Faculty Publications Aug. 27-Sept. 4

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published Aug. 27-Sept. 4. 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

5 Subtle Signs of Pancreas Problems you Should Never Ignore, According to Doctors | Prevention
Andrew Hendifar, MD 

What Exactly Does Moisture-Wicking Mean When it Comes to Gym Clothes? | Men’s Health
Bert Mandelbaum, MD

Doctors are Racing to Figure Out Why a Mysterious Heart Syndrome Targets Heartbroken, Post-Menopausal Women | Women's Health
C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD

Becker’s Healthcare Podcast Episode: Dr. Alen Voskanian | Becker’s Hospital Review
Alen Voskanian, MD

This Mom’s Airplane Ear Trick for Kids Is Going Viral—But Is It Safe? | Parents
Abhita Reddy, MD

How a SpaceX Mission Could Speed Drug Discoveries on Earth | Pharmavoice
Arun Sharma, PhD 

What Is ‘Jet Belly’—And How To ‘Milk’ Your Gas in Your Plane Seat if You Need a ‘Mid-Flight Toot’ | The New York Post
Brennan Spiegel, MD

Scientists Reprogram Blood Cells to Prevent Alzheimer’s and Fight Aging In the Brain | ZME Science
Clive Svendsen, PhD

Faculty Publications

Biomedical Sciences

Multiple Substance Use and the Risk of Pancreatitis: A Systematic Review. Adeniran, Esther A., Yi Jiang, Dhiraj Yadav, Judy Tan, Samuel Han, Simon K. Lo, Stephen J. Pandol, and Christie Y. Jeon. Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology 18: 17562848251365030.

The Hidden Dancers in Water: The Symbiotic Mystery of Legionella Pneumophila and Free-Living Amoebae. Wang, Yuehua, Linzhe Jiang, Fei Zhou, Yi Zhang, Ryan D. Fine, and Mingguang Li. Frontiers in Microbiology 16: 1634806.

Improved Myocardial Tissue Characterization Using Delayed-Phase Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Cardiac MRI. Huang, Li-Ting, Xinheng Zhang, Xinqi Li, Archana Malagi, Yuheng Huang, Xingmin Guan, Hao Ho, Alan Kwan, Janet Wei, Xiaoming Bi, Anthony G. Christodoulou, Debiao Li, Hui Han, Yen-Wen Liu, Rohan Dharmakumar, and Hsin-Jung Yang. Radiology. Cardiothoracic Imaging 7 (4): e240393.

Increased Amounts of Epicardial Fat Tissue Are Not Associated With Mitral Annular Calcification in Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis Planned for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation. Weferling, Maren, Julia Treiber, Christoph Liebetrau, Andreas Rolf, Yeong-Hoon Choi, Efstratios I. Charitos, Damini Dey, Samuel Sossalla, and Won-Keun Kim. Structural Heart: The Journal of the Heart Team 9 (8): 100422.

Machine Learning-Driven Insights in Cancer Metabolomics: From Subtyping to Biomarker Discovery and Prognostic Modeling. Elguoshy, Amr, Hend Zedan, and Suguru Saito. Metabolites 15 (8): 514.

A Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Based Computational Protocol for Analysis of Plaque Morphology and Hemodynamics in Patients With Carotid Artery Stenosis. Braet, Drew J., Ismael Z. Assi, Vivek Dandu, Meng Lu, Siddhant Ranjane, Hsu-Lei Lee, Jacob Richardson, Yibin Xie, and C. Alberto Figueroa. Journal of Visualized Experiments: JoVE, no. 222 (August).

Current Advances in Anticancer Properties of Heptamethine Carbocyanine DZ-1 Conjugated to Artesunate: Generation of Reactive Oxygen Species. Narayanasamy, Badrinath, Sarah Helmueller, Yi Zhang, and Yong J. Lee. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 126 (9): e70062.

Machine Learning to Predict High-Risk Coronary Artery Disease on CT in the SCOT-HEART Trial. Williams, Michelle Claire, Alan R. M. Guimaraes, Muchen Jiang, Jacek Kwieciński, Jonathan R. Weir-McCall, Philip D. Adamson, Nicholas L. Mills, Giles H. Roditi, Edwin J. R. van Beek, Edward Nicol, Daniel S. Berman, Piotr J. Slomka, Marc R. Dweck, David E. Newby, and Damini Dey. Open Heart 12 (2): e003162.

