Faculty Publications Sept. 18-25

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published Sept. 18-25. 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

'I Just Wanted to Help.' Father Turns to 9-Year-Old Son for Lifesaving Stem Cell Donation | Los Angeles Times
Ronald Paquette, MD; Hoyoung Chung, DO

How Good is Exercise That Feels Effortless? | The New York Times
Eli Friedman, MD

Weighted Vests and 5 Other Ways to Boost Health and Lose Weight With Gravity | Today
Brennan Spiegel, MD

Medical Expert Discusses the Dangers of Kids and Excessive Screen Time | KCAL-TV
Jane Tavyev Asher, MD

SoCal Boy Saves Father's Life With Stem Cell Donation: 'He's My Hero' | KABC-TV
Nicole Baca, MD

Dad Battling 'Aggressive' Cancer Thought This Christmas Would Be His Last. 9-Year-Old Son's Donation Helped Save His Life | People
Ronald Paquette, MD

Patients Piling on the Pills in Middle Age: Are They Needed? | Medscape
Allison Mays, MD

Want to Get More Out of Your Walks? New Science Says This Simple Trick Can Make all the Difference. | Men's Health
Bert Mandelbaum, MD

Is Walking Enough to Offset the Health Risks of a Sedentary Lifestyle? | Verywell Health
Tracy Zaslow, MD

Faculty Publications

Anesthesiology

Learning From the Natural Experiment of the 2024 Intravenous Fluid Shortage. Nurok, Michael, Motz Feinberg, Lorraine Sdrales, Vipul Patel, Peggy Miles, Monique Araya, Jennifer Blaha, Sam Torbati, Tania Chatila, Nina Takenouchi, Patrick Herford, Cara Martinez, Duke Helfand, Marni Usheroff, Andrew Geller, Alfonso Chicas, Shaun Miller, Patricia Hain, Hai Tran, Bryan Croft, Peter Chen, Shouri Lahiri, Amy Day Rossa, Laurence Katznelson, Honoré Kotler, Bruce Gewertz, Harry C. Sax, David Marshall, Richard Riggs, Michael Directo, Sharon Isonaka, Joseph Ebinger, and Rita Shane. NEJM Catalyst 6 (9): CAT.25.0135.

Biomedical Sciences

Safety and Tolerability of RPESC-RPE Transplantation in Patients With Dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Low-Dose Clinical Outcomes. Rao, Rajesh C., Brigitte L. Arduini, Susan Borden, Dhruv Sareen, Clive Svendsen, Paul Lee, Charles Ryan, Shilpa Kodati, Caroline Nyaiburi, Keith Wolsieffer, Eric Oh, Shuna Park, Glenna Ford, Keith Dionne, Sally Temple, and Jeffrey Stern. Cell Stem Cell, September, S1934-5909(25)00304-2.

Assessing for Bias in Health Professional Human Trafficking Trainings: A Descriptive Study. Eskelund, Tehillah, Teresa Martin, Caroline Park, Xichen Wang, Jason Rydberg, Lela Bachrach, and Hanni Stoklosa. Journal of Forensic Nursing, September.

Enhancing Equity in Access and Quality of Youth Out-of-School-Time Recreational Activities: Perspectives From Primary Caregivers and Parents in Under-Resourced Urban Communities Using Semi-Structured Interviews. La Charite, Jaime, Mercedes Santoro, Cindy Flores, Alejandra Hurtado, Meachelle Lum, Yelba Castellon-Lopez, and Rebecca Dudovitz. Maternal and Child Health Journal, September.

Cardiac Surgery

Reply: Balancing Rhythm and Risk With Prophylactic Left Atrial Appendage Closure. Sallam, Aminah, Derrick Y. Tam, and Joanna Chikwe. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, September, S0022-5223(25)00533-1.

Cardiology

International Validation of Echocardiographic Artificial Intelligence Amyloid Detection Algorithm. Duffy, Grant, Evangelos K. Oikonomou, Nicholas Easton, Hiroki Usuku, Jigesh Patel, Yoshinori Katsumata, Daisuke Yamasawa, Lily Stern, Shinichi Goto, Kenichi Tsujita, Paul Cheng, Rohan Khera, Faraz S. Ahmad, and David Ouyang. JACC. Advances, August, 102067.

Diagnostic and Prognostic Value of Myocardial Extracellular Volume Fraction Assessed Using Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Patients With Restrictive Cardiac Allograft Physiology. Tsuji, Masaki, Michelle M. Kittleson, David H. Chang, Evan P. Kransdorf, Andriana P. Nikolova, Lily K. Stern, Mason Lee, and Jon A. Kobashigawa. Clinical Transplantation 39 (9): e70319.

Normal Stress, No Rest: Why Stress-Only Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography Deserves to Be the New Standard. Rozanski, Alan, and Daniel Berman. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, 51 (September): 102445.

