Faculty Publications Jan. 15-22

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published Jan. 15-22. 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 5-Day Brain Health Challenge | The New York Times
Zaldy Tan, MD, MPH

Women and Men’s Bodies Might Be More Different Than We Previously Thought | LAist/Airtalk Online
Caroline Jefferies, PhD

The LA Fires Gave Us an Unprecedented Look at the Danger of Urban Blazes | The Washington Post
Susan Cheng, MD

Savy King Returns to Angel City Training for First Time Since Collapse | USA Today
Richard Kim, MD

How the Food You Eat When You Travel Affects Your Gut Health | Forbes
Mark Pimentel, MD

Should You Try Platelet-Rich Plasma Therapy? | AARP
Bert Mandelbaum, MD

5 Early Dementia Signs People Often Miss—And Why it Matters | New York Post
Golnaz Yadollahikhales, MD

What Is Set-Point Theory and How Does it Affect Weight Loss? | Everyday Health
Amanda Velazquez, MD

'Zombie' Cells May Drive Common Form of Epilepsy | Live Science
James Kirkland, MD

7 Things All Women Should Know About Their Heart Health | The New York Times | En Español
Natalie Bello, MD, MPH

Faculty Publications

Biomedical Sciences

High Expression of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme in Macrophages Exacerbates Renal Interstitial Damage in Diabetic Mice. Uemura, Takayuki, Keigo Tomita, Masahiro Eriguchi, Kumiko Torisu, Masatoshi Nishimoto, Yushi Uchida, Jorge F. Giani, Kenneth E. Bernstein, Kazuhiko Tsuruya, and Toshiaki Nakano. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 801 (January): 153308.

Cardiac Surgery

Impact of Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Repair on Pre- and Post-Procedural Hospitalization Rates. Razavi, Allen A., Aminah Sallam, Betemariam Sharew, Claire Perez, Mamoo Nakamura, Andrew Czarnecki, Michael E. Bowdish, Natalia N. Egorova, Joanna Chikwe, and Derrick Y. Tam. CJC Open 7 (12): 1602–6.

Cardiology

Comparison Between Five Risk Scores in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes Undergoing Surgical Revascularization During the Index Hospitalization. Nicolau, José C., Roberto R. C. V. Giraldez, Fabio B. Jatene, Luís A. O. Dallan, Luiz A. Lisboa, Omar A. V. Mejia, Jorge L. M. Ribera, Adriadne J. Bertolin, Luciano M. Baracioli, Felipe G. Lima, Maria C. D. Andrade, Santiago A. C. Vintimilla, Leonardo Salis, Fabiane L. de Freitas, Maxim Goncharov, Lucas C. Godoy, Remo H. de M. Furtado, and Michael E. Farkouh. Arquivos Brasileiros De Cardiologia 122 (11): e20250320.

Impact of Baseline Renal Function on Waitlist Outcomes in Patients Supported With Impella as a Bridge to Heart Transplantation. Gangavelli, Apoorva, Rebecca S. Steinberg, Daniel Mathew, Krishan Patel, Clayton J. Rust, Alanna A. Morris, and Joshua L. Chan. ASAIO Journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs: 1992), January.

Estimating the Proportion of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Prevented With Improved Early Pregnancy Cardiovascular Health. Borrowman, Jaclyn D., Xiaoning Huang, Amanda M. Perak, Judith H. Chung, Janet M. Catov, Lauren H. Thelilen, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Lisa D. Levine, Philip Greenland, Lynn M. Yee, William A. Grobman, Sadiya S. Khan, and Alexa Freedman. JACC. Advances 5 (2): 102501.

Fatty Acid Transport at the Heart of Metabolic Adaptation. Karlstaedt, Anja. Circulation Research 138 (2): e327929.

The OurHealth Study: A Digital Genomic Cohort for Cardiometabolic Risk Mechanisms in US South Asians. Ganesh, Shriienidhie, Romit Bhattacharya, Aarushi Bhatnagar, Rishi Madnani, Christine Russo, Sara Haidermota, Bhaavana Oruganty, Harshil Bhavsar, Priyansh Shah, Sarah Pitafi, Nishant Uppal, Namrata Sengupta, Kenneth Rice, Matthew P. Conomos, Ravi Dave, Abha Khandelwal, Aniruddh P. Patel, Kaavya Paruchuri, Yamini Levitsky, Sanchita Singal Parulkar, Rohan Khera, Martha Gulati, Amit V. Khera, Whitney E. Hornsby, Latha Palaniappan, and Pradeep Natarajan. NPJ Digital Medicine, January.

