Faculty Publications Dec. 18-Jan. 8

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published Dec. 18, 2025 - Jan. 8, 2026. If you have a published paper from this period that does not appear on this list, please contact Sue Marone.

Cedars-Sinai in the News

‘The Best Gift Ever:’ Baby is Born After the Rarest of Pregnancies, Defying All Odds | Associated Press | The Guardian | Univision
John Ozimek, DO; Michael Manuel, MD; Michael Sanchez, MD; Sarah J. Kilpatrick, MD, PhD; Sara Dayanim, MD

Fires Caused Spike in Heart, Lung Problems in Los Angeles, Cedars-Sinai Says | KTLA 5 | Spectrum News | ABC 7 Los Angeles
Joseph Ebinger, MD; Susan Cheng, MD, PhD

Dispelling 9 Myths About Women’s Health | New York Times
Caroline Jefferies, PhD

How AI is Already Shaping Healthcare and What Black Patients Should Know | Essence
Tiffani Bright, MD

How Long Does Perimenopause Last? | Yahoo! News
Jessica L. Chan, MD

Anesthesia Leaders on the Changes That Will Shape 2026 | Becker’s ASC Review
Michael Nurok, MD, PhD

Risk Score Helps Predict Pancreatic Cancer Recurrence, Study Says | HealthDay
Cristina Ferrone, MD

$30M Gift by Cayton Goldrich Family Aims to Break the Cycle of Inherited Cancer | Lifestyles Magazine
Peter Slavin, MD

Cedars-Sinai, University Health Network Unite to Advance AI | Becker’s Health IT
Peter Slavin, MD; Sumeet Chugh, MD

7 Causes of Sacroiliac (SI) Joint Pain | AARP
Andrew Bach, DO

The 5 Most Impactful FDA Approvals of 2025 | Pharmacy Times
Hai Tran, PharmD

Faculty Publications

Anesthesiology

Professional Society Recommended Interventions for Enhanced Recovery After Cesarean Delivery in the United States: A Multidisciplinary Delphi Study. Sultan, P., G. Nelson, K. Joudi, D. J. Singh, K. D. Gregory, M. Zakowski, B. Carvalho, and Study Investigators. International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia 65 (October): 104811.

Fluoroscopic C2 Selective Nerve Root Block Enabled With CT Angiogram. Zarembinski, Christopher, and J. Patrick Johnson. Interventional Pain Medicine 5 (1): 100721.

Biomedical Sciences

Clinical Characteristics and Multimodal Imaging Insights of Coronary Involvement in Immunoglobulin G4-Related Disease. Wang, Guan, Yaqi Du, Yun Bai, Yimo Zhou, Shuang Ding, Xinrui Wang, Yibin Xie, Hsin-Jung Yang, Debiao Li, Zhaoyang Fan, Guoguang Fan, Zhe Lou, Jiayi Wei, and Yingxian Sun. Frontiers in Immunology 16: 1685508.

Cortical State Dynamics as a Target for Stroke Motor Rehabilitation. Abbasi, Aamir, and Tanuj Gulati. Neuron 113 (24): 4096–98.

Habits at Home: How the Home Food Environment Shapes Caregivers’ Eating Habits. Pizano, Demetria R., Camille Schneider-Worthington, Sarah-Jeanne Salvy, Alanis Stansberry, Andrea L. Davis, and Gareth R. Dutton. Appetite 219 (December): 108432.

Deep Learning-Based Denoising for High-Resolution Carotid Vessel Wall MRI Using Standard Neurovascular Coils. Zeng, Lisha, Yin-Chen Hsu, Lixia Wang, Meng Lu, Mary Keushkerian, Kim-Lien Nguyen, Kevin J. Johnson, Maria I. Altbach, H. Douglas Morris, J. Kevin DeMarco, Vibhas Deshpande, Dimitrios Mitsouras, David Saloner, J. Scott McNally, Seong-Eun Kim, John A. Roberts, J. Rock Hadley, Dennis L. Parker, Gerald S. Treiman, Debiao Li, and Yibin Xie. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, December.

Patients With Persistent Atrial Fibrillation and Metabolic Comorbidities Have an Altered Inflammatory State of Atrial Epicardial Adipose Tissue, Which Is Linked to CT-Attenuation. Meulendijks, Eva R., Benedetta Fabrizi, Steffen Bruns, Etto C. Eringa, Ron Hoebe, Thomas van den Boogert, Robin Wesselink, Rushd F. M. Al-Shama, Tim A. C. de Vries, Auriane C. Ernault, H. W. M. Niessen, Wim J. P. van Boven, Antoine H. G. Driessen, I. Zbairi, Pietro Zappala, Damini Dey, Ivana Isgum, R. Nils Planken, Sébastien P. J. Krul, and Joris R. de Groot. Cardiovascular Diabetology, December.

B-Type Natriuretic Peptide as a Marker of Subclinical Heart Disease in a High-Burden Emergency Department Population With Sustained Asymptomatic Hypertension. Souffront, Kimberly, Bret P. Nelson, Megan Lukas, Hans Reyes Garay, Claire Shubeck, Lauren Gordon, George T. Loo, Aleksandra Degtyar, Marcee Wilder, Hanisah Iddrisu, Bernice Coleman, and Lynne D. Richardson. International Journal of Hypertension 2025: 9951414.

A Bioorthogonal TCO-Tetrazine-Based Pretargeted PET/NIRF Platform Enabling High-Contrast Tumor Imaging. Huang, Mingxing, Weichen Wang, Qiao Yu, Yike Zhou, Yingwei Wang, Rang Wang, Xin Li, Yaojia Zhou, Yi Zhang, and Rong Tian. Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) 18 (12): 1874.

Design and Rationale of the WARRIOR Ancillary Study for Coronary CT Angiographic Analysis. Tamarappoo, Balaji, Rafal Wolny, Guadalupe Flores Tomasino, Dan Berman, Eileen Handberg, Carl J. Pepine, Margaret C. Lo, Matt Budoff, Leslee Shaw, Chrisandra Shufelt, Janet Wei, Martha Gulati, C. Noel Bairey Merz, and Damini Dey. American Heart Journal, January, 107340.

EZH2 Inhibitors Sensitize Breast Cancer to HER2 Kinase Inhibitors Through Cooperative Effects on YAP and Pro-Apoptotic Regulators. Perurena, Naiara, Marina Watanabe, Amy E. Schade, William Brown, Elizabeth Y. Luo, Alycia Gardner, Alexandra Indeglia, Akiko Yoshinaga, Rhea Sahu, Yoona Yang, Simon R. V. Knott, and Karen Cichowski. Cancer Research, January.

METTL16 in Cancer: Roles and Regulatory Mechanisms. Qiu, Kangjie, Shuxin Zhong, Jinyi Liu, Weini Li, Cunte Chen, Yangqiu Li, and Chengwu Zeng. Genes & Diseases 13 (2): 101758.

Antimicrobial Proteins Regulating Neuroinflammation. Bhusal, Anup, Won-Ha Lee, and Kyoungho Suk. Annals of Medicine 58 (1): 2610072.

