Faculty Publications June 25-July 9

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published June 25-July 9. 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

The Science of Fermented Food | The New York Times
Suzanne Devkota, PhD

Are Weight-Loss Drugs Also Longevity Drugs? | The New York Times
Nicolas Musi, MD

Fans Slam FIFA’s Cooling Breaks. Why the U.S. World Cup Team Doctor Disagrees | Los Angeles Times
Bert Mandelbaum, MD

Even High Amounts of Coffee May Lower Your Risk for Liver Disease | CNN
Hyunseok Kim, MD, MPH, PhD

Regular Users Can Tolerate Previously ‘Unsurvivable’ Amounts of Fentanyl | The New York Times
Itai Danovitch, MD

Navigating hATTR-CM: Why Self-Advocacy Matters | WebMD
Lily Stern, MD

What’s Top of Mind? 60 Healthcare Leaders Share Their No. 1 Priority for H2 2026 | Becker’s Hospital Review
Heitham Hassoun, MD

AI Found a Hidden Heart-Risk Signal in 100-Year-Old ECG Technology | Scientific American
Sumeet Chugh, MD

How Far and How Fast Should You Walk to Lower Blood Pressure, According to Experts | Health
Joseph Ebinger, MD

Higher Mortality Risk in Patients With IBS Using Antidepressants | Medscape
Ali Rezaie, MD

How Shingles Affects Your Body Now…And Later | HealthCentral
Sonja Rosen, MD

Mouneer Odeh, MA, Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer at Cedars-Sinai | Becker’s Hospital Review/Becker’s Healthcare Podcast
Mouneer Odeh, MA

AI Is Transforming Cardiac Imaging—Often in Ways Clinicians Do Not Recognize | Cardiovascular Business
Damini Dey, PhD

Faculty Publications

Biomedical Sciences

Curcumin ((1E,6E)-1,7-Bis(4-Hydroxy-3-Methoxyphenyl)-1,6-Heptadiene-3,5-Dione) Induces Apoptosis-Like Death in Leishmania Amazonensis Promastigotes and Exhibits Leishmanicidal Activity in Infected Macrophages in Free and Beeswax-Based Nanoparticle Formulations. Carloto, Amanda Cristina Machado, Ana Carolina Jacob Rodrigues, Mariana Barbosa Detoni, Ellen Mayara Souza Cruz, Virgínia Márcia Concato-Lopes, Rodolfo Bento Balbinot, Fabrício Seidy Ribeiro Inoue, Yuri Barreiros, Arthur Poester Cordeiro, Pedro Henrique Hermes de Araújo, Claudia Sayer, Paulo Emílio Feuser, Celso Vataru Nakamura, Ivete Conchon-Costa, Danielle Lazarin-Bidóia, and Wander Rogério Pavanelli. Pathogens 15 (6): 650.

Human Astrocytes Keep Time With Inflammation. Burda, Joshua E. Neuron 114 (13): 2287–89.

Japanese Encephalitis in Nepal: Closing the Adult Immunity Gap. Gc, Alisha, Arzu Kunwar, Ankit Jaiswal, Binod Rayamajhee, and Binod Gc. Tropical Medicine and Health 54 (1): 123.

Machine Learning Multiorgan Analysis of Coronary CT Angiography Body Composition, Myocardial Infarction, and Mortality in the SCOT-HEART Trial. Ranieri Guimaraes, Alan, Steven E. Williams, Mark T. Macmillan, Kayleigh Wood, Chaoyang Wang, Jonathan R. Weir-McCall, Philip D. Adamson, Giles Roditi, Nicholas L. Mills, Marc R. Dweck, Marc Dewey, Jakob Wasserthal, Piotr J. Slomka, Damini Dey, David E. Newby, and Michelle C. Williams. Radiology 319 (3): e251821.

On the Misuse of Virus-Transformed Human Corneal Epithelial Cells as Surrogates for Normal Cells. Ljubimov, Alexander V., and Ruchi Shah. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 67 (6): 59.

Serial Changes in Epicardial Adipose Tissue Attenuation Identify Residual Atherosclerotic Risk Independent of LDL Lowering: A Post Hoc Analysis of the CAUGHT-CAD Trial. Khanna, Shaun, Edwin Xu, Cheng Hwee Soh, Sheran Vasanthakumar, Rhea Machado, Andrew Lin, Clare Arnott, Damini Dey, Stephen J. Nicholls, Thomas H. Marwick, and Nitesh Nerlekar. JACC. Cardiovascular Imaging, July, S1936-878X(26)00276-7.

The Arsenic-Alzheimer’s Disease Link: Emerging Evidence and Unanswered Questions. Dimas-Harms, Luz Jovita, and V. Alexandra Moser. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease: JAD, July, 13872877261467042.

The Role of Supraoptic Hypothalamic Arginine Vasopressin Neurons in Aging-Associated Water Balance and Thermoregulatory Deficits in Male Mice. Morones, Nancy, Predrag Jovanovic, Anna M. Sanetra, Kaitlyn Jang, Nareg Keshishian, Zhihan C. Cui, Edward Novinbakht, Joshua J. Breunig, Anders H. Berg, Tamar Pirtskhalava, Selim Chaib, S. Ananth Karumanchi, Tamar Tchkonia, Katlin Silm, James L. Kirkland, and Celine E. Riera. Nature Communications, June.

Tumoricidal Efficacy of DZ-1 Dye Conjugated to Dihydroartemisinin in Patient-Derived Colorectal Liver Metastasis Tumoroids. Vafaeinik, Farzaneh, Badrinath Narayanasamy, Sarah Helmueller, Yi Zhang, Alexandra Gangi, Heuiran Lee, Cheryn Song, Robert Figlin, Karine Sargsyan, and Yong J. Lee. Molecular Therapy. Oncology 34 (3): 201257.

Cardiac Surgery

Authorship Asymmetry at the Women in Thoracic Surgery Inaugural Annual Conference: Gender Pairings and Senior Status Disparity. Lin, Nicole, Mariya Samoylova, Rebekah Boyd, Busra Cangut, Rajika Jindani, Marianna Papageorge, Tanisha Rajah, Sara Sakowitz, Madigan Stanley, Kaitlin Bevers, Laura DiChiacchio, Nimrat Grewal, Ammara A. Watkins, Stephanie Worrell, and Mara Antonoff. JTCVS Open 31 (June): 101725.

Expanding the Donor Pool - COVID-19-Positive Hearts in Pediatric Transplantation. Diaz-Castrillon, Carlos E., and Melita Viegas. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, July, S0003-4975(26)00684-3.

Mid-Term Outcomes After Robotic Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in the United States. Nammalwar, Shruthi, Adham Elsherbini, Aminah Sallam, Allen A. Razavi, Dominic Emerson, Michael E. Bowdish, Stephen Fremes, Fuad Moussa, Natalia Egorova, Joanna Chikwe, and Derrick Y. Tam. The Canadian Journal of Cardiology, June, S0828-282X(26)00638-0.

Transcatheter Versus Surgical Mitral Valve Repair in Patients Younger than 70 Years in the United States. Sallam, Aminah, Derrick Y. Tam, Armin Razavi, Betemariam Sharew, Rie Sakai Bizmark, Joann G. Elmore, Beth Glenn, James Macinko, Kristen R. Choi, Dominic Emerson, Michael Bowdish, Natalia Egorova, and Joanna Chikwe. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, June, S0003-4975(26)00586-2.