Novel Strategies to FIND People Living With Genetic Dyslipidemias: The Family Heart Foundation Flag, Identify, Network, and Deliver (FIND) Familial Hypercholesterolemia Collaborative Learning Network. Bardach, Shoshana H., George Blike, Laurence Sperling, Kain Kim, Benjamin W. Furman, David R. G. Kulp, Shivani Lam, Danny Eapen, Jennifer A. Orr, Kerrilynn C. Hennessey, Mary P. McGowan, Amit Khera, Martha Gulati, Zahid Ahmad, Taylor Triana, Brian S. Mittman, and Katherine Wilemon. American Journal of Preventive Cardiology 23 (September): 101275.

The Cardiometabolic Paradox in Women. Jowell, Amanda R., Emily S. Lau, and Susan Cheng. Cell Reports. Medicine 6 (9): 102294.

Impact of Maternal Diabetes on the Incidence of Critical Congenital Heart Disease in the United States. Gonuguntla, Karthik, Mohamed Abugrin, Harshith Thyagaturu, Hafiz Muhammad Waqar Younas, Hardik Valand, Prakash Upreti, Harsh A. Patel, Muchi Ditah Chobufo, Vijaykumar Sekar, Ayesha Shaik, Muhammad Zia Khan, Yasar Sattar, and Martha Gulati. JACC. Advances 4 (10 Pt 2): 102176.

SNMMI/EANM/ASNC/ACNM Procedure Standard/Practice Guideline for 18F-Flurpiridaz PET Myocardial Perfusion Imaging and Blood Flow Quantitation. Packard, René R. Sevag, Jamshid Maddahi, Matthieu Pelletier-Galarneau, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, Marta Coelho, Sharmila Dorbala, James Galt, Mark Hyun, Nandakumar Menon, Edward J. Miller, Mrinali Shetty, and Antti Saraste. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, jnumed.125.270873.

Effects of Eicosapentaenoic Acid vs Eicosapentaenoic/Docosahexaenoic Acids on Cardiovascular Mortality: Meta-Analysis of Clinical Trials. Sheppard, John P., Leonard Palatnic, Suvasini Lakshmanan, Thomas Drago, Jaspreet Bhogal, Sion K. Roy, Deepak L. Bhatt, Matthew J. Budoff, and John R. Nelson. JACC. Advances 4 (10 Pt 2): 102149.

The Aldosterone Plot Thickens. Rader, Florian, and Alexander Kukuev. American Journal of Hypertension, September, hpaf192.

1-Year Outcomes of Transfemoral Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement with the Eos System: The MISCEND Study. Makkar, Raj, Moody M. Makar, Sabah Skaf, Scott Chadderdon, Howard K. Song, Charles J. Davidson, S. Chris Malaisrie, D. Scott Lim, Dale E. Fowler, Jacob M. Mishell, Ivy A. Ku, Tarun Chakravarty, Wilson Y. Szeto, Howard C. Herrmann, Robert L. Smith, Molly Szerlip, Konstantinos P. Koulogiannis, Leo Marcoff, Firas Zahr, and MISCEND Study Investigators. JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions 18 (18): 2256–66.

Development and Clinical Evaluation of a Multiplexed Health Surveillance Panel Using Ultra High-Throughput PRM-MS in an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Cohort. Fu, Qin, Philip M. Remes, Jihyeon Lee, Cristina Jacob, Dalin Li, Manasa Vegesna, Koen Raedschelders, Ali Haghani, Emebet Mengesha, Philip Debbas, Esthelle Hoedt, Sandy Joung, Susan Cheng, Scott Peterman, Justyna Fert-Bober, Gil Y. Melmed, Dermot P. B. McGovern, Christopher I. Murray, and Jennifer E. Van Eyk. Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English), September, e202507610.

A Standardized Framework for Circulating Blood Proteomics. Cai, Xue, Philipp E. Geyer, Yasset Perez-Riverol, Gilbert S. Omenn, Lianhua Dong, Robert Winkler, Sara Ahadi, Philip Lössl, Xiaobo Yu, Cheng Chang, Markus Ralser, Connie R. Jimenez, Yang Zhao, Yu-Ju Chen, Terence C. W. Poon, Nicolai Bache, Leming Shi, Xinhua Dai, Ziyue Wang, Yi Zhu, Xiang Fang, Jochen M. Schwenk, Jennifer E. Van Eyk, Uwe Völker, and Tiannan Guo. Nature Genetics, September.