Cardiac Surgery

Symptomatic Left Main Coronary Artery Aneurysm With Intraluminal Thrombus. DiChiacchio, Laura, Michal Schafer, Brigham R. Smith, Frederick G. P. Welt, and Jason P. Glotzbach. Annals of Thoracic Surgery Short Reports 3 (4): 1016.

Cardiology

Transcatheter Treatment of Bicuspid Aortic Valve Stenosis: From Observational Studies to Randomized Clinical Trials. Samim, Daryoush, Matthias Siepe, Peter Jüni, Aakriti Gupta, Hasan Jilaihawi, Michael A. Borger, Raj R. Makkar, Martin B. Leon, and Stephan Windecker. Structural Heart: The Journal of the Heart Team 9 (12): 100754.

Engagement of Participants to Enable a Health System Biobank Resource. Khuu, Briana, Yu Hung Kao, Minhao Wang, Wasay Warsi, Szu Chieh Lee, Marisa Bugarin, Marilyn Mendez, Juliane Louise Kwong, Christina Tong, Gino Alberto Magalang, Breanna Sung, Patrick Botting, Trevor Trung Nguyen, Beatrice Filart, Kenia Gastelum, Michelle Bravo, Yeran Lee, Jesse Navarrette, Mohamad Rashid, Kylie Rhoades, Nancy Sun, Teresa Anh Tran, Ellie Wenger, Min Wu, Alan C. Kwan, Joseph E. Ebinger, Kimia Sobhani, Susan Cheng, and Sandy Y. Joung. Biopreservation and Biobanking, December.

Global Burden of Lower Respiratory Infections and Aetiologies, 1990-2023: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023. GBD 2023 Lower Respiratory Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance Collaborators. The Lancet. Infectious Diseases, December, S1473-3099(25)00689-9.

Lessons Learned From a Nationwide Analysis of TVIs in Patients With CIEDs: Managing the Lead at the Crossroads. Wunderlich, Nina C., and Robert J. Siegel. JACC. Clinical Electrophysiology, December, S2405-500X(25)00990-9.

Plasma Proteome Stability at the Time of Sudden Cardiac Arrest: Implications for Biomarker Studies in Post-Resuscitation Survival. Lee, Jihyeon, Kotoka Nakamura, Qin Fu, Kyndaron Reinier, Ali Haghani, Harpriya Chugh, Sumeet S. Chugh, and Jennifer E. Van Eyk. Journal of Proteome Research, December.

Zero-Fluoroscopy Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion With the Watchman FLX Device. Chakravarty, Tarun, Sabah Skaf, Uttam Singh, Tulika Garg, Nikitaa Gandhi, Vanya Malik, Moody Makar, Aakriti Gupta, Dan Berman, John Friedman, and Raj R. Makkar. Heart Rhythm, December, S1547-5271(25)03166-2.

Illuminating Titin Truncating Variants in Dilated Cardiomyopathy. Patel, Krishan, and Evan P. Kransdorf. JACC. Clinical Electrophysiology, December, S2405-500X(25)00991-0.

Comparison of Plaque Burden Assessment Between Coronary Artery Calcium Score and Segment Involvement Score. Fujito, Hidesato, Billy Lin, Heidi Gransar, Alan Rozanski, Damini Dey, Piotr Slomka, Sean W. Hayes, John D. Friedman, Daniel S. Berman, and Donghee Han. JACC. Cardiovascular Imaging 18 (12): 1408–9.

From Algorithm to Bedside: Making AI Models Clinically Meaningful. Holmström, Lauri, and Sumeet S. Chugh. JACC. Clinical Electrophysiology, December, S2405-500X(25)01003-5.

Long-Term Clinical Outcomes of Balloon-Expandable Versus Self-Expanding Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients With Small Aortic Annulus. Pawar, Shubhadarshini, Vivek Patel, Takashi Nagasaka, Prateek Madaan, Amir Ghaffari Jolfayi, Ofir Koren, Dhairya Patel, Tarun Chakravarty, Mamoo Nakamura, Wen Cheng, Sabah Skaf, Hasan Jilaihawi, Raj R. Makkar, and Aakriti Gupta. Journal of the American Heart Association, December, e045417.

Emerging Technologies in Proteomics: Insights From the HUPO ETC Webinar Series. Chazarin, Blandine, Sayantani Chatterjee, Ben C. Collins, Justyna Fert-Bober, Shixia Huang, Deepti J. Kundu, Qingsong Lin, Yansheng Liu, Teck Yew Low, Julian Saba, Eduard Sabido, Brian C. Searle, and Giuseppe Palmisano. Journal of Proteome Research 25 (1): 1–3.

Factors Associated With Leisure Time Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in Young Women 2-7 Years After Delivery of a Pregnancy in the nuMoM2b Heart Health Study. Barone Gibbs, Bethany, Sarah Modlin, Subashan Perera, Alexis N. Thrower, Kimberly A. Huber, Andrea C. Kozai, Jeremy Chiu, David M. Haas, Philip Greenland, William A. Grobman, Lauren Theilen, Natalie A. Cameron, C. Noel Bairey Merz, and Kara M. Whitaker. American Journal of Health Promotion: AJHP, January, 8901171251413224.

The 2025 Report on the Human Proteome From the HUPO Human Proteome Project. Deutsch, Eric W., Cecilia Lindskog, Bogdan Budnik, Claudia Ctortecka, Tiannan Guo, Charles Pineau, Gong Zhang, Marie Andken, Clarissa Zheng, Zhi Sun, Jonathan M. Mudge, Sandra Orchard, Christopher M. Overall, Nicolle H. Packer, Susan T. Weintraub, Michael H. A. Roehrl, Edouard Nice, Jennifer E. Van Eyk, Uwe Völker, Nuno Bandeira, Ruedi Aebersold, Robert L. Moritz, and Gilbert S. Omenn. Journal of Proteome Research, January.

Deep Learning-Based Continuous QT Monitoring to Identify High-Risk Prolongation Events After Class III Antiarrhythmic Initiation. Ansari, Rayan A., Sabyasachi Bandyopadhyay, Rishi K. Trivedi, Kelly A. Brennan, Xichong Liu, Prasanth Ganesan, J. Weston Hughes, Alexander C. Perino, Euan A. Ashley, Paul J. Wang, Todd Coleman, Marco V. Perez, David Ouyang, Sanjiv M. Narayan, and Albert J. Rogers. Circulation 153 (1): 35–46.

A Novel Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Framework Integrating Common and Rare Variants: Application to Assess the Effect of HDL-C on Preeclampsia Risk. Zhang, Yu, Ming Li, David M. Haas, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Tsegaselassie Workalemahu, Kelli Ryckman, Janet M. Catov, Lisa D. Levine, Alexa Freedman, George R. Saade, Jiaqi Hu, Hongyu Zhao, Xihao Li, Nianjun Liu, and Qi Yan. Briefings in Bioinformatics 27 (1): bbaf649.

Commissural Misalignment Following Valve-in-Valve Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation. Raschpichler, Matthias, Johannes Rotta Detto Loria, Vivek Patel, Thilo Noack, Karoline Nüsser, Oliver Dumpies, Dhairya Patel, Takashi Nagasaka, Prateek Madaan, Aakriti Gupta, Holger Thiele, Michael A. Borger, Raj Makkar, and Mohamed Abdel-Wahab. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, January.

