Faculty Publications May 21-28

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published May 21-28. 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

Episode 456: The First 100 Days Following an MS Diagnosis With Dr. Nancy Sicotte | Real Talk MS
Nancy Sicotte, MD

How Much Exercise do You Need to Lower Your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease? | Healthline
Bert Mandelbaum, MD

Understanding Clinical Trials: What Patients Need to Know | Blackdoctor
Michael Farkouh, MD

5 Brain Foods You Should Be Eating | Consumer Reports
Zaldy Tan, MD, MPH

US Overdose Deaths Decline for 3rd Straight Year: What it Means for Healthcare | Becker's Behavioral Health
Itai Danovitch, MD

5 GI Power Players | Becker's ASC Review
Maria Abreu, MD

‘Strikingly Better’: Co-Antibody Combination Tops Golimumab, Guselkumab in Refractory IBD | Healio Gastroenterology
Maria Abreu, MD

Scientists Find Strong Genetic Link Behind Sudden Cardiac Arrest in Young People | Knowridge
Evan Kransdorf, MD, PhD

ISS National Lab Provides Fresh Lens on Aging and Health, Sparking Space Medicine Programs Nationwide | Pulse
Arun Sharma, PhD

Faculty Publications

Biomedical Sciences

The CHRONO Trial: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial of Early Time-Restricted Eating in Patients With Breast or Rectal Cancer. Salvy, Sarah-Jeanne, Jane C. Figueiredo, Katelyn M. Atkins, Robert H. Hollis, Nusrat Jahan, Drew J. Gunnells, Alix G. Sleight, Gillian Gresham, Márcio A. Diniz, Joshua S. Richman, Jun Gong, Karen Zaghiyan, Martin J. Heslin, Kevin J. Lee, Humaira Sarfraz, and Courtney M. Peterson. Nutrition Research 151 (May): 77–94.

Associations of Central Adiposity With Subclinical Coronary Calcification and Disease Progression: Meta-Analysis of 68,629 Participants. Khanna, Shaun, Gurkeerat Mann, Sohaib Virk, Aditya Bhat, Sheran Vasanthakumar, Sarang Paleri, Andrew Lin, Lauren Houston, Damini Dey, Deepak L. Bhatt, Clare Arnott, and Nitesh Nerlekar. JACC. Advances 5 (6): 102844.

Cardiac Surgery

Implementing a Mobility Program for Pretransplant Patients With Femoral Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump: A Nurse-Led Initiative Quality Improvement Approach. Velazquez, Miguel Angel, Anthony Andreas, Alice Chan, Anita Barsekhi, Bernice Coleman, and Meshe Chonde. Critical Care Nursing Quarterly 49 (3): 259–68.

Cardiology

Efficacy and Safety of Paclitaxel-Coated Balloon Angioplasty in Patients With In-Stent Restenosis With vs Without Diabetes. Gaba, Prakriti, Brian K. Jefferson, Richard Shlofmitz, Jeffrey W. Moses, William Bachinsky, Suhail Dohad, Steven Rudick, Robert Stoler, William Nicholson, John Altman, Cinthia Bateman, Amar Krishnaswamy, Rafael Cavalcante, Robert W. Yeh, and Ajay J. Kirtane. Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions 5 (5): 105320.

Outcome of Patients Presenting With High-Risk Pulmonary Embolism Treated With Mechanical Thrombectomy: A Subgroup Analysis From the STRIKE-PE Study. Sharp, Andrew S. P., Suhail Y. Dohad, Ido Weinberg, Marcin Kurzyna, Hugh C. Davis, Jakub Stepniewski, Paul E. Perkowski, Andrew Holden, Frances M. West, W. Brent Keeling, Sahil A. Parikh, and John M. Moriarty. Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions 5 (5): 104402.

mHealth-Supported Exercise Rehabilitation to Reverse Frailty After Autologous Transplantation in Multiple Myeloma: Randomized Controlled Trial. Lee, Kyuwan, Justin Shamunee, Haehyun Lee, Xinyi Du, Lanie Lindenfeld, Amrita Krishnan, Nitya Nathwani, F. Lennie Wong, and Saro Armenian. JMIR mHealth and uHealth 14 (May): e87628.

