Faculty Publications Sept. 20-Oct. 1

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published Sept. 20-Oct.1. 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

Professional Dancer Shares Story of Surviving Sudden Cardiac Arrest | KTLA 5
Pedro Catarino, MD 

Walking Faster May Help Reverse Frailty | TIME
Sara Espinoza, MD 

Scientists Discover Women Who Engage in Harder Workouts Also Have This One Trait in Common | Women's Health
Bert Mandelbaum, MD 

Ultra–Low-Dose Radiation Therapy May Relieve Bone Pain From Multiple Myeloma | The ASCO Post
Leslie Ballas, MD 

Jayden Daniels Not Expected To Have Surgery or Go on IR, Will Be ‘Week to Week’ | The New York Times: The Athletic
Carlos Uquillas, MD 

Vibe Coding Moves Beyond the Proteomics Prototype | The Analytical Scientist
Jesse Meyer, PhD 

Oral L-Glutamine Could Be Pancreatic Cancer's Most Accessible Treatment Advance: Q&A With Dr. Jun Gong | Pharmaceutical Executive
Jun Gong, MD

Enzalutamide Plus Salvage Radiotherapy Associated With Improved PFS in High-Risk BCR | Urology Times
Edwin Posadas, MD

Faculty Publications

Biomedical Sciences

At-Home Point-of-Care Urine Tenofovir Testing for Adherence Monitoring: Feasibility and Comparison With Adherence Metrics in Dried Blood Spots. Buccheri, Renata, Matthew A. Spinelli, Parya Saberi, Torsten B. Neilands, Stefany Coxe, David V. Glidden, Monica Gandhi, and Judy Y. Tan. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, September.

Epicardial Adipose Tissue Attenuation as an Independent Marker of Cardiovascular Outcomes in de Novo Heart Failure (RECOVER-EAT). Khanna, Shaun, Nicholas McLellan, Sheran Vasanthakumar, Cheng Hwee Soh, Aditya Bhat, Andrew Lin, Damini Dey, Sriram Rao, Stephen J. Nicholls, Thomas H. Marwick, Clare Arnott, and Nitesh Nerlekar. Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, September, S0033-0620(26)00103-9.

EZH2-Dependent Phenotypic Plasticity Reveals TTP-Associated and mTORC1 Therapeutic Vulnerabilities in Lethal Prostate Cancer. German, Beatriz, Katherine L. Morel, Teia Noel, Nadia Boufaied, Deborah L. Burkhart, Sujun Chen, Felipe Dezem, Xintao Qiu, Henry W. Long, Kun-Lin Ho, Stefan DiFazio, Sylvan Baca, Ayesha A. Shafi, Matthew L. Freedman, Himisha Beltran, Christopher J. Sweeney, Housheng Hansen He, Myles Brown, Jasmine T. Plummer, Simon R. V. Knott, David P. Labbé, and Leigh Ellis. Cell Reports. Medicine, September, 103083.

Long-Term Reprogramming of Classical Monocytes With Altered Ontogeny Mediates Enhanced Lung Injury in Sepsis Survivors. Denstaedt, Scott J., Breanna McBean, Alan P. Boyle, Brett C. Arenberg, Matthias Mack, Bethany B. Moore, Michael W. Newstead, Yamei Deng, Alexey I. Nesvizhskii, Benjamin H. Singer, Jennifer Cano, Hallie C. Prescott, Helen S. Goodridge, and Rachel L. Zemans. JCI Insight, September, e198551.

Proximal Tubule ACE2 Mediates Early Responses to Hypertension by Regulating Intrarenal RAS and Sodium Homeostasis. Emathinger, Jacqueline M., Zhidan Xiang, Jonathan W. Nelson, Matthew W. Hagen, Nakyung Kim, David I. Ortiz-Melo, Natalie Mattocks, Jorge F. Giani, Dexter L. Lee, Hannah Hartman-Houstman, Donna L. Ralph, Alicia A. McDonough, Brianna Chen, Stan G. Louie, Thomas M. Coffman, and Susan B. Gurley. JCI Insight 11 (18): e179960.

