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Faculty Publications Jan. 29-Feb. 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 Jan. 29-Feb. 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

Christopher 'Kid' Reid Reveals He Underwent Heart Transplant | Good Morning America
Erika L. Jones, MD, Laura DiChiacchio, MD, PhD

Heart Disease Remains the Top Threat Many Women Never see Coming | ABC News
C. Noel Bairey-Merz, MD

US Flu Cases are Rising Again | The New York Times
Sam Torbati, MD

Scientists Find the Exact Years When Your Body Starts Aging Faster—And What to Do About It | Prevention
Bert Mandelbaum, MD

Common Respiratory Infection May Be Linked to Alzheimer’s | Earth
Maya Koronyo-Hamaoui, PhD

New TAVI Explant Risk Model Reflects Growing Experience | TCTMD
Michael Bowdish, MD

Las Enfermedades Cardíacas Siguen Siendo la Principal Amenaza de Muerte en Mujeres | La Opinión
C. Noel Bairey-Merz, MD

 

Faculty Publications

Biomedical Sciences

Breaking Down Glioma Primary Cilia Disassembly. Sarkisian, Matthew R., Loic P. Deleyrolle, and Joshua J. Breunig. Neuro-Oncology Advances 7 (1): vdaf217.

Tumoricidal Efficacy of Artesunate-Eluting Microsphere-Based Multimodal Therapy in Patient-Derived Colorectal Tumoroids. Helmueller, Sarah, Farzaneh Vafaeinik, Xinxin Song, Shanghee Lee, Dong-Hyun Kim, Alexandra Gangi, and Yong J. Lee. Biomaterials Research 30: 0311.

Germline MLH1 c.-42 C > T Is a Likely Pathogenic Variant Predisposing to a Reduced-Penetrance/Modified Lynch Syndrome Phenotype Featuring MLH1-Methylated Cancers. Buchanan, Daniel D., Rocio Alvarez, Khalid Mahmood, Mark Clendenning, Peter Georgeson, Romy Walker, Julia Como, Susan G. Preston, Sharelle Joseland, Kimia Mohammadsaeedi, Francesca Aguirre, Lisa Zhou, Dennis J. Hazelett, Mark A. Jenkins, Christophe Rosty, Ingrid M. Winship, Finlay A. Macrae, Tanya M. Dwarte, Dawn Nixon, Megan P. Hitchins, and Jihoon E. Joo. Familial Cancer 25 (1): 17.

Cardiac Surgery

Society of Thoracic Surgeons Expert Consensus Pathway for Robotic Cardiac Surgical Training. Badhwar, Vinay, Arman Arghami, Štěpán Černý, Daniel Pereda, Danny Ramzy, Nirav Patel, Joanna Chikwe, Jessica Rove, J. Michael Smith, Wouter Oosterlinck, Joerg Kempfert, Gregory Pattakos, Robert B. Hawkins, Kelsey Gray, Yoshitsugu Nakamura, Minoru Tabata, Gennady V. Atroshchenko, Nai-Hsin Chi, Sathyaki Nambala, Johannes O. Bonatti, Husam H. Balkhy, Robert L. Smith, Alberto Weber, Serguei Melnitchouk, Marc Pelletier, A. Marc Gillinov, Eugene A. Grossi, Moritz C. Wyler von Ballmoos, and Arnar Geirrson. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, January, S0003-4975(26)00022-6.

7-Year Survival After Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Bicuspid Aortic Valves. Mehaffey, J. Hunter, Robert H. Habib, Vinod H. Thourani, Tsuyoshi Kaneko, Greg P. Fontana, Ram S. Kumar, Wilson Y. Szeto, Joseph F. Sabik, Vinay Badhwar, and Michael E. Bowdish. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 87 (4): 443–46.

Cardiology

Prenatal Diagnosis and Management of a Large Congenital Left Ventricular Aneurysm. Ganieva, Gulnigor, Jay D. Pruetz, and Shuo Wang. CASE 9 (11): 376–80.

Evaluating Translational AI: A Two-Way Moving Target Problem. Leuchter, Richard K., William B. Turner, and David Ouyang. Nejm Ai 2 (12).

