Faculty Publications Oct. 29-Nov. 5

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published Oct. 29-Nov. 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

‘Closer Than We Have Ever Been’: 9 Leaders on Cancer Vaccines | Becker’s Hospital Review
Robert Figlin, MD 

This Is Why Cold Weather Makes Your Joints Ache, According to Doctors | Prevention
Jeffrey Zarin, MD

The Ideal Walking Time for Better Blood Sugar, Lower Blood Pressure, and Weight Loss | Verywell Health
Christopher Lee, MD 

This Week in Science: Mysterious X-rays, Movement and Learning, and Memory Formation | NPR News/All Things Considered
Ueli Rutishauser, PhD 

These Handwriting Signs May Be Linked to Cognitive Decline in Older Adults, Study Suggests | HuffPost
Zaldy Tan, MD, MPH 

Improve Your Balance in Just a Few Minutes a Day With These Expert-Recommended Training Tips | CNN
Natasha Trentacosta, MD 

The Best Breakfast for Heart Health, According to Cardiologists | Verywell Health
Sri Palanisamy, MD 

‘Black Box’ Medical AI Can Deepen Health Disparities, Researcher Says | Association of Health Care Journalists
Tiffani Bright, PhD 

Schooled by AI: The Evolving Role of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education | Association of Health Care Journalists
Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez, PhD 

Metabolic Interventions Improve Cancer Treatment Delivery | Drug Discovery Online
Jun Gong, MD 

How Capitation and Crowded EDs Shape Who Gets Access to Menin Inhibitors in AML | American Journal of Managed Care Online
Noah Merin, MD, PhD

Faculty Publications

Biomedical Sciences

Intensive vs More Intensive Lipid-Lowering Therapy and Plaque Regression in Statin-Naive Patients: Prespecified Analyses From the FLOWPROMOTE Randomized Clinical Trial. Mortensen, Martin Bødtker, Nadia Iraqi, Niels Peter Rønnow Sand, Martin Busk, Jesper Møller Jensen, Kristian Tækker Madsen, Erik Lerkevang Grove, Damini Dey, Helle Kanstrup, Kamilla Pedersen, Ole Norling Mathiassen, Susanne Hosbond, Hans Erik Bøtker, Jagat Narula, and Bjarne Linde Nørgaard. JAMA Cardiology, October, e264788.

The Right Ventricle in Focus: State-of-the-Art CMR Imaging - Challenges, Standards, and Innovations. Gunasekaran, Suvai, George D. Thornton, Alan C. Kwan, Haoran Li, Sébastien Roujol, Franz Gerald Greil, Birgitta Velthuis, and David A. Bluemke. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, October, 102822.

Cardiac Surgery

Animal Models of HFpEF: Getting Closer to the Human Syndrome? Sandoval, Erik S., David J. Lefer, and Thomas M. Vondriska. American Journal of Physiology. Heart and Circulatory Physiology, October.

Taxes and Tolls Across the Bridge. Tchouta, Lise N., and Dominic Emerson. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, October, S0003-4975(26)01089-1.

Cardiology

2026 Update on the COVADIS Diagnostic Criteria of International Standardization for Microvascular Angina. Ong, Peter, Paolo G. Camici, John Beltrame, Colin Berry, Filippo Crea, Javier Escaned, Tim van de Hoef, Juan Carlos Kaski, Carl Pepine, Udo Sechtem, Hiroaki Shimokawa, Christopher Zeitz, and Noel Bairey Merz. International Journal of Cardiology 466 (January): 134993.