Left Ventricular Apical Thrombus in a Post-Heart Transplant Patient With Preserved Ejection Fraction. Han, Donghee, Kunal Shah, Michelle M. Kittleson, Kambiz Ghafourian, Dominic Megna, Alan C. Kwan, Jon A. Kobashigawa, Daniel S. Berman, and Lily K. Stern. JACC. Case Reports, January, 106675.

Outcomes of Patients With Mitral Stenosis With Prior Percutaneous Mitral Commissurotomy Undergoing Mitral Valve Surgery. Ruangsubvilai, Nattanon, Krittapas Au-Yeung, Chawalit Wongbuddha, Alon Shechter, Vivek Patel, and Danon Kaewkes. The American Journal of Cardiology, January, S0002-9149(26)00010-X.

Paclitaxel-Coated Balloon for Treating In-Stent Restenosis in Racial and Ethnic Minority Patients: A Subanalysis From the AGENT IDE Trial. Jamil, Yasser, Ajay Kirtane, Robert W. Yeh, Richard Shlofmitz, Jeffrey Moses, William Bachinsky, Suhail Dohad, Steven Rudick, Robert Stoler, Brian K. Jefferson, William Nicholson, John Altman, Amar Krishnaswamy, Khaldoon Alaswad, Carey Kimmelstiel, Arthur Reitman, Rafael Cavalcante, Behnam N. Tehrani, and Wayne B. Batchelor. Journal of the American Heart Association 15 (2): e043053.

Anticoagulation After Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation - Navigating the OCEAN of Possibilities. Albert, Christine M. The New England Journal of Medicine 394 (4): 393–94.

Comparing Clinical Outcomes of Patients With a Small Versus Large Annulus After Newer-Generation Balloon-Expandable Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. Suruga, Kazuki, Vivek Patel, Takashi Nagasaka, Yuchao Guo, Hidemasa Shitan, Daniel Ng, Tea Cohen, Tukika Garg, Prashant Ahlawat, Ofir Koren, Dhairya Patel, Aakriti Gupta, Tarun Chakravarty, Wen Cheng, Yuito Okada, Hasan Jilaihawi, Mamoo Nakamura, and Raj R. Makkar. Journal of the American Heart Association, January, e043880.

Comprehensive Unified Regimen for Eliminating Undiagnosed/Untreated Aortic Valve Stenosis: Algorithm Validation for Identifying Aortic Stenosis and Treatment Disparities. Mitchell, Daniel, Dhairya Patel, Jesse Navarrette, Raj Makkar, Susan Cheng, and Joseph E. Ebinger. Structural Heart: The Journal of the Heart Team 10 (2): 100755.

Computational Biomedicine

Response to Editorial Comment on ‘Clinical Outcomes Comparing Mini Versus Standard PCNL Without Postoperative Nephrostomy Tube: A Multi-Institutional Randomized Controlled Trial From the EDGE Consortium.’ Sheetz, Tyler, Jamie L. Finegan, Sri Sivalingam, Ben H. Chew, Connor M. Forbes, Ryan F. Paterson, Ryan S. Hsi, Nicole L. Miller, Bodo E. Knudsen, Michael W. Sourial, Matthew S. Lee, Victor K. F. Wong, Catherine Bresee, Kevin M. Wymer, Roger L. Sur, Manoj Monga, and Seth K. Bechis. Urology, January, S0090-4295(26)00015-4.

Variation in Prostate Cancer Growth Rates in an MRI-Based Active Surveillance Cohort. Smith, Hayley, Vasilis Stavrinides, Francesco Giganti, Caroline M. Moore, Bharath Narayanan, Mark Emberton, Paul D. P. Pharoah, and Nora Pashayan. European Radiology, January.