Computational Biomedicine

Comparative Validation of PREDICT Versions 3.1 and 2.2 for Overall Survival in the Dutch Breast Cancer Population. Vreven, Lara W. A., Elfi M. Verheul, Marissa C. van Maaren, Frank Doornkamp, Robert-Jan Schipper, Sabine Siesling, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Vivianne C. G. Tjan-Heijnen, and Adri C. Voogd. Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland) 85 (December): 104681.

Media Coverage and PATHFINDER2: Hype, Simplification, and Free Advertising. Turnbull, Clare, Anna Schuh, Richard Sullivan, Paul Pharoah, Matthew E. J. Callister, Ajay Aggarwal, Stuart Hogarth, Margaret McCartney, and Richard Houlston. The Lancet. Oncology, December, S1470-2045(25)00731-4.

Improving Community-Based Care for Adolescents With ADHD: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Fidelity Supports. Sibley, Margaret H., Leonard Bickman, David Atkins, Stefany Coxe, Julian King, Michael Tanana, Pablo Martin, Timothy F. Page, Mercedes Ortiz, Joshua Tapia, Ashley Sparber, and Xin Zhao. Prevention Science, December.

Penicillin-Streptomycin Treatment Rewires Core Metabolic and Ribosomal Programs in HepG2 Cells. Movassaghi, Cameron S., and Jesse G. Meyer. Journal of Proteome Research, December.

Enabling Few-Shot Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis on Biomarker Data With Tabular LLMs. Kearney, Sophie, Shu Yang, Zixuan Wen, Bojian Hou, Duy Duong-Tran, Tianlong Chen, Jason Moore, Marylyn Ritchie, and Li Shen. ACM-BCB, ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine. ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine 2025: 20.

A Novel Computational Analysis Integrating Social Determinants Information From EHR and Literature With Alzheimer’s Disease Biological Knowledge Through Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs. Shang, Tianqi, Shu Yang, Tianhua Zhai, Weiqing He, Elizabeth Mamourian, Jiayu Zhang, Bojian Hou, Joseph Lee, Duy Duong-Tran, Jason H. Moore, Marylyn D. Ritchie, and Li Shen. Innovation in Aging 9 (Suppl 1): S2–13.

Advanced Topic Modeling With Large Language Models: Analyzing Social Media Content From Dementia Caregivers. He, Weiqing, Bojian Hou, Amy Zheng, Yanbo Feng, Ari Klein, Karen O’Connor, Shu Yang, Tianqi Shang, George Demiris, Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez, and Li Shen. Innovation in Aging 9 (Suppl 1): S38–47.

Federated Feature Selection With False Discovery Rate Control. Hu, Jie, Jiayi Tong, Yang Ning, Cheng Yong Tang, Jason H Moore, Runze Li, and Yong Chen. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology, December, qkaf074.

Vibe Coding Omics Data Analysis Applications. Meyer, Jesse G. Journal of Proteome Research, January.

Emergency Medicine

Implementation of a Regional Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Program for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Results of the Prospective Observational Study. Bosson, Nichole, Juliana Tolles, Clayton Kazan, Stephen Sanko, Tiffany M. Abramson, Marc Eckstein, David Eisner, Joel Geiderman, Walid Ghurabi, Vadim Gudzenko, Anil Mehra, Sam Torbati, Atilla Uner, Amir Abolhoda, Marianne Gausche-Hill, David Shavelle, and Los Angeles County eCPR Program. Resuscitation Plus 27 (January): 101177.

Imaging

A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on the Diagnostic Performance of Chest Ultrasound for Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Hassankhani, Amir, Parya Valizadeh, Payam Jannatdoust, Melika Amoukhteh, Abbas Mohammadi, Cem Bilgin, Ali Gholamrezanezhad, and Ali Haq. Clinical Imaging 130 (December): 110706.

Medicine

Gut Microbiome, a Novel Precision Medicine Biomarker for Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Chen, Pin-Jung, Suzanne Devkota, Stephen Shiao, Andrew Hendifar, and Ju Dong Yang. Frontiers in Immunology 16: 1568962.

Mass SARS-CoV-2 Testing in US Correctional Facilities During the Pandemic: A Longitudinal Analysis. Kim, Charlotte, Byron S. Kennedy, Mary Lansing, Robert P. Richeson, Matt Hitchings, Albert I. Ko, and Margaret L. Lind. BMJ Public Health 3 (2): e003641.

CRESTONE: A Phase II Study of the Efficacy and Safety of the HER3 Monoclonal Antibody, Seribantumab, in Solid Tumors With Neuregulin-1 (NRG1) Fusions. Patil, Tejas, Jessica J. Lin, Parneet K. Cheema, Daniel R. Carrizosa, Mark E. Burkard, Yasir Y. Elamin, Jayesh Desai, Jyoti D. Patel, Misako Nagasaka, Karen L. Reckamp, Saiama N. Waqar, Jessica R. Bauman, Alison M. Schram, Shirish M. Gadgeel, Patrick C. Ma, Kartik Konduri, Danny Nguyen, Jamal Misleh, Jonathan Bleeker, Matthias Weiss, Subotheni Thavaneswaran, Eric B. Haura, Maegan Deegan, Jonathan Kaufman, Jaya Srivastava, Valerie M. Jansen, and Stephen V. Liu. JCO Precision Oncology 9 (August): e2500221.

Pharmacological Targeting of Tau-Induced Retrotransposon Activation. Sullivan, A. Campbell, Gabrielle Zuniga, Paulino Ramirez, Roman A. Fernandez, Chen-Pin Wang, Ji Li, Lisa Davila, Kristine Pelton, Sandra Gomez, Claira Sohn, Elias M. Gonzalez, Marisa Lopez-Cruzan, David A. Gonzalez, Alicia S. Parker, Eduardo Marques Zilli, Gabriel A. de Erausquin, Sudha Seshadri, Sara Espinoza, Nicolas Musi, and Bess Frost. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 21 Suppl 5 (Suppl 5): e098658.

Promoting Equity in Transplant Research by Addressing the Exclusion of Patients With Glomerular Disease. Hullekes, Frank, Rucháma Verhoeff, Sul A. Lee, Aiko P. J. de Vries, Harald Seeger, Elias David-Neto, Hajeong Lee, Paolo Malvezzi, Marina Loucaidou, Priya Verghese, Ajay Thakur, Roberto C. Manfro, Gaetano La Manna, Enver Akalin, Edmund Huang, Hay Me, Rafael Villicana, Emilio Poggio, Hani M. Wadei, Juliana Mansur, Helio Tedesco-Silva, Andreas Kousios, Aileen X. Wang, Sita Gourishankar, Marilda Mazzali, Luigi Biancone, Stefan Berger, Mark D. Stegall, Paolo Cravedi, and Leonardo V. Riella. Kidney International Reports 10 (12): 4277–80.