Treatment Response to Mavacamten in Patients With Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: 96-Week Results From the EXPLORER Cohort of the MAVA-Long-Term Extension Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Substudy. Saberi, Sara, Christopher M. Kramer, Artur Oręziak, Ahmad Masri, Roberto Barriales-Villa, Theodore P. Abraham, Neal K. Lakdawala, Andrew Wang, Lubna Choudhury, Florian Rader, Ofer Havakuk, John C. Stendahl, Nuno Cardim, Tim Seidler, Mark Sherrid, Sheila M. Hegde, Raymond Y. Kwong, Michael Jerosch-Herold, Ganesh Balaratnam, Gregory Kurio, Shawna Fox, Iacopo Olivotto, and Anjali Owens. Circulation 152 (12): 905–8.

Pathway to Risk Stratification in Tricuspid Regurgitation-Reply. Vrudhula, Amey, and David Ouyang. JAMA Cardiology, September.

Outcomes of Iatrogenic Atrial Septal Defect Closure After Transseptal Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement in the Mitral Implantation of Transcatheter Valves (MITRAL) Trial. Ghorbanzadeh, Atefeh, Conor Lane, Abdullah Al-Abcha, Alan Ortega-Macias, Mackram Eleid, Dee Dee Wang, Isaac George, Susheel Kodali, Carl L. Tommaso, Philip Krause, Ronald Berger, Igor Palacios, Raj Makkar, Lowell Satler, Tatiana Kaptzan, Brad Lewis, Jeremy Thaden, Jae Oh, Rebecca T. Hahn, Chet Rihal, and Mayra Guerrero. Structural Heart: The Journal of the Heart Team 9 (10): 100482.

Computational Biomedicine

Disparities in Heart Disease Mortality Among Asian American and Pacific Islander Breast Cancer Survivors, 2000 to 2019. Vo, Jacqueline B., Carolyn Brandt, Kekoa Taparra, Cody Ramin, Amy Berrington de González, Gretchen L. Gierach, Wayne R. Lawrence, Jongeun Rhee, Meredith S. Shiels, Lene H. S. Veiga, Paloma R. Mitra, Jaimie Z. Shing, and Stella S. Yi. JACC. CardioOncology, September, S2666-0873(25)00297-2.

The Association Between Stimulant Medication Use and Mortality. Morrow, John P., Undina Moreton, Tianchen Xu, Nicholas P. Tatonetti, Yuanjia Wang, and B. Timothy Walsh. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, September.

Imaging

Prospective Multicenter IDE Study of the Next-Generation Precision Aspiration Thrombectomy System for Intermediate-Risk Pulmonary Embolism: The SYMPHONY-PE Trial. Bangalore, Sripal, R. Dana Tomalty, Herman Kado, Sameh Sayfo, Adam Raskin, Arman Qamar, Andres Vargas Estrada, Kirema Garcia-Reyes, H. Gabriel Lipshutz, Srinivas Yallapragada, Sabah Butty, Sagar Gandhi, David Dexter, Justin Trivax, Farhan Ali, Michael Knox, Christopher Ramos, Youssef Al-Saghir, and Vivian Bishay. Circulation. Cardiovascular Interventions, September, e015815.

Medicine

Minimum Standards for Training in Colorectal Endoscopic Mucosal Resection Among Advanced Endoscopy Trainees. Yang, Dennis, Ernesto Robalino Gonzaga, Muhammad Khalid Hasan, Arvind Julius Trindade, Mark Radlinski, Rebecca A. Burbridge, Jeffrey Mosko, Pushpak Taunk, Salmaan Jawaid, Mohamed O. Othman, David L. Diehl, Harshit S. Khara, Quin Liu, Srinivas Gaddam, Harry Aslanian, Shailendra S. Chauhan, Amrita Sethi, John Poneros, Jason Samarasena, Ali M. Ahmed, Uzma D. Siddiqui, Dennis Chen, Moamen Gabr, Andrew Y. Wang, and C-EMR STAT Working Group. Endoscopy International Open 13: a26839906.

Significantly Higher Incidence of Circulating Fatty Objects in Portal Blood Samples Compared to Peripheral Blood Samples in Patients With Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma. Wang, Ruoxiang, Kenneth Park, Srinivas Gaddam, Quin Liu, Rabindra Watson, Adrian Lim, Yan Ou, Yi Zhang, Mouad Edderkaoui, Michael S. Lewis, Simon K. Lo, and Stephen J. Pandol. Frontiers in Oncology 15: 1611872.

Associations of Biomarkers of Systemic Inflammation, Angiogenesis, and Cell-to-Cell Adhesion With Tumor Budding Among Early-Onset and Later-Onset Colorectal Cancer Patients. Hausmann, Oda, Pauline P. Schobert, Jennifer Ose, Caroline Himbert, Maria Pletneva, Jolanta Jedrzkiewicz, Anne Nguyen, Tengda Lin, Christy A. Warby, Sheetal Hardikar, Anita R. Peoples, Ildiko Strehli, Lyen C. Huang, Jessica N. Cohan, Bartley Pickron, Courtney Scaife, Christopher I. Li, William M. Grady, David Shibata, Adetunji T. Toriola, Martin Schneider, Jane C. Figueiredo, Erin M. Siegel, Biljana Gigic, Stephan Herzig, Mmadili N. Ilozumba, and Cornelia M. Ulrich. Cancer Medicine 14 (18): e71267.