Cardiology

A Clinically Interpretable AI System for Real-Time Quality Control of Transthoracic Echocardiography: Development, Validation, and Deployment. Shi, Zhongqing, Hanlin Cheng, Zhanru Qi, Chunjie Shan, Cynthia C. Taub, David Ouyang, Christopher Lee, Ruiyang Chen, Yue Du, Hexiang Weng, Yidi Chen, Sunnan Qian, Guanjun Guo, Xiaoxian Wang, Di Xu, Shouhua Luo, and Jing Yao. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, June, S0894-7317(26)00307-X.

AHA/ACC/ESC/WHF Expert Consensus Document: Second Universal Definition of Heart Failure (2026): AHA/ACC/ESC/WHF CONSENSUS DOCUMENT. Walsh, Mary Norine, Lars Kober, Karen Sliwa, Marianna Adamo, Anubha Agarwal, Amitava Banerjee, Biykem Bozkurt, Maja Cikes, Albertino Damasceno, Akshay S. Desai, G. Michael Felker, Gail Hogan, Koichiro Kinugawa, Michelle Kittleson, Carolyn S. P. Lam, Theresa McDonagh, Marco Metra, Wilfried Mullens, Antonio Luiz P. Ribeiro, Yolanda Vaughn, and Amanda Vest. European Heart Journal, June, ehag500.

AHA/ACC/ESC/WHF Expert Consensus Document: Second Universal Definition of Heart Failure (2026). Walsh, Mary Norine, Lars Kober, Karen Sliwa, Marianna Adamo, Anubha Agarwal, Amitava Banerjee, Biykem Bozkurt, Maja Cikes, Albertino Damasceno, Akshay S. Desai, G. Michael Felker, Gail Hogan, Koichiro Kinugawa, Michelle Kittleson, Carolyn S. P. Lam, Theresa Mcdonagh, Marco Metra, Wilfried Mullens, Antonio Luiz P. Ribeiro, Yolanda Vaughn, Amanda Vest, and Joint American Heart Association (AHA)/American College of Cardiology (ACC)/European Society of Cardiology (ESC)/World Heart Federation (WHF) Task Force for the Universal Definition of Heart Failure in collaboration With the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA), the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the European Society of Cardiology, and the Japanese Heart Failure Society (JHFS). Global Heart 21 (1): 51.

AI-Quantified Myosteatosis at CAC CT for Prediction of Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure: 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, 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, Nathan D. Wong, and Morteza Naghavi. Radiology. Cardiothoracic Imaging 8 (4): e250214.

Centers of Excellence Optimal Management Pathways for Atrial Fibrillation Specialty Services (COMPASS) Early Rhythm Control Treatment Care Pathway: A Quality Improvement Initiative. Sandhu, Roopinder K., Sean D. Pokorney, Sanghamitra Mohanty, Michelle Moore, Andrea Natale, Anne Marie Smith, T. Jared Bunch, and Jonathan P. Piccini. Heart Rhythm O2 7 (6): 1175–81.

Clinical Triage of Individuals With Warning Symptoms of Imminent Cardiac Arrest. Reinier, Kyndaron, Harpriya Chugh, Vishnu Kadiyala, Arayik Sargsyan, Audrey Uy-Evanado, Kotoka Nakamura, Elizabeth Heckard, Marco Mathias, Tristan Grogan, David Elashoff, Angelo Salvucci, Jonathan Jui, and Sumeet S. Chugh. Circulation. Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, July, e014647.

Comparing Incidence of Heart Failure in Individuals With Enlarged Cardiac Chambers Versus Diabetes. Mirjalili, Seyed Reza, Kyle Atlas, Anthony P. Reeves, Chenyu Zhang, Jakob Wasserthal, Amir Azimi, Ali Hashemi, Mohammadhossein Mozafarybazargany, Amir Ghaffari Jolfayi, Thomas Atlas, Claudia I. Henschke, David F. Yankelevitz, Javier J. Zulueta, Jeffrey Mechanick, Andrea D. Branch, Ning Ma, Rowena Yip, Wenjun Fan, Sion K. Roy, Khurram Nasir, Sabee Molloi, Zahi Fayad, Michael V. McConnell, Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, George Abela, Rozemarijn Vliegenthart, David J. Maron, Jagat Narula, Kim A. Williams, Prediman K. Shah, Matthew J. Budoff, Daniel Levy, Roxana Mehran, Robert A. Kloner, Nathan D. Wong, and Morteza Naghavi. American Journal of Preventive Cardiology 29 (October): 101656.

Differences of Plaque Burden Measures on CCTA in Younger Men and Women. Asif, Anum, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Heidi Gransar, Donghee Han, Martha Gulati, Alan Rozanski, John D. Friedman, Sean W. Hayes, Louise E. J. Thomson, Damini Dey, Balaji Tamarappoo, and Daniel Berman. American Journal of Preventive Cardiology 29 (October): 101602.

Double Transseptal Guide Sheath Technique to Prevent Low Dock Positioning During Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement. Hu, Jiun-Ruey, Adishwar Singh, George Thornton, Jarmanjeet Singh, Apurva Bharucha, Christopher Rajkumar, Dhairya Patel, Wen Cheng, Aakriti Gupta, Moody Makar, and Raj Makkar. JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions, June, S1936-8798(26)01733-4.

How to Apply the DAZE Technique: Structured Approach to Fetal Cardiac Image Optimization. Perez, M., M. Sklansky, T. Anton, K. J. Stauffer, R. Basu, and D. Pretorius. Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology, 68 (1): 130–39.

Impact of Fenestration on Survival and Morbidity Following Fontan Surgery: A Time-to-Event Meta-Analysis of Reconstructed Kaplan-Meier Data. Ganduboina, Rohit, Jef Van den Eynde, Xander Jacquemyn, Omar Abdel Kerim, and Sandeep Sainathan. World Journal for Pediatric & Congenital Heart Surgery, June, 21501351261450496.

Inflammation, Metabolism, and Aging in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: Mechanisms and Treatment Perspectives. Teng, Yaqun, Weikang Bian, Qingyu Li, Jennifer E. Van Eyk, Xiaowei Yan, and Shuyang Zhang. Journal of Translational Internal Medicine 14 (3): 379–97.

Interlaboratory Comparison of a Glucagon and Oxyntomodulin Immuno-LC-MS/MS Assay: Implications for Diabetes Research. Moradian, Annie, Jessica O. Becker, Lorenz A. Nierves, Tai-Tu Lin, Salvatore Sechi, Michael J. MacCoss, Wei-Jun Qian, Jennifer E. van Eyk, and Andrew N. Hoofnagle. Clinical Chemistry, July, hvag078.

Leveraging Large Language Models to Identify In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. Vo, Jonathan, Davy Weissenbacher, Kyndaron Reinier, Harpriya Chugh, Audrey Uy-Evanado, Karen O’Connor, Sumeet S. Chugh, and Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez. JACC. Clinical Electrophysiology, June, S2405-500X(26)00532-3.

Long-Term Outcomes of Patients Receiving Dialysis and Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement With Contemporary Balloon-Expandable Valves. Shitan, Hidemasa, Vivek Patel, Kazuki Suruga, Yuchao Guo, Daniel Ng, Brittany Cole, Aakriti Gupta, Tarun Chakravarty, Wen Cheng, Yuito Okada, Hasan Jilaihawi, Mamoo Nakamura, and Raj R. Makkar. International Journal of Cardiology. Heart & Vasculature 65 (August): 101959.

