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Faculty Publications May 29-June 5

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 29-June 5. 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

Are Stem Cell Therapies Safe to Try? | The New York Times
Clive Svendsen, PhD  

Longevity Hacks for Busy People | The New York Times
Sara Espinoza, MD 

Cedars-Sinai Discusses the Latest Stroke Prevention Guidelines | BlackDoctor
Alexis Simpkins, MD, PhD; Shlee S. Song, MD 

Hand Sanitizer Isn't as Effective at Killing Germs as You Think — Here's What You Need to Know | HuffPost
Soniya Gandhi, MD, MPH 

New Study Finds That Knee Damage and Cartilage Breakdown Starts Much Earlier Than Thought | Women’s Health 
Natasha Trentacosta, MD 

ACURATE Heart Valves Halted After Consequential Study | Medscape
Raj Makkar, MD 

Dr. Peter L. Slavin, CEO of Cedars-Sinai, and David Kaplan, Chair of the Board | Becker’s Hospital Review/Becker's Healthcare Podcast
Peter Slavin, MD 

Multimodal AI Test Predicts Prostate Cancer Metastasis and Treatment Response: Dr. Timothy Showalter | Uro Today 
Leslie Ballas, MD

 

Faculty Publications

Biomedical Sciences

Process of Radical Resection for Advanced Buccal Cancer and the ‘Sandwich’ Technique for Craniomaxillofacial Defect Repair Using an Anterolateral Thigh Chimeric Myocutaneous Flap. Zhou, Xi, Yu-Xiong Su, Sheng Zhang, Ning Ken, Zhao-Jian Gong, and Han-Jiang Wu. Journal of Cranio-Maxillo-Facial Surgery, June, S1010-5182(25)00166-0.

H3.3 Deposition Counteracts the Replication-Dependent Enrichment of H3.1 at Chromocenters in Embryonic Stem Cells. Arfè, S., T. Karagyozova, A. Forest, D. Bingham, H. Hmidan, D. Mazaud, M. Garnier, P. Le Baccon, E. Meshorer, J.-P. Quivy, and G. Almouzni. Nature Communications 16 (1): 5138.

Concurrent Loss of the Y Chromosome in Cancer and T Cells Impacts Outcome. Chen, Xingyu, Yiling Shen, Suhyeon Choi, Hany A. Abdel-Hafiz, Mukta Basu, Lena Hoelzen, Martina Tufano, Saravana Kumar Kailasam Mani, Maryam Ranjpour, Jiani Zhu, V. Krishnan Ramanujan, Ekaterina K. Koltsova, Vinicius F. Calsavara, Simon R. V. Knott, and Dan Theodorescu. Nature, June.

Racial Bias in AI-Mediated Psychiatric Diagnosis and Treatment: A Qualitative Comparison of Four Large Language Models. Bouguettaya, Ayoub, Elizabeth M. Stuart, and Elias Aboujaoude. NPJ Digital Medicine 8 (1): 332.

Cardiology

Comparison Between Severe R-L and R-NC Raphe-Type Bicuspid Aortic Valve Stenosis Treated With TAVI: Insights From the International AD HOC Registry. Viceré, Andrea, Won-Keun Kim, Andrea Zito, Tommaso Fabris, Chiara De Biase, Attilio Restivo, Nicholas Montarello, Giuliano Costa, Michele Colucci, Ofir Koren, Simone Fezzi, Barbara Bellini, Andrea Buono, et al. Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine: Including Molecular Interventions, May, S1553-8389(25)00276-3.

Impact of Obesity on Long Term Post Heart Transplantation Outcomes. Kim, Darae, In-Cheol Kim, Jong-Chan Youn, Woo-Sung Chang, Jin-Jin Kim, Mi-Hyang Jung, Jin-Oh Choi, Daniel Seong Kyu Kim, Mason Lee, Evan P. Kransdorf, David H. Chang, Michelle M. Kittleson, Jignesh K. Patel, Fardad Esmailian, and Jon A. Kobashigawa. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, May, S1053-2498(25)01960-6.