Contextualizing Key Principles to Promote a Justice-Oriented Informatics Research Agenda: Proceedings and Reflections From an American Medical Informatics Association Workshop. Kashyap, Aparajita, Christopher J. Allsman, Elizabeth A. Campbell, Pooja M. Desai, Salvatore G. Volpe, Bria P. Massey, Tiffani J. Bright, Suzanne Bakken, Oliver J. Bear Don’t Walk Iv, and Adrienne Pichon. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association: JAMIA, January, ocaf210.

Validation of the Postoperative Prognostication Tool PREDICT Version 2.2 and 3.0 Using Data From the National Cancer Center Hospital in Japan. Hashiguchi, Hiromi, Nobuji Kouno, Masaaki Komatsu, Sho Shiino, Naoto Takehara, Katsuji Takeda, Satoshi Takahashi, Yi-Wen Hsiao, Takeshi Murata, Kazutaka Obama, Shin Takayama, Paul D. P. Pharoah, and Ryuji Hamamoto. Breast Cancer (Tokyo, Japan), January.

Medicine

Exploring Racial Differences in Family Expressions of Emotion and Clinician Empathy in ICU Family Meetings. Modes, Matthew E., Deborah B. Ejem, Whitney Welsh, Doreet Preiss, Jessica Sperling, Kathryn I. Pollak, Christopher E. Cox, Erin K. Kross, Teryl K. Nuckols, Kimberly S. Johnson, Sungjin Kim, Shannon S. Carson, Catherine L. Hough, Douglas B. White, and Deepshikha C. Ashana. CHEST Critical Care 3 (December): 100186.

Probing Molecular Mechanisms of Proximal Tubular Resilience and Repair. Kumar, Sanjeev. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN, December.

Olaparib in Patients With Solid Tumors With ATM Alterations: Results From the Targeted Agent and Profiling Utilization Registry (TAPUR) Study. Carrizosa, Daniel R., Michael Rothe, Pam K. Mangat, Elizabeth Garrett-Mayer, Deepti Behl, Bamidele Adesunloye, Evan Pisick, Kathleen W. Beekman, Efrat Dotan, Mehmet Akce, Olatunji B. Alese, Vaibhav Sahai, Kelsey A. Klute, Jeanny B. Aragon-Ching, Kathrine A. Cooper, Ramya Thota, Funda Meric-Bernstam, Peter J. Hosein, Erika C. Maestas, Justin T. Moyers, Steven Powell, Song Zhao, Evthokia Hobbs, Jens Rueter, Davendra P. S. Sohal, Mark A. Taylor, Dominique C. Hinshaw, Abigail Gregory, Gina N. Grantham, Susan Halabi, and Richard L. Schilsky. JCO Precision Oncology 10 (January): e2500716.

Wearable-Based Monitoring of Autonomic and Gastrointestinal Function in Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses. Veldman, Fleur, Michelle Bosman, Ali Rezaie, Sarvee Moosavi, and Daniel Keszthelyi. Neurogastroenterology and Motility 38 (1): e70232.

Comprehensive Assessment of Direct and Passive Smoking Across the Pancreatitis Spectrum. Han, Samuel, Dhiraj Yadav, Jun Xu, Melena D. Bellin, William E. Fisher, Evan L. Fogel, Chris Forsmark, Phil A. Hart, Liang Li, Stephen J. Pandol, Walter G. Park, Guru Trikudanathan, Stephen K. Van Den Eeden, Santhi Swaroop Vege, Darwin L. Conwell, Christie Y. Jeon, and Consortium for the Study of Chronic Pancreatitis, Diabetes, and Pancreatic Cancer (CPDPC). Pancreas, January.

Disseminated Acanthamoeba Infection After Heart-Lung Transplantation. Yuen, Alexander D., Catherine Le, Reinaldo Rampolla, Lorenzo Zaffiri, Serguei Bannykh, and Tamana Kaderi. Transplant Infectious Disease, January, e70170.

Evaluation of Immuno-Oncologic Biomarkers and β-Catenin Expression in Response of Hepatocellular Carcinomas to Immunotherapy. Sharma, Gaurav, Yasmine Baca, Sanjay Goel, Anthony F. Shields, Ajay Prakash, Benjamin A. Weinberg, Anwaar Saeed, Chadi Nabhan, Matthew Oberley, Joanne Xiu, Justin Hwang, Emmanuel S. Antonarakis, Vi K. Chiu, and Emil Lou. NPJ Precision Oncology, January.

