Faculty Publications Feb. 26 - March 5
A Comprehensive Digest of Research Publications From Cedars-Sinai Investigators and a Sampling of Recent Media Coverage Featuring Faculty
This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published Feb. 26 - March 5. 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
Diagnostic Dilemma: A Doctor Discovered the Gene Mutation Behind His Family's Mysterious Missing-Teeth Condition | LiveScience
Pedro Sanchez, MD; John Graham, MD, ScD
A Tumultuous Journey That Led to AI in Cancer | Nature
Eytan Ruppin, MD, PhD
Expanding Access, Translational Research, and the Future of Cancer Care With Dr. Robert A. Figlin | Becker’s Hospital Review
Robert Figlin, MD
The Retention Breakthrough Anesthesia Needs | Becker’s ASC Review
Michael Nurok, MD, PhD
Can Pharmacy-Driven Medication Reconciliation Reduce Errors and Improve Patient Safety? | MedicalUpdateOnline
Rita Shane, PharmD
Dr. David Kruse to Oversee Team USA at 2026 Paralympics | Becker’s Spine Review
David Kruse, MD
Top 5 Takeaways on Advances in Rare Melanoma Management | Cancer Network
Mark B. Faries, MD
Faculty Publications
Cardiac Surgery
Use of the Ross Procedure in North America: Relation Between Surgical Volume and Operative Mortality. Mazine, Amine, Jessica Weiss, Joanna Chikwe, Nimesh D. Desai, Jennifer C.-Y. Chung, Jad Malas, Qiudong Kevin Chen, Angel Chen, Kyle Runeckles, Chun-Po Steve Fan, Michael E. Bowdish, Joseph E. Bavaria, and Maral Ouzounian. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, February, S0735-1097(26)00141-5.
Improving Outcomes in Severe Mitral Regurgitation Due to Annular Calcification. Sooknanan, Naveen, Alfredo Trento, and Gregg S. Pressman. Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, February, S0033-0620(26)00010-1.
Cardiology
Enrollment of All-Female and Lactating or Pregnant Female Participants in Cardiovascular Trials. Pine, Polyn Luz S., Frederick Berro Rivera, John Vincent U. Magalong, Nathan Ross B. Bantayan, Nicole Tesoro, Chieh-Mei Tsai, and Martha Gulati. NPJ Cardiovascular Health 2 (1): 46.
When ICDs Do Not Deliver: The Unseen Burden of Untreated Arrhythmias. Monkhouse, Christopher, Charles Swerdlow, Robert Hauser, Ross J. Hunter, Pier D. Lambiase, and Syed Ahsan. Arrhythmia & Electrophysiology Review 15: e04.
Causal Effects of Inflammation on Long-Term Mortality: A Mendelian Randomization Study. Navarese, Eliano P., Dean J. Kereiakes, Timothy D. Henry, Marc Brouwer, Giuseppe Talanas, Mehriban Isgender, Michael E. Farkouh, and Jacek Kubica. Aging 18 (1): 45–59.
Risk Factors and Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Asymptomatic Atrial Fibrillation. Mao, Jessica, Melissa Middeldorp, M. Vinayaga Moorthy, Roopinder K. Sandhu, Susan Cheng, Nancy R. Cook, and Christine M. Albert. Heart Rhythm, February, S1547-5271(26)00144-X.
Skin Sympathetic Nerve Activity Complexity Predicts Sudden and Non-Sudden Cardiac Mortality in Heart Failure. Hernández, Alfonso Aranda, and Peng-Sheng Chen. Heart Rhythm, February, S1547-5271(26)00151-7.
Cohort Study of Initial Diuretic Dosing and Outcomes Among Patients Hospitalized for Congestive Heart Failure: Insights From the Cardiovascular Quality Improvement and Care Innovation Consortium. Qadri, Naureen, Erica Kwok, Larissa Stanberry, Chelsey Thomas, Stephanie J. Irausquin, Divya Gupta, Joseph E. Ebinger, Ty J. Gluckman, R. Kannan Mutharasan, Abhinav Goyal, Nicholas K. Brownell, Benjamin M. Scirica, P. Michael Ho, Sandeep R. Das, William Downey, and Steven M. Bradley. Journal of the American Heart Association, February, e038783.