Paclitaxel-Coated Balloon Versus Uncoated Balloon for Coronary In-Stent Restenosis: Two-Year Follow-Up of the AGENT-IDE Randomized Clinical Trial. Moses, Jeffrey, Jiho Han, Richard Shlofmitz, William Bachinsky, Suhail Dohad, Steven Rudick, Robert Stoler, Brian K. Jefferson, William Nicholson, John Altman, Cinthia Bateman, Amar Krishnaswamy, J. Aaron Grantham, Frank J. Zidar, Jennifer A. Tremmel, Cindy Grines, Mustafa I. Ahmed, Azeem Latib, Behnam Tehrani, J. Dawn Abbott, Wayne Batchelor, Rafael Cavalcante, Ajay J. Kirtane, Robert W. Yeh, and AGENT IDE Investigators. Circulation 154 (1): 63–65.

Paternal Age and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: A Spline Analysis From the Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study: Monitoring Mothers-to-Be Study. Conley, Patrick M., Rachel A. Newman, Tania Esakoff, and Natalie A. Bello. The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, 39 (1): 2686069.

Preconception Cardiometabolic Markers and Odds of Developing Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: Results From the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL). Pabon, Maria A., Danielle N. Tapp, Madison Pico, Catherine J. Vladutiu, Christian Schmidt, Emily DeFranco, Shathiyah Kulandavelu, Tali Elfassy, Margo B. Minissian, Natalie A. Bello, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Nour Makarem, Michelle L. Meyer, Krista M. Perreira, Yanping Teng, Martha Daviglus, Michelle A. Kominiarek, Carlos J. Rodríguez, Barry E. Hurwitz, Gregory A. Talavera, Susan Cheng, and Odayme Quesada. American Journal of Preventive Cardiology 28 (August): 101494.

Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch With Intra-Annular Self-Expanding Valves: An Analysis of the PORTICO IDE Trial. Fontana, Gregory P., Ron Waksman, Arash Salemi, Marc Cohen, William Abernethy, James Hermiller, Craig Baker, Joseph Montarello, Neal Kleiman, Lars Sondergaard, Eric Gnall, Roberto Rodriguez, Hemal Gada, William Brinkman, Neil J. Weissman, Paul Mahoney, and Raj Makkar. EuroIntervention: Journal of EuroPCR in Collaboration With the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology 22 (13): e741–47.

Racial Differences in Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes and Incident Hypertension: A Mediation Analysis. Petito, Lucia C., Xiaoning Huang, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Natalie Bello, Janet Catov, Ernesto Licon, Abbi Lane, David M. Haas, Lisa D. Levine, Rebecca B. McNeil, Eliza Miller, Uma M. Reddy, Bethany Barone Gibbs, George Saade, Lauren Theilen, Laura E. Wiener, Brian M. Mercer, Hyagriv N. Simhan, Lynn M. Yee, Philip Greenland, William A. Grobman, and Sadiya S. Khan. Journal of the American Heart Association 15 (13): e035681.

Sex-Based Differences in Clinical Outcomes Among Cardiogenic Shock Patients Treated With Mechanical Circulatory Support. Olumuyide, Emmanuel, Ju Young Bae, Rongras Damrongwatanasuk, Ezaz Rahman, Barbara Malaga-Espinoza, Jiun-Ruey Hu, and S. Elissa Altin. Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis, June.

Real-World Outcomes of Dedicated Leaflet Modification for Bioprosthetic Valve-In-Valve TAVR: A 150-Patient Commercial Experience. Makkar, Raj R., Aakriti Gupta, Ignacio Inglessis, Curtiss T. Stinis, Pradeep K. Yadav, Vinod H. Thourani, Stanley J. Chetcuti, Matthew Summers, Vivek Patel, Bassem M. Chehab, Apurva Patel, Gilbert H. L. Tang, Sahil Khera, Michael Rinaldi, Trevor Simard, Jeffrey Southard, Benjamin R. Stripe, Brian Whisenant, Keith Allen, Yoseph Rozenman, Danny Dvir, Carlos E. Sanchez, Jeffrey Popma, Martin B. Leon, and Philippe Généreux. JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions, June, S1936-8798(26)01732-2.

The Association of Eicosanoids With Lung Structure and Function: Findings From the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis Lung Study and Framingham Heart Study. Ambatipudi, Mythri, Jenna N. McNeill, Athar Roshandelpoor, Mona Alotaibi, Louisa A. Mounsey, Eric Hoffman, George O’Connor, Seung Hoan Choi, Norrina B. Allen, R. Graham Barr, Mohit Jain, Susan Cheng, and Jennifer E. Ho. PloS One 21 (6): e0351692.

The Epilepsy-Cog Study: Methods to Establish a Harmonized Study of Late Onset Epilepsy in a Metacohort of Six Population-Based Cohorts in the United States. Choi, Hyunmi, Jose Gutierrez, Tian Wang, Minghua Liu, Cheng-Shiun Leu, Sylwia Misiewicz, Jiying Han, Natalie Bello, Mary L. Biggs, Emily M. Briceño, Adam M. Brickman, James F. Burke, Ligong Chen, Lisandro D. Colantonio, Stefany P. Diaz Andino, Mitchell S. V. Elkind, Annette L. Fitzpatrick, Christopher Gonzalez Corona, Rebecca F. Gottesman, Alden L. Gross, Lei Huang, Emily L. Johnson, W. Craig Johnson, Deborah A. Levine, W. T. Longstreth, Sofia Pelagalli Maia, Richard P. Mayeux, Brian C. Petersen, Oluwadamilola Obalana, Dolly Reyes-Dumeyer, Tatjana Rundek, Danurys Sanchez, Steven J. Shea, Kevin Strobino, Carolyn W. Zhu, and Evan L. Thacker. Epilepsia, July.

Variability in Cardiac Stress Test Interpretation: Agreement Between Enrollment Sites and Core Laboratories in the Global ISCHEMIA Trial. O’Keefe, Evan, Brett W. Sperry, Philip G. Jones, James H. O’Keefe, Lawrence M. Phillips, Harmony R. Reynolds, Leslee J. Shaw, Daniel S. Berman, Michael H. Picard, Raymond Y. Kwong, Bernard R. Chaitman, Timothy M. Bateman, Sripal Bangalore, David J. Maron, Judith S. Hochman, John A. Spertus, and ISCHEMIA Research Group. Circulation. Population Health and Outcomes, July, e012920.

Computational Biomedicine

Cardiac Risk After Heart-Sparing Breast Radiotherapy. Quirk, Sarah, Katelyn M. Atkins, Natalie Logie, Robert J. H. Miller, Christian Guthier, Raymond H. Mak, Laura E. G. Warren, Cody Ramin, Abdulla Al-Rashdan, Jean L. Wright, and Michael Roumeliotis. JAMA Oncology, July, e262066.

Night Watch: A Survey of Older Adult Sleep-Tracking. Hoffmann, Thomas James, and Lisa Gualtieri. Behavioral Sciences 16 (6): 917.

Optimized Phenotype Definitions Boost GWAS Power. Zietz, Michael, Kathleen LaRow Brown, Undina Gisladottir, and Nicholas P. Tatonetti. PLoS Computational Biology 22 (7): e1014431.

