Faculty Publications June 19-26

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published June 19-26. 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

How a Baby’s Brain Grows in the First Years Of Life | HealthDay
Wei Gao, PhD; Jane Tavyev Asher, MD; David Rowitch, MD, PhD

Eduardo Marbán: “We Have Designed a Cellular Product Called Deramiocel, and Until Now, We Have Had Positive Results in at Least Two Clinical Trials” | CNIC
Eduardo Marbán, MD, PhD

New American College of Cardiology Statement Provides Guidance for Anti-Obesity Drugs in Management of Heart Failure | Medscape
Michelle Kittleson, MD

AI in Oncology: Predicting Adverse Drug Reactions in Hematologic Malignancies | Blood Cancers Today
Nicholas Tatonetti, PhD

Y Chromosome Loss Plays Complex Role in Cancers | Cancer Health
Simon Knott, PhD; Robert Figlin, MD

Training Reduces Clinicians’ Obesity Bias, Improves Practice | Medscape
Amanda Velazquez, MD

Weight-Loss Medications Should Be Part of Cardiology’s Arsenal: ACC | TCTMD
Martha Gulati, MD

Organ-Chip ALS Model Uses Patient iPSCs To Uncover Early Disease Progression | Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Clive Svendsen, PhD

Faculty Publications

Biomedical Sciences

ER Stress Induced by Artemisinin and Its Derivatives Determines the Susceptibility to Their Synergistic Apoptotic Killing With TRAIL. Bhowmick, Snigdha, and Yong J. Lee. Cancer Medicine 14 (12): e71001.

Pericoronary Adipose Tissue Attenuation in Patients With Future Acute Coronary Syndromes: The ICONIC Study. Kwan, Alan C., Evangelos Tzolos, Eyal Klein, Donghee Han, Andrew Lin, Keiichiro Kuronuma, Billy Chen, Guadalupe Flores Tomasino, Heidi Gransar, Piotr J. Slomka, Susan Cheng, Catherine Gebhard, Philipp Kaufmann, Jeroen J. Bax, Filippo Cademartiri, Kavitha Chinnaiyan, Benjamin J. W. Chow, Edoardo Conte, Ricardo C. Cury, Gudrun Feuchtner, Martin Hadamitzky, Yong-Jin Kim, Jonathon A. Leipsic, Erica Maffei, Hugo Marques, Fabian Plank, Gianluca Pontone, Todd C. Villines, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, Pedro de Araújo Gonçalves, Ibrahim Danad, Yao Lu, Ji-Hyun Lee, Sang-Eun Lee, Lohendran Baskaran, Subhi J. Al’Aref, Matthew J. Budoff, Habib Samady, Peter H. Stone, Renu Virmani, Stephan Achenbach, Jagat Narula, Hyuk-Jae Chang, Leslee J. Shaw, Daniel S. Berman, Fay Lin, and Damini Dey. Radiology. Cardiothoracic Imaging 7 (3): e240200.

An Organ-Chip Model of Sporadic ALS Using iPSC-Derived Spinal Cord Motor Neurons and an Integrated Blood-Brain-like Barrier. Lall, Deepti, Michael J. Workman, Samuel Sances, Briana N. Ondatje, Shaughn Bell, George Lawless, Amanda Woodbury, Dylan West, Amanda Meyer, Andrea Matlock, Vineet Vaibhav, Jennifer E. Van Eyk, and Clive N. Svendsen. Cell Stem Cell, June, S1934-5909(25)00222-X.

Cholinergic Neuronal Activity Promotes Diffuse Midline Glioma Growth Through Muscarinic Signaling. Drexler, Richard, Antonia Drinnenberg, Avishai Gavish, Belgin Yalçin, Kiarash Shamardani, Abigail E. Rogers, Rebecca Mancusi, Vrunda Trivedi, Kathryn R. Taylor, Yoon Seok Kim, Pamelyn J. Woo, Neeraj Soni, Minhui Su, Alexandre Ravel, Eva Tatlock, Alexandra Midler, Samuel H. Wu, Charu Ramakrishnan, Ritchie Chen, Alberto E. Ayala-Sarmiento, David Rincon Fernandez Pacheco, La’Akea Siverts, Tanya L. Daigle, Bosiljka Tasic, Hongkui Zeng, Joshua J. Breunig, Karl Deisseroth, and Michelle Monje. Cell, June, S0092-8674(25)00618-X.