NATURal History of Coronary PlaquE on Cardiac Computed Tomography in Individuals Without MACE or Lipid-Lowering Therapy: NATURE-CTstudy. Aldana-Bitar, Jairo, Srikanth Krishnan, Keishi Ichikawa, April Kinninger, Logan Hubbard, Tamer Sallam, Sion Roy, Suvasini Lakshmanan, Matthew J. Budoff, and Ronald P. Karlsberg. Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, May, S1934-5925(26)00097-3.

Temporary Mechanical Support as a Bridge to Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Cardiogenic Shock. AlBadri, Ahmed, Ryan J. Burke, Abdul Bikak, Zeinep Efe, Amar Patel, Nabil Sabbak, Christopher Ma, and Suhail Dohad. JACC. Case Reports, May, 108380.

Comparing Short- and Long-Term Outcomes of Transcatheter Valve-in-Valve Versus Redo Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement: A Literature Review. Ebrahimi, Pouya, Reza Eshraghi, Ali Moradi, Roozbeh Narimani Javid, Omar Khalique, Bahar Darouei, Nazanin Rafiei, Polydoros Kampaktsis, Nikolaos Spilias, Robert Siegel, Michael Fogli, Homa Taheri, Mohammad Hossein Mandegar, Harsh Kumar, Maryam Taheri, and Kaveh Hosseini. Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, May.

Beyond Inoperable: Combined Heart-Liver Transplantation Rescues a Patient With Destructive Endocarditis and End-Stage Liver Disease. Kobashigawa, Jon A. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, May, S0003-4975(26)00461-3.

Associations Between Acute Heat Exposure and Hospitalization for Takotsubo Syndrome in the State of California, 2006 to 2019. Hao, Hua, Yuzi Zhang, Qingyang Zhu, Susan Cheng, Rebecca Zhang, Yang Liu, and Howard H. Chang. Journal of the American Heart Association, May, e047065.

Consensus Statement on Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomic Analysis of Cardiac Tissue. Lundby, Alicia, Jennifer E. Van Eyk, Manuel Mayr, Melanie Y. White, Jonathan A. Kirk, Jonathan S. Achter, Justyna Fert-Bober, Michael Wierer, Philipp Mertins, Maggie P. Y. Lam, Sean J. Humphrey, Edward Lau, Anthony O. Gramolini, Ying Ge, and Rebekah L. Gundry. Nature Cardiovascular Research, May.

Endogenous and Exogenous Determinants of Sex Differences in Blood Pressure. Shangguan, Siyi, Wasay Warsi, Juliane Louise Kwong, Yeran Lee, and Susan Cheng. NPJ Cardiovascular Health 3 (1): 27.

Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonists Are Associated With Reduced Risk of Hepatic Encephalopathy in Cirrhosis. Singh, Vidhi, Minhao Wang, Joseph Ebinger, Amanda Velazquez, Susan Cheng, Alan C. Kwan, and Hirsh D. Trivedi. Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, May.

Democratizing DCD Heart Transplantation: Breaking the Volume Barrier. Richards, Donald D., and Michelle Kittleson. Journal of Cardiac Failure, May, S1071-9164(26)00252-6.

Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Replacement: What We Know, What We Still Want to Know. Nageotte, Stephen J., Darren P. Berman, and Patrick M. Sullivan. Current Opinion in Cardiology, May.

Medicine

Characterizing Abdominal Pain and Irritable Bowel Syndrome Among Individuals With Cirrhosis: Results of a Nationwide Survey. Deng, Lisa X., Christopher V. Almario, Jennifer C. Lai, Brennan M. R. Spiegel, and Jessica B. Rubin. Gastro Hep Advances 5 (7): 100976.

Patient Engagement With Consumer Wearable Devices in the Electronic Health Record. Sobolev, Michael, Allistair Clark, Mitchell Kamrava, Joshua Pevnick, Brennan Spiegel, Raymond Duncan, and Gillian Gresham. Frontiers in Digital Health 8: 1784621.

Towards Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer: The Current Status of Cohort Studies by the Diabetes-Pancreatic Ductal AdenoCarcinoma Working Group. Maitra, Anirban, Suresh T. Chari, Bechien Wu, Stephen K. Van Den Eeden, William Fisher, Santhi Swaroop Vege, Jo Ann Rinaudo, Ziding Feng, and Consortium for the Study of Chronic Pancreatitis, Diabetes, and Pancreatic Cancer (CPDPC). Pancreatology, May, S1424-3903(26)00186-9.