Commensal Yeast Promotes Salmonella Typhimurium Virulence. Jaswal, Kanchan, Olivia A. Todd, Roberto C. Flores Audelo, William Santus, Saikat Paul, Ciera M. Duffy, Edward T. Eshoo, Manmeet Singh, Jian Miao, David M. Underhill, Brian M. Peters, and Judith Behnsen. Nature, September.

Cardiac Surgery

The STS 2024 Member Practice Survey: We’re Good But Are We Well? Cohen, Robbin G. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, August, S0003-4975(25)00807-0.

Cardiology

Reappraisal of Evidentiary Support for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation for Low-Risk Aortic Stenosis: Insights From Midterm Results of the PARTNER 3 and Evolut LR Trials. Kaul, Sanjay. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, July, S0735-1097(25)06845-7.

Participation of Women in Cardiovascular Trials From 2017 to 2023: A Systematic Review. Rivera, Frederick Berro, John Vincent Magalong, Nathan Ross B. Bantayan, Nicole Tesoro, Mark Jason Milan, Vikramjit Purewal, Polyn Luz S. Pine, Chieh-Mei Tsai, Ann Marie Navar, Sharon L. Mulvagh, James Januzzi, C. Michael Gibson, Anuradha Lala-Trindade, Susan Cheng, Kyla Lara-Breitinger, Mayra Guerrero, and Martha Gulati. JAMA Network Open 8 (8): e2529104.

Response to the Letter to the Editor Regarding ‘Role of Bariatric Surgery in Patients With Advanced Heart Failure.’ Kim, Darae, In-Cheol Kim, Jong-Chan Youn, and Jon A. Kobashigawa. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, August, S1550-7289(25)00851-2.

PRIME 2.0: An Update to The Proposed Requirements for Cardiovascular Imaging-Related Machine Learning Evaluation Checklist. Kagiyama, Nobuyuki, Márton Tokodi, Quincy A. Hathaway, Rima Arnaout, Rhodri Davies, Damini Dey, Nicolas Duchateau, Alan G. Fraser, Shinichi Goto, Ankush D. Jamthikar, Carolyn S. P. Lam, Evangelos K. Oikonomou, David Ouyang, Ambarish Pandey, Timothy J. Poterucha, Zahra Raisi-Estabragh, Jordan B. Strom, Qiang Zhang, Naveena Yanamala, and Partho P. Sengupta. JACC. Cardiovascular Imaging, August, S1936-878X(25)00466-8.

Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement Using the LuX-Valve Plus System: 1-Year Compassionate Use Outcomes. Stolz, Lukas, Neil Fam, Geraldine Ong, Pedro Villablanca, Ahmad Jabri, Ole de Backer, Jacob Eifer Mølller, Didier Tchétché, Omar Oliva, Kent Chak-Yu So, Yat-Yin Lam, Azeem Latib, Andrea Scotti, Augustin Coisne, Arnaud Sudre, Julien Dreyfus, Mohammed Nejjari, Ignacio Cruz-Gonzalez, Rodrigo Estévez-Loureiro, Manuel Barreiro-Perez, Guillaume Leurent, Erwan Donal, Guillaume Bonnet, Thomas Modine, Raj Makkar, Dhairya Patel, Karl-Patrik Kresoja, Philipp Lurz, and Jörg Hausleiter. European Journal of Heart Failure, August.

Hidden Malnutrition in Overweight and Obese Individuals With Chronic Heart Failure: Insights From the Pro-HEART Trial. Nguyen, Angelina P., Jennifer Kawi, Rebecca Meraz, Kelly L. Wierenga, Alona D. Angosta, Michele A. Hamilton, Gregg C. Fonarow, and Lorraine S. Evangelista. Nutrients 17 (16): 2694.

Mechanistic Basis for Differential Effects of Interatrial Shunt Treatment in HFrEF vs HFpEF: The RELIEVE-HF Trial. Zile, Michael R., William T. Abraham, JoAnn Lindenfeld, Stefan D. Anker, Josep Rodés-Cabau, Michael P. Pfeiffer, John P. Boehmer, Sheldon Litwin, Catalin F. Baicu, Julio Núñez Villota, Elizabeth C. Lee, Richard Holcomb, Patrick O’Keefe, Neal L. Eigler, Gregg W. Stone, and RELIEVE-HF Investigators. JACC. Cardiovascular Imaging, August, S1936-878X(25)00467-X.