A Randomised Non-Inferiority Trial of CCTA Guidance Versus IVUS Guidance for PCI: Rationale and Design of the P4 Clinical Trial. Tajima, Atomu, Taito Arai, Hirofumi Ohashi, Frederic Bouisset, Marta Belmonte, Nikolaos Stalikas, Ziad Ali, Tetsuya Amano, Simone Biscaglia, Alan Bagnall, Kaoru Tanaka, Thomas Engstrøm, Timothy Fairbairn, Richard Good, Daniel A. Jones, Raj R. Makkar, Hasan Jilaihawi, Bálint Szilveszter, Michael Mæng, Nicolaj Brejnholt Støttrup, Bjarne Linde Nørgaard, Peter O’Kane, Niels Thue Olsen, Divaka Perera, Saima Mushtaq, Gianluca Pontone, Ian Purcell, Yader Sandoval, Adriaan Wilgenhof, Jeroen Sonck, James C. Spratt, Gianluca Mincione, Giulio Stefanini, Eric Van Belle, Carlo Zivelonghi, Daniel Munhoz, Koshiro Sakai, Yosuke Miyazaki, Salvatore Brugaletta, Abdul Ihdayhid, Jonathon Leipsic, Brian Ko, Antonio Bartorelli, Bernard De Bruyne, Ganeev Malhotra, Bruno R. da Costa, Takuya Mizukami, Daniele Andreini, and Carlos Collet. EuroIntervention: Journal of EuroPCR in Collaboration With the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology 22 (21): e1168–76.

Antithrombotic Therapy After Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion: The SIMPLAAFY Randomized Clinical Trial. Reddy, Vivek Y., Walid I. Saliba, Thomas Waggoner, Devi G. Nair, Stanislav Weiner, Rudolph Evonich, Michael Hoskins, Andrew Dublin, Michael Rinaldi, Gaurang Gandhi, Jonathan W. Dukes, Madhu Reddy, David DeLurgio, Venkat R. Iyer, Ganesh Venkataraman, Ashish Sadhu, Vamsee Yaganti, Kevin Trulock, Douglas N. Gibson, Mohamad Alkhouli, Manish Shah, Shephal K. Doshi, Andrea Natale, Megan Coylewright, C. Michael Gibson, Ahmed A. Kolkailah, Wael A. Jaber, Krystal Leger, Elizabeth Matznick, Thomas Christen, Brad S. Sutton, Kenneth M. Stein, and Saibal Kar. JAMA, November, e2621361.

Artificial Intelligence Detection of Aortic Valve Calcification on Routine Noncontrast Chest CT: A Real-World Cohort. Koren, Ofir, Vivek Patel, Orit Wimpfheimer, Alexander Kukuev, Parker Chu, Harsh Jain, Kazuki Suruga, Hidemasa Shitan, Shiri Hassid, Daniel Ng, Shir Hofstetter, and Raj R. Makkar. JACC. Advances, October, 103446.

Clinical Impact of Multiple-Clip Implantation for Residual Mitral Regurgitation After Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair. Nagasaka, Takashi, Vivek Patel, Kazuki Suruga, Hidemasa Shitan, Yuchao Guo, Ofir Koren, Alon Shechter, Dhairya Patel, Tarun Chakravarty, Aakriti Gupta, Hideki Ishii, Hasan Jilaihawi, Moody Makar, Mamoo Nakamura, and Raj R. Makkar. Journal of the American Heart Association 15 (21): e050013.

Coronary CT Angiography Versus Intravascular Ultrasound Guidance for PCI. Collet, Carlos, Takuya Mizukami, Frederic Bouisset, Gianluca Pontone, Carlo Zivelonghi, Daniel A. Jones, Adriaan Wilgenhof, Nicolaj Brejnholt Støttrup, Bálint Szilveszter, Kaoru Tanaka, Gianluca Mincione, Yader Sandoval, Ian Purcell, James C. Spratt, Divaka Perera, Niels Thue Olsen, Tetsuya Amano, Peter O’Kane, Simone Biscaglia, Hasan Jilaihawi, Ziad Ali, Eric Van Belle, Richard Good, Taito Arai, Brian Ko, Jeroen Sonck, Alan Bagnall, Timothy Fairbairn, Antonio Bartorelli, Giulio Stefanini, Jonathon Leipsic, Thomas Engstrøm, Bjarne Linde Nørgaard, Bernard De Bruyne, Bruno R. da Costa, Daniele Andreini, and P4 Trial Investigators. The New England Journal of Medicine, November.

