Faculty Publications Feb. 5-12

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published Feb. 5-12. 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

Kid 'N Play's Christopher Reid Reveals He's Recovering From a Heart Transplant: 'I'm a Better Version of Myself' | PEOPLE | Variety
Erika Jones, MD

Doctor Raises Awareness During Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week | CBS
Mark Sklansky, MD

Cedars-Sinai CEO Talks About Meeting Financial Challenges at Vive 2026 | Chief Healthcare Executive
Peter L. Slavin, MD

Minimally Invasive Surgery Restores Active Dad's Mobility | HealthDay
Corey Walker, MD

Working Out With a Cold: When It's Safe to Exercise While Sick and When to Avoid it, According to Doctors | Women’s Health
Kenton Fibel, MD

Q&A: What Makes Women’s Heart Health Different—And Why it Matters | Healio Cardiology Today
Janet Wei, MD

Good News for Patients Worried About Statin Side Effects: Study Finds Most Never Happen | Medscape
Ana Iribarren, MD 

Diabetes, Aching Joints, and Arthritis | Everyday Health
Andrew Spitzer, MD

Faculty Publications

Biomedical Sciences

MoCo + ROVir: Synergy Between Respiratory Motion Compensation and Cardiac Receive Region Focusing for Cardiac MRI. Hu, Zheyuan, Hsu-Lei Lee, Tianle Cao, Takegawa Yoshida, Lingceng Ma, J. Paul Finn, Kim-Lien Nguyen, and Anthony G. Christodoulou. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, February.

Association of Epicardial Adipose Tissue With Markers of Cardiac Remodelling and Clinical Outcomes in Asymptomatic Aortic Stenosis. Ayton, Sarah L., Saadia Aslam, Abhishek Dattani, Jian L. Yeo, Gaurav S. Gulsin, Piotr J. Slomka, Damini Dey, Gerry P. McCann, and Anvesha Singh. Open Heart 13 (1): e003804.

Influence of Intensive Lipid-Lowering With Statin and Ezetimibe Prescription on Computed Tomography-Derived Fractional Flow Reserve in Patients With Stable Chest Pain. Mortensen, Martin Bødtker, Nadia Iraqi, Niels Peter Rønnow Sand, Martin Busk, Jesper Møller Jensen, Kristian Tækker Madsen, Erik Lerkevang Grove, Damini Dey, Helle Kanstrup, Kamilla Pedersen, Ole Norling Mathiassen, Susanne Hosbond, Hans Erik Bøtker, Jagat Narula, and Bjarne Linde Nørgaard. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, February, S0735-1097(25)10600-1.

Cardiac Surgery

Return to Work After Type A Aortic Dissection. Billy, Matthew J., Salmaan Zafer, Christian Summa, Jason Stanton, Caroline K. Chen, Zachary Brennan, Jiatian Qu, and Tyler J. Wallen. Cureus 18 (1): e100917.

A Signal That Hypothermia Reduces Inflammation During Donor Heart Preservation, and a Reminder That Large Animal Models Remain Vital to the Development of Iterative Improvements in Myocardial Preservation. Catarino, Pedro, and Michael Bowdish. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, February, S1053-2498(26)00055-0.

Cardiology

Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Parkinson’s Disease Proteomics: A Comprehensive Resource for Advancing Parkinson’s Disease Research. Dardov, Victoria J., Aparna Vasanthakumar, Ameya Kulkarni, Niveda Sundararaman, Rakhi Pandey, Preeti Bais, Jennifer E. Van, Maria Quinton, Barry Landin, David Vismer, Bradford Casey, Matt Bookman, Willy Nojopranoto, Erin Teeple, Can Kayatekin, Rajaraman Krishnan, Richard Hargreaves, Guhan Nagappan, S. Pablo Sardi, Sri Ramulu Pullagura, Christine Swanson-Fischer, and Accelerating Medicines Partnership Parkinson’s Disease (AMP PD) Proteomics Working Group. Movement Disorders, February.

Winning the Questionnaire-With Caveats: Win-Ratio PROs in ENVISAGE-TAVI AF. Pawar, Shubhadarshini, Kannu Bansal, and Derek Wu. The American Journal of Cardiology, February, S0002-9149(26)00031-7.

Acoramidis in Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy: Expanding Evidence From ATTRibute-CM. Sarswat, Nitasha, Amrut V. Ambardekar, Kevin M. Alexander, Sarah Am Cuddy, Lily Stern, Steen Hvitfeldt Poulsen, Carsten Tschöpe, Yoshiki Sekijima, Farooq H. Sheikh, Jan M. Griffin, Daniel P. Judge, Julian Gillmore, and Ahmad Masri. Future Cardiology, February, 1–15.