Interpreting the ODYSSEY-HCM Secondary Analyses-Biological Signals, Clinical Silence. Krumholz, Harlan M., and Michelle M. Kittleson. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, August, S0735-1097(25)07462-5.

Early U.S. Commercial Experience with a Novel Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair System: Insights From Real-World Data. Waggoner, Thomas, Santiago Garcia, Tarun Chakravarty, Moody Makar, Azeem Latib, Robert M. Kipperman, Firas Zahr, Ivan Hanson, Anjan K. Sinha, Rahul P. Sharma, Jeremiah P. Depta, Jorge A. Castellanos, Susheel Kodali, Amar Krishnaswamy, Brian Whisenant, Daniel Menees, D. Scott Lim, Fahad Gilani, Carlos E. Sanchez, Neil Gheewala, Hemal Gada, Samir Kapadia, P. Kasi Ramanathan, Pinak B. Shah, Brian Renard, Gus Theodos, Ricardo Yaryura, Blake Gardner, Daniel H. Steinberg, Eric Gnall, Georges Kaddissi, Adnan K. Chhatriwalla, Antonio H. Frangieh, Mackram F. Eleid, Philippe Géneréux, John T. Saxon, Pedro Villablanca, Fadi Matar, Himanshu Agarwal, Stanley Chetcuti, Tiberio Frisoli, and Raj Makkar. JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions 18 (16): 2036–46.

Sex Disparities in Ischemic Heart Disease in South Asia: The Role of Dietary Factors. Rahaman, Tania, Edina Cenko, Olivia Manfrini, Angela Maas, Maria Bergami, Chris P. Gale, Martha Gulati, and Raffaele Bugiardini. JACC. Asia, August, S2772-3747(25)00386-2.

Transjugular Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement in Patients With Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices. So, Kent Chak-Yu, Lukas Stolz, Neil Fam, Geraldine Ong, Anson Cheung, Robert Boone, Pedro Villablanca, Ahmad Jabri, Yat-Yin Lam, Didier Tchétché, Omar Oliva, Ole De Backer, Jacob Eifer Mølller, Azeem Latib, Andrea Scotti, Augustin Coisne, Arnaud Sudre, Julien Dreyfus, Mohammed Nejjari, Paul-Emile Favre, Ignacio Cruz-Gonzalez, Rodrigo Estévez-Loureiro, Manuel Barreiro-Perez, Raj Makkar, Dhairya Patel, Guillaume Leurent, Erwan Donal, Thomas Modine, and Jörg Hausleiter. JACC. Asia, August, S2772-3747(25)00381-3.

A Simple Data-Driven Dietary Pattern Associated With Lower Risk for Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes. Batuure, Andrew, George I. Austin, William A. Grobman, Karen L. Lindsay, David M. Haas, Samuel Parry, George R. Saade, Hyagriv N. Simhan, Robert M. Silver, Uma M. Reddy, Aya Brown Kav, Shuang Wang, Natalie A. Bello, and Tal Korem. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM, August, 101773.

Tricuspid Valve Replacement Outcomes by Baseline Tricuspid Regurgitation Severity: The TRISCEND II Trial. Lurz, Philipp, Rebecca T. Hahn, Susheel Kodali, Raj Makkar, Rahul P. Sharma, Charles J. Davidson, Brian P. O’Neill, Pradeep Yadav, Firas Zahr, Scott Chadderdon, Mackram F. Eleid, Molly Szerlip, Vinod H. Thourani, et al. European Heart Journal, August, ehaf676.

Sex as a Biological Variable and Pre-Specified Sub-Subgroup Analyses: What Would Sir James Black and Sir Richard Peto Say? Bairey Merz, C. Noel. European Heart Journal, August, ehaf687.

Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes Associated With Immediate Versus Delayed Presentation of Severe Primary Graft Dysfunction After Heart Transplantation: Does Timing Matter? Manla, Yosef, David H. Chang, Peter Deckerman, Michelle Kittleson, Fardad Esmailian, Avani Kanungo, Evan P. Kransdorf, Jillian Max, Andriana Nikolova, Lawrence S. Czer, Lily Stern, and Jon A. Kobashigawa. Clinical Transplantation 39 (9): e70305.

