Faculty Publications March 26-April 2

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published March 26-April 2. 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

7 Ways to Reduce Parkinson's Disease Risk: Prevention Tips to Slow Progression | U.S. News & World Report
Michele Tagliati, MD

We Trust AI Over Our Own Brains, Research Finds | Forbes
Elias Aboujaoude, MD

Does Eating the Same Foods Work Best for Weight Loss? | Medscape
Amanda Velazquez, MD

Heart Attacks in Younger Women: AHA Calls for Better Diagnosis and Management | JAMA Network
C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD

Crohn’s Treatment: Four Key Guideline Updates | Medscape
Waseem Ahmed, MD

CHAMPION-AF: A Win for Watchman FLX, But With Caveats | TCTMD
Sanjay Kaul, MD

Researchers: New MRI System Could Aid Early Detection of Heart Health | Diagnostic And Interventional Cardiology
Hsin-Jung Yang, PhD

Faculty Publications

Anesthesiology

The Rationalization of Carbon Monoxide and Hemoglobin Association. Lee, Chihjen, and Nikki Chen. PloS One 21 (3): e0346152.

The Anesthesiologist’s Role in Preventing Chronic Post-Surgical Pain and Opioid Use Through Neurobiological Programming: A Mini Review. Nair, Trisha, Ofelia Loani Elvir-Lazo, and Robert Wong. Frontiers in Anesthesiology 5 (March).

Cardiac Surgery

Obesity and Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: A Clinical Nexus for Exercise Intolerance. Pandit, Abhishek, Mahima Gupta, Daniel A. Arabie, Payton Milton, Mahmoud Elbatreek, Traci Goodchild, David J. Lefer, Joseph Francis, David Moll, and Timothy D. Allerton. Obesity, March.

Cardiology

Contemporary National Trends in the Management of Admissions for Pulmonary Embolism. Oltman, Connor G., Kellie Cao, Maaz Imam, Riyaz Bashir, Suhail Dohad, Eric A. Secemsky, and Issam D. Moussa. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine 13: 1757697.

AI-Driven Quantitative Coronary CT Angiography in Suspected Coronary Artery Disease: Multicenter CONFIRM2 Registry. Rosendael, Alexander van, Rine Nakanishi, Jeroen J. Bax, Gianluca Pontone, Saima Mushtaq, Ronny R. Buechel, Christoph Gräni, Gudrun Feuchtner, Pietro G. Lacaita, Amit R. Patel, Cristiane C. Singulane, Andrew D. Choi, Ibrahim Danad, et al. JACC. Advances 5 (3): 102618.

Early Aspirin Withdrawal Versus Dual Antiplatelet Therapy in High-Risk Patients After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials. Navarese, Eliano P., Paul Gurbel, Udaya Tantry, Giuseppe Talanas, Klaudyna Grzelakowska, Julia Umińska, Young-Hoon Jeong, Kevin Bliden, Safi U. Khan, Jacek Kubica, Timothy D. Henry, Michael E. Farkouh, and Dean J. Kereiakes. PLoS Medicine 23 (3): e1004995.

Skin Sympathetic Nerve Activity and Nocturnal Septal ST-Segment Elevation. Rao, Sthira, Xiao Liu, Anxhela Kote, Xiaochun Li, Noel Bairey Merz, and Peng-Sheng Chen. Heart Rhythm O2 7 (3): 638–39.

M-TEER for Mitral Regurgitation: Does RESHAPE-HF2 Break the Tie or Muddy the Waters? Kaul, Sanjay. JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions, March, S1936-8798(26)00675-8.

An Atypical ‘Hot-Phase’ ARVC in a PKP2 Carrier. Mutebi, Cedrick, Marius Chukwurah, Merije Toya Chukumerije, Oluwakorede Akele, Ranvir Raman Bhatia, and Aubrey J. Grant. JACC. Case Reports 31 (12): 107411.

Design and Rationale of the Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Trial to Assess the Management of Moderate Aortic Stenosis by Clinical Surveillance or Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: The PROGRESS Trial. Généreux, Philippe, Raj Makkar, Jeroen J. Bax, Philippe Pibarot, Brian R. Lindman, Heather Prince, Brandon Park, David J. Cohen, Michael J. Mack, and Martin B. Leon. American Heart Journal, March, 107433.

