciopathy Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Gonçalves, Irenilde F., Thacyana T. Carvalho, Kamila Grandolfi, Juliano Casonatto, and Sergio M. Borghi. Musculoskeletal Science & Practice 86 (August): 103644.

Sequential Patterning of Photoresponsive Hydrogels Directs Crypt Fission and Reveals the Role of Epithelial Curvature on Fission Symmetry. McNally, Delaney L., Kaustav Bera, Nolan R. Petrich, Alex Khang, Marilyne Coulombe, David Castillo-Azofeifa, Ophir D. Klein, Peter J. Dempsey, and Kristi S. Anseth. Advanced Science, August, e77397.

Surgery

AI-Based Tools for Predicting and Early Diagnosis of Graft Rejection in Solid Organ Transplantation - a Systematic Review. Henderson, Douglas, Tobias Niederegger, Robert Munzinger, Emre Karakas, Jonas Hildinger, Jasper Iske, Max Heiland, Curtis L. Cetrulo, Alexandre G. Lellouch, and Leonard Knoedler. Transplantation Reviews 40 (4): 101054.

Efficacy and Safety of Local Tranexamic Acid in... : Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global Open. Mokhtar, Jonathan, Marwa Hadi, Kreutz-Rodrigues Lucas, Kevin Sadati, Krishna S Vyas, Curtis L Cetrulo, and Alexandre G Lellouch. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global Open, August.

Generative AI and Clinicians Show Comparable Prognostic Reasoning From Clinical Narratives in Biologic-Treated CRSwNP. Hack, Sholem, Chase Kahn, Ainhoa Garcia-Lliberos, Cristina Rodriguez-Prado, Ameen Biadsee, Maxime Fieux, Mark Liu, Eran Glikson, Masayoshi Takashima, Omar G. Ahmed, Raj Sindwani, Dennis M. Tang, and Christopher R. Roxbury. World Journal of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, August.

HSV-1 LAT Promotes Ocular Diseases in the Absence of Type I IFN Responses in Sensory Neurons. Wang, Shaohui, Ujjaldeep Jaggi, Jay J. Oh, Deepak Arya, and Homayon Ghiasi. Journal of Virology, August, e0096026.

Mapping Structural Aging Across Human Tissues Reveals Tissue-Specific Trajectories and Coordinated Deterioration. Yadav, Anamika, Kyle Alvarez, Anna Chechenina, Kevin Y. Yip, Eytan Ruppin, Alexandre Colas, Jacqueline C. Yano Maher, Veronica Gomez-Lobo, Caroline Kumsta, and Sanju Sinha. Nature Aging, August.

Precision Oncology in Pediatric Cancer Surgery. Lee, William G., and Eugene S. Kim. Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America 40 (5): 895–931.

Primary Resection and Metastasectomy for Well-Differentiated Grade 3 Gastro-Entero-Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: A National Cancer Database Analysis. Sutton, Thomas L., Marco Ventin, Teodora Dumitra, Shahrzad Arya, Lara Schwieger, Cristina R. Ferrone, Andrew E. Hendifar, and Alexandra Gangi. Annals of Surgical Oncology, August.

Real-World Use of Normothermic Machine Perfusion in Liver Transplantation: A Multi-Institutional Experience From the National Organ Perfusion Registry. Cortez, Alexander R., Wei San Loh, Sarah Sheskey, Hillary J. Braun, Aashna Mehta, Christopher Connelly, Austin Schenk, Musab Alebrahim, Raj Patel, Lori A. McLamb, Andrew Barbas, Steven A. Wisel, Garrett R. Roll, and Kyle H. Sheetz. Clinical Transplantation 40 (9): e70664.

Reconstructing the Anterior Skull Base After Oncologic Resection: A Comprehensive Systematic Review of Open Techniques and Outcomes. Cardoso, Leonardo Januário Campos, Márcio Yuri Ferreira, Murtaja Satea, Paulo Vitor Marques Xavier, Lidia Cheidde, Benjamin Marc Daniels, Danil Ratnikov, Felix Schumacher, Gustavo Vieira Rennó, Anderson Matheus Pereira da Silva, Haizam Oubari, Alexandre G. Lellouch, and Netanel Ben-Shalom. The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, August.

Urology

Robotic Versus Open Post-Chemotherapy Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection: A Propensity Score Matched Study Across 11 Academic Medical Centers. Chavarriaga, Julian, Alireza Ghoreifi, Eshetu G. Atenafu, Ahmad Mousa, Lynn Anson-Cartwright, Sanchit Kaushal, Farshad Sheybaee Moghaddam, Anirban P. Mitra, Ashish Khanna, Amitabh Singh, Sol C. Moon, Ahmed Saeed Goolam, Ryan Chuang, Jordan Rich, Fady Baky, Mathew Ho, Jacob Roberts, Inderbir S. Gill, Reza Mehrazin, John Sfakianos, James Porter, Soroush Rais-Bahrami, Aditya Bagrodia, Nariman Ahmadi, Scott Eggener, Jacob Tallman, Sudhir Rawal, John F. Ward, Michael Jewett, Hooman Djaladat, and Robert J. Hamilton. World Journal of Urology 44 (1): 612.

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