Exosome-Primed T Cell Immunity Is Facilitated by Complement Activation. Alibrandi, Sara, Angela Clemens, Yansui Li, William J. Shufesky, Ashley Vo, Noriko Ammerman, Edmund Huang, Simon C. Watkins, Peter Heeger, Stanley Jordan, Adrian E. Morelli, and Nicholas Chun. American Journal of Transplantation, September, S1600-6135(25)02988-0.

Patient Outcomes From Implementing a Shared Decision-Making Aid for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Prospective Implementation Study. Singh, Jasvinder A., Larry R. Hearld, Seth Eisen, W. Winn Chatham, Sonali Narain, Narender Annapureddy, Diane L. Kamen, Kimberly Trotter, Vikas Majithia, Cathy Lee Ching, Zineb Aouhab, Swamy Venuturupalli, Daniel J. Wallace, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman, Alfred H. J. Kim, Maureen McMahon, S. Sam Lim, Kalpana Bhairavarasu, Alexa Meara, Kenneth Kalunian, and Mark Beasley. The Lancet. Rheumatology, September, S2665-9913(25)00130-4.

Predicting Engagement Patterns With Connected Wearable Devices in a Health System: Survival Analysis. Clark, Allistair, Gillian Gresham, Joshua Pevnick, Raymond Duncan, Mitchell Kamrava, and Michael Sobolev. Journal of Medical Internet Research 27 (September): e78507.

Spatially Patterned Kidney Assembloids Recapitulate Progenitor Self-Assembly and Enable High-Fidelity In Vivo Disease Modeling. Huang, Biao, Pedro Medina, Jincan He, Zipeng Zeng, Sunghyun Kim, Janet Romo, Kari Koppitch, Chennan C. Zhang, Georgina Gyarmati, Yohan Park, Ruslan Bohovyk, Pierre-Emmanuel Yoann N’Guetta, Jinjin Guo, Tianyi Ma, Megan E. Schreiber, Cong Xu, Jessica Pham, Riana K. Parvez, Jackson Su, Mateo W. Xia, Zhenqing Liu, Laura Perin, Danny El-Nachef, Charles E. Murry, Sanjeev Kumar, Lori O’Brien, Kurt A. Zimmerman, Justin Ichida, Nils O. Lindström, Nuria M. Pastor-Soler, Kenneth R. Hallows, Alexander Staruschenko, Janos Peti-Peterdi, Cizhong Jiang, Andrew P. McMahon, and Zhongwei Li. Cell Stem Cell, September, S1934-5909(25)00328-5.

Dana K. Andersen, MD Leader, Visionary, Colleague and Friend for the Pancreas Community. Pandol, Stephen, Chris E. Forsmark, Melena Bellin, Phil A. Hart, and Dhiraj Yadav. Pancreas, September.

First Line Atezolizumab/Bevacizumab or Durvalumab/Tremelimumab in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Real World, Multi-Center Retrospective Study. Kournoutas, Ioannis, Paulina Marell, Jennifer Gile, Anina Peersen, Priyanshi Shah, Kyle VanDommelen, Suneel D. Kamath, Garima Gupta, Mehmet Akce, Ju Dong Yang, Pin-Jung Chen, Nikolas Naleid, Amit Mahipal, Nicole Peterson, Vaibhav Sahai, Wen Wee Ma, Zhaohui Jin, Thorvardur Halfdanarson, Lionel Fonkoua Kankeu, Leslie A. Washburn, Caitlin B. Conboy, Michael Torbenson, Ajit Goenka, Scott Thompson, Sudhakar K. Venkatesh, Patrick Starlinger, Lewis Roberts, Gregory J. Gores, Hani Babiker, Daniel Ahn, Mitesh Borad, Tanios Bekaii-Saab, Aminah Jatoi, Robert R. McWilliams, Fang-Shu Ou, and Nguyen H. Tran. The Oncologist, September, oyaf286.

Modern Concepts of Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth. Barlow, Gillian M., and Mark Pimentel. Current Opinion in Gastroenterology, September.

Telomere Length of Peripheral Blood Leukocytes Predicts Disease Severity and Worse Survival in Systemic Sclerosis. Yang, Monica M., Shuo Liu, Michael Wax, Seoyeon Lee, Sarah French, Paul J. Wolters, and Francesco Boin. Arthritis & Rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.), September.

Short-Term mTOR Inhibition by Rapamycin Improves Cardiac and Endothelial Function in Older Men: A Proof-of Concept Pilot Study. Moody, Alexander J., Yubo Wu, Terry Q. Romo, Wouter Koek, Jinqi Li, Leslie A. Linehan, Geoffrey D. Clarke, Eric Y. Yang, Sara E. Espinoza, Nicolas Musi, Robert J. Chilton, Ellen Kraig, and Dean L. Kellogg. GeroScience, September.