Temporal Trends in Absolute Iron Deficiency Among US Adults. Tawfik, Yahya Mk, Iman Af Aboelsaad, Michael D. Nelson, Hsin-Jun Yang, and Leo F. Buckley. The American Journal of Medicine, September, S0002-9343(26)00688-1.

Cardiac Surgery

Baseline Lung Allograft Dysfunction: Definition, Timing, and Implications for Outcomes-Perspective on the ISHLT Consensus Document. Gottlieb, Jens, Tereza Martinu, Merel Hellemons, David R. Darley, Laurie Snyder, Laura DiChiacchio, Miranda Paraskeva, Christian Benden, Berta Saez-Gimenez, Anoop Mohandas, Letizia Corinna Morlacchi, Joshua M. Diamond, Saskia Bos, Erika D. Lease, Geert Verleden, Allan Glanville, and Kieran Halloran. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 45 (10): 1529–31.

Cardiology

Adipocyte Gata3 Is a Diet-Inducible Driver of Pathological Adipose Remodeling and Systemic Metabolic Disease. Qin, Minghui, Fuqiang Li, Mingjie Yang, Lai Wang, Behrooz G. Sharifi, and Prediman K. Shah. Cells 15 (18): 1644.

Cross the Road Early: More Intensive Lipid-Lowering Earlier Along the Atherosclerotic Disease Continuum in VESALIUS-CV. Peng, Allison W., Anum S. Minhas, Alexander C. Razavi, Sanjay Kaul, and Roger S. Blumenthal. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, September, S0735-1097(26)07647-3.

Educating Patients at Discharge: Perceived Responsibilities Among Nurses and Residents at an Academic Medical Center. Yang, Annie W., Rongzi Shan, Hunter Launer, Jiwen Li, Eve Emmanouilidou, Dhwani Krishnan, Anna Dermenchyan, Linda Czypinski, and Wendy Simon. Patient Education and Counseling 154 (September): 109871.

Evaluating Intracoronary Imaging-Guided PCI: Balancing Evidence Synthesis and Exploration of Heterogeneity. Tanboga, Ibrahim Halil, and Sanjay Kaul. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, September, S0735-1097(26)07639-4.

From Task-Specific AI to Cardiovascular Foundation Models: A New Era of Multimodal Interpretation. Ieki, Hirotaka, Paul Cheng, Andrew P. Ambrosy, Alan C. Kwan, Bryan He, Themistocles L. Assimes, James Y. Zou, and David Ouyang. Heart, September, heartjnl-2026-328835.

Hemodynamic Flow Signatures: A Novel Paradigm for the Evaluation of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Performance. Maznyczka, Annette, Ole De Backer, Vinayak N. Bapat, Charanjit S. Rihal, Amar Krishnaswamy, Hasan Jilaihawi, Imran Rashid, Alexander M. K. Rothman, Arif A. Khokhar, Niels Vejlstrup, Bernard Prendergast, Stephan Windecker, Guilherme F. Attizzani, João L. Cavalcante, and Pankaj Garg. Circulation. Cardiovascular Interventions, September, e017313.

Post-Heart Transplantation Immunosuppression and Rejection: What the General Cardiologist Needs to Know. Jain, Rashmi, and Michelle M. Kittleson. Heart, September, heartjnl-2026-328009.

Procedural and Functional Outcomes After Computer Assisted Vacuum Thrombectomy With the 16F Catheter System for Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism: A Subanalysis of the STRIKE-PE Study. Moriarty, John M., Brian J. Schiro, Ido Weinberg, Suhail Y. Dohad, Hugh C. Davis, David M. Shavelle, George S. Chrysant, Paul E. Perkowski, Patrick E. Muck, Vivian L. Bishay, Andrew Holden, Frances M. West, Matthew J. Scheidt, Sanjum S. Sethi, W. Brent Keeling, and Aleksander Araszkiewicz. Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology: JVIR, September, 109100.

Role of Inflammatory Markers in the Progression of Arterial Stiffness and Mortality: A Multicenter Longitudinal Cohort Study. Kim, Kyung An, Hae-Ok Jung, So-Young Lee, Dong-Hyeon Lee, Donghee Han, Su-Yeon Choi, Jidong Sung, Eun Ju Chun, and Hyuk-Jae Chang. Journal of the American Heart Association, September, e049194.

