Faculty Publications Oct. 22-29

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

What To Know About the Five Phases of Women’s and Girls’ Heart Health | NBC News Online
C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD 

Low Education Raises Dementia Risk, But You Can Keep Building Brain Resilience | AARP
Zaldy Tan, MD, MPH 

On-Duty Firefighter Deaths Are Increasingly Cardiac in Nature | TCTMD
Alan Kwan, MD 

How Pancreatic Cancer Pain Can Be Managed | Everyday Health
Arpit Arora, MD, and Arsen Osipov, MD

Autonomous Robotic Surgery: The Future of Standardized Procedures | HealthLeaders
Andrew Hung, MD, and Michael Yip, PhD 

Alert Fatigue, Chatbots: The Real-World Test for AI Medical Technology | Association of Health Care Journalists
Melissa Wong, MD, MHDS 

A Hidden Signal in Common Heart Tests Could Help Predict Sudden Death | Yahoo! News
Sumeet Chugh, MD, and Kyndaron Reinier, PhD, MPH 

The Patient Safety Events Hospitals Aren’t Seeing | Becker's Clinical Leadership
Tara Cohen, PhD 

Can AI Humanize Medicine? Doctors Pitch ‘Blended Intelligence’ | Association of Health Care Journalists
Omer Liran, MD

Faculty Publications

Biomedical Sciences

Bioengineering Technologies for Enabling Biomedical Research in Space. Gupta, Jasmine, Maedeh Mozneb, Jemima Moses, and Arun Sharma. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 14: 1915463.

Prediction of All-Cause Mortality, Cardiovascular Mortality, and Angiographic Coronary Disease From LVEF Reserve: Findings From the Multicenter REFINE PET Registry. Hijazi, Waseem, Jianhang Zhou, Robert J. H. Miller, Giselle Ramirez, Mark Lemley, Aakash Shanbhag, Jacek Kwiecinski, Paul B. Kavanagh, Tejas Parekh, Joanna X. Liang, Erick Alexanderson, Isabel Carvajal-Juarez, Leandro Slipczuk, Mark Travin, Stacey Knight, Viet T. Le, Steve Mason, Rene R. S. Packard, Mouaz Al-Mallah, Wanda Acampa, Robert A. deKemp, Attila Feher, Thomas Rosamond, Samuel Wopperer, Ronny R. Buechel, Panithaya Chareonthaitawee, Andrew J. Einstein, Sharmila Dorbala, Daniel Berman, Damini Dey, Marcelo Di Carli, and Piotr Slomka. Circulation. Cardiovascular Imaging, October, e020062.

The EMPROR’s New Groove. Nance, Karina J., and Helen S. Goodridge. Nature Immunology 27 (11): 2190–92.

Serum Proteomic Profiling by SomaScan Aptamer Array Identifies Candidate Predictive and Monitoring Biomarkers of Distant Recurrence in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. Kim, Jina, Sunao Tanaka, Edwardia Fosah, Cynthia Jinno, Hyoyoung Kim, Thanosan Prathifkumar, Yukiko Fukui, Kana Kawanishi, Masahiro Kawashima, Norikazu Masuda, Joshua Levy, Takeo Fujii, Sungyong You, and Hideki Furuya. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 27 (20): 9070.

Cardiac Surgery

One Year Survival of High-Risk Patients Undergoing Coronary Revascularization. Caldeira, Christiano C. B., Dale K. Mueller, Todd M. Dewey, Charles T. Klodell, V. Seenu S. Reddy, Michael E. Bowdish, J. Hunter Mehaffey, Moritz W. Von Ballmoos, Asvin Ganapathi, Steven V. Manoukian, and Gregory P. Fontana. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, October, S0003-4975(26)01053-2

Safety and Outcomes of Transvenous Lead Extraction of Advisory ePTFE-Coated Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Leads: A Multicenter Experience With RELIANCE G. Gad, Mohamed, Balaram Krishna Hanumanthu, Yong-Mei Cha, Zhiyong Qian, Fred M. Kusumoto, Danesh Kella, Ufuk Vardar, Rohit Mehta, Satish K. Misra, Neel Patel, Elijah H. Beaty, Tricia L. Coons, Francis Hartge, Ulrika M. Birgersdotter-Green, Aron Bender, Kristen K. Patton, Elliott Goldberg, Pamela K. Mason, Bo Wang, Mikhael F. El-Chami, Malcolm Woollett, Erich L. Kiehl, Paul Han, Jay A. Montgomery, Alexandre Raymond-Paquin, Blandine A. Mondesert, Raymond H. M. Schaerf, Jayanthi N. Koneru, Francis E. Marchlinski, Steven P. Kutalek, Moussa Saleh, Laurence M. Epstein, and Robert D. Schaller. JACC. Clinical Electrophysiology, October, S2405-500X(26)00862-5.