Global Uptake of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists in Obese, Non-Diabetic Patients With Cardiovascular Disease. Chi, Kuan-Yu, Sara Pollanen, Jiun-Ruey Hu, Pei-Lun Lee, Sridhar Mangalesh, Chidubem Ezenna, Meghna Joseph, Mrinal Murali Krishna, Yu-Shiuan Lin, Laura Marcela Romero Acero, Yu Chang, Abdulla A. Damluji, and Michael G. Nanna. European Heart Journal. Quality of Care & Clinical Outcomes, September, qcaf104.

Periprocedural Results and Right Ventricular Outcomes of Computer Assisted Vacuum Thrombectomy Treatment of Acute Pulmonary Embolism: Interim Analysis of 300 Patients From the STRIKE-PE Study. Moriarty, John M., Brian J. Schiro, Suhail Y. Dohad, Houman Tamaddon, Hugh C. Davis, David M. Shavelle, George S. Chrysant, Elias A. Iliadis, David J. Dexter, Juan J. Ciampi Dopazo, Andrew Holden, Frances M. West, Brent Keeling, Andrew S. P. Sharp, and Ido Weinberg. Journal of the American Heart Association 14 (17): e039975.

Supine Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease: Controversies and Advances. Zimmermann, Sally K., Kassem Farhat, Samir Zaman, Frances M. Wang, Samir Y. Hirpara, Raviv S. Markovitz, Jiun-Ruey Hu, Paul A. Beach, and Stephen P. Juraschek. Future Cardiology, September, 1–15.

Computational Biomedicine

Large Language Model Analysis of Reporting Quality of Randomized Clinical Trial Articles: A Systematic Review. Srinivasan, Apoorva, Jacob Berkowitz, Nadine A. Friedrich, Sophia Kivelson, and Nicholas P. Tatonetti. JAMA Network Open 8 (8): e2529418.

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Gestational Diabetes and Its Association With Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes Among Women in Hawai’i. Chern, Ingrid, So Yung Choi, Hyeong Jun Ahn, Marjorie Mau, and Kelly Yamasato. Maternal and Child Health Journal, September.

Leveraging Large Language Models in Extracting Drug Safety Information From Prescription Drug Labels. Gisladottir, Undina, Michael Zietz, Sophia Kivelson, Yutaro Tanaka, Gaurav Sirdeshmukh, Kathleen LaRow Brown, and Nicholas P. Tatonetti. Drug Safety, September.

Imaging

Liver Fat Volume Fraction Assessment in Medium and Large Anthropomorphic Phantoms-Dual Energy Virtual Monochromatic Imaging Versus Single-Energy CT. Zhou, Yifang, and Xinhua Li. Medical Physics 52 (9): e18105.

Medicine

Decidual/Placental and First Trimester Plasma Levels of Hsa-miR-199a-3p|hsa-miR-199b-3p and Hsa-miR-3150b-3p are Associated With Insulin Secretion in Pregnancy. Taschereau, Amélie, Frédérique White, Catherine Allard, Andrea G. Edlow, François Aguet, Kristin G. Ardlie, Jose C. Florez, Pierre-Étienne Jacques, S. Ananth Karumanchi, Camille E. Powe, Luigi Bouchard, and Marie-France Hivert. Frontiers in Endocrinology 16: 1622500.

In Situ Pulmonary Artery Thrombosis and Low Flow Stasis Artifact in Parenchymal Lung Disease: An Under-Recognized Phenomenon. Mansour, Jennifer, Ken Dekitani, Fereidoun Abtin, Rajan Saggar, and Richard Channick. Pulmonary Circulation 15 (3): e70129.

Exploring the Potential Roles of SLC39A8 and POC5 Missense Variants in the Association Between Body Composition, Beverage Consumption, and Chronic Lung Diseases: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study. Apalowo, Oladayo E., Hunter K. Walt, Tolu E. Alaba, Joel J. Komakech, and Mark W. Schilling. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 26 (16): 7799.