Takotsubo Syndrome: The First Non-Acute Proteomic Analysis by Remote Dried Blood Microsampling. Marano, Paul, Kirstin Washington, Blandine Chazarin, Niveda Sundararaman, Koen Raedschelders, Jenna Maughan, Okezi Obrutu, Benita Tjoe, Romana Herscovici, Prizzi Moy, Chrisandra Shufelt, Thomas Rutledge, Alexander Polyak, Sandy Joung, Yunxian Liu, Susan Cheng, Janet Wei, Jennifer E. Van Eyk, and C. Noel Bairey Merz. Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research 19 (1): 32.
Clinical Biomarker Potential of Spectrin Breakdown Degradation Products: A Systematic Review. Philip Jain, Sharon, Shervinchris Philip Jain, Niharika Ikkurthy, and Gilda Silven. Current Medical Research and Opinion, February, 1–12.
Strategic Automated External Defibrillator Deployment Based on Geospatial Analysis of Historical Cardiac Arrest Locations. Heckard, Elizabeth, Harpriya Chugh, Katy Hadduck, Bryan F. McNally, Ali Sovari, Jonathan Jui, Angelo Salvucci, Kyndaron Reinier, and Sumeet S. Chugh. International Journal of Cardiology. Heart & Vasculature 63 (April): 101889.
Computational Biomedicine
Accent Related Errors in Clinical Speech Transcription and a LLM-Based Remedy. Fatapour, Yasaman, Jamil S. Samaan, Nicholas P. Tatonetti, and Inclusive AI Research Group. NPJ Digital Medicine, March.
Medicine
Dynamic FIB-4 Score Changes and HCC Risk in Patients With MASLD and Elevated Liver Enzymes: A Nationwide Cohort Study. Yeo, Yee Hui, Hsiu J. Ho, Tsai-Wei Huang, Teng-Yu Lee, Ju Dong Yang, George Cholankeril, Chien-Jen Chen, Hawi-I. Yang, Chuen-Fei Chen, Hung-Chuen Chang, and Chun-Ying Wu. Liver Cancer, January.
Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: From Patient Selection and Downstaging to Risk Stratification and Post-Transplant Surveillance. Rezaee-Zavareh, Mohammad Saeid, and Ju Dong Yang. Gastroenterology Report 14 (February): goag018.
Targeting STAT3 Promotes Tumor Cell Death and Enhances T-Cell Activity in HPV16-Positive Cancer. Prins, Ruben, Daniel J. Fernandez, Diane M. Da Silva, James Turkson, De-Chen Lin, and W. Martin Kast. Cancers 18 (4): 599.
Circulating Inflammatory and Mitochondrial Biomarkers Associated With Cachexia in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Sankar, Kamya, Elham Kazemian, Nicole Lorona, Carlos D. Cruz-Hernández, Alex K. Bryant, Mitra Mastali, Akil A. Merchant, Jennifer Van Eyk, Karen L. Reckamp, Puneeth Iyengar, Neil A. Bhowmick, and Jane C. Figueiredo. Cancers 18 (4): 655.
Imputation Methods for Serologic Biomarkers in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Boodaghidizaji, Miad, Dermot P. B. McGovern, and Dalin Li. Scientific Reports, February.
Impact of mHealth-Augmented Social Support on Health Care Use Among Patients With Diabetes: Secondary Analysis of the TExT-MED+FANS Trial. Hazime, Danielle, Liza Raffi, and Elizabeth Burner. Interactive Journal of Medical Research 15 (February): e65113.
Treatment of Acute Pulmonary Embolism: Looking Back and Looking Ahead. Tapson, Victor. Phlebology, February, 2683555261427242.
Gluteal Hemangioma Mimicking a Neuroendocrine Tumor: Pitfalls in Neuroendocrine Tumor Diagnostic Testing. Braunstein, Glenn D., Elie M. Gindi, David J. Kanani, Earl Brien, George R. Matcuk, and Farres Obeidin. JCEM Case Reports 4 (3): luag025.
Pathways for Innovation-Expansion of Health System Specialty Pharmacy Services: A Pilot Initiative in Dermatology and Rheumatology Clinics. Shi, Yi, Shannan Takhar, Kristen Lau, Michele Yu, Jeremiah J. Duby, Erin Hamai Tom, David Mitchell, Leon K. Tungohan, and Timothy W. Cutler. Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy 32 (3): 323–28.