Saving the Capillaries: FGFR1/KLB and MFG-E8 in Diabetic Hearts. Elbatreek, Mahmoud H., and David J. Lefer. Circulation Research 139 (10): e329682.

Cardiology

Coronary Vascular Dysfunction Is Associated With Adverse Left Ventricular Filling in Patients With Angina But No Obstructed Coronary Arteries. Oneglia, Andrew P., Janet Wei, Bruce Samuels, T. Jake Samuel, Behzad Sharif, Babak Azarbal, John W. Petersen, Yujie Cui, Tatsunori Takahashi, Eileen Handberg, Carl J. Pepine, C. Noel Bairey Merz, and Michael D. Nelson. International Journal of Cardiology, October, 135031.

Enhanced Structural Reverse Remodeling Following LVAD Support in Patients With TTN Truncating Variants. Richards, Donald, Robert M. Cole, Michelle Kittleson, Daniel Mitchell, Vahid Yazdi, Meshe Chonde, Laura DiChiacchio, Lawrence Czer, Jaime Moriguchi, Jon Kobashigawa, and Evan P. Kransdorf. JHLT Open 14 (November): 100688.

Evaluating Associations of Oxylipin Metabolites and Fatty Acids With Incident and Prevalent Type 2 Diabetes in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL). Downie, Carolina G., Heather M. Highland, Annie Green Howard, Mona Alotaibi, Tali Elfassy, Christina Cordero, Jennifer E. Below, Mercedes Carnethon, Susan Cheng, Martha Daviglus, Olga Garcia-Bedoya, Robert Kaplan, Tasneem Khambaty, Yilun Li, Adam G. Lilly, Dan-Yu Lin, Tao Long, Frank J. Penedo, Lauren E. Petty, Bharat Thyagarajan, Hsiao-Chuan Tien, Mohit Jain, Barrett M. Welch, Kari E. North, and Christy L. Avery. PloS One 21 (10): e0360656.

Inter-American Consensus on Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Parodi, Josefina B., Cristhian E. Scatularo, Enrique A. Berríos-Bárcenas, Juan D. López-Ponce de León, Diego Pérez de Arenaza, Luis E. Gómez, Juan P. Costabel, Fabio Fernandes, Clara Saldarriaga, Víctor Rossel, Carlos E. Rochitte, Ricardo Stein, Adrián Baranchuk, et al. Archivos De Cardiologia De Mexico 96 (Supl 4): 1–60.

PASCAL Precision System Outcomes by Implant Location and Lesion Location in Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation Patients From the STS/ACC TVT Registry. Ramanathan, P. Kasi, Raj Makkar, Thomas Waggoner, Azeem Latib, Robert M. Kipperman, Ivan Hanson, Anjan K. Sinha, Tarun Chakravarty, Rahul P. Sharma, Jeremiah P. Depta, Jorge A. Castellanos, Susheel Kodali, Amar Krishnaswamy, Brian Whisenant, Daniel Menees, D. Scott Lim, Fahad Gilani, Carlos E. Sanchez, Neil Gheewala, Santiago Garcia, Hemal Gada, Samir Kapadia, Pinak B. Shah, Brian Renard, Gus Theodos, Ricardo Yaryura, Blake Gardner, Daniel H. Steinberg, Eric Gnall, Georges Kaddissi, Adnan K. Chhatriwalla, Antonio H. Frangieh, Mackram F. Eleid, Philippe Géneréux, John T. Saxon, Pedro Villablanca, Fadi Matar, Himanshu Agarwal, Stanley Chetcuti, Tiberio Frisoli, and Firas Zahr. Journal of the American Heart Association, October, e052158.

Pharmacist Management of Oral Anticoagulation for Atrial Fibrillation in the Community: The APOTHECARY AF Study. Blyler, Ciantel Adair, Elizabeth M. Jones, Brian S. Mittman, Steven W. Chen, Christine M. Albert, Roopinder K. Sandhu, and APOTHECARY AF Collaborators. Heart Rhythm O2 7 (10): 1923–32.

