Faculty Publications May 8-15

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published May 8-15. 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

Will Prebiotics and Probiotics Really Help You Poop? What Gut Experts Say. | Popular Science
Suzanne Devkota, PhD

How to Prevent Insulin Resistance and Keep Blood Sugar Levels Steady | BlackDoctor
Ruchi Mathur, MD; Nicolas Musi, MD 

Cedars-Sinai and Redesign Health Launch Digital Innovation Platform | Healthcare IT News 
Peter Slavin, MD; Bardia Nabet, MPH 

Evolocumab May Shift Plaque Profile Toward Lower Cardiovascular Risk | HCP Live
Daniel Berman, MD; Donghee Han, MD 

Endoscopic Procedure Shows Promise in Type 2 Diabetes Care | Medscape
Barham Abu Dayyeh, MD, MPH 

Dr. Stephen J. Freedland on the Benefits of mCRPC Treatments Translating to the Real World | Urology Times 
Stephen Freedland, MD 

Strength Training Vs. Cardio: Which Is Better for Healthy Aging? | U.S. News & World Report
Bert Mandelbaum, MD

Faculty Publications

Biomedical Sciences

Characterization of Aortic Valve Stenosis by CT Angiography in a Diverse US Cohort. Lorenzatti, Daniel, Annalisa Filtz, Pamela Pina, Jolien Geers, Jake Gilman, Jonathan Daich, Paul Ippolito, Aftab Abdullah, Aldo L. Schenone, Carlos A. Gongora, Justin Johannesen, Andrea Scotti, Edwin C. Ho, Mario J. Garcia, Azeem Latib, Carlos J. Rodriguez, Daniel S. Berman, Marie-Annick Clavel, Philippe Pibarot, Robert O. Bonow, Piotr J. Slomka, Marc R. Dweck, Damini Dey, and Leandro Slipczuk. Circulation. Cardiovascular Imaging, May, e017858.

Filamented Light (FLight) Biofabrication of Aligned Fibrillar Structures to Direct 3D Cell Organization Within Microgels. Joshi, Akshat, Meenakshi Kamaraj, Nafiseh Moghimi, Hossein Heidari, Arwin Aghamaleky-Sarvestany, Chethikkattuveli Salih Abdul Rahim, Diego N. Rodriguez-Sanchez, Caroline Hu, Sree Aravindan, Deepthi S. Rajendran Nair, Ngan F. Huang, Biju B. Thomas, Dhruv Sareen, Eiji Yoshihara, Vadim Jucaud, Ali Khademhosseini, and Johnson V John. Small (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany), May, e2500261.

Coronary Spotty Calcification, Compared With Macro Calcification, Is Associated With a Higher Level of Vascular Inflammation and Plaque Vulnerability in Patients With Stable Angina. Fujimoto, Daichi, Daisuke Kinoshita, Keishi Suzuki, Takayuki Niida, Haruhito Yuki, Iris McNulty, Hang Lee, Hiromasa Otake, Junya Shite, Maros Ferencik, Damini Dey, Fernando Alfonso, Tsunekazu Kakuta, and Ik-Kyung Jang. Atherosclerosis 405 (May): 119237.

Cardiac Surgery

Left Ventricular Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices for Cardiogenic Shock After Myocardial Infarction. Giao, Duc M., and Robert P. Giugliano. Cardiology and Therapy, May.

Cardiology

iDDN: Determining Trans-Omics Network Structure and Rewiring With Integrative Differential Dependency Networks. Wang, Yizhi, Yi Fu, Yingzhou Lu, Zhen Zhang, Robert Clarke, Sarah J. Parker, David M. Herrington, Guoqiang Yu, and Yue Wang. Bioinformatics Advances 5 (1): vbaf086.

