Faculty Publications Dec. 12-19

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published Dec. 12-19. 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

4 Experts Discuss Medical Mistrust in Clinical Trials: Honoring the Past, Embracing the Future | BlackDoctor
Kimberly Gregory, MD, MPH; Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, PhD

These Risk Factors at Age 60 May be the Strongest Predictors of Dementia | HuffPost
Zaldy Tan, MD, MPH

Cedars-Sinai Receives $35M Donation for Cardiology | Becker’s ASC Review
Raj Makkar, MD

‘We Have Work to do’: Increased Physician Recognition Needed for INOCA, MINOCA | Healio
Martha Gulati, MD

Cancer: Combating Chemotherapy Resistance | FirstWord PHARMA 
Dan Theodorescu, MD, PhD

Exercise may Provide Short-Term Boost in Memory | The Dallas Express
Vernon Williams, MD

Faculty Publications

Anesthesiology

Validation of an Emoji-Based Visual Facial Anxiety Scale (VFAS) for Assessing Preoperative Anxiety: A Comparison to the ‘Gold Standard’ State- Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-S) Scale. Yumul, Roya, Ofelia Loani Elvir-Lazo, Paul F. White, Xiao Zhang, Waguih William IsHak, David Chernobylsky, Omar Durra, and Hamed Sadeghipour. Journal of Surgery and Research 7 (4).

Biomedical Sciences

Accurate Intramyocardial Hemorrhage Assessment With Fast, Free-Running, Cardiac Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping. Huang, Yuheng, Xingmin Guan, Xinheng Zhang, Ghazal Yoosefian, Hao Ho, Li-Ting Huang, Hsin-Yao Lin, Gregory Anthony, Hsu-Lei Lee, Xiaoming Bi, Fei Han, Shing Fai Chan, Keyur P. Vora, Behzad Sharif, Dhirendra P. Singh, Khalid Youssef, Debiao Li, Hui Han, Anthony G. Christodoulou, Rohan Dharmakumar, and Hsin-Jung Yang. Radiology. Cardiothoracic Imaging 6 (6): e230376.

Prevalence of Antimicrobial Resistance in Saurashtra, Gujarat and Implications Toward Sustainable Healthcare. Banerjee, Debashis, Mousumi Das, Avradip Chatterjee, Sheetal Tank, and Nilesh Aghera. Indian Journal of Microbiology 64 (4): 1672–79.

Regulation of Sarcomere Formation and Function in the Healthy Heart Requires a Titin Intronic Enhancer. Kim, Yuri, Seong Won Kim, David Saul, Meraj Neyazi, Manuel Schmid, Hiroko Wakimoto, Neil Slaven, Joshua H. Lee, Olivia G. Layton, Lauren K. Wasson, Justin H. Letendre, Feng Xiao, Jourdan K. Ewoldt, Konstantinos Gkatzis, Peter Sommer, Bénédicte Gobert, Nicolas Wiest-Daesslé, Quentin McAfee, Nandita Singhal, Mingyue Lun, Joshua M. Gorham, Zoltan Arany, Arun Sharma, Christopher N. Toepfer, Gavin Y. Oudit, William T. Pu, Diane E. Dickel, Len A. Pennacchio, Axel Visel, Christopher S. Chen, J. G. Seidman, and Christine E. Seidman. The Journal of Clinical Investigation, December, e183353.

Cardiac Surgery

Protective Role of 3-Mercaptopyruvate Sulfurtransferase (MPST) in the Development of Metabolic Syndrome and Vascular Inflammation. Zampas, Paraskevas, Zhen Li, Antonia Katsouda, Aimilia Varela, Stelios Psarras, Constantinos H. Davos, David J. Lefer, and Andreas Papapetropoulos. Pharmacological Research 211 (December): 107542.

Review of Current Normothermic Regional Perfusion Practice in Pediatric Cardiac Donation. Overbey, Douglas M., Elizabeth H. Stephens, Brendan Parent, Rebecca K. Ameduri, Pedro A. Catarino, Jennifer Needle, John A. Kucera, Fady M. Kaldas, Reshma Biniwale, and Joseph W. Turek. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, December, S0003-4975(24)01091-9.

