Faculty Publications July 10-17

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published July 10-17. 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

Soccer Star Speaks Out 2 Months After Collapsing on Field Mid-Game | Good Morning America
Richard Kim, MD

The Impacts the Heat Has on the Brain | KABC-TV
Jace Reed, MD

When a Life Coach Manifests Nothing For You But Debt and Delusion | The Los Angeles Times
Elias Aboujaoude, MD

Why Was I Shamed for Wanting a C-Section? | U.S. News & World Report
Karyn S. Eilber, MD

New Bride Survived Removal of a 40-Pound Tumor | HealthDay
Cristina Ferrone, MD; Tyler Gunn, MD

When Should You Take Blood Pressure Medicine? | Everyday Health
Florian Rader, MD

AJCC Guideline Reassessment Aims to Improve HPV-Positive Throat Cancer Staging | The ASCO Post
Allen Ho, MD; Zachary Zumsteg, MD; Robert Figlin, MD

Thyroid Treatment May Improve Gut Health in People With Hypothyroidism | Endocrine Society
Margaret Wei, MD; Ruchi Mathur, MD

Can Doctors Predict Who Will Drop Dead? | New York Magazine
Sumeet Chugh, MD

Faculty Publications

Anesthesiology

Nipah Virus: Awareness for Anesthesia Providers and Perioperative Management Strategies. Johnson, Calvin, and Michele Dee. JCA Advances 2 (3): 100140.

Biomedical Sciences

Extreme Weather Event Attribution Predicts Climate Policy Support Across the World. Cologna, Viktoria, Simona Meiler, Chahan M. Kropf, Samuel Lüthi, Niels G. Mede, David N. Bresch, Oscar Lecuona, Sebastian Berger, John Besley, Cameron Brick, Marina Joubert, Edward W. Maibach, Sabina Mihelj, Naomi Oreskes, Mike S. Schäfer, Sander van der Linden, and TISP Consortium. Nature Climate Change 15 (7): 725–35.

Exosomes as Future Therapeutic Tools and Targets for Corneal Diseases. Gamez, Joshua, Daxian Zha, Shaghaiegh M. Ebrahimi, Seok White, Alexander V. Ljubimov, and Mehrnoosh Saghizadeh. Cells 14 (13): 959.

Changes to the Serum Lipidome and Their Relation to Coronary Plaque in the First Six Months After Acute Myocardial Infarction. White, Jake B., Andrew Lin, Nicholas J. Montarello, Christina A. Bursill, Gemma A. Figtree, Damini Dey, Marten F. Snel, Johan W. Verjans, Dennis Tl Wong, and Peter J. Psaltis. Atherosclerosis 408 (July): 120421.

Association of Pericoronary Adipose Attenuation With Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events and High-Risk Plaque. Tan, Neville, Thomas H. Marwick, Damini Dey, William Chan, and Nitesh Nerlekar. JACC. Cardiovascular Imaging, July, S1936-878X(25)00267-0.

Hyperglycemia-Induced Mitochondrial Abnormalities in Autonomic Neurons via the RAGE Axis. Otero, María G., Nicolas Henao-Romero, Trevor M. Krysak, Minh T. Vu-Lu, Oscar O. Morales Morales, Zeinab Momeni, Yasuhiko Yamamoto, Tomas L. Falzone, and Verónica A. Campanucci. Scientific Reports 15 (1): 25231.

The Gap Between Amyloid Pathology and Cognition. Moser, V. Alexandra. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease: JAD, July, 13872877251359637.

An Immunological Mechanism of Resistance to CDK4/6 Inhibitors in HR+ Breast Cancer. Galassi, Claudia, Giulia Petroni, Simon R. V. Knott, and Lorenzo Galluzzi. Oncoimmunology 14 (1): 2520269.

Cardiac Surgery

National Outcomes of Surgical Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation at the Time of Mitral Surgery. Sallam, Aminah, Derrick Y. Tam, Qiudong Chen, Allen A. Razavi, Michael E. Bowdish, Armin Kiankhooy, and Joanna Chikwe. Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery 40 (7): ivaf133.