Post SARS-CoV-2 Myocarditis: Giant Cell or MIS-A? A Misdiagnosis Leading to a Heart Transplantation. Shangguan, Siyi, Pooja S. Desai, Siddharth Singh, Tyler M. Gunn, Serguei I. Bannykh, Janet Wei, and Michelle M. Kittleson. JACC. Case Reports 30 (12): 103514.

Differences in Parkinson’s Disease Populations: Teaching Hospitals Versus Other Settings and Implications for Clinical Trials. Gros, Priti, Connie Marras, Xuesong Wang, Maria Chiu, Michael E. Farkouh, Abby Emdin, and Susan E. Bronskill. Movement Disorders, May.

Using Deep Learning to Predict Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Findings From Echocardiography Videos. Sahashi, Yuki, Milos Vukadinovic, Grant Duffy, Debiao Li, Susan Cheng, Daniel S. Berman, David Ouyang, and Alan C. Kwan. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, May, S0894-7317(25)00276-7.

Comparative Analysis of Closed Reduction With External Fixation Versus Closed Reduction With Percutaneous Pinning for Distal Radius Fractures. Nazari, Roozbeh, Shahnam Mousavi, Mohammad Fakoor, Arash Hassanpour Dargah, Behnam Hamiat Mayan, Homa Taheri, Seyedeh Maryam Mousavinezhad, Nahid Senobari, Mehrdad Gooshvar, and Pouya Ebrahimi. Scientific Reports 15 (1): 19147.

Where Are the Women? Fixing the Broken Pipeline in Cardiovascular Research. Kaur, Gurleen, and Martha Gulati. Heart (British Cardiac Society), June, heartjnl-2025-325979.

Differential Characteristics and Outcomes of Urgent/Emergent Versus Elective Aortic Valve Replacement. Ebinger, Joseph E., Aakriti Gupta, Tzu Yu Huang, Marcella A. Kelley, Christin Thompson, Maria Platanis, and Susan Cheng. Journal of the American Heart Association 14 (11): e041148.

Age at Menarche and Cardiovascular Risk: A Moving Target of Risk Assessment in Women. Dastmalchi, Lily N., and Martha Gulati. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, June, zwaf318.

Reevaluating Beta-Blocker Recommendations Post-Myocardial Infarction: Perspective on the 2025 Guideline Update. Kaul, Sanjay. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 85 (22): 2096–99.

The 2025 Guideline Update Endorses Ticagrelor Monotherapy After ≥1 Month of DAPT Post-PCI in Patients With ACS: Is the Evidence Conclusive? Kaul, Sanjay, and James M. Brophy. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 85 (22): 2083–87.

Computational Biomedicine

Integrative Multi-Omics Study Identifies Sex-Specific Molecular Signatures and Immune Modulation in Bladder Cancer. Wang, Yizhou, Priyanka Bhandary, Kevin Griffin, Jason H. Moore, Xue Li, and Zhiping Paul Wang. Frontiers in Bioinformatics 5: 1575790.

Scientific Timidity Enables Oppression. Omar, Mohamed. Science (New York, N.Y.) 388 (6750): 923.

SC2Spa: A Deep Learning Based Approach to Map Transcriptome to Spatial Origins at Cellular Resolution. Liao, Linbu, Esha Madan, António M. Palma, Hyobin Kim, Amit Kumar, Praveen Bhoopathi, Robert Winn, Jose Trevino, Paul Fisher, Cord Herbert Brakebusch, Gahyun Kim, Junil Kim, Rajan Gogna, and Kyoung Jae Won. BMC Bioinformatics 26 (1): 148.

Infant Manipulation Complexity Trajectories as Predictors of Language Outcomes at 2 Years of Age. Contino, Kaityn, Julie M. Campbell, Emily C. Marcinowski, George F. Michel, Stefany Coxe, and Eliza L. Nelson. Infant Behavior & Development 80 (June): 102080.

