Faculty Publications Oct. 9-16

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published Oct. 9-16. 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

Cardiac Scans Boost Heart Diagnostics | AARP
Damini Dey, PhD

How Young Is too Young for Statins? These Heart Doctors Have a Surprising Answer | Women’s Health
C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD

Can You Work Out if You Have COVID? Here’s What Experts Recommend | Verywell Health
Tracy Zaslow, MD

Dr. Armando E. Giuliano Honored With 2025 William L. McGuire Memorial Lecture Award | American Association for Cancer Research
Armando Giuliano, MD

Bad Posture Could Be the Sneaky Reason You Feel Bloated, A Doctor Says. Here's One Easy Stretch to Fix It. | Business Insider
Brennan Spiegel, MD

Women and Autoimmune Disease: By the Numbers | Health Central
Mariko Ishimori, MD

The Five Common Signs of a Heart Attack You Want to Watch Out For | The Independent
Eduardo Marbán, MD, PhD

Faculty Publications

Biomedical Sciences

Comparative Analysis of CT and MRI Combined With RNA Sequencing for Radiogenomic Staging of Bladder Cancer. Levy, Joshua, Toru Sakatani, Kaoru Murakami, Yuki Kita, Takashi Kobayashi, Susan Win, Saro Manoukian, Charles J. Rosser, and Hideki Furuya. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 26 (19): 9570.

Relation of Coronary Artery Disease and High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin: Evaluation With CCTA and AI-Enabled Plaque Quantification. Ferkh, Aaisha, John King Khoo, Selma Hasific, Caroline Park, Emily Xing, Fionn Coughlan, Alexander Haenel, Abdulaziz Binzaid, Oliver Haidari, Mattea Lewis, Elina Khasanova, Anthony Chuang, David Meier, Stéphane Fournier, Philipp Blanke, Frank Scheuermeyer, Jonathon Leipsic, Damini Dey, Stephanie Sellers, and Georgios Tzimas. Radiology. Cardiothoracic Imaging 7 (5): e250002.

Cardiac Surgery

Corrigendum to ‘Evaluating the Mechanism of Action Behind Controlled Hypothermic Preservation of Donor Hearts: A Randomized Pilot Study’ [J Heart Lung Transplant, 44 (2025) 1137-1145]. Razavi, Allen A., Jon Kobashigawa, Aleksandr Stotland, Qiudong Chen, Jignesh Patel, Dominic Emerson, James Mirocha, Michael E. Bowdish, Pedro Catarino, Dominick Megna, Tyler Gunn, Matthew Rafiei, Deepika Rai, Yang Song, Olayiwola Babalola, Adam Daniels, Michelle Kittleson, Evan Kransdorf, Andriana Nikolova, Lawrence Czer, Joanna Chikwe, Roberta A. Gottlieb, and Fardad Esmailian. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, October, S1053-2498(25)02317-4.

Cardiology

Heart Transplant: A Never-Ending Story. Masarone, Daniele, Rita Gravino, Luigi Falco, Dario Catapano, Cristiano Amarelli, Angelo Caiazzo, Claudio Marra, Michelle Kittleson, Pierino Di Silverio, and Emilio Di Lorenzo. Journal of Clinical Medicine 14 (19): 6805.

Clinical Value of Incidentally Detected Nonsustained Ventricular Tachycardia: Current Status and How to Chart a Course for the Future. Knudsen Pope, Marita, Kyndaron Reinier, and Sumeet S. Chugh. JACC. Clinical Electrophysiology, October, S2405-500X(25)00725-X.

Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction Related to Hydroxychloroquine-Induced Cardiomyopathy. Richards, Donald, Deeksha Acharya, Serguei Bannykh, Louise Thomson, Evan Kransdorf, and Noel Bairey Merz. JACC. Case Reports 30 (31): 105337.

Joint Consideration of LDL-C and Polygenic Risk for Coronary Heart Disease Risk Assessment. Iribarren, Carlos, Meng Lu, Roberto Elosua, Martha Gulati, Nathan D. Wong, and Jamal S. Rana. JACC. Advances 4 (11 Pt 1): 102228.

