This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published Jan.12 - Jan.19.

Anesthesiology

Physician and Trainee Perceptions of Telecritical Care Practice and Education: Results of a Programmatic Survey. Sharifpour, Milad, Timothy Buchman, Cheryl Hiddleson, Craig S. Jabaley, and Jayashree Raikhelkar. Telemedicine Reports 3 (1): 201–5.

Biomedical Sciences

Aging of Classical Monocyte Subsets. Goodridge, Helen S. Aging undefined (January).

Cancer

Activation of ONECUT2 by RB1 Loss in Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. Qian, Chen, Qian Yang, Stephen J. Freedland, Dolores Di Vizio, Leigh Ellis, Sungyong You, and Michael R. Freeman. American Journal of Clinical and Experimental Urology 10 (6): 397–407.

Role of Endoscopy in Management of Upper Gastrointestinal Cancers. Liang, Jeff, Yi Jiang, Yazan Abboud, and Srinivas Gaddam. Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) 11 (1): 3.

ATM Suppresses C-Myc Overexpression in the Mammary Epithelium in Response to Estrogen. Najnin, Rifat Ara, Md Rasel Al Mahmud, Md Maminur Rahman, Shunichi Takeda, Hiroyuki Sasanuma, Hisashi Tanaka, Yasuhiro Murakawa, Naoto Shimizu, Salma Akter, Masatoshi Takagi, Takuro Sunada, Shusuke Akamatsu, Gang He, Junji Itou, Masakazu Toi, Mary Miyaji, Kimiko M. Tsutsui, Scott Keeney, and Shintaro Yamada. Cell Reports 42 (1): 111909.

Targeting RNA Exonuclease XRN1 Potentiates Efficacy of Cancer Immunotherapy. Ran, Xue-Bin, Ling-Wen Ding, Qiao-Yang Sun, Henry Yang, Jonathan W. Said, Lao Zhentang, Vikas Madan, Pushkar Dakle, Jin-Fen Xiao, Xinyi Loh, Ying Li, Liang Xu, Xiao-Qiang Xiang, Ling-Zhi Wang, Boon Cher Goh, De-Chen Lin, Wee Joo Chng, Soo-Yong Tan, Sudhakar Jha, and H. Phillip Koeffler. Cancer Research, January, CAN-21-3052.

Cardiac Surgery

Omnia Munda Mundis (‘To the Pure, All Things Are Pure’). Gaudino, Mario, John Alexander, Umberto Benedetto, Andreas Boening, Arnaldo Dimagli, Stephen Fremes, Joanna Chikwe, Leonard Girardi, David Hare, Paul Kurlansky, and Andre Lamy. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, January, ezad021.

Cardiology

Multiple Prior Live Births Are Associated With Cardiac Remodeling and Heart Failure Risk in Women. Sarma, Amy A., Samantha M. Paniagua, Emily S. Lau, Dongyu Wang, Elizabeth E. Liu, Martin G. Larson, Naomi M. Hamburg, Gary F. Mitchell, Jorge Kizer, Bruce M. Psaty, Norrina B. Allen, A. Titia Lely, Ronald T. Gansevoort, Emily Rosenberg, Kenneth Mukamal, Emelia J. Benjamin, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Susan Cheng, Daniel Levy, Rudolf A. de Boer, John S. Gottdiener, Sanjiv J. Shah, and Jennifer E. Ho. Journal of Cardiac Failure, January, S1071-9164(23)00004-0.

Time to Counter Rising Cardiovascular Disease During Pregnancy. Gulati, Martha, and Anum Minhas. European Heart Journal, January, ehac770.

Author Correction: Epidemiology and Modifiable Risk Factors for Atrial Fibrillation. Elliott, Adrian D., Melissa E. Middeldorp, Isabelle C. Van Gelder, Christine M. Albert, and Prashanthan Sanders. Nature Reviews. Cardiology, January.

TRANSFORM-HF-Can We Close the Loop on Diuretics in Heart Failure? Kittleson, Michelle M. JAMA 329 (3): 211–13.

Catheter Ablation of Idiopathic Left Fascicular Ventricular Tachycardia: Implications of False Tendons for Mapping and Ablation. Ma, Wei, Jiuchun Qiu, Fengmin Lu, M. D. Michael Shehata, Xunzhang Wang, Le He, Fan Zhang, Shaobo Fan, M. D. Enyuan Zhang, Dongyan Wu, Zulu Wang, and Jing Xu. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, January.

Use of Levosimendan in Patients With Pulmonary Hypertension: What Is the Current Evidence? Masarone, Daniele, Michelle Kittleson, Piero Pollesello, Ryan J. Tedford, and Giuseppe Pacileo. Drugs, January.

High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin Assays in U.S. Hospitals: A Report Card. Gulati, Martha, and David D. Berg. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 81 (3): 220–23.

