Faculty Publications Jan. 16-23

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published Jan. 16-23. 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

Smoke and Fire are Sickening LA's Children | Wall Street Journal
Irina Dralyuk, MD 

Huntington Health in Pasadena Significantly Impacted by Fires. What it Means for Patients and Staff | LAist/AirTalk Online
Lori J. Morgan, MD 

A tribute to Dr. Linda Burnes Bolton | L.A. Sentinel
Peter Slavin, MD 

The Women on the Frontlines of the Los Angeles Wildfires | Marie Claire
Isabel Pedraza, MD 

Tea Bags can Release Billions of Microplastic Particles | Everyday Health
Martha Gulati, MD 

Eliminating These 3 Foods From Your Diet can Be a Game-Changer for Heart Health | HuffPost 
Saman Setareh-Shenas, MD

Faculty Publications

Biomedical Sciences

Epicardial Adipose Tissue, Cardiac Damage, and Mortality in Patients Undergoing TAVR for Aortic Stenosis. Piña, Pamela, Daniel Lorenzatti, Annalisa Filtz, Andrea Scotti, Elena Virosta Gil, Juan Duarte Torres, Cristina Morante Perea, Leslee J. Shaw, Carl J. Lavie, Daniel S. Berman, Gianluca Iacobellis, Piotr J. Slomka, Philippe Pibarot, Marc R. Dweck, Damini Dey, Mario J. Garcia, Azeem Latib, and Leandro Slipczuk. The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging, January.

Generalizable, Sequence-Invariant Deep Learning Image Reconstruction for Subspace-Constrained Quantitative MRI. Hu, Zheyuan, Zihao Chen, Tianle Cao, Hsu-Lei Lee, Yibin Xie, Debiao Li, and Anthony G. Christodoulou. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, January.

A Single-Site Randomized Controlled Trial of Partner Navigation to HCV Treatment for People Who Inject Drugs: A Study Protocol for the You’re Empowered for Treatment Initiation (YETI) Partner Trial. Morris, Meghan D., Judy Y. Tan, Claire C. McDonell, Maia Scarpetta, Tiffany N. Nguyen, Jennifer C. Price, and Torsten B. Neilands. Trials 26 (1): 26.

Cardiac Surgery

Exercise Therapy Rescues Skeletal Muscle Dysfunction and Exercise Intolerance in Cardiometabolic HFpEF. Quiriarte, Heather, Robert C. Noland, James E. Stampley, Gregory Davis, Zhen Li, Eunhan Cho, Youyoung Kim, Jake Doiron, Guillaume Spielmann, Sujoy Ghosh, Sanjiv J. Shah, Brian A. Irving, David J. Lefer, and Timothy D. Allerton. JACC. Basic to Translational Science 9 (12): 1409–25.

Discussion to: Bicuspid Aortic Stenosis: National Three-Year Outcomes of Transcatheter Versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement Among Medicare Beneficiaries. Chen, Qiudong, Michael Reardon, Joanna Chikwe. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 169 (1): 78–79.

Discussion to: Surgery and Transcatheter Intervention for Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation in the United States. Chen, Qiudong, Michael Reardon, Joanna Chikwe. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 169 (1): 89–91.

Supine Blood Pressure and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality. Giao, Duc M., Hannah Col, Fredrick Larbi Kwapong, Ruth-Alma Turkson-Ocran, Long H. Ngo, Jennifer L. Cluett, Lynne Wagenknecht, B. Gwen Windham, Elizabeth Selvin, Pamela L. Lutsey, and Stephen P. Juraschek. JAMA Cardiology, January.

Cardiology

Macrophages Contribute to Cardiac Fibrosis and Diastolic Dysfunction in Systemic Sclerosis. Jones, Xaviar M., Russell G. Rogers, Kara Tsi, Thassio Mesquita, Alberto Marchevsky, Alessandra Ciullo, Salwa Soussi, Nunzio Bottini, Francesco Boin, Ahmed G. E. Ibrahim, and Eduardo Marbán. JACC. Basic to Translational Science 9 (12): 1432–34.

