Faculty Publications Oct. 16-23

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published Oct. 16-23. 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

Doctor Discusses New Cedars-Sinai Clinic Focused on Fitness, Health and Aging | CBS News
Sara Espinoza, MD

Expert and Breast Cancer Survivor Highlight Awareness and Hope | KTLA-TV
Amy Polverini, MD

Drug Combo Lowers Death Risk in Advanced Prostate Cancer by 40% | Healthline
Stephen Freedland, MD

Drug Combo Boosts Prostate Cancer Survival by 40%: What to Know | WebMD
Stephen Freedland, MD

A Blood Test Can now Predict a Mother’s Risk of Postpartum Depression | Smithsonian Magazine
Eynav Accortt, PhD

GLP-1s Vs. Weight Loss Surgery: Which is Better for You? | U.S. News & World Report
Amanda Velazquez, MD

Cardiologists Get Real About How They Actually Take Care of Their Hearts | Women’s Health
C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD

Magnetic Cosmetics Fly Under the Radar as MRI Risks | Medpage Today
Melanie Hall, MD

Optimal Anesthesia Choice in EVT: A Wake-Up Call? | Medscape
Nestor Gonzalez, MD

Faculty Publications

Biomedical Sciences

Experiences With Substance Use Disorder Treatment and the Role of Social Norms in the Asian American Pacific Islander Community: A Qualitative Study. Yamashita, Warren, Jessica As Wang, Gael Perez, Connie Chen, Connie Tian, Dean Nakashini, Christopher Villongco, Timothy Fong, Huiqiong Deng, Anna Lembke, and Yelba Castellon-Lopez. Journal of Addiction Medicine, September.

Effects of Vitamin K2 and D3 Supplementation on Epicardial Adipose Tissue and Systemic Inflammation: A Substudy of the AVADEC Trial. Hasific, Selma, Emil Johannes Ravn, Lars Melholt Rasmussen, Anna Mejldal, Damini Dey, Niels Erik Frandsen, Jes S. Lindholt, Søren Auscher, Jess Lambrechtsen, Susanne Hosbond, Dilek Alan, Grazina Urbonaviciene, Søren Becker, Kristian Altern Øvrehus, and Axel Diederichsen. Atherosclerosis 410 (October): 120540.

Oxidative Stress-Regulatory Role of miR-10b-5p in the Diabetic Human Cornea Revealed Through Integrated Multi-Omics Analysis. Zha, Daxian, Joshua Gamez, Shaghaiegh M. Ebrahimi, Yizhou Wang, Nagendra Verma, Adam J. Poe, Seok White, Ruchi Shah, Andrei A. Kramerov, Onkar B. Sawant, Chintda Santiskulvong, Aleksandr B. Stotland, Zhiping P. Wang, Jennifer E. Van Eyk, Alexander V. Ljubimov, and Mehrnoosh Saghizadeh. Diabetologia, October.

AI-Quantified Epicardial Adipose Tissue and Prediction of Future Myocardial Infarction in Patients With Cardiometabolic Disease: A Post-Hoc Analysis From the SCOT-HEART Trial. Geers, Jolien, Nipun Manral, Caroline Park, Guadalupe Flores Tomasino, Kajetan Grodecki, Joel Lenell, Mikolaj Buchwald, Aryabod Razipour, Jacek Kwiecinski, Hidenari Matsumoto, Mohamed Marwan, Stephan Achenbach, Daniel S. Berman, Marc R. Dweck, David E. Newby, Piotr J. Slomka, Michelle C. Williams, and Damini Dey. Cardiovascular Diabetology 24 (1): 403.

Cardiac Surgery

The Rationale for the Creation of an AfroScore. Jacobs, Jeffrey Phillip, and Michael E. Bowdish. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, October, S0003-4975(25)00995-6.

Cardiology

Biological Pacemaker Induced by Focal Cardiac Transduction with AAV-TBX18. Miguel-Dos-Santos, Rodrigo, James Frederick Dawkins, Thassio Mesquita, Lizbeth Sanchez, Liang Li, Mario Fournier, Eduardo Marbán, and Eugenio Cingolani. Molecular Therapy: The Journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, October, S1525-0016(25)00858-5.