Impact of Cardiosphere-Derived Cells on the Maladapted Right Ventricular Muscle in a Rat Sugen/Hypoxia Model of Pulmonary Hypertension With Right Ventricular Dysfunction. Middleton, Ryan C., Oleg A. Karpov, Mario Fournier, Simion Kreimer, Mitra Mastali, Weixin Liu, Liang Li, Norbert F. Voelkel, Jennifer E. Van Eyk, Eduardo Marbán, and Michael I. Lewis. PloS One 20 (5): e0321895.

Myocardial Ischaemic Syndromes: Shifting From a Coronary-Centric to a Substrate-Based Nomenclature Is More Accurate and Inclusive. Boden, William E., Juan Carlos Kaski, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Mario Marzilli, Carl J. Pepine, Filippo Crea, and Raffaele De Caterina. European Cardiology 20: e12.

Similar Burden of Rare Genetic Variants in Ischemic and Non-Ischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy. Cao, Louie, Joshua Rushakoff, Ian Williamson, Anja Karlstaedt, Michelle Kittleson, Lawrence Czer, and Evan P. Kransdorf. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine 12: 1542653.

Using Clonidine for Neuromodulation in Patients With Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. Lin, Shala, Anxhela Kote, Taiga Andersson, Joshua I. Goldhaber, James E. Tisdale, Xiaochun Li, Peng-Sheng Chen, and Xiao Liu. Heart Rhythm, May, S1547-5271(25)02415-4.

Mitochondrial NNT Promotes Diastolic Dysfunction in Cardiometabolic HFpEF. Pepin, Mark E., Philipp J. M. Konrad, Sumra Nazir, Farhad Bazgir, Christoph Maack, Alexander Nickel, Joshua Gorman, Mathias Hohl, Friederike Schreiter, Matthias Dewenter, Adriano de Britto Chaves Filho, Almut Schulze, Anja Karlstaedt, Norbert Frey, Christine Seidman, Jonathan Seidman, and Johannes Backs. Circulation Research, May.

Reassessing Cardiovascular Risk in Patients With Peripheral Artery Disease Undergoing Myocardial Perfusion Imaging. Wang, Kaiming, Tali Sharir, M. Timothy Hauser, Sharmila Dorbala, Marcelo Di Carli, Mathews B. Fish, Terrence D. Ruddy, Timothy Bateman, Andrew J. Einstein, Philipp A. Kaufmann, Edward J. Miller, Albert J. Sinusas, Wanda Acampa, Julian Halcox, Monica Martins, Joanna X. Liang, Valerie Builoff, Damini Dey, Daniel S. Berman, Robert J. H. Miller, and Piotr J. Slomka. The Canadian Journal of Cardiology, May, S0828-282X(25)00335-6.

Temporal Trends in Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Prior to Sudden Death in Heart Failure Patients. Pope, Marita Knudsen, Harpriya Chugh, Arayik Sargsyan, Audrey Uy-Evanado, Angelo Salvucci, Jonathan Jui, Kyndaron Reinier, and Sumeet S. Chugh. Heart Rhythm, May, S1547-5271(25)02436-1.

Integrating Community-Based Participatory Research into Cardiac Clinical Trials: Lessons From REVASCHOICE. Sallam, Aminah, Niurka Suero-Tejeda, Stephanie Niño de Rivera, Rhonda Monroe, Patrick O. Gee, John A. Spertus, and Ruth Masterson Creber. JACC. Advances 4 (6 Pt 1): 101799.

Understanding Transient Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Reduction During Atrial Fibrillation With Artificial Intelligence. Yuan, Neal, Gloria J. Hong, Amey Vrudhula, Alan C. Kwan, Grant Duffy, Patrick Botting, Sanket S. Dhruva, Robert J. Siegel, and David Ouyang. Journal of the American Heart Association, May, e040641.

Practical Guide on the Use of Induction Immunosuppression in Heart Transplantation. Nikolova, Andriana P., Lavanya Bellumkonda, Anju Bhardwaj, Nadia Fida, Luise Holzhauser, Priya Umapathi, Teresa De Marco, and Johanna Contreras. Circulation. Heart Failure, May, e012382.