Towards a Minimal Core Dataset for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Studies. McDonald, Stephen, Jialin Teng, Chengde Yang, Michelle Barraclough, Graciela S. Alarcon, Anca D. Askanase, Sasha Bernatsky, Ann Elaine Clarke, Nathalie Costedoat-Chalumeau, Qiang Fu, Dafna D. Gladman, John G. Hanly, Alexandra C. Legge, David Isenberg, Kenneth Kalunian, Diane L. Kamen, Michelle A. Petri, Anisur Rahman, Chuanyin Sun, Ting Li, Murray Urowitz, Alexandre Voskuyl, Daniel J. Wallace, Juan Zhang, and Ian N. Bruce. Lupus Science & Medicine 12 (2): e001595.

Use of Statins and Its Association With Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events With Tofacitinib vs TNF Inhibitors in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis With and Without Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease. Giles, Jon T., Christina Charles-Schoeman, Maya H. Buch, Maxime Dougados, Zoltán Szekanecz, Ted R. Mikuls, Steven R. Ytterberg, Gary G. Koch, Kenneth Kwok, Mary Jane Cadatal, Sujatha Menon, Yan Chen, Annette M. Diehl, Jose L. Rivas, Arne Yndestad, and Deepak L. Bhatt. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, September, S0003-4967(25)04360-2.

Automated Resectability Classification of Pancreatic Cancer CT Reports With Privacy-Preserving Open-Weight Large Language Models: A Multicenter Study. Lee, Jeong Hyun, Ji Hye Min, Kyowon Gu, Seungchul Han, Jeong Ah Hwang, Seo-Youn Choi, Kyoung Doo Song, Jeong Eun Lee, Jisun Lee, Ji Eun Moon, Hasmik Adetyan, and Ju Dong Yang. Journal of Medical Systems 49 (1): 118.

Benchmarking the Current Landscape: Insights From an Association of American Cancer Institutes Survey on Academic Cancer Service Lines. Fracasso, Paula M., Nicole L. Simone, Stephanie J. Si Lim, Karen L. Reckamp, Julie Ann Sosa, Christopher Lieu, Carrie Lee, Theresa L. Werner, Quan P. Ly, Julie M. Vose, Julia White, Hailey Honeycutt, Kate Shaw, Kendra Cameron, Donna M. O’Brien, and Lee G. Wilke. JCO Oncology Practice, September, OP2500073.

Pancreatic Cancer-Related Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes Differ in Multiple Aspects of Glucose Homeostasis. Toledo, Frederico G. S., Yisheng Li, Fuchenchu Wang, Melena D. Bellin, Randall Brand, Kenneth Cusi, William Fisher, Yogish C. Kudva, Walter G. Park, Zeb I. Saeed, Dhiraj Yadav, Robert V. Considine, Sarah C. Graham, Dana K. Andersen, Jose Serrano, Mark O. Goodarzi, Phil A. Hart, and Consortium for the Study of Chronic Pancreatitis, Diabetes, and Pancreatic Cancer (CPDPC). Diabetologia, September.

Neurology

A Multi-Center Retrospective Cohort Study of Neurosarcoidosis Myelitis: Current Observations and Future Directions. Manzano, Giovanna S., Denis Balaban, Yihan Zhang, Brian Healy, Bart K. Chwalisz, Michael Levy, Nagagopal Venna, Barney J. Stern, Carlos A. Pardo, Paula Barreras, Nicole Bou Rjeily, Eoin P. Flanagan, Vyanka Redenbaugh, Allen J. Aksamit, Spencer Hutto, Max Herman, Sally El Sammak, Elsa C. Rodriguez, Laura Snider, Hannah Rains, Mayra Montalvo, Torge Rempe, Sergi Martinez Ramirez, Lucas Horta, Stacey Clardy, Jennifer Lord, Tracey A. Cho, Lama Abdel Wahed, Joseph R. Berger, Rohini D. Samudralwar, Noellie Rivera Torres, David B. Clifford, Steven Richard Dunham, Masoud Majed, Aram Zabeti, Samuel Marcucci, Yang Mao-Draayer, Jon Doty, Paunel B. Agyei, and Shamik Bhattacharyya. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, September.

