Faculty Publications Sept. 10-15

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published Sept. 10-15. If you have a published paper from this period that does not appear on this list, please contact Sue Marone. Studies published later in the week will be included in the next issue of Faculty Publications.

Cedars-Sinai in the News

How Food Poisoning Can Lead to Chronic IBS: Scientists Investigate the Link | National Geographic
Mark Pimentel, MD 

Dietary Supplement Glutamine Plus Standard Therapy Improved Outcomes in Advanced Pancreatic Cancer, Cedars-Sinai Investigators Find | The Cancer Letter
Jun Gong, MD, Neil Bhowmick, PhD, and Robert Figlin, MD 

Foundayo vs. the Wegovy Pill: What Doctors Want You to Know | Prevention
Amanda Velazquez, MD 

Smartwatches Overestimate Calories Burned by Up to 25%, Study Suggests | Prevention
Amanda Velazquez, MD 

Cedars-Sinai Earns Top Emergency Accreditation | Beverly Press/Park Labrea News
Sam Torbati, MD 

Flu Season Could Be Tougher if Vaccination Rates Stay Low, Experts Say | ConsumerAffairs
Michael Ben-Aderet, MD

Advanced Dementia: A Guide to Care, Comfort and Hospice | Being Patient
Zaldy Tan, MD, MPH

FDA Approves Apitegromab for Spinal Muscular Atrophy | Neurology Live
Michelle Allen-Sharpley, MD, PhD

Hyaluronic Acid Could Cut Cancer Risk, if We Can Get Around to Its Cons | American Chemical Society
Ekihiro Seki, MD, PhD

Faculty Publications

Cardiac Surgery

Bundles for Decreasing Sternal Wound Infections: Science or Ritual? Cohen, Robbin G. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, September, S0003-4975(26)00917-3.

Five-Year Follow-Up of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement With Self-Expanding Intra-Annular Versus Commercially Available Valves. Makkar, Raj R., Wen Cheng, Ron Waksman, Tarun Chakravarty, Lowell F. Satler, Mark Groh, William Abernethy, Mark J. Russo, David Heimansohn, James Hermiller, Stephen Worthley, Bassem M. Chehab, Ray Matthews, Ravi K. Ramana, Gerald Yong, Chunguang Chen, Federico M. Asch, Mamoo Nakamura, Hasan Jilaihawi, Rahul Sharma, Dhairya Patel, Samir Kapadia, Michael J. Reardon, Deepak L. Bhatt, and Gregory P. Fontana. JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions, September, S1936-8798(26)01963-1.

Cardiology

Digital Health Use and Interest in Virtual Cardiac Rehabilitation Among Cardiac Inpatients: Cross-Sectional Study. Patel, Hamza G., Jie Ding, Xinyi Zhang, Abel Cherian, Pauline Hyunh, Apurva Sharma, Vennela Avula, Rongzi Shan, Katherine A. Ornstein, Shireen R. Khoury, Francoise A. Marvel, Lena M. Mathews, Seth S. Martin, and Erin M. Spaulding. JMIR Cardio 10 (September): e91767.

Fatty Acid and Oxylipin Metabolism Differentiate Isolated Postcapillary From Combined Pre- and Postcapillary Pulmonary Hypertension. Alotaibi, Mona, Amber Tang, Nancy Sun, Ian Gurholt, Emma Yuguchi, Kari Roberts, Ioana Preston, Rod Warburton, Jason X.-J. Yuan, Nick H. Kim, Stephen Y. Chan, Mohit Jain, Susan Cheng, and Nicholas S. Hill. Circulation. Heart Failure, September, e014073.

Impact of Tricuspid Regurgitation on Outcomes After Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair for Primary Mitral Regurgitation: The PRIME-MR Registry. Scotti, Andrea, Sebastian Ludwig, Daniel Feldman, Benedikt Koell, Jessica Weimann, Philipp von Stein, Alejandro Araujo Adams, Adrian Heinze, Dhairya Patel, Lukas Stolz, Robin Le Ruz, Tetsu Tanaka, PRIME-MR Investigators, et al. Circulation. Cardiovascular Interventions, September, e016634.

Long-Term Outcomes of Contemporary Balloon-Expandable TAVR in Bicuspid Aortic Valve: A Propensity-Matched Comparison to Tricuspid. Suruga, Kazuki, Vivek Patel, Hidemasa Shitan, Guo Yuchao, Takashi Nagasaka, Daniel Ng, Jaideep Menda, Adishwar Singh, Ayush Goyal, Elijah Buss, Andjela Kremenovic, Emily Dermand, Harsh Jain, Dhairya Patel, Aakriti Gupta, Tarun Chakravarty, Wen Cheng, Yuito Okada, Hasan Jilaihawi, Mamoo Nakamura, and Raj R. Makkar. JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions 19 (17): 2383–96.