Cardiology

The Prognostic Role of Pulmonary Arterial Elastance in Patients Undergoing Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation: A Pilot Study. Di Mauro, Marco, Michelle Kittleson, Giulio Cacioli, Vito Piazza, Rita Lucia Putini, Rita Gravino, Vincenzo Polizzi, Andrea Montalto, Marina Comisso, Fabio Sbaraglia, Emanuele Monda, Andrea Petraio, Marisa De Feo, Cristiano Amarelli, Claudio Marra, Francesco Musumeci, Emilio Di Lorenzo, and Daniele Masarone. Journal of Clinical Medicine 13 (23): 7102.

A Promising Pathway Toward Mitigation and Eradication of Coronary Artery Disease. Karlsberg, Ronald P., Geoffrey W. Cho, and Jairo Aldana-Bitar. Cardiology Research 15 (6): 415–24.

Associations Between Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes and Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Miller, Eliza C., Patrick Conley, Mohammad Alirezaei, Katrin Wolfova, Mitzi M. Gonzales, Zaldy S. Tan, Sarah E. Tom, Lynn M. Yee, Adam M. Brickman, and Natalie A. Bello. The Lancet. Healthy Longevity, December, 100660.

Effectiveness of Electronic Medical Record-Based Strategies for Death and Hospital Admission Endpoint Capture in Pragmatic Clinical Trials. Rahafrooz, Maryam, Danne C. Elbers, Jay R. Gopal, Junling Ren, Nathan H. Chan, Cenk Yildirim, Akshay S. Desai, Abigail A. Santos, Karen Murray, Thomas Havighurst, Jacob A. Udell, Michael E. Farkouh, Lawton Cooper, J. Michael Gaziano, Orly Vardeny, Lu Mao, KyungMann Kim, David R. Gagnon, Scott D. Solomon, and Jacob Joseph. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association: JAMIA, December, ocae303.

Assessment of Cardiovascular Diagnoses Associated With Telemedicine During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic. Shan, Rongzi, Neeja Patel, Jenny Y. Chen, and David Cho. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, December, 1357633X241299937.

Five Year Outcomes in Low-Risk Patients Undergoing Surgery in the PARTNER 3 Trial. Thourani, Vinod H., Martin B. Leon, Raj Makkar, Guido Ascione, Wilson Y. Szeto, Mahesh V. Madhavan, Susheel K. Kodali, Rebecca T. Hahn, Philippe Pibarot, S. Chris Malaisrie, Samir R. Kapadia, Mark J. Russo, Howard C. Herrmann, Vasilis Babaliaros, Robert Guyton, Philippe Genereux, David J. Cohen, Brandon Park, Sarah Clarke, Marissa Gunnarsson, Molly Szerlip, Julien Ternacle, Jonathon Leipsic, Philipp Blanke, John G. Webb, Craig R. Smith, and Michael J. Mack. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, December, S0003-4975(24)01090-7.

Detection of Cardiac Amyloidosis Using Machine Learning on Routine Echocardiographic Measurements. Chang, Rachel Si-Wen, I.-Min Chiu, Phillip Tacon, Michael Abiragi, Louie Cao, Gloria Hong, Jonathan Le, James Zou, Chathuri Daluwatte, Piero Ricchiuto, and David Ouyang. Open Heart 11 (2): e002884.

Covered Stent Correction for Sinus Venosus Atrial Septal Defects, an Emerging Alternative to Surgical Repair: Results of an International Registry. Rosenthal, Eric, Shakeel A. Qureshi, Kothandam Sivakumar, Matthew Jones, San-Fui Yong, Saleha Kabir, Pramod Sagar, Puthiyedath Thejaswi, Sebastien Hascoet, Clement Batteux, Younes Boudjemline, Ziyad M. Hijazi, Evan M. Zahn, et al. Circulation, December.

Computational Biomedicine

DeepDoublet Identifies Neighboring Cell-Dependent Gene Expression. Liao, Linbu, Junyoung Kim, Kanghee Cho, Junil Kim, Byung-Kwan Lim, and Kyoung Jae Won. Genomics & Informatics 22 (1): 30.

Automated Evaluation of Antibiotic Prescribing Guideline Concordance in Pediatric Sinusitis Clinical Notes. Weissenbacher, Davy, Lauren Dutcher, Mickael Boustany, Leigh Cressman, Karen O’Connor, Keith W. Hamilton, Jeffrey Gerber, Robert Grundmeier, and Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 30: 138–53.

Biologically Enhanced Machine Learning Model to Uncover Novel Gene-Drug Targets for Alzheimer’s Disease. Orlenko, Alena, Mythreye Venkatesan, Li Shen, Marylyn D. Ritchie, Zhiping Paul Wang, Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi, and Jason H. Moore. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 30: 441–56.