Risk Markers for Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy: An Observational, Prospective, Multicentre Cohort Study. Ochoa-Urrea, Manuela, Xi Luo, Laura Vilella, Nuria Lacuey, Shirin Jamal Omidi, Norma J. Hupp, Blanca Talavera, Johnson P. Hampson, M. R. Sandhya Rani, Shiqiang Tao, Xiaojin Li, Christina Y. Miyake, Licong Cui, Jaison S. Hampson, Ganne Chaitanya, Yash Shashank Vakilna, Rup K. Sainju, Daniel Friedman, Maromi Nei, Luke Allen, Catherine A. Scott, Joana Oliveira, Brian Gehlbach, Stephan U. Schuele, Jennifer A. Ogren, Ronald M. Harper, Beate Diehl, Lisa M. Bateman, George B. Richerson, Jose-Miguel Yamal, Guo-Qiang Zhang, Orrin Devinsky, and Samden D. Lhatoo. Lancet (London, England), September, S0140-6736(25)01636-8.

2024 MAGNIMS-CMSC-NAIMS Consensus Recommendations on the Use of MRI for the Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. Barkhof, Frederik, Daniel S. Reich, Jiwon Oh, Maria A. Rocca, David K. B. Li, Pascal Sati, Christina J. Azevedo, Francesca Bagnato, Peter A. Calabresi, Olga Ciccarelli, Michael G. Dwyer, Gabriele C. DeLuca, Nicola De Stefano, Christian Enzinger, Massimo Filippi, Cristina Granziera, June Halper, Roland G. Henry, Claudio Gasperini, Susan Gauthier, Ludwig Kappos, Cornelia Laule, Scott D. Newsome, Xavier Montalban, Sarah A. Morrow, Menno M. Schoonheim, Nancy Sicotte, Ahmed Toosy, Jeffrey Wilken, Tarek Yousry, Jaume Sastre-Garriga, Anthony Traboulsee, Daniel Ontaneda, Àlex Rovira, Magnetic Resonance Imaging Network in Multiple Sclerosis, Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers, and North American Imaging in Multiple Sclerosis Cooperative MRI guidelines working group. The Lancet. Neurology 24 (10): 866–79.

Guidelines in Action: New Considerations for Primary Prevention of Stroke Related to Premature and Early Menopause. Inikori, Eno, Diana C. Yang, Grace Tan, Jocelyn Ho, and Alexis N. Simpkins. Stroke 56 (10): e310–12.

Guidelines in Action: The Role of GLP-1 (Glucagon-Like Peptide-1) Receptor Agonists in Primary Stroke Prevention. Inikori, Eno, Diana C. Yang, Ava Elahi, Malak Elokour, Jocelyn Ho, and Alexis N. Simpkins. Stroke 56 (10): e307–9.

Sleep EEG and Respiratory Biomarkers of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP): A Case-Control Study. Magana-Tellez, Oman, Rama Maganti, Norma J. Hupp, Xi Luo, Sandhya Rani, Johnson P. Hampson, Manuela Ochoa-Urrea, Sudha S. Tallavajhula, Rup K. Sainju, Daniel Friedman, Maromi Nei, Brian K. Gehlbach, Stephan Schuele, Ronald M. Harper, Beate Diehl, Lisa M. Bateman, Orrin Devinsky, George B. Richerson, Samden D. Lhatoo, and Nuria Lacuey. The Lancet. Neurology 24 (10): 840–49.

Neurosurgery

Pre-Operative Sacroiliac Joint Pain in Adult Spinal Deformity Patients: Incidence, Associated Factors, and Rates of Resolution With Surgery From a Prospective Multicenter Database. Turner, Jay D., Robert F. Rudy, Jeffrey P. Mullin, Anthony L. Mikula, Brandon B. Carlson, Justin K. Sheer, Renaud Lafage, Virginie Lafage, Khaled M. Kebaish, Eric O. Klineberg, Gregory M. Mundis, Alan H. Daniels, Bassel G. Diebo, Stephen M. Lewis, Peter G. Passias, Themistocles S. Protopsaltis, Munish C. Gupta, Han Jo Kim, Michael P. Kelly, Justin S. Smith, Lawrence G. Lenke, Christopher P. Ames, Christopher I. Shaffrey, David O. Okonkwo, Praveen V. Mummaneni, Shay Bess, Juan S. Uribe, Robert K. Eastlack, and International Spine Study Group. Spine, September.

OBGYN

Is Endometriosis a Progressive Disease? Examining Age-Related Trends in Disease Severity and Surgical Complexity. Yagur, Yael, Rebecca Schneyer, Kacey Hamilton, Ogechukwu Ezike, Katharine Ciesielski, Margot Barker, Camelita Thrift, Kasey Fitzsimmons, Gabriel Levin, Raanan Meyer, Kelly Wright, and Matthew Siedhoff. Fertility and Sterility, September, S0015-0282(25)01921-1.

The Clinical Significance of Fetal Intra-Abdominal Umbilical Vein Varix a Comparative Study. Zloto, Keren, Ariella Wiener, Natalie Bibar, Raanan Meyer, Abeer Massarwa, Michal Fishel Bartal, Alina Weissmann-Brenner, Eran Kassif, and Tal Weissbach. Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, September.

