Faculty Publications Sept. 26-Oct. 3

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published Sept. 26-Oct. 3. 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

Healthcare Legend Tom Priselac Retires From Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | Jewish Journal 
Daniel Stone, MD

Personas con Cáncer Encuentran Apoyo Gratis con 'Navegadores' a su Lado | Los Angeles Times 
Lourdes Barajas and Zul Surani 

Robots are Taking Over Your Surgery (And you Should be Excited) | WebMD
Corey Walker, MD 

How 3 Hospital CEOs are Striving to Strengthen the Workforce | HealthLeaders
Peter Slavin, MD 

L.A. Rams Surprise Teen Battling Cancer | KTTV-TV

GLP-1 Weight-Loss Meds Could Interfere With Endoscopy, Colonoscopy | HealthDay
Ruchi Mathur, MD 

Heart Attacks in Young People are Rare—But Rates are Rising. Experts Point to 4 Possible Reasons. | Yahoo! Life
Noel Bairey Merz, MD

Faculty Publications

Biomedical Sciences

Distinct Phenotypes Induced by Acute Hypoxia and TGF-Β1 in Human Adult Cardiac Fibroblasts. Khalil, Natalie N., Megan L. Rexius-Hall, Sean Escopete, Sarah J. Parker, and Megan L. McCain. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology Plus 9 (September): 100080.

Quantifying Brain Development in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study: The Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy Protocol. Dean, Douglas C., M. Dylan Tisdall, Jessica L. Wisnowski, Eric Feczko, Borjan Gagoski, Andrew L. Alexander, Richard A. E. Edden, Wei Gao, Timothy J. Hendrickson, Brittany R. Howell, Hao Huang, Kathryn L. Humphreys, HBCD MRI Working Group, et al. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 70 (September): 101452.

Cardiac Surgery

Analysis of UNOS: Berlin Heart Bridge-to-Transplant in Acquired Versus Congenital Heart Disease. Bilgili, Ahmet, Omar M. Sharaf, Zachary Verzwyvelt, Zachary Brennan, Giles J. Peek, Mark S. Bleiweis, and Jeffrey Phillip Jacobs. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, September, S0003-4975(24)00782-3.

Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Past and Future. Ruel, Marc, and Joanna Chikwe. Circulation 150 (14): 1067–69.

Contemporary Training in American Critical Care Cardiology: Minnesota Critical Care Cardiology Education Summit: JACC Scientific Expert Panel. Elliott, Andrea M., Jason A. Bartos, Christopher F. Barnett, P. Elliott Miller, Robert O. Roswell, Carlos Alviar, Courtney Bennett, David D. Berg, Erin A. Bohula, Meshe Chonde, Garima Dahiya, Jessica Fleitman, Ann Gage, Barinder S. Hansra, Andrew Higgins, Steven M. Hollenberg, James M. Horowitz, Jacob C. Jentzer, Jason N. Katz, Yoav Karpenshif, Ran Lee, Venu Menon, Thomas S. Metkus, Srini Mukundan, Zachary J. Rhinehart, Balimkiz Senman, Mourad Senussi, Michael Solomon, Saraschandra Vallabhajosyula, and David M. Dudzinski. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 84 (15): 1436–54.

Cardiology 

HRS Policy Statement on Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation. Liu, Christopher F., Adam E. Berman, Mina K. Chung, Jonathan Dukes, Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, Scott J. Greenberg, Sabina Hadziabdulahovic, Arvindh N. Kanagasundram, Timothy R. Larsen, Sumeet K. Mainigi, Molly Sachdev, Mark H. Schoenfeld, David J. Slotwiner, Amit Thosani, J. Peter Weiss, Lisa Miller, Anne Marie Smith, and Amit J. Shanker. Heart Rhythm, September, S1547-5271(24)03378-2.

Aficamten in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Roots and Branches of SEQUOIA. Kittleson, Michelle M. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, September, S0735-1097(24)08395-5.

Deconstructing Regenerative Medicine: From Mechanistic Studies of Cell Therapy to Novel Bioinspired RNA Drugs. Marbán, Eduardo. Circulation Research 135 (8): 877–85.

Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Practice: Lessons Learned From Cardiovascular Medicine. Ronco, Daniele, Arthur M. Albuquerque, Mateo Marin-Cuartas, Amedeo Anselmi, Rafael Sádaba, Fabio Barili, Miguel Sousa Uva, James M. Brophy, Eduard Quintana, Francesco Musumeci, Jacques Tomasi, Jean-Philippe Verhoye, John Mandrola, Victor Dayan, Patrick O. Myers, Ovidio A. Garcia Villareal, Sanjay Kaul, Jorge Rodriguez-Roda Stuart, Milan Milojevic, Walter J. Gomes, Alessandro Parolari, Rui M. S. Almeida, and INTEGRITTY, and With the endorsement of the Latin American Association of Cardiac and Endovascular Surgery (LACES), the Latin European Alliance of Cardiovascular Surgical Societies (LEACSS), the Brazilian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery (BSCVS), the French Society of Thoracic and Cardio-Vascular Surgery (SFCTCV), the Italian Society for Cardiac Surgery (SICCH), the Mexican College of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, the Portuguese Society of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery (SPCCTV) and the Spanish Cardiovascular and Endovascular Society (SECCE). European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery 66 (3): ezae296.

Computational Biomedicine

Circulating Polyploid Giant Cancer Cells, a Potential Prognostic Marker in Patients With Carcinoma. Chinen, Ludmilla Thomé Domingos, Jacqueline Aparecida Torres, Vinicius Fernando Calsavara, Angelo Borsarelli Carvalho Brito, Virgílio Sousa E. Silva, Roberto Gabriel Santiago Novello, Thaissa Carvalho Fernandes, Alessandra Decina, Roger Dachez, and Patrizia Paterlini-Brechot. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 25 (18): 9841.

Development and Experimental Validation of Computational Methods for Human Antibody Affinity Enhancement. Li, Junxin, Linbu Liao, Chao Zhang, Kaifang Huang, Pengfei Zhang, John Z. H. Zhang, Xiaochun Wan, and Haiping Zhang. Briefings in Bioinformatics 25 (6): bbae488.

Assessing the Limitations of Relief-Based Algorithms in Detecting Higher-Order Interactions. Freda, Philip J., Suyu Ye, Robert Zhang, Jason H. Moore, and Ryan J. Urbanowicz. BioData Mining 17 (1): 37.

Medicine

Emerging Targets in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Liu, Louisa, Joshua Soler, Karen L. Reckamp, and Kamya Sankar. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 25 (18): 10046.

The Link Between Traumatic Stress and Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases: A Systematic Scoping Review. Ploesser, Markus, Stuart Silverman, Jose Daniel Lomeli Diaz, Miriam Tanja Zincke, and Mihaela B. Taylor. Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism 69 (September): 152558.

Comparison of Risk Factors between Lean and Non-Lean MASLD in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes: A Multicenter Study. Sun, Weixia, Yingqi Lv, Li Wang, Hekai Yu, He Yi, Yifan Wang, Jing Han, Yingzhao Liu, Congqing Miao, Jie Li, Yan Zhang, Mengying Wang, Lei Chen, Stephen J. Pandol, and Ling Li. Endocrine Practice, September, S1530-891X(24)00678-5.

GALAD Score for the Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Sub-Saharan Africa; a Validation Study in Ghanaian Patients. Nartey, Yvonne Ayerki, Ju Dong Yang, Tyler J. Zemla, Joshua Ayawin, Shadrack Osei Asibey, Mohamed El-Kassas, Sally Afua Bampoh, Amoako Duah, Adwoa Agyei-Nkansah, Yaw Asante Awuku, Mary Yeboah Afihene, Hiroyuki Yamada, Jun Yin, Amelie Plymoth, and Lewis R. Roberts. Cancer Research Communications, September.

Letter to the Editor: Serum Identification of At-Risk MASH: The Metabolomics-Advanced Steatohepatitis Fibrosis Score (MASEF). Noureddin, Mazen, Emily Truong, Rebeca Mayo, Ibon Martínez-Arranz, Itziar Mincholé, Jesus M. Banales, Marco Arrese, Kenneth Cusi, María Teresa Arias-Loste, Radan Bruha, Manuel Romero-Gómez, Paula Iruzubieta, Rocio Aller, Javier Ampuero, José Luis Calleja, Luis Ibañez-Samaniego, Patricia Aspichueta, Antonio Marín-Duce, Tatyana Kushner, Pablo Ortiz, Stephen A. Harrison, Quentin M. Anstee, Javier Crespo, José M. Mato, and Arun J. Sanyal. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.), September.

Head-to-Head Comparison of 18F-Sodium Fluoride Coronary PET Imaging Between a Silicon Photomultiplier With Digital Photon Counting and Conventional Scanners. Hashimoto, Hidenobu, Keiichiro Kuronuma, Mark C. Hyun, Donghee Han, Valerie Builoff, Sebastian Cadet, Damini Dey, Daniel S. Berman, Jacek Kwiecinski, and Piotr J. Slomka. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, September, 102045.