Prognostic Significance of Pretreatment 18F-FDG PET/CT in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Min, Ji Hye, Mohammad Saeid Rezaee-Zavareh, Abdelrahman M. Attia, Soo Young Hwang, Pin-Jung Chen, Tamar Yalda, Hasmik Adetyan, Rami Hemadeh, Hyun-Seok Kim, Bachir Taouli, Amit G. Singal, and Ju Dong Yang. JHEP Reports: Innovation in Hepatology, May, 101901.

Refining the Definition for ‘Low Risk’ in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Time to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality. Fauvel, Charles, Priscilla Correa Jaque, Yongqi Liu, Sang Wan Lee, Sandeep Sahay, Nelson A. Villasmil Hernandez, Jason Weatherald, James White, Allen Everett, Megan Griffith, Thomas M. Cascino, Adam Perer, Katelyn Morrison, Michael Lewis, Yuri Matusov, Shili Lin, and Raymond L. Benza. JACC. Heart Failure, May, 103151.

Innovation Deimplementation in Emergency Departments During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Qualitative Study of Clinicians’ Decision-Making. Huilgol, Shreya, Nabeel Qureshi, Carl Berdahl, Catherine Cohen, Peter Mendel, and Shira Fischer. Interactive Journal of Medical Research 15 (May): e82088.

Cardiovascular Adverse Events Associated With Bispecific Antibodies in Relapsed or Refractory B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas. Munir, Malak, Ahmed Sayed, Dae Hyun Lee, Farrukh Awan, Sanam Ghazi, Jean Kim, Daniel Addison, and Narendranath Epperla. Journal of Hematology & Oncology 19 (1): 33.

Distinct Symptom Occurrence Subgroups Among Patients With Colorectal Cancer: Differences in Social Determinants of Health and Diet Quality. Lee, Youran, Qing Yang, Melissa Kay, Donald E. Bailey, Biljana Gigic, Sheetal Hardikar, Adetunji T. Toriola, David Shibata, Christopher I. Li, Doratha A. Byrd, Jane C. Figueiredo, Ildiko Strehli, Megan Mclaws, Vaia Florou, Mmadili Ilozumba, Patricia Erickson, Apurva Medhe, Cornelia M. Ulrich, and Rosa M. Gonzalez-Guarda. Research in Nursing & Health, May.

qChIP-MS Reveals the Local Chromatin Composition by Label-Free Quantitative Proteomics. Yong, Wai Khang, Nurkaiyisah Zaal Anuar, Zi Wayne Sin, Elayne Su Ru Tan, Grishma Rane, Xiaoman Shao, Chai Yeen Goh, Vartika Khanchandani, Vivian L. S. Kuan, Peh Fern Ong, Maya Jeitany, H. Phillip Koeffler, Lih-Wen Deng, Oliver Dreesen, Takaomi Sanda, and Dennis Kappei. Nature Communications, May.

Progenitor Resilience and the Early Onset of Chronic Lung Diseases: NHLBI Workshop Report. Han, SeungHye, Anny Xiaobo Zhou, Amanda M. Jamieson, Andrew A. Wilson, Bin Zhou, Daniel J. Weiss, Dianhua Jiang, Frank McKeon, Harold Chapman, Helen Miranda, Herbert B. Schiller, Jayaraj Rajagopal, Jeong H. Yun, Jianwen Que, John F. Engelhardt, Maria C. Basil, Micha Sam Brickman Raredon, Mingxia Gu, Moumita Ghosh, Preetish Kadur Lakshminarasimha Murthy, Purushothama Rao Tata, Ruobing Wang, Shawn Davidson, Susan M. Majka, Yohannes Tesfaigzi, Christian R. Gomez, Qing Lu, Jose Ordovas-Montanes, and Ravi Kalhan. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, May, aanag107.

Neurosurgery

Comparative Outcomes of Surgical Versus Conservative Management for C2 Fractures in Elderly Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Al-Mahrouqi, Omar, Eman B. A. Musilhi, Fatma H. AlShuhoumi, Mohammad Ama Mohammad, Asmaa A. Almamari, and Tariq Al-Saadi. Clinical Spine Surgery, May.