Myocardial Bridge Causing Ventricular Tachycardia in a Competitive Athlete. McClintick, Daniel J., Joseph A. Dearani, Jamie A. Decker, and Eli M. Friedman. JACC. Case Reports 31 (12): 107277.

Global, Regional, and National Burden of Meningitis, Its Risk Factors, and Aetiologies, 1990-2023: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023. GBD 2023 Meningitis & Antimicrobial Resistance Collaborators. The Lancet. Neurology, March, S1474-4422(26)00101-8.

Left Atrial Appendage Closure or Anticoagulation for Atrial Fibrillation. Doshi, Shephal K., Saibal Kar, Devi G. Nair, Thomas Waggoner, Himanshu Agarwal, Mehran Moussavian, Amir Kashani, Saumil Oza, Leon Feldman, Ashish Sadhu, David DeLurgio, Oluseun Alli, Jens Erik Nielsen-Kudsk, Masanori Yamamoto, Mohamad Alkhouli, A. John Camm, Megan Coylewright, C. Michael Gibson, Christopher B. Granger, Mahmut Edip Gurol, Kenneth C. Huber, Moussa Mansour, Andrea Natale, Stuart J. Pocock, Vivek Y. Reddy, Walid I. Saliba, Federico M. Asch, Scott Wehrenberg, Kate Frost, Thomas Christen, Brad S. Sutton, Kenneth M. Stein, Martin B. Leon, Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, and CHAMPION-AF Investigators. The New England Journal of Medicine, March.

Long-Term Durability of Acoramidis Efficacy in Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy: Open-Label Extension of the ATTRibute-CM Randomized Clinical Trial. Soman, Prem, Sarah A. M. Cuddy, Julian D. Gillmore, Nitasha Sarswat, Daniel P. Judge, Francesco Cappelli, Lily K. Stern, Richard Wright, Olakunle Akinboboye, Laura Obici, Kunal Bhatt, Kuangnan Xiong, Adam Castaño, Chris Chen, Heather Falvey, Maria Lucia Pecoraro, Jean-François Tamby, Uma Sinha, Jonathan C. Fox, Keyur Shah, Justin L. Grodin, Amrut V. Ambardekar, Kevin M. Alexander, Michel G. Khouri, and Richard K. Cheng. JAMA Cardiology, March, e260819.

Alternate Day vs Daily Topical Brinzolamide for the Treatment of Cystic Maculopathy in Inherited Rod Cone Retinal Degenerations. Barrett, Chiya Robert, Gulunay Kiray, Orit Barrett, and Andrea L. Vincent. Ophthalmic Genetics, March, 1–8.

Sex-Dependent Activation of Apamin-Sensitive Small-Conductance Ca2+-Activated K+ Current by Β1-Adrenergic Stimulation in Rabbit Ventricles. Yang, Minjing, Liyang Zhang, Anxhela Kote, Charles Fisher, James E. Tisdale, Zhenhui Chen, Thomas H. Everett, Xiao Liu, and Peng-Sheng Chen. The Journal of Physiology, March.

Blood Pressure Genetic Risk and Incident Hypertension at 2 to 7 Years Post Partum. Hemeryck, Jan, Nore De Moor, Daniel Ezzat, Raiyan R. Khan, Nathan Vandergrift, Lisa D. Levine, Caroline Rouse, Lauren H. Theilen, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Lynn M. Yee, Judith Chung, Natalie A. Bello, George Saade, Philip Greenland, Janet M. Catov, Sadiya S. Khan, William A. Grobman, and Michael C. Honigberg. JAMA Cardiology, April.

Electrocardiographic Predictors of Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Women With Suspected Ischemia and No Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease: Results of the Women’s Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation. Dungan, Jennifer R., Yasmeen K. Taha, Qinglin Pei, Michael T. Weaver, Michael J. Tavormina, Steven E. Reis, Eileen M. Handberg, C. Noel Bairey Merz, and Carl J. Pepine. Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology, Inc 31 (3): e70168.

Computational Biomedicine

A Biology-Based Quality-Diversity Algorithm for Drug Repurposing in Alzheimer’s Disease Using Automated Machine Learning. Shao, Sisi, Pedro Henrique Ribeiro, Alena Orlenko, Katie M. Cardone, Christina M. Ramirez, Li Shen, Marylyn D. Ritchie, and Jason H. Moore. BioData Mining, March.