Generation of a Set of Genetically Modified Long QT Syndrome Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines Carrying Knock-in Variants Rs120074178 (KCNQ1 c.569G > A; p.Arg190Gln) and Rs137854600 (SCN5A c.4865G > A; p.Arg1622Gln) and Isogenic Control Lines. Silva, Nayara Sousa da, Agnieszka D’Antonio-Chronowska, Reyna Hernandez-Benitez, Angelina Rose McCarron, Esra Karaca, Kai Fang, Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, Athanasia D. Panopoulos, Keiichiro Suzuki, and Kelly A. Frazer. Stem Cell Research 87 (June): 103755.

Lifetime Smoking History and Marijuana Co-Use in Patients With Alcohol-Related Acute Pancreatitis. Adeniran, Esther A., Sungjin Kim, Stephen J. Pandol, Dhiraj Yadav, Georgios I. Papachristou, James L. Buxbaum, Joseph R. Pisegna, and Christie Y. Jeon. Pancreas, June.

Developing Strategic and Collaborative Community-Academic Partnerships to Improve Community Health, From Moving Upstream to Getting at the Root. Anderson, Yvonne, Renee Artis, Mona AuYoung, Quentin Ball, Ana Leon Bella, Yelba Castellon-Lopez, Jack Cheng, Ray Cheung, Elizabeth Cohn, Louise Fonua, Heng Lam Foong, Judelysse Gomez, Krystal Griffith-Lloyd, Alana M. W. LeBrón, Julia Mangione, Mellissa McLeod, Keith Norris, Leah Perez Ba, Pam Pimentel, Sora Tanjasiri, Christopher Tenorio, Amelia Vernon, Michael Viera, Aziza Lucas Wright MEd, and Helena Williams. American Journal of Public Health 115 (S2): S152–63.

Influence of Plaque Characteristics by Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography on Lesion-Specific Ischemia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Iraqi, Nadia, Bjarne L. Nørgaard, Damini Dey, and Jawdat Abdulla. European Radiology, March.

Cardiac Surgery

From Enigma to Equity: Asian American and Pacific Islanders in Cardiothoracic Surgery. Lesgart, Michael, Alexander An Nguyen, Anastasiia K. Tompkins, Kathleen S. Berfield, Richard Kim, Douglas E. Wood, David T. Cooke, Cherie P. Erkmen, and Society of Thoracic Surgeons Workforce on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, March, S0003-4975(25)00179-1.

Bioprosthetic vs Mechanical Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients 40 to 75 Years of Age. Bowdish, Michael E., J. Hunter Mehaffey, Shu-Ching Chang, Patrick T. O’Gara, Michael J. Mack, Andrew B. Goldstone, Joanna Chikwe, A. Marc Gillinov, Changfu Wu, Gregory P. Fontana, Joseph E. Bavaria, Chris S. Malaisrie, Tsuyoshi Kaneko, Ibrahim S. Sultan, Moritz C. Wyler von Ballmoos, Kathrine B. Harrington, Jeffrey P. Jacobs, Vinod H. Thourani, Wilson Y. Szeto, Joseph F. Sabik, Robert H. Habib, and Vinay Badhwar. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 85 (12): 1289–98.

Reduced Left Atrial Compliance Exacerbates Primary Graft Dysfunction After Lung Transplantation. Schäfer, Michal, Craig H. Selzman, Laura DiChiacchio, Joseph C. Heiler, Satvik Ramakrishna, Ethan Tumarkin, Bryce Hill, Hiroshi Kagawa, Nicolas Contreras, Sanjeev Raman, Laura Frye, Barbara Cahill, Matt Morrell, and Matthew L. Goodwin. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, May, S0022-5223(25)00309-5.