Computational Biomedicine

A Pre-Train and Fine-Tune Framework for Adaptive Boosting of Pre-Trained Polygenic Risk Scores. Hu, Jie, Raelynn Chen, Maxwell Salvatore, Olivia Wu, Okan Bilge Ozdemir, Yiwen Lu, Shawn N. Murphy, Elizabeth W. Karlson, Atlas Khan, Krzysztof Kiryluk, Iftikhar J. Kullo, Johanna L. Smith, Eimear E. Kenny, Yuan Luo, Zaldy S. Tan, William G. La Cava, Marylyn D. Ritchie, Yong Chen, and Ruowang Li. Nature Communications 17 (1): 10327.

Balancing Benefits, Costs, and Harms: Policy Implications of Expanding Cancer Susceptibility Testing From Genetics Clinics to the General Population. Turnbull, Clare, Sandra Perdomo, Susan Domchek, William D. Foulkes, Paul Pharoah, Patricia Ashton-Prolla, Bhawna Sirohi, Joaquin Mateo, Hilary A. Robbins, Richard Sullivan, Mark Lawler, and Raffaella Casolino. The Lancet. Oncology 27 (10): e508–18.

Evaluating Student Use, Access, and Perceptions of a Campus Sexual Health Vending Machine. Sheng, Grace, and Lisa Gualtieri. Frontiers in Public Health 14: 1916539.

Germline Homologous Recombination Deficiency Influences TP53-Mutant Clonal Hematopoiesis Fitness During Platinum and PARP Inhibitor Treatment. Baeten, Jeremy T., Irenaeus C. C. Chan, Lea Moukarzel, Giulia E. M. Petrone, Jie Liu, Duc Tran, Jacob Tabs, Imene Tabet, Sumedha Agashe, Elaheh Nasrollahzadeh, Ankush Vasireddy, Amber Carter, Minal Patel, Konrad H. Stopsack, Philip W. Kantoff, Weiyin Zhou, Armel L. Batchi-Bouyou, J. Scott Beeler, Griffen Mustion, Paul Pharoah, James Brenton, Kenneth Offit, Ethan Barnett, Bob Li, Wassim Abida, Alison M. Schram, Britta Weigelt, David Mutch, Alessandro Vindigni, Mary Mullen, Carlos Cruchaga, Howard Scher, Ross Levine, Elli Papaemmanuil, Mitchell J. Machiela, Karen Cadoo, Daniel C. Link, and Kelly L. Bolton. Nature Genetics, September.

Recurrent Deletions and Regulatory Disruption of the Y Chromosome in Cancer. Nguyen, Trini, Aditi Kuchi, Hongyu Liu, Nicholas Tatonetti, and Dan Theodorescu. Communications Biology 9 (1): 1226.

Imaging

Spine MRI in Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension: A Survey of Current State of Practice. Mark, Ian T., Timothy J. Amrhein, Andrew Callen, Peter G. Kranz, Ajay A. Madhavan, Ananth J. Madhuranthakam, Mark D. Mamlouk, Marcel M. Maya, Gayle Salama, Kimberly Seifert, Vinil Shah, and Miriam E. Peckham. AJNR. American Journal of Neuroradiology, September, ajnr.A9648.

Uniform Quantification of Hepatic Fat Fraction Across Body Sizes Using Photon-Counting CT. Li, Xinhua, Cindy Kallman, Di Zhang, Chao Guo, and Yifang Zhou. European Journal of Radiology 205 (September): 113245.

Medicine

A Scoping Review and Meta-Analysis of Proportions of Central Nervous System Manifestations Reported in Patients With Sjögren’s Disease. Varadhachary, Arun, Ghaith Noaiseh, Julie Frantsve-Hawley, Frederick B. Vivino, Jennifer A. McCombe, Shamik Bhattacharyya, E. Sherwood Brown, Andrew R. Carey, Robert Fox, Thomas Grader-Beck, Janet E. Lewis, Stephen Maitz, Steven Mandel, Astrid Rasmussen, George Sarka, R. Hal Scofield, Daniel J. Wallace, Rochelle Zak, Kristie Cox, Katherine M. Hammitt, Steven Carsons, and Nancy Carteron. Arthritis Care & Research, September.