Prepregnancy Diet Quality Index and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes. Bharmal, Ummayhany, George Saade, Philip Greenland, Brenda J. Smith, Andrea C. Kozai, Stephanie A. Fisher, Lauren Theilen, William Grobman, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Uma Reddy, Tetsuya Kawakita, and null Ms. JAMA Network Open 9 (9): e2633245.

Quantitative Coronary Artery and Aortic Valve Calcification by Virtual Non-Contrast Images From Dual-Energy Delayed CT Scans in Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis. Fujito, Hidesato, Kaveh Rezaei Bookani, Bashaer Gheyath, Sunam Lee, Sung Woo Cho, Balaji Tamarappoo, Alan C. Kwan, Raj Makkar, Damini Dey, Piotr Slomka, Daniel S. Berman, John Friedman, and Donghee Han. The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging, September.

Too Much, Too Soon? The Argument Against Initial Combination Therapy in Stage I Hypertension. McClintick, Daniel J., Hilary C. Bowman, and Joseph E. Ebinger. Journal of Human Hypertension, September.

Computational Biomedicine

Integrated Signatures Define Mutational Processes in Prostate Cancer. Gruber, Andreas J., André V. Olsen, Barbara Hernando, Kevin C. L. Cheng, Clarissa Gerhäuser, Marina Torres, Francesco Favero, Daria Kiriy, Ángel Fernández-Sanromán, Juan Maria Roldan-Romero, Lucy Barton, Diogo Pellegrina, Joachim Weischenfeldt, et al. Nature, September.

Recurrent Mechanisms of Biallelic Epigenetic Inactivation Reveal New Putative Tumour Suppressor Genes in Prostate Cancer. Kiriy, Daria, Francesco Favero, Clarissa Gerhäuser, Jessica Heilmann, Pavlo Lutsik, Francisco German Rodriguez Gonzalez, Alessio Locallo, Jakob Schmidt Jespersen, Andreas J. Gruber, Andre V. Olsen, Barbara Hernando, Kevin Cl Cheng, Joachim Weischenfeldt, et al. Nature Communications 17 (1): 9646.

Imaging

Radiology Preparedness for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games: Lessons From Previous Major Sporting Events. Lee, Jonathan, Eric D. Cyphers, Jihoon Lim, Harris Liou, and Ali Gholamrezanezhad. Journal of the American College of Radiology: JACR 23 (9): 1861–63.

Medicine

Blocking PD-L2 Prevents Senescent Cell Accumulation and Age-Related Dysfunction. Chaib, Selim, Larissa G. P. Langhi Prata, Masayoshi Suda, Andres Sola, Thomas J. Mitchell, Zacharias P. Anastasiadis, Hawley E. Kunz, Jia Nie, Stella G. Victorelli, Ricardo Lozano Flores, Moritz Weigl, Shimpei Kawamoto, Ken Uemura, Hyungsoo Kim, Binsheng Wang, Christina L. Inman, Tamar Pirtskhalava, Nino Giorgadze, Ailing Xue, Kurt O. Johnson, Jair M. Espindola-Netto, Sonja Suvakov, Jennet Hatamova, Erik S. Parker, Davyn Benitto Hartono, Vagisha Kulshreshtha, Jose Alberto Lopez-Dominguez, Aaron M. Deisinger, Allyson K. Palmer, Yi Zhu, Megan M. Weivoda, Anne Gingery, Robert Hromas, Vesna D. Garovic, João F. Passos, David B. Allison, Eiji Hara, Michael D. Jensen, Nicolas Musi, Stefan G. Tullius, Ze’ev A. Ronai, Manuel Serrano, Ming Xu, Ian R. Lanza, Yuji Ikeno, Tamara Tchkonia, and James L. Kirkland. Cell Metabolism, September, S1550-4131(26)00339-6.

Examining the Interchangeability of Two Different Patient-Reported Global Assessment Measures in an Observational Axial Spondyloarthritis Cohort. Vershel, Connor, Seokhun Kim, Lianne S. Gensler, Matthew A. Brown, Michael H. Weisman, Mariko L. Ishimori, Michael Ward, John D. Reveille, and Mark C. Hwang. Arthritis Care & Research, September.