Multiplexed Nanoparticle Protein Corona Enables Accurate and Precise Deep Plasma Proteomics. Huang, Ting, Jian Wang, Alexey Stukalov, Simion Kreimer, Xiaoyan Zhao, Lee S. Cantrell, Xiaoyuan Zhou, Adam Brewer, Giang Ho, Fredric Murolo, Kevin Quach, Mike Figa, Seth Just, Gabriel Castro, Eltaher Elgierari, Ryan W. Benz, Khatereh Motamedchaboki, Serafim Batzoglou, Omid C. Farokhzad, Jennifer E. Van Eyk, and Asim Siddiqui. Journal of Proteome Research, October.

SCANNER ROOM CRISIS: Bridging THE WORKFORCE SHORTAGE GAP of Nuclear Medicine Technologists. Hyun, Mark C., Ashley Brown, and Dennis A. Calnon. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, October, 102527.

Association of Obesity Subphenotypes With Indices of Cardiac Remodeling in the Framingham Heart Study. He, William J., Brenton R. Prescott, Vanessa Xanthakis, Gary F. Mitchell, Susan Cheng, and Ramachandran S. Vasan. American Heart Journal, October, 107292.

Computational Biomedicine

Impact of the RNA Binding Domain Localization of the Protein Shell on Virus Particle Stability. Safdari, Mohammadamin, Siyu Li, Sanaz Panahandeh, Paul van der Schoot, and Roya Zandi. Physical Review. E 112 (3–1): 034402.

Analyses of Adverse Events and Patient-Reported Outcomes With the Toxicity Index in Cancer Clinical Trials. Gresham, Gillian, N. Lynn Henry, Hanna Bandos, Vinicius F. Calsavara, Reena S. Cecchini, Marcio A. Diniz, Ron D. Hays, Michael Luu, Sungjin Kim, André Rogatko, Greg Yothers, Patricia A. Ganz, and Mourad Tighiouart. Cancer 131 Suppl 2 (October): e70086.

Artificial Intelligence and Health Equity. Bright, Tiffani J., and Keith C. Norris. Annual Review of Medicine, October.

Medicine

Olaparib in Patients With Solid Tumors With BRCA1/2 Alterations: Results From the Targeted Agent and Profiling Utilization Registry (TAPUR) Study. Al Baghdadi, Tareq, Michael Rothe, Pam K. Mangat, Elizabeth Garrett-Mayer, Oxana V. Crysler, Kathryn F. Mileham, Laura Catherine Farrington, Bamidele Adesunloye, Stephanie A. Dublis, Igor Astsaturov, Carmen J. Calfa, Jonathan Bleeker, Maya Khalil, Ramya Thota, Timothy L. Cannon, Olatunji B. Alese, Philip J. Gold, Navid Hafez, Ari D. Baron, Funda Meric-Bernstam, Evthokia Hobbs, Alissa S. Marr, Jens Rueter, Bernard Tawfik, Dominique C. Hinshaw, Abigail Gregory, Gina N. Grantham, Susan Halabi, and Richard L. Schilsky. JCO Precision Oncology 9 (October): e2500649.

Incremental Diagnostic Value of AI-Derived Coronary Artery Calcium in 18F-Flurpiridaz PET Myocardial Perfusion Imaging. Barrett, Orit, Aakash Shanbhag, Ryan Zaid, Robert J. H. Miller, Mark Lemley, Valerie Builoff, Joanna X. Liang, Paul B. Kavanagh, Christopher Buckley, Damini Dey, Daniel S. Berman, and Piotr J. Slomka. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, October, 102532.

Belzutifan for Advanced Pheochromocytoma or Paraganglioma. Jimenez, Camilo, Mikkel Andreassen, Alice Durand, Sophie Moog, Andrew Hendifar, Staffan Welin, Francesca Spada, Rohini Sharma, Edward Wolin, Joseph Ruether, Rocio Garcia-Carbonero, Martin Fassnacht, Jaume Capdevila, Jaydira Del Rivero, Othon Iliopoulos, Olivier Huillard, Raymond Jang, Knut Mai, Elena Artamonova, Andreas Hallqvist, Tobias Else, Amos Odeleye-Ajakaye, Alexander Gozman, Girish S. Naik, Alfredo Berruti, and LITESPARK-015 Investigators. The New England Journal of Medicine, October.