Shared Decision-Making for Asymptomatic Wolff-Parkinson-White Pattern in Young Athletes: Success Lies in Pre-Game Preparation. Phan, Francis, Timothy W. Churchill, Eli M. Friedman, Jonathan A. Drezner, Aaron L. Baggish, John-Henry L. Dean, Samantha L. Weller, Eugene H. Chung, Rachel Lampert, and Bradley J. Petek. JACC. Advances 5 (11 Pt 2): 103375.

Sudden Cardiac Arrest in Athletes With Cardiomyopathies: Focusing on the Fundamentals. Friedman, Eli M., and Matthew W. Martinez. JACC. Advances 5 (10 Pt 1): 103249.

Temporal Trends and Autopsy Correlates of Duty-Related Cardiac Death in Firefighters. Joung, Sandy Y., Brian Claggett, Lori Martinez-Rubio, Michelle Bravo, Rahul Gupta, Yeran Lee, Eli M. Friedman, Evan Kransdorf, Joseph E. Ebinger, Stefanos Kales, Susan Cheng, and Alan C. Kwan. JACC. Advances, October, 103383.

The ATTR-CM Treatment Gap: National Trends and Disparities in Transthyretin-Directed Therapy. Menda, Jaideep, Lily K. Stern, Deya A. Alkhatib, Cesia Gallegos, Attila Feher, and Jiun-Ruey Hu. Journal of Cardiac Failure, October, S1071-9164(26)00630-5.

The Role of Inflammation on Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction and Potential Therapeutic Targets. Wang, Wanqi, Martina Magistri, John Beltrame, Noel Bairey Merz, Roxana Mehran, and Vijay Kunadian. European Heart Journal Open 6 (5): oeag153.

Imaging

Advanced Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Young Individuals and Risk of Mortality Over 30 Years: The Coronary Artery Calcium Consortium. Choi, Sungwoo, Omar Dzaye, Zeina Dardari, Zhiqi Yao, Tianyu Cao, Semenawit Burka, John Erhabor, Yara Jelwan, Marie Diener-West, Matthew Budoff, Daniel S. Berman, Khurram Nasir, Leslee J. Shaw, Michael D. Miedema, John Rumberger, Mahmoud Al Rifai, Marcio S. Bittencourt, Seamus P. Whelton, Roger S. Blumenthal, and Michael J. Blaha. JAMA Cardiology, October, e264819.

Medicine

Advances in HLA Desensitization for Kidney Transplant Candidates. Chandran, Sindhu, Edmund Huang, Ashley Vo, and Stanley Jordan. Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension, October.

Aerobic Exercise Training Alters Gastrointestinal Microbiota and Enhances Exercise Capacity in UM-HET3 Mice. Smith, Casandra, Kiara Garza, Hushyar Azari, Heather Vellers, Mostafa Abdelrahman, Chathurika S. Dhanasekara, Adam B. Salmon, Hanyu Liang, Elizabeth Fernandez, Nicolas Musi, Michael P. Massett, and Kembra Albracht-Schulte. GeroScience, October.

Barriers and Opportunities in Therapeutic Development for Early-Onset Preeclampsia. Massaro, An, Ananth Karumanchi, Christina Chang, Corinne S. de Vries, Holger Stepan, Joey Granger, Jon Hyett, Kwame Adu-Bonsaffoh, Manu Vatish, Priya Soma-Pillay, Robyn Langham Am, Sailesh Kumar, Sarosh Rana, Stephen Rulisa, and Swati Bhat. Hypertension, October.

Bone Health in Oncology: Defining Biosimilar Denosumab Use Through Multidisciplinary Collaboration. Aapro, Matti, Robert Coleman, Niharika Dixit, Joel B. Epstein, Peyman Hadji, and Daniele Santini. Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology, October, 105660.

Cellular Senescence Dysregulates Antiviral Interferon Responses in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Hughes, Jun-Wei B., Yasmina Reisser, Franziska Hornung, Tyler A. U. Hilsabeck, Fiona Senchyna, Ana L. Coelho, Tsung-Che Ho, Kevin Schneider, David Furman, Cory M. Hogaboam, Claude Jourdan Le Saux, Pierre-Yves Desprez, and Stefanie Deinhardt-Emmer. Aging Cell 25 (11): e70763.