Medicine

Long-Term Outcomes Following Catheter-Based Therapies in Older Adults With Acute Pulmonary Embolism. Watanabe, Atsuyuki, Toshiki Kuno, Yoshihisa Miyamoto, Hiroki A. Ueyama, Hiroshi Gotanda, Sripal Bangalore, and Yusuke Tsugawa. JACC. Advances, May, 101770.

New Definition of Light Chain Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance. Einarsson Long, Thorir, Saemundur Rognvaldsson, Sigrun Thorsteinsdottir, Ingigerdur Solveig Sverrisdottir, Elias Eythorsson, Jon Thorir Oskarsson, Olafur Skuli Indridason, Runolfur Palsson, Thor Aspelund, Brynjar Vidarsson, Pall Torfi Onundarson, Bjarni Agnar Agnarsson, Margret Sigurdardottir, Ingunn Thorsteinsdottir, Isleifur Olafsson, Asdis Rosa Thordardottir, Asbjorn Jonsson, Gauti Gislason, Andri Olafsson, Malin Hultcrantz, Brian G. M. Durie, Stephen Harding, Thorvardur Jon Love, Ola Landgren, and Sigurdur Yngvi Kristinsson. JAMA Oncology, May, e251285.

Variants in the DDX6-CXCR5 Autoimmune Disease Risk Locus Influence the Regulatory Network in Immune Cells and Salivary Gland. Wiley, Mandi M., Marcin Radziszewski, Bhuwan Khatri, Michelle L. Joachims, Kandice L. Tessneer, Anna M. Stolarczyk, Songyuan Yao, James Li, Cherilyn Pritchett-Frazee, Audrey A. Johnston, Astrid Rasmussen, Juan-Manuel Anaya, Christopher J. Lessard, et al. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, May, S0003-4967(25)00949-5.

Multi-Tissue Expression and Splicing Data Prioritise Anatomical Subsite- and Sex-Specific Colorectal Cancer Susceptibility Genes. Hazelwood, Emma, Daffodil M. Canson, Benedita Deslandes, Xuemin Wang, Pik Fang Kho, Danny Legge, Andrei-Emil Constantinescu, Matthew A. Lee, D. Timothy Bishop, Andrew T. Chan, Stephen B. Gruber, Jochen Hampe, Loic Le Marchand, Michael O. Woods, Rish K. Pai, Stephanie L. Schmit, Jane C. Figueiredo, Wei Zheng, Jeroen R. Huyghe, Neil Murphy, Marc J. Gunter, Tom G. Richardson, Vicki L. J. Whitehall, Emma E. Vincent, Dylan M. Glubb, and Tracy A. O’Mara. Nature Communications 16 (1): 5043.

Safety and Efficacy of the Anti-TL1A Monoclonal Antibody Tulisokibart for Crohn’s Disease: A Phase 2a Induction Trial. Feagan, Brian G., Bruce E. Sands, Corey A. Siegel, Marla C. Dubinsky, Randy S. Longman, João Sabino, Olivier Laurent, Allison Luo, Jiandong Lu, Deanna D. Nguyen, Ernesto J. Muñoz-Elias, Heather Llewellyn, Yong Wang, InSock Jang, Janine Bilsborough, Ron Marchelletta, Fadi Towfic, Mark Yen, Jaclyn K. Anderson, Aaron DuVall, Jaroslaw Kierkus, Marek Woynarowski, Houssam Al Kharrat, Stephan R. Targan, and Dermot P. B. McGovern. The Lancet. Gastroenterology & Hepatology, May, S2468-1253(25)00071-8.