Plasma Markers of Neurological Injury Are Elevated in Preeclampsia. Gu, Xuesong, Sarosh Rana, Long Ngo, Ariel Mueller, Simon Dillon, Saira Salahuddin, Haonan Feng, Yoav Noam, Shouri Lahiri, S. Ananth Karumanchi, and Towia Libermann. Pregnancy Hypertension 42 (October): 101265.

Recent Trends of Incidence, Mortality, Treatment, and Overall Survival of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the United States. Lee, Yi-Te, Jasmine J. Wang, Pojsakorn Danpanichkul, Hyun-Seok Kim, Alexander Kuo, Walid S. Ayoub, Hirsh D. Trivedi, Yun Wang, Aarshi Vipani, Paul Martin, Cristina R. Ferrone, Amit G. Singal, and Ju Dong Yang. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, October, S1542-3565(25)00897-3.

Retraction Note: Belinostat and Panobinostat (HDACI): In Vitro and in Vivo Studies in Thyroid Cancer. Chan, Daniel, Yun Zheng, Jeffrey W. Tyner, Wee Joo Chng, Wen Wen Chien, Sigal Gery, Geraldine Leong, Glenn D. Braunstein, and H. Phillip Koeffler. Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology 151 (12): 299.

Orthopaedics 

Can a Stingray Tear a Tendon? A Case Report of Delayed Achilles Rupture Following Envenomation. Stibelman, Jacob, Moamen Elhaddad, Alexander Carrillo-Kashani, and B. David Massaband. Turkish Journal of Emergency Medicine 25 (4): 313–16.

Orthopaedic Practice Setting Opinions: Heat Maps for a Hot Topic. Jodoin, Zachary N., Daanish Sheikh, Morgan Gable, Tyler Williamson, Steven Shin, and Ryan Rose. JB & JS Open Access 10 (4): e25.00219.

The Relationship Between Bone Quality and Biomechanical Strength of All-Suture Anchors Utilized in Rotator Cuff Repairs. Posner, Andrew D., Dave T. Huang, Andrew Nakla, Ajith Malige, Thay Q. Lee, Orr Limpisvasti, and Melodie F. Metzger. Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine 13 (10): 23259671251383028.

Ischemic Necrosis of Bilateral Second Toes in the Absence of Macrovascular Disease or Primary Vasculitis: A Unique Case of Systemic Sclerosis Sine Scleroderma (ssSSc). Elhaddad, Moamen, Maged Elhaddad, Valeria Corral, Tayler F. Gant, Behnam David Massaband, Moamen Elhaddad, Maged Elhaddad, Valeria Corral, Tayler Gant, and B. David Massaband. Cureus 17 (10).

External Evaluation of the SORG Machine Learning Algorithm Predicting 90-Day and 1-Year Mortality in a Midwest Cohort of Patients With Spinal Metastasis. Geiger, Kyle W., James R. L. Hall, Michael Garneau, Trevor R. Gulbrandsen, Alex R. Coffman, Reagan A. Grieser-Yoder, Harmen R. Kuijten, Olivier Q. Groot, Cassim M. Igram, Andrew J. Pugely, Catherine R. Olinger, and Joseph H. Schwab. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 142 (October): 111674.

Erythema Induratum (Nodular Vasculitis) of the Lower Extremities Without Tuberculosis in Psoriasis on Secukinumab (Interleukin 17A Inhibition): A Case Report. Elhaddad, Moamen, Sarah Hassan, Tayler Gant, Chase Tamashiro, Alexander Carrillo-Kashani, Moamen Elhaddad, Sarah Hassan, Tayler Gant, Chase Tamashiro, and Alexander Carrillo-Kashani. Cureus 17 (October).

What a Pain in the Back: Etiology, Diagnosis and Future Treatment Directions for Discogenic Low Back Pain. Kaneda, Giselle, Lea Zila, Jacob T. Wechsler, Karim Shafi, Karandeep Cheema, Hyun Bae, Sang D. Kim, Alexander Tuchman, Debiao Li, and Dmitriy Sheyn. Bone Research 13 (1): 89.