Conversational Artificial Intelligence for Geriatric Screening: A Mixed-Methods Feasibility Study. Naeim, Arash, Justin Cheng, Brennan Spiegel, Alexandra Bakshian, Ella Tetrault, Muskaan Mehra, Dian Amini, Zoe Krut, Helen Shang, Mina S. Sedrak, Alex Bui, Taylor Johnson, Raymond Wang, Antonia Petruse, Jiang Yiqun, and Omer Liran. Journal of Geriatric Oncology 18 (2): 104662.

Evaluation of Myocardial Blood Flow Using 18F-Flurpiridaz PET: Established Applications With Pharmacologic Stress and Roadmap for Exercise Stress Implementation. Ali, Farzana Z., Piotr J. Slomka, and René R. Sevag Packard. Current Cardiology Reports 28 (1): 115.

Final Prespecified Analysis of the Phase 3 LITESPARK-011 Study: Belzutifan plus Lenvatinib Versus Cabozantinib for Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma After Anti-PD-(L)1 Therapy. Heng, D. Y. C., M. Schmidinger, R. McDermott, S. H. Park, M. Burotto, C. Ciccarese, E. Verzoni, C. Suárez, M. Eto, H. J. Cutuli, C. Porta, R. M. Kopp, S. Rottey, G. de Velasco, B. P. Valderrama, A. A. Azad, U. De Giorgi, M. Pavic, P. Tomczak, R. Figlin, H. M. Westgeest, A. Guida, A. Necchi, F. A. Schutz, B. B. M. Suelmann, J. Bag Haanen, J. Lin, R. F. Perini, D. Vickery, R. J. Motzer, and LITESPARK-011 Investigators. Annals of Oncology, October, S0923-7534(26)06893-6.

Lymph Node-Targeted, mKRAS-Specific Amphiphile Vaccine in Pancreatic Cancer: The Randomized Phase 2 AMPLIFY-7P Trial. George, Ben, Harshabad Singh, Craig E. Devoe, Vincent Chung, Peter J. Hosein, Andrew Hendifar, Dae Won Kim, Jennifer B. Valerin, Tanios Bekaii-Saab, Dana B. Cardin, Manuel Hidalgo, Pashtoon M. Kasi, Alexis D. Leal, Meredith Pelster, Naomi Fei, Colin D. Weekes, Mark H. O’Hara, Thomas J. George, Syed M. Kazmi, Jonathan D. Mizrahi, Suresh Nair, Martin Maiers, Thian Kheoh, Gianni Amato, Jino Xavier, Julia P. Snyder, Madison H. Milaszewski, Xavier Cabana-Puig, James R. Perry, Lisa K. McNeil, Esther Welkowsky, Peter C. DeMuth, Christopher M. Haqq, Shubham Pant, Zev A. Wainberg, and Eileen M. O’Reilly. Nature Medicine, October.

Psychometric Validation of PROMIS Measures in Acute and Chronic Pancreatitis. Askew, Robert L., Soo Kyung Park, Melena Bellin, William E. Fisher, Evan L. Fogel, Christopher E. Forsmark, Phil A. Hart, Liang Li, Tonya M. Palermo, Stephen J. Pandol, Walter G. Park, Mark D. Topazian, Stephen K. Van Den Eeden, Santhi Swaroop Vege, Darwin L. Conwell, Dhiraj Yadav, and Consortium for the Study of Chronic Pancreatitis, Diabetes, Pancreatic Cancer (CPDPC). Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology, October.

RAS-Pathway Mutation Profiles and Clinical Outcomes Among Patients With Colorectal Cancer. Kazemian, Elham, Louisa Liu, Barliz Waissengrin, Marco Matejcic, Daniel Sobieski, Ya-Yu Tsai, Nicole C. Loroña, Nathalie T. Nguyen, José A. Oliveras Torres, W. Douglas Cress, Edna R. Gordián, Erin M. Siegel, Jamie K. Teer, Stephanie L. Schmit, and Jane C. Figueiredo. Cancer Medicine 15 (10): e72411.

Real-World Analysis of Thromboprophylaxis Use During Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Multiple Myeloma. Lee, Hannah, Ronald L. Paquette, Haein Kim, Brittany McGalliard, Eyman Sonbol, David R. Oveisi, Noah M. Merin, Joshua Sasine, Akil Merchant, Justin Darrah, Fatima Khan, Christopher Lopiccolo, John P. Chute, Oksana Volod, and Robert Vescio. Haematologica, October.

