Faculty Publications May 22-29
A Comprehensive Digest of Research Publications From Cedars-Sinai Investigators and a Sampling of Recent Media Coverage Featuring Faculty
This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published May 22-29. If you have a published paper from this period that does not appear on this list, please contact Sue Marone.
Cedars-Sinai in the News
Why Can't I Sleep When I'm Stressed? | U.S. News & World Report
Jeffrey Wertheimer, PhD
We Asked Three Cardiologists What They Do for Their Heart Health. These are Their Nonnegotiables | Women's Health
Martha Gulati, MD
4 Health Experts Address Clinical Trials Myths and Assumptions | BlackDoctor
Michael Farkouh, MD; Yelba Castellon-Lopez, MD
La Hepatitis A Se Ha Convertido en Un Problema de Salud Pública | Enlace Judío
Soniya Gandhi, MD, MPH
New Treatment and Research Improve Survival Rates for Metastatic Prostate Cancer | San Fernando Sun
Edwin Posadas, MD
75 Hospital and Health System Chief Pharmacy Officers to Know: 2025 | Becker’s Hospital Review
Rita Shane, PharmD
Under-Expanded Acurate Neo2 Valves Tied to Worse Outcomes: ACURATE IDE | TCTMD
Raj Makkar, MD
13 Reasons why Cold Plunges are Good for Men | Los Angeles Times
Tracy Zaslow, MD
Faculty Publications
Anesthesiology
Sedative Agents, Synthetic Torpor, and Long-Haul Space Travel-A Systematic Review. Cahill, Thomas, Nataliya Matveychuk, Elena Hardiman, Howard Rosner, Deacon Farrell, and Gary Hardiman. Life (Basel, Switzerland) 15 (5): 706.
Biomedical Sciences
Understanding the Experiences of Parents of Disabled and Non-Disabled Children at Playgrounds Designed for Disability Inclusion. Luna-Lupercio, Bianca, H. Shirazipour, Celina, Duong, Amber, Buliung, Ronald, Ross, Timothy, Brown, Denver M. Y., Leo, Jennifer, Latimer-Cheung, Amy E., and Kelly P. and Arbour-Nicitopoulos. Disability & Society 40 (4): 900–925.
Sex Differences of Interferon-Gamma Levels According to Burden of Coronary Atherosclerosis Identified by CT Coronary Angiography. Bittner, Daniel O., Caroline Roesner, Markus Goeller, Dorette Raaz-Schrauder, Damini Dey, Tobias Kilian, Stephan Achenbach, and Mohamed Marwan. Nutrition, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Diseases: NMCD, May, 104123.
Cardiac Phase-Resolved T2* Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reveals Differences Between Normal Hearts and a Humanized Mouse Model of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Laghzali, Oumaima, Shahriar Shalikar, Siqin Liu, Sandra Lehmann, Joao Dos Santos Periquito, Andreas Pohlmann, Sonia Waiczies, Lucie Carrier, Hsin-Jung Yang, Thoralf Niendorf, and Min-Chi Ku. Biomedicines 13 (5): 1193.
Understanding Care Partner Experiences in the First Month After Durable Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation. Coleman, Bernice, Bibiana Martinez, Lianna Z. Ansryan, Ariz Amoroso Guzman, Harriet Aronow, Linda Olanisa, Michelle Williams-Rivers, David Chang, Carmelita Runyan, Newman Huie, Jennifer Pamu, and Kristin E. Sandau. Progress in Transplantation (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), May, 15269248251343383.
Cardiac Surgery
Renal Denervation Improves Cardiac Function and Exercise Duration in a Miniswine Model of Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction. Lefer, David J., Thomas E. Sharp, Amy L. Scarborough, Amelia G. Haydel, Sanjiv J. Shah, Zhen Li, and Traci T. Goodchild. European Journal of Heart Failure, May.
Endovascular Renal Denervation for the Treatment of Hypertension. Giao, Duc M., Alex M. Poluha, Eric A. Secemsky, and Anna K. Krawisz. Vascular Medicine (London, England), May, 1358863X251322179.