Bicuspid Aortic Valve Leaflet Modification Before Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: A New Paradigm. Jilaihawi, Hasan, Martin B. Leon, Roy D. Dar, Philippe Généreux, Didier Tchétché, Nicolas Dumonteil, Hemal Gada, Pradeep K. Yadav, Vinod H. Thourani, Vivek Patel, Dhairya Patel, Yoseph Rozenman, Philippe Pibarot, Danny Dvir, and Raj R. Makkar. JACC. Advances 5 (2): 102582.

Artificial Intelligence-Derived Measurements of Myosteatosis From Coronary Artery Calcium CT Scans to Predict COPD: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Azimi, Amir, Kyle Atlas, Anthony P. Reeves, Chenyu Zhang, Jakob Wasserthal, Seyed Reza Mirjalili, Thomas Atlas, Claudia I. Henschke, David F. Yankelevitz, Javier J. Zulueta, Juan P. de-Torres, Luis M. Seijo, Jeffrey I. Mechanick, Andrea Branch, Ning Ma, Rowena Yip, Wenjun Fan, Sion K. Roy, Khurram Nasir, Sabee Molloi, Zahi A. Fayad, Michael V. McConnell, Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, George S. Abela, Rozemarijn Vliegenthart, David J. Maron, Jagat Narula, Kim A. Williams, Prediman K. Shah, Matthew J. Budoff, Daniel Levy, Emelia J. Benjamin, Roxana Mehran, Robert A. Kloner, Nathan D. Wong, and Morteza Naghavi. Radiology. Cardiothoracic Imaging 8 (1): e250205.

Additive Prognostic Value of Functional Performance to Coronary Artery Anatomy: The ISCHEMIA Trial. Ben Zekry, Sagit, Georgios Tzimas, Jonathon Leipsic, Samuel Broderick, G. B. John Mancini, Cameron J. Hague, Matthew J. Budoff, James K. Min, Bernard R. Chaitman, Frank W. Rockhold, Derek Cyr, Leslee J. Shaw, Daniel S. Berman, Michael H. Picard, Daniel B. Mark, Jerome L. Fleg, Kian Keong Poh, Ziad A. Ali, Gregg W. Stone, Sean M. O’Brien, Judith S. Hochman, David J. Maron, and Harmony R. Reynolds. European Heart Journal. Cardiovascular Imaging, February, jeag032.

Quantifying the ∼75-95% of Peptides in DIA-MS Data Sets That Were Not Previously Quantified. Saxena, Gautam, Qin Fu, Aleksandra Binek, and Jennifer E. Van Eyk. Journal of Proteome Research, February.

Computational Biomedicine

Small Noncoding RNA TY2 Enhances Efferocytosis and Improves Outcomes in a Mouse Model of Sepsis. Ciullo, Alessandra, Xaviar M. Jones, Hiroaki Komuro, Liang Li, Anh Nguyen, Eduardo Marbán, and Ahmed Gamal-Eldin Ibrahim. JCI Insight, January, e196153.

Deep Learning in Fetal, Infant, and Toddler Neuroimaging Research. Chin, Jenna H., Madeleine K. Wyburd, Vladislav Ayzenberg, Laurie Bayet, Berkin Bilgic, Emily M. Chen, Yuting Chen, Áine Dineen, Shohei Fujita, Janelle Liu, Yohan Jun, M. Catalina Camacho, and Lilla Zöllei. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 78 (January): 101680.

Imaging

Diagnostic Accuracy of Elastography in Differentiating Parathyroid Lesions From Cervical Tissues: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Hassankhani, Amir, Payam Jannatdoust, Parya Valizadeh, Melika Amoukhteh, Abbas Mohammadi, Cem Bilgin, Ali Gholamrezanezhad, and Ali Haq. Clinical Imaging 131 (January): 110725.

Medicine

Exploring the Potential of TL1A Inhibition in the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients. Targan, Stephan. Gastroenterology & Hepatology 21 (10): 617–19.

Health Disparities in Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Almario, Christopher V. Gastroenterology & Hepatology 21 (11): 720–23.

End-of-Life Care Processes and Outcomes for Older Adults Treated by International Medical Graduates vs. US Medical Graduates. Kaneshiro, Gillian S., David B. Reuben, David S. Zingmond, Anne M. Walling, Anupam B. Jena, Neil S. Wenger, Cheryl L. Damberg, Haiyong Xu, Nate Gross, Hiroshi Gotanda, and Yusuke Tsugawa. Journal of General Internal Medicine, January.

Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Trial to Evaluate a Faith-Based Breast Cancer Screening Navigation Model. Gresham, Gillian, Dong Hee Kim, Min Jung Sung, Marcio A. Diniz, Laurel Finster, Michael Fine, Christie Jeon, Alison K. Herrmann, Jeong Yup Lee, Zulfikarali Surani, and Robert W. Haile. Trials, January.

Response to Reynolds, et al Commentary on ‘Impact of Climate and UV Variables on Melanoma Incidence Across United States Counties.’ Adler, Robert, Joshua G. Burshtein, Justin W. Marson, and Darrell S. Rigel. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, January, S0190-9622(26)00092-7.

Vonoprazan-Tetracycline Dual Regimen as Rescue Therapy for Helicobacter Pylori Infection: Randomized Controlled Trial. Gao, Wen, Jingwen Li, Guibin Yang, Shiyu Du, Tingsheng Ling, Xuezhi Zhang, Hui Ye, Yihong Xiong, Yuling Tian, Jianxiang Liu, Binbin Liu, Chi Wang, and Hong Cheng. Gastroenterology, January, S0016-5085(26)00031-4.

Multicenter Evaluation of Myocardial Flow Reserve as a Prognostic Marker for Mortality in 13N-Ammonia PET Myocardial Perfusion Imaging. Ramirez, Giselle, Valerie Builoff, Robert J. H. Miller, Mark Lemley, Isabel Carvajal-Juarez, Erick Alexanderson, Thomas L. Rosamond, Na Song, Mark I. Travin, Leandro Slipczuk, Andrew J. Einstein, Samuel Wopperer, Marcelo Di Carli, Panithaya Chareonthaitawee, and Piotr Slomka. Circulation. Cardiovascular Imaging, January, e018729.

Multidimensional Characterization of Tumor-Immune Architecture Reveals Clinically Relevant Classic Hodgkin Lymphoma Subtypes. Aoki, Tomohiro, Gerben Duns, Shinya Rai, Aixiang Jiang, Andrew Lytle, Yifan Yin, Makoto Kishida, Michael Yu Li, Cecilia Lee, Denise Smorra, Laura K. Hilton, Shannon Healy, Christian Steidl, et al. Cancer Discovery, January.

Prognostic Significance of Noninvasive Simultaneous Renal and Cardiac Perfusion: Interrogating Mechanisms of Cardiovascular-Kidney Interactions. Alabi, Omolabake O., Zhou Lan, Daniel M. Huck, Marie Foley Kijewski, Mi-Ae Park, Jon Hainer, Sylvain L. Carre, Anna Perillo, Laurel Martell, Leanne Barrett, Brittany N. Weber, Sanjay Divakaran, Diana M. Lopez, Ron Blankstein, Sharmila Dorbala, Piotr J. Slomka, Marcelo F. Di Carli, and Jenifer M. Brown. Circulation. Cardiovascular Imaging, January, e018979.

Blood DNA Methylation-Predicted Plasma Protein Levels and Colorectal Cancer Survival. Richards, Alicia R., Maria F. Gomez, Bianca I. Dowling, Esther Jean-Baptiste, Biljana Gigic, Jane C. Figueiredo, Christopher I. Li, David Shibata, Adetunji T. Toriola, Doratha A. Byrd, Cornelia M. Ulrich, Paul A. Stewart, Erin M. Siegel, and Jacob K. Kresovich. Clinical Epigenetics, February.

Reply to ‘Interpreting Projected Gastrointestinal Cancer Burden in Africa: The Case of Liver Cancer.’ Danpanichkul, Pojsakorn, Michael B. Wallace, Amit G. Singal, and Ju Dong Yang. Cancer 132 (3): e70297.

Right Ventricular Failure in a Young Man. Sankar, Keerthana, and Yuri Matusov. Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine 93 (2): 106–12.

Single-Cell Analysis Reveals Peripheral Helper T Cells in Rheumatoid Arthritis-Related Interstitial Lung Disease. Suga, Kensuke, Amara Seng, Changfu Yao, Tanyalak Parimon, Anvita Singaraju, Edo Israely, Beulah Esther Rani Samuel, Youn Jung Choi, Justyna Fert-Bober, Barry R. Stripp, Paul J. Wolters, Jon T. Giles, Peter Chen, and Nunzio Bottini. Arthritis & Rheumatology, February.