Social and Clinical Determinants of Liver Transplant Evaluation in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Multicenter Cohort Study. Tincopa, Monica, Lana Bridi, Irine Vodkin, Mignote Yilma, Kali Zhou, Allison Kwong, Jasleen Singh, Neil Mehta, Alexander Kuo, Ryutaro Hirose, Steven A. Wisel, Justin A. Steggerda, Chris Freise, and Veeral Ajmera. Hepatology Communications 10 (11): e1068.

Treatment-Stratified Immune-Inflammatory Trajectories and Early Response in Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma Receiving Systemic Therapy. Kim, Ashley, Manaf Alsudaney, Osama Khattab, Daniel Legaspi, Naomy Kim, Shahzeb Imran, Angelica E. Alderete, Pin-Jung Chen, Fadhil Jamil, Jason Liu, Jihye Lim, Ekaterina Koltsova, Walid Ayoub, Andrew Hendifar, and Ju Dong Yang. Diagnostics 16 (20): 3329.

Neurosurgery

Factors Associated With Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Placement Following Posterior Fossa Tumor Resection in Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Al-Mufargi, Younis, Asma AlHosni, Ayat Al Zadjali, Manar Al-Farsi, Al-Zahraa Al-Arafati, Said Al-Mayahi, Mohammed Al Subhi, and Tariq Al-Saadi. Medicina 62 (10): 1953.

H3K9me3 Inhibition Reverses Alzheimer’s Progression by Restoring Synaptic and Immune Proteostasis Across the Brain-Retina Axis. Fuchs, Dieu-Trang, Jean-Philippe Vit, Altan Rentsendorj, Yosef Koronyo, Julia Sheyn, Bhakta Prasad Gaire, Saba Shahin, Haoshen Shi, Oksana Chepurna, Miyah R. Davis, Jered W. Wilson, Stuart L. Graham, Vivek K. Gupta, Lon S. Schneider, Michael T. Kleinman, Tao Sun, Margaret Fahnestock, David A. Horne, Mehdi Mirzaei, Keith L. Black, and Maya Koronyo-Hamaoui. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association 22 (10): e71918.

Optimizing Inferior Petrosal Sinus Sampling: Results of a Multicenter Study. Rawson, Clayton, Samuel A. Tenhoeve, Julie M. Silverstein, Albert H. Kim, James J. Evans, Sarah Collopy, Robert Rennert, William T. Couldwell, Garni Barkhoudarian, Dan Kelly, Juan C. Fernandez-Miranda, Donato R. Pacione, Won Kim, Marvin Bergsneider, Michael R. Chicoine, Gabriel Zada, Varun R. Kshettry, Daniel M. Prevedello, Kyle C. Wu, Carolina Benjamin, Jamie J. Van Gompel, Michael P. Catalino, Adam Mamelak, Nathan Zwagerman, Andre Furlan, Andrew S. Little, Kevin Cj Yuen, Paul Gardner, Michael Karsy, and RAPID Consortium. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 155 (October): 112367.

Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters Are Independently Associated With Disability at Presentation in Adult Spinal Deformity Patients. Sastry, Rahul A., Alexa Semonche, Conor Grady, Adrian Fu, Tej D. Azad, Justin K. Scheer, Aaron J. Clark, Vedat Deviren, and Christopher P. Ames. Journal of Neurosurgery. Spine, October, 1–8.

Stimulus-Specific Recruitment of Human Amygdala Neurons Predicts Episodic Memory Encoding Success. Xiao, Jiayang, Jonathan Daume, Yousef Salimpour, Natalia Kurilenko, Clayton Mosher, William S. Anderson, Taufik A. Valiante, Adam N. Mamelak, and Ueli Rutishauser. Nature Neuroscience, October.

The Distinctive Body Habitus of Frontotemporal Dementia Sagging Brain Syndrome. Schievink, Wouter I., Marcel M. Maya, Kim T. Giang, Rachelle B. Taché, and Miriam A. Nuño. AJNR. American Journal of Neuroradiology, October, ajnr.A9693.

TIM-3 Functions as an Activator of NK Cells in GBM and Can Be Upregulated by Torin-1: Implications for Exogenous NK Cell Transplantation. Liu, Yuning, Tram Dao, Shambhavi Borde, Diana Dinh, Sofia Lombardi, Sandra Torregrosa-Allen, Haley A. Harper, Veronika Slivova, Aaron Cohen-Gadol, MacKenzie McIntosh, Bennet D. Elzey, and Sandro Matosevic. Immunology, October.