Protocol for Constructing Multi-Ancestry Polygenic Models Using S4-Multi. Lai, Ping-Hung, Jonathan P. Tyrer, John Baierl, Paul D. P. Pharoah, and Pei-Chen Peng. STAR Protocols 7 (3): 104681.

Tutorial: Using Random Forest Analysis to Identify Auxiliary Variables of Missing Data. Coxe, Stefany, Amanda N. Baraldi, and Timothy Hayes. Prevention Science, July.

Emergency Medicine

Do Hospitals Turn Away Ambulances Only When Busy, or When Their Peers Do? Lin, Jiangheng, Gengbin Piao, and Kimon L. H. Ioannides. Annals of Emergency Medicine, July, S0196-0644(26)00377-X.

Opioid Use and Pain Resolution for Acute Pain Among Opioid-Naive Patients. Jeffery, Molly Moore, Fernanda Bellolio, Nancy Chang, Summer Allen, Marie-Carmelle Elie-Turenne, W. Jonathan Fillmore, Gregg H. Gilbert, Rebekah Heckmann, Patricia Koussis, Christine Lee, Heather Lipkind, Tamra E. Meyer, Teryl K. Nuckols, Jessica D. Ritchie, Michael A. Pacanowski, David B. Page, Mat Soukup, Stephen Tamang, Sam Torbati, Doug Wallace, Lauren Walter, Yueqin Zhao, Nilay D. Shah, Mitra Ahadpour, and Joseph S. Ross. JAMA Network Open 9 (7): e2621875.

Imaging

Superficial Siderosis and a Spinal Cord Cleft. Schievink, Wouter I., Marcel M. Maya, and Michael Levy. JAMA Neurology, June, 1–2.

Medicine

Adjuvant Radiation Therapy Is Not Associated With Improved Survival in Low-Risk Localized Merkel Cell Carcinoma: An Analysis of the National Cancer Database. Kasheri, Eli, Zachary S. Zumsteg, Vijay Kodumudi, Nima Gharavi, and Amanda Rosenthal. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, July, S0190-9622(26)03049-5.

Adult Chronic Pancreatitis Working Group: Goals, Accomplishments and the Path Ahead. A Report From the Consortium for the Study of Chronic Pancreatitis, Diabetes, and Pancreatic Cancer. Yadav, Dhiraj, Liang Li, Dana K. Andersen, Melena D. Bellin, Zobeida Cruz-Monserrate, Willian Fisher, Evan L. Fogel, Christopher E. Forsmark, Phil A. Hart, Bomi Lee, Tonya Palermo, Stephen J. Pandol, Walter G. Park, Jami Saloman, Jose Serrano, Temel Tirkes, Mark D. Topazian, Stephen van Den Eeden, Santhi Swaroop Vege, Darwin L. Conwell, and Consortium for the Study of Chronic Pancreatitis, Diabetes, and Pancreatic Cancer (CPDPC). Pancreas, April.

An Approach to Globus Sensation: Clinical Pearls for Clinicians. Naik, Ilora, Neelaysh Vukkadala, and Amrit K. Kamboj. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 101 (7): 1202–10.

Atg5 Deficiency Alters Myofibroblast Accumulation and Alveolar Regeneration in Lung Fibrosis. Li, Xue, Guiying Xu, Qi Wang, Qingwen Ma, Xue Liu, Hongwei Li, Sisi Wang, Yimeng Liu, Yueyue Jin, Xuan Miao, Zuokuan He, Jinrui Dong, Kuan Li, Jianhai Wang, Yu Li, Qiuyang Zhang, Dianhua Jiang, Junping Wu, Wen Ning, and Huaiyong Chen. Stem Cell Reports, July, 102979.

Automated AI-Based Aortic Measurements From Attenuation Correction CT as an Adjunctive Cardiovascular Risk Biomarker: An International Multicenter Study. Marcinkiewicz, Anna M., Aakash Shanbhag, Panithaya Chareonthaitawee, Wenhao Zhang, Hasanian Al-Jilaihawi, Ryan Zaid, Sebastien Cadet, Giselle Ramirez, Mark Lemley, Jirong Yi, Waseem Hijazi, Valerie Builoff, Joanna X. Liang, Vinicius F. Calsavara, Andrew J. Einstein, Edward Miller, Attila Feher, Terrence D. Ruddy, Viet T. Le, Steve Mason, Stacey Knight, Erick Alexanderson, Isabel Carvajal-Juarez, Leandro Slipczuk, Mark I. Travin, Thomas L. Rosamond, Samuel Wopperer, Daniel S. Berman, Damini Dey, Marcelo Di Carli, Robert J. H. Miller, and Piotr J. Slomka. Circulation. Cardiovascular Imaging, July, e019726.

Beyond Medication: Integrative and Nutrition Therapies for Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction. Thakur, Elyse R., Kate Scarlata, Brennan Spiegel, and David J. Hass. Gastroenterology & Hepatology 22 (4): 177–87.

Clinical Images: Skin Manifestations and Radiographic Findings of Anti-SAE1 Positive Dermatomyositis. Seng, Amara, George Matcuk, Wonwoo Shon, Lindsy Forbess, and Mariko L. Ishimori. ACR Open Rheumatology 8 (7): e90100.

Coffee Consumption and Improved Liver Outcomes: Clinical, Imaging, and Proteomic Evidence From the UK Biobank. Kim, Hyun-Seok, Mohammad Saeid Rezaee-Zavareh, Yufeng Wang, Abdelrahman M. Attia, Minsun Kwak, Seungwon Burm, Derin Celtik, Daniel Legaspi, Osama Khattab, Naomy Kim, Beza M. Mengistu, Kelsey N. Larios, David Sooik Kim, Walid Ayoub, Alexandar Kuo, Paul Martin, Aarshi Vipani, Yun Wang, Suthat Liangpunsakul, Debiao Li, Shelly C. Lu, Stephen Pandol, and Ju Dong Yang. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, July, S1542-3565(26)00404-0.

Considerations in Reviewing Network Meta-Analyses of Heterogeneous Clinical Trial Designs: A Methodological Review in Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis. Ma, Christopher, Eric B. Collins, Si-Tien Wang, Yixi Teng, Warren Stevens, Remo Panaccione, Dolly Sharma, Namita Joshi, Pierre A. Morisset, Raja Atreya, and Gil Y. Melmed. Crohn’s & Colitis 360 8 (2): otag050.

Differences in Overall Survival for Invasive Epithelial Ovarian Cancer by Race and Ethnicity: Results From the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium. Meagher, Nicola S., Kami K. White, Lynne R. Wilkens, Hoda Anton-Culver, Elisa V. Bandera, Michael E. Carney, Daniel W. Cramer, Kara L. Cushing-Haugen, Anna DeFazio, Jennifer A. Doherty, Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj, Ellen L. Goode, Marc T. Goodman, Holly R. Harris, Beth Y. Karlan, Scott H. Kaufmann, Linda E. Kelemen, Martin Köbel, Jennifer M. Koziak, Loic Le Marchand, Jenny Lester, Valerie McGuire, Usha Menon, Francesmary Modugno, Kirsten B. Moysich, Celeste Leigh Pearce, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Malcolm C. Pike, Bo Qin, Harvey A. Risch, Joseph H. Rothstein, Danja Sarink, Weiva Sieh, Helen Steed, Kathryn L. Terry, Pamela J. Thompson, Linda J. Titus, Toon Van Gorp, Alice S. Whittemore, Stacey J. Winham, Susan J. Jordan, Anna H. Wu, Penelope M. Webb, AOCS Group, Lauren C. Peres, and Melissa A. Merritt. British Journal of Cancer, June.