Prediction of Immunotherapy Response in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients Using Pretreatment CT Images. Min, Ji Hye, Pin-Jung Chen, Touseef Ahmad Qureshi, Sehrish Javed, Yibin Xie, Linda Azab, Lixia Wang, Hyun-Seok Kim, Debiao Li, and Ju Dong Yang. Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) 15 (16): 2090.

Exploiting Targeted Degradation of Cyclins and Cyclin-Dependent Kinases for Cancer Therapeutics: A Review. Zheng, Suya, Ye Chen, Zhipeng Zhu, Nan Li, Chunyu He, H. Phillip Koeffler, Xin Han, Qichun Wei, and Liang Xu. Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B 26 (8): 713–39.

Prolactin-Secreting Adenomas: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Management. Fleseriu, Maria, Elena V. Varlamov, Amit Akirov, Fabienne Langlois, Stephan Petersenn, and Shlomo Melmed. The Lancet. Diabetes & Endocrinology, August, S2213-8587(25)00227-X.

Synergistic Alleviation of Obesity and Associated Cardiovascular Complications by Combined Modulation of FASN/Arginase/eNOS Uncoupling. Sabry, Ebtesam Ahmed, Mahmoud H. Elbatreek, Hany M. El-Basossy, and Noura A. Hassan. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & Pharmacotherapie 191 (August): 118486.

A Phase 2 Trial of Hydroxychloroquine in Individuals at Risk for Rheumatoid Arthritis. Deane, Kevin D., Christopher C. Striebich, Marie L. Feser, James R. O’Dell, Judith A. James, Jeffrey A. Sparks, John M. Davis, Jonathan Graf, Maureen A. McMahon, Elizabeth B. Solow, Lindsy Forbess, Athan Tiliakos, Elena Schiopu, Maria I. Danila, Diane L. Horowitz, Jonathan Kay, Colin D. Strickland, Joel M. Guthridge, Cristina Arriens, Jennifer M. Grossman, M. Kristen Demoruelle, Elizabeth A. Bemis, Ashley Frazer-Abel, Chelsie L. Fleischer, David A. Fox, Ted R. Mikuls, Melissa Greenleaf, Kate York, Sarah Walker, Lynette Keyes-Elstein, Margie Byron, Janel Fedler, Ellen A. Goldmuntz, and V. Michael Holers. Arthritis & Rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.), August.

Genetic Predisposition to Persistent Fatigue After a Diagnosis of Colorectal Cancer. Kazemian, Elham, Qianxing Mo, Marco Matejcic, Ya-Yu Tsai, Daniel Sobieski, Xiaoyin Li, Aasha I. Hoogland, Sylvia L. Crowder, Brian D. Gonzalez, Laura B. Oswald, Alix G. Sleight, Nathalie Nguyen, Nicole C. Loroña, Victoria Damerell, Khaled R. Komrokji, Kathi Mooney, Mary C. Playdon, Cornelia M. Ulrich, Christopher I. Li, David Shibata, Adetunji T. Toriola, Jennifer Ose, Anita R. Peoples, Sheetal Hardikar, Christoph Kahlert, Erin M. Siegel, Julienne E. Bower, Stephanie L. Schmit, Biljana Gigic, Heather S. L. Jim, and Jane C. Figueiredo. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, September, djaf140.

Predictive Machine Learning Model in ICU Patients With Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure and Two or More Organ Failures. Yeo, Yee Hui, Mengyi Zhang, Martin S. McCoy, Jian Zu, Yingli He, Yi Liu, Juan Li, Taotao Yan, Yuan Wang, Hirsh D. Trivedi, Ju Dong Yang, Vinay Sundaram, Xiaodan Sun, Zhujun Cao, Chun-Ying Wu, Jonel Trebicka, and Fanpu Ji. Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, September.

Reply to Letter on ‘Sex-Specific Trends and Demographic vs Epidemiologic Drivers of Alcohol-Related Cirrhosis in the U.S., 2021-2040.’ Danpanichkul, Pojsakorn, Luis Antonio Diaz, Juan Pablo Arab, Amit G. Singal, and Ju Dong Yang. Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, September.

Cognitive Assessment in Adults With Adrenal Cortisol Insufficiency: Challenges and Opportunities. Ben-Shlomo, Anat, Michelle Koh, Sarah A. Kremen, and Jeffrey Wertheimer. Endocrine Reviews, September, bnaf029.