OBGYN

Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes and Early Prediction of Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Vascular and Inflammatory Markers. Spiro, Leah, Eynav E. Accortt, Sarah Kilpatrick, Judith E. Carroll, Galen Cook Wiens, C. Noel Bairey Merz, and Margo B. Minissian. Journal of Women’s Health, October, 15409996261503716.

Association Between Clinically Suspected Endometriosis Lacking Histologic Evidence and Anxiety, Depression and Cannabidiol-Containing Products. Meyer, Raanan, Jennifer Sun, Christina Lombardi, Maya Shats, Pak Hin Yu, Forough Abbasi, Ashley Berberian, Anthony Manlinguez, Shruti Kulkarni, Margareta Pisarska, Fabiola Medeiros, Marc T. Goodman, Kate Lawrenson, Matthew Siedhoff, and Kelly N. Wright. European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology: X 32 (December): 100500.

Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine

Canadian Spine Society: 26th Annual Scientific Conference, March 2-6, 2026, Fairmont Banff Springs, Banff, Alta., Canada. Thombre, Bhushan Diwakar, Jennifer Urquhart, Chris Bailey, Andrew Glennie, Charles Fisher, Raja Rampersaud, Chloe Cadieux, Ruheksh Raj, Farbod Moghaddam, May Choi, Fred Nicholls, Aazad Abbas, Stephen Lewis, et al. Canadian Journal of Surgery. Journal Canadien De Chirurgie 69 (5suppl1): S20–96.

Large Language Models Match and Occasionally Surpass the SRS AIS Handbook in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Education. Kodali, Prudhvi, Maveric Abella, David L. Skaggs, Sang Do Kim, Kenneth D. Illingworth, and Christopher Mikhail. Spine Deformity, October.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Assessing Suicide Risk Reduction in the Interval Before Death by Suicide Using Natural Language Processing. Levis, Maxwell, Monica Dimambro, Joshua Levy, Bradley Watts, and Brian Shiner. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 87 (4): 25m16249.

Optimizing an Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid Decalcification Protocol for Diagnostic Bone Biopsies: Experience at an Academic Medical Center. Ha, Jason, Laura J. Vidis, Evan Goyette, Shannon N. Schutz, Michael L. Baker, Joshua J. Levy, Konstantinos Linos, and Darcy A. Kerr. Journal of Histotechnology, October, 1–9.

Pediatrics

A Suite of Ameloblast Cre and Fluorescent Alleles for Studying Amelogenesis. Wald, T., A. Verma, V. Cooley, P. Marangoni, D. Sung, H. Najibi, N. P. Shroff, E. J. Sandoval, O. Cazares, A. Sharir, K. Alvares, T. Y. Drennon, J. O. Bush, D. Joester, and O. D. Klein. Journal of Dental Research, October, 220345261489581.

Defining Surgical Margins in Nonrhabdomyosarcoma Soft Tissue Sarcoma. Kim, Eugene S., and Roshni Dasgupta. JAMA Surgery, October.

Functional Stratification of YWHAZ Variants Explains Distinct Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Popov, Ivan K., Marialetizia Motta, Ingrid Guarnetti Prandi, Jiahui Tao, Manuela Priolo, Marco Ferilli, Rami Abou Jamra, Elsa V. Balton, Guillaume Banneau, Alessandro Bruselles, Krista Bukele, Cristel Chapel-Crespo, Giovanni Chillemi, Andrea Ciolfi, Viviana Cordeddu, Amy Crunk, Paola Daniele, Alessandro De Luca, Martine Doco-Fenzy, Ellen R. Elias, Elisabetta Flex, Balram Gangaram, Kathryn Gasperian, Katheryn Grand, Deborah Holder, Sophie Julia, Eric Klee, Boris Keren, Chiara Leoni, Kathleen A. Leppig, Cecilia Mancini, Monica Marica, Ieva Micule, Roberta Onesimo, Tilman Polster, Francesca Clementina Radio, Omar A. Abdul-Rahman, Anita Rauch, Lisa A. Schimmenti, Samantha A. Schrier Vergano, Christina Szialta, Jeffrey Tenney, Martina Terrusa, Kathryn Nicole Weaver, Nancy William, Grace Yoon, Giuseppe Zampino, Chenbei Chang, and Marco Tartaglia. American Journal of Human Genetics, October, S0002-9297(26)00384-8.