Tumor Treating Fields With Gemcitabine and Nab-Paclitaxel for Locally Advanced Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: Randomized, Open-Label, Pivotal Phase III PANOVA-3 Study. Babiker, Hani M., Vincent Picozzi, Sreenivasa R. Chandana, Bohuslav Melichar, Anup Kasi, Jin Gang, Javier Gallego, Andrea Bullock, Hao Chunyi, Lucjan Wyrwicz, Erika Hitre, Arsen Osipov, Christelle de la Fouchardiere, Inmaculada Ales, Tomislav Dragovich, Woojin Lee, Kynan Feeney, Philip Philip, Makoto Ueno, Eric Van Cutsem, Thomas Seufferlein, Teresa Macarulla, and PANOVA-3 Study Investigators. Journal of Clinical Oncology, May, JCO2500746.

Diet’s Impact on Gut Microbial Assemblage in Health and Disease. Koletic, Carolina, Amanda Mrad, Anthony Martin, and Suzanne Devkota. The Journal of Clinical Investigation 135 (11): e184319.

Long-Term Efficacy and Safety of Lifileucel Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocyte (TIL) Cell Therapy in Patients With Advanced Melanoma: A 5-Year Analysis of the C-144-01 Study. Medina, Theresa, Jason A. Chesney, Harriet M. Kluger, Omid Hamid, Eric D. Whitman, Mike Cusnir, Sajeve S. Thomas, Martin Wermke, Evidio Domingo-Musibay, Giao Q. Phan, John M. Kirkwood, James Larkin, Jeffrey Weber, Friedrich Graf Finckenstein, Jeffrey Chou, Brian Gastman, Xiao Wu, Rana Fiaz, Amod A. Sarnaik, and C-144-01 Investigators. Journal of Clinical Oncology, June, 101200JCO2500765.

Loss of CD98HC Phosphorylation by ATM Impairs Antiporter Trafficking and Drives Glutamate Toxicity in Ataxia Telangiectasia. Romero, July Carolina, Sonal S. Tonapi, Manish Parihar, Eva Loranc, Henry E. Miller, Liesl A. Lawrence, Nicklas Bassani, Daniel G. Robledo, Lin Cao, Jia Nie, Kairi Kanda, Aiola Stoja, Natalia Garcia, Aparna Gorthi, Brian J. Stoveken, Teresa W.-M. Fan, Teresa A. Cassel, Shan Zha, James D. Lechleiter, Nicolas Musi, Lily Q. Dong, Andrew N. Lane, and Alexander J. R. Bishop. Nature Communications 16 (1): 5109.

Evolving Public Attention to Steatotic Liver Disease: A 20-Year Analysis (2004-2024): Surging Steatotic Liver Disease Focus. Danpanichkul, Pojsakorn, Charat Thongprayoon, Kanokphong Suparan, Donghee Kim, Ornpailin Wanichthanaolan, Phuuwadith Wattanachayakul, Yanfang Pang, Mark D. Muthiah, Anand V. Kulkarni, Ju Dong Yang, Apichat Kaewdech, Wisit Cheungpasitporn, and Karn Wijarnpreecha. Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, June.

Elevated ctDNA Tumor Fraction Is Associated With Improved Mutation Detection but Worse Overall Survival in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Lung-MAP Study. Mack, Philip C., Mary W. Redman, Hanna Tukachinsky, David E. Kozono, Katherine Minichiello, Konstantin H. Dragnev, Khaled A. Tolba, Joel W. Neal, Russell W. Madison, Saiama N. Waqar, Charu Aggarwal, Fred R. Hirsch, Jyoti D. Patel, Roy S. Herbst, Anne C. Chiang, Karen L. Reckamp, Karen Kelly, Hossein Borghaei, Jhanelle E. Gray, and David R. Gandara. Clinical Cancer Research, June.

Postoperative Defect Size as a Criterion for Upstaging High-Risk Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma Treated With Mohs Micrographic Surgery. Kodumudi, Vijay, Amanda Rosenthal, Geena Conde, Margit Juhasz, and Nima Gharavi. Dermatologic Surgery, June.

Neurology

Sticky Platelet Syndrome: An Important Consideration for Otherwise Unexplained Thrombotic Events in Young Stroke Patients. Yang, Diana, Anjana Shriram, Yu Lee Ra, Cindy Rivas, Ava Elahi, Christopher James Gorospe, Jocelyn Ho, Benedict Pereira, Shlee Song, and Alexis N. Simpkins. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular, May, 108364.