Single-Injection Multi-Omics Analysis by Direct Infusion Mass Spectrometry. Jiang, Yuming, Ivan Salladay-Perez, Amanda Momenzadeh, Jesús Muñoz-Estrada, Uktarsh Tripathi, Anthony J. Covarrubias, and Jesse G. Meyer. Angewandte Chemie, March, e19836.

Clinicopathologic and Molecular Predictors of Survival in BRCA-Deficient Tubo-Ovarian High-Grade Serous Carcinoma. Zwimpfer, Tibor A., Sian Fereday, Ahwan Pandey, Dinuka Ariyaratne, Madawa W. Jayawardana, Laura Twomey, Céline M. Laumont, Catherine J. Kennedy, Adelyn Bolithon, Nicola S. Meagher, Katy Milne, Phineas Hamilton, Dale W. Garsed, et al. Nature Communications, April.

Medicine

Genetic Strategies for Labeling AT2 Cells in Murine Lung via Abca3 and Etv5-Driven Reporters. Liu, Xue, Xuexi Zhang, Zekun Li, Vrishika Kulur, Ningshan Liu, Jiurong Liang, and Dianhua Jiang. Journal of Respiratory Biology and Translational Medicine 3 (1): 10002.

Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health. Polyak, Alexander, Alexander Lee, and Martha Gulati. Journal of Diabetes Research 2026 (1): e3341765.

Vaccines for Healthcare Personnel: A Core Safety Measure a Position Statement From the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). Weber, David J., Grace M. Lee, Erica S. Shenoy, Deborah S. Yokoe, Rajalakshmi Ananthanarayanan, Carolee Estelle, Jesse T. Jacob, Jennie H. Kwon, Lisa L. Maragakis, Rekha Murthy, Priya Nori, Ann-Christine Nyquist, Catherine Passaretti, Lisa Saiman, Julia E. Szymczak, and Thomas R. Talbot. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, March, 1–3.

When Oncogenic Signaling Meets Sex-Biased Immune Evasion. Li, Xue. Cancer Research, March.

Associations Between Dietary Patterns and Diabetes in Patients With Acute Pancreatitis: A Cross-Sectional Analysis From the DREAM Study. Ba, Djibril M., Tian Qiu, Nazia Raja-Khan, Sun Qi, Fred Tabung, Kristen M. Roberts, Anna E. Phillips, Cemal Yazici, Dhiraj Yadav, Elham Afghani, Venkata S. Akshintala, Marina Basina, Melena Bellin, James L. Buxbaum, Anna Casu, Kathleen Dungan, Carmella Evans-Molina, Evan L. Fogel, Chris E. Forsmark, Mark O. Goodarzi, Brian T. Layden, Sandra Lord, Stephen J. Pandol, Georgios I. Papachristou, Walter G. Park, Richard Pratley, Vikesh K. Singh, Cate Speake, Frederico G. S. Toledo, Guru Trikudanathan, Vernon M. Chinchilli, Phil A. Hart, and Type 1 Diabetes in Acute Pancreatitis Consortium (T1DAPC). Nutrition Journal, March.

Associations of Lifestyle Factors and Ultra-Processed Food Consumption With Constipation Among US Adults: NHANES 2005-2010. Lo, Jonathan C., Longgang Zhao, Euridice Martinez Steele, Xuehong Zhang, Harminder Singh, and N. Jewel Samadder. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, March, S1542-3565(26)00226-0.

Forkhead Box Protein M1 Network Induction and Crosstalk Drives the Development of Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease. Yang, Bing, Liqing Lu, Jiaohong Wang, Lucía Barbier-Torres, Jing Zhang, Jyoti Chhimwal, Sonal Sinha, Brent Beadell, Guo Zhang, Takashi Tsuchiya, Maria Lauda Tomasi, Ting Liu, Heping Yang, and Shelly C. Lu. Hepatology, March.

Grand SLAM Study Protocol: A Prospective Randomised Multicentre Study of Shortened Versus Standard Duration Adjuvant Immune Checkpoint Inhibition for Stage IIB-C, III and IV Cutaneous Melanoma. Ejder, Patric, Henrik Jespersen, Micaela Hernberg, Lars Ny, Ana Carneiro, Sander Ellegård, Kalle Mattila, Roger Olofsson Bagge, Georgios Fountoukidis, Yvonne Brandberg, Mario Mandala, Brent O Carrigan, Bastian Schilling, Ana Aranche, Omid Hamid, Anders Berglund, Hildur Helgadottir, and Gustav Ullenhag. BMC Cancer, March.