The Role of Forkhead Box M1-Methionine Adenosyltransferase 2 A/2B Axis in Liver Inflammation and Fibrosis. Yang, Bing, Liqing Lu, Ting Xiong, Wei Fan, Jiaohong Wang, Lucía Barbier-Torres, Jyoti Chhimwal, Sonal Sinha, Takashi Tsuchiya, Nirmala Mavila, Maria Lauda Tomasi, DuoYao Cao, Jing Zhang, Hui Peng, José M. Mato, Ting Liu, Xi Yang, Vladimir V. Kalinichenko, Komal Ramani, Jenny Han, Ekihiro Seki, Heping Yang, and Shelly C. Lu. Nature Communications 15 (1): 8388.

Identification of Proteins Associated With Type 2 Diabetes Risk in Diverse Racial and Ethnic Populations. Liu, Shuai, Jingjing Zhu, Hua Zhong, Chong Wu, Haoran Xue, Burcu F. Darst, Xiuqing Guo, Peter Durda, Russell P. Tracy, Yongmei Liu, W. Craig Johnson, Kent D. Taylor, Ani W. Manichaikul, Mark O. Goodarzi, Robert E. Gerszten, Clary B. Clish, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Heather Highland, Christopher A. Haiman, Christopher R. Gignoux, Leslie Lange, David V. Conti, Laura M. Raffield, Lynne Wilkens, Loïc Le Marchand, Kari E. North, Kristin L. Young, Ruth J. Loos, Steve Buyske, Tara Matise, Ulrike Peters, Charles Kooperberg, Alexander P. Reiner, Bing Yu, Eric Boerwinkle, Quan Sun, Mary R. Rooney, Justin B. Echouffo-Tcheugui, Martha L. Daviglus, Qibin Qi, Nicholas Mancuso, Changwei Li, Youping Deng, Alisa Manning, James B. Meigs, Stephen S. Rich, Jerome I. Rotter, and Lang Wu. Diabetologia, September.

Utilization Trends for Mohs Micrographic Surgery Versus Wide Local Excision for Melanoma: A 5-Year, Global Analysis. Sharma, Ajay N., Karishma S. Shah, Nima M. Gharavi, and Margit L. Juhasz. Dermatologic Surgery, September.

Food Retention at Endoscopy Among Adults Using Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists. Nasser, Jason, Ava Hosseini, Gillian Barlow, Roma Gianchandani, Ali Rezaie, Mark Pimentel, and Ruchi Mathur. JAMA Network Open 7 (10): e2436783.

Neurology

‘It’s Not a One-Person Show’ E-Learning Course in Neuropalliative Care: A Qualitative Analysis of Participants’ Educational Gains and Self-Reported Outcomes. Bublitz, Sarah K., Mara Lugassy, Roop Gursahani, Winnie Lau, Susan DeSanto-Madeya, Jessica Besbris, Neha M. Kramer, John Y. Rhee, Seema R. Rao, Krithika S. Rao, Naveen Salins, and Piret Paal. Palliative & Supportive Care, September, 1–6.

Multicenter Automated Central Vein Sign Detection Performs as Well as Manual Assessment for the Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. Manning, Abigail R., Vijay Letchuman, Melissa L. Martin, Elaina Gombos, Timothy Roberts-Fitzgerald, Quy Cao, Praneeta Raza, Carly M. O’Donnell, Brian Renner, Lynn Daboul, Paulo Rodrigues, Marc Ramos, John Derbyshire, Christina Azevedo, Amit Bar-Or, Eduardo Caverzasi, Peter A. Calabresi, Bruce A. Cree, Leorah Freeman, Roland G. Henry, Erin E. Longbrake, Jiwon Oh, Nico Papinutto, Daniel Pelletier, Rohini D. Samudralwar, Suradech Suthiphosuwan, Matthew K. Schindler, Michel Bilello, Jae W. Song, Elias S. Sotirchos, Nancy L. Sicotte, Omar Al-Louzi, Andrew J. Solomon, Daniel S. Reich, Daniel Ontaneda, Pascal Sati, Russell T. Shinohara, and NAIMS Cooperative. AJNR. American Journal of Neuroradiology, September, ajnr.A8510.

OBGYN

Surgical Innovations to Protect Fertility From Oncologic Pelvic Radiation Therapy: Ovarian Transposition and Uterine Fixation. Yazdani, Ariella, Katherine Moran Sweterlitsch, Hanna Kim, Rebecca L. Flyckt, and Mindy S. Christianson. Journal of Clinical Medicine 13 (18): 5577.