Dietary α-Ketoglutarate Modulates Lung Adenocarcinoma Growth and Epigenetic Remodeling in a Sex-Dependent Fashion. Alcaraz, Martín, Aparamita Pandey, Mia Santiago, Camelia Dumitras, Leilani Pradis, Estefany Gomez, Adriana Soto, Pasquale Saggese, Abigail S. Krall, Bin Liu, Heather R. Christofk, Steven M. Dubinett, Xue Li, and Claudio Scafoglio. Cell Reports 45 (10): 118052.

Disease Modification Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes: A Modified Delphi. Khunti, Kamlesh, Mark P. Funnell, Patrick J. Highton, Ashkon Ardavani, Javed Butler, Jon Campbell, Melanie J. Davies, Rachel Evley, Jose C. Florez, Jason Gaglia, Rohit N. Kulkarni, Nicolas Musi, Leigh Perreault, Bryce B. Reeve, Sylvia E. Rosas, Ash Routen, Zobair Younossi, and Nuha El Sayed. The Lancet. Diabetes & Endocrinology, September, S2213-8587(26)00243-3.

Global Paid and Unpaid Productivity Losses Due to Gastrointestinal Cancer Mortality. Danpanichkul, Pojsakorn, Yanfang Pang, Krittameth Rakwong, Nut Chotkijnanthakul, Donghee Kim, Matheus Souza, Ahmad Anouti, Andrea Ortiz Maldonado, Nikki Duong, Rashid N. Lui, Tarek Sawas, Suthat Liangpunsakul, Michael B. Wallace, Ju Dong Yang, and Amit G. Singal. The American Journal of Gastroenterology, September.

Longitudinal Study on the Influence of Physical Activity in Managing Fatigue in Patients With Colorectal Cancer. Liu, Louisa, Elham Kazemian, Nicole C. Loroña, Celina Shirazipour, Jun Gong, Sylvia L. Crowder, Nathalie Nguyen, Victoria Damerell, Kathi Mooney, Mary C. Playdon, Cornelia M. Ulrich, Christopher I. Li, David Shibata, Adetunji T. Toriola, Jennifer Ose, Anita R. Peoples, Sheetal Hardikar, Erin M. Siegel, Julienne E. Bower, Biljana Gigic, Aasha I. Hoogland, Xiaoyin Li, Brent J. Small, Howard Kaufman, Heather S. L. Jim, and Jane C. Figueiredo. Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network: JNCCN, September, 1–8.

Multidimensional Aging Trajectories Preceding Cardiovascular Events. Phyo, Aung Zaw Zaw, Zimu Wu, Andrew M. Tonkin, Swarna Vishwanath, Sara E. Espinoza, Rory Wolfe, Suzanne G. Orchard, Robyn L. Woods, David Gonzalez-Chica, Nigel Stocks, and Joanne Ryan. JAMA Cardiology, September, e263597.

Multi-Target Blood Test for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Early Detection: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Prospective ALTUS Study. John, Binu V., Mark Camardo, Amit G. Singal, Neehar D. Parikh, Ju Dong Yang, Lewis R. Roberts, Alvin C. Silva, Naga Chalasani, Reena Salgia, John B. Kisiel, Kyle Porter, Paul Z. Elias, Elle Kielar-Grevstad, Janelle J. Bruinsma, Marilyn C. Olson, Jorge Garces, and Paul J. Limburg. Journal of Hepatology, September, S0168-8278(26)02904-1.

Overcoming Cellular Barriers With Cell-Penetrating Peptides: Functional Roles of Individual Amino Acids. Akinsola, Rasaq Olajide, and Kumaran Narayanan. Journal of Drug Targeting, September, 1–22.

Pharmacy-Led Transition of Care Services With Positive Readmissions Impact in an Acute Care Hospital. Shane, Rita, Jackie Ho, Donna Leang, Sarah Stephens, Joshua Pevnick, Hai Tran, Vipul Patel, and Steven M. Simons. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy: AJHP, September, zxag291.

Pituitary Society Delphi Consensus on the Role of Radiotherapy for Pituitary Adenomas. Castinetti, Frederic, Cecilia Piazzola, John Ayuk, Michael Kosmin, Marco Losa, Hani J. Marcus, Alberto M. Pereira, Shlomo Melmed, Maria Fleseriu, and Pituitary Society Radiation Therapy for Pituitary Adenomas Delphi Consortium. Pituitary 29 (5): 158.