Rationale and Design of the REPEAT Trial: A Multicenter Randomized Trial Comparing Redo Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement to Valve-in-Valve Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. Raschpichler, Matthias, Suzanne de Waha, Stefan Blankenberg, Marcio A. Diniz, Emilia Bagiella, Annetine C. Gelijns, Vinicius F. Calsavara, Aakriti Gupta, Niklas Schofer, Tsuyoshi Kaneko, Mohamed Abdel-Wahab, Holger Thiele, Raj Makkar, and Michael A. Borger. Journal of the American Heart Association, May, e040954.

Sex Differences in Adenosine Deaminase Activity Associate With Disparities in SARS-CoV-2 Innate Immunity. Saminathan, Priyanka, Ian T. Mathews, Ahmad Alimadadi, Kai Fung, Kiyokazu Kakugawa, Leo A. B. Joosten, Mihai G. Netea, Mohit Jain, Susan Cheng, Catherine C. Hedrick, and Sonia Sharma. iScience 28 (5): 112418.

Computational Biomedicine

Long-Term Health Outcomes of Bilateral Salpingo-Oophorectomy in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Pathogenic Variant Carriers With Personal History of Breast Cancer: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using Linked Electronic Health Records. Hassan, Hend, Isaac Allen, Tameera Rahman, Sophie Allen, Craig Knott, Catherine Huntley, Lucy Loong, Alice Garrett, Yvonne Walburga, Eva Morris, Steven Hardy, Bethany Torr, Fiona McRonald, Sally Vernon, Margreet Lüchtenborg, Joanna Pethick, Francesco Santaniello, Shilpi Goel, Diana M. Eccles, Clare Turnbull, Marc Tischkowitz, Paul Pharoah, and Antonis C. Antoniou. The Lancet. Oncology, May, S1470-2045(25)00156-1.

Understanding Hydronephrosis Occurrence by an Individual-Kidney Level Analysis of All Events Post-Chemoradiotherapy for Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer. Sapienza, Lucas Gomes, Christina Hunter Chapman, Samyukta Jhavar, Vinícius Fernando Calsavara, Michelle Suzanne Ludwig, Maria José Leite Gomes, and Emanuel de Freitas Carvalho. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, May, S0360-3016(25)00430-4.

Assessing the Performance of the PREDICT Breast Version 3.0 Prognostic Tool in Patients With Breast Cancer in the United States. Hsiao, Yi-Wen, Gordon C. Wishart, Paul D. P. Pharoah, and Pei-Chen Peng. Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network: JNCCN, May, 1–7.

Imaging

Differences in Risk Factors Associated With the Initiation and Progression of Mitral Annular Calcification in Asymptomatic Individuals. Kim, Kyung An, Hae-Ok Jung, So-Young Lee, Yuran Ahn, Mi-Hyang Jung, Woo-Baek Chung, Dong-Hyeon Lee, Ho-Joong Youn, Donghee Han, and Hyuk-Jae Chang. Scientific Reports 15 (1): 16528.

Medicine

A ‘Noodle and Thread’: A Low-Fidelity Simulation of Blood Vessel Ligation Using Common Household Items. Markel, Justin, Jacob D. Franke, Kerri Woodberry, and Matthew Fahrenkopf. Medical Science Educator 35 (2): 597–602.

Subclinical Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Events Among Patients With Colorectal Cancer. Levy, Julia A., Elham Kazemian, Cody Ramin, Nicole C. Loroña, Maimoona Nadri, Jordan O. Gasho, Katrina D. Silos, Andriana P. Nikolova, Damini Dey, Erin M. Siegel, Biljana Gigic, Sheetal Hardikar, Doratha A. Byrd, Adetunji T. Toriola, Jennifer Ose, Christopher I. Li, David Shibata, Cornelia M. Ulrich, Balaji K. Tamarappoo, Katelyn M. Atkins, and Jane C. Figueiredo. Cancer Medicine 14 (10): e70938.