Clinical Implications of the P.V142I TTR Variant: Insights From CARS. Wees, Isabel R., Colby Ayers, Frederick L. Ruberg, Mathew S. Maurer, Yevgeniy Brailovsky, Lily K. Stern, Jan M. Griffin, Michel G. Khouri, Lori R. Roth, and Justin L. Grodin. JACC. Heart Failure, October, 102704.

Impact of Cardio-Obstetrics Care on Maternal Outcomes in Pregnant Women With Heart Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Sebastian, Sneha Annie, Harshan Atwal, Tanesh Ayyalu, and Martha Gulati. Current Problems in Cardiology, October, 103190.

Multicenter Pivotal Trial of the Minima Stent for Vascular Stenosis in Infants and Young Children. Sullivan, Patrick M., Evan M. Zahn, Shyam Sathanandam, Brian Morray, Shabana Shahanavaz, Arash Salavitabar, Aimee K. Armstrong, Diego Porras, and Darren P. Berman. Circulation. Cardiovascular Interventions, October, e015618.

A Comparison of Single Versus Combination Mechanism Treatment for Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy. Gupta, Vrinda, Lisa R. Yanek, Bairavi Shankar, Artrish Jefferson, Daniel Tsottles, Serena Zampino, Jennifer Barranco, Muhammed Rahim, Emily Brown, Mark Ranek, Nisha Gilotra, Kavita Sharma, Michael Polydefkis, and Joban Vaishnav. Amyloid: The International Journal of Experimental and Clinical, October, 1–3.

CLASP IID Trial and Registry: 2-Year Outcomes of Transcatheter Repair for Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation. Makkar, Raj, Firas Zahr, Tarun Chakravarty, Scott Chadderdon, Moody Makar, Tobias Friedrich Ruf, Robert M. Kipperman, Andrew N. Rassi, Jörg Hausleiter, Robert L. Smith, Molly Szerlip, Scott Goldman, D. Scott Lim, Ignacio Inglessis-Azuaje, Pradeep Yadav, Philipp Lurz, Tobias Kister, Charles J. Davidson, Mubashir Mumtaz, Hemal Gada, Saibal Kar, Susheel K. Kodali, Roger Laham, William Hiesinger, Neil P. Fam, Mirjam Keßler, William W. O’Neill, Brian Whisenant, Chad Kliger, Volker Rudolph, James Hermiller, Abhijeet Dhoble, Richard Smalling, Azeem Latib, Mohamad Lazkani, Joseph Choo, Santiago Garcia, Josep Rodés-Cabau, Niklas Schofer, Stephan Baldus, Samir Kapadia, Konstantinos Koulogiannis, Leo Marcoff, Linda D. Gillam, Ralph Stephan von Bardeleben, and CLASP IID Trial and Registry Investigators. JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions 18 (19): 2392–2404.

Intravascular Imaging vs Angiography Guidance for PCI of Severely Calcified Lesions: The ECLIPSE Trial. Stone, Gregg W., Philippe Genereux, Akiko Maehara, Bruce E. Lewis, Richard A. Shlofmitz, Suhail Dohad, Jithendra Choudary, Thom Dahle, Andres M. Pineda, Kendrick Shunk, Ehtisham Mahmud, Giora Weisz, Michael B. Collins, Khaldoon Alaswad, Gautam Kumar, Naresh Solankhi, Daniel Dulas, John D. Altman, Carlye Kraemer, Krista M. Stiefel, Denise E. Jones, Jana R. Buccola, and Ajay J. Kirtane. JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions 18 (19): 2338–51.

Chronic Coronary Artery Disease. Kittleson, Michelle M. Annals of Internal Medicine, October.

SCarP: Proteome Heterogeneity Characterization of Primary Mouse Cardiomyocytes. Chazarin, Blandine, Aleksandra Binek, Johannes Janssens, Lindsey Becker, Simion Kreimer, Ali Haghani, Joshua Cantlon, Janet Pham, Alexandre Hutton, Jesse G. Meyer, Jonathan R. Krieger, Yanis Zirem, Anja Karlstaedt, and Jennifer E. Van Eyk. Circulation Research, October.