Neighborhood-Level Socioeconomic Vulnerability and Perioperative Complications in Hysterectomy for Benign Indications. Bar-El, Liron, N. Brandon Barba, Ernie Shippey, Pamela Garcia-Filion, Rosanne M. Kho, and Megan S. Orlando. Obstetrics and Gynecology, September.

Multi-Racial Cytokine Profiling Reveals Immune Dysregulation Not Chronic Inflammation in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Pacheco-Sanchez, Gabriela, Rebecca Herrera, Margareta D. Pisarska, Ricardo Azziz, Dequina A. Nicholas, and Jessica L. Chan. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, September, dgaf524.

Orthopaedics 

Application of Deformity Principles in the Management of Spinal Neoplasms: A Primer. Pennington, Zach, Joseph H. Schwab, Sheng-Fu Larry Lo, C. Rory Goodwin, Matthew L. Goodwin, Matthew Colman, Raphaële Charest-Morin, Nicolas Dea, Daniel Lubelski, Ali Ozturk, Jacob M. Buchowski, Wende Gibbs, Wesley Hsu, Ajit Krishnaney, Ilya Laufer, Mohamed Macki, Addisu Mesfin, Ganesh Shankar, Dan Tobert, John Shin, Andrew Platt, and Daniel M. Sciubba. North American Spine Society Journal 23 (September): 100779.

Conservative Concussion Management in Youth Athletes Can Avoid Increased Injury Rates After Return to Sport: Initial Evidence. Adams, Sarah N., Nicole M. Mueske, Mia J. Katzel, Tracy Zaslow, and Tishya A. L. Wren. Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine 35 (5): e76.

Does Achievement of Ideal L1 Pelvic Angle With MIS Techniques in Adult Spinal Deformity Correction Lead to Better Outcomes? Khanna, Ryan, Robert Eastlack, Gregory Mundis, Peter Passias, Dean Chou, Michael Kelly, Richard Fessler, Paul Park, Michael Wang, Adam Kanter, Kojo Hamilton, David Okonkwo, Pierce Nunley, Neel Anand, Juan Uribe, Jay Turner, Shay Bess, Christopher Shaffrey, Douglas Burton, Vivian Le, Praveen Mummaneni, and International Spine Study Group (ISSG). Spine, September.

Comparing Radial Head Fracture Surgical Outcomes in Patients Younger and Older Than Forty. Kooi, Kevin, Mark Stam, Ingmar Legerstee, Justin Koh, Wen-Chih Liu, and Abhiram R. Bhashyam. Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma, September.

Does Velocity of Return-to-Work Differ Between Circumferential Minimally-Invasive and Open Surgery to Treat Adult Spinal Deformity? Macki, Mohamed, Michael E. Tawil, Nima Alan, Nathan Han, Marc Prablek, Vivian P. Le, Alexander Aabedi, Paul Park, Juan S. Uribe, Jay D. Turner, Robert K. Eastlack, Richard G. Fessler, Kai-Ming Fu, Michael Y. Wang, Adam S. Kanter, David O. Okonkwo, Pierce D. Nunley, Neel Anand, Gregory M. Mundis, Peter G. Passias, Shay Bess, Christopher I. Shaffrey, Dean Chou, Praveen V. Mummaneni, and International Spine Study Group. Spine, September.

Specialty Bias When Comparing Orthopaedic and Neurosurgery Trained Spine Surgeons: A Systematic Review and Bibliometric Analysis. Farivar, Daniel, Sang D. Kim, Alexander Tuchman, Kira F. Skaggs, Ryan A. Finkel, Paal K. Nilssen, and David L. Skaggs. The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, September.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Renal Cell Carcinoma With Unusual Morphological Features: The Clinical Utility of Next-Generation Sequencing in Distinguishing Renal Cell Tumors. Lee, Jennifer, Xiuping Yu, and Yunshin A. Yeh. American Journal of Clinical and Experimental Urology 13 (4): 284–93.

Kidney Injury and Colocalization of Complement C3, IgA, and IgG in Glomerular Immune-Complex Deposits of Patients With IgA Nephropathy or IgA Vasculitis With Nephritis. Novak, Lea, Stacy D. Hall, Gary Cutter, Graham L. Gurganus, Dana V. Rizk, Bruce A. Julian, Mark Haas, and Jan Novak. Kidney International, September, S0085-2538(25)00749-5.

Pediatrics

Single Site Metastatic Rhabdomyosarcoma: An INternational Soft Tissue saRcoma ConsorTium (INSTRuCT) Pooled Analysis. Mercolini, Federico, Monika Sparber-Sauer, Leo Mascarenhas, Johannes H. M. Merks, Ewa Koscielniak, Christine M. Heske, Julia Chisholm, Beatrice Coppadoro, Semi Harrabi, Dana L. Casey, Guido Seitz, Roshni Dasgupta, Rajkumar Venkatramani, and Gianni Bisogno. European Journal of Cancer (Oxford, England: 1990) 229 (September): 115793.