Genotype-Guided vs Conventional Oral P2Y12 Inhibitors in Acute Coronary Syndrome: A Combined Analysis of TAILOR-PCI and POPular Genetics. Galli, Mattia, Naveen L. Pereira, Ryan J. Lennon, Wout W. A. van den Broek, Daniel M. F. Claassens, Thomas O. Bergmeijer, Yves Rosenberg, Luca Fazzini, Vera H. M. Deneer, M. Hassan Murad, Michael E. Farkouh, Charanjit Rihal, Jurrien Ten Berg, and Dominick J. Angiolillo. JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions 19 (3): 283–96.

Quantifying Cardiac Amyloid Burden: Moving From Surrogates to Substrate. Stern, Lily K., Michael D. Nelson, and Justin L. Grodin. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 87 (5): 519–21.

Computational Biomedicine

A Crisis of Overconfidence: Why Confidence, Not Accuracy, Is the Real Risk in Clinical AI. Berkowitz, Jacob S., Jake R. Patock, Asma Nawaz, Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez, and Nicholas P. Tatonetti. BioData Mining 19 (1): 10.

Prognostic and Predictive Performance of PREDICT 2.1, PREDICT v3, and RSClin in Node-Negative Early Breast Cancer: A TEAM Pathology Substudy. Leblanc, Andréanne, Ana-Alicia Beltran-Bless, Gregory R. Pond, Khaled El Emam, Lamin Juwara, Lucas Clemons, Jane Bayani, Lisa Pilgram, Paul Pharoah, Elizabeth Mallon, Karen J. Taylor, Christos Markopoulos, Luc Dirix, Lisa Vandermeer, John Hilton, Marie France Savard, John M. S. Bartlett, and Mark Clemons. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment 215 (3): 74.

CiCLoDS: Joint Cell Clustering and Gene Selection for Single-Cell Spatial Transcriptomics. Wang, Nuozhou, Yimeng He, Edward Ray, Kyoung Jae Won, Curtis L. Cetrulo, Debiao Li, Jason H. Moore, Shuzhong Zhang, and Xiuzhen Huang. Scientific Reports 16 (1): 5356.

PRIMARY-AI: Outcomes-Based Standards to Safeguard Primary Care in the AI Era. Zeng, Dian, Lorainne Tudor Car, Kamlesh Khunti, Yuanli Liu, Till Bärnighausen, Niels H. Chavannes, Pearse A. Keane, Holger Kunz, Lan Xue, Joseph J. Y. Sung, Yih Chung Tham, Lorenzo Righetto, Rupa Sarker, Samuel Yeung Shan Wong, Donald Boudreau, Qionghai Dai, Weiping Jia, Yang Liu, Dinggang Shen, Jia Liu, Weixing Shen, John S. Ji, Zhong Wang, Zhiyi Wang, Haibo Wang, Shenglan Tang, Chenyang Pei, Zehua Jiang, Zihao Zou, Yiming Qin, Huating Li, Yasha Wang, Dinesh Visva Gunasekeran, Sabrina Wong, Dong Xu, Ryan Urbanowicz, Liliana Laranjo, Ana Luisa Neves, Nan Liu, Yulan He, Phuoc Van Le, Neil Bressler, Rifat Atun, David C. Klonoff, Bin Sheng, Nigam Shah, Josip Car, and Tien Yin Wong. Nature Medicine, February.

Imaging

Radiomics of Soft Tissue Sarcoma Metastases to Assess Prognostic Factors Related to Intrapatient Intertumor Heterogeneity. Matcuk, George R., and Brandon K. K. Fields. Translational Cancer Research 15 (1): 1.

Medicine

Cancer in Public Figures, 2010-2020. Benjamin, D. J., M. P. Lythgoe, J. T. Moyers, O. Yazdanpanah, A. Haslam, A. Rezazadeh Kalebasty, and V. Prasad. ESMO Real World Data and Digital Oncology 7 (March): 100119.

Mendelian Randomization Combined With Bioinformatics Revealed Specific Allergy-Mediated Protective Mechanisms Against Renal Cell Carcinoma. Xing, Zixuan, Hao Lei, Yaohui Jiang, Shaobo Wu, Qijuan Zang, Sikai Qiu, Enrui Xie, Yuan Wang, Ning Gao, Yee Hui Yeo, Fanpu Ji, and Zhengxiao Li. Phenomics 5 (5): 577–89.