Risk Profile and Prognostic Implications of Premature Advanced Coronary Atherosclerotic Disease Among Young to Early Middle-Aged Adults: The Coronary Artery Calcium Consortium. Boakye, Ellen, Mohammadmoein Dehesh, Zeina Dardari, Olufunmilayo H. Obisesan, Albert D. Osei, Omar Dzaye, Kunal Jha, Alan Rozanski, Daniel S. Berman, Matthew J. Budoff, Michael D. Miedema, Khurram Nasir, John A. Rumberger, Leslee J. Shaw, and Michael J. Blaha. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, January, zwaf019.

Sudden Cardiac Arrest Associated With Hemodialysis: A Community-Based Study. Tri Tai Truyen, Thien Tan, Audrey Uy-Evanado, Lauri Holmstrom, Kyndaron Reinier, Harpriya Chugh, Jonathan Jui, Charles A. Herzog, and Sumeet S. Chugh. Kidney360, January.

Cardiac Involvement in Systemic Sclerosis: A Critical Review of Knowledge Gaps and Opportunities. Jones, Xaviar M., Nunzio Bottini, Francesco Boin, and Eduardo Marbán. Journal of Scleroderma and Related Disorders, January, 23971983241313096.

Data From a Multi-Year Targeted Proteomics Study of a Longitudinal Birth Cohort of Type 1 Diabetes. Bramer, Lisa M., Ernesto S. Nakayasu, Javier E. Flores, Jennifer E. Van Eyk, Michael J. MacCoss, Hemang M. Parikh, Thomas O. Metz, and Bobbie-Jo M. Webb-Robertson. Scientific Data 12 (1): 112.

Prognostic Value of Ambulatory Status at Transplant in Older Heart Transplant Recipients: Implications for Organ Allocation Policy. Hyun, Junho, Jong-Chan Youn, Jung Ae Hong, Darae Kim, Jae-Joong Kim, Myoung Soo Kim, Jaewon Oh, Jin-Jin Kim, Mi-Hyang Jung, In-Cheol Kim, Sang-Eun Lee, Jin Joo Park, Min-Seok Kim, Sung-Ho Jung, Hyun-Jai Cho, Hae-Young Lee, Seok-Min Kang, Dong-Ju Choi, Jon A. Kobashigawa, Josef Stehlik, and Jin-Oh Choi. Journal of Korean Medical Science 40 (3): e14.

Computational Biomedicine

ESCARGOT: An AI Agent Leveraging Large Language Models, Dynamic Graph of Thoughts, and Biomedical Knowledge Graphs for Enhanced Reasoning. Matsumoto, Nicholas, Hyunjun Choi, Jay Moran, Miguel E. Hernandez, Mythreye Venkatesan, Xi Li, Jui-Hsuan Chang, Paul Wang, and Jason H. Moore. Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), January, btaf031.

Medicine

Modulation of Lymphotoxin β Surface Expression by Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus K3 Through Glycosylation Interference. Kang, Soowon, Kevin Brulois, Youn Jung Choi, Shaoyan Zhang, and Jae U. Jung. Journal of Medical Virology 97 (1): e70179.

Sex Differences in Long COVID. Shah, Dimpy P., Tanayott Thaweethai, Elizabeth W. Karlson, Hector Bonilla, Benjamin D. Horne, Janet M. Mullington, Juan P. Wisnivesky, Mady Hornig, Daniel J. Shinnick, Jonathan D. Klein, Nathaniel B. Erdmann, Shari B. Brosnahan, RECOVER Consortium, et al. JAMA Network Open 8 (1): e2455430.

AGA Institute Quality Indicator Development for Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Hung, Kenneth W., David A. Leiman, Archana Kaza, Rabindra Watson, Lin Chang, Jennifer K. Maratt, and American Gastroenterological Association Quality Committee. Gastroenterology, January, S0016-5085(24)05666-X.