End-of-Life Care and Health Care Spending for Medicare Beneficiaries With Dementia in Accountable Care Organizations. Zhang, Jessica J., David B. Reuben, Anne M. Walling, David S. Zingmond, Cheryl L. Damberg, Neil S. Wenger, Haiyong Xu, Ryo Ikesu, Gillian S. Kaneshiro, Alexandra Klomhaus, Hiroshi Gotanda, and Yusuke Tsugawa. JAMA Health Forum 6 (5): e250731.

The PRL3-Zumab Paradigm: A Multicenter, Single-Dose-Level Phase 2 Basket Clinical Trial Design of an Unconventional Cancer Immunotherapy. Park, David J., Min Thura, Vi K. Chiu, Brian Vicuna, Koon Hwee Ang, Blanca Sanchez, Pei Ling Chia, Kam Yew Kuan, Jie Li, Ke Zhang, Wei Hui Zheng, Matthew Chau Hsien Ng, and Qi Zeng. Cell Reports. Medicine, May, 102120.

Molecular Diagnosis of Kidney Allograft Rejection Based on the Banff Human Organ Transplant (B-HOT) Gene Panel: A Multicenter International Study. Zielinski, Dina, Valentin Goutaudier, Marta Sablik, Gillian Divard, Olivier Aubert, Alexis Piedrafita, Fariza Mezine, Jessy Dagobert, Anais Certain, Blaise Robin, Juliette Gueguen, Marion Rabant, Jean-Paul Duong van Huyen, Aurélie Sannier, Christine Randoux-Lebrun, Mehdi Maanaoui, Arnaud Lionet, Jean-Baptiste Gibier, Viviane Gnemmi, Moglie Le Quintrec, Bertrand Chauveau, Agathe Vermorel, Lionel Couzi, Oriol Bestard, Michelle Elias, Kevin Louis, Ivy A. Rosales, R. Neal Smith, Vanderlene L. Kung, Dany Anglicheau, Christophe Legendre, Arnaud Del Bello, Edmund Huang, Benjamin Adam, Nassim Kamar, Robert B. Colvin, Michael Mengel, Carmen Lefaucheur, and Alexandre Loupy. American Journal of Transplantation, May, S1600-6135(25)00230-8.

Tapering in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Path to Predict Flares. Mulligen, Elise van, Jon T. Giles, and Angelique Eam Weel. Arthritis & Rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.), May.

Backtable Intra-Arterial Administration of C1 Esterase Inhibitor to Deceased Donor Kidney Allografts Improves Post-Transplant Allograft Function: Results of a Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial. Huang, Edmund, Noriko Ammerman, Ashley Vo, Jean Hou, Sanjeev Kumar, Nicole Badash, Ben Falk, Kathleen Hernando, Matthew Gillespie, Irene Kim, Kathlyn Lim, Reiad Najjar, Alice Peng, Bongha Shin, Justin Steggerda, Tsuyoshi Todo, Todd Brennan, Georgios Voidonikolas, Steven Wisel, Peter S. Heeger, and Stanley C. Jordan. American Journal of Transplantation, May, S1600-6135(25)00233-3.

Genetics of Childhood-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (cSLE). Carlomagno, Raffaella, Nicholas Gold, Fangming Liao, Jingjing Cao, Paul D. Arnold, Christie L. Burton, Jennifer Crosbie, Daniela Dominguez, Dafna D. Gladman, Mariko Ishimori, Caroline Jefferies, Diane L. Kamen, Sylvia Kamphuis, Marisa S. Klein-Gitelman, Andrea M. Knight, Chia-Chi J. Lee, Deborah M. Levy, Karen B. Onel, Andrew D. Paterson, Christine A. Peschken, Janet E. Pope, Russell J. Schachar, Earl D. Silverman, Lisa Strug, Zahi Touma, Murray B. Urowitz, Daniel J. Wallace, Cheng Wang, Declan Webber, Joan E. Wither, and Linda T. Hiraki. Arthritis & Rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.), May.