Cardiology

Age-Specific Mechanisms of Sudden Death Associated With Epilepsy. Holmstrom, Lauri, Audrey Uy-Evanado, Arayik Sargsyan, Harpriya Chugh, Habiba Aziz, Vinicius F. Calsavara, Alex A. T. Bui, Angelo Salvucci, Jonathan Jui, Kyndaron Reinier, Lisa M. Bateman, and Sumeet S. Chugh. JACC. Clinical Electrophysiology, June, S2405-500X(25)00339-1.

Palpitations in Midlife Women: The Menopause Racing Heart Pilot Study. Carpenter, Janet S., Heather A. Jaynes, Mofareh A. Alzahrani, Peng-Sheng Chen, Richard J. Kovacs, and James E. Tisdale. Menopause (New York, N.Y.), June.

Sudden Cardiac Arrest: Limitations in Risk-Stratification and Treatment, and the Potential for Digital Technologies and Artificial Intelligence to Improve Prediction and Outcomes. Srivats, Sudarshan, Fawzi Zghyer, Zaid Shahrori, Christine Albert, Sana M. Al-Khatib, Sumeet Chugh, Susan P. Etheridge, Zachary D. Goldberger, Rakesh Gopinathannair, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, Daniel P. Morin, Marco V. Perez, Markus Rottmann, Jacob E. Sunshine, Paul J. Wang, and Mina K. Chung. Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, June, S0033-0620(25)00083-0.

Aficamten Treatment for Symptomatic Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: 48-Week Results From FOREST-HCM. Saberi, Sara, Theodore P. Abraham, Lubna Choudhury, Roberto Barriales-Villa, Perry M. Elliott, Michael E. Nassif, Artur Oreziak, Anjali T. Owens, Albree Tower-Rader, Florian Rader, Pablo Garcia-Pavia, Iacopo Olivotto, Caroline J. Coats, Michael A. Fifer, Mark V. Sherrid, Scott D. Solomon, Hugh Watkins, Stephen B. Heitner, Daniel L. Jacoby, Stuart Kupfer, Fady I. Malik, Chiara Melloni, Lisa Meng, Jenny Wei, Martin S. Maron, Ahmad Masri, and FOREST-HCM Steering Committee and Investigators. JACC. Heart Failure 13 (8): 102496.

Optimizing Medical Therapy Using Remote Monitoring and Artificial Intelligence in Patients With Heart Failure: The TURING-HF Trial. Khandwalla, Raj M., Alex Shvartser, Raymond J. Zimmer, Merije Chukumerije, Michael Share, Ronit Zadikany, Michael Farkouh, Gregg Fonarow, Yaron Elad, and Michelle Maya Kittleson. JACC. Heart Failure 13 (8): 102504.

Cardiac Intermediary Metabolism in Heart Failure: Substrate Use, Signalling Roles and Therapeutic Targets. Mericskay, Mathias, Coert J. Zuurbier, Lisa C. Heather, Anja Karlstaedt, Javier Inserte, Luc Bertrand, Georgios Kararigas, Marisol Ruiz-Meana, Christoph Maack, and Gabriele G. Schiattarella. Nature Reviews. Cardiology, June.

Aortic Valve Replacement in Women: A Pooled Analysis of the RHEIA and PARTNER 3 Trials. Eltchaninoff, Helene, Stephan Windecker, Michael J. Mack, Philippe Pibarot, Vinod H. Thourani, Jeroen J. Bax, David J. Cohen, Nikolaos Bonaros, Raj Makkar, Sabine Bleiziffer, Wilson Y. Szeto, Pierre Berthoumieu, Rebecca T. Hahn, Tomas Hovorka, Jan Mareš, Jennifer Taylor, Didier Tchetche, and Martin B. Leon. JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions 18 (12): 1540–53.

Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch in Young and Low-Risk Patients After Newer Generation Balloon-Expandable Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. Suruga, Kazuki, Vivek Patel, Takashi Nagasaka, Yuchao Guo, Prateek Madaan, Ofir Koren, Dhairya Patel, Izabela Harutyunyan, Aakriti Gupta, Tarun Chakravarty, Wen Cheng, Hasan Jilaihawi, Mamoo Nakamura, and Raj R. Makkar. JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions 18 (12): 1512–23.

Artificial Intelligence Powered Real-Time Coronary Stenosis Recognition and Quantification in Angiography. Tang, Kuo-Ting, Jhih-Yuan Shih, Po-Chao Hsu, Chia-Te Liao, I.-Min Chiu, Zhih-Cherng Chen, Han-Lung Huang, Liang-Chuan Ou Yang, Chung Feng Liu, Jhi-Joung Wang, Chieh-Hung Chang, Jen-Sheng Huang, Yuan-Hsing Hsu, Meng-Che Tsai, Nien-Lun Chen, Shih-Hsu Huang, Kun-Sung Chen, and Wei-Ting Chang. Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine, June.

Heart-Brain Crosstalk in Myocardial Infarction: Role of Heart Extracellular Vesicles in Neuroinflammation. Liao, Ke, Jiayi Yu, Zahra Mohammadigoldar, Junlang Li, Weixin Liu, Liang Li, and Eduardo Marbán. Circulation Research 136 (11): 1513–15.

Computational Biomedicine

Histopathological Evaluation Based on CYP11B2 Staining Predicts Outcomes in Unilateral Primary Aldosteronism. Goldbaum, Tatiana S., Felipe L. Ledesma, Augusto G. Guimaraes, Jessica Okubo, Eduardo Z. Kawahara, Vinicius F. Calsavara, Luiz A. Bortolotto, Jose L. Chambo, Maria Candida B. V. Fragoso, Maria Adelaide A. Pereira, Andrea Pio-Abreu, Giovanio V. Silva, João V. Silveira, Fernanda M. Consolim-Colombo, Luciano F. Drager, William C. Nahas, Ana Claudia Latronico, Berenice B. Mendonca, Madson Q. Almeida, and Maria Claudia N. Zerbini. European Journal of Endocrinology 192 (6): 763–75.

Biases in Race and Ethnicity Introduced by Filtering Electronic Health Records for ‘Complete Data’: Observational Clinical Data Analysis. Acitores Cortina, Jose Miguel, Yasaman Fatapour, Kathleen LaRow Brown, Undina Gisladottir, Michael Zietz, Oliver John Bear Don’t Walk Iv, Danner Peter, Jacob S. Berkowitz, Nadine A. Friedrich, Sophia Kivelson, Aditi Kuchi, Hongyu Liu, Apoorva Srinivasan, Kevin K. Tsang, and Nicholas P. Tatonetti. JMIR Medical Informatics 13 (March): e67591.

Imaging

Atypically Displaced Meniscal Tears: An Educational Review With Focus on MRI and Arthroscopy. Spinnato, Paolo, Paola Franceschi, Giuseppe Martinese, Anna Parmeggiani, Valerio D’Agostino, Silvia Ferraro, George R. Matcuk, Stefano Zaffagnini, and Alberto Grassi. Clinics and Practice 15 (6): 109.

Medicine

A Gastroenterologist’s Approach to Improving Metabolic Health in MASLD. Abdulrazzak, Eyad, Imad Alabdul Razzak, Mazen Noureddin, and Hirsh D. Trivedi. Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, June.

Examining the Safety and Efficacy of Azithromycin in Cystic Fibrosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Elmegeed, Aya Abd, Mariam A. Lotfy, Ahmed R. Abdullah, Esraa S. F. Sudan, Rania M. Mahmoud, Naglaa M. Marzuuk, Abdel-Karim Aljebeai, Muhammad M. Hassan, Syed Arman Rabbani, Gerrit Jacob, Pojsakorn Danpanichkul, and Abdelrahman M. Attia. Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy, June, 102756.