The Evolving Role of ctDNA in Colorectal Cancer: Guidance of Adjuvant Therapy or Surveillance Strategies? Barrett, Laura G., Alexandra Gangi, Andrew Hendifar, Arsen Osipov, Katelyn Atkins, Karen Zaghiyan, Yosef Nasseri, Zuri Murrell, Kevin Waters, Pareen Mehta, Jason A. Zell, Megan P. Hitchins, and Jun Gong. Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology 11: 2.

Loss of Lean Mass in Rheumatoid Arthritis Is Associated With Loss of Total and Visceral Fat. Baker, Joshua F., Jon T. Giles, Babette Zemel, Katherine D. Wysham, Jin Long, Mary Leonard, and Patricia Katz. Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle 17 (1): e70229.

Quality of Gadoxetate-Enhanced MRI Versus US During Hepatocellular Carcinoma Screening in Participants With Cirrhosis. Lewis, Sara, Benjamin Wildman-Tobriner, Jordan Cuevas, Sergio Calle, Ian Bolger, Katherine Wang, Himanshu Joshi, Lori Mankowski Gettle, Ju Dong Yang, Ji Hye Min, Claude B. Sirlin, Scott B. Reeder, Mustafa R. Bashir, and Bachir Taouli. Radiology 318 (2): e251497.

Response. Geft, Dael, Yuri Matusov, Nicholas Kolaitis, Jacqueline DesJardin, Christopher Barnett, Antoine Hage, Teresa De Marco, and Michael I. Lewis. Chest 169 (2): e80–81.

Time to Act: A Global Call for Oral Cancer Prevention and Early Detection. Maret, Delphine, Saman Warnakulasuriya, Joel B. Epstein, Thomas Geeraerts, and Emmanuelle Vigarios. The Lancet. Oncology 27 (2): 146–47.

Long-Term Disease Progression in Pediatric Acute Recurrent and Chronic Pancreatitis: A Report From INSPPIRE. Downs, Elissa M., Emily R. Perito, Fuchenchu Wang, Gretchen A. Cress, Maisam Abu-El-Haija, Ankur Chugh, Reuven Zev Cohen, Douglas S. Fishman, A. Jay Freeman, Cheryl E. Gariepy, Matthew J. Giefer, Tanja Y. Gonska, Amit S. Grover, Sohail Z. Husain, Douglas Lindblad, Quin Y. Liu, Asim Maqbool, Jacob A. Mark, Brian A. McFerron, Megha S. Mehta, Veronique D. Morinville, Kenneth Ng, Robert Adam Noel, Chee Y. Ooi, David M. Troendle, Michael Wilschanski, Yuhua Zheng, Ying Yuan, Mark E. Lowe, Aliye Uc, Consortium for the Study of Chronic Pancreatitis, Diabetes, and Pancreatic Cancer (CPDPC), and INternational Study group of Pediatric Pancreatitis: In search for a cuRE (INSPPIRE). Pancreatology, February, S1424-3903(26)00091-8.

Real-World Study of Three-Gas Breath Testing Nationwide and the Association With Symptoms. Pimentel, Mark, Gabriela Leite, LiJin Joo, Ali Rezaie, Ruchi Mathur, Darren Brenner, Linda Nguyen, Mohamad Rashid, Ava Hosseini, Daniel Brimberry, Matthew Mitcho, David Richardson, and Fabrice Wilfong. Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, February.

Gain of Function NOTCH4 Variants Disrupt Angiogenesis in Systemic Sclerosis. Kaundal, Urvashi, Pei-Suen Tsou, Mousumi Sahu, Mengqi Huang, Steven E. Boyden, Curtis M. Woodford, Daniel Shriner, Emilee Stenson, Sarah Ayla Safran, Yuechen Zhou, Taylor A. Talley, Kaavya Gudapati, Pravitt Gourh, et al. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, February, S0003-4967(25)04609-6.

Blinatumomab Nonresponse Correlates With Poor Survival After Brexucabtagene. Srinagesh, Hrishikesh Krishna, Vishal K. Gupta, Amy Zhang, Michael R. Grunwald, Matthew P. Connor, Vamsi K. Kota, Jacob Boccucci, Matthew L. Ulrickson, Roshini Pradeep, LaQuisa C. Hill, Stephanie B. Tsai, Timothy E. O’Connor, Lori S. Muffly, et al. Blood, February, blood.2025031734.

Rebalancing Inflammation in Arthritis: PEPITEM as a Restorer of Immune Regulation. Svensson, Mattias N. D., and Nunzio Bottini. Arthritis & Rheumatology, February.