Genomic Characterization of Colorectal Tumors: Insights Into Significantly Mutated Genes, Pathways, and Survival Outcomes. Harrison, Tabitha A., Syed H. Zaidi, Hang Yin, Robert S. Steinfelder, Conghui Qu, Elom K. Aglago, Sonja I. Berndt, Lisa A. Boardman, Hermann Brenner, Daniel D. Buchanan, Peter T. Campbell, Yin Cao, Amanda I. Phipps, et al. BMC Cancer, December.

Prediction and Prevention of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Call to Action. Lee, Sun-Ho, Emily W. Lopes, Hamed Khalili, Kenneth Croitoru, Jean-Frederic Colombel, Inga Peter, Dermot P McGovern and 2025 PROMISE Workshop participants. Gastroenterology, December, S0016-5085(25)06096-2.

Developmental Origins of Immune Function: Maternal Prenatal Mood Is Associated With Infant Immune Cell Gene Expression. Rinne, Gabrielle R., Christine Dunkel Schetter, Susan Jackman, and Steve W. Cole. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity 132 (December): 106230.

Postoperative Scar Treatment Modalities: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials. Kodumudi, Vijay, Alexander Gomez-Lara, Mohsen Baghchechi, Nima Gharavi, and Amanda Rosenthal. Journal of Cosmetic and Laser Therapy, December, 1–12.

The Yin and Yang of Cellular Senescence in Ischemia-Induced Myocardial Injury. Gudenberg, Rosalie Wolff von, Jasper Iske, Tobias Roeschl, Philipp Stawowy, James L. Kirkland, Arjang Ruhparwar, and Stefan G. Tullius. Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine, December, S1050-1738(25)00161-6.

Clinical Evidence to Support U.S. Food and Drug Administration Review of New Medical Technology in Pulmonary, Sleep and Critical Care Medicine Between 2014 and 2024: A Scoping Review to Support Adoption in Practice. Gardner, Jack, Jonathan A. Busam, and Eric D. Shah. Chest, December, S0012-3692(25)05946-X.

Development and Validation of a Prognostic Model for MASLD Identifying Hypertension as a Pivotal Factor: A Population-Based Study. Bo, Yajing, Xinyuan He, Yee Hui Yeo, Ning Gao, and Fanpu Ji. Journal of Hepatology, December, S0168-8278(25)02733-3.

Improvements in Real-World Survival in the Setting of a Recent Paradigm Shift in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Treatment. Ho, Thuy N., Patrick Willard, Graeme F. Murray, Li Liu, Nolan Wages, Hyun Lee, and Keri R. Maher. European Journal of Haematology, December.

Large-Bore Mechanical Thrombectomy vs Standard of Care for Acute High-Risk Pulmonary Embolism: Rationale and Design of the PERSEVERE Randomized Controlled Trial. Chopard, Romain, Lukas Hobohm, Stefano Barco, Sripal Bangalore, Jay Giri, Felix Mahfoud, John Moriarty, Stephan Rosenkranz, Andrew Sharp, Holger Thiele, Catalin Toma, Victor F. Tapson, Craig D. Markovitz, Stuart P. Rosenberg, Stavros Konstantinides, and Nicolas Meneveau. American Heart Journal, December, 107331.

Senescent Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Differentially Alter Adipogenesis in Adipose Tissue, Skeletal Muscle, and Bone Marrow. Zhang, Xu, Madison L. Doolittle, Ting Fan, Utkarsh Tripathi, Yan Er Ng, Xinyi Jiang, João F. Passos, Diana Jurk, David G. Monroe, Tamara Tchkonia, James L. Kirkland, Paul D. Robbins, Sundeep Khosla, and Nathan K. LeBrasseur. Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.), December.

Laser and Chemical Resurfacing as Field Treatment for Actinic Keratoses: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Zhou, Maggie H., Justin W. Marson, Geena Conde, Nima Gharavi, and Amanda Rosenthal. Journal of Cosmetic and Laser Therapy, December, 1–7.

Consensus-Based Recommendations on the Management of Immunosuppression After Squamous Cell Carcinoma Diagnosis in Kidney Transplant Recipients: An International Delphi Consensus Statement. Whitley, Melodi Javid, Jake X. Wang, Jeremy Chapman, Aiko P. J. de Vries, Sindhu Chandran, Colleen M. Glennon, Hector M. Madariaga, Robert P. Carroll, John Booth, Beatrice Concepcion, Lionel Couzi, Sacha A. De Serres, Alden Doyle, Suzanne Forbes, Jonathan M. Gleadle, Sian Griffin, Lakshman Gunaratnam, Gaurav Gupta, Julie Ho, Peter Hughes, Nicole Isbel, Dev K. Jegatheesan, Gareth Jones, Dirk Kuypers, Brian Lee, Wai Lim, Phil Mason, Maria Meneghini, Itunu Owoyemi, Swati Rao, Alan Salama, Adnan Sharif, Olivier Thaunat, Raj Thuraisingham, Kate Wyburn, Julie M. Yabu, Anokhi Jambusaria-Pahlajani, Matthew J. Bottomley, and Sarah T. Arron. Transplantation Direct 12 (1): e1893.

Editorial: Advances and Challenges in Adult-Onset Craniopharyngioma. Cooper, Odelia, Andrea Glezer, and Thomas Cuny. Frontiers in Endocrinology 16: 1755850.

Exploring Medication Adherence in Racial/Ethnic Minorities. Chery, Joronia, Lisa Gualtieri, Ian Lee, Grace Sheng, Meera Singhal, and Sebastian Z. Ramos. Frontiers in Pharmacology 16: 1670633.

Prognostic Role of Mitotic Index in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Potential Clinical Implications for Very Early Stage Disease. Choi, Sangjoon, Yoon Ah Cho, Sujin Park, Hyun Hee Koh, Boram Park, Kyunga Kim, Ju Dong Yang, and Sang Yun Ha. Journal of Hepatocellular Carcinoma 12: 3077–90.

The Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Avelumab Increases Aortic Inflammation on [18F]FDG PET/CT: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Strijdhorst, Anniek, Reindert F. Oostveen, Mark P. A. Schilder, Arthur J. A. T. Braat, Youssef Chahid, Damini Dey, Nordin M. J. Hanssen, Hanneke W. M. van Laarhoven, Anne W. van Schijndel, Tom T. P. Seijkens, Piotr J. Slomka, Erik S. G. Stroes, Margot Tesselaar, Hein J. Verberne, and Nick van Es. PloS One 20 (12): e0339671.

The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2025/26: G Protein-Coupled Receptors. Alexander, Stephen P. H., Anthony P. Davenport, Eamonn Kelly, Alasdair J. Gibb, Alistair A. Mathie, Chloe J. Peach, Emma L. Veale, Jane F. Armstrong, Elena Faccenda, Simon D. Harding, Christopher Southan, Jamie A. Davies, Nathan Zaidman, et al. British Journal of Pharmacology 182 Suppl 1 (December): S24–151.

The Impact of Anti-CD38 Monoclonal Antibody Therapy on Stem-Cell Mobilization Yields in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma (NDMM) Referred From Community and Academic Oncology Practices: Single Center, Real World Data 2021-2024. Uzun, Dilek, Jeddeo Michael Paul, Alexandria Jensen, John Tamaresis, Walter Domingo, Sally Arai, Felipe Araya Ventura, Jennifer Rocha, Leslie Bennett, Amelia Jones, Sushma Bharadwaj, Laura Johnston, Robert Lowsky, Andrew Rezvani, Parveen Shiraz, Judith Shizuru, Wen-Kai Weng, Hitomi Hosoya, Surbhi Sidana, David Miklos, Lori Muffly, and Lekha Mikkilineni. Transplantation and Cellular Therapy 31 (12): 1006.e1-1006.e11.