Emergency Medicine

Why Do We Need Quality Measures in Emergency Medicine? Das, Shamie, Gregg Miller, Christopher Libby, Cameron J. Gettel, Elaine Rabin, and Michelle Lin. Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open 5 (6): e13329.

Imaging

Relationship Between Severity of Ischemia and Coronary Artery Disease for Different Stress Test Modalities in the ISCHEMIA Trial. Reynolds, Harmony R., Courtney B. Page, Leslee J. Shaw, Daniel S. Berman, Bernard R. Chaitman, Michael H. Picard, Raymond Y. Kwong, James K. Min, Jonathon Leipsic, G. B. John Mancini, Matthew J. Budoff, Cameron J. Hague, Roxy Senior, Hanna Szwed, Balram Bhargava, Jelena Celutkiene, Milind Gadkari, Kevin R. Bainey, Rolf Doerr, Ruben B. Ramos, Peter Ong, Sudhir R. Naik, Philippe Gabriel Steg, Kaatje Goetschalckx, Benjamin J. W. Chow, Marielle Scherrer-Crosbie, Lawrence Phillips, Daniel B. Mark, John A. Spertus, Karen P. Alexander, Sean M. O’Brien, William E. Boden, Sripal Bangalore, Gregg W. Stone, David J. Maron, Judith S. Hochman, and ISCHEMIA Research Group. Circulation. Cardiovascular Interventions 17 (12): e013743.

Medicine

Disruptions in Lung Cancer Detection During COVID-19. Lal, Trisha, Uriel Kim, Christina S. Boutros, Natalie N. Chakraborty, Susan J. Doh, Christopher W. Towe, and Richard S. Hoehn. Cancers 16 (23): 4001.

Comparing the Efficacy of Different Proton Pump Inhibitor Dosing Regimens for the Treatment of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Nguyen, Tyra, Katherine Barnhill, Alex Zhornitskiy, Kyung Sang Yu, Garth Fuller, Katherine Makaroff, Brennan M. R. Spiegel, Gillian Gresham, and Christopher V. Almario. Diseases of the Esophagus, December, doae109.

Cancer Treatment-Induced Ulcerative Mucositis Serves as a Significant Predictor of Burden of Illness Including Dysphagia, and Associated Disparities Among Hospitalized Cancer Patients. Mohan, Minu Ponnamma, Roberto Pili, Joel B. Epstein, Lauryn Rudin, Susan Eichhorn, and Poolakkad S. Satheeshkumar. Supportive Care in Cancer 33 (1): 22.

Elevated Ambient Temperature Associated With Reduced Infectious Disease Test Positivity Rates: Retrospective Observational Analysis of Statewide COVID-19 Testing and Weather Across California Counties. Kwok, Nicholas Wing-Ping, Joshua Pevnick, and Keith Feldman. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 10 (December): e57495.

Etrasimod as a Monotherapy or With Concomitant Use of Corticosteroids and/or Aminosalicylates: Results From the ELEVATE UC Clinical Program. Yarur, Andres J., Michael V. Chiorean, Jessica R. Allegretti, Raymond K. Cross, Christina Ha, Martina Goetsch, Aoibhinn McDonnell, Alexis B. Dalam, Joseph Wu, David A. Blanco, Arcangelo M. Abbatemarco, and Julian Panés. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, December, izae288.

Arterial Effects of Anthracycline: Structural & Inflammatory Assessments in Non-Human Primates and Lymphoma Patients. Rankin, Stephen, Caitlin Fountain, Alastair J. Gemmell, Daire Quinn, Alasdair Henderson, John McClure, Sandy Small, Balaji Venugopal, Pamela McKay, Piotr J. Slomka, David Colville, Mark Petrie, Giselle C. Mendelez, and Ninian N. Lang. Clinical Science (London, England: 1979), December, CS20241529.

Biogeographical Distribution of Gut Microbiome Composition and Function Is Partially Recapitulated by Fecal Transplantation into Germ-Free Mice. Yang, Julianne C., Venu Lagishetty, Ezinne Aja, Nerea Arias-Jayo, Candace Chang, Megan Hauer, William Katzka, Yi Zhou, Farzaneh Sedighian, Carolina Koletic, Fengting Liang, Tien S. Dong, Jamilla Situ, Ryan Troutman, Heidi Buri, Shrikant Bhute, Carra A. Simpson, Jonathan Braun, Noam Jacob, and Jonathan P. Jacobs. The ISME Journal, December, wrae250.