Cardiology
Thioflavin T In-Gel Staining for Ex Vivo Analysis of Cardiac Amyloid. Oldam, Joseph, Irina Tchernyshyov, Jennifer Van Eyk, Juan Troncoso, Charles G. Glabe, and Giulio Agnetti. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences 12: 1505250.
Valve Under-Expansion and Clinical Outcomes With ACURATE Neo2: Findings From the ACURATE IDE Trial. Makkar, Raj R., Tarun Chakravarty, Aakriti Gupta, Osama Soliman, Eric Gnall, Ravi K. Ramana, Basel Ramlawi, Pantelis Diamantouros, Srinivasa Potluri, Neal Kleiman, Sanjay Samy, Andrew Rassi, Pradeep Yadav, Vinod Thourani, Steven Yakubov, Chris Frawley, Dhairya Patel, Samir Kapadia, Aaron Chalekian, Rodrigo Modolo, Janarthanan Sathananthan, Won-Keun Kim, and Michael J. Reardon. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, May, S0735-1097(25)06484-8.
ACURATE Neo2 Valve Versus Commercially Available Transcatheter Heart Valves in Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis (ACURATE IDE): A Multicentre, Randomised, Controlled, Non-Inferiority Trial. Makkar, Raj R., Ravi K. Ramana, Eric Gnall, Basel Ramlawi, Wen Cheng, Pantelis Diamantouros, Srinivasa Potluri, Neal Kleinman, Aakriti Gupta, Tarun Chakravarty, Sanjay Samy, Andrew Rassi, Vivek Rajagopal, Steven Yakubov, Paul Sorajja, Dhairya Patel, Santiago Garcia, Pradeep Yadav, Vinod Thourani, John Wang, Michael Rinaldi, Samir Kapadia, Ron Waksman, John Webb, Claire Ben Ren, John Gregson, Rodrigo Modolo, Janarthanan Sathananthan, Michael J. Reardon, and ACURATE IDE study investigators. Lancet (London, England), May, S0140-6736(25)00319-8.
Artificial Intelligence and the Electrocardiogram: A Modern Renaissance. Palermi, Stefano, Marco Vecchiato, Fu Siong Ng, Zachi Attia, Youngjin Cho, Matteo Anselmino, Gaetano Maria De Ferrari, Andrea Saglietto, and International AI-ECG Working Group. European Journal of Internal Medicine, May, S0953-6205(25)00178-5.
Post-Treatment Bias and the Prognostic Utility of Stress Myocardial Perfusion Imaging. Rozanski, Alan, Heidi Gransar, Robert Jh Miller, Donghee Han, Piotr Slomka, Sean W. Hayes, John D. Friedman, and Daniel S. Berman. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, May, 102248.
Re: Optimizing the Handling of Missing Data in the UNOS Database. Baker, William L., Timothy Moore, Eric Baron, Michelle Kittleson, William F. Parker, and Abhishek Jaiswal. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, May, S1053-2498(25)01962-X.
Complex Fractionated Atrial Electrograms, Dispersion, and Voltage in Persistent Atrial Fibrillation: Implications for Electrogram-Guided Ablation. Liu, Hailei, Ashkan Ehdaie, Eugenio Cingolani, Archana Ramireddy, Eric D. Braunstein, Xunzhang Wang, Sumeet S. Chugh, and Michael M. Shehata. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, May.
Real-World Effectiveness and Safety of Evinacumab in Children and Adults With Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia: A Multisite US Perspective. Wilkinson, Michael J., Priyesha Bijlani, Michael H. Davidson, P. Barton Duell, Mary Horan, Mary J. Malloy, Ron S. Newfield, Pallavi Pradeep, Prediman K. Shah, Eveline O. Stock, Bruce A. Warden, and Matthew K. Ito. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, May.
Computational Biomedicine
Comparison of Supplemental Breast Cancer Imaging Techniques-Interim Results From the BRAID Randomised Controlled Trial. Gilbert, Fiona J., Nicholas R. Payne, Iris Allajbeu, Lim Yit, Sarah Vinnicombe, Iain Lyburn, Nisha Sharma, Will Teh, Jonathan James, Archana Seth, Tamara Suaris, Reena Aggarwal, Miaad Al-Attar, Sarah Savaridas, Antonis Antoniou, Paul Pharoah, and Stephen Duffy. Lancet (London, England), May, S0140-6736(25)00582-3.