Pediatrics

Recurrences After Ablation in D-Transposition of the Great Arteries After Atrial Switch: Not ‘Baffled’ by Systemic Ventricular Dilation. McCanta, Anthony C. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, October.

In Search of a Happy Medium for Preterm Infant Respiratory Support at Birth. Payton, Kurlen, Manoj Biniwale, and Rangasamy Ramanathan. Pediatric Research, October.

Mass Spectrometry Combined With Machine Learning Identifies Novel Protein Signatures as Demonstrated With Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children. Guzmán Rivera, Jeisac, Haiyan Zheng, Benjamin Richlin, Christian Suarez, Sunanda Gaur, Elizabeth Ricciardi, Uzma N. Hasan, William Cuddy, Aalok R. Singh, Hulya Bukulmez, David C. Kaelber, Yukiko Kimura, Patrick W. Brady, Dawn Wahezi, Evin Rothschild, Saquib A. Lakhani, Katherine W. Herbst, Alexander H. Hogan, Juan C. Salazar, Sandra Moroso-Fela, Jason Roy, Lawrence C. Kleinman, Daniel B. Horton, Dirk F. Moore, and Maria Laura Gennaro. Scientific Reports 15 (1): 36843.

Surgery

Leveraging Technology to Help the Patient: Combined Robotic Bronchoscopic Biopsy With Surgical Resection During the Same Anesthetic Event. Perez, Claire, Lucas Weiser, Woosik Yu, Kellie Knabe, Sevannah Soukiasian, Raffaele Rocco, Philicia Moonsamy, Andrew R. Brownlee, and Harmik J. Soukiasian. JTCVS Techniques 33 (October): 230–37.

Improving Lung Cancer Screening Rates Is the Most Important Problem Facing Thoracic Surgeons Today. Moonsamy, Philicia. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, October, S0003-4975(25)00987-7.

Oncolytic Properties of the Chimeric Poxvirus HOV-2 in Cholangiocarcinoma Models. Chen, Courtney, Jennifer Cillis, Sang-In Kim, Yoya Vashi, Annie Yang, Zhifang Zhang, Anthony K. Park, Yanghee Woo, Shyambabu Chaurasiya, and Yuman Fong. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, October.

Evaluation of TU-100 (Daikenchuto), a Traditional Japanese Kampo Medicine, As an Adjunct to Enhanced Recovery After Surgery, for Acceleration of Gastrointestinal Recovery After Bowel Resection - Results of a Proof-of-Concept, Phase 2, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial. Nedeljkovic, Srdjan S., Jennifer D. Silinsky, Deborah Nagle, Sang W. Lee, Sabry Ayad, Alvaro M. Segura-Vasi, Phillip R. Fleshner, Michael A. Choti, Sherry M. Wren, Kosaka Jun, Yu Tanaka, Yuping Li, Amy W. Rachfal, Lee M. Techner, Tong J. Gan, Alessandro Fichera, and Fabrizio Michelassi. Diseases of the Colon and Rectum, October.

Patient Reported Outcome Measures Following Post-Bariatric Body Contouring: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Mokhtar, Jonathan, Fatemeh Akbarpoor, Marwa Hadi, Guilherme F. Machado, Karen Blanco, Lorenzo G. Di Martino, Alexandre G. Lellouch, Raffi Gurunian, Lucas Kreutz-Rodrigues, and Sarah N. Bishop. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, October.

Urology

Screening for Gonadal Malignancy in Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome: A Systematic Review. Mazhari, Najva, Andrew Freedman, Caroline Marshall, and Paul Kokorowski. Journal of Pediatric Urology, September, S1477-5131(25)00553-4.

Improved Survival With Enzalutamide in Biochemically Recurrent Prostate Cancer. Shore, Neal D., Murilo de Almeida Luz, Ugo De Giorgi, Martin Gleave, Geoffrey T. Gotto, Christopher M. Pieczonka, Gabriel P. Haas, Choung-Soo Kim, Miguel Ramirez-Backhaus, Antti Rannikko, Matko Kalac, Swetha Sridharan, Matt Rosales, Yiyun Tang, Ronald F. Tutrone, Balaji Venugopal, Arnauld Villers, Henry H. Woo, Fong Wang, and Stephen J. Freedland. The New England Journal of Medicine, October.

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