Faculty Publications July 30-Aug. 6

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published July 30-Aug. 6. 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

Why Hospitals Must Avoid ‘Pilot Purgatory’ | Chief Healthcare Executive
Peter L. Slavin, MD

Why Are More Young Women Developing Heart Disease? | The New York Times
C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD 

Woman Goes to Have 22-lb. Ovarian Tumor Removed. Then Doctors Discover a Full-Term Baby Hiding Behind It: ‘Miraculous’ | People
John Ozimek, DO 

Doctors Explain the Differences Between Alzheimer's Disease and Other Types of Dementia | Prevention
Zaldy S. Tan, MD, MPH 

How 7 Systems Divert Behavioral Health Patients From the ED | Becker’s Hospital Review
Itai Danovitch, MD 

Can Humans Live Forever? Study Puts a Cap on Life Span at 194 Years | Healthline
Bert Mandelbaum, MD

Data. Data. Data. How Can Wearables Really Help Us? | Forbes
Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSHS 

Women in Wellness: Natasha Trentacosta of Cedars-Sinai on the Five Lifestyle Tweaks That Will Help Support People’s Journey Towards Better Wellbeing | Medium/Authority Magazine
Natasha Trentacosta, MD 

Experts Weigh in on the Challenges of Managing Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome | Medscape
Sam Torbati, MD

4 Endocrinologists Share the Fruits They Eat Regularly for Better Blood Sugar | Verywell Health
Ruchi Mathur, MD 

Hidden Ways IBD Affects You Over a Lifetime | Podfollow/About IBD
Puja Khanna, MD

American Heart Association Now Recommends Blood Pressure Treatment to Reduce Dementia Risk | Forbes
Joseph Ebinger, MD

Faculty Publications

Cardiology

Arrhythmia Occurrence After Balloon-Expandable and Self-Expanding Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Replacement. McCanta, Anthony C., Natalie A. Bello, Patrick Conley, Marissa Petralia, Maulin B. Shah, Evan M. Zahn, and Rose O. Tompkins. JACC. Clinical Electrophysiology 12 (3): 462–71.

Decoding Cardiovascular Disease Through Spatial Proteomics. Ma, Min, Yingyi Lian, Erfei Shang, Chao Xue, Maosheng Wei, Ming Zhang, Niveda Sundararaman, Sarah J. Parker, Jennifer E. Van Eyk, and Jun Qu. Circulation Research 139 (4): e327475.

Fast Skeletal Myosin Binding Protein-C Expression Exacerbates Dysfunction in Heart Failure. McNamara, James W., Taejeong Song, Perwez Alam, Akhil Baby, Aleksandra Binek, Kalyani Ananthamohan, Rohit R. Singh, Michelle L. Nieman, Marloes van den Berg, Brent M. Cernyar, Sheryl E. Koch, Malina J. Ivey, Thomas L. Lynch, James T. Pearson, Jack Rubinstein, J.-P. Jin, John N. Lorenz, Jennifer E. Van Eyk, Onur Kanisicak, and Sakthivel Sadayappan. Basic Research in Cardiology, August.

Modeling Individual Patient Outcomes After Interatrial Shunt Treatment in Heart Failure With Reduced and Preserved Ejection Fraction: The RELIEVE-HF Trial. Stone, Gregg W., JoAnn Lindenfeld, Michael R. Zile, Stefan D. Anker, Josep Rodés-Cabau, Clayton Snyder, Saibal Kar, Michael P. Pfeiffer, Antoni Bayes-Genis, Jeroen J. Bax, Alan J. Bank, Julio Núñez, Elizabeth C. Lee, Michal Laufer-Perl, Gil Moravsky, Sheldon E. Litwin, Richard Holcomb, Neal L. Eigler, William T. Abraham, and RELIEVE-HF Investigators. Circulation. Heart Failure, August, e014100.

National Impact of Optimal Implementation of Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy in Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction. Keykhaei, Mohammad, Alexander T. Sandhu, Priscilla Y. Hsue, Stephen J. Greene, Boback Ziaeian, Michelle Kittleson, MaryAnn Villarreal-Gonzalez, Shahin Hallaj, Mattheus Ramsis, Manyoo A. Agarwal, and Gregg C. Fonarow. JACC. Heart Failure, August, 103295.

Percutaneous Atrial Delivery of TBX18 Creates a Stable Supraventricular Biological Pacemaker in Porcine Sick Sinus Syndrome. Dawkins, James F., Thassio Mesquita, Kevin Holm, Takeshi Ijichi, Peter Kilfoil, Ralf Sulague, Lizbeth Sanchez, Asma Nawaz, Juan Cardenas, Jackelyn Valle, Eduardo Marbán, and Eugenio Cingolani. JACC. Clinical Electrophysiology, July, S2405-500X(26)00577-3.