Global Health Policies for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Cross-Sectional Study. Chee, Douglas, Christen En Ya Ong, Darren Jh Tan, Jörn M. Schattenberg, George N. Ioannou, Daniel Q. Huang, and HCC Policy Study Group. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, May, S1542-3565(25)00364-7.

Immunosuppression as an Independent Risk Factor for Poor Outcomes in Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Prospective Study. Rosenthal, Amanda, Geena Conde, Joseph Dodson, Margit Juhasz, and Nima Gharavi. Dermatologic Surgery, May.

Deep Learning-Derived Cardiac Chamber Volumes and Mass From PET/CT Attenuation Scans: Associations With Myocardial Flow Reserve and Heart Failure. Hijazi, Waseem, Aakash Shanbhag, Robert J. H. Miller, Paul B. Kavanagh, Aditya Killekar, Mark Lemley, Samuel Wopperer, Stacey Knight, Viet T. Le, Steve Mason, Wanda Acampa, Tom Rosamond, Damini Dey, Daniel S. Berman, Panithaya Chareonthaitawee, Marcelo F. Di Carli, and Piotr J. Slomka. Circulation. Cardiovascular Imaging, May, e018188.

Sex Differences in Bladder Cancer: Understanding Biological and Clinical Implications. Chaudhary, Prakash, Biplab Singha, Hany A. Abdel-Hafiz, Maria Velegraki, Debasish Sundi, Swati Satturwar, Anil V. Parwani, Sergei I. Grivennikov, Sungyong You, Helen S. Goodridge, Qin Ma, Yuzhou Chang, Anjun Ma, Bin Zheng, Dan Theodorescu, Zihai Li, and Xue Li. Biology of Sex Differences 16 (1): 31.

Anthropometric Measures and Mortality Risk in Individuals With Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD): A Population-Based Cohort Study. Yeo, Yee Hui, Yixuan Zhu, Jingli Gao, Shanghao Liu, Wenjing Ni, Fajuan Rui, Xue Bai, Nan Geng, Rui Jin, Elizabeth K. Speliotes, Chao Wu, Junping Shi, Xiaolong Qi, Vincent L. Chen, Philip N. Newsome, and Jie Li. Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, May.

Advancing Policy and Practice in Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease and Alcohol-Attributable Cancer: Correspondence to the Editorial on ‘Rising Burden of Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease and Cancers: Insights into Sex Disparities and Policy Implications.’ Danpanichkul, Pojsakorn, Donghee Kim, Karn Wijarnpreecha, Amit G. Singal, and Ju Dong Yang. Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, May.

Growth Hormone Replacement in Craniopharyngioma: Analysis of the Hypopituitary Control and Complications Study (HypoCCS). Cooper, Odelia, and Sungjin Kim. Journal of the Endocrine Society 9 (6): bvaf072.

Trajectories of Prescription Opioid Use for Low Back Pain Patients. Hartzell, Sarah Y. T., Elaine Michelle Albertson, Sarah Friedman, and Michelle S. Keller. Pain Practice, 25 (5): e70046.

Neurosurgery

Anaplastic Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma With Leptomeningeal Dissemination Presenting with Cranial Neuropathy in an Adult Patient: Illustrative Case. Menaker, Simon A., Andre E. Boyke, Serguei I. Bannykh, Ziedulla Abdullaev, Lindsey B. Ross, and Paula Eboli. Journal of Neurosurgery. Case Lessons 9 (19): CASE24768.