Assessing the Global Impact of Brain Small Vessel Disease on Cognition: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Charisis, Sokratis, Tanweer Rashid, Christina Dintica, Mitzi Gonzales, Hangfan Liu, Jeffrey B. Ware, Thomas R. Austin, Paul N. Jensen, Alison E. Fohner, Jordan E. Tanley, Jingzhong Ding, José A. Luchsinger, Bonnie Sachs, Ilya M. Nasrallah, R. Nick Bryan, Kathleen M. Hayden, David Wolk, Katya Rascovsky, Christos Davatzikos, William T. Longstreth, Kristine Yaffe, Sudha Seshadri, Susan R. Heckbert, Timothy Hughes, and Mohamad Habes. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association 21 (6): e70326.

Neurosurgery

Reviewed Article: Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Brain Metastasis. Alalawi, Reem Arif, Selma Alazhar Khriji, Maram Abdullah Ambusaidi, and Tariq Al-Saadi. The Gulf Journal of Oncology 1 (47): 14–23.

Optimizing Predictive Model Performance in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: A Comparative Head-to-Head Analysis of Learning Models for Perioperative Complications. Shahrestani, Shane, Catherine Garcia, Andrew M. Miller, Robin Babadjouni, Andre E. Boyke, Miguel Quintero-Consuegra, Rohin Singh, Alexander Tuchman, and Corey T. Walker. Neurosurgical Focus 58 (6): E12.

Pain Catastrophizing and Frailty in Adult Spinal Deformity Patients With Cognitive Impairment. Semonche, Alexa, Justin K. Scheer, Austin Lui, John F. Burke, Chloe Jedwood, Albert Wang, Elaina J. Wang, Tony Catalan, Diana Chang, Bethany Belfield, Isabelle Thapar, Michael M. Safaee, Darryl Lau, Marissa Fury, Thomas Wozny, Anthony L. Mikula, David Mazur-Hart, Alekos A. Theologis, Aaron J. Clark, and Christopher P. Ames. Neurosurgical Focus 58 (6): E2.

Dynamic MRI in the Evaluation of the Cervical Spine in Pediatric Patients With Achondroplasia. Masarwy, Aseel, Alexander Tuchman, Jesse Huang, Christopher Watterson, and Moise Danielpour. American Journal of Medical Genetics. Part A, June, e64143.

Musculoskeletal Biomarkers in Health and Disease: Implications for the Aging Spine-a Review for Spinal Surgeons by the SRS Adult Spinal Deformity Task Force on Senescence. Azad, Tej D., Marvin W. Li, Chiu Ping-Yeh, Kristen E. Jones, Elizabeth L. Lord, Camilo A. Molina, Corey T. Walker, Joseph A. Osorio, Javier Pizones, Alekos Theologis, Miranda van Hooff, Mitsuru Yagi, Michael P. Kelly, Marinus de Kleuver, Serena S. Hu, Suken A. Shah, Ferran Pellisé, Jeremy D. Walston, Robert K. Eastlack, Christopher P. Ames, and Scoliosis Research Society Adult Spinal Deformity Task Force on Senescence. Spine Deformity, June.

OBGYN

Association of Body Mass Index With Surgical Complications After Minimally Invasive Hysterectomy. Meyer, Raanan, Jayne Caron, Kacey M. Hamilton, Rebecca J. Schneyer, Gabriel Levin, Kelly N. Wright, and Matthew T. Siedhoff. Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics, June.

Navigating Operating Room Resource Shortages: Cost, Sustainability, and Environmental Stewardship. Hsu, Richard, Elissa Trieu, Rebecca Schneyer, and Kelly Wright. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, June.