Risk Factors for Postoperative Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak Following Endoscopic Transsphenoidal Surgery for Craniopharyngioma: A Multicenter Cohort Study With a Contemporary Surgeon Practice Survey. Palit, Sandhya R., Yuki Shinya, Maria Peris Celda, Michael Karsy, James J. Evans, Michael R. Chicoine, Albert H. Kim, Bhuvic Patel, Won Kim, Marvin Bergsneider, Donato R. Pacione, Paul Gardner, Debraj Mukherjee, Connor Liu, Stephanie Cheok, Nathan T. Zwagerman, Charles Christenson, Spiros Blackburn, Varun R. Kshettry, Robert C. Rennert, William T. Couldwell, Ramin Morshed, Kyle C. Wu, Daniel Prevedello, Garni Barkhoudarian, Juan C. Fernandez-Miranda, Gabriel Zada, Carolina Benjamin, Michael P. Catalino, Adam Mamelak, Andre Beer Furlan, Georgios Zenonos, Michelle Magaña Mendoza, Andrew S. Little, and Jamie J. Van Gompel. Journal of Neuro-Oncology 178 (1): 13.

OBGYN

Efficacy Translation between Phase II and Phase III Trials in Gynecologic Oncology: A Cross-Phase Meta-Comparative Analysis. Levin, Gabriel, Lucy Gilbert, Bradely J. Monk, Reitan Ribeiro, Peter Scalia, Raanan Meyer, and Robert L. Coleman. International Journal of Gynecological Cancer, 36 (7): 104710.

Study Outcome and Journal Impact Factor: A Meta-Epidemiologic Analysis of Phase III Gynecologic Oncology Trials. Levin, Gabriel, Emily Eiley, Lucy Gilbert, Bradly J. Monk, Robert L. Coleman, Brian M. Slomovitz, Reitan Ribeiro, Raanan Meyer, Derek Skolnik, and Pedro T. Ramirez. International Journal of Gynecological, 36 (7): 104744.

Prenatal Substance Exposure and Birth Weight: Findings From the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study. Bandoli, Gretchen, Catherine Psaras, Ludmila N. Bakhireva, Heather H. Burris, Lucia Ciciolla, Claire D. Coles, Sara B. DeMauro, Sarah S. Osmundson, Stephanie L. Merhar, Lynne Smith, Ashley Acheson, Ryan Bogdan, Julie M. Croff, Laurie E. Cutting, Kevin P. Conway, M. Daniele Fallin, Wei Gao, Hugh Garavan, Kim Gregory, Kelly K. Gurka, Matthew J. Gurka, Holly L. Horan, Katia D. Howlett, Brittany R. Howell, Hao Huang, Julie A. Kable, Kimberly H. LeBlanc, Janosch Linkersdörfer, Carla B. Marienfeld, Lorraine M. McKelvey, Amanda S. Morris, Xiawei Ou, Myriam Peralta-Carcelen, Nicolò Pini, Alexandra S. Potter, Cynthia E. Rogers, Elinor L. Sullivan, Sophie Sun, Wesley K. Thompson, Moriah E. Thomason, Heather E. Volk, Sylia Wilson, Aleksandra E. Zgierska, Jennifer Zink, Christopher D. Smyser, Charles A. Nelson, Christina D. Chambers, and HBCD Consortium. Pediatrics, May, e2025074604.

Orthopaedics

Asymptomatic L5 Spondylolysis Does Not Necessarily Preclude Elite Gymnastics Participation: A Case Report. Budginas, Brigita, Prudhvi Kodali, and David L. Skaggs. JBJS Case Connector 16 (2).

Novel Congenital Kyphoscoliosis Treatment: Opening Wedge Osteotomy, Convex Tether Cord Fusion, Rib Distraction: A Case Report. Chan, Vivien, Samantha Snyder, Muhammad Mukarram, Elaine Butterworth, and David L. Skaggs. JBJS Case Connector 16 (2).

Synthetic CT Minimizes Radiation in Robot-Assisted Pediatric Spondylolysis and Spondylolisthesis Surgery: A Report of 3 Cases. Dansby, Jalen, James P. Caruso, Kenneth Illingworth, and David L. Skaggs. JBJS Case Connector 16 (2).

Immune Cell Composition and Protein Biomarkers Correlate With PRP Treatment Outcomes in Knee Osteoarthritis. Zila, Lea, Juliane D. Glaeser, Julia Sheyn, Giselle Kaneda, Jacob T. Wechsler, Parnika Karthik, Victoria Yu, Jasmine Galloway, Begonya Comin-Anduix, Sarah Parker, Aleksander Stotland, Catherine Bresee, Khosrowdad Salehi, Pablo Avalos, Clive N. Svendsen, Wafa Tawackoli, Bert Mandelbaum, and Dmitriy Sheyn. Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine 14 (5): 23259671261430728.