Cardiology

Comparative Prognosis by Stress ECG and Stress Imaging: Results From the ISCHEMIA Trial. Shaw, Leslee J., Lawrence M. Phillips, Jonathon Leipsic, Samuel Broderick, Jennifer H. Mieres, Thomas H. Marwick, Matthias G. Friedrich, Todd Miller, Renato D. Lopes, Benjamin Chow, Rodrigo Cerci, Ron Blankstein, Marcelo DiCarli, David J. Maron, Judith S. Hochman, Karen P. Alexander, Gregg W. Stone, Sean O’Brien, Bernard R. Chaitman, Raymond Y. Kwong, Michael H. Picard, Daniel S. Berman, Harmony R. Reynolds, and ISCHEMIA Research Group. JACC. Cardiovascular Imaging, June, S1936-878X(25)00263-3.

What Every Electrophysiologist Should Know and Worry About. Ellenbogen, Kenneth A., and Charles D. Swerdlow. Heart Rhythm, July, S1547-5271(25)02600-1.

A National Analysis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. Olumuyide, Emmanuel, Jiun-Ruey Hu, Ezaz Rahman, Yanting Wang, and Ehimen Aneni. Sleep & Breathing = Schlaf & Atmung 29 (4): 241.

Outcomes of Lesions With Discordance Between FFR and Nonhyperemic Pressure Ratios. Ha, Edward T., Takeshi Nishi, Tatsunori Takahashi, Tatsuro Yamazaki, Yuichi Saito, Shoichi Kuramitsu, Yoshiaki Kawase, Manish A. Parikh, Ron Waksman, and Yuhei Kobayashi. JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions 18 (13): 1631–42.

A Paradigm Shift in Myocardial Infarction With Nonobstructive Coronary Arteries Care: Advancing Diagnostics, Equity, and Outcomes. Gulati, Martha, and Patricia F. Rodriguez-Lozano. Journal of the American Heart Association 14 (14): e040433.

Detecting Structural Heart Disease from Electrocardiograms Using AI. Poterucha, Timothy J., Linyuan Jing, Ramon Pimentel Ricart, Michael Adjei-Mosi, Joshua Finer, Dustin Hartzel, Christopher Kelsey, Aaron Long, Daniel Rocha, Jeffrey A. Ruhl, David vanMaanen, Marc A. Probst, Brock Daniels, Shalmali D. Joshi, Olivier Tastet, Denis Corbin, Robert Avram, Joshua P. Barrios, Geoffrey H. Tison, I.-Min Chiu, David Ouyang, Alexander Volodarskiy, Michelle Castillo, Francisco A. Roedan Oliver, Paloma P. Malta, Siqin Ye, Gregg F. Rosner, Jose M. Dizon, Shah R. Ali, Qi Liu, Corey K. Bradley, Prashant Vaishnava, Carol A. Waksmonski, Ersilia M. DeFilippis, Vratika Agarwal, Mark Lebehn, Polydoros N. Kampaktsis, Sofia Shames, Ashley N. Beecy, Deepa Kumaraiah, Shunichi Homma, Allan Schwartz, Rebecca T. Hahn, Martin Leon, Andrew J. Einstein, Mathew S. Maurer, Heidi S. Hartman, John Weston Hughes, Christopher M. Haggerty, and Pierre Elias. Nature, July.

United States Food and Drug Administration Regulation of Clinical Software in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Singh, Vidhi, Susan Cheng, Alan C. Kwan, and Joseph Ebinger. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Digital Health 3 (3): 100231.

Computational Biomedicine

Germline Genetic Variation Impacts Clonal Hematopoiesis Landscape and Progression to Malignancy. Liu, Jie, Duc Tran, Liying Xue, Brian J. Wiley, Caitlyn Vlasschaert, Caroline J. Watson, Hamish A. J. MacGregor, Xiaoyu Zong, Irenaeus C. C. Chan, Indraniel Das, Md Mesbah Uddin, Abhishek Niroula, Gabriel Griffin, Benjamin L. Ebert, Taralynn Mack, Yash Pershad, Brian Sharber, Michael Berger, Ahmet Zehir, Ryan Ptashkin, Ross L. Levine, Elli Papaemmanuil, Vijai Joseph, Teng Gao, Yelena Kemel, Diana Mandelker, Konrad H. Stopsack, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Semanti Mukherjee, Li Ding, Yin Cao, Matthew J. Walter, Jamie R. Blundell, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Kenneth Offit, Lucy A. Godley, Daniel C. Link, Zsofia K. Stadler, Alexander G. Bick, Pradeep Natarajan, and Kelly L. Bolton. Nature Genetics, July.