Developing Consumer Consensus on Remote Assessment and Management of Physical Function in Older Adults (RAMP): International Modified Delphi Process. Dent, Elsa, Christopher Hurst, Jack Dalla Via, Jackson J. Fyfe, Paul Jansons, Eleanor J. Hayes, Gary Skinner, Marc Sim, Mylene Aubertin-Leheudre, Sabine Britting, Fanny Buckinx, Gavin Connolly, Ruth Dignam, Lora Giangregorio, Jennifer R. A. Jones, Pauline Kelly, Robert Kob, Suzanne N. Morin, Girish Nandakumar, Lucas B. R. Orssatto, Maria Pearson, Daniel Pinto, Esmee M. Reijnierse, Catherine M. Said, Mohamed Salem, Vina Ps Tan, Rosanna Tran, Jesse Zanker, Robin M. Daly, and David Scott. JMIR Aging 9 (February): e75791.

Dipeptidyl Peptidase-3 to Predict Respiratory Outcomes in Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19: A Secondary Analysis of a Multicenter Randomized Trial. Teixeira, J. Pedro, Christopher L. Schaich, Caitlin C. Ten Lohuis, Nathan D. Nielsen, Peter Chen, Adit A. Ginde, David N. Hager, Akram Khan, Lisa H. Merck, Basmah Safdar, Jeffrey M. Sturek, Marjolein de Wit, Michelle S. Harkins, Wesley H. Self, Sean P. Collins, Laurence W. Busse, and ACTIV-4 Host Tissue Investigators. Journal of Critical Care 93 (February): 155478.

Digital Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Pain Management in Individuals With Recurrent Acute and Chronic Pancreatitis (IMPACT-2): Study Protocol for a Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trial. Palermo, Tonya M., Olivia Ohls, Blake Dear, Ardith Z. Doorenbos, Dhiraj Yadav, Chuan Zhou, Melena Bellin, William Fisher, Evan Fogel, Christopher Forsmark, Phil A. Hart, Walter G. Park, Stephen Pandol, Guru Trikudanathan, and Darwin L. Conwell. Trials, February.

Genomic Insights into Inflammatory Bowel Disease in United States Hispanic Participants: An Ancestry-Focused Study. Beecham, Ashley H., Dermot P. B. McGovern, Steven W. Brugger, Mary F. Davis, Esther A. Torres, Lissette Gomez, Dalin Li, Paola Lopez-Marte, Mark J. Daly, Christine Stevens, Shaohong Yang, Sweta Sinha, Emebet Mengesha, James Leavitt, Oriana M. Damas, Maria A. Quintero, Stephan R. Targan, Shervin Rabizadeh, Ksenija Sabic, NIDDK IBD Genetics Consortium, Judy H. Cho, Maria T. Abreu, Jacob L. McCauley, and Talin Haritunians. Gastroenterology, February, S0016-5085(25)06484-4.

Respiratory Syncytial Virus Is Associated With a Higher Disease Burden than Influenza and SARS-CoV-2 in Adults With Chronic Lung Disease: A Multi-Center Cohort Study. Sun, Chuan-Yen, Chuan Angel Lu, Craig P. Hersh, Yee Hui Yeo, Po-Yang Tsou, Shiow-Ing Wang, Kun-Ta Chou, Kuang-Yao Yang, Yi-Jin Tina Hsieh, James Chung-Chung Wei, and Gin Yi Lee. Respiratory Research, February.

Artificial Intelligence for Gastroenterology Practice: A Modified Delphi Consensus. Gross, Seth A., Aasma Shaukat, Anita Afzali, Joseph C. Ahn, Jasmohan S. Bajaj, Jodie A. Barkin, Mohammad Bilal, Saurabh Chawla, Nayantara Coelho-Prabhu, Sarah M. Enslin, Andrew D. Feld, Harish K. Gagneja, David J. Hass, Yasmin G. Hernandez-Barco, Sara N. Horst, Brian C. Jacobson, Patricia D. Jones, Vivek Kaul, Vladimir M. Kushnir, Cadman L. Leggett, Galen Leung, Miguel Mascarenhas, Sravanthi Parasa, Nasim Parsa, Jason N. Schairer, Eric D. Shah, Douglas A. Simonetto, Brennan Spiegel, Ryan W. Stidham, Praveen Suthrum, Sapna Thomas, and Meridith E. Phillips. The American Journal of Gastroenterology, February.

Negative Trial, Positive Lessons: Refining Endpoints and Eligibility in RAP/CP Prevention Studies. Jiang, Yi, Jianing Li, Stephen J. Pandol, and Walter Park. Gut, February, gutjnl-2026-338290.