Double-Balloon Enteroscopy for Luminal Evaluation of the Excluded Stomach: A Retrospective Multicenter Analysis. Albares, Peter, F. Otis Stephen, Lauren Pioppo-Phelan, Catherine Hudson, Alice Parish, Iris Vance, Jason Stibbe, Donna Niedzwiecki, and Daniel Wild. iGIE: Innovation, Investigation and Insights 5 (2): 161-166.e1.

Excessive Epithelial Mechanosensation Drives Nociceptive Innervation and Chronic Bladder Pain via the PIEZO1-SLC7A11-Glutamate Axis. Kim, Min Jung, Joo Hwan Noh, Ho Young Lee, Bohm Lee, Alexander Doh Park, Hyeonseo Oh, Geun-Woo D. Kim, Hye-Sook Lee, Yeonsoo Oh, Hyeonje Hwang, Chungoo Kim, Hyeonjong Lee, Xue Li, Mi Mi Oh, Donghoon Lim, Soman N. Abraham, Yongcheol Cho, Sung Wook Chi, and Hae Woong Choi. Cell, June, S0092-8674(26)00649-5.

Expert Clinical Consensus on Body Surface Gastric Mapping Phenotypes for Gastroduodenal Disorders: ‘Auckland Classification’ v1.0. Varghese, Chris, Nicky Dachs, Gabriel Schamberg, Thomas Abell, Mohammad Al-Haddad, Timothy Robert Angeli-Gordon, Shahin Ayazi, Homira Ayubi, Mohammad Bashashati, Robert Bulat, Stefan Calder, Christopher Brian Cederwall, Greg O’Grady, et al. Neurogastroenterology and Motility 38 (7): e70377.

How AI Will Transform the Care of Patients With DGBIs. Spiegel, Brennan. Gastroenterology & Hepatology 22 (5): 269–72.

Improved Outcomes With TKI Maintenance Following Brexucabtagene Autoleucel in Philadelphia-Chromosome ALL. Othman, Tamer, Gregory W. Roloff, Katharine Miller, Amy Zhang, Katherine C. Sutherland, Rawan G. Faramand, LaQuisa C. Hill, Ibrahim N. Muhsen, Nikeshan Jeyakumar, Abdullah Ladha, Joshua P. Sasine, Chenyu Lin, Noam E. Kopmar, Stephanie B. Tsai, Timothy E. O’Connor, Talal Hilal, Melhem M. Solh, Caitlin Guzowski, Virginia Tan, Navneet S. Majhail, Minoo Battiwalla, Shahbaz A. Malik, John Mathews, Paul J. Shaughnessy, Luke Mountjoy, Kaitlyn C. Dykes, Aaron C. Logan, Marc S. Schwartz, Matthew P. Connor, Jiasheng Wang, Sumithira Vasu, Muthu Kumaran, Rasmus T. Hoeg, Sean I. Tracy, Fevzi Firat Yalniz, George Yaghmour, Vinod A. Pullarkat, Ryan D. Cassaday, Jessica T. Leonard, Bijal D. Shah, Noelle V. Frey, Lori S. Muffly, and Ibrahim Aldoss. Blood Advances, June, bloodadvances.2026020707.

Incidence of Gastrointestinal Adverse Events and Healthcare Resource Utilization in Patients Using Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Analogs: A Real-World Study. Nathani, Piyush, Sevag Hamamah, Jena Velji, Harsh K. Patel, Rohit Nathani, Dhruvil Radadiya, Aarnav Shandilya, Sachin Srinivasan, Madhav Desai, Alessandro Repici, Cesare Hassan, and Prateek Sharma. Digestive Diseases and Sciences, July.

Linear Gingival Erythema Presenting in Systemic Lupus Erythematous. Green, Brianna Ashley, and Jimmy Lam. Journal of Clinical Rheumatology: Practical Reports on Rheumatic & Musculoskeletal Diseases, April.

Rapid Peak Cilta-Cel Expansion Is Associated With Delayed Neurotoxicity in Multiple Myeloma. Hosoya, Hitomi, Arash Velayati, Danai Dima, Alexandria Jensen, Andrew J. Portuguese, Vanna Hovanky, Lekha Mikkilineni, Lauren C. Peres, Ariel F. Grajales-Cruz, Sylvester Homsy, Masooma Shifa Rana, Juancarlos Cancilla, Sunita Patil, Bita Sahaf, Theresa Latchford, Ciara L. Freeman, Brian J. Scott, Kun Wei Song, Omar Alexis Castaneda-Puglianini, Humza Khan, Saurabh Dahiya, Frederick L. Locke, Crystal L. Mackall, David B. Miklos, Rahul Banerjee, Doris K. Hansen, Melissa Alsina, and Surbhi Sidana. Blood, July, blood.2025032844.

Real-World Outcomes With BCMA- and GPRC5D-Targeting Bispecific Antibodies in Plasma Cell Leukemia. Gaballa, Mahmoud R., Kelley Julian, Aimaz Afrough, Doris K. Hansen, Utkarsh Goel, Andre De Menezes Silva Corraes, Danai Dima, Masooma Shifa Rana, Hitomi Hosoya, Lekha Mikkilineni, Lindsay Fogel, Shahzad Raza, Douglas W. Sborov, et al. Blood Advances, July, bloodadvances.2026020826.

Targeting Cellular Senescence in Dermatology: Senolytic and Senomorphic Strategies. Haykal, Diala, Frederic Flament, Lilit Garibyan, Kachiu Lee, Julie Escot, Audrey Gueniche, and James Kirkland. GeroScience, July.

The Association Between 6-Thioguanine Nucleotide Levels, Adalimumab Exposure, Immune Response, and Drug Clearance. Yarur, Andres, Jonathan C. Lo, Bincy Abraham, Stephen Hanauer, and Thierry Dervieux. Crohn’s & Colitis 360 8 (2): otag053.

Transcriptomics Profiles in Intestinal Sulfide Overproduction, Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth, and Intestinal Methanogen Overgrowth. Freitas Germano, Juliana de, Gabriela Leite, Maria Jesus Villanueva-Millan, Daniel Brimberry, Mohamad Rashid, Ava Hosseini, Dilara Flor, Said Bogatyrev, Walter Morales, Stacy Weitsman, Maritza Sanchez, Ignacio Rivera, Cristina Moreno Fajardo, Victoria Murray, Gonzalo Parodi, Margie Parra, Zhe Lyu, Gillian M. Barlow, Ali Rezaie, Ruchi Mathur, and Mark Pimentel. mSystems, June, e0045826.

Transforming Preeclampsia Care: Molecular Diagnostics and Therapeutic Innovations. Thadhani, Ravi, and S. Ananth Karumanchi. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN, July.

Neurology

Disinhibitory Signaling Enables Flexible Coding of Top-Down Information in Cortical Networks. Aquino, Tomas G., Robert Kim, and Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana. PLoS Biology 24 (7): e3003831.

Reduced Penetrance in Genetic ALS/FTD Spectrum Disorders: Implications for Genetic Counseling, Predictive Testing and Treatment. Harrington, Elizabeth A., Laynie Dratch, Tara A. Jones, Jamie C. Fong, Daniel D. Kinnamon, Jill Goldman, Wendy R. Uhlmann, and Jennifer Roggenbuck. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis & Frontotemporal Degeneration, July, 1–12.