Blood Immunophenotyping Identifies Distinct Kidney Histopathology and Outcomes in Patients With Lupus Nephritis. Horisberger, Alice, Alec Griffith, Joshua Keegan, Arnon Arazi, John Pulford, Ekaterina Murzin, Kaitlyn Howard, Brandon Hancock, Andrea Fava, Takanori Sasaki, Tusharkanti Ghosh, Jun Inamo, Deepak A. Rao, et al. The Journal of Clinical Investigation, June, e181034.

Comparison of Fully Covered Self-Expandable Metal Stents With and Without Anti-Migration Fins for the Management of Distal Malignant Biliary Obstruction. Bauss, Jacob, Jad P. AbiMansour, Daniel M. Simadibrata, Ross Dierkhising, John A. Martin, Bret T. Petersen, Ryan J. Law, Andrew C. Storm, Eric J. Vargas, Aliana Bofill-Garcia, Barham K. Abu Dayyeh, and Vinay Chandrasekhara. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, June, S0016-5107(25)01764-X.

Counties With Low Employment and Education Status Are Associated With Higher Age-Adjusted Cancer Mortality. Ponnamma Mohan, Minu, Joel B. Epstein, Kapil S. Meleveedu, Roberto Pili, and Poolakkad S. Satheeshkumar. Cancers 17 (12): 2051.

Photoaffinity Ligand of Cystic Fibrosis Corrector VX-445 Identifies SCCPDH as an Off-Target. Kim, Minsoo, Kwangho Kim, Jesun Lee, Lea A. Barny, Toya D. Scaggs, Ian M. Romaine, KyuOk Jeon, Simona G. Codreanu, Stacy D. Sherrod, John A. McLean, Anjaparavanda P. Naren, Gary A. Sulikowski, and Lars Plate. ACS Chemical Biology, June.

Blocking IL-17A Inhibits Methamphetamine-Induced Hyperlocomotion and Conditioned Place Preference and Prevents Methamphetamine Abstinence-Induced Depression-like Behaviors in Mice. Inan, Saadet, Sonita Wiah, Alexandra Szmacinski, Scott Dunn, Joseph J. Meissler, Ekaterina K. Koltsova, Sergey Grivennikov, and Scott M. Rawls. Neuropharmacology 278 (June): 110571.

Association of Medicaid Expansion With Colon Cancer Care: Treatment Patterns and Survival in Non-Metastatic Cases From State Registry-Claims Data. Eom, Kirsten Y., Weichuan Dong, Richard S. Hoehn, Jeffrey M. Albert, Uriel Kim, Gregory Cooper, Johnie Rose, Jennifer Tsui, and Siran M. Koroukian. Cancer Causes & Control: CCC, June.

Impact and Management of Warm Autoimmune Haemolytic Anaemia Associated With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Pons-Estel, Guillermo J., Marta Mosca, Daniel J. Wallace, Federico Zazzetti, Ann Leon, Wim Noël, Andreia Pierce, Tarek Ebrahim, and Irina Murakhovskaya. Autoimmunity Reviews, June, 103858.

A Prospective Clinical Trial of GVHD Prophylaxis With Post-Transplant Cyclophosphamide and Abatacept. Koura, Divya, Kaitlyn C. Dykes, Aaron Michael Goodman, Caitlin L. Costello, Carolyn Mulroney, James K. Mangan, Tiffany N. Tanaka, Edward D. Ball, Ayad Hamdan, Ah-Reum Jeong, James Mirocha, Qingyang Zhang, Paula Ogrodnik, Kimberly McConnell, Joseph J. Maroge, Michelle Padilla, Gerald P. Morris, and Dimitrios Tzachanis. Blood Advances, June, bloodadvances.2024015094.