Mechanical Dyssynchrony and Septal-Lateral Perfusion Heterogeneity Predict Adverse Left Ventricular Remodeling Beyond ECG-Defined LBBB. Brandão, Simone Cristina Soares, Lee Joseph, Jenifer M. Brown, Diana Lopez, Mark Lemley, Giselle Ramirez, Paul Kavanagh, Serge D. Van Kriekinge, Joanna Liang, Valerie Builoff, Sanjay Divakaran, Brittany Weber, Jon Hainer, Sylvain Carre, Ron Blankstein, Sharmila Dorbala, Viet T. Le, Steve Mason, Stacey Knight, Panithaya Chareonthaitawee, Samuel Wopperer, Thomas L. Rosamond, Daniel S. Berman, Damini Dey, Marcelo F. Di Carli, Piotr J. Slomka, and Daniel M. Huck. European Heart Journal. Cardiovascular Imaging, March, jeag081.

Reprogramming Myeloid Cells and Restoring T Cell Fitness in Checkpoint Inhibitor Resistant Melanoma Patients. Grauers Wiktorin, Hanna, Viktoria Ekström-Rydén, Ida Ek, Emma Eriksson, Tanja Lövgren, Clara Bernedal Nordström, Linda C. Sandin, Meera R. Patel, Omid Hamid, Gustav Ullenhag, and Angelica Loskog. Biomarker Research, March.

Vascular-Related Proteomic Signatures in COPD With Suspected Pulmonary Hypertension as Predictors of FEV₁ Impairment. Goel, Khushboo, Ryen Ormesher, Katherine A. Pratte, Yue Wang, Koichi Nishino, Craig P. Hersh, Katerina Kechris, Russell P. Bowler, and Irina Petrache. Respiratory Research, March.

Bias Due to Interval Censored Outcomes in a Study of Flare Risk After Hydroxychloroquine Taper/Cessation in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Kaddoura, Rima, Sasha Bernatsky, Marie-Eve Beauchamp, Steve Ferreira Guerra, Celline C. Almeida-Brasil, John G. Hanly, Murray Urowitz, Ann E. Clarke, Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza, Caroline Gordon, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman, Michelle A. Petri, Ellen M. Ginzler, Daniel J. Wallace, Sang-Cheol Bae, Juanita Romero-Diaz, Mary-Anne Dooley, Christine Peschken, David Isenberg, Susan Manzi, Søren Jacobsen, S. Sam Lim, Ola Nived, Andreas Jönsen, Diane L. Kamen, Cynthia Aranow, Jorge Sánchez-Guerrero, Dafna D. Gladman, Paul R. Fortin, Graciela S. Alarcón, Joan T. Merrill, Kenneth Kalunian, Manuel Ramos-Casals, Asad A. Zoma, Anca D. Askanase, Munther Khamashta, Ian N. Bruce, Murat Inanc, Luck Lukusa, and Michal Abrahamowicz. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, March, 112261.

Whole Metagenomic Profiling Identifies a Gut Microbial Signature for Chronic Pancreatitis via Machine Learning. Bartelli, Thais F., Seyda Baydogan, Ismet Sahin, Kristi L. Hoffman, Joseph Petrosino, Kyle W. Blackburn, Jing Zhao, Amy Wood, Tulin Ayvaz, Anil Surathu, Martha Navarro Cagigas, Erick Carrasco Barcenas, Tomera Mata, Vincent Kim Nguyen, Alejandro Zulbaran-Rojas, Le Li, Erika Y. Faraoni, James R. White, Nadim Ajami, Liang Li, Dhiraj Yadav, Darwin L. Conwell, Jose Serrano, Stephen J. Pandol, Evan L. Fogel, Stephen K. Van Den Eden, Santhi Swaroop Vege, Mark D. Topazian, Walter G. Park, Phil A. Hart, Chris Forsmark, Melena D. Bellin, Anirban Maitra, Manoop Bhutani, Michael Kim, George Van Buren, William E. Fisher, Florencia McAllister, and on Behalf. Pancreas, March.

Evaluating a Smartphone App-Based Module for Joint Self-Assessment as a Complementary Tool in Rheumatoid Arthritis Remote Disease Management. Venuturupalli, Swamy, Jiaxin Jessica He, Mhun-Jeong Isaac Lee, Talya Koger, Sofia Havadjias, Yogamanas Jinka, Natalie Fortune, Fenglong Xie, Yujie Su, Sandeep K. Sodhi, Neelkamal Soares, Kelly Gavigan, Shilpa Venkatachalam, John Cush, Danielle Ali, William B. Nowell, David Curtis, Rebecca Grainger, and Jeffrey R. Curtis. ACR Open Rheumatology 8 (4): e90018.