Impact of CKD and Hemodialysis on Treatment of Severely Calcified Lesions: The ECLIPSE Trial. George, Pratheesh, Krishna Santosh Vemuri, Richard A. Shlofmitz, Suhail Dohad, Thom Dahle, Andres M. Pineda, Kendrick A. Shunk, Carlye Kraemer, Philippe Généreux, Ajay J. Kirtane, and Gregg W. Stone. Circulation. Cardiovascular Interventions, November.

Metabolic Niches: MALDI Imaging Reveals Lipidomic Heterogeneity in the Human Heart. Osumi, Kayla M., Evan P. Kransdorf, Daniel Manzoor, Anja Karlstaedt, and Elizabeth K. Neumann. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 37 (11): 2794–2802.

Percutaneous Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement for Symptomatic Mitral Regurgitation: 2-Year Outcomes From the ENCIRCLE Trial. Webb, John, Mayra E. Guerrero, Kamran I. Muhammad, Adam B. Greenbaum, Alejandro Vasquez, J. Bradley Oldemeyer, Thom G. Dahle, Brian P. O’Neill, Charanjit Rihal, Michael Morse, Evelio Rodriguez, Mark Russo, Raj R. Makkar, Brian Whisenant, Pradeep Yadav, Vinod Thourani, Ignacio Inglessis-Azuaje, Nathaniel Langer, Samir Kapadia, Curtiss Stinis, Matthew Price, Matthew Summers, Bassem M. Chehab, Brett Grizzell, Jason Foerst, Ricardo Yaryura, Jorge Castellanos, John Wang, George Zorn, Peter Tadros, Oluseun Alli, Daniel Pu, Santiago Garcia, Michael J. Mullen, Robert Boone, Philipp Blanke, Michael Pham, David A. Baran, Federico M. Asch, David V. Daniels, and ENCIRCLE trial Investigators. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, November, S0735-1097(26)10170-3.

Regional Differences in Outcomes in Adults After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) for Stable Ischemic Heart Disease. Akman, Zafer, Dae Yong Park, Raiza Rossi, Armin Nouri, Darrick Li, Jiun-Ruey Hu, and Michael G. Nanna. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, October, S0025-6196(26)18824-7.

TAVR in Patients With Moderate Aortic Stenosis With At-Risk Features. Généreux, Philippe, Raj R. Makkar, Philippe Pibarot, Jeroen J. Bax, Brian R. Lindman, Kamran Muhammad, J. Bradley Oldemeyer, Mark Pirwitz, Colin M. Barker, Vinod H. Thourani, Pradeep K. Yadav, Roberto Rodriguez, Justin Strote, Rahul Sakhuja, Ramzi Khalil, Rahul Sharma, Adnan Chhatriwalla, Jacob M. Mishell, Biswajit Kar, Sameer Gafoor, Joseph Walsh, Daniel Spoon, Andrew Frutkin, Andrei Pop, Nicolas M. Van Mieghem, Ruby Satpathy, Kenji Ando, Joseph Montarello, John Webb, Sreekanth Vemulapalli, David J. Cohen, Aakriti Gupta, Brandon Park, Heather Prince, Philipp Blanke, Michael Mack, Martin B. Leon, and PROGRESS Trial Investigators. The New England Journal of Medicine, November.