Global Trend of MASH-Associated Liver Cancer a Systematic Analysis From the Global Burden of Disease 2021. Danpanichkul, Pojsakorn, Kanokphong Suparan, Chuthatip Kaeosri, Pimtawan Jatupornpakdee, Abdelrahman M. Attia, Thanathip Suenghataiphorn, Jerapas Thongpiya, Banthoon Sukphutanan, Daniel Q. Huang, Mazen Noureddin, Amit G. Singal, Karn Wijarnpreecha, and Ju Dong Yang. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, December, S1542-3565(24)01079-6.

2024 Update of the RECOVER-Adult Long COVID Research Index. Geng, Linda N., Kristine M. Erlandson, Mady Hornig, Rebecca Letts, Caitlin Selvaggi, Hassan Ashktorab, Ornina Atieh, Logan Bartram, Hassan Brim, Shari B. Brosnahan, Jeanette Brown, Mario Castro, RECOVER Consortium, et al. JAMA, December.

The Significance of Free Light-Chain Ratio in Light-Chain Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance: A Flow Cytometry Sub-Study of the iStopMM Screening Study. Óskarsson, Jón Þórir, Sæmundur Rögnvaldsson, Sigrun Thorsteinsdottir, Thorir Einarsson Long, Andri Ólafsson, Elias Eythorsson, Ásbjörn Jónsson, Brynjar Viðarsson, Páll T. Önundarson, Bjarni A. Agnarsson, Róbert Pálmason, Margrét Sigurðardóttir, Ingunn Þorsteinsdóttir, Ísleifur Ólafsson, Stephen J. Harding, Brian G. M. Durie, Thorvardur Jon Love, and Sigurdur Y. Kristinsson. Blood Cancer Journal 14 (1): 221.

Neurology

Phase 2A Proof-of-Concept Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Nicotinamide in Early Alzheimer Disease. Grill, Joshua D., Steven Tam, Gaby Thai, Beatriz Vides, Aimee L. Pierce, Kim Green, Daniel L. Gillen, Edmond Teng, Sarah Kremen, Maryam Beigi, Robert A. Rissman, Gabriel C. Léger, Archana Balasubramanian, Carolyn Revta, Rosemary Morrison, Robin Jennings, Judy Pa, Jing Zhang, Shelia Jin, Karen Messer, and Howard H. Feldman. Neurology 104 (1): e210152.

Neurosurgery

Long-Term Reoperation Risk of Thoracic to Pelvis Instrumentation for Spinal Deformity: A Longitudinal Study of 7,062 Patients. Nilssen, Paal K., Nakul Narendran, David L. Skaggs, Corey T. Walker, Christopher M. Mikhail, Edward Nomoto, and Alexander Tuchman. European Spine Journal, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society, December.

Skull Defect - Frontotemporal Dementia Sagging Brain Syndrome. Schievink, Wouter I., Marcel M. Maya, Robin Babadjouni, Angelique Sao-Mai S. Tay, and Rachelle B. Taché. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, December.

Spinal Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak Mimicking a Cerebellopontine Angle Tumor. Schievink, Wouter I., and Ferdinand K. Hui. JAMA Neurology, December.

Orthopaedics

Innovations in Genicular Outcomes Registry (IGOR): Protocol for a Real-World Registry Study of Treatments for Knee Osteoarthritis. Dasa, Vinod, William Mihalko, Adam Rivadeneyra, Joshua Urban, Andrew Wickline, David Rogenmoser, Andrew Concoff, Andrew Spitzer, and Michael A. Mont. Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease 16: 1759720X241304193.

Automated Balanced Cable Trifocal Bone Transport: A Case Report. Haruno, Lee S., Jonas K. Owen, and Geoffrey S. Marecek. JBJS Case Connector 14 (4).

Biomechanical Comparison of Volar Plate Repair Versus Volar Plate Repair With Suture Tape Augmentation at the Finger Proximal Interphalangeal Joint. Wright, David, Carol Lee, Steven S. Shin, Michelle H. McGarry, and Thay Q. Lee. The Journal of Hand Surgery, December, S0363-5023(24)00548-3.

Can Artificial Intelligence Deceive Residency Committees? A Randomized Multicenter Analysis of Letters of Recommendation. Simister, Samuel K., Eric G. Huish, Eugene Y. Tsai, Hai V. Le, Andrea Halim, Dominick Tuason, John P. Meehan, Holly B. Leshikar, Augustine M. Saiz, and Zachary C. Lum. The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, December.