The ‘Brain’s Traffic Map’ Reveals Neural Pathways Linked to Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction in Women. Has Silemek, Arzu C., Jeffrey C. Wertheimer, Janet Wei, Yibin Xie, Mitzi Gonzales, Debiao Li, Oana Dumitrascu, Sarah Kremen, Zaldy S. Tan, Micheal D. Nelson, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Pascal Sati, and Wei Gao. Brain and Behavior 16 (6): e71559.

Neurosurgery

Biomechanical Effects of a Unilateral Transforaminal Endoscopic Approach for Lumbar Decompression: A Cadaveric Study. Elhamdani, Shahed M., Aidan K. Copinga, Owen G. Corcoran, Praveer S. Vyas, Jahan Aslami, Cody J. Woodhouse, Dallas E. Kramer, Corey T. Walker, Ryan D. Sauber, Alexander K. Yu, and Boyle C. Cheng. Spine, June.

Early Findings From the Multicenter RAPID Consortium on Papillary Craniopharyngiomas. Catalino, Michael P., Duy Pham, Robert C. Rennert, William T. Couldwell, James J. Evans, Calen Callopy, Won Kim, Donato Pacione, Carter M. Suryadevara, Albert Kim, Julie Silverstein, Michael Chicoine, Paul A. Gardner, Garni Barkhoudarian, Juan C. Fernandez Miranda, Carolina Benjamin, Varun R. Kshettry, Gabriel Zada, Jamie J. Van Gompel, Sandhya R. Palit, Nathan Zwagerman, Stephanie Cheok, Daniel Prevedello, Kyle C. Wu, Adam Mamelak, Mark Pacult, Andrew Little, and Michael Karsy. Journal of Neurological Surgery. Part B, Skull Base 87 (4): 406–13.

Hierarchical Learning Creates Invariant Schema Within Plastic Neural Networks. Elder, James R., Jie Zheng, Lydia B. Shimelis, Ueli Rutishauser, and Milo M. Lin. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, June.

Infection Following Cervical Artificial Disc Replacement. Shahrestani, Shane, Anubhav Chandla, Adeesya Gausper, Andy M. Liu, Suhas K. Etigunta, Todd Lanman, Jason Cuellar, Terrence T. Kim, J. Patrick Johnson, Christopher Mikhail, David L. Skaggs, Justin K. Scheer, Alexander Tuchman, Corey T. Walker, Eli M. Baron, and Tiffany Grace Perry. Neurosurgical Focus 61 (1): E6.

MAD-MT Score: A Tool to Optimize Patient Selection for Mechanical Thrombectomy in Distal Vessel Occlusions. Chen, Huanwen, Dhairya A. Lakhani, Hamza Adel Salim, Marco Colasurdo, Vivek Yedavalli, Basel Musmar, Nimer Adeeb, Davide Simonato, Yan-Lin Li, Muhammed Amir Essibayi, Orabi Hajjeh, Nils Henninger, MAD-MT Investigators, et al. Stroke, July.

OBGYN

Standard vs. Lower Pressure Pneumoperitoneum in Laparoscopic Gynecologic Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Schneyer, Rebecca, Raanan Meyer, Ogechukwu Ezike, Connie Liao, Kelly Wright, Kacey Hamilton, Liron Bar-El, Katharine Ciesielski, and Matthew Siedhoff. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, July, S0002-9378(26)00351-0.

Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine

Beyond the Usual Suspects: Recognizing Calcified Chondroid Mesenchymal Neoplasm in Hand Soft Tissue Tumors. Weldon, Edward J., Benjamin H. Weldon, David A. Kulber, and Stuart H. Kuschner. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Global Open 14 (7): e7922.

Healing Indices Are Poorly Standardized in Distraction Osteogenesis Literature. Huang, Anna Y., Mitchell Bernstein, James A. Blair, Steffen Rosslenbroich, John Scolaro, and Geoffrey S. Marecek. Injury 57 (10): 113362.

Preoperative Alignment and Risk of Proximal Junctional Failure: A Framework for Upper Instrumented Vertebra Selection in Adult Spinal Deformity. Hills, Jeffrey, Lawrence G. Lenke, Justin S. Smith, Christopher I. Shaffrey, Virginie Lafage, Renaud Lafage, Shay Bess, Michael P. Kelly, International Spine Study Group, International Spine Study Group member, Jay Turner, Juan Uribe, Scott Zuckerman, et al. The Bone & Joint Journal 108-B (7): 943–51.

Quadriceps Injuries in Major League Soccer: A 10-Year Analysis of Injury Rate, Return-to-Play, and Performance Metrics. Forsythe, Brian, Catherine Hand, Camden Bohn, Daanish Khazi-Syed, Joshua Chang, Francis Hand, Harmanjeet Singh, Andrew Savoia, Jonathan Spaan, Eric Giza, Margot Putukian, and Bert R. Mandelbaum. Arthroscopy, Sports Medicine, and Rehabilitation 8 (3): e70022.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Accurate Focal-Plane Selection Is Crucial for Artificial Intelligence Assessment of Three-Dimensional Urine Cytology Specimens for Bladder Cancer Screening and Surveillance. Sayegh, Yoseph, Brody McNutt, Minh-Khang Le, I.-Chuang Liao, Keluo Yao, Camille Ng, Ahmad Kohsar, Daniel Shou, Michael Yu, YinXian Jin, Louis J. Vaickus, Xiaoying Liu, Christopher J. VandenBussche, Samuel E. Harvey, and Joshua J. Levy. Cancer Cytopathology 134 (7): e70117.

Dendritic Cell α-Ketoglutarate Regulates Tfh Polarization in Allergy. Tharakan, Anuj, Xufeng Qu, Carmen Camarena, Araba Abaidoo-Myles, Parth Naik, Jeremy Allegood, Ankit Kumar, Mihir Pokhriyal, Joseph C. Lownik, Matthew P. Zellner, Grayson W. Way, Jinze Liu, Lauren Ashley Cowart, Stephanie C. Eisenbarth, Joseph W. Landry, Daniel H. Conrad, and Rebecca K. Martin. Allergy, July.

IgA Nephropathy Across the Age Spectrum: Urgent Need to Accelerate Pediatric Access to Therapeutic Innovation. Cambier, Alexandra, Lison Lachize-Neanne, and Mark Haas. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: CJASN, July.

Pediatrics

Compound Heterozygous ATM Variants Cause Adolescent-Onset Cerebellar and Extrapyramidal Disease Without Telangiectasia in a Consanguineous Pakistani Family. Aslam, Faiza, Weizhen Ji, Lauren Jeffries, Anant Wadhwa, Monica Konstantino, Muhammad Noman, Nigel S. Bamford, Emily Mis, Saquib A. Lakhani, and Sadaf Naz. Genetics Research 2026 (1): e5644954.

Dupilumab Is Safe and Efficacious for Treatment of Eosinophilic Esophagitis and Atopic Dermatitis in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients: A Case Series. Yuen, Christina, Laura J. Wozniak, Ronald Cotliar, and Robert S. Venick. Pediatric Transplantation 30 (7): e70382.