Establishing NIH Community Implementation Programs to Improve Maternal Health. Plevock Haase, Karen M., Candice A. Price, Gina S. Wei, Ilana G. Goldberg, Bryan C. Ampey, Erynn A. Huff, Kimberly R. Durkin, Ashley E. Blair, Camille A. Fabiyi, Keisher S. Highsmith, Melissa S. Wong, David Clark, and George A. Mensah. Implementation Science Communications 5 (1): 105.

Orthopaedics

Outcomes of Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Cavovarus Surgical Reconstruction. Haupt, Edward Thomas, Giselle Moriah Porter, Christian Blough, Max P. Michalski, and Glenn B. Pfeffer. Foot & Ankle International, September, 10711007241271283.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

IgA Nephropathy: Correlation Between Pathologic Findings and Complement Activation. Haas, Mark. Nephrology (Carlton, Vic.) 29 Suppl 2 (September): 60–62.

Analytical Validation of the LungLB Test: A 4-Color Fluorescence in-Situ Hybridization Assay for the Evaluation of Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodules. Lutman, Michelle L., Daniel Gramajo-Leventon, Shahram Tahvilian, Lara Baden, Courtney L. Gilbert, Michael Trejo, Eric Vail, Michael J. Donovan, Benjamin A. Katchman, and Paul C. Pagano. BMC Pulmonary Medicine 24 (1): 475.

IPNA Clinical Practice Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Children With IgA Nephropathy and IgA Vasculitis Nephritis. Vivarelli, Marina, Susan Samuel, Rosanna Coppo, Jonathan Barratt, Melvin Bonilla-Felix, Dieter Haffner, Keisha Gibson, Mark Haas, Maher Ahmed Abdel-Hafez, Marta Adragna, Paul Brogan, Siah Kim, Isaac Liu, Zhi-Hong Liu, Mukta Mantan, Yuko Shima, Masaki Shimuzu, Qian Shen, Hernan Trimarchi, Deirdre Hahn, Elisabeth Hodson, Ken Pfister, Areefa Alladin, Olivia Boyer, Koichi Nakanishi, and International Pediatric Nephrology Association. Pediatric Nephrology (Berlin, Germany), September.

Laminin Beta 2 Is Localized at the Sites of Blood-Brain Barrier and Its Disruption Is Associated With Increased Vascular Permeability, Histochemical, and Transcriptomic Study. Bannykh, Katherine S., Antonio C. Fuentes-Fayos, Paul W. Linesch, Joshua J. Breunig, and Serguei I. Bannykh. The Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry, September, 221554241281896.

Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences

Overview of Psychiatric Medications in the Pipeline in Phase III Trials as of June 1, 2024: A Systematic Review. IsHak, Waguih William, Ashley Meyer, Luiza Freire, Jayant Totlani, Nathalie Murphy, Sabrina Renteria, Mohamed Salem, Tiffany Chang, Rasha Abdelsalam, Rida Khan, Thomas Chandy, Thomas Parrish, Drew Hirsch, Bhumika Patel, Alexander J. Steiner, Sarah Kim, Rebecca Hedrick, Robert N. Pechnick, and Itai Danovitch. Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience 21 (7–9): 27–47.

Surgery

Presence of CD80 and Absence of LAT in Modulating Cellular Infiltration and HSV-1 Latency. Jaggi, Ujjaldeep, and Homayon Ghiasi. Viruses 16 (9): 1379.

Evaluating Resident Education Practices in Endoscopic Sinus Surgery. Dimitroyannis, Rose, Dennis M. Tang, Matthew K. Lee, and Christopher R. Roxbury. Ear, Nose, & Throat Journal, September, 1455613241288457.

HCC Spatial Transcriptomic Profiling Reveals Significant and Potentially Targetable Cancer-Endothelial Interactions. Lu, Chenyue, Amaya Pankaj, Michael Raabe, Cole Nawrocki, Ann Liu, Nova Xu, Bidish K. Patel, Matthew J. Emmett, Avril K. Coley, Cristina R. Ferrone, Vikram Deshpande, Irun Bhan, Yujin Hoshida, David T. Ting, Martin J. Aryee, and Joseph W. Franses. Hepatology Communications 8 (10): e0533.

Urology

Does Insulin Resistance Predict Prostate Cancer? Results From the Reduction by Dutasteride of Prostate Cancer (REDUCE) Trial. Zheng, Renning, James P. Daniels, Daniel M. Moreira, Shakiba Eslamimehr, Alexis R. Freedland, Lourdes Guerrios-Rivera, Jay H. Fowke, and Stephen J. Freedland. Cancer, September.