ZFP148 Is a Transcriptional Repressor of Cytolytic Effector CD8+ T Cell Differentiation. Xiao, Tong, Xingyu Chen, No-Joon Song, Ryan J. Brown, Anjun Ma, Jay K. Mandula, Amir Yousif, Yi Wang, Minh Quynh May Le, Jianying Li, Fengxia Gao, Bella Weaver, Heng-Yi Chen, Fang-Yun Lay, Debasish Sundi, Maria Velegraki, Payton Weltge, Juanita L. Merchant, Mark P. Rubinstein, Kenneth J. Oestreich, Chan-Wang Jerry Lio, Hazem E. Ghoneim, Xue Li, Dan Theodorescu, Gang Xin, Qin Ma, Weiguo Cui, and Zihai Li. Nature Immunology 27 (4): 827–40.

Circulating Tumor Cells as the Liquid Biopsy Foray Into Noninvasive Colorectal Cancer Screening. Vega, Mario I., Sandrine Billet, Alessio Pigazzi, Alexandra Gangi, Andrew Eugene Hendifar, Arsen Osipov, Karen Zaghiyan, Yosef Nasseri, Zuri Murrell, Kevin M. Waters, Pareen Mehta, Katelyn M. Atkins, Gabriela Es Felix, Megan P. Hitchins, and Jun Gong. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention: A Publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, Cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 35 (4): 491–93.

The Phylum Fusobacteriota Is Associated With CRC-Specific Mortality: Results From the Translational Research Program in Cancer Differences Across Populations. Thomas, Claire E., Nicole C. Loroña, Scott D. LaBrie, Keith R. Curtis, Hang Yin, Ningxin Ma, Timothy W. Randolph, Conghui Qu, Jeroen R. Huyghe, Sushma Thomas, Li Hsu, Amanda L. Koehne, Sosun Nayemi, Hamza Ammar, Orsalem J. Kahsai, Diana Redwood, Christopher I. Li, Li Li, Ulrike Peters, Jane C. Figueiredo, Timothy K. Thomas, Amanda I. Phipps, and Meredith A. J. Hullar. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention: A Publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, Cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology, April.

Neurology

A Multicomponent Approach to Screening for Dementia in Older Hospitalized Patients. Tan, Zaldy S., Nabeel Qureshi, Nancy L. Sicotte, Drew Hirsch, Cameron Escovedo, Erica Spivack, Mary C. Nasmyth, Mitzi Gonzales, Sarah A. Kremen, Teryl K. Nuckols, John Mafi, Janae McFadden, and Pamela R. Roberts. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, April.

Neurosurgery

Bridging Surgery and Radiotherapy: The Role of Stereotactic Radiosurgery in Pediatric Brain Tumor Care. Al Salmi, Hamza Zakariya, Hanadi Rashid Al-Saadi, Al-Zahraa Yaqoob Al Maskari, Sharouq Yaqoob Al Maskari, and Tariq D. Al-Saadi. Child’s Nervous System: ChNS, 42 (1): 139.

Nursing

Guidelines for Replacement of a Balloon Gastrostomy Tube in Infants and Pediatric Patients: The American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. Lyman, Beth, Loren Berman, Kathleen Carr, Cailin Frank, Peggi Guenter, Rachel Kassel, Janet Kimble, Carol McGinnis, Silvana Oppedisano, Elizabeth A. Paton, Gina Rempel, Derek S. Wakeman, David D. Church, Jacob T. Mey, Sarah Peterson, and Liam McKeever. JPEN. Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, March.

OBGYN

Author’s Reply: The Impact of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery Subspecialty Training on Outcomes of Benign Laparoscopic Hysterectomy: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Meyer, Raanan, Rebecca Schneyer, Kacey Hamilton, Gabriel Levin, Matthew T. Siedhoff, and Kelly N. Wright. Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology, March, S1553-4650(26)00196-2.

Impact of Age on Postoperative Outcomes in Laparoscopic Hysterectomy for Endometriosis. Bar-El, Liron, Gabrielle Mintz, Gabriel Levin, Raanan Meyer, Matthew T. Siedhoff, and Kelly N. Wright. International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, March.