Rosacea in Patients With Skin of Color: Diagnosis and Management. Lohani, Devina, Justin W. Marson, and Hilary E. Baldwin. American Journal of Clinical Dermatology, September.

Surgery and Tile-Based Radiation Therapy Versus Surgery and Stereotactic Radiation for Newly Diagnosed Brain Metastases (ROADS): A Randomized, Open-Label, Phase 3 Trial. Weinberg, Jeffrey S., Brandon S. Imber, Vincent DiNapoli, Nelson S. Moss, Kimberly B. Hoang, Fen Wang, Imran Mohiuddin, Akshitkumar M. Mistry, Michael A. Garcia, Hussein Tawbi, Nitesh V. Patel, Huong Pham, Robert Ryan, John Wanebo, Kris Smith, Clark C. Chen, Alexandra Paul, Lindsey Sloan, Matthew J. Shepard, Ken Tatebe, Colette J. Shen, David G. Brachman, Angela M. Richardson, Linton T. Evans, Gregory B. Biedermann, Adam Robin, Toral R. Patel, Aristotelis Filippidis, Heather Lin, Lola B. Chambless, John Dombrowski, Akash J. Patel, Sajeel Chowdhary, K. Stuart Lee, M. Sean Peach, Adam Nowlan, David J. McCracken, John Floyd, Fen Xia, Jeremy Rudnick, Jing Li, Debra Nana Yeboa, Frederick F. Lang, Rajat J. Kudchadker, Mary Frances McAleer, Jeffrey Wefel, Sherise Desiree Ferguson, Ying Yuan, Simon Hanft, and Thomas H. Beckham. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 101200JCO2601894.

Valorization of Sardinian Grapevine Leaves as a Sustainable Source of Flavonols With Anticancer Potential. Spissu, Ylenia, Maria Lauda Tomasi, Carla Cossu, Andrea Floris, Emanuela Azara, Gavina Rita Serra, Irene Marchesi, Francesco Paolo Fiorentino, Gaia Rocchitta, Riccarda Zappino, and Antonio Barberis. Antioxidants 15 (9): 1153.

Neurology

DNL343 and Disease Progression in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Paganoni, Sabrina, Lori B. Chibnik, Melanie Quintana, Eric A. Macklin, Michelle A. Detry, Matteo Vestrucci, Giorgio Paulon, Anna McGlothlin, Jianing Wang, David Walk, Lauren Elman, Marianne Chase, HEALEY ALS Platform Trial Study Group, et al. JAMA Network Open 9 (9): e2634809.

Experimental Model of Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury Induces Proteomic Signatures of Neurodegeneration in the Hippocampus. Winzey, Kevin D., Samuel Guzman, Edward Yang, Debbie Moreira, Xingyu Wang, Xuesong Gu, Simon T. Dillon, E. Wesley Ely, S. Ananth Karumanchi, Towia A. Libermann, and Shouri Lahiri. Intensive Care Medicine Experimental 14 (1): 128.

Reduced Paramagnetic Rim Visibility Signals Lesion Aging and Tissue Degeneration in Progressive Multiple Sclerosis: Impact on Clinical Trials. Sacco, Simone, Haojun Zhao, Shuiting Cheng, Amit Vijay Akula, Elaina Luskin, Jiuyi Zhang, Olga Manouvakhova, Tiffany P. Cooper, William Stern, Valerie J. Block, Akash Virupakshaiah, Refujia Gomez, Adam Santaniello, Pascal Sati, Nico Papinutto, Riley Bove, Jeffrey M. Gelfand, Douglas S. Goodin, Ari J. Green, Jorge Oksenberg, Emmanuelle Waubant, Michael R. Wilson, Scott S. Zamvil, as the University of California, San Francisco MS-EPIC Team, Bruce A. C. Cree, Stephen L. Hauser, and Roland G. Henry. Neurology(R) Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation 13 (6): e200655.