Medicine

Medication Beliefs Regarding P2Y12 Inhibitors: An Exploratory Thematic and Semantic Analysis to Better Understand the Key Barriers to Medication Adherence. Lee, Jin Sol G., Yong Choi, Kyle Tejuco, Franklin Heng, and Manoj Kesarwani. Cureus 17 (6): e85924.

ACG Clinical Guideline Update: Preventive Care in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Farraye, Francis A., Gil Y. Melmed, Gary R. Lichtenstein, Edward L. Barnes, Berkeley N. Limketkai, Freddy Caldera, and Sunanda Kane. American Journal of Gastroenterology | ACG 120 (7): 1447.

Diagnosis of Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension. Jais, Xavier, Victor Tapson, Timothy M. Fernandes, Elie Fadel, Seth Kligerman, Joanna Pepke-Zaba, Kim M. Kerr, Peter F. Fedullo, Jenny Z. Yang, Michael M. Madani, Irene M. Lang, and Nick H. Kim. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation 44 (7S): S1–7.

Erratum to ‘Systemic Therapy in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma’ [Clin Mol Hepatol 2023;29:516-519]. Ahn, Joseph C., Nguyen H. Tran, and Ju Dong Yang. Clinical and Molecular Hepatology 31 (3): 1103–4.

Anti-Cytolethal Distending Toxin Antibodies in Systemic Sclerosis: Associations With Gastrointestinal Disease and Immune Dysregulation. Di Ciommo, Francesca Romana, Livia Casciola-Rosen, Ali Yagiz Ayla, Ashish Balar, Ami A. Shah, Michael Hughes, Walter Morales, Mark Pimentel, Brittany L. Adler, and Zsuzanna H. McMahan. Rheumatology (Oxford, England), July, keaf376.

International Association of Pancreatology Revised Guidelines on Acute Pancreatitis IAP/APA/EPC/IPC/JPS Working Group. IAP/APA/EPC/IPC/JPS Working Group. Pancreatology, July, S1424-3903(25)00085-7.

Modulation of the PTPRS Proteoglycan Switch by Antibodies Binding to the Membrane-Proximal Fibronectin-Type III Domain. Hein Da Rosa, Thales, Sterling H. Ramsey, Judy J. Lee, Natalia Y. Kozlova, Zixuan Zhao, Jaeyeon Kim, Ava C. Schneider, Sheng Li, Madhusudhanarao Katiki, Gary S. Firestein, Ramachandran Murali, Eugenio Santelli, Stephanie M. Stanford, and Nunzio Bottini. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, July, 110470.

The Effects of Low-Dose Colchicine on the Progression of Aortic Valve Stenosis: Rationale, Design, and Baseline Characteristics of the Colchicine and Inflammation in Aortic Stenosis (CHIANTI) Trial. Mohammadnia, Niekbachsh, Lucas T. W. Vestjens, Neil J. Craig, Jan G. P. Tijssen, Remco J. J. Knol, Sergiy V. Lazarenko, Mariëlle G. J. Duffels, Jeroen Jaspers Focks, Martin E. W. Hemels, Iris Oving, Hanke J. Schalkx, John W. Eikelboom, Aysun Cetinyurek-Yavuz, Erik H. J. G. Aarntzen, Damini Dey, Piotr J. Slomka, Robin Nijveldt, Niels P. Riksen, Niels van Royen, Michael C. Honigberg, Marc R. Dweck, Jan H. Cornel, and Saloua El Messaoudi. American Heart Journal, July, S0002-8703(25)00219-4.