Methionine Adenosyltransferase 1A and S-Adenosylmethionine in Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease. Barbier-Torres, Lucía, Jyoti Chhimwal, José M. Mato, and Shelly C. Lu. Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) 14 (12): 1486.

Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy in Hormone Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer. Lin, David, Jin Sun Lee Bitar, Isabella Ma, and Yuan Yuan. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 26 (24): 12171.

Pancreatic Steatosis Is Not Associated With Advanced Steatohepatitis or Fibrosis in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease. Heymann, Gabriel, Saumik Rahman, Daniel Kats, Bubu A. Banini, Srinivas Gaddam, Elise Aslanian, Sarpong Boateng, Gary Israel, and Thiruvengadam Muniraj. World Journal of Gastroenterology 31 (47): 114651.

The Consortium for the Study of Chronic Pancreatitis, Diabetes, and Pancreatic Cancer (CPDPC) 10 Years of Past Accomplishments and Looking Forward to the next 5 Years of the Chronic Pancreatitis Clinical Research Consortium (CPCRC). Forsmark, Chris E., and Stephen Pandol. Pancreatology, December, S1424-3903(25)00731-8.

Lung Transplantation in People Living With HIV With Absolute CD4+ T Cell Counts Under 200 Cells per Microliter. Yuen, Alexander D., Darina Barnes, Lauren Shitanishi, Phillip Zakowski, Pedro Catarino, Dominick J. Megna, Reinaldo Rampolla, and Lorenzo Zaffiri. Transplant Infectious Disease, December, e70164.

Evolving Therapeutic Approaches for Treatment of Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Renal Allograft Recipients. Jordan, Stanley C., Noriko Ammerman, Edmund Huang, and Ashley Vo. Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation 77: 223–49.

Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Supports Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability While Protecting Patients and Healthcare Personnel Position Statement of the SHEA Board. Weber, David J., Priya Nori, Rajalakshmi Ananthanarayanan, Carolee Estelle, Jesse T. Jacob, Jennie H. Kwon, Lisa L. Maragakis, Rekha Murthy, Ann-Christine Nyquist, Catherine Passaretti, Lisa Saiman, Erica S. Shenoy, Julia E. Szymczak, and Thomas R. Talbot. Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology: ASHE 6 (1): e10.

Association Between Adiposity and Low Total Serum Bilirubin Concentration: A Retrospective, Cross-Sectional Study. Parikh, Trishna, Fariha Hameed, Sumaiya Islam, Shivani Reddy, Eshani Goradia, Bhargav Vemulapalli, and Aayush Visaria. Health Science Reports 9 (1): e71700.

Placenta Accreta Spectrum: Disrupted Collagen Architecture at a Previous Scar Is a Defining Characteristic of Placental Adherence. Kashani Ligumsky, Lior, Anhyo Jeong, Guadalupe Martinez, Haley Marks, Sohum Shah, Jakub Staniczek, Caroline E. Smith, Scott A. Shainker, S. Ananth Karumanchi, Laurent A. Bentolila, Deborah Krakow, Christina J. Megli, and Yalda Afshar. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 233 (6S): S645-S661.e1.

Senolytic-Resistant Senescent Cells Have a Distinct SASP Profile and Functional Impact: The Path to Developing Senosensitizers. Tripathi, Utkarsh, Masayoshi Suda, Vagisha Kulshreshtha, Bryan T. Piatkowski, Allyson K. Palmer, Nino Giorgadze, Christina Inman, Nathan Gasek, Ming Xu, Kurt O. Johnson, Tamar Pirtskhalava, Selim Chaib, Larissa P. G. Langhi Prata, Yi Zhu, Renuka Kandhaya-Pillai, Stefan G. Tullius, Saranya P. Wyles, Rambabu Majji, Hari Krishna Yalamanchili, David B. Allison, Tamar Tchkonia, and James L. Kirkland. Aging Cell 25 (1): e70358.

Spatial Reorganization of Chromatin Architecture Shapes the Expression Phenotype of Therapy-Induced Senescent Cells. Zhang, Ge, Wei Zhang, Changxu Wang, Zhirui Jiang, Qixia Xu, Haipeng Li, James L. Kirkland, Gang Wei, and Yu Sun. Aging Cell 25 (1): e70366.

Gastrointestinal Cancer Statistics in 2022 and Projection to 2050: GLOBOCAN Estimates Across 185 Countries. Danpanichkul, Pojsakorn, Yanfang Pang, Primrose Tothanarungroj, Disatorn Dejvajara, Donghee Kim, Preenapun Saokhieo, Kanokphong Suparan, Mark D. Muthiah, Kwanjit Duangsonk, Diego Olavarria Bernal, Rashid N. Lui, Karn Wijarnpreecha, Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, Michael B. Wallace, Lewis R. Roberts, Amit G. Singal, and Ju Dong Yang. Cancer 132 (1): e70245.

Senolytic Changes in Murine Arteriovenous Fistulas With CKD. Kane, Jamie, Sreenivasulu Kilari, Alaura Lemieux, Prabh G. Singh, Nathaniel Anderson, Dominik Saul, Tamar Tchkonia, James L. Kirkland, and Sanjay Misra. Kidney360, January.

Transgastric Versus Transduodenal Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Gallbladder Drainage: An Observational Study. Khan, Rishad, Yara Salameh, Hadi Abou Zeid, Jad P. AbiMansour, Khushboo Gala, Eric Vargas, Samuel Han, Barham K. AbuDayyeh, Ryan Law, Vinay Chandrasekhara, and Andrew C. Storm. Surgical Endoscopy, January.

cGAS-STING Dependent Type I IFN Reduces Leptospira Interrogans Renal Colonization in Mice. Gupta, Suman, James Matsunaga, Bridget Ratitong, Andrew Manion, Sana Ismaeel, Diogo G. Valadares, A. Phillip West, Nagaraj Kerur, Christian Stehlik, Andrea Dorfleutner, Jargalsaikhan Dagvadorj, Jenifer Coburn, Andrea J. Wolf, Meghan A. Morrissey, Suzanne L. Cassel, David A. Haake, and Fayyaz S. Sutterwala. PLoS Pathogens 22 (1): e1013250.

Real-World Implementation of Treat to Target in Patients With IBD in a Learning Health System: An IBD Qorus Collaborative Study. Singh, Siddharth, Brant J. Oliver, Jason K. Hou, Donald Lum, Welmoed Van Deen, Sarah Harvey, James Testaverde, Alice M. Kennedy, Ridhima Oberai, S. Alandra Weaver, Corey A. Siegel, and Gil Y. Melmed. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, January, izaf287.