Complications of Pancreatitis-Knowledge Gaps and Research Opportunities: A Workshop Summary. Saloman, Jami L., Dana K. Andersen, Maisam Abu-El-Haija, Melena D. Bellin, Darwin L. Conwell, Mahya Faghih, Christopher E. Forsmark, Mark O. Goodarzi, Aiste K. Gulla, Phil A. Hart, Steven J. Hughes, Braden Kuo, Jennifer M. Ladd, Bomi Lee, Stephen J. Pandol, Anna Evans Phillips, Kristen M. Roberts, Sarah Jane Schwarzenberg, Vikesh K. Singh, Ronald M. Summers, Temel Tirkes, Frederico G. S. Toledo, Guru Trikudanathan, Aliye Uc, Clive H. Wasserfall, David C. Whitcomb, Dhiraj Yadav, Christine Yost, Wenying Zhang, and A. Jay Freeman. Pancreas, February.

Development and Validation of a Computational Histology Artificial Intelligence-Powered Predictive Biomarker for Selection of Chemotherapy in Advanced Pancreatic Cancer. Hendifar, Andrew E., Viswesh Krishna, Vrishab Krishna, Haochen Zhang, Asit Tarsode, Vivek Nimgaonkar, Katelyn Smith, Kawther Abdilleh, Snehal Sonawane, Akshay Neema, Ekin Tiu, Brent K. Larson, Vladimir Kazarov, Natalie Moshayedi, Shawn Hutchinson, Daniela Bevacqua, Sudheer Doss, Alejandra Alvarez, Drew Watson, Waleed M. Abuzeid, Barbara T. Grünwald, Marcus Noel, Rashmi Samdani, Dove Keith, Rosalie C. Sears, Davendra Sohal, Christos Fountzilas, Grainne M. O’Kane, Robert C. Grant, Arsen Osipov, Eric A. Collisson, Lesli A. Kiedrowski, Trevor J. Royce, Anirudh R. Joshi, Aatur D. Singhi, and Jennifer J. Knox. Journal of Clinical Oncology, February, JCO2502199.

Multi-Modal AI for Opportunistic Screening, Staging and Progression Risk Stratification of Steatotic Liver Disease. Gao, Yuan, Chunli Li, Wanxing Chang, Bai Du, Xianghua Ye, Yee Hui Yeo, Yingda Xia, Heng Guo, Xiaoming Zhang, Wei Liu, Ruobing Bai, Beibei Li, Yang Hong, Jiawen Yao, Le Lu, Kai Cao, Ke Yan, Jun Chen, Jie Li, Yang Hou, Ling Zhang, and Yu Shi. Nature Communications 17 (1): 1562.

Neurology

Safety and Efficacy of VMAT2 Inhibitors in Huntington Disease: A Systematic Review. Baghaei, Ava, Ali Zare Dehnavi, Zahra Hashempour, Yvette Bordelon, Joohi Jimenez-Shahed, Erin Furr Stimming, Jessa Koch, and Khashayar Dashtipour. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, January, 108209.

Identifying Key Components of Neuropalliative Care Fellowship Using Nominal Group Technique. Gianchandani, Sachi Y., Jocelyn M. Jiao, Kwame O. Adjepong, Yaowaree L. Leavell, Jessica M. Besbris, Neha M. Kramer, Joel N. Phillips, and Paul M. Vermilion. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, February, S0885-3924(26)00048-5.

Complement Inhibition for Acute Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder Attacks: Insights From an International Case Series. Rommer, Paulus S., Wei Jiang, Jan P. Nolte, Takahisa Mikami, Jerome De Seze, Pedro Sánchez, Asaff Harel, Samir Alkabie, Kimihiko Kaneko, Philippe A. Bilodeau, Tatsuro Misu, Laurent Kremer, Kévin Bigaut, Frank Leypoldt, Orhan Aktas, Marius Ringelstein, Volker Siffrin, Lin-Jie Zhang, Hengri Cong, Mallory Lowe, Paula Barreras, Haiwen Chen, Amanda L. Piquet, Elias S. Sotirchos, Ryan Kammeyer, Jadyn Zook, Jeffrey L. Bennett, Thomas Berger, Kazuo Fujihara, Michael Levy, Fu-Dong Shi, and Friedemann Paul. Neurology(R) Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation 13 (2): e200548.

Neurosurgery

Complications Associated With Removal of Paddle and Cylindrical Spinal Cord Stimulator Electrodes. Miller, Andrew M., Alan Nguyen, Adeesya Gausper, Corey T. Walker, Tiffany G. Perry, and Alexander Tuchman. Clinical Spine Surgery, November.