Neurosurgery

Neurosurgical Management of Achondroplasia: A Systematic Review. Tatit, Rafael T., Caroline P. Tatit, Nir Shimony, Moise Danielpour, and George I. Jallo. Journal of Neurosurgery. Pediatrics, September, 1–13.

Tozuleristide Fluorescence-Guided Resection of Gliomas: Results of a Phase II Investigator-Initiated Study. Fox, Rachel C., Xuemo Fan, Adam N. Mamelak, Daniel Gomez, Chirag Patil, Ray M. Chu, Jeremy Rudnick, Jethro Hu, Elliott M. Sina, Keith L. Black, Kristi Harrington, and John S. Yu. Operative Neurosurgery, September.

OBGYN

Repeat Administration of Magnesium for an Exacerbation of Postpartum Preeclampsia: A National Survey. Dellapiana, Gabriela, Keona Thompson, and Kimberly D. Gregory. The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians 39 (1): 2738315.

Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine

Best Practice Guidelines for the Execution of Intraoperative Neuromonitoring in Spine Deformity Surgery. Anari, Jason B., Alexander M. Park, Michael W. Brown, Mehdi M. Elfilali, Katerina M. Kourpas, Benjamin B. Bruins, Alier Franco, Anil Mendiratta, Teeda Pinyavat, Jonathan Umina, Samuel Strantzas, Rajiv Sethi, Stephen Lewis, Rajiv R. Iyer, Richard Menger, Daniel J. Sucato, Kenneth D. Illingworth, Amer F. Samdani, Lawrence G. Lenke, and Michael G. Vitale. Spine Deformity, September.

Clinical and Radiographic Outcomes of Robotic-Assisted Direct Pars Repairs for Spondylolysis. Snyder, Samantha, Vivien Chan, James Caruso, Elaine Butterworth, Paal Nilssen, Kenneth D. Illingworth, Corey T. Walker, and David L. Skaggs. Spine Deformity, September.

CORR Insights®: Radial Head Fractures Cluster in the Anterolateral and Anteromedial Quadrants and Do Not Correlate With Coronoid Fracture Types. Itamura, John M. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, September.

Evaluating Reasoning-Tuned Large Language Models for Clinical Decision-Making in Spine Surgery. Lam, Chuck H., Conor T. Boylan, Adit Ravishankar, Alex Bulloso, George McKay, David L. Skaggs, and Morgan Jones. Spine Deformity, September.

Osteochondral Fragment Fixation: Proceedings of the International Congress on Cartilage Repair of the Ankle. Tham, Alexander, Jared Rubin, James J. Butler, Paloma Gauthier, John G. Kennedy, Samuel B. Adams, Carol L. Andrews, Chayanin Angthong, Jorge P. Batista, Onno L. Baur, Steven Bayer, Christoph Becher, Zijun Zhang, et al. Foot & Ankle Specialist, October, 19386400261485740.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Carbamylation as a Novel Marker of Coronary Artery Calcification in People With CKD: Findings From a Phenome-Wide Association Study in CRIC. Awwad, Aya, Pranav Garimella, Eugene P. Rhee, Joachim Janowski, S. Ananth Karumanchi, Sagar Nigwekar, Andrew S. Allegretti, Anders H. Berg, James P. Lash, Alba Gutiérrez-Sacristán, Mengyao Tang, and Sahir Kalim. American Journal of Kidney Diseases, September, S0272-6386(26)01120-0.

Challenges in Establishing Epidemiological Cut-off Values for the Burkholderia Cepacia Complex. Huse, Holly K., Carmila Manuel, Tracy McLemore, Romney M. Humphries, Anna Clara Milesi Galdino, Diana Celedonio, John J. LiPuma, Daniel A. Green, James E. A. Zlosnik, Maria Traczewski, Audrey Schuetz, John Turnidge, Mandy Wootton, Darcie Carpenter, Michael Huband, Chris Pillar, Marguerite L. Monogue, and Peter A. Jorth. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, September, e0073026.

Individual Income and Blood Pressure Control After Antihypertensive Treatment Initiation Accounting for Regional Variation: A Japanese Nationwide Study. Satoh, Michihiro, Yutaro Iwabe, Kosuke Inoue, Hiroki Nobayashi, Seiya Izumi, Takahisa Murakami, Maya Toyama, Yuya Suzuki, Tomoko Muroya, Shingo Nakayama, Takayoshi Ohkubo, and Hirohito Metoki. Hypertension Research, September.