OBGYN

Anhedonia Symptoms and High Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein (Hs-CRP) Several Years Postpartum. Nicoloro-SantaBarbara, Jennifer M., Judith E. Carroll, Margo Minissian, Sarah J. Kilpatrick, C. Noel Bairey Merz, and Eynav E. Accortt. American Journal of Reproductive Immunology (New York, N.Y.: 1989) 93 (5): e70095.

Patterns of Primary Metastasis and Recurrence in Mismatch Repair Deficiency and P53 Abnormal Endometrial Carcinoma. Wagar, Matthew K., Eric Reetz, Dandi Huang, Mary J. Kao, Ahmed N. Al-Niaimi, Sumer K. Wallace, Lisa M. Barroilhet, and Stephanie M. McGregor. Gynecologic Oncology 197 (May): 171–78.

Financial Hardship and Crowdfunding for Endometriosis Care: A Cross-Sectional Study. Masini, Irene, Natalie Cooley, Kelly N. Wright, Matthew T. Siedhoff, and Raanan Meyer. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, May.

Orthopaedics

Cervical Disc Replacement in Athletes: A Modified Delphi Consensus Survey of Expert Opinion. Zuckerman, Scott L., Jacob Jo, Grant H. Rigney, Julian E. Bailes, Christopher M. Bonfield, Robert C. Cantu, Patrick C. H. Chan, Andrew M. Cordover, Domagoj Coric, Hank Feuer, Raymond J. Gardocki, Andrew Hecht, Wellington K. Hsu, Jacob R. Joseph, Ronald A. Lehman, Allan D. Levi, Susan M. Liew, Philip K. Louie, Steven C. Ludwig, Joseph Maroon, Vincent J. Miele, Jeff Mullin, Venu M. Nemani, Frank M. Phillips, Sheeraz Qureshi, K. Daniel Riew, Myron A. Rogers, Rick C. Sasso, Gabriel A. Smith, Jay D. Turner, Alexander R. Vaccaro, Robert G. Watkins, Nicholas Theodore, David O. Okonkwo, Allen K. Sills, and Gavin A. Davis. The Spine Journal, May, S1529-9430(25)00234-7.

Validation of an Updated Patient-Reported Outcomes Questionnaire for Sacral Tumors. Gasho, Jordan O., Joshua M. Coan, Patrick J. Boland, John H. Healey, Jay S. Wunder, Matthew T. Houdek, Francis J. Hornicek, Joseph H. Schwab, and Daniel G. Tobert. The Spine Journal, May, S1529-9430(25)00253-0.

Development and Validation of a Pediatric Spine Surgical Invasiveness Index. Chan, Vivien, Adeesya Gausper, Andrew Chan-Tai-Kong, Andy M. Liu, Suhas Etigunta, Justin K. Scheer, Lindsay M. Andras, and David L. Skaggs. Spine Deformity, May.

Response to Letter to Editor on ‘Association of Knee Osteoarthritis Treatment Types, Patient Characteristics, and Medical History With Subsequent Risk for Total Knee Arthroplasty: Data From a New Real-World Registry.’ Concoff, Andrew L., Jennifer H. Lin, Andrew I. Spitzer, Vinod Dasa, Adam Rivadeneyra, David Rogenmoser, Mitchell K. Ng, Mary DiGiorgi, Stan Dysart, Joshua Urban, William M. Mihalko, and Michael A. Mont. Arthroplasty Today 33 (June): 101691.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Pediatric Acute Kidney Injury Is Associated With Impairment in Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide (NAD+) Metabolism. Clark, Amanda J., Brenda Mendoza Flores, Marie Christelle Saade, Kyle Q. Vu, Isaac J. Pence, Anders Berg, and Samir M. Parikh. Pediatric Nephrology (Berlin, Germany), May.