Orthopaedics 

Hospital-Related Healthcare Expenditure of Impending Versus Completed Pathological Femur Fractures: A Propensity Score Matched Study of 265 Patients. De Groot, Tom M., Michelle R. Shimizu, David Shin, Olivier Q. Groot, Stein J. Janssen, Kevin A. Raskin, Eric T. Newman, Marco L. Ferrone, Santiago A. Lozano-Calderon, Joseph H. Schwab, and Paul C. Jutte. Acta Orthopaedica 96 (May): 401–10.

Letter to the Editor: Frailty Is Associated With Increased 30-Day Readmissions and Costs After Total Shoulder Arthroplasty. Abella, Maveric. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, May.

Artificial Intelligence in Value-Based Health Care. Shah, Romil, Kevin J. Bozic, and Prakash Jayakumar. HSS Journal: The Musculoskeletal Journal of Hospital for Special Surgery, May, 15563316251340074.

Large Language Models in Spine Surgery: A Promising Technology. Shah, Romil, and Joseph H. Schwab. HSS Journal: The Musculoskeletal Journal of Hospital for Special Surgery, May, 15563316251340696.

Impact of Thoracolumbar Inflection Point on Outcomes and Complications in Adult Spinal Deformity. Mir, Jamshaid M., Justin S. Smith, Anthony Yung, Oluwatobi O. Onafowokan, Renaud Lafage, Jeffrey Gum, Breton G. Line, Bassel Diebo, Alan H. Daniels, D. Kojo Hamilton, Nitin Agarwal, Thomas J. Buell, Justin K. Scheer, Robert K. Eastlack, Jeffrey P. Mullin, Gregory M. Mundis, Naobumi Hosogane, Mitsuru Yagi, Neel Anand, Praveen V. Mummaneni, Dean Chou, Eric O. Klineberg, Khaled M. Kebaish, Munish C. Gupta, Han Jo Kim, Lawrence G. Lenke, Christopher P. Ames, Frank J. Schwab, Virginie Lafage, Richard A. Hostin, Shay Bess, Douglas C. Burton, Christopher I. Shaffrey, and Peter G. Passias. Neurosurgical Focus 58 (6): E8.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

The Nrf2 Activator CDDO-Imidazole Suppresses Inflammation-Induced Red Blood Cell Alloimmunization. Chang, Che-Yu, Rosario Hernández-Armengol, Kausik Paul, June Young Lee, Karina Nance, Tomohiro Shibata, Peibin Yue, Christian Stehlik, and David R. Gibb. Antioxidants 14 (6): 678.

A Concordance Study Among 26 NGS Laboratories Participating in the National Cancer Institute-Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice (NCI-MATCH) Clinical Trial. Zane, Linda K., Laura M. Yee, Ting-Chia Chang, Jeffrey Sklar, Guangxiao Yang, Jia Di Wen, Peining Li, Robin Harrington, David J. Sims, Kneshay Harper, Jeffrey M. Trent, Janine R. LoBello, Chris Karlovich, et al. Clinical Cancer Research, June.

Pediatrics

Prognostic Value of Caspase-3 and Cardiac Troponin I in Assessing Cardiovascular Risk in Pediatric COVID-19 and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome. Kozak, Kateryna, Halyna Pavlyshyn, and Sandor George Vari. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare 18: 3009–19.

Factorial Vignettes Describe Suspected Early Onset Sepsis Practice Variation in a Multicenter NICU Antibiotic Stewardship Collaborative. Joshi, Neha S., Kenneth M. Zangwill, Henry C. Lee, Peter Mendel, Chau Pham, Megan Schuler, Nabeel Qureshi, Natalie Chapkis, Allison Henry, and Kurlen S. E. Payton. Journal of Perinatology, June.

Radiation Oncology

The American Brachytherapy Society (ABS) Consensus Guidance for Hybrid Intracavitary Interstitial Brachytherapy for Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer. Chino, Junzo, Beth Erickson, David Gaffney, I.-Chow Hsu, Mitchell Kamrava, Yongbok Kim, Thomas R. Niedermayr, Michael Roumeliotis, Jason Rownd, Dorin Todor, Akila Viswanathan, and Elizabeth A. Kidd. Brachytherapy, May, S1538-4721(25)00086-8.