Automated Proximal Coronary Artery Calcium Identification Using Artificial Intelligence: Advancing Cardiovascular Risk Assessment. Zhou, Jianhang, Aakash D. Shanbhag, Donghee Han, Anna M. Michalowska, Mikolaj Buchwald, Robert J. H. Miller, Aditya Killekar, Nipun Manral, Kajetan Grodecki, Jolien Geers, Konrad Pieszko, Jirong Yi, Wenhao Zhang, Parker Waechter, Heidi Gransar, Damini Dey, Daniel S. Berman, and Piotr J. Slomka. European Heart Journal. Cardiovascular Imaging, January, jeaf007.

Muscle-Derived Myostatin Is a Major Endocrine Driver of Follicle-Stimulating Hormone Synthesis. Ongaro, Luisina, Xiang Zhou, Ying Wang, Hailey Schultz, Ziyue Zhou, Evan R. S. Buddle, Emilie Brûlé, Yeu-Farn Lin, Gauthier Schang, Adam Hagg, Roselyne Castonguay, Yewei Liu, Gloria H. Su, Nabil G. Seidah, Kevin C. Ray, Seth J. Karp, Ulrich Boehm, Frederique Ruf-Zamojski, Stuart C. Sealfon, Kelly L. Walton, Se-Jin Lee, and Daniel J. Bernard. Science (New York, N.Y.) 387 (6731): 329–36.

The FBXO45-GEF-H1 Axis Controls Germinal Center Formation and B-Cell Lymphomagenesis. Sahasrabuddhe, Anagh A., Xiaofei Chen, Kaiyu Ma, Rui Wu, Huan-Chang Liang, Richa Kapoor, Rishi R. Chhipa, Ozlem Onder, Courtney McFetridge, John S. Van Arnam, Xiao Zhang, Jennifer J. D. Morrissette, Vinodh Pillai, Marilyn M. Li, Philippe Szankasi, Venkatesha Basrur, Kevin P. Conlon, Tobias D. Raabe, Nathanael G. Bailey, Cory M. Hogaboam, Robert Rottapel, Junhyong Kim, Cristina López, Matthias Schlesner, Reiner Siebert, Kostiantyn Dreval, Ryan D. Morin, Loredana Moro, Michele Pagano, Louis M. Staudt, Megan S. Lim, and Kojo S. J. Elenitoba-Johnson. Cancer Discovery, January.

Computer-Assisted Classification of the Squamocolumnar Junction. Phillips, Hannah R., Jeffrey R. Fetzer, Sanket Bhattarai, Sandra Algarin Perneth, D. Chamil C. Codipilly, Derek W. Ebner, Adam C. Bledsoe, Amrit Kamboj, Daniel A. Schupack, Victor Chedid, Nayantara Coelho-Prabhu, Diana Snyder, Karthik Ravi, Kevin Buller, and Cadman L. Leggett. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, January, S0016-5107(25)00045-8.

Alterations in Genes Associated With Cytosolic RNA Sensing in Whole Blood are Associated With Coronary Microvascular Disease in SLE. Huo, Lihong, Arati Naveen Kumar, Gantsetseg Tumurkhuu, Moumita Bose, Daniel S. Berman, Daniel J. Wallace, Janet Wei, Mariko Ishimori, C. Noel Bairey Merz, and Caroline Jefferies. Scientific Reports 15 (1): 2457.

Cardiac Allograft Tolerance Can be Achieved in Nonhuman Primates by Donor Bone Marrow and Kidney Cotransplantation. Tonsho, Makoto, Jane M. O, Kaitlan Ahrens, Kortney Robinson, Wiebke Sommer, Svjetlan Boskovic, Parth M. Patel, David C. Becerra, Kyu Ha Huh, Cynthia L. Miller, Abbas Dehnadi, Isabel Hanekamp, Ivy A. Rosales, Robert B. Colvin, David H. Sachs, Alessandro Alessandrini, A. Cosimi, Robert L. Fairchild, Paolo Cravedi, Sofia Bin, Peter S. Heeger, James S. Allan, Tatsuo Kawai, Gilles Benichou, and Joren C. Madsen. Science Translational Medicine 17 (782): eads0255.