OBGYN

Reducing Regulated Medical Waste: A Roadmap for Process Improvement. Niino, Clarissa A., Raanan Meyer, Catherine John, and Kelly Wright. The Journal of Climate Change and Health 26: 100553.

Impact of Bilateral Oophorectomy on Survival Among Patients Undergoing Radical Hysterectomy for Cervical Adenocarcinoma: A National Cancer Database Analysis. Levin, Gabriel, Lucy Gilbert, Rene Pareja, Shuk On Annie Leung, Xing Zeng, Raanan Meyer, and Reitan Ribeiro. International Journal of Gynecological Cancer, January, 104469.

Single-Agent Gemcitabine in Heavily Pretreated Ovarian Cancer: Experience From a Canadian Tertiary Centre. Taylor, Samantha, Peter Scalia, Raanan Meyer, Shannon Salvador, Susie Lau, Walter Gotlieb, and Gabriel Levin. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada: JOGC = Journal d’obstetrique et Gynecologie Du Canada: JOGC, February, 103237.

Orthopaedics

A Case of Juvenile Xanthogranuloma of the Hand in an Adolescent. Askinas, Carly A., Horacio M. Maluf, David A. Kulber, and Stuart H. Kuschner. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Global Open 14 (2): e7497.

Bone Quality Positively Correlates With Biomechanical Strength of All-Suture Anchors Utilized in Biceps Tenodesis. Posner, Andrew D., Dave T. Huang, Andrew Nakla, Ajith Malige, Thay Q. Lee, Orr Limpisvasti, and Melodie F. Metzger. Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine 14 (2): 23259671251413261.

The Sport Publication Observational Research Tool (SPORT): An Objective Tool to Score the Methodological Quality of Observational Clinical Sports Medicine Research. Kuhn, Andrew W., Paul M. Inclan, Ameer A. Haider, Michele N. Christy, Warren R. Dunn, Laura Alberton, Christina Allen, Kyle Anderson, James Andrews, Frank Azar, Geoffrey Baer, Michael Banffy, Matthew J. Matava, et al. Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine 14 (2): 23259671251380883.

A Review Exploring the Translational Perspective of Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery and Formulation Development. Agarwal, Babita, Saurabh Gaware, Namdev More, Rushikesh Shinde, H. N. Shivakumar, and Sachin Jagdale. Annales Pharmaceutiques Francaises, February, S0003-4509(26)00007-6.

The Rising Use of Navigation in Pediatric Spine Procedures: Trends and Factors. Chan, Vivien, Suhas Etigunta, Adeesya Gausper, Andy M. Liu, David L. Skaggs, Kenneth D. Illingworth, and Grant D. Hogue. Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics, February.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Intrarenal Renin-Angiotensin System Inactivation Ameliorates Tubulopathy via Attenuation of Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress, Dysfunction and Senescence in Diabetes. Yang, Wen-Xia, Yu-Chao Pang, Min-Chun Liao, Junzheng Peng, Daniel N. Leal, Michifumi Yamashita, Kana N. Miyata, Janos G. Filep, Julie Ingelfinger, Shao-Ling Zhang, and John Chan. Clinical Science, January, CS20258557.

Blood Pressure-Lowering Effect of SGLT2 Inhibitors in Patients Without Antihypertensive Treatment: A Real-World Data Analysis. Ito, Reina, Michihiro Satoh, Hideaki Hashimoto, Hiroki Nobayashi, Seiya Izumi, Maya Toyama, Yutaro Iwabe, Yuya Suzuki, Takuo Hirose, Shingo Nakayama, Takahisa Murakami, Masato Sasaki, and Hirohito Metoki. Journal of Clinical Hypertension 28 (2): e70214.

D-Dimer Reporting and Harmonization: Analysis of College of American Pathologists D-Dimer Proficiency Testing Program. Salazar, Eric, Kristi Smock, Taryn Cazzolli, Jeffrey Samuel Dlott, Nathan Lickteig, Thomas A. Long, Joseph Justin Mulvey, Morayma Reyes Gil, Marian Rollins-Raval, Jun Teruya, Oksana Volod, Chance Avery Walker, Geoffrey D. Wool, Nicole D. Zantek, and Andrew Jackson Goodwin. Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis, February.

The Oxford Classification Should Remain the Gold Standard for Classification of IgA Nephropathy​: Commentary. Haas, Mark. Kidney360, February.