Inter-Organelle Membrane Contact Sites as Physiological Regulatory Hubs in the Brain: From Neurons to Glial Cells. Wu, Yuchen, Ginam Cho, and Youngshin Lim. Biomolecules 16 (9): 1257.

Landscape of Approaches for Streamlining Pre-Analytical and Early Analytical Variables for Solid Tumor Next-Generation Sequencing: A Genomics Organization for Academic Laboratories Consortium Report. David, Marjorie P., Jennifer J. D. Morrissette, Noah Brown, Georgios Deftereos, Fei Dong, Karin E. Finberg, Yulong Fu, Jeffrey Gagan, Christopher D. Gocke, Audrey N. Jajosky, Eric Konnick, Thomas D. Lee, David B. Lieberman, Deqin Ma, Laura MacConaill, Christopher Mignogna, Andrew C. Nelson, Erik Nohr, Megan Parilla, Adam D. Pfefferle, Somak Roy, Pamela Snyder, Eric Vail, Peng Wang, Liqiang Xi, Daniel Jones, and Dara L. Aisner. Academic Pathology 13 (4): 100299.

Pediatrics

LLM and CQL Computable Phenotypes for Myocarditis Adverse Event Feature and Outcome Determinations Using Patient FHIR Data: A Feasibility Study. Gaspar, Fraser W., Seth B. Roberts, Francis X. Campion, Lynda Hoeksema, Jessica Kasirsky, Raymond Duncan, Matthew Sonesen, Renier Estiandan, Khyzer B. Aziz, Julie A. Riddler, Jessica Zhou, and Hussein Ezzeldin. Frontiers in Digital Health 8: 1903755.

Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences

Approved Medications for Substance Use Disorders: An Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews and Completed Phase 3 Randomized Controlled Trials. Danovitch, Itai, Kyla Truman, Haze Brown, Macie Miller, Shaishav Shah, Jayant Totlani, Daniel N. Kaidbay, Kaleab K. Tessema, Zholi Minasyan, Waguih William IsHak, Samuel Miles, and Robert N. Pechnick. CNS Drugs, September.

Radiation Oncology

A Technology-Specific Risk Analysis of Surface Guided Radiation Therapy. Bry, Victoria, Angelia Tran, Tamara Egan, Eric Ford, and Juergen Meyer. Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics 27 (10): e70837.

More for Some, Less for Others: Refining Treatment for Anorectal Cancers. Ashman, Jonathan B., Luca Boldrini, Eric D. Miller, Krishan R. Jethwa, Katelyn Atkins, Aisling Barry, Randa Tao, and Michael D. Chuong. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 126 (3): 607–15.

Surgery

A Machine Learning Framework Enables Supervised Treatment Response Prediction From Tumor Transcriptomics Across Cancer Types. Pal, Lipika R., E. Michael Gertz, Nishanth Ulhas Nair, Sumit Mukherjee, Sumeet Patiyal, Thomas Cantore, Emma M. Campagnolo, Tian-Gen Chang, Saugato Rahman Dhruba, Yewon Kim, Eldad D. Shulman, Padma Sheila Rajagopal, Danh-Tai Hoang, Sridhar Hannenhalli, Alejandro A. Schäffer, and Eytan Ruppin. Cancer Research, September.

Automated Assessment of Aesthetic Outcomes Following Combined Facial Aesthetic Surgery – a Pilot Study. Sherwani, Khalil, Leonard Knoedler, Thomas Schaschinger, Tobias Niederegger, Jakob Fenske, Kevin Sadati, Max Heiland, Rainer Pooth, Theodore Brown, Curtis L. Cetrulo, Raffaele Aguglia, and Alexandre G. Lellouch. BMC Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2 (1): 27.

Delayed Lymphatic Reconstruction for Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema. Monzy, Judith, Jocelyn Lu, Ara A. Salibian, Philip S. Brazio, and Ketan M. Patel. Cancers 18 (18): 2934.