Prolonged PPI-TCL in the Presence of a Slowly Conducting Retrograde Accessory Pathway: What Is the Mechanism? Sun, Yuanjun, Ashkan Ehdaie, Eugenio Cingolani, Eric Braunstein, Xunzhang Wang, Archana Ramireddy, and Michael Shehata. JACC. Clinical Electrophysiology, July, S2405-500X(26)00571-2.

Single Cell Proteomics to Spatial Multiomics in Cardiovascular Disease: Foundations, Technologies, and Biological Insights. Binek, Aleksandra, and Peggi M. Angel. Circulation Research 139 (4): e327684.

The Song Remains the Same: Genetic Testing in Advanced Heart Failure. Kransdorf, Evan P., and Luke Masha. JACC. Advances 5 (9): 103090.

Computational Biomedicine

Pre-Trained Knowledge Transfer With Application in Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome Subphenotyping in Children. Liu, Xiaokang, Naimin Jing, Yiwen Lu, Jason H. Moore, Christopher B. Forrest, James Zou, and Yong Chen. Npj Health Systems 3 (1): 69.

Medicine

Bridging Evidence and Practice: International Multidisciplinary Consensus on Non-Metastatic NSCLC. Meyer, May-Lucie, Solange Peters, Hossein Borghaei, Tina Cascone, Sanja Dacic, Corinne Faivre-Finn, Natasha Leighl, Luis Paz-Ares, Joachim Aerts, Charu Aggarwal, Myung-Ju Ahn, Maria E. Arcila, Federico Cappuzzo, et al. Journal of Thoracic Oncology, July, 104111.

Defining Actionable Cell States in Cardiovascular Disease Through Single-Cell and Spatial Technologies. Parker, Sarah J., and Jennifer E. Van Eyk. Circulation Research 139 (4): e329382.

Delayed Hypersensitivity to Iodinated Contrast: A Rare Case of Iododerma and Successful Strategy for Readministration. Truong, Tiffany, Monica Tsai, Terrie S. Ahn, and Lorraine Anderson. Cureus 18 (7): e112105.

Determining the Minimal Important Change in Patient Reported Outcomes for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Harris, Alex H. S., Kristen Davis-Lopez, Andrea K. Finlay, Eric M. Schmidt, Catherine M. Curtin, Erika D. Sears, Ryu Yoshida, Donna Lashgari, Robin N. Kamal, and Teryl K. Nuckols. PM & R: The Journal of Injury, Function, and Rehabilitation, July.

Early-Onset Pancreatic Cancer Is Associated With Better Survival: A SEER Population-Based Analysis. Liengswangwong, Kaewkwan, and Stephen J. Pandol. Pancreas, July.

Inhaled LTI-03 for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Randomized Dose Escalation Study. Molyneaux, Philip L., Nikhil A. Hirani, Collin C. K. Chia, Tejaswini Kulkarni, Tanzira Zaman, Robert J. Kaner, Ana Lucia Coelho, Yago Amigo Pinho Jannini-Sa, Brian Windsor, Sydney Kruger, Dale J. Christensen, Steven A. Shoemaker, Cory M. Hogaboam, BreAnne MacKenzie, and Andreas Günther. Nature Communications 17 (1): 7620.

IOIBD: The International Organization for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Dotan, Iris, Marla C. Dubinsky, Corey A. Siegel, James Lindsay, Dermot McGovern, Matthieu Allez, Pär Myrelid, James Lewis, Bruce E. Sands, Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet, Silvio Danese, Vineet Ahuja, Gilaad G. Kaplan, Marischka Konings, Richard Gearry, Siew C. Ng, Vipul Jairath, Fernando Magro, Mark S. Silverberg, Dan Turner, Maria T. Abreu, Ailsa Hart, Axel Dignass, David T. Rubin, and International Organization for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IOIBD). Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology 19: 17562848261470923.

Large Language Model-Based Extraction of Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Disease Activity Index From Clinical Notes. Weisberg, Reid, Ruoqi Yang, Iram Kamdar, Justin Chestang, Joan Bathon, Jon T. Giles, Chunhua Weng, and Elizabeth Park. JAMIA Open 9 (4): ooag152.

Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease Reprograms the Hepatic Metastatic Niche. Karabicici, Mustafa, and Ekihiro Seki. Seminars in Liver Disease, August.

Novel Explantation Protocol for Cardiac Recovery and Device Weaning Post-Left Ventricular Assist Device Therapy: A Single-Center Experience. Kumar, Aarti, Ashley J. Mitchell, Negeen Shahandeh, Darko Vucicevic, Murray H. Kwon, Pratyaksh K. Srivastava, Ali Nsair, and Megan Y. Kamath. ASAIO Journal, August.