Dual Costimulation Blockade With the CD154-Specific Fusion Protein Dazodalibep and Belatacept for Prophylaxis of Kidney Allograft Rejection. Vincenti, Flavio, Jun Shoji, David Wojciechowski, Jim Kim, Wenjing Xu, Todd M. Wilson, and Allan D. Kirk. American Journal of Transplantation, February, S1600-6135(26)00003-1.

Identification of a New Transcriptional Signature of Pre-Adipocytes in Human Subcutaneous White Adipose Tissue. Whytock, Katie L., Adeline Divoux, Gilian Gunsch, Jia Nie, Jitendra S. Kanshana, Mahesh K. Basantani, Zana M. Ross, Maria F. Pino, Carley Glass, Nicholas Musi, Erin E. Kershaw, Kristy Townsend, Steven R. Smith, and Lauren M. Sparks. Obesity, February.

Proceedings From the Inaugural Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Equity for Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Communities. Kamen, Charles S., Milena E. Insalaco, Richard Brown, Chasity Burrows Walters, Shine Chang, Viktor Clark, Jason Domogauer, Lauren V. Ghazal, Kelly Haviland, Forrest Hosea, Nelson Sanchez, Matthew B. Schabath, Zul Surani, and Gwendolyn P. Quinn. BMC Proceedings 20 (Suppl 6): 6.

Neurology

Comparison of Central FLAIR Hypointensity and Central Vein Sign on FLAIR* in a Diagnostic Cohort. Toljan, Karlo, Moein Amin, Lynn Daboul, Kunio Nakamura, Andrew J. Solomon, Nancy L. Sicotte, Russell T. Shinohara, Daniel S. Reich, Pascal Sati, and Daniel Ontaneda. European Journal of Radiology 196 (January): 112707.

Dissecting Aneurysm in Cervical Artery Dissection: Insights From the STOP-CAD Study. Khan, Muhib, Zafer Keser, Liqi Shu, Elizabeth M. Lee, Melanie Ho, Piers Klein, Dania Mallick, Kim J. Griffin, Daniel M. Mandel, Ronen R. Leker, Issa Metanis, Balaji Krishnaiah, Setareh Salehi Omran, Reza Bavarsad Shahripour, Ekaterina Bakradze, Nils Henninger, Stefan T. Engelter, Mirjam R. Heldner, Kateryna Antonenko, James E. Siegler, João Pedro Marto, Aaron Rothstein, Ossama Khazaal, Christian H. Nolte, Ross Curtiss Crandall, Evan Lester, Ahmad Nehme, Brian Mac Grory, Malik Ghannam, Mohammad AlMajali, Marwa Elnazeir, Sami Al Kasab, Syed Daniyal Asad, Anvesh Balabhadra, Ana Catarina Fonseca, Diana Cruz, Michele Romoli, Faddi Ghassan Saleh Velez, Alexis N. Simpkins, Shayak Sen, Marialuisa Zedde, Edgar A. Samaniego, Adeel S. Zubair, Christoph Stretz, Wayneho Kam, Mohamad Abdalkader, Shadi Yaghi, and Thanh N. Nguyen. Stroke, January.

Urinary Tract Infection-Related Delirium in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: Clinical Challenges and Translational Opportunities. Kim, Sarah, Sarah Kremen, Itai Danovitch, and Shouri Lahiri. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association 22 (2): e71184.

Multimodal Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring Including Transcranial Motor Evoked Potentials for the Detection of Cerebral Ischemia During Carotid Endarterectomy. Gummi, Rohit, Thomas Hirschauer, Felix Chang, Ankita Tippur, Mark Keroles, Nick Meyers, Viet Nguyen, Leslie Lee, S. Charles Cho, Jaime R. López, and Scheherazade Le. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, February.

Defining Relapse and Disease Activity in Neurosarcoidosis: A Systematic Review and Proposed Framework. Waldrop, Greer, Susana C. Dominguez Penuela, Paula Barreras, Evan Kinder, Kathryn C. Fitzgerald, H. Benjamin Larman, Samuel J. Pleasure, Michael R. Wilson, Barney J. Stern, Carlos A. Pardo, and Jeffrey M. Gelfand. Neurology. Clinical Practice 16 (2): e200581.