Computational Biomedicine

Impaired Formation of Primary Cilia in Olfactory Neuronal Precursors Is Associated With Decreased Proliferation and Maturation in Individuals With Hyposmia. Alarcón-Elizalde, Salvador, Alejandra Lora-Castellanos, Valeria Santillán-Morales, Miguel A. Reséndiz-Gachús, Rosa Estrada-Reyes, Julián Oikawa-Sala, Jesús Muñoz-Estrada, Lilian Mayagoitia-Novales, Luis A. Constantino-Jonapa, Cristina Martín-Higueras, Ángel Acebes, and Gloria Benítez-King. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 26 (19): 9435.

Medicine

Participant Retention in a Prospective Multicenter Cohort of Participants With Pancreatitis and Factors Associated With Attrition. Choate, Radmila, Jun Xu, Jeffrey J. Easler, Samuel Han, Anna E. Phillips, Melena D. Bellin, William E. Fisher, Evan L. Fogel, Chris Forsmark, Phil A. Hart, Stephen J. Pandol, Walter G. Park, Jose Serrano, Stephen K. Van Den Eeden, Santhi Swaroop Vege, Liang Li, Darwin L. Conwell, Dhiraj Yadav, and Consortium for the Study of Chronic Pancreatitis, Diabetes, and Pancreas Cancer (CPDPC). Pancreas, September.

Comment on ‘Comparison of the Efficacy of 1064- and 730-Nm Picosecond Lasers for Acquired Dermal Melanocytosis.’ Chang, Michelle J., Justin W. Marson, and Alisen Huang. Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology 24 (10): e70465.

Lactococcus Lactis Subsp. Cremoris C60 Promotes Immunoglobulin a Production From B Cells Through Functional Modification of Dendritic Cells in the Intestinal Environment. Okuno, Alato, Zheng Zheng Shi, Toshio Maekawa, Noriko M. Tsuji, and Suguru Saito. Scientific Reports 15 (1): 35266.

Perspectives of Patients Seeking Bariatric Surgery: The Impact of Early Patient-Provider Communication on Bariatric Surgery Utilization. Srinivasan, Nitin, Jamil Samaan, Nithya Rajeev, Agnes Premkumar, Kelvin Alvarez, Lucy Harvey, Stephanie Nguyen, Ashley Tran, and Kamran Samakar. Obesity Surgery, October.

Elevated Co-Expression of TIMM17A and NMT1 Is Associated With Poor Survival in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Chan, Alfred A., Kamya Sankar, Karen L. Reckamp, Begoña Díaz, and Delphine J. Lee. Scientific Reports 15 (1): 35597.

Targeting Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Using Cord-Blood CD34⁺ HSPC-Derived Mesothelin-Specific CAR-NKT Cells With Potent Antitumor Activity. Li, Yan-Ruide, Xinyuan Shen, Yichen Zhu, Zhe Li, Ryan Hon, Yanxin Tian, Jie Huang, Annabel S. Zhao, Nathan Y. Ma, Catherine Zhang, David Lin, Karine Sargsyan, Yuan Yuan, and Lili Yang. Journal of Hematology & Oncology 18 (1): 86.

Therapeutic Targeting of Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen Could Limit Its Potential as Benchmark Imaging. Abel, Melissa L., Adam Sharp, Edwin M. Posadas, Fatima Karzai, Frank I. Lin, Peter L. Choyke, and Ravi A. Madan. Nature Reviews. Urology, October.

Editorial Expression of Concern: Overexpression of miR-26a-2 in Human Liposarcoma Is Correlated With Poor Patient Survival. Lee, D. H., S. Amanat, C. Goff, L. M. Weiss, J. W. Said, N. B. Doan, A. Sato-Otsubo, S. Ogawa, C. Forscher, and H. P. Koeffler. Oncogenesis 14 (1): 37.

The Tissue Systems Pathology Test Predicts Risk of Progression in Patients With Barrett’s Esophagus: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Houghton, Caitlin C., Ivo Ditah, Cadman L. Leggett, Amrit K. Kamboj, Luke Putnam, Sarah L. Sokol-Borrelli, and John C. Lipham. Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, October.