Phase 1/2 Study of INCAGN01876, an Anti-GITR Agonist Monoclonal Antibody, Plus Immunotherapy for Advanced Cancers. Hamid, Omid, Frederic Forget, Melissa Johnson, Thomas J. George, Nawel Bourayou, Sonia Ioannidis, Feng Zhou, Hong Yang, Zhiwan Dong, and Martin E. Gutierrez. The Oncologist, July, oyag257.

Risk of HCC in Elderly Patients With MASLD: Proposal of an Effective Surveillance Strategy. Chon, Young Eun, Kyung-Do Han, Ju Dong Yang, Ju-Yeong Park, Hyun-Seok Kim, Hyung Woong Lee, Tae Seop Lim, and Beom Kyung Kim. Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, August.

The Cost-Effectiveness of Biosimilar Denosumab in Postmenopausal Osteoporosis: Implications of Baseline Fracture Risk and Drug Price. Li, Edward, Fatemeh Mirzayeh Fashami, Sarah Kane, Rebecca McTavish, Marion Schauf, and Stuart Silverman. Osteoporosis International: A Journal Established as Result of Cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA, July.

Therapeutic Application of Feeding Strategies in Chronic Pancreatitis: The Potential for Jejunal Feeding and Elemental Diet to Modulate Pancreatic Secretion to Alleviate Painful Symptoms. Cai, Mei, Niwen Kong, Baraa Abdelghne, Anna Evans Phillips, Sohail Z. Husain, Stephen J. Pandol, and Yi Jiang. Frontiers in Physiology 17: 1828606.

Neurosurgery

Effect of Time to Palliative Epilepsy Surgery on Outcomes. Crutcher, Robert M., David E. Horvat, Avery R. Caraway, Kristen H. Arredondo, Taylor J. Abel, Nitin Agarwal, Allyson L. Alexander, Dallas Michael Armstrong, Kurtis I. Auguste, Danilo Bernardo, Jeffrey Bolton, David Bonda, Dewi Frances Depositario-Cabacar, Krista Eschbach, William D. Gaillard, Aran Groves, Jason S. Hauptman, Pradeep K. Javarayee, Cemal Karakas, Andrew T. Knox, Jenny J. Lin, Patricia E. McGoldrick, Derryl J. Miller, Edward John Novotny, Adam P. Ostendorf, Pilar D. Pichon, Shilpa B. Reddy, Debopam Samanta, Rani K. Singh, Janelle L. Wagner, Steven M. Wolf, Lily C. Wong-Kisiel, Fernando N. Galan, M. Scott Perry, and Michael A. Ciliberto. Epilepsia, August.

Pediatric Neurosurgery Procedural Coding: Current Lay of the Land. Vessell, Meena, Ryan S. Chung, Randaline Barnett, Kristin Zieles, David Bonda, Benjamin Best, and Virendra R. Desai. Neurosurgery Practice 7 (4): e000254.

Response to Request for Modification of the 2026 AHA/ASA Acute Ischemic Stroke Guidelines: Endovascular Thrombectomy Imaging Selection in the 6- to 24-Hour Window. Gonzalez, Nestor R., Shyam Prabhakaran, Kori S. Zachrison, Enrique C. Leira, Mona Bahouth, Joe Broderick, and 2026 AHA/ASA Acute Ischemic Stroke Guideline Writing Group. Stroke, July.

Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine

Frailty and Surgical Invasiveness Are Independently Associated With Complications in Pediatric Spinal Deformity Surgery. Chan, Vivien, Andrea Simmonds, Luke Maclean, David Parsons, Michael G. Vitale, and David L. Skaggs. The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American Volume, August.

Osteochondral Lesions of the Tibial Plafond (OLTPs): Proceedings of the International Consensus Meeting on Cartilage Repair of the Ankle. Rubin, Jared, Alexander Tham, James J. Butler, Paloma Gauthier, Davis Hedbany, John G. Kennedy, Jorge P. Batista, Stephen Bayer, Gregory C. Berlet, Roberto Buda, James D. F. Calder, Jari Dahmen, Alastair S. E. Younger, et al. Foot & Ankle Specialist, July, 19386400261471631.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Sporadic Sarcoma Arising From a Previously Resected Benign Vestibular Schwannoma Without Neurofibromatosis or Radiosurgery: Illustrative Case. Menaker, Simon A., Michelot Michel, Catherine M. Garcia, Edward Robinson, Xuemo Fan, Gregory P. Lekovic, and John S. Yu. Journal of Neurosurgery. Case Lessons 12 (5): CASE251003.