The Minimally Invasive Intercostal Subdiaphragmatic Access Without Rib Resection for Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion (LLIF) at L1/2: Surgical Techniques and Cases Illustration. Tanasansomboon, Teerachat, Jerry Robinson, Wicharn Yingsakmongkol, Worawat Limthongkul, Weerasak Singhatanadgige, Vit Kotheeranurak, Piyanat Wangsawatwong, Babak Khandehroo, and Neel Anand. World Neurosurgery, December, 123564.

Can Intra-Operative Cell Salvage Reduce the Rate of Allogeneic Transfusion in Pediatric Spinal Deformity Surgery? Chan, Vivien, Geoffrey Shumilak, Armaan K. Malhotra, David E. Lebel, and David L. Skaggs. Global Spine Journal, December, 21925682241309287.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Evi1 Governs Kdm6b-Mediated Histone Demethylation to Regulate the Laptm4b-Driven mTOR Pathway in Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells. Wu, Qiong, Chunjie Yu, Fang Yu, Yiran Guo, Yue Sheng, Liping Li, Yafang Li, Yutao Zhang, Chao Hu, Jue Wang, Tong-Chuan He, Yong Huang, Hongyu Ni, Zhiguang Huo, Wenshu Wu, Gang Greg Wang, Jianxin Lyu, and Zhijian Qian. The Journal of Clinical Investigation 134 (24): e173403.

Investigating the Differential Impact of Psychosocial Factors by Patient Characteristics and Demographics on Veteran Suicide Risk Through Machine Learning Extraction of Cross-Modal Interactions. Levy, Joshua, Monica Dimambro, Alos Diallo, Jiang Gui, Brian Shiner, and Maxwell Levis. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 30: 167–84.

Pediatrics

Development and Initial Outcomes of the Interdisciplinary ‘Early Identification and Intervention for Infants Network’ (Ei3) in Los Angeles. Butera, Christiana D., Amy Yeh, Manoj Biniwale, Edward Bloch, Debi Craddock, Mary Doyle, Sai N. Iyer, Kari S. Kretch, Nora Liu, Christine B. Mirzaian, Barbara Sargent, Priscilla Solano, Margaret Swaine, and Stacey C. Dusing. Journal of Clinical Medicine 13 (23): 7442.

Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences

Asian Neuropsychologists: Current State, Gaps, Barriers, and Future Directions. Nguyen-Martinez, Ashley L., Iris Miao, Sofia Lesica, Jay Patel, Alexander Tan, Ananya R. Samuel, Cardinal Do, Christa Hutaff-Lee, and Julia Chen. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, December, 1–29.

Radiation Oncology

Letter to the Editor Regarding: Stereotactic Radiosurgery With Volumetric Modulated Arc Radiotherapy: Final Results of a Multi-Arm Phase I Trial (DESTROY-2). Nesseler, J. P., and M. Kamrava. Clinical Oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain)) 37 (November): 103703.

Radiation for Multiple Myeloma in the Era of Novel Agents: Indications, Safety, and Dose Selection. Zhang, Samuel C., and Leslie K. Ballas. Seminars in Radiation Oncology 35 (1): 87–98.

Surgery

Community of Trauma Care Partnering With Stakeholders to Improve Injury Outcomes: Survey Analysis and Panel Development. Appelbaum, Rachel D., Anna B. Newcomb, Michelle A. Price, Katherine Joseph, Ashley N. Moreno, Morgan Hennessy, Princess Fortin, Pam J. Bixby, Sue Prentiss, Alexandra McConnell-Hill, Rochelle Flayter, Rochelle A. Dicker, Rosemary A. Kozar, Elliott R. Haut, and Deborah M. Stein. Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open 9 (1): e001466.

Initial Evaluation of the Safety and Performance of Single-Port Robotic-Assisted Thymectomy Via Subxiphoid Incision. Marshall, M. Blair, Jon O. Wee, Harmik J. Soukiasian, Matthew G. Hartwig, Bernard J. Park, Michael Zervos, and David Rice. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, December, S0003-4975(24)01043-9.