Phase 2a Study of Baxdrostat in Primary Aldosteronism. Turcu, Adina F., Mason W. Freeman, Irina Bancos, Anat Ben-Shlomo, Oksana Hamidi, Amir H. Hamrahian, Wenyu Huang, Lawrence S. Kirschner, Ramin Sam, Ashwini Mallappa, Bonifride Tuyishimire, Aina S. Lihn, Shira Perl, Morris J. Brown, and SPARK Investigator Group. The New England Journal of Medicine, July.

Functional Lumen Imaging Probe as Part of Multimodality Assessment of Esophagogastric Junction Opening Is Important in Longitudinal Follow-Up of Patients With Treated Achalasia. Kamboj, Amrit K., Shubham Sood, Brandon Truong, Louis M. Wong Kee Song, Michael Wells, Dennis Wigle, D. Chamil Codipilly, Diana L. Snyder, Jeffrey A. Alexander, Cadman Leggett, Ryan J. Lennon, Andree Koop, Marcelo Vela, and Karthik Ravi. Neurogastroenterology and Motility, July, e70121.

Rationale and Design of the Rheumatoid Arthritis Non-Responders to Treatment (RANT) Study: Use of a Bioinformatics Platform and ‘Decentralized’ Clinical Recruitment Design. McDermott, Gregory C., Mary Jeffway, Thany Seyok, Harrison Zhang, Elena Myasoedova, John M. Davis, Jon Giles, Jonathan Coblyn, Simon Helfgott, Elena Massarotti, Robert Sands, Michael E. Weinblatt, Tracy Johansson, Gabriela Schmajuk, Kaleb Michaud, Cassandra Perry, Susanne Churchill, and Katherine P. Liao. Contemporary Clinical Trials, July, 108000.

Letter on ‘Anthropometric Measures and Mortality Risk in Individuals With Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD): A Population-Based Cohort Study’-Authors’ Reply. Yeo, Yee Hui, Philip N. Newsome, Jie Li, and Vincent L. Chen. Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, July.

Neurosurgery

Baseline Predictors of Poor Clinical Outcome Despite Recanalization of Distal Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusions. Chafai, Imene, Hamza Salim, Basel Musmar, Nimer Adeeb, Vivek Yedavalli, Kareem ElNaamani, Nils Henninger, Simona Nedelcu, Sri Hari Sundararajan, Anna Luisa Kühn, Jane Khalife, Sherief Ghozy, MAD MT Investigators ##, et al. Interventional Neuroradiology: Journal of Peritherapeutic Neuroradiology, Surgical Procedures and Related Neurosciences, July, 15910199251342841.

OBGYN

Radical Hysterectomy for Stage II Endometrial Cancer in the Post-LACC Era - A NSQIP Study. Levin, Gabriel, Lucy Gilbert, Raanan Meyer, Rene Pareja, Yosef Nasseri, Rachel Ma, Arthur Heng-Cheng Hs, and Pedro T. Ramirez. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, July, S0002-9378(25)00471-5.

Orthopaedics 

Complications in Vertebral Body Tethering: What Are the Short Term Effects on Patient Reported Outcomes? Sborov, Katherine D., Mansi Agarwal, Michael J. Heffernan, Jason B. Anari, Benjamin Roye, Stefan Parent, Firoz Miyanji, Pediatric Spine Study Group, and Selina C. Poon. Spine Deformity, July.

Pediatrics

Endoscopic Treatments for Complicated Biliary Disease in Children. Norris, Nicholas, and David S. Vitale. Seminars in Pediatric Surgery 34 (June): 151500.

EGR1 Promotes Craniofacial Bone Regeneration via Activation of ALPL⁺PDGFD⁺ Periosteal Stem Cells. Li, Yang, Dazhuang Lu, Fanqing Xu, Jun Yang, Dong Li, Chenlong Yang, Xin Chen, Xu Wang, Jia Qing, Hui Zhang, Yingfei Zhang, Fuchou Tang, Jie Qiao, Ophir D. Klein, Ping Zhang, and Yongsheng Zhou. Advanced Science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), July, e10243.

Radiation Oncology

Non-Measured and DVH-Based Patient-Specific QA Framework for Lung SBRT VMAT With Machine Learning Integration. He, Chuan, Iris Z. Wang, and Anh H. Le. Medical Physics 52 (7): e17975.