Increased 18F-FDG Avidity on PET/CT During Treatment for Rhabdomyosarcoma Confirmed to Be Mature Rhabdomyoblasts. Baca, Nicole, Fataneh Majlessipour, Christopher T. Watterson, Bonnie Balzer, Behrooz Hakimian, Daniel C. Allison, and Leo Mascarenhas. Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, July.

PEAK-II Trach: A Multi-Institutional Quality Improvement/Simulation Study Assessing Pediatric Emergency Readiness. Dunne, Olivia, Amanda Shen, Roxanna Mosavian, Jonathan Biel, Marc-Mina Tawfik, Elliot B. Schiff, Alanna M. Windsor, Jacqueline Weingarten-Arams, Sara Soshnick, Monirah Albathi Mbbs, Meredith Lind, Emily Ernest, Timothy Pian, Tensing Maa, Adam Van Horn, Ilana Harwayne-Gidansky, Regine Fortunov, Akira Nishisaki, Lesa Ward, James Beal, Kamal Abulebda, Todd Chang, Takunori Hozumi, Ankona Ghosh, Pooja Nawathe, Adrian D. Zurca, Kristin Van Genderen, Lindsay R. Koressel, Biva Narsing, Daniel C. Chiou, Ariel Sugarman, Tarif A. Choudhury, Melissa Fazzari, David W. Lounsbury, Ahsan S. Ahmed, and Christina J. Yang. Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery, June.

Regional Organization of Nutrient Absorption Across the Small Intestine. Zwick, Rachel K., Mark Sharpley, Jérémie Rispal, Shervin Rabizadeh, Dario Boffelli, and Ophir D. Klein. Nature Reviews. Gastroenterology & Hepatology, July.

The Safety and Effectiveness of Early Anti-Tumor-Necrosis-Factor Therapy for Penetrating Crohn’s Disease Complications in Children. Constant, Brad D., Yixuan Feng, Jing Huang, Janet Okraku-Mantey, Jeremy Adler, Sabina Ali, Jessica Barry, Rusvelda Cruz, Erin C. Crawford, Jennifer L. Dotson, Mary Kate Ewalt, Jeannie S. Huang, Kelly Kachelries, Jacob A. Kurowski, Phillip Minar, Elana B. Mitchel, Taylor D. Montminy, Ryan Morrow, Brad Pasternak, Shervin Rabizadeh, Cary G. Sauer, Tal Shapira, Whitney M. Sunseri, Ibrahim Tarabishy, Becca Trombler, Sudha A. Anupindi, Robert N. Baldassano, Edwin F. de Zoeten, Frank I. Scott, and Lindsey Albenberg. The American Journal of Gastroenterology, July.

Radiation Oncology

Participant Heterogeneity in the Prostate Cancer Biobank of the NRG: An Obstacle to Broadening the Reach of Precision Oncology. Kamran, Sophia C., Monica Borges, Jeff Michalski, W. Robert Lee, Howard M. Sandler, Juanita Crook, Alan Pollack, Mark D. Hurwitz, Richard K. Valicenti, Deborah Watkins Bruner, Himanshu Lukka, Christopher U. Jones, Mack Roach, Colleen Lawton, Seth A. Rosenthal, Thomas M. Pisansky, Daniel Spratt, Neha Vapiwala, Jason Efstathiou, David Miyamoto, Kent Mouw, Melissa Vyfhuis, Quynh-Thu Le, Henning Willers, Eliezer Van Allen, Franklin Huang, Jean-Paul Bahary, Joelle Helou, Stephanie L. Pugh, Jennifer Wenzel, and Phuoc Tran. JCO Precision Oncology 10 (7): e2600158.

Surgery

ASO Visual Abstract: Trends in Breast and Axillary Operations in Young Patients With Operable Breast Cancer From the National Cancer Database (NCDB)-De-Escalation of Axillary Surgery and Increased Use of Radiation. Boyle, Marissa K., Marc A. Attiyeh, Farin Amersi, Alice Chung, Jin Sun Lee, and Armando E. Giuliano. Annals of Surgical Oncology, July.

Current Concepts in Platelet-Rich Plasma Therapy for Lateral Epicondylitis Through a Histopathological and Clinical Lens. Reshadi Nezhad, Navid R., and Meghan McCullough. Cureus 18 (6): e110311.

Detection of Microvascular Failure Using Bioimpedance and Sensor-Derived Clinical Indicators: A Preliminary Study. Van Dieren, Loïc, Haïzam Oubari, Leonard Knoedler, Raffaele Aguglia, Korkut Uygun, Mark A. Randolph, Filip Thiessen Ef, Alexandre G. Lellouch, and Curtis L. Cetrulo. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Global Open 14 (7): e7916.

Donor Acute Kidney Injury Is Not Associated With Inferior Outcomes After Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation. Wang, Olyvia S., Gabriel E. Nissen, Yujie Cui, Georgios Voidonikolas, Kambiz Kosari, Tsuyoshi Todo, Justin A. Steggerda, Steven A. Wisel, Irene K. Kim, and Todd V. Brennan. American Journal of Transplantation, July, S1600-6135(26)02630-4.

Functional and Aesthetic Considerations for Selective Facial Neurectomy With Simultaneous Deep Plane Facelift and Structural Neck Contouring for Facial Paralysis With Synkinesis. Lu, Richard J., Victor Hsue, Jenna Thuman, and Babak Azizzadeh. Facial Plastic Surgery & Aesthetic Medicine, July, 26893614261458127.

Hydrogel-Encapsulated Primed MSCs Enhance Regeneration in Full-Thickness Porcine Burn Wounds. White, Kristopher, Victor Pozzo, Alec R. Andrews, Rabab Chalaby, Annie T. Dinh, Pierre Tawa, Golda Romano, Alexandre G. Lellouch, Curtis L. Cetrulo, and Ronke Olabisi. Tissue Engineering. Part A, June, 19373341261460268.

Liquid Surrogates of Spatial Tumor Ecosystems. Chang, Tian-Gen, Eldad D. Shulman, and Eytan Ruppin. Cell Research, June.

Making the OR Work: A Socio-Material Study of Ergonomics in the Operating Room. Mah, Alexis, Csilla Kalocsai, Fahad Alam, Allia Karim, Jeremie Larouche, M. Susan Hallbeck, Tara Cohen, Anna Ding, Jessica Armah, Julie Hallet, and SORE research group. The British Journal of Surgery, July, znag083.

Pathological Complete Response in a POLE-Mutated Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patient Treated With Perioperative Chemoimmunotherapy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Liguori, Luigi, Rosario De Feo, Lucia Santaniello, Brigida Miranda, Valentina Pagliara, Giovanna Polcaro, Alessandro Caputo, Giulia Cattaneo, Marco Ventin, Alberto Servetto, Cristina R. Ferrone, Stefano Pepe, and Francesco Sabbatino. MedScience, July.

Patient-Reported Outcomes in Masculinizing Gender-Affirming Chest Surgery: Validation of the GENDER-Q Chest Scales. Haley, Caleb, Shane D. Morrison, Manraj N. Kaur, Charlene Rae, Megan Lane, Danny A. Young-Afat, Tim C. van de Grift, Nicola R. Dean, Kathleen A. Armstrong, Devin Coon, Zac A. Cannell, Christian X. Lava, Sylvie D. Cornacchi, Alexis Laungani, Margriet G. Mullender, Jens Ahm Sørensen, Lotte Poulsen, Jack G. Graesser, Thomas Satterwhite, Allison C. Hu, Gerhard S. Mundinger, Hilliard T. Brydges, Jessica J. Hsu, Blair R. Peters, Jens U. Berli, Christodoulos Kaoutzanis, Nargis Kalia, Rachel Bluebond-Langner, Oren Ganor, Alireza Hamidian Jahromi, Bashar A. Hassan, Fan Liang, John H. Pang, Edward C. Ray, Gabriel A. Del Corral, Kenneth L. Fan, Lily R. Mundy, Andrea L. Pusic, and Anne F. Klassen. The British Journal of Surgery, July, znag089.