Neurology

Automated Segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions, Paramagnetic Rims, and Central Vein Sign on MRI Provides Reliable Diagnostic Biomarkers. Hu, Fengling, Zheng Ren, Luyun Chen, Alessandra M. Valcarcel, Jordan Dworkin, Brian Renner, Lynn Daboul, Carly M. O’Donnell, Elizabeth D. Verter, Abigail R. Manning, Kelly A. Clark, Eunchan Bae, Christina Chen, Carolyn Lou, Theodore D. Satterthwaite, Haochang Shou, Michel Bilello, Kunio Nakamura, Amit Bar-Or, Peter A. Calabresi, Leorah Freeman, Roland G. Henry, Erin E. Longbrake, Jiwon Oh, Matthew K. Schindler, Martina Absinta, Andrew J. Solomon, Nancy L. Sicotte, Daniel Ontaneda, Daniel S. Reich, Pascal Sati, and Russell T. Shinohara. Imaging Neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) 3: IMAG.a.932.

Cortical Lesions Are Common in a Longitudinal Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy Cohort. Walvekar, Sarita, Riccardo Nistri, Omar Al-Louzi, Gina Norato, Jaskaran Grewal, Awele Nina Chukwura, Anita Fletcher, Govind Nair, Daniel S. Reich, Erin S. Beck, and Irene Cortese. Brain Communications 7 (5): fcaf373.

Neurosurgery

CSF-Venous Fistulas Occurring in First Degree Relatives: A Multi-Center Case Series. Madhavan, Ajay A., Michelle L. Kodet, Timothy J. Amrhein, William P. Dillon, Maggie Waung, Matthew Amans, Ian T. Mark, Jeremy K. Cutsforth-Gregory, Marcel M. Maya, and Wouter I. Schievink. AJNR. American Journal of Neuroradiology, October, ajnr.A9039.

Development and Validation of Clinical Screening Systems for Cushing Disease in the United States. Salcedo-Sifuentes, Jorge E., Sonal Mehta, Carter M. Suryadevara, Marvin Bergsneider, Kevin C. J. Yuen, Paul A. Gardner, Julie M. Silverstein, Albert H. Kim, James J. Evans, Garni Barkhoudarian, Juan C. Fernandez-Miranda, William T. Couldwell, Robert C. Rennert, Varun R. Kshettry, Kyle C. Wu, Carolina Benjamin, Gabriel Zada, Michael R. Chicoine, Jamie J. Van Gompel, Michael P. Catalino, Michael Karsy, Adam Mamelak, Ildiko Torok, Trevor Low, Won Kim, Donato R. Pacione, and Nidhi Agrawal. Pituitary 28 (6): 108.

The Contribution of Lumbar Puncture Opening Pressure in the Diagnosis of Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis. Parikh, Simy K., Constance R. Deline, Morgan McCreary, Farnaz Amoozegar, Tim J. Amrhein, Ian R. Carroll, Jeremy K. Cutsforth-Gregory, Linda G. Leithe, Peter G. Kranz, Charles Louy, Marcel M. Maya, Abhay Moghekar, Jill Rau, Stephen Silberstein, Wouter I. Schievink, and Deborah I. Friedman. Headache, October.

OBGYN

Placental Dysfunction Is Associated With Dysregulated Fibrinolytic System Activation. Yatsenko, Tetiana, Iryna Us, Daria Korolova, Svitlana Zhuk, Halyna Dziuba, Alona Nalbat, Svitlana Kharchenko, Sandor George Vari, and Volodymyr Chernyshenko. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 26 (19): 9339.

Patient Autonomy and Control Preferences in Prolapse Treatment Decision Making. Shinnick, Julia K., Araba A. Jackson, Russel Stanley, Tasha Serna-Gallegos, Brittni Boyd, Ivrose Joseph, Deepanjana Das, Anna Pancheshnikov, Matthew M. Scarpaci, Vivian W. Sung, and American Urogynecologic Society and Society of Gynecologic Surgeons Fellows Pelvic Research Network (FPRN). Urogynecology (Philadelphia, Pa.), October.