Neurosurgery

Post-Approval Study 3-Year Outcomes of the Neuroform Atlas Stent for the Treatment of Wide-Necked Intracranial Aneurysms. Jankowitz, Brian, Ashutosh P. Jadhav, Bradley Gross, Tudor G. Jovin, Abdulnasser A. Alhajeri, Justin F. Fraser, Ricardo A. Hanel, Eric Sauvageau, Amin Aghaebrahim, Donald Frei, Richard Bellon, David N. Loy, Ajit S. Puri, Adel M. Malek, Ajith J. Thomas, Gabor Toth, Demetrius Klee Lopes, R. Webster Crowley, John Reavey-Cantwell, Eugene Lin, Adnan Siddiqui, Michael J. Alexander, Ahmad Khaldi, Geoffrey P. Colby, Justin M. Caplan, Sudhakar R. Satti, Aquilla S. Turk, Alejandro M. Spiotta, Richard Klucznik, Danial K. Hallam, David Kung, Michael T. Froehler, R. Charles Callison, Peter Kan, Steven W. Hetts, Lori Lyn Price, Osama O. Zaidat, and ATLAS Investigators. Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery, January, jnis-2025-024547.

Response to Letter to the Editor Regarding ‘New-Onset Psychiatric Disorders After Lumbar Fusion: Predictors, Timing, and Risk Stratification.’ Ballatori, Alexander M., Shane Shahrestani, Andy Ton, Xiao T. Chen, Zorica Buser, and Jeffrey Wang. Global Spine Journal, February, 21925682251414155.

Orthopaedics

Hitting the Limb Length Target in Total Hip Arthroplasty Requires a Patient-Specific Approach. Chi, Regina, Amanda Cao, Andrew Nakla, and Sean Rajaee. Orthopedics 49 (1): e88–93.

Prognostic Factors for High Intraoperative Blood Loss for Multiple Myeloma-Related Bone Disease in the Spine. Te Velde, Jens P., Hester Zijlstra, Daniël de Reus, Robertus J. B. Pierik, Amanda S. Xi, Ganesh M. Shankar, Barend J. van Royen, Diederik H. R. Kempen, Joseph H. Schwab, and Daniel G. Tobert. Global Spine Journal, February, 21925682261422708.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Points to Consider for the Next-Generation-Sequencing-Based Detection of Copy-Number Abnormalities (CNAs) and Balanced Chromosomal Rearrangements in Neoplastic Disorders: A Statement of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG). Schieffer, Kathleen M., Cynthia Hawkins, Nan Jiang, Ross L. Levine, Trevor J. Pugh, Gordana Raca, Soheil Shams, Linda B. Baughn, Yassmine Akkari, and ACMG Laboratory Quality Assurance Committee. Electronic address: [email protected]. Genetics in Medicine, January, 101658.

ARX Mutation-Associated Interneuron Defects Provide Insights into Mechanisms Underlying Developmental Epilepsies. Lim, Youngshin, Shyam K. Akula, Abigail K. Myers, Connie Chen, Katherine A. Rafael, Michaela G. Ibach, Edwin Trevathan, Christopher A. Walsh, Jeffrey A. Golden, and Ginam Cho. Brain, February, awag036.

Pediatrics

PPP1R12A Mutation Presenting With Congenital Jejunal Atresia and Short Stature: A Pediatric Endocrinology Case Report. Saul, Rosita, Maya David, Jordin Frasch, Pedro A. Sanchez-Lara, and Bahareh M. Schweiger. Case Reports in Pediatrics 2026: 2247764.

Molecular Characterization of Recessively Inherited Ataxic and Neuropathic Disorders in Consanguineous Pakistani Families. Aslam, Faiza, Muhammad Wajid, Amina Iftikhar Butt, Elizabeth Wohler, Go Hun Seo, Weizhen Ji, Saquib A. Lakhani, Nara Sobreira, and Sadaf Naz. Scientific Reports, January.

Immune Dysregulation From a Novel CTLA-4 Haploinsufficiency Variant. Brodsky, Nina N., Alan Kennedy, Daniel Glaser, Lauren Jeffries, Weizhen Ji, Eesha Natarajan, Junghee J. Shin, David M. Sansom, Carrie L. Lucas, and Saquib A. Lakhani. Journal of Human Immunity 2 (2): e20250112.