Impact of ERCP on Pancreatitis Frequency in Pediatric Acute Recurrent or Chronic Pancreatitis: An INSPPIRE-2 Study. Joseph, Michael, Jacob A. Mark, Robert Adam Noe, Fuchenchu Wang, Gretchen A. Cress, Maisam Abu-El-Haija, Ankur Chugh, Reuven Zev Cohen, Elissa M. Downs, Douglas S. Fishman, A. Jay Freeman, Matthew J. Giefer, Tanja Gonska, Amit S. GrOver, Andrew Y. J. Liman, Douglas Lindblad, Quin Y. Liu, Asim Maqbool, Brian A. McFerron, Megha S. Mehta, Veronique D. Morinville, Kenneth Ng, Chee Y. Ooi, Emily R. Perito, Feng Tian, Michael Wilschanski, Yuhua Zheng, Ying Yuan, Mark E. Lowe, Aliye Uc, and Consortium for the Study of Chronic Pancreatitis; Diabetes and Pancreatic Cancer. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, October.

p75NTR Orchestrates Chondrogenesis and Mechanoadaptation to Preserve Temporomandibular Joint Development and Homeostasis. Kadota-Watanabe, Chiho, Jinsook Suh, Eric Yin, Byron Zhao, Jey Kim, Yan Zhang, In-Won Chang, Sowmya Ramesh, Yuna Lee, Joshua Chen, Maulik Ahuja, Sara Jahangiri, Isabelle Lao-Ngo, Ursula Eisinger, Kate Lindsey, Haihui Zhang, Fatemeh Momen-Heravi, Juan Du, James M. Gardner, Rebeka Silva, Sumit Yadav, Chelsea S. Bahney, Aaron W. James, Reuben H. Kim, Ophir D. Klein, and Christine Hong. Science Advances 12 (43): eaef7786.

Radiation Oncology

Comments on Cardiac Risk After Heart-Sparing Breast Radiotherapy Study-Reply. Quirk, Sarah, Katelyn M. Atkins, and Michael Roumeliotis. JAMA Oncology, October.

Hypofractionated Radiation Therapy for Localized Prostate Cancer: An ASTRO Clinical Practice Guideline. Morgan, Scott C., Aditya Halthore, Angela Y. Jia, Amar U. Kishan, Andrew Loblaw, Xinglei Shen, Alison Tree, John DeMarco, Robert T. Dess, Gary Eastwick, Rodney Ellis, Adam S. Feldman, Wm Kevin Kelly, Eric Morrow, Piet Ost, Edina C. Wang, Samuel L. Washington, Emily S. Weg, Lisa Bradfield, and Karen Hoffman. Practical Radiation Oncology, October, S1879-8500(26)00326-7.

Surgery

Beyond Hoarseness: Primary Low-Grade B-Cell Lymphoproliferative Disorder of the Supraglottis. Alvarado, Steven, and Anna P. Hsu. Ear, Nose, & Throat Journal, October, 1455613261499466.

From Patients to Surgeons: Sleep Monitoring Across the Surgical Continuum. Bolster, Drew, and Mara B. Antonoff. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, October, S0022-5223(26)01364-4.

Long-Term Outcomes and Biomarker Correlates of a Multi-Institutional Phase II Study of Hypofractionated Proton Beam Therapy for Unresectable Primary Liver Tumors. Roberts, Hannah J., Theodore S. Hong, Zoe Guan, Beow Y. Yeap, Edgar Ben-Josef, Andrew X. Zhu, Lipika Goyal, Joseph W. Franses, David P. Ryan, Jill N. Allen, Jeffrey W. Clark, Leilana Ly, Lorraine C. Drapek, Kenneth Tanabe, Cristina R. Ferrone, Eugene J. Koay, Christopher H. Crane, Thomas F. DeLaney, Dan G. Duda, and Jennifer Y. Wo. Clinical Cancer Research, October.

Low-Affinity Anti-HER2-CAR T Cells Efficiently Eradicate HER2+ and HER2low Cancer Cells With Reduced Toxicity on Healthy Tissue. Knoedler, Leonard, Konstantin Herfeld, Julian N. Scherer, Kaiji Fan, Dhyani Shah, Sascha Goettert, Luisa Becker, Iria Lloshi, Suqi Li, Dennis C. Harrer, Matthias A. Fante, Tobias Wertheimer, Roland Schelker, Severin Guetter, Misbah Tariq, Omer Khalid, Alexander Scheiter, Wolfgang Herr, Christian Schmidl, Moritz Jesinghaus, Markus Tschurtschenthaler, Hendrik Poeck, and Markus Perl. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 14: 1895507.