Social Networks, Health Support, and Dietary Intake in Mothers Receiving Home Visiting Services. Miller, Sydney, Sarah-Jeanne Salvy, Nenette Caceres, Trevor Pickering, Wandi Bruine de Bruin, Tom W. Valente, John P. Wilson, and Kayla de la Haye. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, January.

Editorial: Steatotic Liver Diseases Emerge as Rapidly Growing Drivers of Primary Liver Cancer in the United States-Author’s Reply. Danpanichkul, Pojsakorn, Donghee Kim, Chun Wei Pan, Amit G. Singal, Ju Dong Yang, and Karn Wijarnpreecha. Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, January.

Long-Term Immunity and Anamnestic Response Following Hepatitis B Vaccination: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Ramrakhiani, Hannah, Michael H. Le, Leslie Kam, Brian Nguyen, Yee Hui Yeo, Charles R. Levesley, Surya Gudapati, Scott Barnett, Ramsey Cheung, and Mindie H. Nguyen. Journal of Viral Hepatitis 32 (2): e70003.

Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth in Chronic Liver Disease: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Case-Control Studies. Shah, Ayesha, Liam Spannenburg, Parag Thite, Mark Morrison, Thomas Fairlie, Natasha Koloski, Purna C. Kashyap, Mark Pimentel, Ali Rezaie, Gregory J. Gores, Michael P. Jones, and Gerald Holtmann. EClinicalMedicine 80 (February): 103024.

Neurology

Reliability of Central Vein Sign Imaging With 3T FLAIR* in a Multicenter Study. Martin, Melissa Lynne, Quy Cao, Elaina Luskin, Brian Renner, Lynn Daboul, Carly M. O’Donnell, Paulo Rodrigues, John Derbyshire, Christina J. Azevedo, Amit Bar-Or, Eduardo Caverzasi, Peter Calabresi, Bruce A. C. Cree, Léorah Freeman, Roland G. Henry, Erin E. Longbrake, Jiwon Oh, Nico Papinutto, Daniel Pelletier, Vesna Prchkovska, Marc Ramos, Rohini D. Samudralwar, Matthew K. Schindler, Elias S. Sotirchos, Nancy L. Sicotte, Andrew J. Solomon, Daniel S. Reich, Daniel Ontaneda, Russell T. Shinohara, and Pascal Sati. Journal of Neuroimaging: Official Journal of the American Society of Neuroimaging 35 (1): e70011.

Random Noise Promotes Slow Heterogeneous Synaptic Dynamics Important for Robust Working Memory Computation. Rungratsameetaweemana, Nuttida, Robert Kim, Thiparat Chotibut, and Terrence J. Sejnowski. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 (3): e2316745122.

Consensus Recommendations for the Management of Neurosarcoidosis: A Delphi Survey of Experts Across the United States. Manzano, Giovanna Sophia, James Eaton, Michael Levy, Justin R. Abbatemarco, Allen J. Aksamit, Pria Anand, Denis T. Balaban, Paula Barreras, Robert P. Baughman, Shamik Bhattacharyya, Roberto Bomprezzi, Tracey A. Cho, Bart Chwalisz, Stacey Lynn Clardy, David B. Clifford, Eoin P. Flanagan, Jeffrey M. Gelfand, George Kyle Harrold, Spencer K. Hutto, Siddharama Pawate, Noellie Rivera Torres, Lama Abdel-Wahed, Steven Richard Dunham, Rajesh Kumar Gupta, Brandon Moss, Carlos A. Pardo, Rohini D. Samudralwar, Nagagopal Venna, Aram Zabeti, and Ilya Kister. Neurology. Clinical Practice 15 (2): e200429.

Neurosurgery

Risk Factors for 30-Day Postoperative Infection in Pediatric Ventricular Shunts for Hydrocephalus. Chan, Vivien, Irene E. Harmsen, Geoffrey Shumilak, and Cameron A. Elliott. World Neurosurgery, January, 123676.