Pituitary Incidentaloma: A Pituitary Society International Consensus Guideline Statement. Fleseriu, Maria, Mark Gurnell, Ann McCormack, Hidenori Fukuoka, Andrea Glezer, Fabienne Langlois, Theodore H. Schwartz, Yona Greenman, Nidhi Agrawal, Amit Akirov, Irina Bancos, Cristina Capatina, Frederic Castinetti, Michael Catalino, Mirjam Christ-Crain, Liza Das, Andjela Drincic, Pamela U. Freda, Monica R. Gadelha, Andrea Giustina, Felicia Hanzu, Ken K. Y. Ho, Kristina Isand, Susana Mallea-Gil, Adam N. Mamelak, Hani J. Marcus, Meliha Melin Uygur, Mark Molitch, Lisa B. Nachtigall, Elisabeth Nowak, Alberto M. Pereira, Maria M. Pineyro, Ismat Shafiq, Luis Syro, Yutaka Takahashi, Elena V. Varlamov, Greisa Vila, Gabriel Zada, Niki Karavitaki, Shlomo Melmed, and & The Pituitary Society International Incidentaloma Consensus Group. Nature Reviews. Endocrinology, June.

Changes in Gastroenterology Service Volumes and Billing Patterns Associated With Declining Medicare Reimbursement. Busam, Jonathan A., and Eric D. Shah. The American Journal of Gastroenterology, March.

Definitions, Diagnosis, and Management of Postoperative Recurrence in Crohn’s Disease Patients With Permanent Ileostomy-a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Abushamma, Suha, Tesfaye Yadete, Neil Nero, Katherine Falloon, Claire E. Parker, Maria T. Abreu, Vineet Ahuja, Alessandro Armuzzi, Willem Bemelman, David H. Bruining, Parakkal Deepak, Axel Dignass, Iris Dotan, Brian G. Feagan, Clifton Fulmer, Jonas Halfvarson, Ailsa Hart, Stefan D. Holubar, Rupert W. Leong, Christopher Ma, Fernando Magro, Jeffrey D. McCurdy, Neeraj Narula, Julian Panés, Tim Raine, Miguel Regueiro, Gerhard Rogler, Siddharth Singh, Miles P. Sparrow, Antonino Spinelli, Julie Ann Van Koughnett, Sudheer K. Vuyyuru, Virginia Solitano, Yuhong Yuan, Vipul Jairath, and Florian Rieder. Journal of Crohn’s & Colitis 19 (4): jjaf041.

Prevalence and Patterns of Opioid Use in Chronic Pancreatitis. Phillips, Anna Evans, Darwin L. Conwell, Shuang Li, Jami L. Saloman, Phil A. Hart, Evan L. Fogel, Santhi Swaroop Vege, Dana K. Andersen, William E. Fisher, Christopher E. Forsmark, Stephen Pandol, Walter G. Park, Mark D. Topazian, Stephen K. Van Den Eeden, Jose Serrano, Liang Li, Dhiraj Yadav, and Consortium for the Study of Chronic Pancreatitis, Diabetes, and Pancreatic Cancer (CPDPC). Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology 16 (5): e00807.

Fidaxomicin Reduces Collagen Expression in Intestinal Fibroblasts Via Platelet-Derived Growth Factor Receptor Beta and Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3 Beta Inhibition. Irwin, Sophie, Mieke van Daelen, Isabella Almaraz, Rebecca Park, Becca Nelson, Swapna Mahurkar-Joshi, Florian Rieder, David Q. Shih, Wendy Ho, Berkeley Limketkai, and Hon Wai Koon. Gastroenterology, May, S0016-5085(25)00765-6.

Neurosurgery

Artificial Intelligence in Epilepsy: A Systemic Review. Al-Breiki, Almuntasar, Said Al-Sinani, Ahmed Elsharaawy, Mohamed Usama, and Tariq Al-Saadi. Journal of Epilepsy Research 15 (1): 2–22.

Similar Reoperation Rates in Upper Versus Lower Thoracic to Pelvis Instrumentation: An Analysis of 7,300 Patients Utilizing a National Administrative Database. Gausper, Adeesya, Paal Nilssen, Robin Babadjouni, Suhas K. Etigunta, Andy M. Liu, David L. Skaggs, Justin K. Scheer, Corey T. Walker, and Alexander Tuchman. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 138 (June): 111391.