HLA Heterozygosity Influences Colorectal Cancer Risk and Survival Outcome. Tsai, Ya-Yu, Claire E. Thomas, Philip J. Law, Zhishan Chen, Stephen B. Gruber, Stephanie L. Schmit, and International Colorectal Cancer GWAS Collaborative. Gastroenterology, January, S0016-5085(25)06150-5.

Mutational Profiling of HIV+ Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Reveals Distinct Mutational Features With Evidence of Genomic Instability. Roush, Sophia M., Samantha Beck, Jenny Coelho, Amon Chirwa, Marriam Mponda, Edwards Kasonkanji, Maurice Mulenga, Tamiwe Tomoka, Steven Vensko, Akil Merchant, Alexander M. Xu, Jeremy R. Wang, Jonathan Galeotti, Satish Gopal, Melinda Yates, Russell Broaddus, Matthew S. Painschab, and Yuri Fedoriw. AIDS (London, England), January.

Senloytics, Dasatinib Plus Quercetin, Reduce Kidney Inflammation, Senescent Cell Abundance, and Injury While Restoring Geroprotective Factors in Murine Diabetic Kidney Disease. Bian, Xiaohui, Zachary K. Snow, Caroline J. Zinn, Anastasia L. Bratulin, Khaled M. Elhusseiny, Tamar Tchkonia, James L. Kirkland, Yi Zhu, Sundeep Khosla, Seo Rin Kim, Lilach O. Lerman, and LaTonya J. Hickson. EBioMedicine 124 (January): 106124.

Unbiased Clustering of Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure Patients Using Machine Learning in a Real-World ICU Cohort. Zhang, Mengyi, Fanpu Ji, Jian Zu, Yingli He, Tao Chen, Yi Liu, Hirsh D. Trivedi, Ju Dong Yang, Vinay Sundaram, Yuan Wang, Xiaodan Sun, Zhujun Cao, Chun-Ying Wu, Yee Hui Yeo, and Rajiv Jalan. Nature Communications, January.

Neurosurgery

Oscillatory Multi-Timescale Mechanisms Underlying Audiovisual Sequence Prediction. Wang, Peng, Alexander Maÿe, Jonathan Daume, Gui Xue, and Andreas K. Engel. Imaging Neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) 4: IMAG.a.1103.

The Importance of Small Lateral Dural CSF Collections in Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension: A Radiologic-Anatomic Study. Schievink, Wouter I., Marcel M. Maya, Andre E. Boyke, Franklin G. Moser, Ravi S. Prasad, Vikram Wadhwa, and Xuemo Fan. AJNR. American Journal of Neuroradiology, January.

OBGYN

Laparoscopic Management of Retained IUD, Isthmocele, and Cervical Stenosis With Concurrent Transabdominal Cerclage in a Fertility-Seeking Patient. Schmatz, Maria C. Alzamora, Gabrielle Mintz, Liron Bar-El, and Megan Billow. Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology, January, S1553-4650(26)00052-X.

Uterine Cavity Perforation-Obstetric and Neonatal Outcomes of Subsequent Pregnancies. Segal, Omri, Shir Koren, Raanan Meyer, Michal Axelrod, Keren Zloto, David Stockheim, Roy Mashiach, and Shlomi Toussia-Cohen. International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, January.

Orthopaedics

Prolonged Postoperative Ileus Following Elective Colectomy: A 2014-2019 National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Analysis. Cheng, Shirley, Ian Chun, Rachel Lew, Maveric Abella, Kyle Ishikawa, Hyeung Jun Ahn, and Christina Wai. Hawai’i Journal of Health & Social Welfare 84 (11): 232–42.

Endoscopic Debridement and Repair of Proximal Hamstring Calcific Tendinopathy. Maier, Jacob, Jordan Read, Marc Philippon, Michael Banffy, and Jovan Laskovski. Arthroscopy Techniques 14 (12): 103913.

Revision Endoscopic Proximal Hamstring Repair With Suture Staples. Blough, Christian L., and Michael B. Banffy. Arthroscopy Techniques 14 (12): 103928.

Ambulatory Patients With Early Onset Scoliosis Have Similar Complication Profiles Following MCGR Treatment Across All Classification Etiologies. Krajewski, Kellen T., Patrick M. Carry, Amy L. McIntosh, David L. Skaggs, and Sumeet Garg. Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics, January.