Associations Between Psychological Distress and Financial Hardship for Patients With Cancer Receiving Care in Alabama. Williams, Courtney P., Sandra Olisakwe, Chloe J. Taub, Margaret I. Liang, Gabrielle B. Rocque, and Maria Pisu. Journal of Cancer Survivorship: Research and Practice, April.

Orthopaedics

Initial External Fixation After Knee Dislocation Is Associated With Inferior Outcomes Following Delayed Multiligament Reconstruction: A Retrospective Single-Surgeon Cohort Study. Fuller, Carson, Michael Kody, Jalen Castille, Isabel Alvarez, Clint Soppe, Ronald Navarro, and Matthew Muffly. The Knee 61 (March): 104429.

The Effect of Alcohol Use Disorder on Postoperative Outcomes and Recovery After Femoral Shaft Fracture Repair. Arif, Haad A., Prabhpartap Singh, Shameek Mitra, Abdul Rahim Aladroos, Gerald McGwin, Hassan M. K. Ghomrawi, Carol A. Lin, and Joey P. Johnson. Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma 75 (April): 103403.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

The Banff 2024 Kidney Meeting Report: Rejection as a Spectrum of Phenotypes and Focus on Differential Diagnostic Reasoning. Naesens, Maarten, Candice Roufosse, Lynn D. Cornell, Mark Haas, Roslyn B. Mannon, Marjan Afrouzian, Enver Akalin, Nada Alachkar, Mariam P. Alexander, Serena M. Bagnasco, Ibrahim Batal, Georg A. Böhmig, Michael Mengel, et al. American Journal of Transplantation, March, S1600-6135(26)00040-7.

Pediatrics

DNA Damage Burden Causes Selective CUX2 Neuron Loss in Neuroinflammation. Morcom, Laura, Wenlong Xia, Zhaoyang Xu, Yashika Awasthi, Celine Geywitz, Matthew O. Ellis, Tomas Noli, Amel Zulji, Daniel Yamamoto, Gemma C. Girdler, Li Kai, Keying Zhu, Mingming Wei, Xiao-Yan Tang, Kimberly K. Hoi, Julio Gonzalez-Maya, Greg J. Duncan, Adrien M. Vaquie, Diana Gold Diaz, Riki Kawaguchi, Erdong Liu, Yu Sun, Denny Yang, Gregory D. Jordan, I.-Ling Lu, Staffan Holmqvist, Theresa Bartels, Katherine Ridley, Jennifer Ja-Yoon Choi, Santos J. Franco, Eric J. Huang, Ben Emery, Daniel Geschwind, Lucas Schirmer, Gabriel Balmus, Brian Popko, Stephen P. J. Fancy, and David H. Rowitch. Nature, April.

Expansion of Outer Cortical CUX2 Neurons Requires Adaptations for DNA Repair. Xia, Wenlong, Laura Morcom, Zhaoyang Xu, I.-Ling Lu, Qing Wang, Kimberly K. Hoi, Mingming Wei, Keying Zhu, Gregory Jordan, Xiao-Yan Tang, Julio Gonzalez-Maya, Vanesa S. Mattera, Sophia M. Panigrahi, Riki Kawaguchi, Ben Emery, Santos J. Franco, Daniel H. Geschwind, Brian Popko, David H. Rowitch, and Stephen P. J. Fancy. Nature, April.

Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences

Evaluating a Telehealth Coaching and Mobile-Based Digital Engagement Intervention for People With Cancer Using the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Global Health: Pilot Questionnaire Study. Wang, Shen, Toni Rose Jue, Tim Atkins, Scott A. Irwin, Puneet Nanda, Davinder Sangar, Lynette Mackenzie, and Raghav Murali-Ganesh. JMIR Cancer 12 (April): e72647.

Radiation Oncology

Implications for Radiation Microboosting Based on Pathology Correlations With Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen and Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings. Farmer, Alessandra, Leslie K. Ballas, Howard M. Sandler, Sungjin Kim, Anthony T. Nguyen, and Mitchell Kamrava. Advances in Radiation Oncology 11 (5): 102010.

Surgery

The Burden and Characteristics of Burn Injuries Associated With Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems: A Systematic Review and Single-Arm Meta-Analysis. Mokhtar, Jonathan, Michel Gabriel Cazenave, Douglas Henderson, Jasem Alshemeili, Krishna S. Vyas, Curtis L. Cetrulo, and Alexandre G. Lellouch. Burns, March, 107982.