Neurology

Plasma Ptau as a Biomarker of Structural Brain Health in the Community. Tanner, Jeremy A., Sophia Lu, Hugo J. Aparicio, Sara Doyle, Mitzi M. Gonzales, Jayandra Jung Himali, Tiffany F. Kautz, Terrie-Jeanne Liu, Pauline Maillard, Emer McGrath, Jaime Ramos-Cejudo, Claudia L. Satizabal, Russell P. Tracy, Mohamad Habes, Suzanne E. Schindler, Charles Decarli, Alexa S. Beiser, and Sudha Seshadri. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association 21 Suppl 8 (Suppl 8): e110179.

Personalized Alzheimer's Disease Risk Profiling in Healthy Middle-Aged Individuals: The Cedars-Sinai Memory & Healthy Aging Program. Tan, Zaldy S., Nabeel Qureshi, Andrew Hirsch, Stephanie Bray, Mitzi M. Gonzales, Celina Shirazipour, Hugo J. Aparicio, Fatemeh Ramezani, Sarah Kremen, and Nancy Sicotte. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association 21 Suppl 3 (Suppl 3): e101637.

Digital Health and Survey Response Patterns Among Hispanic/Latinx Older Adults With and Without Mild Cognitive Impairment: The COMPADRE-CART Study. Valdez, Marialy Salinas, Samantha Gates, Vanessa M. Young, Nathaniel Rodrigues, Wan-Tai Michael Au-Yeung, Kevin Cosgrove, Carlos A. Gaona, Layla Garcia, Roberto Garcia, Luis A. Mendez Rodriguez, Denisse Cisneros Garcia, Luis Humberto Serrano-Rubio, Arash Salardini, Cynthia Cornejo, Ashley LaRoche, Lyndsey M. Miller, Sudha Seshadri, Jeffrey A. Kaye, Tiffany F. Kautz, Mitzi M. Gonzales, and Zachary T. Beattie. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association 21 Suppl 9 (Suppl 9): e110537.

Grip Strength and Gait Speed as Early Biomarkers of Brain Amyloid and Tau Deposition. Valdez, Marialy Salinas, Samantha Gates, Vanessa M. Young, Nathaniel Rodrigues, Wan-Tai Michael Au-Yeung, Kevin Cosgrove, Carlos A. Gaona, Layla Garcia, Roberto Garcia, Luis A. Mendez Rodriguez, Denisse Cisneros Garcia, Luis Humberto Serrano-Rubio, Arash Salardini, Cynthia Cornejo, Ashley LaRoche, Lyndsey M. Miller, Sudha Seshadri, Jeffrey A. Kaye, Tiffany F. Kautz, Mitzi M. Gonzales, and Zachary T. Beattie. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association 21 Suppl 2 (December): e104657.

Effects of Intradural Extension of Extracranial Cervical Artery Dissection on Outcomes: A Secondary Analysis From the STOP-CAD Study. Metanis, Issa, Liqi Shu, Favour Akpokiere, Hamza Jubran, Daniel M. Mandel, Christian H. Nolte, James E. Siegler, Stefan T. Engelter, Brian Mac Grory, Jennifer Frontera, Muhib Khan, Aaron Rothstein, Yoel Schwartzmann, João Pedro Marto, Marialuisa Zedde, Alexandre Y. Poppe, Tamer Jubeh, Zafer Keser, Mohammad AlMajali, Fatma Shalabi, Nils Henninger, Kateryna Antonenko, Mirjam R. Heldner, Sara Rosa, Ossama Khazaal, Josefine E Kaufman, Christopher Traenka, Ekaterina Bakradze, Adeel Zubair, Tamra Ranasinghe, João André Sousa, Gabriel Paulo Mantovani, Alexis N. Simpkins, Setareh Salehi Omran, Joao Sargento-Freitas, Marwa Elnazeir, Diana Aguiar de Sousa, Shadi Yaghi, and Ronen R. Leker. Annals of Neurology, January.

Neurosurgery

Machine Learning Enhanced Noninvasive Transcranial Stroke Detection Using a Portable Eddy Current Damping Sensor. Shen, Haixu, Seyed Mohammadreza Ghodsi, Benjamin Fixman, Bita Ghodsi, Kirsten Azarraga, Narendhar Prasad, Shane Shahrestani, Nerses Sanossian, Gabriel Zada, and Yu-Chong Tai. iScience 28 (12): 114130.

Retinal Tauopathy as a Biological Indicator of Alzheimer’s Disease. Gaire, Bhakta Prasad, Yosef Koronyo, Keith L. Black, Dieu-Trang Fuchs, and Maya Koronyo-Hamaoui. Neural Regeneration Research, January.

The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Estimating Stroke Events in Moyamoya Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Test Accuracy. Wijaya, Jeremiah Hilkiah, Miguel Quintero Consuegra, Daniela A. Perez-Chadid, Aafreen Azmi, Juan Pablo Avila Madrigal, Shane Shahrestani, Sofia Ramirez-Guerrero, Anil Nanda, Abdelrahman Ramadan Elashry, and Nestor R. Gonzalez. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, January, 108542.

OBGYN

Abortion Access in Los Angeles Managed Medicaid Networks. Barker, Margot, Mackenzie Bennett, Katrina Reyes, and Katrina Heyrana. JAMA, December.

International Expert Consensus on Metric-Based Characterization of Robot-Assisted Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy (RATLH). Afonina, Margarita, Arnold Advincula, Martin Martino, Mireille Truong, David Michelson, Kevin Fogarty, Neil Byerle, Giorgia Gaia, Alexandre Mottrie, Wouter Froyman, Ben Van Cleynenbreugel, Anthony G. Gallagher, and RATLH-Delphi Surgeons Group. Surgical Endoscopy, December.

Preoperative Hypoalbuminemia and Surgical Complications in Benign Minimally Invasive Hysterectomy. Yagur, Yael, Gabriel Levin, Ogechukwu Ezike, Katharine Ciesielski, Kelly N. Wright, Matthew T. Siedhoff, and Raanan Meyer. Surgical Endoscopy, December.

Orthopaedics

AI-Based Medical Decision Support: Exploring the Data Gap. Schwab, Joseph H. The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American Volume, December.

Strategies for Opioid Minimization Following Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Comprehensive Review. Dasa, Vinod, Mitchell K. Ng, Jennifer H. Lin, Andrew I. Spitzer, Adam Rivadeneyra, David Rogenmoser, Andrew L. Concoff, Mary Digiorgi, Joshua Urban, Giles R. Scuderi, William M. Mihalko, and Michael A. Mont. The Journal of Knee Surgery, December.

ACL Injuries in Major League Soccer: A 10-Year Analysis of Injury Rate and Return to Play, and Performance Metrics by Player Position. Forsythe, Brian, Catherine Hand, Camden Bohn, Francis Hand, Vahram Gamsarian, Daanish Khazi-Syed, Joshua Chang, Vikranth Mirle, Eric Giza, Robert Brophy, Danyal Nawabi, and Bert Mandelbaum. Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine 13 (12): 23259671251399842.

Appraisal of the Presence of Spin in Abstracts of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Regarding Free Bone Block Procedures for Glenohumeral Instability. Kim, Annabel H., Cailan L. Feingold, Jacob L. Kotlier, Eric H. Lin, Amir Fathi, Avinesh Agarwalla, and Joseph N. Liu. The American Journal of Sports Medicine 54 (1): 199–207.