Single-Cell Transcriptomics-Informed Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Differentiation to Tenogenic Lineage. Papalamprou, Angela, Victoria Yu, Wensen Jiang, Julia Sheyn, Tina Stefanovic, Angel Chen, Chloe Castaneda, Melissa Chavez, and Dmitriy Sheyn. eLife 12 (May): RP89652.

External Evaluation Reveals Reduced Performance of the PathFX Survival Model in 1018 Patients With Extremity Metastases. Groot, Tom M. de, Marcos R. Gonzalez, Lotte R. van der Linden, Iris Skornja, Olivier Q. Groot, Joseph H. Schwab, Job N. Doornberg, Paul C. Jutte, and Santiago A. Lozano-Calderón. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, May.

Reoperation Rates Following Spinal Epidural Abscess Evacuation With and Without Instrumentation: A Retrospective Matched Cohort Analysis. Gausper, Adeesya, Alexander Tuchman, Geoffrey Shumilak, Andy Liu, Suhas Etigunta, David Skaggs, Corey Walker, and Vivien Chan. European Spine Journal, May.

Authors’ Reply to: ‘Comment on Does Pelvic Fixation Impact Reoperation Outcomes for Neuromuscular Scoliosis Surgery? A 10-Year Matched Cohort Analysis.’ Chan, Vivien, Suhas K. Etigunta, Adeesya Gausper, Andy Liu, Christopher Mikhail, Alexander Tuchman, Kenneth D. Illingworth, and David L. Skaggs. Spine Deformity, May.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Fecal ACE and ACE2 Activities Reflect Intestinal Shedding and Microbiota Modulation of Renin-Angiotensin System. Ferreira-Duarte, Mariana, Clara Quintas, Joana Bom, Ana Lúcia Ribeiro, Marília Pereira, Michael Bader, Natalia Alenina, Kenneth E. Bernstein, Ellen A. Bernstein, Teresa Sousa, Fernando Magro, Margarida Duarte-Araújo, Lilian Caroline Gonçalves Oliveira, Dulce Elena Casarini, and Manuela Morato. Biology 15 (10): 776.

TRIM21 Facilitates Inflammasome Assembly and Contributes to Autoinflammatory Disease. Carriere, Jessica, Chawon Yun, Sonal Khare, Sana Ismaeel, Elisabeth Jäger, Vinicius Dantas Martins, Kaiden A. Sims, Lan H. Chu, Huyen Nguyen, Lucia de Almeida, Janset Onyuru, Justin Ruiz, Hemisha Khatri, Savita Devi, Jae Jin Chae, Daniel L. Kastner, Lori Broderick, Hal M. Hoffman, Andrea Dorfleutner, and Christian Stehlik. Nature Communications, May.

Risk Factors Associated With Clinical-Histopathological Discordance in Keratoacanthoma Diagnosis. Feng, James, Payal Shah, Hayden Doughty, Arthur Marka, Joshua Levy, Robert E. LeBlanc, and Joi B. Carter. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, May, S0190-9622(26)02763-5.

A Multisociety Consensus Statement on a New Common Definition and Diagnostic Criteria for PSVD or NCPF. Hernandez-Gea, Virginia, Valerie Paradis, Maha Guindi, Venancio A. F. Alves, Amal Aqul, Eira Cerda, Sarwa Darwish Murad, Prasenjit Das, Angelo Di Giorgio, Luiz A. R. de Freitas, Tassos Grammatikopoulos, Kenichi Harada, Nelia Hernandez, Samar H. Ibrahim, Sanjay Kakar, Saul Karpen, David E. Kleiner, Necati Ormeci, Xiaolong Qi, Puja Sakhuja, Maria Isabel Schinoni, Romil Saxena, Alexandre Sayadi, Akash Shukla, Dina G. Tiniakos, Elizabeth Verna, Kerry Wong, Laure Elkrief, Christine Sempoux, Theo Heller, and Pierre-Emmanuel Rautou. Hepatology, May.

Optimization of Pathologists’ Roles in Molecular Biomarker Testing in Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Consensus Statement. Kolhe, Ravindra, Cansu Karakas, Eric Vail, Georgios Deftereos, and Nikoletta Sidiropoulos. The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics: JMD, May, S1525-1578(26)00086-3.