OBGYN

Manuscript Publication of Abstracts Presented at Gynecologic Surgery Societies’ Annual Meetings. Fitzsimmons, Kasey C., Kacey M. Hamilton, Rebecca J. Schneyer, Shlomi Toussia-Cohen, Shannon Fan, Nikki R. Farsa, Gabriel Levin, Kelly N. Wright, and Raanan Meyer. Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics, January.

Orthopaedics

Mid to Long Term Follow up of Early Weightbearing After Open Reduction Internal Fixation of Ankle Fractures. Rockov, Zachary A., Ryan A. Finkel, Sohaib Z. Hashmi, Connor T. Byrne, Evan D. Nigh, Jonathan H. Garfinkel, Naudereh B. Noori, Amit Pujari, Carol A. Lin, Charles N. Moon, Geoffrey S. Marecek, Mark S. Vrahas, and Milton T. M. Little. Injury 56 (2): 112157.

Acromioclavicular Joint Injuries: Multi-Center Expert Consensus Study Using the Delphi Method. Barnes, Leslie, Lewis L. Shi, Taylor Walters, Geoff Abrams, and ASES AC Joint Study Group. Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, January, S1058-2746(25)00029-1.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Integrative Co-Registration of Elemental Imaging and Histopathology for Enhanced Spatial Multimodal Analysis of Tissue Sections Through TRACE. Lu, Yunrui, Serin Han, Aruesha Srivastava, Neha Shaik, Matthew Chan, Alos Diallo, Naina Kumar, Nishita Paruchuri, Hrishikesh Deosthali, Vismay Ravikumar, Kevin Cornell, Elijah Stommel, Tracy Punshon, Brian Jackson, Fred Kolling, Linda Vahdat, Louis Vaickus, Jonathan Marotti, Sunita Ho, and Joshua Levy. Bioinformatics Advances 5 (1): vbaf001.

B-1 B Cells Lose Self-Control in SCD. Gibb, David R., and Sean R. Stowell. Blood 145 (3): 255–56.

Evaluation of Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Methods for Burkholderia Cepacia Complex Isolates From People With and Without Cystic Fibrosis. Jorth, Peter, Carmila Manuel, Tracey McLemore, Romney M. Humphries, Nicolynn C. Cole, Audrey N. Schuetz, Dennis Garica, Maria Maldonado, Natasha Rivero, Anna Clara Milesi Galdino, Diana Celedonio, John J. LiPuma, Daniel A. Green, James E. A. Zlosnik, Maria Traczewski, and Holly K. Huse. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, January, e0148024.

Pediatrics

Gut Microbiota Alterations in Patients With Kawasaki Disease. Jena, Prasant K., Moshe Arditi, and Magali Noval Rivas. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, January.

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Association of Rate of Functional Recovery With Therapy Time and Content Among Adults With Acquired Brain Injuries in Inpatient Rehabilitation. Cogan, Alison M., Pamela Roberts, and Trudy Mallinson. Archives of Rehabilitation Research and Clinical Translation 6 (4): 100370.

Surgery

Orthodromic Reshaping Temporalis Tendon Transfer for Aesthetic Facial Reanimation in Adults With Moebius Syndrome and Bilateral Facial Paralysis: Technical Insights and Indications. He, Marielle, and Babak Azizzadeh. Facial Plastic Surgery & Aesthetic Medicine, January.

The Soft Triangle Tension Graft. Ghavami, Ashkan, Neil M. Vranis, and Nathaniel L. Villanueva. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, January. https://doi.org/10.1097/PRS.0000000000011977.

Pediatric Age-Prioritized Waitlisting Policy Potentially Disadvantages Adolescents on Dialysis Not Listed for Transplant Until Adulthood. Steggerda, Justin A., Steven A. Wisel, Dechu Puliyanda, Helen Pizzo, Jonathan Garrison, and Irene K. Kim. Pediatric Transplantation 29 (1): e70023.