Metabolomic-Based Aging Clocks. Ibáñez de Opakua, A., R. Conde, A. de Diego, M. Bizkarguenaga, N. Embade, S. C. Lu, J. M. Mato, and O. Millet. Npj Metabolic Health and Disease 3 (1): 35.

Post-Liver Transplantation Outcomes in Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure: Impact of Alcohol as a Precipitant and Etiology of Chronic Liver Disease. Kusztos, Victoria E., Tiffany Wu, Blake Kassmeyer, Ruben Hernaez, Constantine Karvellas, Saro Khemichian, Lance Stein, Kirti Shetty, Christina C. Lindenmeyer, Justin Boike, Robert Rahimi, Jalal Prasun, Manhal Izzy, Michael Kriss, Gene Y. Im, Ming V. Lin, Janice H. Jou, Brett E. Fortune, George T. Cholankeril, Alexander Kuo, and Douglas A. Simonetto. Liver Transplantation, September.

Neurology

Patient and Caregiver Outcomes of Health System, Community-Based, and Usual Dementia Care: A Prespecified Analysis of the Dementia Care Study (D-CARE) Randomized Clinical Trial. Reuben, David B., Alan B. Stevens, Thomas M. Gill, Jeff Williamson, Elena Volpi, Maya L. Lichtenstein, Lee A. Jennings, Rebecca Galloway, Jenny Summapund, Katy Araujo, David Bass, Lisa Weitzman, Zaldy S. Tan, Leslie C. Evertson, Mia Yang, Aval-Na’Ree S. Green, Rafael Samper-Ternent, Pamela Borek, Yunshan Xu, Peter Peduzzi, Erich J. Greene, and D-CARE Study. JAMA Internal Medicine, September, e254247.

Time to Acute Treatment in Intracerebral Hemorrhage Lags Significantly Behind Ischemic Stroke: A Multicenter, Observational Retrospective Study. Melmed, Kara R., Abhijit V. Lele, Maranatha Ayodele, Joshua N. Goldstein, Aaron LacKamp, Keith E. Dombrowski, Ayham Alkhachroum, Shraddha Mainali, Adam de Havenon, Prashanth Krishnamohan, Thanujaa Subramaniam, Christoph Stretz, Wen-Yu Lee, Lindsey Kuohn, Christine T. Fong, Sean McDougall, Robert Kim, Shlee S. Song, Alexis Campbell, Aneesh B. Singhal, Margaret Houghton, Shrinit Babel, Sebastian Koch, Jude Hassan Charles, Kristine H O’Phelan, Stacie Stevens, Vivian Li, Alison Champagne, Joseph Madour, Kevin N. Sheth, Chitra Venkatasubramanian, Shadi Yaghi, Stephan A. Mayer, Iván Díaz, and Jennifer A. Frontera. Stroke, September.

Frequency and Diagnostic Implications of Paramagnetic Rim Lesions in People Presenting for Diagnosis to a Multiple Sclerosis Clinic. Renner, Brian, Elizabeth Daphne Verter, Martina Absinta, Lynn Daboul, Praneeta Raza, Melissa Lynne Martin, Quy Cao, Carly M. O’Donnell, Paulo R. Rodrigues, Marc Ramos, Vesna Prchkovska, John Derbyshire, Christina J. Azevedo, Amit Bar-Or, Eduardo Caverzasi, Peter A. Calabresi, Bruce Anthony Campbell Cree, Leorah Freeman, Roland G. Henry, Erin E. Longbrake, Jiwon Oh, Nico Papinutto, Daniel Pelletier, Rohini D. Samudralwar, Matthew K. Schindler, Elias S. Sotirchos, Nancy L. Sicotte, Andrew J. Solomon, Russell T. Shinohara, Daniel S. Reich, Daniel Ontaneda, and Pascal Sati. Neurology 105 (6): e213912.

Neurosurgery

Retinoid X Receptor Alpha Overexpression Protects Retinal Ganglion Cells and Modulates Inflammatory Response in Experimental Glaucoma. Chitranshi, Nitin, Devaraj Basavarajappa, Viswanthram Palanivel, Gabriella E. Parrilla, Veer Gupta, Joao A. Paulo, Akansha Salkar, Mehdi Mirzaei, Maya Koronyo-Hamaoui, Wojciech Krezel, Stuart L. Graham, and Vivek K. Gupta. Molecular Therapy: The Journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, August, S1525-0016(25)00664-1.