Reoperation Rates After Lumbar Discectomy in Pediatric Patients. Liu, Andy M., Adeesya Gausper, Suhas Etigunta, Karim Shafi, Kenneth Illingworth, David Skaggs, Alexander Tuchman, and Corey Walker. Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics, June.

Orthopaedics 

Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Generated Synthetic Computed Tomography in Pediatric Spine Patients. Michael, George E., Suhas K. Etigunta, Andy Liu, Meliza Perales, Cristabelle Alexander, Christopher Watterson, Daniel Hoghoughi, Norman Gellada, David L. Skaggs, and Kenneth D. Illingworth. JB & JS Open Access 10 (2): e25.00099.

Biomechanical Comparison of Full-Thickness Versus Partial-Thickness Quadriceps Tendon Grafts for ACL Reconstruction. Dansby, Jalen, James Tibone, Dave T. Huang, Andrew Nakla, Casey Batten, and Melodie F. Metzger. Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine 13 (6): 23259671251342607.

Clinical Significance of Prognostic Nutritional Index in Patients Who Underwent Palliative Surgery for Spine Metastasis. Kim, Young-Hoon, Kee-Yong Ha, Hyung-Youl Park, Kihyun Kwon, Yunseong Kim, Hyun W. Bae, and Sang-Il Kim. Journal of Clinical Medicine 14 (12): 4372.

Comparing Three and Four-Rod Constructs in Adult Spinal Deformity Patients With Long Fusions to the Pelvis: Is There a Difference in Rod Fractures and Revision Rates at Minimum 2-Year Follow-Up? Hassan, Fthimnir M., Sarthak Mohanty, Erik Lewerenz, Christopher Mikhail, Stephen R. Stephan, Andrew Platt, Joshua Bakhsheshian, Nathan J. Lee, Justin L. Reyes, Gabriella Greisberg, Joseph M. Lombardi, Zeeshan M. Sardar, Ronald A. Lehman, and Lawrence G. Lenke. Clinical Spine Surgery, June.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Clinical Effectiveness of Elexacaftor/Tezacaftor/Ivacaftor in 6 to 11-Year-Olds with Cystic Fibrosis. Pittman, Jessica E., Sarah Morgan, Morgan McCreary, Phuong T. Vu, Peter Jorth, Sonya Heltshe, Lucas R. Hoffman, Andrea Kelly, Scott D. Sagel, Pradeep K. Singh, George M. Solomon, Margaret Rosenfeld, and Felix Ratjen. Annals of the American Thoracic Society, June.

Pediatrics

A Novel KDF1 Variant Is Associated With Multiple Natal Teeth, Tooth Agenesis, and Root Maldevelopment. Graham, John M., Pedro A. Sanchez-Lara, Atsushi Ohazama, Katsushige Kawasaki, Stefan T. Arold, and Piranit Nik Kantaputra. International Dental Journal 75 (4): 100860.

Hypothermia Protects Against Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury by Limiting IL-1β Release and NETs Formation. Nosaka, Nobuyuki, Vanessa Borges, Daisy Martinon, Timothy R. Crother, Moshe Arditi, and Kenichi Shimada. eLife 14 (June): RP101990.

Death One Hour After Terminal Extubation in Children: Validation of a Machine Learning Model to Predict Cardiac Death After Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment in a Multicenter Cohort, 2009-2021. Winter, Meredith C., Alice X. Zhou, Eugene Laksana, Melissa D. Aczon, David R. Ledbetter, Michael Avesar, Kimberly Burkiewicz, Harsha K. Chandnani, Nina Fainberg, Stephanie Hsu, Michael C. McCrory, Katie R. Morrow, Anna Noguchi, Caitlin E. O’Brien, Apoorva Ojha, Charlene Pringle, Patrick A. Ross, Jui Shah, Sareen Shah, Leonid Shpaner, Linda B. Siegel, Sandeep Tripathi, Randall C. Wetzel, and Pediatric Data Science and Analytics (PEDAL) subgroup of the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: A Journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies, June.