Pediatrics

Hypoxia-Inducible Factor Signaling Regulates Embryonic Interneuron Development, GRIN2B Expression and Adult Cortical Function. Lu, I.-Ling, Mengyi Song, Cinthia Rangel-Sandoval, Juan Moriano Palacios, JaeYeon Kim, Eric J. Huang, Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, Arnold Kriegstein, Mercedes F. Paredes, and David H. Rowitch. Developmental Cell, February, S1534-5807(26)00030-4.

Thrombo-Inflammation and Rethinking the Role of Aspirin in Kawasaki Disease. Kocatürk, Begüm, Beyda Berberoğulları, Emil Aliyev, Erdal Sağ, Seza Özen, and Moshe Arditi. Current Rheumatology Reports 28 (1): 4.

Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Implantation With the Alterra Adaptive Prestent and SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve: 3-Year Pooled Outcomes of the ALTERRA Trials. Torres, Alejandro J., V. Vivian Dimas, Shabana Shahanavaz, David Balzer, Gareth Morgan, D. Scott Lim, Aimee K. Armstrong, Darren Berman, Vasilis Babaliaros, Dennis Kim, Matthew J. Gillespie, Robert Sommer, Jamil Aboulhosn, Thomas K. Jones, Vaikom S. Mahadevan, Gary Stapleton, Ying Ma, Girish Shirali, Anitha Parthiban, Philipp Blanke, Jonathon Leipsic, and Evan Zahn. Circulation. Cardiovascular Interventions, February, e015873.

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Integrating Cancer Rehabilitation and Lifestyle Medicine: A Proposed Partnership and Case Example From the RISE Cancer Survivorship Clinic. Sleight, Alix G., Stephen B. Weschler, Jennifer M. Jones, Kelley C. Wood, Mackenzi Pergolotti, Courtney P. Williams, Rachelle S. Brick, Sarah Lyon, Aneesha Virani, Sandy C. Takata, Kathleen D. Lyons, Maria C. Swartz, Yoko E. Fukumura, Pamela S. Roberts, and Elizabeth P. Frates. Disability and Rehabilitation, February, 1–13.

Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences

Neurocognitive Disorders: Systematic Review of Approved (2008-2024) and Pipeline Phase III Medications. Totlani, Jayant, Muhammad Arsalan Bashir, Laurel Tay, Ashley Ngor, Alexander J. Steiner, Drew Hirsch, Lorena Contreras, Sabrina Renteria, Itai Danovitch, Robert N. Pechnick, Waguih William Ishak, and Sarah Kim.

Radiation Oncology

Correlation of Biochemical Recurrence With Adverse Late Toxic Events Following Prostate Radiotherapy (COBALT Study): An Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis of 7 Randomized Trials. Nikitas, John, Parsa Jamshidian, Alison C. Tree, Emma Hall, David Dearnaley, Jeff M. Michalski, W. Robert Lee, Paul L. Nguyen, Howard M. Sandler, Charles N. Catton, Himanshu R. Lukka, Stephanie Supiot, Gilles Crehange, Igor Latorzeff, Soumyajit Roy, Shawn Malone, Eric Horwitz, Jessica Karen Wong, Stefano Arcangeli, Giuseppe Sanguineti, Tahmineh Romero, Yilun Sun, Michael L. Steinberg, Luca F. Valle, Jack Neylon, Joanne B. Weidhaas, Daniel E. Spratt, Donatello Telesca, and Amar U. Kishan. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, February, S0360-3016(26)00366-4.

Innovative Targets, New Technologies, Same Tenacity: Radiation Therapy’s Evolving Role in Pancreatic Cancer. Jethwa, Krishan R., Katelyn Atkins, Luca Boldrini, Jonathan B. Ashman, Aisling Barry, Eric D. Miller, Randa Tao, and Michael D. Chuong. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 124 (3): 561–69.

Surgery

Understanding Sepsis: Patient Education Series. Hashim, Yassar M., and Daniel R. Margulies. Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open 11 (1): e001840.

Single Anesthetic Bronchoscopic Biopsy to Robotic Resection Workflow. Perez, Claire, Vikram Krishna, Kellie Knabe, Raffaele Rocco, Philicia Moonsamy, Andrew R. Brownlee, and Harmik J. Soukiasian. JTCVS Techniques 35 (February): 102143.

Where Do We Stand for Nerve Regeneration and Functional Recovery After Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation? Mathieu, Olivier, Leonard Knoedler, Thomas Schaschinger, Jakob Fenske, Felix J. Klimitz, Maxime Jeljeli, Curtis L. Cetrulo, and Alexandre G. Lellouch. Microsurgery 46 (2): e70192.