TECTONIC CAD: Pivotal IDE Evaluation of Coronary Intravascular Lithotripsy for Severely Calcified Lesions. Secemsky, Eric A., Ziad A. Ali, Evan Shlofmitz, Bassem M. Chehab, Allen Jeremias, William Nicholson, Pratik Sandesara, Sameh Sayfo, Louis Verreault-Julien, Azeem Latib, Christopher Haddad, Rudy Haddad, Robert C. Stoler, Eric A. Osborn, Oliver Abela, James Smith, Gopi Manthripragada, Itsik Ben-Dor, Hayder Hashim, Daniel Kiss, Jonathan Rosenberg, Mubbasher Syed, Yader Sandoval, Nirat Beohar, Salman S. Allana, Salvatore Mannino, Torrey Schmidt, Anderson Mehrle, James D. Flaherty, Osama Mukarram, Calvin Choi, Suhail Dohad, Issam Moussa, Rebecca Chester, Jeffrey J. Popma, Akiko Maehara, Gayle Johnson, Carlye Kraemer, Sandeep C. Pingle, Brad J. Martinsen, Jennifer M. Meinen, Ethan C. Korngold, and Kathleen E. Kearney. JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions, October, S1936-8798(26)02694-4.

Imaging

Event-to-Payment Latency in Physicians With Imaging-Related Allegations: NPDB Reports Processed 2004-2025. Hassankhani, Amir, Melika Amoukhteh, Cem Bilgin, Payam Jannatdoust, Parya Valizadeh, and Ali Gholamrezanezhad. Journal of the American College of Radiology: JACR, October, S1546-1440(26)00549-1.

Medicine

A Practical Guide to Proficiency Testing for Clinical Histocompatibility Laboratories. Hod-Dvorai, Reut, Olga Timofeeva, Nicholas K. Brown, Sam Ho, Valia Bravo-Egana, Christina Bishop, Taba Kheradmand, Alan M. Sanfilippo, Anna L. Greenshields, Heather Eilrich, Elaine Forrest O’Shields, William Hoffman, Xiaohai Zhang, Joseph Abraha, Ahmed Mostafa, and American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI) Professional Standards Division. Human Immunology 87 (12): 112111.

Breaking Barriers: Gut Pathobionts Promote Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Chojnacka, Katarzyna, and Sergei I. Grivennikov. Cancer Discovery 16 (11): 2214–16.

Evaluation of Diabetic Ketoacidosis Outcomes Following the Adoption of a Computer-Based Variable-Rate Insulin Infusion Algorithm. Wei, Margaret, Omar Kais Ibrahim, Jacqueline Marie Deirmenjian, Tochukwu Madu, Gian Paolo Simone, Steve Kim, Elizabeth Vi Nguyen, Cameron Escovedo, Hai Tran, Shawna Masih, Nichole McCann Ballweg, Elizabeth Zakis, Jennifer Ting-Chan, and Roma Gianchandani. Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, November, 19322968261501915.

Gene-by-Sleep Duration Interaction for Glycemic Traits in More Than 480,000 Individuals. Wang, Heming, Pavithra Nagarajan, Clint L. Miller, Amy R. Bentley, Raymond Noordam, Kenneth E. Westerman, Michael R. Brown, Aldi T. Kraja, Jeffrey R. O’Connell, Karen Schwander, Changwei Li, Mihir M. Sanghvi, Lifelines Cohort Study, et al. Diabetes, October, db260184.

Global Perspectives on MASCC Clinical Practice Guidelines: Awareness, Implementation and Insights to Inform Future Updates. Abdalla-Aslan, Ragda, Paola Alberti, Nicole Blijlevens, Pierluigi Bonomo, Joanne Bowen, Julia S. Bruno, Raymond J. Chan, Yin Ting Cheung, Andrew Davies, Mellar Davis, Sharon Elad, Joel Epstein, Darren Fernandes, Jason L. Freedman, Nicolas H. Hart, Hirotoshi Iihara, Michael Jefford, Daniel Peter Johnstone, Amber S. Kleckner, Bogda Koczwara, Grigorios Kotronoulas, Emma Munro, Barbara Murphy, Midori Nakagaki, Enrique Soto-Perez-de-Celis, Stephen Sonis, Nikolaos Tsoukalas, Anna Ugalde, Corina van den Hurk, Hannah Rose Wardill, and Paolo Bossi. Supportive Care in Cancer, 34 (11): 1187.