A Multisociety Consensus Statement on a New Common Definition and Diagnostic Criteria for PSVD or NCPF. Hernández-Gea, Virginia, Valerie Paradis, Maha Guindi, Venancio A. F. Alves, Amal Aqul, Eira Cerda, Sarwa Darwish Murad, Prasenjit Das, Angelo Di Giorgio, Luiz A. R. de Freitas, Tassos Grammatikopoulos, Kenichi Harada, Nelia Hernandez, Samar H. Ibrahim, Sanjay Kakar, Saul Karpen, David E. Kleiner, Necati Ormeci, Xiaolong Qi, Puja Sakhuja, Maria Isabel Schinoni, Romil Saxena, Alexandre Sayadi, Akash Shukla, Dina G. Tiniakos, Elizabeth Verna, Kerry Wong, Laure Elkrief, Christine Sempoux, Theo Heller, and Pierre-Emmanuel Rautou. Journal of Hepatology, May, S0168-8278(26)00264-3.

A Multisociety Consensus Statement on a New Common Definition and Diagnostic Criteria for PSVD or NCPF. Hernandez-Gea, Virginia, Valerie Paradis, Maha Guindi, Venancio A. F. Alves, Amal Aqul, Eira Cerda, Sarwa Darwish Murad, Prasenjit Das, Angelo Di Giorgio, Luiz A. R. de Freitas, Tassos Grammatikopoulos, Kenichi Harada, Nelia Hernandez, Samar H. Ibrahim, Sanjay Kakar, Saul Karpen, David E. Kleiner, Necati Ormeci, Xiaolong Qi, Puja Sakhuja, Maria Isabel Schinoni, Romil Saxena, Alexandre Sayadi, Akash Shukla, Dina G. Tiniakos, Elizabeth Verna, Kerry Wong, Laure Elkrief, Christine Sempoux, Theo Heller, and Pierre-Emmanuel Rautou. Annals of Hepatology, May, 102219.

Pediatrics

Responsive Neurostimulation for Treatment of SCN1A-Associated Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathies. Philliben, Reilly, Erin Willis, Olivia Kim-McManus, Deborah Holder, Jasmine Policherla, and Audie C. Espinoza. Pediatric Neurology 180 (May): 117–20.

Asymmetry of Sonic Hedgehog Expression Is Necessary for Early Incisor Tooth Morphogenesis. Haque, Ameera, Masaki Hata, Kyle Marchuk, Pauline Marangoni, Jeremy Green, and Ophir D. Klein. Development, May, dev.204409.

External Validation, Recalibration, and Extension of a Prediction Model of Early Acute Kidney Injury in Critically Ill Children Using Multicenter Data. Dziorny, Adam C., Stephen Drury, Alex Clark, Reid W. D. Farris, Akira Nishisaki, Timothy T. Cornell, Daniel S. Tawfik, Tellen D. Bennett, Sareen S. Shah, Scott L. Weiss, Tahagod Mohamed, Neel Shah, James McMahon, Naveen Muthu, Randall C. Wetzel, Martin Zand, L. Nelson Sanchez-Pinto, and Pediatric Learning Health System Network (PEDSnet) and the PICU Data Collaborative. Critical Care Explorations 8 (6): e1425.

Radiation Oncology

A Hybrid Cluster-Then-Predict Machine Learning Radiotherapy Knowledge-Based Planning Framework for Similarity Matching Using Holistic Target-OAR Constellation Geometry. Benedick, Trent, J. Daniel Chu, Stephanie Zhou, Raphiporn Duangrat, John Asbach, Ryan H. B. Smith, Anh H. Le, and Brent Liu. Radiation Oncology, May.

Testosterone and Docetaxel Treatment Effect on Mortality Risk in Nonmetastatic High-Risk Prostate Cancer: A Predictive Biomarker Analysis. Zeng, Johnathan, Ming-Hui Chen, Jing Wu, Wanling Xie, Praful Ravi, Paul Nguyen, Howard Sandler, and Anthony V. D’Amico. Cancer 132 (11): e70469.