Dual Effects of β-TrCP2 Deletion in Bone Homeostasis: Suppression of Osteoclastogenesis and Enhancement of Osteoblast Activity. Kim, Woo Jung, Sora Han, Hye In Ka, Sun Young Lee, Jiwon Kim, Hyunjeong Joo, Sujung Soh, Gaeun Oh, Kyung Hyun Yoo, Seung Hyun Han, Yeongkag Kwon, Choogon Lee, Kyung-Hyun Park-Min, Se Hwan Mun, and Young Yang. Arthritis & Rheumatology, September.

Engagement of Social Support Systems in Patients Being Considered for and Following Advanced Heart and Lung Surgical Therapies: An ISHLT Expert Consensus Statement. McIlvennan, Colleen K., Samantha J. Anthony, Fabienne Dobbels, Cassie C. Kennedy, Michael Petty, null Melissa Sanchez, Martha Abshire Saylor, Nancy Blumenthal, Khadijah Breathett, Malachy Clancy, Bernice Coleman, Melissa K. Cousino, Kavita Dave, Hilary DuBrock, Nathalie Duerinckx, Meg Fregoso, Kathleen L. Grady, Brittany Koons, Christiane Kugler, Angela Lorts, Federica Meloni, Desiree Robson, Thomas Schlöglhofer, Andrew Morley Smith, Manu Varma, Angela Velleca, Andrew Woods, and Jo Wray. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, September, S1053-2498(26)02037-1.

Expanding the Donor Pool: Successful Single Lung Transplant of a Hepatitis C Seropositive Donor to a Recipient With HIV and Pulmonary Fibrosis. Whiteson, Harris Z., Sangita Goel, Melissa Lesko, Bonnie E. Lonze, and Sapna A. Mehta. Transplant Infectious Disease, September, e70327.

Factors Associated With Surgical Faculty’s Desire to Leave or Stay at Their Jobs. Sarkissyan, Marianna, Christian de Virgilio, Farin Amersi, Sarah L. Blair, Lisa A. Cunningham, Henry R. Govekar, Maheswari Senthil, Saad Shebrain, Anaar Siletz, Brian T. Valerian, Steven D. Wexner, and Alexander C. Schwed. JAMA Surgery, September, e264382.

Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Before Kidney Transplantation: Referral Considerations, Access Outcomes, Procedure Choice, Safety, and Evidence Gaps—A Systematic Review and Exploratory Meta-Analysis. Argaman, Moshe, Chen Klechevski, Aviad Gravetz, Yael Ben Avraham, Nadav Vaknin, Rotem Horowitz, Ali Safadi, Ali Mousa Saida, Murtaja Satea, Alexandre G. Lellouch, Mordechai Shimonov, Eviatar Nesher, and Fahim Kanani. Gastrointestinal Disorders 8 (3): 57.

Propensity Score-Matched Comparison of Normothermic Machine Perfusion and Normothermic Regional Perfusion in Donation After Circulatory Death Liver Transplant. Wisel, Steven A., Tiffany Y. Lim, Michael Luu, Georgios Voidonikolas, Todd V. Brennan, Kambiz Kosari, Tsuyoshi Todo, Nicholas N. Nissen, David C. H. Kwon, Irene K. Kim, and Justin A. Steggerda. Transplantation, September.

Satisfaction With Anaplastology and Willingness for Face Transplantation in Patients With Facial Epitheses: A Pretest Study. Mansoor, Mohammad, Thomas Schaschinger, Tobias Niederegger, Raffaele Aguglia, Kerstin Menzel, Yvonne Motzkus, Jakob Fenske, Max Heiland, Alexandre G. Lellouch, Rainer Schliermann, Steffen Koerdt, and Leonard Knoedler. The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, September.

The EnDuring Purpose of Women in Thoracic Surgery. Antonoff, Mara B. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, September, S0003-4975(26)00964-1.

Urology

Language as a Powerful ‘Influencer’ in Prostate Cancer. Weiner, Adam B., Jessica Rett, and Scott E. Eggener. The Journal of Urology, September, 101097JU0000000000005330.

Variation in Quality of Physician Communication in Prostate Cancer Consultations. Friedrich, Nadine A., Michael Luu, Renning Zheng, Alexander Hernandez-Tirado, Stephen J. Freedland, Brennan Spiegel, Paul Kokorowski, and Timothy J. Daskivich. Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases, September.

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