Maternal and Fetal HLA Heterozygosity in Preeclampsia: Insights From a Large Multi-Ancestry Pregnancy Cohort. Cao, Chang, Matthew Maher, Jie Hu, Brendan J. Keating, Richard M. Burwick, S. Ananth Karumanchi, G. Larry Maxwell, Camille E. Powe, Thomas F. McElrath, David E. Cantonwine, Norma Serrano, Claudia Colmenares, Juan P. Casas, Richa Saxena, and Kathryn J. Gray. HLA 108 (3): e70970.

Performance of the iBox Prognostication System in African American Kidney Transplant Recipients. Truchot, Agathe, Yannis Lombardi, Marc Raynaud, Olivier Aubert, Gillian Divard, Thibaut Thalamas, Brad Astor, Didier Mandelbrot, Sandesh Parajuli, Kenneth A. Newell, Christian P. Larsen, Geeta Karadkhele, Babak Orandi, John J. Friedewald, Gaurav Gupta, Enver Akalin, Stanley C. Jordan, Arthur J. Matas, Miklos Z. Molnar, Junji Yamauchi, Katalin Fornadi, Andrew J. Bentall, Mark D. Stegall, Roslyn B. Mannon, Dorry L. Segev, Edmund Huang, William E. Fitzsimmons, and Alexandre Loupy. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN, September.

Prevalence of Fatty Liver and Diabetes Mellitus in Patients With Fatty Pancreas Disorder (FPD): A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review. Du, Yanhong, Xiaoyuan Wang, Xiaoyu Li, Qiaoling Liu, Yufei Xia, Jie Yang, Xijun Wang, Liang Qi, Stephen J. Pandol, and Ling Li. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, September, 113563.

Severe Pancolitis Presenting With Sacroiliitis: A Case Report Highlighting the Gut-Joint Axis in Ulcerative Colitis. Hajijama, Sameera, Abdullatif Sheikh Ibrahim, Hawa Ali Jama, Hamza Shikh, Nagoud Ali, Abdulrahman Rafat A Samman, Abdulahi M. Aden, Melmed Y. Gil, and Nezar Y. Albar. Case Reports in Gastroenterology 20 (1): 353–60.

Urinary Metabolomics May Improve Prediction of Overall Survival Beyond Tumor Stage in Colorectal Cancer: Results From the ColoCare Study. Lin, Tengda, Boyi Guo, Victoria M. Bandera, David B. Liesenfeld, Jincheng Shen, Benjamin Haaland, Paul A. Stewart, Kenneth M. Boucher, Patricia A. Erickson, Sheetal Hardikar, Victoria Damerell, Doratha A. Byrd, Jane C. Figueiredo, Adetunji T. Toriola, David Shibata, Erin M. Siegel, Christopher I. Li, Alexis B. Ulrich, Christoph Kahlert, Daniel O. Scharfstein, Biljana Gigic, Cornelia M. Ulrich, and Jennifer Ose. Metabolomics, 22 (5): 150.

Vorasidenib-Induced Acute Liver Injury. Lau, Emily A., David R. Braxton, Didier Autran, Fengming Chen, Aurelie M. Haffner, Jethro Hu, Katherine B. Peters, and Tse-Ling Fong. Digestive Diseases and Sciences, September.

Neurology

Characteristics of Patients With Bibrachial Amyotrophy Due to Spontaneous Spinal CSF Leaks. Schievink, Wouter I., Marcel Maya, Angelique Sao-Mai S. Tay, Rachelle B. Tache, Ray Chu, Franklin G. Moser, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Miriam A. Nuno, and Richard A. Lewis. Neurology 107 (7): e218492.

EXPRESS: Rapamycin Increases Cerebral Blood Flow and Modulates Metabolic, Inflammatory, and Microbiome Profiles in Healthy Middle-Aged APOE4 Carriers: A Pilot Single-Arm Trial. Aware, Chetan, Caitlin Maria Neher, Carter Woods, Oleksandr Khegai, Alok Kumar Dwivedi, Maalavika Govindarajan, Kira Ivanich, Mehmet Kurt, David Beversdorf, Jianlin Cheng, Nathan Bresette, Taixing Cui, Priti Balchandani, Mitzi M. Gonzales, Aaron C. Ericsson, Talissa Altes, and Ai-Ling Lin. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, September, 271678X261490342.

OBGYN

Effect of Intravenous Fluid Restriction on Nulliparous, Term, Singleton, Vertex Cesarean Delivery Rates. Tavakoli, Amin, Catriona Lewis, Naomi Greene, and Gabriela Dellapiana. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM, September, 102115.

Perinatal Outcomes in Individuals With Co-Occurring Anxiety and/or Depression and Substance Use in Pregnancy. Hayer, Sarena, Erin C. Nacev, Bharti Garg, Kelly M. Abshire, Aaron B. Caughey, and Jamie O. Lo. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM, September, 102116.

Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine

Epidemiology, Mechanisms, and Treatments of Musculoskeletal Injuries in Beach Volleyball. Trikha, Rishi, Luis Ornelas, Christian L. Blough, Mia McCarthy, Orr Limpisvasti, and Michael B. Banffy. Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine 14 (9): 23259671261479044.

Radiation Oncology

Core Competencies in Brachytherapy Training. Shah, Chirag, and Mitchell Kamrava. Brachytherapy, September, S1538-4721(26)00273-4.

Surgery

Actual Five-Year Survival After Neoadjuvant Therapy and Resection for Localized Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma. De Stefano, Federico, Giulio Belfiori, Nathaniel F. Wu, Jill N. Allen, Laura Cerri Crn, Jeffrey W. Clark, Paolo Giorgio Arcidiacono, Cristina Ferrone, Theodore S. Hong, Domenico Tamburrino, Stefano Partelli, Motaz Qadan, Michele Reni, David P. Ryan, Marco Schiavo Lena, Gabriele Capurso, Colin D. Weekes, Jennifer Y. Wo, Keith D. Lillemoe, Stefano Crippa, Massimo Falconi, and Carlos Fernández-Del Castillo. Annals of Surgery, September.

Beating the Odds: Finding Fulfillment and Success as an International Medical Graduate in Cardiothoracic Surgery. Brownlee, Andrew R. Annals of Thoracic Surgery Short Reports 4 (3): 1092.

Effects of End-Ischemic Hypothermic Oxygenated Perfusion on 1-y Graft Function in Kidney Transplantation: A Real-World, Single-Center Analysis From the United States. Steggerda, Justin A., Tiffany Lim, Irene K. Kim, Tsuyoshi Todo, Edmund Huang, Todd V. Brennan, Georgios Voidonikolas, Alice Peng, Reiad Najjar, Jun Shoji, Stanley Jordan, Sindhu Chandran, Emma Crichton, Benjamin Ferrel, Jose Reyes-Perez, Manaf Alsudaney, Peter S. Heeger, and Steven A. Wisel. Transplantation Direct 12 (10): e2005.

Molecular Pathways Linking the Gut Microbiome to Antitumor Immunity. Diaz-Olea, Ximena, Amanda E. Ramer-Tait, Jonathan E. Cohen, Andrei Osterman, and Zeev A. Ronai. Trends in Microbiology, September, S0966-842X(26)00245-3.

Predicting Recurrence in Stage IA Lung Adenocarcinoma Using Preoperative PET Scan. Moonsamy, Philicia. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, September, S0003-4975(26)00918-5.

Pregnancy Within the Surgical Work System: Persistent Demands With Limited Adaptation. Cohen, Tara N., Aleeque Marselian, Liam Brennan, Falisha F. Kanji, Joseph R. Keebler, Deborah DiazGranados, Shawn M. Doherty, Elizabeth H. Lazzara, and Monica Jain. American Journal of Surgery 262 (September): 117233.

Real-World Data on Aortic Endografts: Gore Together Aortic Registry Protocol. Yamanouchi, Dai, Manar Khashram, Dennis Gable, Ross Milner, Kak Khee Yeung, Timothy A. Resch, Dittmar Böckler, Chris Delaney, Ali Azizzadeh, Kazuo Shimamura, Raffi Qasabian, Sukgu Han, Yuri Feito, and Santi Trimarchi. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine 13: 1803528.

Technical Considerations for Robotic Pediatric Lobectomy. Krishna, Vikram, Claire Perez, Drew Bolster, Kellie Knabe, Raffaele Rocco, Philicia Moonsamy, Eugene S. Kim, Harmik J. Soukiasian, and Andrew R. Brownlee. Annals of Thoracic Surgery Short Reports 4 (3): 938–41.

Thirty-Day Perioperative Safety Following Surgical Intervention for Unilateral and Bilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis: A Multicenter ACS-NSQIP Analysis. Schaschinger, Thomas, Cosima C. Hoch, Leonard Knoedler, Tobias Niederegger, William José Dyhr, Gabriel Hundeshagen, Alexandre G. Lellouch, Linda J. Voss, and Jan O. Voss. BMC Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2 (1): 26.

Urology

Poverty-Modulated Tree Equity Shapes Health Burdens Across U.S. Cities. Lee, Min-Ki, Chang-Bae Lee, Sungyong You, Stephen J. Freedland, and Michael R. Freeman. Environmental Science and Ecotechnology 33 (September): 100758.

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