Indications for Magnetically Controlled Growing Rods Have Evolved Over Time. Sborov, Katherine D., Paal K. Nilssen, Lindsay M. Andras, Michael J. Heffernan, David L. Skaggs, John T. Smith, Paul D. Sponseller, John B. Emans, Peter F. Sturm, Francisco Javier Sánchez Perez Grueso, Kenneth D. Illingworth, and Pediatric Spine Study Group. Spine Deformity, January.

Performance of ChatGPT Versus Spine Surgeons as an Emergency Department Spine Call Consultant. Taka, Taha M., Seena Sebt, Sarah Meng, Andrew Cabrera, David Shin, Vahe Yacoubian, Weyjuin Chao, Daniel Rossie, Zhengle Xu, Melissa Erickson, Brett Rocos, Khoi Than, Elizabeth Yu, Nicholas Ahn, Christopher Bono, Wayne Cheng, and Olumide Danisa. North American Spine Society Journal 25 (March): 100836.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Emergence of BRCA Reversion Mutations in Prostate Cancer Prior to PARP Inhibitor Exposure: Clinical and Therapeutic Implications. Lin, Douglas I., Elizabeth Lawrence, Natalie Danziger, Huihui Ye, Brennan Decker, Ole Gjoerup, Ryon P. Graf, Jeffrey S. Ross, Richard S. P. Huang, Julia A. Elvin, Douglas A. Mata, and Rana R. McKay. Cancer Medicine 15 (1): e71489.

A Pathway to High Quality Clinical Trials in IgA Vasculitis Nephritis: Meeting Proceedings From a Multiprofessional International Collaborative Workshop. Oni, Louise, Rona Smith, Seza Ozen, Chloe Williams, Elin Davies, Charlotte King, Paul Brogan, Mark Haas, Jonathan Barratt, Jeffrey Hafkin, Despina Eleftheriou, Karuna Keat, Alan Salama, et al. Kidney International Reports 11 (3): 103729.

Pediatrics

miR-22-Galectin-1 as an Integral Signaling Axis in Regulating Metabolism and Immunity in HCC. Hu, Ying, Tahereh Setayesh, Prasant Kumar Jena, Yutong Ji, Trenton Testerman, Ruiwu Liu, Tsung-Chieh Shih, Xiao-Jing Wang, Fu-Tong Liu, Kit S. Lam, and Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan. Biomarker Research 14 (1): 11.

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Feasibility and Implementation of INTERVAL-GAP4: A Global Randomised Controlled Trial of Intense Hybrid-Supervised/Self-Managed Versus Self-Directed Exercise for Metastatic Prostate Cancer. Kenfield, Stacey A., Nicolas H. Hart, Kerry S. Courneya, Rosemary Greenwood, June M. Chan, Jennette Sison, Li Zhang, Sarah Rudman, Leah Ung, Moritz Schumann, Erin L. Van Blarigan, Sam McKeown, Charles J. Ryan, James Catto, Daniel A. Galvão, Robert U. Newton, Fred Saad, and INTERVAL-GAP4 Site Investigators and INTERVAL-GAP4 Steering and Management Committees. European Urology Open Science 84 (February): 29–39.

Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences

A Model Psychosocial-Spiritual Oncology and Cancer Supportive Care Services Program: Framework and Implementation. Irwin, Scott A., Steven Oppenheim, Andrew Hallum, Deane L. Wolcott, Itai Danovitch, and Robert Figlin. Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, January, 1–13.

Urology

Gene-Body DNA Methylation of ONECUT2 Predicts Its Expression and Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness in Needle Biopsies. Sekino, Yohei, Hong-Tao Li, Masatomo Kaneko, Yuta Inoue, Lorenzo Storino Ramacciotti, Rongying Lu, Zhenzhong Deng, Xinyi Zhou, Michelle Mingxue Song, Aditya Desai, Mingda Jin, Wei Guo, Xiaojing Yang, Jeffrey Bhasin, Nobuyuki Hinata, Michael R. Freeman, Inderbir Gill, Manju Aron, Steven Yong Cen, Andre Luis Abreu, and Gangning Liang. Biomarker Research, January.

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