Analysis of More than 400,000 Women Provides Case-Control Evidence for BRCA1 and BRCA2 Variant Classification. Zanti, Maria, Denise G. O’Mahony, Michael T. Parsons, Leila Dorling, Joe Dennis, Nicholas J. Boddicker, Wenan Chen, Chunling Hu, Marc Naven, Kristia Yiangou, Thomas U. Ahearn, Christine B. Ambrosone, Kyriaki Michailidou, et al. Nature Communications 16 (1): 4852.
Imaging
Optimizing the Power of AI for Fracture Detection: From Blind Spots to Breakthroughs. Behzad, Shima, Liesl Eibschutz, Max Yang Lu, and Ali Gholamrezanezhad. Skeletal Radiology, May.
Medicine
Redefining Trauma Triage for Elderly Adults: Development of Age-Specific Guidelines for Improved Patient Outcomes Based on a Machine-Learning Algorithm. Lim, Ji Yeon, Yongho Jee, Seong Gyu Choi, Yoon Hee Choi, Sam S. Torbati, Carl T. Berdahl, and Sun Hwa Lee. Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) 61 (5): 784.
A Phase II Study of Neoadjuvant GVAX and Cyclophosphamide Combined With Nivolumab and SBRT Followed by Surgery in Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma. Agarwal, Parul, Matthew Guo, Kabeer Munjal, Hanfei Qi, Rose Parkinson, Anna Ferguson, Christina Mitchell, Jeanne Harrison, Robert A. Anders, Elizabeth D. Thompson, Hao Wang, Ana De Jesus, Lei Zheng, Jin He, Richard Burkhart, Amol Narang, Ben George, Elizabeth M. Jaffee, Mark Yarchoan, Daniel Laheru, and Arsen Osipov. Clinical Cancer Research, May.
Performance of the New PREVENT Score for Indicating Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Rheumatoid Arthritis. B Gibbons, J. Alex, Joan M. Bathon, and Jon T. Giles. Rheumatology (Oxford, England), May, keaf267.
A Plain Language Summary of POLARIS: A Study to Look at Different Doses of Encorafenib Plus Binimetinib for People With BRAF V600-Mutant Melanoma With Brain Metastasis. Menzies, Alexander M., Georgina V. Long, Amiee Kohn, Hussein Tawbi, Jeffrey Webe, Keith Flaherty, Grant A. McArthur, Paolo A. Ascierto, Yanina Pfluger, Karl Lewis, Katy K. Tsai, Omid Hamid, Hans Prenen, Luis Fein, Erjian Wang, Carolin Guenzel, Fan Zhang, Joseph F. Kleh, Alessandra di Pietro, and Michael A. Davies. Future Oncology (London, England), May, 1–9.
Optimization of Oncological Care: Proposal for the Creation of Rehabilitation Networks in Head and Neck Oncology. Maret, Delphine, Caroline de Bataille, Saman Warnakulasuriya, Joel B. Epstein, Jean-Noel Vergnes, Florent Destruhaut, Mélanie Boulanger, and Emmanuelle Vigarios. Supportive Care in Cancer, 33 (6): 500.
Neurosurgery
Air Pollution and Pituitary Adenoma Pathogenesis: Unraveling Environmental Impacts on Neuroendocrine Function and Tumorigenesis. Boyke, Andre E., Simon A. Menaker, Alberto Nunez, Keith L. Black, and Vladimir A. Ljubimov. Journal of Xenobiotics 15 (3): 71.
Theophylline Can Resolve Refractory Acute Negative-Pressure Hydrocephalus: Illustrative Case. Salam, Smeer, Miguel Quintero-Consuegra, Megan V. Ryan, Enrique Vargas, Catherine Garcia, Serena Wong, Maryam Rejali, Robin Babadjouni, and Adam N. Mamelak. Journal of Neurosurgery. Case Lessons 9 (21): CASE2554.
Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension Due to Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea. Schievink, Wouter I., Marcel M. Maya, and William H. Slattery. JAMA Neurology, May.