Active Monitoring With or Without Endocrine Therapy for Low-Risk Ductal Carcinoma In Situ: The COMET Randomized Clinical Trial. Hwang, E. Shelley, Terry Hyslop, Thomas Lynch, Marc D. Ryser, Anna Weiss, Anna Wolf, Kelsey Norris, Meredith Witten, Lars Grimm, Stuart Schnitt, Sunil Badve, Rachel Factor, Elizabeth Frank, Deborah Collyar, Desiree Basila, Donna Pinto, Mark A. Watson, Robert West, Louise Davies, Jenny L. Donovan, Ayako Shimada, Yutong Li, Yan Li, Antonia V. Bennett, Shoshana Rosenberg, Jeffrey Marks, Eric Winer, Marc Boisvert, Armando Giuliano, Kelsey E. Larson, Kathleen Yost, Priscilla F. McAuliffe, Amy Krie, Nina Tamirisa, Lisa A. Carey, Alastair M. Thompson, Ann H. Partridge, and COMET Study Investigators. JAMA, December.

Are Tear Trough Fillers Really That Bad? Torabi, Sina J., Guy Massry, and Babak Azizzadeh. Facial Plastic Surgery & Aesthetic Medicine, December.

Patient-Reported Outcomes for Low-Risk Ductal Carcinoma In Situ: A Secondary Analysis of the COMET Randomized Clinical Trial. Partridge, Ann H., Terry Hyslop, Shoshana M. Rosenberg, Antonia V. Bennett, Sarah Drier, Mattias Jonsson, Ayako Shimada, Yutong Li, Yan Li, Thomas Lynch, Elizabeth Frank, Deborah Collyar, Desiree Basila, Donna Pinto, Anna Weiss, Anna Wolf, Kelsey Norris, Meredith Witten, Marc Boisvert, Armando Giuliano, Kelsey E. Larson, Kathleen Yost, Priscilla F. McAuliffe, Amy Krie, Nina Tamirisa, Sonja Darai, Lisa Carey, Alastair Thompson, E. Shelley Hwang, and COMET Study Consortium. JAMA Oncology, December.

Real-Time Pain Control Education After Outpatient General Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Lee, William G., Farin F. Amersi, Monica Jain, Scott A. Cunneen, Miguel Burch, Edward Phillips, and Yufei Chen. The Journal of Surgical Research 305 (December): 118–25.

Changes in Healthcare Professionals’ Practice Behaviors Through an Educational Intervention Targeting Weight Bias. Velazquez, Amanda, Karen J. Coleman, Robert F. Kushner, Joseph F. Nadglowski, Patricia M. Nece, Jing Zhang, and A. Janet Tomiyama. Journal of General Internal Medicine, December.

GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Induced Eustachian Tube Dysfunction: Database and Systematic Review of Otolaryngologic Adverse Events. Pak, Kaitlynne Y., Raffaello M. Cutri, Wasiq Nadeem, Dhruv Kothari, Yu-Tung Wong, Arthur W. Wu, and Mia E. Miller. Otology & Neurotology, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology 46 (1): 19–22.

Urology

Machine Learning Approaches for Spatial Omics Data Analysis in Digital Pathology: Tools and Applications in Genitourinary Oncology. Kim, Hojung, Jina Kim, Su Yeon Yeon, and Sungyong You. Frontiers in Oncology 14: 1465098.

Plain Language Summary: Does Enzalutamide Treatment With or Without Leuprolide Improve Outcomes and Affect Quality of Life in Patients With High-Risk Biochemical Recurrence? Freedland, Stephen J., Martin Gleave, Ugo De Giorgi, Antti Rannikko, Christopher M. Pieczonka, Ronald F. Tutrone, Balaji Venugopal, Henry H. Woo, Miguel Ramirez-Backhaus, Jamal Tarazi, Yiyun Tang, Arijit Ganguli, Gabriel P. Haas, and Neal D. Shore. Future Oncology (London, England), December, 1–14.

Patient Preferences for Life Expectancy Cutoffs for Aggressive Treatment in Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer. Heard, John R., John M. Masterson, Michael Luu, Rebecca Gale, Brennan Spiegel, Stephen J. Freedland, and Timothy J. Daskivich. Urologic Oncology, December, S1078-1439(24)00772-5.

Regulation of Volume-Regulated Anion Channels Alters Sensitivity to Platinum Chemotherapy. Feldman, Lily Elizabeth R., Saswat Mohapatra, Robert T. Jones, Mathijs Scholtes, Charlene B. Tilton, Michael V. Orman, Molishree Joshi, Cailin S. Deiter, Travis P. Broneske, Fangyuan Qu, Corazon Gutierrez, Huihui Ye, Eric T. Clambey, Sarah Parker, Tokameh Mahmoudi, Tahlita Zuiverloon, James C. Costello, and Dan Theodorescu. Science Advances 10 (50): eadr9364.