Surgery 

Robotic-Assisted Left Upper Lobe S2 Segmentectomy: Identification of Vascular and Bronchial Anatomy. Perez, Claire, Lucas Weiser, Kellie Knabe, Raffaele Rocco, Philicia Moonsamy, Andrew R. Brownlee, and Harmik J. Soukiasian. JTCVS Techniques 31 (June): 185–87.

Derivation and Validation of the AJCC9V Pathological Stage Classification for HPV-Positive Oropharyngeal Carcinoma: A Multicentre Registry Analysis. Ho, Allen S., Shao Hui Huang, Brian O’Sullivan, Michael Luu, Mererid Evans, Robert L. Ferris, James S. Lewis, Raja R. Seethala, Sue S. Yom, Hisham Mehanna, Barton F. Branstetter, Nabil F. Saba, Snehal G. Patel, William M. Lydiatt, and Zachary S. Zumsteg. The Lancet. Oncology, July, S1470-2045(25)00281-5.

Response to Letter: Sadati et al.’s ‘Anatomical Concerns and the Use of the Term Preservation in Referring to Procedures’ A Scientific Defense of the Preservation Facelift Approach. Sadati, Kevin, Olivier Mathieu, Curtis L. Cetrulo, and Alexandre G. Lellouch. Facial Plastic Surgery & Aesthetic Medicine, July.

Risk of Open Conversion During Robotic Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer: Optimizing Patient Selection. Chen, Courtney, Tiffany Lim, Annie Yang, Ian Lau, Kelly Mahuron, Ryuhei Aoyama, Michael Sullivan, Bradford Kim, Aaron Lewis, Laleh Melstrom, I. Benjamin Paz, Yuman Fong, and Yanghee Woo. Journal of Surgical Oncology, July.

Is Ligation of the Intersphincteric Fistula Tract Useful in Crohn’s Disease of the Ileal Pouch Complicated by An Anal Fistula? Schoen, Sy P., Karen Zaghiyan, and Phillip Fleshner. Diseases of the Colon and Rectum, July.

Nuclear Destabilisation - a Possible Genesis of Cancer? Scott, Daniel D., Francesco Bettariga, Marco Ventin, Chris Bishop, and Britta Stordal. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, July.

Urology

Real-World Treatment Patterns and Survival in People With Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Following Metastatic Hormone-Sensitive Disease Between 2020 and 2023 in the United States. Raval, Amit D., Guifang Chen, Matthew J. Korn, Andreas Bernthaler, Niculae Constantinovici, and Stephen J. Freedland. Clinical Genitourinary Cancer, June, 102386.

Association of HRQOL With Symptom Patterns in an Online Cohort of Patients With Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome. Galvez, Anthony, Paige Kuhlmann, Margot Barker, Andrew Chen, Victoria Scott, Karyn Eilber, and Jennifer Anger. Urology, July, S0090-4295(25)00629-6.

Best Practices in Telesurgery: Framework and Recommendations From the Society of Robotic Surgery (SRS) for Safe and Effective Implementation. Patel, Vipul, Shady Saikali, Louis Kavoussi, Raymond Leveillee, David Albala, Eduardo Parra-Davila, Travis Rogers, Yu Ozawa, Rohan Sharma, Kenneth Palmer, Jeff Marquinez, Marcelo Orvieto, Adnan Siddiqui, Jacques Marescaux, Ajit Sachdeva, Riccardo Oliva, Rafael Ferreira Coelho, Bernardo Rocco, Chiara Sighinolfi, Martin Roche, Martin Martino, Sharona Ross, Andrew Hung, Antonello Forgione, Ghulam Abbas, Xu Zhang, Saad Aldousari, Younes Ahallal, Vanessa Alvarenga-Bezerr, Cathy Corder, and Marcio Moschovas. Journal of Robotic Surgery 19 (1): 370.

Unplanned Hospitalization Among Advanced Prostate Cancer Patients by Diabetes Status-a Population-Based Study. Shaver, Amy L., Krupa Gandhi, Scott W. Keith, Nikita Nikita, Christopher C. Yang, Felix J. Kim, Hushan Yang, William Kevin Kelly, Stephen J. Freedland, and Grace Lu-Yao. JNCI Cancer Spectrum, July, pkaf070.

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