Orthopaedics
Litigation Patterns of Acute Compartment Syndrome: Distinctions Between Orthopaedic and Non-Orthopaedic Cases and Factors Predicting Successful Defense. Arif, Haad A., Jose A. Morales, Emmanuel Brito, Simon T. Moore, and Carol A. Lin. The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American Volume, May.
Postoperative External Beam Versus Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy as Adjuvant to Surgically Treated Spinal Metastases. Gasho, Jordan O., Daniel de Reus, Robert-Jan Pierik, Jantijn Amelink, Joseph H. Schwab, and Daniel G. Tobert. Global Spine Journal, May, 21925682251345753.
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
CD140b (PDGFRB) Expression in Atypical Fibroxanthoma/Pleomorphic Dermal Sarcoma and Its Cutaneous Neoplastic Mimics. Gant, Tayler, and Wonwoo Shon. Applied Immunohistochemistry & Molecular Morphology: AIMM, May.
Pediatrics
Preoperative Radiotherapy in Patients With Localized Ewing Sarcoma Enrolled on AEWS1031: A Report from the Children’s Oncology Group. Indelicato, Daniel J., Alexandra K. Callan, Safia K. Ahmed, Mark Krailo, Natalie DelRocco, Allen B. Buxton, Odion T. Binitie, Alexander B. Christ, Sandy Kessell, Paul J. Chuba, Helen R. Nadel, Bruce R. Pawel, Richard Gorlick, Damon R. Reed, Steven G. DuBois, Katherine A. Janeway, Patrick Leavey, Leo Mascarenhas, and Nadia N. Laack. Pediatric Blood & Cancer, May, e31820.
Interleukin-1 Signaling on Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells Accelerates Atherosclerosis in a Murine Model of Kawasaki Disease. Chen, Shuang, Asli Savas, Asli Atici, Youngho Lee, Malcolm Lane, Emily Aubuchon, Debbie Moreira, Alexander Hsu-Wilbraham, Kenichi Shimada, Timothy R. Crother, Magali Noval Rivas, and Moshe Arditi. Journal of the American Heart Association, May, e040687.
Spiritual Care
Evaluation of Spiritual Care Services at Cedars-Sinai Hospitals: Employees’ Views. Lazor, Pamela, Jason Weiner, Alex Lawton, Jonathan Schreiber, Beth L. Muehlhausen, and George Fitchett. Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, May, 1–20.
Surgery
Surgeon Leadership Through Distinct Lenses: Presidential Panel From the 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Southern California Chapter of the American College of Surgeons. Lum, Sharon, Ahmad Abou Abbass, Farin Amersi, Claudia Emami, and Sandra Wong. The American Surgeon, May, 31348251343624.
Teleneurosurgery Between Greenland and Denmark. Jørgensen, Najannguaq, Thorbjørn Søren Rønn Jensen, Simon Bernth-Andersen, Frank Damborg, Anders Vedel Holst, Kåre Fugleholm, Ramona Åstrand, Alexander Lilja-Cyron, David Kulber, Kylie Tanabe, Marianne Juhler, Torstein R. Meling, Tiit Illimar Mathiesen, and Jeppe Haslund-Vinding. BMJ Global Health 10 (5): e017994.
Safety and Efficacy of Spontaneous Carotid Artery Dissection Management With Transfemoral Carotid Artery Stenting (TFCAS) and Transcarotid Artery Revascularization (TCAR): A Multi-Institutional Study. Abdelkarim, Ahmed, Mikayla Kricfalusi, Isibor J. Arhuidese, Ali Azizzadeh, Raghu Motaganahalli, and Mahmoud B. Malas. Annals of Vascular Surgery, May, S0890-5096(25)00362-0.
Urology
AutoRadAI: A Versatile Artificial Intelligence Framework Validated for Detecting Extracapsular Extension in Prostate Cancer. Khosravi, Pegah, Shady Saikali, Abolfazl Alipour, Saber Mohammadi, Maxwell Boger, Dalanda M. Diallo, Christopher J. Smith, Marcio C. Moschovas, Iman Hajirasouliha, Andrew J. Hung, Srirama S. Venkataraman, and Vipul Patel. Biology Methods & Protocols 10 (1): bpaf032.
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