Prognostic Significance of Early Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA Trajectories After Kidney Transplantation. Sureshkumar, Kalathil, Jeffrey A. Klein, Dhiren Kumar, Nadiesda Costa, Renata Glehn-Ponsirenas, Peale Chuang, Ling Shen, James Lu, David Wojciechowski, Pranjal Jain, Yihung Huang, Alexander Wiseman, Edmund Huang, Stuart Knechtle, Suphamai Bunnapradist, Rafael Villicana, Puneet Sood, Anil Paramesh, Rashikh A. Choudhury, James Piper, Jiashu Xue, Yasir Qazi, Divya Jain, Sandesh Parajuli, Nicolae Leca, Didier A. Mandelbrot, Jonathan Bromberg, Thin Thin Maw, Daniel C. Brennan, Tarek Alhamad, and KOAR Investigators. Transplantation, November.

Regulatable Membrane-Bound IL-15 Engineered TIL Cell Therapy for Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Resistant Advanced Melanoma: Pooled Analysis of Phase 1 and 1/2 Trials. Amaria, Rodabe N., Jason A. Chesney, Allison S. Betof, Gino K. In, Alexander N. Shoushtari, Tirrell T. Johnson, Omid Hamid, Yazan Samhouri, Michael A. Davies, Hussein A. Tawbi, Isabella C. Glitza Oliva, Bulent Arman Aksoy, Amanda M. Kelly, Raina Duan, Prakash Prabhakar, Giridharan Ramsingh, Madan Jagasia, and Parameswaran Hari. Nature Medicine, November.

Sebaceous Heterotopia of the Esophagus. Fehlman, Jared, Kevin Waters, and Amrit K. Kamboj. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 101 (11): 2002–3.

Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Pancreatic Polypeptide Levels in Healthy Individuals and Individuals With Diabetes. Yang, Jie, Xiaoyuan Wang, Yijun Liu, Yifan Wang, Stephen J. Pandol, Yinqi Lv, Xiaoyu Li, and Ling Li. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, October, 113615.

Timing of Long COVID Improvement in Prospectively Followed RECOVER-Adult Participants. Reeder, Harrison T., Sarah E. Donohue, Jeffrey N. Martin, Mady Hornig, Jarrod M. Mosier, Hassan Ashktorab, Ornina Atieh, Andra L. Blomkalns, Hassan Brim, Yu Chen, Melissa M. Cortez, Nathan B. Erdmann, RECOVER-Adult Cohort, et al. Annals of Internal Medicine, November.

Validation of an Intrinsic Capacity Index and the Effects of Aspirin in Older Males and Females: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial. Ryan, Joanne, Aung Zaw Zaw Phyo, Maud Wieczorek, Sara Espinoza, Robyn L. Woods, Alice Owen, Kerry Sheets, Suzanne G. Orchard, Rory Wolfe, A. R. M. Saifuddin Ekram, Steve Horvath, Anne Murray, and Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari. GeroScience, October.

Neurosurgery

A Digital Twin Roadmap for Adult Spinal Deformity. Azad, Tej D., S. Farzad Maroufi, Lalithkumar Seenivasan, Michael M. Safaee, Kristen E. Jones, Elizabeth L. Lord, Camilo A. Molina, Corey T. Walker, Joseph A. Osorio, Javier Pizones, Alekos Theologis, Miranda van Hooff, Mitsuru Yagi, Mathias Unberath, Robert K. Eastlack, Michael P. Kelly, Ferran Pellisé, Christopher P. Ames, and Scoliosis Research Society Adult Spinal Deformity Task Force Senescence Committee. Spine Deformity, November.