Surgical and Oncologic Outcomes After Pancreatectomy for Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor in Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1 and von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome: A Large, Multi-Institutional, Cohort Study. Zhang, Liti, Marco Ventin, Shahrzad Arya, Alexandra Gangi, Andrew E. Hendifar, Nicholas N. Nissen, Alice C. Wei, Amer H. Zureikat, Jin He, Cristina R. Ferrone, and PAncreatic Neuroendocrine Disease Alliance (PANDA). Journal of the American College of Surgeons, February.

Impact of Trauma Center Volume on Treatment Strategies and Outcomes of Blunt Traumatic Aortic Injuries. Matthews, Robert, Elizabeth L. Chou, Joseph J. Dubose, Donald T. Baril, NavYash Gupta, Cassra N. Arbabi, Naveed U. Saqib, Benjamin W. Starnes, Elina Quiroga, Charles C. Miller, and Ali Azizzadeh. Journal of Vascular Surgery, February, S0741-5214(26)00087-X.

Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity and Chronic Rhinosinusitis Risk: A Longitudinal Fitbit Study. Majeethia, Heli, Aakash Agarwal, Ahmed Abdou, Jagan Dwarampudi, Justina Varghese, Renjie Hu, Zain Mehdi, Tania Banerjee, Vivek Pandrangi, Arthur Wu, Dennis Tang, Masayoshi Takashima, and Omar G. Ahmed. International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology, February.

Major Limb Replantation: Current Status and Perspectives. Jaafar, Youssef, Jack Obeida, Yanis Berkane, Loïc Van Dieren, Elio Nader, Javier Gonzalez, Ali Mojallal, Curtis L. Cetrulo, Alexandre G. Lellouch, and Haïzam Oubari. JPRAS Open 0 (0).

Does Robotic-Assisted Esophagectomy Improve Outcomes Compared to Other Techniques? An NCDB Analysis of Access and Disparities. Perez, Claire, Vikram Krishna, Lucas Weiser, Allen Razavi, Kellie Knabe, Sevannah G. Soukiasian, Raffaele Rocco, Philicia Moonsamy, Harmik J. Soukiasian, and Andrew R. Brownlee. Surgical Endoscopy, February.

Enhancing Surgeons’ Cognitive Performance in Colorectal Surgery: A Narrative Review. Patriti, Alberto, Paola Antonella Greco, and Alessio Pigazzi. Journal of Laparoendoscopic & Advanced Surgical Techniques. Part A, February, 10926429261421999.

Indocyanine Green Assists With Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping in Pediatric and Adolescent Patients: A Pediatric Surgical Oncology Research Collaborative Prospective Observational Study. Schermerhorn, Sophia M. V., Emily Vore, Alexander J. Bondoc, Timothy B. Lautz, Samantha A. Ayala, Zachary J. Kastenberg, Cameron Arkin, Marcus M. Malek, Insiyah Campwala, Jennifer H. Aldrink, Kyle Z. Horvath, Nelson Piché, Yasmin Osman, Erin G. Brown, Kathleen Doyle, Paige Abril, Jonathan P. Roach, Ioannis A. Ziogas, Daniel S. Rhee, Charbel Chidiac, Stephanie F. Polites, Julia Debertin, Brian T. Craig, Dave R. Lal, Eugene S. Kim, William G. Lee, Aaron Barkhordar, Hau D. Le, Devashish Joshi, Michael Stellon, Elisabeth T. Tracy, Catherine Beckhorn, Dafydd A. Davies, Chloé Boehmer, and Roshni Dasgupta. Cancer 132 (4): e70274.

Urology

Predicting Patient-Reported Outcomes Following Treatment for Localized Prostate Cancer: Model Development and Evaluation in an International Cohort Study. Weiner, Adam B., Shannon C. Martin, Holly Wilhalme, Anissa V. Bailey, Lorna Kwan, Bashir Al Hussein Al Awamlh, Zhiguo Zhao, Paolo Verze, Juliet Ippolito, Roberto La Rocca, Nora Tabea Sibert, Daniel A. Barocas, Thomas R. Belin, David Elashoff, Christoph Kowalski, Claire Foster, Caroline Moore, Mark S. Litwin, and True North Global Registry. Clinical Genitourinary Cancer, January, 102504.

Diagnostic Performance of Urinary Biomarker Tests in Detecting Bladder Cancer: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Network Meta-Analysis. Siguencia, Fernando, John Heard, Steven M. Smith, Ian Pagano, Hideki Furuya, Xiaobo Wu, Michael Ahdoot, and Charles J. Rosser. Urology, February, S0090-4295(26)00074-9.

Reply by Authors. Shore, Neal D., and Stephen J. Freedland. The Journal of Urology, February, 101097JU0000000000004961.

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