OBGYN

Antenatal Maternal Hemoglobin Level and Severe Maternal Morbidity. Fabricant, Sonya P., Karen N. Opara, Alesandra R. Rau, Julianna V. Paul, Alodia Girma, Jessica D. White, Gabriella Blissett, Intira Sriprasert, Lisa M. Korst, and Nicole M. Chadwick. Journal of Clinical Medicine 14 (16): 5823.

Artificial Intelligence and Gynecologic Surgery. Pipes, Grace M., Andrew J. Hung, and Kenneth H. Kim. Obstetrics and Gynecology, August.

Complications Following Laparoscopic Hysterectomy With Concomitant Appendectomy: A National Analysis. Yagur, Yael, David Rosen, Gabriel Levin, Yosef Nasseri, Moshe Barnajian, and Raanan Meyer. Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology, August, S1553-4650(25)00316-4.

Orthopaedics 

Contemporary Decision-Making Factors Leading to Cervical Disc Replacement vs. Fusion for the Treatment of Single-Level Degenerative Cervical Radiculopathy or Myelopathy: Survey Opinions From Members of the Society of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgeon and Cervical Spine Research Society. Shafi, Karim A., Adrian T. H. Lui, Christopher Mikhail, Kyle Morse, Joshua Zhang, Cole Kwas, Hyun Bae, Sravisht Iyer, and Sheeraz Qureshi. The Spine Journal, August, S1529-9430(25)00737-5.

Robotic Spine Surgery: Beyond Adverse Event Reports and Operative Time. Chan, Vivien, Corey T. Walker, and David L. Skaggs. The Spine Journal, August, S1529-9430(25)00731-4.

A Targeting Arm for Interlocking Screws Reduces Radiation Exposure: Results of a Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial. Stanley, Mackinzie, Kevin Huang, John Garlich, Milton Little, Geoffrey Marecek, Charles Moon, Mark Vrahas, and Carol Lin. Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma, September.

Pediatric Spine Frailty Index Predicts Morbidity and Mortality Following Spinal Deformity Surgery. Chan, Vivien, Andy Liu, Adeesya Gausper, Lindsay M. Andras, Kenneth D. Illingworth, and David L. Skaggs. The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American Volume, September.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Editorial: Unraveling Mechanisms and Implications of Anti-RBC Antibodies in Transfusion Medicine. Hudson, Krystalyn E., and David R. Gibb. Frontiers in Immunology 16: 1671343.

Association of Deep Learning-Derived Histologic Features of Placental Chorionic Villi With Maternal and Infant Characteristics in the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study. Anderson, Elizabeth C., Gokul Srinivasan, Caitlin G. Howe, Edward Zhang, Catherine Jeon, Gnan Suchir Gupta Paruchuri, Leah Zhang, Lindsay Hwang, Aditya Sengar, Neha Reddy, Anmol Karan, Andrew Chen, Julia Shen, Onyinyechi Owo, ZoëFaith Caraballo-Bobea, Camilo Khatchikian, Thomas J. Palys, Louis J. Vaickus, Keluo Yao, Fabiola Medeiros, Helen Nguyen, Juliette C. Madan, Margaret R. Karagas, Jessica L. Bentz, and Joshua J. Levy. Placenta 170 (July): 87–96.

Resilience of Biobanks in Latin America During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons From Costa Rica. Zuñiga, Michael, Daniela Mora, Bernal Cortes, Viviana Loria, Amada Aparicio, Alejandro Calderon, Daniela Ugalde-Araya, Karine Sargsyan, Carolina Porras, Rolando Herrero, and Denis Marino. Biopreservation and Biobanking, September.

Pediatrics

Transcranial Ultrasonic Stimulation of Cerebellar Fastigial Nucleus: First-in-Human Feasibility Study. Bahr-Hosseini, Mersedeh, Norman M. Spivak, Amber R. Hopkins, Stefannia Cisneros, Christopher Hanuscin, Angshuman Saha, Jared Gilbert, Samantha Schafer, Mark E. Schafer, David S. Liebeskind, Martin M. Monti, and Jeffrey L. Saver. Brain Stimulation 18 (5): 1663–66.