Surgery

Bio-Boosting Transplants: A Systematic Review on Biopolymers in Vascular Composite Allotransplantation. Knoedler, Leonard, Tobias Niederegger, Thomas Schaschinger, Jakob Fenske, Varun P. A. Murugan, Samuel Knoedler, Max Heiland, Adriana C. Panayi, Gabriel Hundeshagen, and Alexandre G. Lellouch. Frontiers in Immunology 16: 1645261.

Organ-Specific Determinants of Tolerance and the Unique Challenge of Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation. Oubari, Haizam, Loïc Van Dieren, Curtis L. Cetrulo, and Alexandre G. Lellouch. Transplant International, 38: 16017.

Association of Cannabis Use Disorder With Postoperative Complications Following Panniculectomy: A Multicenter Propensity-Matched Analysis. Mokhtar, Jonathan, John Y. Ha, Victor F. A. Almeida, Alexandre G. Lellouch, Krishna S. Vyas, Susan J. Doh, and Eliana F. R. Duraes. BMC Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2 (1): 1.

The Ly6ghigh Neutrophil Subset Dictates Breast Cancer Lung Metastasis via CD8+ T Cell Death. Wang, Rui, Xiaoqi Liu, Yixuan Hou, Shanchun Chen, Yongcan Liu, Zexiu Lu, Chao Chang, Die Meng, Jing Chen, Xiaojiang Cui, Zhengrong Shi, Xueying Wan, and Manran Liu. Cancer Communications 46: 0003.

The AAST International Relations Committee: Fostering Education, Scholarship, Research and Partnership. Guo, Weidun Alan, Tejal S. Brahmbhatt, Randeep S. Jawa, Miloš Buhavac, Lacey N. LaGrone, Deepika Nehra, Dinesh Bagaria, Guixi Zhang, Marc de Moya, Ruben Peralta, Juan A. Asensio, Michel B. Aboutanos, Rochelle Dicker, and AAST International Relations Committee. The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, January.

Rewiring Faces: Advances and Outcomes in Facial Nerve Reconstruction After Facial Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation. Knoedler, Leonard, Tobias Niederegger, Robert Munzinger, Surbhi Joshi, Thomas Schaschinger, Curtis L. Cetrulo, Christian Festbaum, Andreas Kehrer, Gabriel Hundeshagen, Max Heiland, Steffen Koerdt, Norbert Neckel, Jan O. Voss, and Alexandre G. Lellouch. Frontiers in Surgery 13 (January).

Implications of Homologous Recombination Deficiency for Neoadjuvant Platinum-Based Chemotherapy in Pancreatic Cancer: A Narrative Review. Liguori, Luigi, Marco Ventin, Giulia Cattaneo, Liti Zhang, Arsen Osipov, Francesco Sabbatino, and Cristina R. Ferrone. Annals of Surgical Oncology, January.

Prospective Pilot Study of a Smartphone App as a Screening Tool for Unilateral Vocal Fold Paresis/Paralysis. Soylu, Selen, Okenwa C. Okose, Yufei Chen, Bo Wang, Marika D. Russell, Dipti Kamani, Vishwanatha M. Rao, Dioan McIlroy, Karissa L. LeClair, Jarrett M. Jackson, Ian J. Behr, Anthony Y. Cheung, Lily N. Trinh, Yoshiyuki Saito, Amr H. Abdelhamid Ahmed, Phillip C. Song, and Gregory W. Randolph. European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, February.

A Systematic Review of Treatment Strategies to Combat Acute and Chronic Rejection Episodes in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation. Knoedler, Leonard, Tobias Niederegger, Thomas Schaschinger, Gabriel Hundeshagen, Robert Munzinger, Max Heiland, Curtis L. Cetrulo, and Alexandre G. Lellouch. Frontiers in Immunology 17 (February).

Urology

Does Physician Documentation of Patients’ Prostate-Specific Antigen Doubling Time Affect Treatment Decisions in High-Risk Biochemically Recurrent Prostate Cancer? Morgans, Alicia K., Maelys Touya, Nader El-Chaar, Dina ElSouda, Lisa Mucha, Krishnan Ramaswamy, Kelechi L. Adejumo, Tammy Schuler, Jason Sharpe, Bruce Feinberg, Parisa Asgarisabet, Prathamesh Pathak, and Stephen J. Freedland. Clinical Genitourinary Cancer 24 (2): 102496.

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