Major Publications in the Critical Care Pharmacotherapy Literature. Highsmith, Emily A., Daniel Arellano, Kathryn Bash, Brady John Bielewicz, Lauren M. Dehne, Bradley J. Erich, Kalle Fjeld, Ivan Garcia, Colman Hatton, Matthew Li, Kendall Mores, Gretchen L. Sacha, Sara Saldana, and Alyson M. Esteves. Journal of Critical Care 94 (March): 155508.
Neurology
Sjögren’s Disease and Stiff Person Syndrome: A Case Series Highlighting a Rare but Significant Autoimmune Overlap. Alkhatib, Ahmad, Duaa Jabari, and Ghaith Noaiseh. Clinical Rheumatology, February.
Prospective Validation of the New PLS Diagnostic Criteria From PLS Natural History Study: EMG and Neurofilament Analyses. Sorenson, Eric, Daragh Heitzman, Ikjae Lee, Grace Jang, Lauren Elman, Ali A. Habib, James Wymer, Ghazala Hayat, Stephen A. Goutman, J. Americo M. Fernandes, Mary Kay Floeter, Senda Ajroud-Driss, Kelly Gwathmey, Edward Kasarskis, Yasushi Y. Kisanuki, Catherine Lomen-Hoerth, David Walk, Wendy S. Johnston, Frank Diaz, Nicholas J. Maragakis, Sabrina Paganoni, Jaimin Shah, Bjorn Oskarsson, Lorne Zinman, Terry Heiman-Patterson, Omar Jawdat, Christina N. Fournier, Michael T. Pulley, Stephen N. Scelsa, Christen Shoesmith, Zachary Simmons, Alexander V. Sherman, Benjamin N. Hoover, Rebecca Y. Yun, Ken Cheung, Hiroshi Mitsumoto, and PLS NHS Study Group. Muscle & Nerve, March.
OBGYN
The Effect of Prophylactic Antibiotic Administration for Endometriosis Surgery. Hamilton, Kacey M., Raanan Meyer, Rebecca Schneyer, Kelly N. Wright, and Matthew T. Siedhoff. Women’s Health 22: 17455057261426914.
Orthopaedics
Prospective, Multicenter Study of 2-Level Cervical Arthroplasty With a PEEK-on-Ceramic Cervical Total Disc Replacement: Five-Year Follow-Up. Bae, Hyun W., Domagoj Coric, K. Brandon Strenge, Pierce D. Nunley, Richard D. Guyer, Michael Janssen, Ashvin Patel, Armen Khachatryan, Rick C. Sasso, Andrew Park, Christopher Good, James Yue, Jad Khalil, Paul Kim, and Linda Kanim. Spine, February.
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Deciphering the Impact of RAC1-SPTAN1 in ARPKD Cystogenesis Using Multifaceted Models. Kuraoka, Shohei, Yuhei Higashi, Suguru Saito, Solmaz Pourgonabadi, Honami Honjoh, Sho Ishigaki, Peter C. Harris, Lisa M. Satlin, Michifumi Yamashita, and Ryuji Morizane. Advanced Science, February, e24001.
Utilization of Key Morphologic and Molecular Prognostic and Predictive Parameters in Endometrial Malignancies: A Survey of Gynecologic Pathologists. Walia, Saloni, Ekta Jain, Shivani R. Kandukuri, Rania Bakkar, Yuna Gong, Danielle Costigan, Anandi Lobo, Bonnie Balzer, Cynthia Gasper, Rupanita Biswal, Luca Cima, Mallika Dixit, Sambit K. Mohanty, et al. International Journal of Surgical Pathology, February, 10668969261417319.
Enhanced Detection of High-Risk Human Papillomavirus by in Situ Hybridization With Expansion From 7 to 18 Genotypes in Anal Biopsies. Azimpouran, Mahzad, Xiaomo Li, Maha Guindi, Michael Kozak, Keith Lai, Danielle A. Hutchings, Brent K. Larson, and Kevin M. Waters. American Journal of Clinical Pathology 165 (3): aqag014.
Radiation Oncology
Hormone Therapy Use and Duration With Postoperative Radiotherapy for Recurrent Prostate Cancer: An Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis. Kishan, Amar U., Yilun Sun, Christopher C. Parker, Paul Sargos, Matthew R. Sydes, Sylvie Chabaud, Meryem Brihoum, Tahmineh Romero Kalbasi, Michael L. Steinberg, Luca F. Valle, Kekoa Taparra, Jonathan E. Shoag, Jorge A. Garcia, Jason R. Brown, Matthew B. Rettig, Adam E. Singer, Robert E. Reiter, Scott Eggener, Wayne Brisbane, Soumyajit Roy, Nicholas G. Zaorsky, Angela Y. Jia, Ting Martin Ma, Nicholas G. Nickols, Jason A. Efstathiou, Osama Mohamad, James J. Dignam, Wendy F. Seiferheld, Alan Pollack, Howard M. Sandler, Paul L. Nguyen, Pascal Pommier, and Daniel E. Spratt. Lancet, February, S0140-6736(26)00137-6.