Plasma Amino Acid Profiles Reveal Metabolic Signatures of Mortality and Infection in Critically Ill Surgical Patients Requiring Parenteral Nutrition: A Longitudinal Analysis. Gonzalez Ramirez, Lucia A., Dean P. Jones, Kirk A. Easley, Donghai Liang, George A. Cotsonis, John R. Galloway, Mengyuan Ren, Daniel P. Griffith, Nisha J. Dave, Kenneth A. Kudsk, Harry C. Sax, Addison K. May, Paul E. Wischmeyer, Henry M. Blumberg, Jessica A. Alvarez, and Thomas R. Ziegler. Clinical Nutrition 67 (October): 106819.

Publisher Correction: Comparative Clinical Effectiveness and Operating Efficiency of Different Ultrasonic Devices for Performance of Sleeve Gastrectomy. Misra, Monali, I.-Wen Pan, Zasim Azhar Siddiqui, Frank Bisceglie, and Matthew Kroh. Obesity Surgery, October.

REPLY. Wu, George L., Nir Horesh, Moshe Barnajian, and Yosef Nasseri. Diseases of the Colon and Rectum, October.

Reply to: ‘Comment on AI-Based Quantitative and Objective Analysis of Aesthetic Results in Genioplasty.’ Munzinger, Robert J., Samuel Knoedler, Tobias Niederegger, Simon Bigus, Rainer Pooth, Henri Kreiker, Alexandre G. Lellouch, Jan O. Voss, and Leonard Knoedler. Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, October.

Thromboembolic and Hemorrhagic Risks After Mastectomy With vs Without Direct-to-Implant Reconstruction. Mokhtar, Jonathan, John Y. Ha, Jewel Haddad, Curtis L. Cetrulo, David M. Smadja, and Alexandre G. Lellouch. Blood Vessels, Thrombosis & Hemostasis 3 (4): 100208.

Transoral-Transtemporal Endotine-Assisted Endoscopic Midface Lift (TTEEM): Technical Considerations and Objective Long-Term Outcomes. Levin, Marc, Jordan Kai Simmons, and Andrew Frankel. Facial Plastic Surgery: FPS, October.

Urology

Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Prevention of Prostate Cancer. Gandaglia, Giorgio, Adam B. Weiner, Alberto Briganti, Rosalind A. Eeles, Scott Eggener, Martin Gleave, Markus Graefen, Carlo La Vecchia, Silvia Mignozzi, Pär Stattin, Vanessa Hayes, Hendrik van Poppel, and Peter Albers. European Urology, October, S0302-2838(26)02435-8.

Intraductal and Cribriform Carcinoma of the Prostate: A Clinical Companion to the GUPS/ISUP Consensus Guidelines. Weiner, Adam B., Rajal B. Shah, Gladell P. Paner, Behfar Ehdaie, and Scott E. Eggener. The Journal of Urology, October, 101097JU0000000000005360.

Large Oncosomes Induce Pro-Metastatic Stromal-Myeloid Reprogramming. Silva, Taylon Felipe, Virginia Marcia Concato-Lopes, Fatima Bedier, Lauren Newman, Diana Kitka, Jamelle Brown, Blandine Victor, Minhyung Kim, Tatyana Vagner, Catherine Grasso, Dmitriy Sheyn, Sungyong You, Michael R. Freeman, Fayyaz S. Sutterwala, Helen S. Goodridge, Caroline Jefferies, Paola de Candia, Jlenia Guarnerio, and Dolores Di Vizio. Advanced Science, October, e78406.

Patient Sociodemographic Factors Impact the Breast Cancer Microenvironment. DeWitt, Jerry T., Daisy Jimenez-Tovar, Elena Oropeza, Esra Tiftik Karabay, Casandra Nguyen, Astha Lamichhane, Megha Raghunathan, Blake Gabel, Badri Narayanan Narasimhan, Fenna Candy, Lindsey Kuwahara, Audrey G. Head, Sergey Batalov, Erin L. Kirk, Somaye Zare, Matthew N. Bainbridge, Stephanie I. Fraley, Asona Lui, Shreya A. Raghavan, Parag Katira, Carlos Luna Lopez, Melissa A. Troester, Stephen J. Freedland, and Svasti Haricharan. Cancer Research, October.

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