Pediatrics

Insights From the Global Education Survey on the Use of VR-Haptics in Dental Education. Bencharit, Sompop, Barry Quinn, Maria F. Sittoni-Pino, Santiago Arias-Herrera, Simona-Georgiana Schick, Sarah Rampf, Samantha Byrne, Muhammad A. Shazib, Ulf Örtengren, Walter Yu Hang Lam, Mikko Liukkonen, David Rice, Masako Nagasawa, Amitha Ranauta, Sobia Zafar, Kinga Bágyi, Thomas J. Greany, Amirul Faiz Luai, Marit Øilo, Gitana Rederiene, Rebecca Stolberg, Gülsün Gül, Jorge Tricio, Reinhard Chun Wang Chau, Mihaela Pantea, Murat Mutluay, Peter Lingström, Ophir Klein, Sıla Nur Usta, Liisa Suominen, and Szabolcs Felszeghy. Frontiers in Dental Medicine 6: 1576646.

Radiation Oncology

Assessing Algorithmic Fairness With a Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Model in Men of African and Non-African Origin on NRG Oncology Prostate Cancer Phase III Trials. Roach, Mack, Jingbin Zhang, Osama Mohamad, Douwe van der Wal, Jeffry P. Simko, Sandy DeVries, Huei-Chung Huang, Songwan Joun, Edward M. Schaeffer, Todd M. Morgan, Jessica Keim-Malpass, Emmalyn Chen, Rikiya Yamashita, Jedidiah M. Monson, Farah Naz, James Wallace, Jean-Paul Bahary, Derek Wilke, Sonny Batra, Gregory B. Biedermann, Sergio Faria, Lindsay Hwang, Howard M. Sandler, Daniel E. Spratt, Stephanie L. Pugh, Andre Esteva, Phuoc T. Tran, and Felix Y. Feng. JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics 9 (May): e2400284.

Surgery

Multiscale Characterization of Jawbone Treated With Osteoporosis Therapeutic Agents. Watanabe, Keiichiro, Cheol-Min Han, Allison R. Altman-Singles, Jie Liu, Xiaohan Guo, Ai Ni, Mason Bahador, Tala Ebrahimian, Jayoung Kim, Beth S. Lee, X. Sherry Liu, and Do-Gyoon Kim. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 169 (April): 107036.

AI-Driven Glomerular Morphology Quantification: A Novel Pipeline for Assessing Basement Membrane Thickness and Podocyte Foot Process Effacement in Kidney Diseases. Yamashita, Michifumi, Natalia Piaseczna, Akira Takahashi, Daisuke Kiyozawa, Narihito Tatsumoto, Shohei Kaneko, Natalia Zurek, and Arkadiusz Gertych. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 268 (May): 108842.

Symptom Management for Well-Differentiated Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: ASCO Guideline. Perez, Kimberly, Jaydira Del Rivero, Erin B. Kennedy, Sandip Basu, Aman Chauhan, Heidi M. Connolly, Arvind N. Dasari, Alexandra Gangi, Callisia N. Clarke, Julie Hallet, James R. Howe, Erin Grady, Jana Ivanidze, Erik S. Mittra, Sarah B. White, Nitya P. Raj, Namrata Vijayvergia, Mark A. Lewis, Jennifer A. Chan, Pamela L. Kunz, Josh Mailman, Junaid Arshad, Heloisa P. Soares, Simron Singh, Chandrika Chandrasekharan, Michael C. Soulen, Eva Tiensuu Janson, Thorvardur R. Halfdanarson, Jonathan R. Strosberg, and Emily K. Bergsland. JCO Oncology Practice, May, OP2500133.