Adaptaquin Is Selectively Toxic to Glioma Stem Cells Through Disruption of Iron and Cholesterol Metabolism. Vaquié, Adrien M., Davod R. Shah, Eliane E. S. Brechbühl, Michael McNicholas, Zhaoyang Xu, John H. Stockley, Laura Morcom, Diana Gold Diaz, Gemma C. Girdler, Rachel V. Seear, Gabriel Balmus, Rajiv R. Ratan, Harry Bulstrode, James A. Nathan, Manav Pathania, Kevin M. Brindle, and David H. Rowitch. Molecular Oncology, September.

Surgery 

Necessary Elements of Intraoperative Cholangiogram: A Call for Synoptic Reporting. Bosley, Maggie E., Jennifer M. Moffett, Eleah D. Porter, Irving A. Jorge, Matthew B. Bloom, and Lucas P. Neff. Annals of Surgery Open: Perspectives of Surgical History, Education, and Clinical Approaches 6 (3): e599.

The Role of Urinary Bladder Matrix in Preserving Length and Function After Fingertip Injury. McCullough, Meghan C., Peggy J. Ebner, Theodore Brown, Eva Williams, Kylie Tanabe, Haben Berihun, Stuart Kuschner, Vahe Yacoubian, and David A. Kulber. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Global Open 13 (9): e7011.

Inpatient Trauma Care Costs in the US From 2012 to 2021. Coaston, Troy N., Nam Yong Cho, Amulya Vadlakonda, Giselle Porter, Saad Mallick, Zeyu Liu, Sara Sakowitz, Peyman Benharash, Galinos Barmparas, and Academic Trauma Research Consortium (ATRIUM). JAMA Network Open 8 (9): e2533204.

Local Tranexamic Acid vs Placebo in Patients Undergoing Septorhinoplasty: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Di Martino, Lorenzo, Jonathan Mokhtar, Fatemeh Akbarpoor, Lucas Kreutz-Rodrigues, Krishna Vyas, Curtis L Cetrulo, and Alexandre G Lellouch. Aesthetic Surgery Journal, September, sjaf172.

Long-Term Impact of Dyslipidemia on Sac Dynamics After Endovascular Aortic Repair for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms in the GREAT Registry: An Insight in Dyslipidemia Using Propensity Matched Controls. Mwipatayi, Bibombe P., James E. Dodd, Shannon D. Thomas, Elizabeth L. Chou, Ross Milner, Ali Azizzadeh, Santi Trimarchi, Jan Mm Heyligers, Dittmar Böckler, and Markus P. Schlaich. Vascular, September, 17085381251377316.

The Slow Adoption of Neoadjuvant Treatment for Clinical T4b Colon Cancer: A National Cancer Database Analysis. Zhao, Beiqun, and Adam Truong. Journal of Surgical Oncology, September.

Oncolytic Virotherapy in Solid Tumors: A Current Review. Chen, Courtney, Jennifer Cillis, Supriya Deshpande, Anthony K. Park, Hannah Valencia, Sang In Kim, Jianming Lu, Yoya Vashi, Annie Yang, Zhifang Zhang, Yanghee Woo, Yuman Fong, and Shyambabu Chaurasiya. BioDrugs: Clinical Immunotherapeutics, Biopharmaceuticals and Gene Therapy, September.

Urology

Genomic Biomarker for Prostate Cancer Focal Therapy: Post Hoc Assessment of a Phase II Clinical Trial. Weiner, Adam B., James A. Proudfoot, Mamdouh Aker, Michelle Cardenas, Samantha Gonzalez, Eileen Kelly, Elai Davicioni, Anthony E. Sisk, Wayne G. Brisbane, and Leonard S. Marks. JCO Precision Oncology 9 (September): e2500535.

A Structured Training Curriculum for Robot-Assisted Radical Nephroureterectomy: A Delphi Consensus Study. Moghaddam, Farshad Sheybaee, Alireza Ghoreifi, Rashid K. Sayyid, Zhenjie Wu, Firas Abdollah, Alessandro Antonelli, Daniel D. Eun, Shengjie Guo, Andrew J. Hung, Lulin Ma, Vitaly Margulis, Surena F. Matin, Reza Mehrazin, James Porter, Aaron Potretzke, Benjamin Pradere, Morgan Roupret, Thomas Seisen, Shahrokh F. Shariat, Giuseppe Simone, Robert J. Stein, Long Wang, Jitao Wu, Evanguelos Xylinas, Lin Yao, Homayoun Zargar, Riccardo Autorino, Giovanni E. Cacciamani, and Hooman Djaladat. BJU International, September.

Unseen Scars. Weiner, Adam B. JAMA, September.

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