Characterization of Acute Radiation-Induced Vascular Changes in Animal Model of Brain Tumors Using Time Frequency Analysis of DCE MRI Information. Bagher-Ebadian, Hassan, Stephen L. Brown, Mohammad M. Ghassemi, Prabhu C. Acharya, James R. Ewing, Indrin J. Chetty, Farzan Siddiqui, Benjamin Movsas, and Kundan Thind. Medical Physics, June.

Gender Differences in X (Formerly Twitter) Use, Influence, and Engagement Among Cardiologists From the Top U.S. News Best Hospitals. Seok, Minji, Sungjin Kim, Harper Tzou, Olivia Peony, Mitchell Kamrava, Andriana P. Nikolova, and Katelyn M. Atkins. JMIR Cardio 9 (June): e66308.

Surgery 

An International Consensus on Appropriate Management of Corticosteroids in Clinical Trials in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Hanžel, Jurij, Virginia Solitano, Sudheer Kumar Vuyyuru, Remo Panaccione, Bruce E. Sands, Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet, Silvio Danese, Geert R. D’Haens, Raja Atreya, Matthieu Allez, Charles N. Bernstein, Peter Bossuyt, Brian Bressler, Robert V. Bryant, Benjamin L. Cohen, Jean-Frederic Colombel, Ferdinando D’Amico, Axel Dignass, Marla Dubinsky, Phillip Fleshner, Richard B. Gearry, Stephen B. Hanauer, Ailsa L. Hart, Maia Kayal, Torsten Kucharzik, Peter L. Lakatos, Edouard Louis, Fernando Magro, Neeraj Narula, Rupert W. Leong, Julián Panés, Tim Raine, Zhihua Ran, Miguel D. Regueiro, Walter Reinisch, Siddharth Singh, A. Hillary Steinhart, Simon Travis, Ryan C. Ungaro, C. Janneke van der Woude, Takayuki Yamamoto, Vineet Ahuja, David T. Rubin, Parambir S. Dulai, Linda J. Cornfield, Malcolm Hogan, William J. Sandborn, Brian G. Feagan, Vipul Jairath, and Christopher Ma. Gastroenterology, May, S0016-5085(25)00825-X.

Perioperative Blood Transfusion Is an Independent Risk Factor for Ileus Following Minimally Invasive Elective Colectomy for Cancer. La, Kristina H.-T., Yosef Y. Nasseri, Rachel Ma, Vincent Xu, Paola Solís Pazmiño, Abbas Smiley, Joshua Ellenhorn, Sean Langenfeld, Robert Bergamaschi, and Moshe Barnajian. Updates in Surgery, May.

Urology

Clinical Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Robotic Urologic Surgery. Saikali, Shady, Runzhuo Ma, Vipul Patel, and Andrew Hung. Asian Journal of Urology 12 (2): 139–42.

Topic Mapping to Inform Content to Discuss in Shared Decision-Making for Prostate Cancer. Friedrich, Nadine A., Paul Kokorowski, Michael Luu, Antwon Chaplin, Reva Polineni, Alex Shiang, Dong Shin, Judy Tan, Stephen J. Freedland, Brennan Spiegel, and Timothy J. Daskivich. Urology, May, S0090-4295(25)00511-4.

Computer Vision for Evaluating Retraction of the Neurovascular Bundle During Nerve-Sparing Prostatectomy. Ghaffar, Umar, Rikke Olsen, Atharva Deo, Cherine Yang, Jonathan Varghese, Randy G. Tsai, John Heard, Eman Dadashian, Carter Prentice, Peter Wager, Runzhuo Ma, Christian Wagner, Geoffrey A. Sonn, Alvin C. Goh, Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez, and Andrew J. Hung. Journal of Robotic Surgery 19 (1): 257.

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