PDLIM2 Acts as a Central Regulator of Ubiquitination, Immune Signaling, and Mitochondrial Metabolism in Lung Cancer Suppression (Review). Chuang, Tsung-Hsien, Jeng-Hung Guo, Jing-Xing Yang, Jen-Chih Tseng, Hung-Jung Wang, and Chao-Yang Lai. International Journal of Oncology 69 (2): 96.

Redefining Textbook Outcome in Contemporary Colon Surgery. Zeller, Matthew Paul, Rachel Ma, Joseph Wetherell, Jessica Felton, Yosef Nasseri, and Joshua Wolf. Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, 30 (8): 102487.

Rib Grafts in Rhinoplasty: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Autologous, Fresh-Frozen, and Irradiated Cartilage. Datta, Shaishav, Elie P. Ramly, Victoria Tucci, Kaitlin Lees, Steven A. Hanna, David Mattos, and Richard G. Reish. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Global Open 14 (6): e7875.

Single-Cell Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Tumor-Immune Determinants of Lymph Node Colonization and Progression in Thyroid Cancer. Nguyen, Anthony T., Jolene Viramontes, Isaiah Vazquez, Catriona McWilliam, Vaishnavi Devarakonda, Regina Henson, Wendy L. Sacks, Jon Mallen-St Clair, Yufei Chen, Evan Walgama, Kevin S. Scher, Justin Moyers, Howard M. Sandler, Julie K. Jang, Zachary S. Zumsteg, Wonwoo Shon, Stephen L. Shiao, and Allen S. Ho. Science Advances 12 (27): eaea4727.

Socioeconomic Characteristics and Outcomes of Inpatient Cranial Nerve Decompression Procedures: An 18-Year HCUP-NIS Study. Hoch, Cosima C., Thomas Schaschinger, Tobias Niederegger, Paul F. Funk, Jadyn N. Heffern, Alexandre G. Lellouch, Joanna Kempa-Timler, Leonard Knoedler, Jakob Fenske, and Douglas Henderson. European Journal of Plastic Surgery 49 (1): 125.

Transplantation Tolerance Versus Immune Evasion: Mechanistic Divergences and Therapeutic Frontiers for Islet Cell Replacement. Deuse, Tobias, and Sonja Schrepfer. Cell Reports. Medicine, July, 102888.

Trends in Breast and Axillary Operations in Young Patients With Operable Breast Cancer From the National Cancer Database (NCDB): De-Escalation of Axillary Surgery and Increased Use of Radiation. Boyle, Marissa K., Marc A. Attiyeh, Farin Amersi, Alice Chung, Jin Sun Lee, and Armando E. Giuliano. Annals of Surgical Oncology, July.

Use of Internal Brace for the Surgical Management of the ‘Baby Stener’ Lesion of the Radial Collateral Ligament to the Small Finger. Woo, Dainn, and David A. Kulber. Journal of Hand Surgery Global Online 8 (5): 101050.

White Paper: Robotic Cholecystectomy-New Technology but Safe Principles Still Apply. Porter, Eleah, Irving Jorge, Cris Mk Malino, Ankit Sarin, Patrick J. Sweigert, Dale Butler, Dnyanesh Madhukar Belekar, Maggie Bosley, Domenech Asbun, Francesco M. Bianco, Jessica Lindemann, Edward L. Jones, Jennifer M. Moffett, Dana Telem, Matthew B. Bloom, L. Michael Brunt, Kevin El-Hayek, Shanley B. Deal, and B. Fernando Santos. Surgical Endoscopy 40 (5): 3575–86.

Urology

Clinical Validation of a Multiplex Urine Biomarker Assay for Surveillance of Recurrent Bladder Cancer. Lotan, Yair, Michael Luu, Menghan Liu, Sergei Tikhonekov, Takashi Kobayashi, Michael Ahdoot, Hyung Lae Kim, Sima Porten, Garry Peers, Yuki Kita, Timothy Daskivich, Kaoru Murakami, Toru Sakatani, Ian Pagano, Yingye Zheng, Zhen Zhang, Hideki Furuya, and Charles J. Rosser. Clinical Cancer Research, July.

Equity and Cancer Survival Among Veterans Health Administration Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Bullard, Alyssa Jasmine, Haley I. Tupper, Kevin Su, Lin Gu, Luca F. Valle, Isla P. Garraway, Donna L. Washington, Chloe E. Bird, Robert A. Winn, Stephen J. Freedland, Christina D. Williams, and Drew Moghanaki. JAMA Network Open 9 (7): e2621585.

Enzalutamide in Biochemically Recurrent Prostate Cancer: Clinical Implications From EMBARK for Real-World Practice. Freedland, Stephen J., and Neal D. Shore. Future Oncology, July, 1–12.

How Enzalutamide Affects Sex Life and How Taking a Break From Treatment Affects Quality of Life: A Plain Language Summary of Results From the EMBARK Study in People With Hormone-Sensitive Prostate Cancer and High-Risk Biochemical Recurrence. Freedland, Stephen J., Ugo De Giorgi, Antti Rannikko, Fred Saad, Martin Gleave, Miguel Ramírez Backhaus, John Mulhall, Bhavik J. Pandya, Jasmina Ivanova, Pavol Kral, James Turnbull, and Neal Shore. Future Oncology, July, 1–13.

Integrating Natural Language Processing With ChatGPT to Improve Quality of Artificial Intelligence Summaries of Prostate Cancer Consultations. Friedrich, Nadine A., Sanjay K. Das, Michael Luu, James P. Daniels, John Heard, Avetik Barsegyan, Stephen J. Freedland, Brennan Spiegel, Paul K. Kokorowski, Graciela Gonzalez Hernandez, and Timothy J. Daskivich. JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics 10 (3): e2500199.

Intravesical Mesothelin-Based CAR T Cells Targeting MUC16 Effectively Control Bladder Cancer in Preclinical Models. Abrahimi, Parwiz, Jonathan F. Khan, Alyssa Duren-Lubanski, Winson Cai, Yacine Marouf, Nan Chen, Daniel Hirschhorn, Renata Mammone, Ileana C. Miranda, Jacob E. Tallman, Alejandra Vela-Moreno, Mohamad Hamieh, Bishoy M. Faltas, Thomas M. Carroll, Micaela L. Everitt, Hari K. K. Subramanian, Hikmat A. Al-Ahmadie, Olivier Elemento, Benjamin D. Hopkins, Douglas S. Scherr, Renier J. Brentjens, Jedd D. Wolchok, and Taha Merghoub. The Journal of Experimental Medicine 223 (7): e20250699.

Response to Comment on ‘Artificial Intelligence-Based Approaches to Augmenting and Automating Surgical Training.’ Lin, Jasmine, Ludovica Cella, Mitchell G. Goldenberg, and Andrew J. Hung. BJU International, June.

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