Proximal Implant Breakage After Cephalomedullary Nailing of Extra-Capsular Proximal Femur Fractures: A Multi-Center Retrospective Comparative Analysis. Van Rysselberghe, Noelle L., John B. Michaud, Christian A. Gonzalez, Matthew J. Whittaker, Harin Parikh, Juntian Wang, Abrianna Robles, Andrea Horne, Garrett Cavanaugh, Garrett Esper, Arya Amirhekmat, Eleni Berhaneselase, Natalie Marenghi, Daniel Ngo, Marisa McDow, Christopher Herbosa, Maricela Diaz, Uchechukwu E, Zachary Lim, Dmitry Pokhvashchev, Aden Malik, Edmond F. O’Donnell, Muhammad Umar Jawad, Sean T. Campbell, Milton Tm Little, Walter W. Virkus, Philipp Leucht, Matthew R. Garner, Mark A. Lee, John Scolaro, Marschall Berkes, Saam Morshed, Stephen Warner, Paul Perdue, Eben Carroll, Justin F. Lucas, Julius A. Bishop, L. Henry Goodnough, and Michael J. Gardner. Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma, January.

Decreased Robot-Related Complications Following the Development and Adoption of a Standardized Safety Protocol. Etigunta, Suhas K., Corey T. Walker, Adeesya Gausper, Nora Galoustian, Andy Liu, Anirudh K. Gowd, Vivien Chan, Neel Anand, Edward Nomoto, Tiffany G. Perry, Sonal Sodha, J. Patrick Johnson, David L. Skaggs, and Terrence Kim. The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American Volume 108 (1): 45–50.

Prevalence of Reporting Bias in Abstracts of Meniscal Transplant Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: Increased Association With Study Age: A Systematic Review. Feingold, Cailan L., Eric H. Lin, Pranit Kumaran, Mallory A. Podosin, Avinesh Agarwalla, and Joseph N. Liu. The American Journal of Sports Medicine, January, 3635465251380850.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Using Natural Language Processing to Inform Targeted Rural and Urban Hispanic VA Suicide Prediction Models. Levis, Maxwell, Monica Dimambro, Joshua Levy, Natalie Riblet, Bradley V. Watts, and Brian Shiner. Rural Mental Health

Pediatrics

De Novo Variants in KDM2A Cause a Syndromic Neurodevelopmental Disorder. Anderson, Eric N., Stephan Drukewitz, Sukhleen Kour, Anuradha V. Chimata, Deepa S. Rajan, Senta Schönnagel, Karen L. Stals, Deirdre Donnelly, Siobhan O’Sullivan, John F. Mantovani, Tiong Y. Tan, Zornitza Stark, Konrad Platzer, et al. American Journal of Human Genetics, December, S0002-9297(25)00475-6.

An Invasive Aspergillus Flavus Infection in an Extremely Preterm Neonate: A Case Report. Pithia, Neema, Margie Morgan, Thea Tagliaferro, and Priya R. Soni. Medical Mycology Case Reports 51 (March): 100757.

Radiation Oncology

Docetaxel With Androgen Deprivation and Radiotherapy in High-Risk Localized Prostate Cancer: An ICECaP Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis. Ravi, Praful, Lucia Kwak, Wanling Xie, Anthony D’Amico, James Dignam, Karim Fizazi, Nicholas James, Gwénaël Le Teuff, Paul L. Nguyen, Howard Sandler, Oliver Sartor, Matthew R. Sydes, and Christopher J. Sweeney. European Urology Oncology, December, S2588-9311(25)00303-7.

Development and Validation of a Multimodal Artificial Intelligence-Derived Digital Pathology-Based Biomarker Predicting Metastasis Among Patients With Biochemical Recurrence After Radical Prostatectomy in NRG/RTOG Trials. Morgan, Todd M., Yi Ren, Siyi Tang, Wouter Zwerink, Emmalyn Chen, Akinori Mitani, Huei-Chung Huang, Jeffry P. Simko, Sandy DeVries, Alan Pollack, Derek Wilke, André-Guy Martin, Alexander G. Balogh, Jeff M. Michalski, Michael J. Greenberg, Jason A. Efstathiou, Jean-Paul Bahary, Ashley E. Ross, Andre Esteva, Trevor J. Royce, Paul L. Nguyen, Karen E. Hoffman, Howard M. Sandler, Phuoc T. Tran, Stephanie L. Pugh, Felix Y. Feng, and Daniel E. Spratt. European Urology, December, S0302-2838(25)04859-6.

Surgery

Impact on Families and Caregivers When a Loved One Is in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU). Maneval, Andrew, and Galinos Barmparas. Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open 10 (4): e002034.

The São Paulo International Consensus on Minimally Invasive Pancreatic Surgery for Cancer. Tustumi, Francisco, Lucia Calthorpe, Nora Fotoohi, Thiago Costa Ribeiro, Lucas Cata Preta Stolzemburg, Andre L. Bettiati Junior, Caroline de Almeida Gonçalves, Ana P. Cursino Briet de Almeida, Allana M. Gomes Giordano, André Luís de Godoy, Dante Altenfelder, Julia Nicioli, Felipe José Fernández Coimbra, et al. HPB, November, S1365-182X(25)01712-5.

AI-Enhanced Dermoscopy for Early Skin Cancer Detection in Private Practice: Insights From a Retrospective Cohort Study. Aguglia, Raffaele, Moshé Assouline, Loïc Van Dieren, Yanis Berkane, Haizam Oubari, Laura Bitton, Lucie Duverger, Theodoros Chrelias, Georgia Kanellopoulou, Leonard Knoedler, Curtis L. Cetrulo, David M. Smadja, Yohann Dabi, and Alexandre G. Lellouch. The Journal of Investigative Dermatology, December, S0022-202X(25)03672-3.

Management of Splanchnic Venous Thrombosis After Splenectomy in Hematologic Diseases. Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis and Consensus Guidelines. Lluís, Núria, Filipe Kunzler, Levan Tsamalaidze, Domenech Asbun, Agustín Manresa-Rocamora, Carles Blasco-Peris, Adnan Alseidi, Carlos Chan, Catherine Teh, Claudius Conrad, Cristina Ferrone, Dana Telem, Eduardo Targarona, Eduardo A. Vega, Elisa Reitano, Fabrizio Romano, Galina Dudina, Hanny Al-Samkari, Igor Khatkov, Jason A. Freed, Kevin Conlon, Liane S. Feldman, Maria Domenica Cappellini, Maria V. Barabanshikova, Mariano Giménez, Masafumi Nakamura, Ming Y. Lim, Mohammad Abu Hilal, Moustapha Dimachk, Nicholas Alexakis, Nicola De’Angelis, Nicole D. Bouvy, Pascual Marco, Pilar Llamas, Radhika Gangaraju, Rakesh P. Mehta, Santiago Sánchez-Cabús, Sharona B. Ross, Silvana Perretta, Timucin Taner, Yu-Min Shen, Zaza Demetrashvili, Fèlix Lluís, Srikanth Nagalla, and Horacio J. Asbun. International Journal of Surgery (London, England), December.