Surgery 

Dual Innervation of the Depressor Labii Inferioris and Implications for Deep Plane Facelift and Structural Neck Contouring: Insights From In Vivo Stimulation of the Facial Nerve Branches. Frants, Anna, Brittany Leader, Richard J. Lu, and Babak Azizzadeh. Facial Plastic Surgery & Aesthetic Medicine 27 (5): 402–5.

In the Absence of Type-1 IFN, HSV-1 LAT Increases Γ34.5 Expression and Enhances Mortality in Infected Mice. Oh, Jay J., Ujjaldeep Jaggi, Deepak Arya, Shaohui Wang, and Homayon Ghiasi. Viruses 17 (8): 1061.

Impact of Donor Age on Graft Failure After Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation by Donor-Recipient Sex Combinations: An Analysis of the UNOS OPTN Database. Han, Sangbin, Vatche A. Agopian, Justin A. Steggerda, Irene K. Kim, Alison Sanford, Yi-Te Lee, Ji-Hye Kwon, Jin Soo Rhu, Gaab Soo Kim, and Ju-Dong Yang. Journal of Personalized Medicine 15 (8): 357.

Collision Course: A Decade of Traumatic Brain Injury Trends and the Impact of Urban Safety Initiatives in Eastern Massachusetts. Baker, Maxwell B., Himani Sood, Dhanesh D. Binda, Erin Dienes, Ala Nozari, Tejal S. Brahmbhatt, Kushak Suchdev, and Ali Daneshmand. Journal of Clinical Medicine 14 (16): 5825.

Concomitant Bennett’s Fracture-Dislocation With a Trapezium Fracture: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Franke, Jacob D., Beatrice L. Lucchesi, Reece A. Moore, Justin Markel, Katlyn Franke, and Matthew Fahrenkopf. JPRAS Open 45 (September): 436–42.

Integrated Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency Programs Largely Produce Cardiac Surgeons-Is the General Thoracic Surgeon an Endangered Species? Perez, Claire, Lucas Weiser, Kellie Knabe, Charles Fuller, Sevannah Soukiasian, Hrag Bairamian, Bryan Navarro, Raffaele Rocco, Philicia Moonsamy, Harmik J. Soukiasian, and Andrew R. Brownlee. The American Surgeon, September, 31348251376683.

Epidemiological and Economic Factors in Facelift Surgery in the USA: A Retrospective Multi-Center Analysis. Knoedler, Leonard, Alexandre G. Lellouch, Raffaele Aguglia, Kevin Sadati, Samuel Knoedler, Andreas Kehrer, Curtis L. Cetrulo, Carsten Rendenbach, Max Heiland, and Jakob Fenske. Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, September.

Characteristics of Transfusion and Association With Oncologic Outcomes in Hepatoblastoma Resection. Polites, Stephanie F., Jennifer H. Aldrink, Timothy B. Lautz, Robert A. Vierkant, Mecklin V. Ragan, Audra Reiter, Stephanie Y. Chen, Eugene S. Kim, Hannah N. Rinehardt, Marcus M. Malek, Andrew M. Fleming, Andrew J. Murphy, Jonathan P. Roach, Sridharan Radhakrishnan, Zachary J. Kastenberg, Nelson Piche, Yasmin Osman, Harold N. Lovvorn Iii, Elisabeth T. Tracy, Juan Favela, Hau D. Le, John Marquart, Brian Craig, Dave R. Lal, Natashia Seemann, Robin Petroze, Barrie S. Rich, Richard D. Glick, Leigh Selesner, Ashley Yoo, Elizabeth Fialkowski, Erin G. Brown, Chloe Boehmer, Roshni Dasgupta, and Max R. Langham. Pediatric Blood & Cancer, September, e32029.

Trailblazers in Foregut Surgery: Daniel Shouhed, MD (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) and Edward Auyang, MD (University of New Mexico) Interview Nathaniel Soper, MD (Northwestern University). Shouhed, Daniel, Edward Auyang, and Nathaniel Soper. Surgical Endoscopy, September.

Urology

Editorial Comment. Mogollon, Maria P., Alexander Hernandez-Tirado, and Stephen J. Freedland. The Journal of Urology, August, 101097JU0000000000004722.

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