Pediatrics

Ventricular Arrhythmias After Self-Expanding Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Replacement: A Report From the SERVE Registry. Armstrong, Aimee K., Bryan H. Goldstein, Jamil Aboulhosn, David Balzer, Oliver M. Barry, Darren P. Berman, Brian A. Boe, Martin L. Bocks, Allison K. Cabalka, Hannah Fraint, Joshua Kanter, Britton Keeshan, Luke Lamers, R. Allen Ligon, Nicola Maschietto, William S. McMahon, Athar M. Qureshi, Shabana Shahanavaz, Ada C. Stefanescu Schmidt, Patcharapong Suntharos, Wendy Whiteside, Jenny E. Zablah, Evan Zahn, Jeffrey D. Zampi, Thomas Zellers, Julia Eazer, Victoria Shay, Chance Alvarado, V. Vivian Dimas, and Anna N. Kamp. JACC. Clinical Electrophysiology 12 (3): 446–58.

Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences

Psychotherapy vs Antidepressants in Heart Failure: Impact of Adherence. IsHak, Waguih William, Michele A. Hamilton, Marcio A. Diniz, James Mirocha, Robert Chernoff, Rebecca Hedrick, Harriet Aronow, Tarneem Darwish, Gabrielle Messineo, Mia Pasini, Linda Olanisa, Ella Tetrault, Ankith Arun, Kaleab K. Tessema, John Gordon Harold, Michael K. Ong, Brennan Spiegel, Kenneth Wells, and Itai Danovitch. Journal of Affective Disorders, July, 122318.

Radiation Oncology

Patient-Provider Communication and Treatment Decision-Making Among Latino Men With Prostate Cancer: A Qualitative Study. Rodriguez, Victoria E., Briseyda Mendoza-Aguayo, Janet Rodriguez, Carla M. Ramirez, Daniel Soto, Jennifer B. Unger, Andre Luis Abreu, Rojine Ariani, Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, Leslie Ballas, and Mariana C. Stern. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, July.

Surgery

A Social Media Quality Review of Popular Ankyloglossia Videos on TikTok. Bellary, Rohan, Niraj Rama, Jennifer Kreinik, Michael DeMarcantonio, Christopher Roxbury, Thomas Higgins, Arthur Wu, and Dennis Tang. Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery, August.

Artificial Intelligence in Plastic Surgery: A Bibliometric and Visual Analysis of the 100 Most-Cited English-Language Publications. Mokhtar, Jonathan, Meera Hallak, Michel Gabriel Cazenave, Lucas Kreutz-Rodrigues, Krishna S. Vyas, Curtis L. Cetrulo, and Alexandre G. Lellouch. Aesthetic Surgery Journal. Open Forum 8: ojag148.

Breast and Ovarian Cancer Among Individuals Undergoing BRCA1 and BRCA2 Testing. Dossa, Fahima, Kelly Metcalfe, Zharmaine Ante, Ning Liu, Jordan Lerner-Ellis, Andrea Eisen, and Nancy N. Baxter. JAMA Network Open 9 (7): e2626334.

Faculty and Resident Perceptions of Learning Activities During Surgery Residency. Rosenberg, David M., Cooper Nagaki, Christian de Virgilio, Farin F. Amersi, Lisa A. Cunningham, Karen J. Dickinson, E. Shields Frey, Henry R. Govekar, Jukes P. Namm, V. Prasad Poola, Edgardo S. Salcedo, Saad A. Shebrain, Anaar E. Siletz, Brian R. Smith, Brian T. Valerian, Steven D. Wexner, James X. Wu, and Alexander C. Schwed. JAMA Surgery, August.

How I Approach Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome (MALS) and Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome (SMAS). Spiritos, Zachary, Daniel Shouhed, and Alexis Cutchins. The American Journal of Gastroenterology, August.

Management of Gastrointestinal Oncologic Emergencies for the Acute Care Surgeon: What You Need to Know. Huang, Raymond, and Galinos Barmparas. The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, August.

Same-Surgeon Versus Separate-Surgeon Prophylactic Ureteral Catheterization in Colectomy and Proctectomy: A National Retrospective Cohort Study. Wu, George L., Matthew Zeller, Joseph Wetherell, Jessica Felton, Yosef Nasseri, and Joshua H. Wolf. Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, July, 102537.

The Multilevel Facial Anatomic Classification System: A Comprehensive Framework for Contemporary Facelift and Neck Rejuvenation Surgery. Azizzadeh, Babak, and Neal Deot. Facial Plastic Surgery & Aesthetic Medicine, July, 26893614261453792.

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