ASO Visual Abstract: Key Updates on the Version 9 AJCC/UICC Staging System for Salivary Gland Carcinoma. Huang, Shao Hui, Raja R. Seethala, Snehal G. Patel, Brian O’Sullivan, William Lydiatt, Allen S. Ho, Ali Hosni, Vincent Vander Poorten, Christine M. Glastonbury, Justin Bishop, Beth Beadle, Patrick Ha, Kiran Kakarala, Cristina P. Rodriguez, and Ian Ganly. Annals of Surgical Oncology, March.

HCV-Positive Pancreas Donors: A Safe Strategy to Reduce Transplant Wait Times. Nissen, Gabriel, Olyvia Wang, Tiffany Lim, Yujie Cui, Kambiz Kosari, Georgios Voidonikolas, Tsuyoshi Todo, Justin A. Steggerda, Steven A. Wisel, Irene K. Kim, and Todd V. Brennan. American Journal of Transplantation, March, S1600-6135(26)00177-2.

Outcomes and Surgical Management of Malignant Rhabdoid Tumor of the Kidney: A Report From the Pediatric Surgical Oncology Research Collaborative. Rinehardt, Hannah N., Elisabeth T. Tracy, Anghela Paredes, Catherine Beckhorn, Harold J. Leraas, Joseph Fusco, Katlyn G. McKay, Nelly-Ange T. Kontchou, Zachary J. Kastenberg, David W. Hoyt, Jonathan Roach, Emily K. Myers, Marcus M. Malek, et al. Pediatric Blood & Cancer, March, e70296.

Trends in Olfaction and Sexual Activity: A National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) Database Study. Thapa, Mishek, Missael Vasquez, Kyohei Itamura, Arthur W. Wu, Christopher Roxbury, and Dennis M. Tang. International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology, March.

Old Drug, New Data: Broadening the Therapeutic Armamentarium for Desmoid Tumors. Dossa, Fahima, Silvia Stacchiotti, and Alessandro Gronchi. Clinical Cancer Research, March.

HPV-Associated Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma - Key Updates to the AJCC/UICC TNM9 Staging System. Evans, Mererid, Shao Hui Huang, Allen S. Ho, Brian O’ Sullivan, Barton F. Branstetter, James S. Lewis, Raja R. Seethala, Snehal G. Patel, Robert L. Ferris, Hisham Mehanna, Nabil F. Saba, Sue S. Yom, and William Lydiatt. Annals of Surgical Oncology, March.

Limitations of PET/CT in Detecting Cervical Lymph Node Metastases in Betel Nut Induced Oral Cancer. Young, Kurtis, Adeeba F. Ghias, Nicholas Fancher, Hyeong Jun Ahn, Taimur Khalid, Alberto Nunez, Elliott J. Koshi, Kelly G. Anderson, Karina R. Marcelo, and Eric D. Wirtz. The Annals of Otology, Rhinology, and Laryngology, March, 34894261427917.

Integrating Multi-Dimensional Data to Advance Global Health Equity in Oncology. Liu, Yuan, Eytan Ruppin, and Leng Han. Cancer Discovery 16 (4): 660–64.

Single Versus Extended-Dose Antibiotic Prophylaxis Regimens in Reduction Mammaplasty: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Mokhtar, Jonathan, Marwa Hadi, Lucas Kreutz-Rodrigues, Jasem Alshemeili, Krishna S. Vyas, Curtis L. Cetrulo, and Alexandre G. Lellouch. Aesthetic Surgery Journal, April, sjag067.

Urology

Consensus Recommendations for Disease- and Treatment-Related Fatigue in Patients With Advanced Prostate Cancer: A Modified Delphi Panel. Freedland, Stephen J., William Aronson, Arash Asher, Mitch Golant, Emily Lemke, Alicia K. Morgans, David Morris, Carol Sullivan, Jennifer Sutton, Cynthia A. Thomson, Przemyslaw Twardowski, Jeffrey S. Wefel, Kerri Winters-Stone, Marty Chakoian, Ted Wells, Dina ElSouda, James Turnbull, Joanne Buzaglo, Claire Mobley, Jasmina Ivanova, Jason Cohen, Susan Hogue, Nader El-Chaar, and Maelys Touya. Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network: JNCCN, March, 1–9.

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