Surgery 

Beyond Mortality: What a 30,000-Foot View of Opportunities for Improvement Can Teach Us About Trauma Center Maturity. Barmparas, Galinos. Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open 10 (2): e001923.

Analyzing the Candidate Pool for Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation - A Multi-Center OPTN Study With a Focus on Face Transplant Candidates. Knoedler, Leonard, Jakob Fenske, Thomas Schaschinger, Tobias Niederegger, Javier Gonzalez, Curtis L. Cetrulo, Maxime Jeljeli, Max Heiland, and Alexandre G. Lellouch. Journal of Cranio-Maxillo-Facial Surgery, June, S1010-5182(25)00188-X.

Robotic Navigational Bronchoscopy in a Real-World Clinical Setting: Insights Into the Strict Criteria. Brownlee, Andrew R., Claire Perez, George Chaux, Raffaele Rocco, and Harmik J. Soukiasian. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, June, S0003-4975(25)00538-7.

Epigenetic Modifiers to Enhance the Efficacy of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors for the Treatment of Melanoma. Liguori, Luigi, Angelo Luciano, Valentina Pagliara, Giovanna Polcaro, Rosario De Feo, Angela Viggiano, Fabio Salomone, Annarita Avanzo, Filippo Vitale, Simeone D’ambrosio, Alberto Servetto, Cristina R. Ferrone, Stefano Pepe, and Francesco Sabbatino. Translational Oncology 59 (June): 102452.

Dimple Creation Surgery. Lee, Kimberly J., and Raffaello M. Cutri. Facial Plastic Surgery: FPS, June.

The TRANS-SAFE Patient Safety Learning Laboratory: A Protocol for Systems Improvement for Psychosocial Safety in Transgender Care. Cohen, Tara N., Jennifer T. Anger, Hanna Barton, Jill Blumenthal, Amanda Gosman, Falisha Kanji, Rai Khamisa, Jejo Koola, Priya Lewis, Maja Marinkovic, Bixby Marino-Kibbee, Maxwell Moore, Kyle Okamuro, Shanaya Sidhu, Victor Trasvina, Florin Vaida, and Alan J. Card. Journal of Patient Safety, June.

Consensus Guideline for the Management of Peritoneal Metastases From Neuroendocrine Neoplasms. Su, David G., Leanne M. Brown, Varun V. Bansal, Baylee Bakkila, Seth J. Concors, Kiran K. Turaga, Craig Gunderson, Emily Bergsland, Jonathan R. Strosberg, Thorvardur R. Halfdanarson, David C. Metz, John W. Kunstman, Pamela L. Kunz, Alexandra Gangi, and Peritoneal Surface Malignancies Consortium Group. Cancer 131 (13): e35871.

Consensus Guideline for the Management of Peritoneal Metastases from Neuroendocrine Neoplasms. Su, David G., Leanne M. Brown, Varun V. Bansal, Baylee Bakkila, Seth J. Concors, Kiran K. Turaga, Craig Gunderson, Emily Bergsland, Jonathan R. Strosberg, Thorvardur R. Halfdanarson, David C. Metz, John W. Kunstman, Pamela L. Kunz, Alexandra Gangi, and Peritoneal Surface Malignancies (PSM) Consortium Group. Annals of Surgical Oncology, June.

Urology

Clinical Relevance of Nectin-4 Downregulation and Biological Changes Caused by Cytotoxic Chemotherapy in Bladder Cancer. Miyake, Makito, Takuya Owari, Kota Iida, Sayuri Onishi, Nobutaka Nishimura, Tomomi Fujii, Cynthia N. Jinno, Hideki Furuya, Yuki Oda, Tatsuki Miyamoto, Mitsuru Tomizawa, Takuto Shimizu, Kenta Onishi, Shunta Hori, Yosuke Morizawa, Daisuke Goto, Yasushi Nakai, Nobumichi Tanaka, Noriyoshi Miura, Tadahiko Kikugawa, Takashi Saika, Charles Rosser, and Kiyohide Fujimoto. Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology 95 (1): 62.

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