Generation of a Biliary Tract Cancer Cell Line Atlas Identifies Molecular Subtypes and Therapeutic Targets. Vijay, Vindhya, Negin Karisani, Lei Shi, Yu-Han Hung, Phuong Vu, Prabhat Kattel, Lauren Kenney, Joshua Merritt, Ramzi Adil, Qibiao Wu, Yuanli Zhen, Robert Morris, Johannes Kreuzer, Meena Kathiresan, Xcanda Ixchel Herrera Lopez, Haley Ellis, Ilaria Gritti, Lilian Lecorgne, Ines Farag, Alexandra Popa, William Shen, Hiroyuki Kato, Qin Xu, Eranga R. Balasooriya, Meng-Ju Wu, Jinkai Wan, Hiroshi Kondo, Saireudee Chaturantabut, Srivatsan Raghavan, Matthew D. Hall, Samarjit Patnaik, Min Shen, Robin K. Kelley, James M. Cleary, Michael S. Lawrence, David E. Root, Krushna C. Patra, Vanessa S. Silveira, Cyril H. Benes, Vikram Deshpande, Dejan Juric, William R. Sellers, Cristina R. Ferrone, Wilhelm Haas, Francisca Vazquez, Gad Getz, and Nabeel Bardeesy. Cancer Discovery, May.

IFNβ Absence Compensates for LAT Functions in Latency Reactivation and T Cell Exhaustion. Wang, Shaohui, Ujjaldeep Jaggi, Jay J. Oh, and Homayon Ghiasi. Journal of Virology, May, e0037425.

June 4: International Skull Base Surgery Day. Gudis, David A., Benjamin S. Bleier, Jean Anderson Eloy, James J. Evans, Juan Carlos Fernandez-Miranda, Paul A. Gardner, Mathew Geltzeiler, Jessica W. Grayson, Richard J. Harvey, Elisa A. Illing, David W. Kennedy, Cristine Klatt-Cromwell, Edward C. Kuan, Jivianne Lee, Michael J. Link, James K. Liu, Patricia Loftus, Nyall R. London, Erin L. McKean, Kibwei A. McKinney, L. Madison Michael, Gurston G. Nyquist, Zara M. Patel, Mindy Rabinowitz, Sanjeet V. Rangarajan, Kenneth D. Rodriguez, Nicholas R. Rowan, Rodney J. Schlosser, Kafui Searyoh, Raymond F. Sekula, Timothy L. Smith, Carl Snyderman, Satyan B. Sreenath, Dennis M. Tang, Brian D. Thorp, Eric W. Wang, Marilene B. Wang, Bradford A. Woodworth, and Garret Choby. Journal of Neurological Surgery. Part B, Skull Base 86 (3): 243–44.

Urology

Sexual Function and Dysfunction in the LGBTQIA+ Community-Including Before and After Gender-Affirming Surgery: Recommendations From the Fifth International Consultation on Sexual Medicine (ICSM 2024). Garcia, Maurice M., Maria Manuela Peixoto, Heather L. Armstrong, Erika Kelley, Gail Knudson, Natnita Mattawanon, and Christopher W. Wheldon. Sexual Medicine Reviews, May, qeaf024.

Prevalence of Potential Candidates for Targeted Therapies According to Treatment-Related Transcriptomic Signatures Among 140 548 Patients with Nonmetastatic Prostate Cancer. Handa, Nicole, Eric V. Li, Jamie Michael, James A. Proudfoot, Adam B. Weiner, Ridwan Alam, Mohammed Alshalalfa, Yangyang Hao, Alex Hakansson, Xin Zhao, Yang Liu, Elai Davicioni, Phillip G. Febbo, Hiten D. Patel, David J. VanderWeele, Edward M. Schaeffer, and Ashley E. Ross. European Urology Oncology, May, S2588-9311(25)00119-1.

Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number Assessment Is a Potent Predictor for Prostate Cancer in White but Not Black Individuals. Flores, Melanie K., Jessica L. Janes, Mirajul Islam, Junxiang Wan, Jiali Liu, Romonia R. Reams, Li-Ming Su, Kelvin Yen, Hemal H. Mehta, Allison Reagan, Lauren E. Howard, Emily Wiggins, Adriana C. Vidal, Stephen J. Freedland, and Pinchas Cohen. Cancer Prevention Research (Philadelphia, Pa.), May.

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