Databases, Registries, and Consortia for Pediatric Epilepsy and Functional Neurosurgery: A Scoping Review From the AANS/CNS Pediatric Section Epilepsy and Functional Research Interest Group. Lam, Victor H. K., Aleena Ghafoor, Taylor J. Abel, Kurtis I. Auguste, Ariana Barkley, Marian Michael Bercu, Robert J. Bollo, David J. Bonda, Eisha A. Christian, Jason K. Chu, Jordan Davies, Aria Fallah, Nisha Gadgil, Hannah E. Goldstein, Kimberly Hamilton, Brian W. Hanak, Jason S. Hauptman, Eveline Teresa Hidalgo, Sandi K. Lam, Nealen G. Laxpati, Neena I. Marupudi, Sean D. McEvoy, Robert P. Naftel, Weston T. Northam, Joffre E. Olaya, Chima O. Oluigbo, H. Westley Phillips, Martin G. Piazza, Jeffrey S. Raskin, Jarod L. Roland, James T. Rutka, Afshin Salehi, Nir Shimony, Jesse Skoch, Matthew D. Smyth, Heather S. Spader, Scellig S. D. Stone, Elizabeth Tyler-Kabara, Catherine Wassef, Alexander G. Weil, Howard L. Weiner, Allyson L. Alexander, and George M. Ibrahim. Journal of Neurosurgery. Pediatrics, October, 1–14.

OBGYN

Implementation and Impacts of Maternal and Perinatal Quality Collaboratives Across U.S. States: A Scoping Review. Alvarado, Gabriela, Khadesia Howell, Kortney Floyd James, Mallika Bhandarkar, Sujeong Park, Priya Batra, Chloe E. Bird, Sarah J. Kilpatrick, and Rachel K. Landis. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, October, 108628.

SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccination in Pregnancy and Child Neurodevelopment at 18 to 30 Months. Hughes, Brenna L., Rebecca G. Clifton, Torri D. Metz, Lynn Yee, Jessica A. de Voest, Monica Longo, T. Michael O’Shea, Kelly Clark, Gail Mallett, Dwight J. Rouse, Alan T. N. Tita, Kelly S. Gibson, Hector Mendez-Figueroa, Hyagriv N. Simhan, John M. Thorp, Samuel Parry, Mary E. Norton, Uma M. Reddy, Catherine Squire Eppes, Sarah J. Kilpatrick, George R. Saade, and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network. JAMA Pediatrics, November, e265142.

The Probe Leads the Scalpel-A New Dimension to Gynaecology Care. Keizerswaard, Jolanda van, Robert A. de Leeuw, Tina Tellum, Gil Dubernard, Pere Barri-Soldevilla, Gernot Hudelist, Gábor Szabó, Alin S. Constantin, Michael R. Wynn-Williams, Wouter Froyman, Kelly N. Wright, Kacey M. Hamilton, Mathew Leonardi, and Judith A. F. Huirne. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, October.

Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine

Athlete Safeguarding-Maintaining the Call to Action. Faustin, Marcia, Katherine H. Rizzone, David W. Kruse, and Jeffrey L. Tanji. Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, November.

Patient Perspective on Adjunctive Treatment for Early Onset Scoliosis. Watkins V, Robert G., Vivien Chan, Paal K. Nilssen, Kenneth D. Illingworth, Peter Sturm, Tenner Guillaume, Pernendu Gupta, and David L. Skaggs. Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma 83 (December): 103630.

Segmental Arthroscopic Hip Labral Reconstruction Using a Peroneus Longus Allograft. Kody, Michael T., and Michael B. Banffy. Arthroscopy Techniques, October, e70375.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Integrative Spatial Metallomics: A Tutorial Review of Multimodal Elemental Imaging Workflows, Challenges and Opportunities. Kumar, Naina, Nishita Paruchuri, Tracy Punshon, Brian Jackson, Kevin Cornell, Elijah Stommel, Hrishikesh Deosthali, Vismay Ravikumar, Engie Mostafa, Scott Palisoul, Louis Vaickus, Sunita Ho, and Joshua Levy. Analytical Methods: Advancing Methods and Applications, November.