The Impact of JAK1 Pathogenic Variants and MHC-I Expression on Response to Immune Checkpoint Inhibition in Endometrial Cancer. Carballo, Erica V., Paula Gonzalez-Ericsson, Brian D. Lehmann, Brandie C. Taylor, Julia D. Wulfkuhle, Andres Ocampo, Rosa I. Gallagher, Dandi S. Huang, Christina Maxey, Julia A. Steele, Katherine Kleinberg, Xiaopeng Sun, Jacey L. Marshall, Violeta Sanchez, Susan R. Opalenik, Emanuel Petricoin, B. J. Rimel, Justin M. Balko, and Courtney A. Penn. Clinical Cancer Research, October.

Women’s Health and Artificial Intelligence. Rittenberg, Eve, Cary P. Gross, Melissa Wong, and Sharon K. Inouye. JAMA Internal Medicine, October.

Association Between Operative Time and Short-Term Postoperative Complications Following Minimally Invasive Surgery for Stage III-IV Endometriosis. Yagur, Yael, Rebecca Schneyer, Kacey Hamilton, Ogechukwu Ezike, Katharine Ciesielski, Margot Barker, Camelita Thrift, Kasey Fitzsimmons, Gabriel Levin, Kelly Wright, Matthew Siedhoff, and Raanan Meyer. BMC Women’s Health 25 (1): 494.

Orthopaedics 

Preoperative Cryoneurolysis Improves Pain and Function for at Least 12 Months After Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Multi-Center Registry Study. Ng, Mitchell K., Jennifer H. Lin, Andrew I. Spitzer, Vinod Dasa, Adam Rivadeneyra, David Rogenmoser, Andrew L. Concoff, Mary DiGiorgi, Joshua Urban, William M. Mihalko, and Michael A. Mont. The Journal of Arthroplasty, October, S0883-5403(25)01266-5.

Pediatrics

A Rare Case of Hyperuricemia and Acute Kidney Injury in a Kidney Transplant Patient. Nidhiry, Anna S., Dechu Puliyanda, Cindy Blifeld, and Helen Pizzo. Pediatric Nephrology (Berlin, Germany), October.

Surgery

The Perioperative Management of Geriatric Patients in Transplantation Surgery-Clinical, Immunological, and Translational Considerations. Knoedler, Leonard, Sam Boroumand, Christopher A. Hinze, Samuel Knoedler, Alexandre G. Lellouch, Bhagvat J. Maheta, Jasper Iske, and Adriana C. Panayi. Frontiers in Transplantation 4: 1566466.

Advances in Digital Health: Multimodal Intelligence and Translational Impact. Gertych, Arkadiusz, Massimo Salvi, and Massimo Mischi. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 273 (October): 109111.

International Survey on Evidence for Index Lymph Node Surgery After Neoadjuvant Systemic Therapy for Stage III Melanoma. Novis, Elan, Mervi Rautalin, Rodabe N. Amaria, Paolo A. Ascierto, Christian U. Blank, Mark B. Faries, Dirk J. Grunhagen, David E. Gyorki, Andrew J. Hayes, Anke M. J. Kuijpers, Georgina V. Long, Joshua M. V. Mammen, Alexander M. Menzies, Merrick I. Ross, Piotr Rutkowski, Hussein A. Tawbi, Michael T. Tetzlaff, Jonathan S. Zager, Jennifer A. Wargo, Tina J. Hieken, Alexander C. J. van Akkooi, and International Neoadjuvant Melanoma Consortium (INMC). Annals of Surgical Oncology, October.

Surgical Management of Large Symptomatic Retropharyngeal Lipoma. Chen, Jersey, Hari Magge, and Ankona Ghosh. The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, October.

The Role of Race and Ethnicity in Chronic Rhinosinusitis With Nasal Polyps: A Scoping Review. Wu, Arthur W., Mishek Thapa, Mahdi Alghezi, Eugene Oh, Hector A. Perez, Dennis M. Tang, Yi-Tsen Lin, Aria Jafari, and Waleed M. Abuzeid. American Journal of Rhinology & Allergy, October, 19458924251384391.

Urology

Patient Participation in Consultations for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer. Kokorowski, Paul, Nadine A. Friedrich, Michael Luu, Alex Shiang, Sanjay Das, James Daniels, Stephen J. Freedland, Brennan Spiegel, and Timothy J. Daskivich. The Journal of Urology, October, 101097JU0000000000004814.

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