Surgery
Gatekeeper or Pathfinder? The Evolving Role of Lymphedema Surgeons in the Assessment of Limb Swelling. Monzy, Judith, Yasmina Samaha, Shelby Chun Fat, Eileen Lu, Christopher Pham, Edward C. Ray, and Philip S. Brazio. Journal of Clinical Medicine 15 (4): 1322.
Survival in Children With Hepatoblastoma and Pulmonary Metastatic Disease at Diagnosis Based on Extent of Metastases and Need for Surgical Clearance. Polites, Stephanie F., Robert A. Vierkant, Jennifer H. Aldrink, Timothy B. Lautz, Mecklin V. Ragan, Audra Reiter, Stephanie Y. Chen, Eugene S. Kim, Hannah N. Rinehardt, Marcus Malek, Andrew M. Fleming, Andrew J. Murphy, Jonathan P. Roach, Sridharan Radhakrishnan, Nelson Piche, Yasmin Osman, Harold N. Lovvorn, 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, Max R. Langham, Gregory M. Tiao, and Zachary J. Kastenberg. Journal of Pediatric Surgery, February, 163034.
Management of Malignant Parotid Tumors With Complete Facial Paralysis. Pak, Kaitlynne Y., Kaitlin Hori, Alberto Nunez, Babak Larian, and Babak Azizzadeh. The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, February.
Liposomal Versus Standard Bupivacaine for Post-Operative Opioid Requirements Following Abdominal-Based Breast Reconstruction: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Machado, Guilherme Franceschini, Jonathan Mokhtar, Victoria Trasatti Romão, and Alexandre G. Lellouch. JPRAS Open, February.
Long-Term Results of the North American Phase II taTME Multicenter Trial for Rectal Cancer. Donovan, Katherine F., Heather Carmichael, Sami Chadi, Alison Ricardo, Antoinette Bonaccorso, Elisa Paoluzzi Tomada, Dana Sands, John Marks, Justin Maykel, Karim Alavi, Karen Zaghiyan, Mark Whiteford, Elisabeth C. McLemore, Sherief F. Shawki, Scott Steele, Alessio Pigazzi, Matthew Albert, Teresa DeBeche-Adams, Lisa Avery, Steven Wexner, and Patricia Sylla. Annals of Surgery, March.
A Tumultuous Journey That Led to AI in Cancer. Ruppin, Eytan. Nature Cancer, March.
Surgical Management of Small Intestinal Neuroendocrine Tumors. Hallet, Julie, Massimo Falconi, Sean Bennet, Andrea Frilling, Alexandra Gangi, Sébastien Gaujoux, Rodney Pommier, Emilio Bertani, Gabriela Alejandra Buerba, Jennifer Chan, Callisia N. Clarke, Sophie Deguelte, Jaydira Del Rivero, Els Nieveen van Dijkum, Teodora Dumitra, Dilmurodjon Eshmuminov, Anton Engelsman, Francesca Fermi, Simona Grozinsky-Glasberg, James R. Howe, Angela Lamarca, Léamarie Meloche-Dumas, Frédéric Mercier, Sten Myrehaug, Julie Perinel, Charles De Ponthaud, Ville Sallinen, Yun Song, Heather Stuart, Eva Tiensuu Janson, Pascale Tinguely, Francesca Tozzi, Tessa van Ginhoven, Susanne Warner, Kjetil Soreide, and Stefano Partelli. The British Journal of Surgery, March, znag016.
Urology
Requirement for Written Informed Consent and Selection Bias in a Chart-Review Prostate Cancer Study. Zheng, Renning, Sanjay K. Das, Trung Duong Tran, Nadine A. Friedrich, Stirling M. Cummings, Anakaren Gonzalez, Amanda M. De Hoedt, Haleigh Bellerose, Anna Hoffmeyer, Thomas J. Van de Ven, and Stephen J. Freedland. American Journal of Epidemiology, March, kwag043.
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