Surgery

Uncovering Gaps in Obesity Medicine Competencies: Insights From Ten U.S. Medical Schools. Pasarica, Magdalena, Robert F. Kushner, Angelina V. Leary, Monica Agarwal, Dee-Ann Carpenter, Colleen Croniger, Ricardo Correa, Eduardo Grunvald, Mark S. Johnson, Julie Loza, Andrew Mock, Amber Olson, Jonathan Purnell, Kim Pfotenhauer, Virginia Uhley, Sadie Trammell Velasquez, Amanda Velazquez, and B. Gabriel Smolarz. Medical Science Educator 36 (2): 539–44.

Development of Poliosis in Patients Treated With Immunotherapy for Metastatic Cutaneous and Non-Cutaneous Melanoma. Smart, Kimberly, Ivan Rodriguez, Mark S. Swanson, Jesse L. Berry, Alicia Terando, David H. Peng, Scott Worswick, and Gino K. In. Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research 39 (3): e70089.

The Upbringing That Built Me-And the Operating Room That Changed Me. Bastien, Amanda J. JAMA Otolaryngology-- Head & Neck Surgery, May.

Molecular and Spatial Differences in the Tumor Microenvironment of High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancers With Short Versus Long-Term Survival. Smick, Alexandra H., Natalia Zurek, Barbie Taylor-Harding, Beth Y. Karlan, Ann E. Walts, Arkadiusz Gertych, and Sandra Orsulic. Gynecologic Oncology 210 (May): 55–62.

Nighttime Transfer Out of Surgical ICU Are Associated With Higher Readmission. Perez, Claire, Vikram Krishna, Tejal Brahmbhatt, Rodrigo F. Alban, and Andrew R. Brownlee. The American Surgeon, May, 31348261448895.

Preoperative Bowel Preparation Regimen and Postoperative Outcomes Across Body Mass Index in Elective Colectomy for Colon Cancer: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Wu, George L., Nir Horesh, Rachel Ma, Kristina La, Paola Solis Pazmino, Moshe Barnajian, and Yosef Nasseri. Diseases of the Colon and Rectum, May.

Partial or Complete Blocking of gD Binding to HVEM Affects Primary and Latent HSV-1 Infection as Well as Eye Disease in HSV-1 Infected Mice. Arya, Deepak, Ujjaldeep Jaggi, Jay J. Oh, Shaohui Wang, and Homayon Ghiasi. PLoS Pathogens 22 (5): e1014258.

Predicting Neoadjuvant Breast Cancer Therapy Response Using BRIDGE From Tumor Transcriptomics and Histopathology. Cantore, T., D.-T. Hoang, L. R. Pal, A. Stemmer, T.-G. Chang, S. R. Dhruba, E. Shulman, E. Campagnolo, J. S. Lee, J. Levy, K. Yao, I. Liao, S. M. Stemmer, S.-J. Sammut, S. Lipkowitz, P. S. Rajagopal, M. Filipits, C. Caldas, Y. Yuan, Dr N. U. Nair, and Dr E. Ruppin. Annals of Oncology, May, S0923-7534(26)00884-7.

Ventral Incisional Hernia Repair After Liver Transplant Using Posterior Component Separation With Transversus Abdominis Release. Voidonikolas, Georgios, Harriet G. Leibowitz, Justin A. Steggerda, Jill Frese, Todd Brennan, Steven A. Wisel, Tsuyoshi Todo, Nicholas Nissen, Ju Dong Yang, Philip S. Brazio, Irene Kim, and Kambiz Kosari. Hernia: The Journal of Hernias and Abdominal Wall Surgery 30 (1): 231.

Beyond Gender Affirmation: Does Facial Feminization Surgery Increase Perceived Attractiveness? Aguglia, Raffaele, Leonard Knoedler, Magali Schmidt, Simone La Padula, Rainer Pooth, Curtis L. Cetrulo, Alexandre Lellouch, and Sarra Cristofari. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, May.

Urology

Effective PD-1 Checkpoint Blockade in Bladder Cancer Model Requires Tumor-Draining Lymph Nodes and Lymphocyte Trafficking. Angulo-Lozano, Juan C., Lina Posada-Calderon, Huixian Liu, Lucas Blanchard, Brandon Malik Wahba, Evan Suzman, Parsa Iranmahboub, Kyle A. Blum, Priya Dave, Alejandro Calvillo-Ramirez, Jonathan F. Khan, Liang Deng, Taha Merghoub, Jedd D. Wolchok, Parwiz Abrahimi, and Douglas S. Scherr. Urologic Oncology, May, S1078-1439(26)00501-6.

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