Valproic Acid for Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury: Study Protocol for the VIBRANT Prospective Randomized Trial. Visa, Maxime A., Marjorie R. Liggett, Sharnia Lashley, Umar Bhatti, Zaiba A. Dawood, Alvin Anand, Nathan P. Gill, Denise M. Scholtens, Bowen Wang, and Hasan B. Alam. Transfusion, December.

Risk Factors for Readmission Following Minimally Invasive Hysterectomy for Benign Indications in the United States-Outpatient and Inpatient Setting. Meyer, Raanan, Susie Lau, Shannon Salvador, Yosef Nasseri, Moshe Barnajian, and Gabriel Levin. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, December.

Oncological Outcomes With and Without Axillary Lymph Node Dissection in Patients With Residual Micrometastases after Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy (OPBC-07/microNAC): An International, Retrospective Cohort Study. Montagna, Giacomo, Michael Alvarado, Sara Myers, Mary M. Mrdutt, Susie X. Sun, Varadan Sevilimedu, Andrea V. Barrio, Astrid Botty van den Bruele, Judy C. Boughey, Marissa K. Boyle, Angelena Crown, Susan B. Kesmodel, microNAC Study Group, et al. The Lancet. Oncology 27 (1): 57–67.

Immunosuppressive and Antiinfectious Regimens in Vascular Composite Allograft Recipients-a Systematic Review. Knoedler, Leonard, Tobias Niederegger, Thomas Schaschinger, Gabriel Hundeshagen, Javier Gonzalez, Samuel A. Knoedler, Martin Kauke-Navarro, Jasper Iske, Curtis L. Cetrulo, Maxime Jeljeli, Elena Hofmann, Max Heiland, Steffen Koerdt, and Alexandre G. Lellouch. Frontiers in Transplantation 4: 1714886.

Reply: Response to Concerns Regarding Single-Anesthesia Robotic Bronchoscopy for Lung Nodules. Soukiasian, Harmik J., Claire Perez, Raffaele Rocco, Philicia Moonsamy, and Andrew R. Brownlee. JTCVS Open 28 (December): 605.

Path2Omics Enhances Transcriptomic and Methylation Prediction Accuracy From Tumor Histopathology. Hoang, Danh-Tai, Eldad D. Shulman, Saugato Rahman Dhruba, Nishanth Ulhas Nair, Ranjan Kumar Barman, Thomas Cantore, Sumona Biswas, H. Lalchungnunga, Omkar Singh, Youngmin Chung, Joo Sang Lee, MacLean P. Nasrallah, Eric A. Stone, Kenneth Aldape, and Eytan Ruppin. Cancer Research 85 (24): 5098–5112.

Capsaicin Diet Drives Gut Inflammation and Exosomal miR-17-3p Elevation in Idiopathic Short Stature. Wang, Yameng, Zhiwen Wu, Jinghong Yuan, Junchao Zhu, Marco Ventin, Shahrzad Arya, Peng Yu, Giulia Cattaneo, Guowen Huang, Wenrui Zhao, Shengqin Li, Junqiu Zhang, Qi Chen, Xinhui Wang, Lianyong Li, Xijuan Liu, Xigao Cheng, and Jingyu Jia. Nature Communications, December.

Acral Lentiginous Melanoma of the Hand: Diagnostic Pitfalls and Margin Management Strategies. Abella, Maveric, Stuart Kuschner, Andrea Krajisnik, Farin Amersi, and David Kulber. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Global Open 14 (1): e7365.

Association Between Proton Pump Inhibitor Use and Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer: A Matched Case-Control Study Accounting for Reverse Causation and Confounding by Indication. Sawaid, Ibrahim O., Zohar Din, Efrat Golan, Eytan Ruppin, Avivit Golan-Cohen, Ilan Green, Eugene Merzon, Shlomo Vinker, Abraham O. Samson, and Ariel Israel. PLoS Medicine 23 (1): e1004842.

The Role of ER-Associated Degradation and ER-Phagy in Health and Disease. Jeon, Young Joo, and Ze’ev A. Ronai. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy 11 (1): 7.

The Risk Profile of Face Transplant Versus Other Types of Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation Surgery-A Retrospective Multicenter Analysis. Dean, Jillian, Tobias Niederegger, Thomas Schaschinger, Gabriel Hundeshagen, Maxime Jeljeli, Curtis L. Cetrulo, Benedikt Geldner, Elena Hofmann, Max Heiland, Steffen Koerdt, Alexandre G. Lellouch, and Leonard Knoedler. The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, January.

Urology

Integrating NLP to Enhance Algorithmic Identification of Metastatic and Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer in Large Claims-Based Studies. Stock, Shannon R., Joshua A. Parrish, Michael T. Burns, Jessica L. Janes, Justin Waller, Amanda M. De Hoedt, Sameer Ghate, Jeri Kim, Irene M. Shui, and Stephen J. Freedland. Cancer Medicine 14 (24): e71406.

Strategies to Mitigate Breast-Related Adverse Events in Patients With High-Risk Biochemically Recurrent Prostate Cancer Receiving Enzalutamide Monotherapy: Perspectives and Challenges. Shore, Neal D., Stephen J. Freedland, Lisa G. Horvath, Joe M. O’Sullivan, Ugo De Giorgi, Edward C. Ray, Ashley E. Ross, Yiyun Tang, David Russell, Kenneth K. Iwata, Matt Rosales, Arijit Ganguli, and Bertrand Tombal. European Urology Focus, December, S2405-4569(25)00347-5.

Prevalence of Radiographic Misinterpretation of Urethral Bulking Agents: A Retrospective, Single-Center Study. Darcy, Rose, Margot Barker, John Masterson, Rachel Caskey, Clarissa Niino, and Karyn Eilber. Abdominal Radiology (New York), December.

Equal Access, Enduring Questions: How Race and Treatment Influence Survival in Advanced Prostate Cancer Among US Veterans. Stock, Shannon R., and Stephen J. Freedland. Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network 23 (12): 574–75.

Quantifying the Impact of Biochemical Recurrence After Radical Prostatectomy on Overall Mortality by Years of Life Lost: Results From the SEARCH Database. Zheng, Renning, Yuzhe Tang, Timothy J. Daskivich, Christopher L. Amling, William J. Aronson, Matthew R. Cooperberg, Amanda M. De Hoedt, Lourdes Guerrios-Rivera, Christopher J. Kane, Zachary Klaassen, Jianxing Li, Martha K. Terris, Michael Luu, Fangming Wang, Gang Zhang, and Stephen J. Freedland. European Urology Oncology, December, S2588-9311(25)00336-0.

Validation of the Prostatype® P-Score for Predicting Prostate Cancer Specific Mortality in a Multiethnic U.S. Veterans Cohort. Mack, Alexandra, Trung Duong Tran, Emelie Berglund, Gerald L. Andriole, Christopher Alley, Anthony E. Sisk, Iveth Estrada-Reyes, Kara Bissell, Haleigh Bellerose, Aubrey Jarman, Anna Hoffmeyer, Michael Burns, Sergio Sanders, Eric Vail, Andy Pao, Raja Khurram, Amal Ahmed, and Stephen J. Freedland. Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases, January.

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