Reproducibility of Lymphovascular Space Invasion Assessment in Cervical Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Does Experience Matter? Talia, Karen L., T. Rinda Soong, Takako Kiyokawa, Swati Bhardwaj, Marius-Alexandru Beleaua, Quang Hiep Bui, Terri E. Jones, Sarah E. J. Khan, Asher Krausey, Hiu Yeung Lau, Julia Müller, Adam Šafanda, Wangpan Jackson Shi, Niall Scully, Amitha Thomas, Natsuko Ukai, Joan Wang, Natalie Banet, and Simona Stolnicu. International Journal of Gynecological Pathology, October.

Small Neuroendocrine Proliferations in Columnar Mucosa at or Near the Gastroesophageal Junction: A Finding Potentially Related to Proton Pump Inhibitor Use and/or Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease. McCloskey, Audrey, Kevin M. Waters, Michael Kozak, Maha Guindi, Keith K. Lai, Brent K. Larson, and Danielle A. Hutchings. Histopathology, November.

The Ethical Use and Legality of Medical Examiner Data: Preliminary Lessons From the New Mexico Decedent Image Database. Mecklenburg, Kori, Christine Pink, Heather J. H. Edgar, Tyler S. Gibb, Philip J. Kroth, and Shamsi Daneshvari Berry. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 191 (2): e70369. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.70369.

Pediatrics

Human iPSC-Based Skeletal Muscle Model of LAMA2-Related Congenital Muscular Dystrophy. Villalba, Jaquelyn M., Andrea Canahui, Francesca I. Malit, George Lawless, Vladimir Zhemkov, April D. Pyle, Kyu Shik Mun, Sujung Yi, Clive N. Svendsen, and Michelle R. Allen-Sharpley. Skeletal Muscle 16 (1): 39.

Radiation Oncology

Retrospective Analysis of Machine Service Logs and EPID-Based Linac QA to Investigate the Effects of Machine Maintenance and Calibration Events on Beam Characteristics: A Multi-Institutional Study. DeMarco, John, Michael Barnes, Hania Al-Hallaq, Seng Boh Lim, Lana Critchfield, Cory S. Knill, Karl Farrey, Timothy Ritter, Nilendu Gupta, Richard A. Popple, Justin Mikell, Jim Irrer, Mario Perez, and Jean M. Moran. Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics 27 (11): e70894.

Surgery

Affibody-Based Approaches as Potential Therapeutics for Breast Cancer: Mechanisms, Applications, and Future Perspectives. Yao, Ru, Keghon Kasparian, Yidong Zhou, Qiang Sun, Armando Giuliano, Bo Pan, Shengxi Chen, and Xiaojiang Cui. Cell Investigation 2 (4): 100106.

From Diagnostics to Survival Prediction: A Systematic Review of Artificial Intelligence Applications in Merkel Cell Carcinoma. Mokhtar, Jonathan, Noora Jatan, Éli Blais, Victoria Zecchin Ferrara, Moshe Assouline, Olivier Mathieu, and Alexandre G. Lellouch. Dermatologic Therapy 2026 (1): 1099619.

STAS in Sub-Lobar Resection: More Questions Than Answers. Bolster, Drew, and Mara B. Antonoff. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, October, S0003-4975(26)01087-8.

Urology

Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen PET/CT Complements MRI for Focal Therapy Selection in Prostate Cancer: A Whole-Mount Histopathologic Study. Sonni, Ida, Zahra Mohammadigoldar, George Furey, Koichiro Kimura, Pranav C. Movva, Adrien Holzgreve, Shadfar Bahri, Tyler Sevco, Alex Chung, Anthony Sisk, Tristan Grogan, Johannes Czernin, Kyunghyun Sung, Jeremie Calais, Scott E. Eggener, Wayne Brisbane, Robert E. Reiter, Steven Raman, and Adam B. Weiner. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, October, jnumed.126.273367.

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