Imaging

Clinical and Coronary Plaque Predictors of Atherosclerotic Nonresponse to Statin Therapy. Rosendael, Sophie E. van, Inge J. van den Hoogen, Fay Y. Lin, Daniele Andreini, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, Matthew J. Budoff, Filippo Cademartiri, Kavitha Chinnaiyan, Jung Hyun Choi, Edoardo Conte, Hugo Marques, Pedro de Araújo Gonçalves, Ilan Gottlieb, Martin Hadamitzky, Jonathon A. Leipsic, Erica Maffei, Gianluca Pontone, Gilbert L. Raff, Sanghoon Shin, Yong-Jin Kim, Byoung Kwon Lee, Eun Ju Chun, Ji Min Sung, Sang-Eun Lee, Renu Virmani, Habib Samady, Peter H. Stone, James K. Min, Jagat Narula, Leslee J. Shaw, Hyuk-Jae Chang, Alexander R. van Rosendael, and Jeroen J. Bax. JACC. Cardiovascular Imaging, November, S1936-878X(22)00655-6.

Coronary Artery Calcium Dispersion and Cause-Specific Mortality. Dudum, Ramzi, Zeina A. Dardari, David I. Feldman, Daniel S. Berman, Matthew J. Budoff, Michael D. Miedema, Khurram Nasir, Alan Rozanski, John A. Rumberger, Leslee Shaw, Omar Dzaye, Miguel Caínzos-Achirica, Jaideep Patel, and Michael J. Blaha. The American Journal of Cardiology 191 (January): 76–83.

Relationship between Impaired Myocardial Blood Flow by Positron Emission Tomography and Low-Attenuation Plaque Burden and Pericoronary Adipose Tissue Attenuation From Coronary Computed Tomography: From the Prospective PACIFIC Trial. Kuronuma, Keiichiro, Pepijn A. van Diemen, Donghee Han, Andrew Lin, Kajetan Grodecki, Jacek Kwiecinski, Manish Motwani, Priscilla McElhinney, Guadalupe Flores Tomasino, Caroline Park, Alan Kwan, Evangelos Tzolos, Eyal Klein, Benjamin Shou, Balaji Tamarappoo, Sebastien Cadet, Ibrahim Danad, Roel S. Driessen, Daniel S. Berman, Piotr J. Slomka, Damini Dey, and Paul Knaapen. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, January.

Optimizing Molecular Testing of Lung Cancer Needle Biopsy Specimens: Potential Solutions From an Interdisciplinary Qualitative Study. Fintelmann, Florian J., Nikki A. Martin, Ismail Tahir, Elissa M. Quinn, Timothy C. Allen, Lija Joseph, Boris Nikolic, and Christopher Lee. Respiratory Research 24 (1): 17.

Medicine

A Rare Case: Adrenal Corticomedullary Mixed Tumor With Elements of Pheochromocytoma, Cortical Adenoma, and Ganglioneuroma Cells. Patel, Erica, Yufei Chen, Xuemo Fan, Ning-Ai Liu, Anne Marie Westreich, Kathryn Reyes, and Artak Labadzhyan. AACE Clinical Case Reports 9 (1): 17–20.

Total Parenteral Nutrition Pleural Effusion After Peripherally Inserted Central Venous Catheter Insertion Despite Fluoroscopic Confirmation. Yang, Michael, and Angelena Lopez. SAGE Open Medical Case Reports 11: 2050313X221147421. 

Machine Learning for Prediction of All-Cause Mortality After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation. Kwiecinski, Jacek, Maciej Dabrowski, Luis Nombela-Franco, Kajetan Grodecki, Konrad Pieszko, Zbigniew Chmielak, Anna Pylko, Breda Hennessey, Lukasz Kalinczuk, Gabriela Tirado-Conte, Bartosz Rymuza, Janusz Kochman, Maksymilian P. Opolski, Zenon Huczek, Marc R. Dweck, Damini Dey, Pilar Jimenez-Quevedo, Piotr Slomka, and Adam Witkowski. European Heart Journal. Quality of Care & Clinical Outcomes, January, qcad002.

Neurology

Prevalence of Frontotemporal Dementia in Females of 5 Hispanic Families With R159H VCP Multisystem Proteinopathy. Shmara, Alyaa, Liliane Gibbs, Ryan Patrick Mahoney, Kyle Hurth, Vanessa S. Goodwill, Alicia Cuber, Regina Im, Donald P. Pizzo, Jerry Brown, Christina Laukaitis, Shalini Mahajan, and Virginia Kimonis. Neurology. Genetics 9 (1): e200037.

Neurosurgery

A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Tranexamic Acid in Surgical Procedure for Intracranial Meningioma. Wijaya, Jeremiah Hilkiah, Julius July, Miguel Quintero-Consuegra, and Daniela Perez Chadid. Journal of Neuro-Oncology, January.

Surgical Management of Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease. Quintero-Consuegra, Miguel D., Daniel Chang, Peyton Nisson, and Nestor R. Gonzalez. Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine, January.

OBGYN

Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders: Biomarker Discovery Using Plasma Proteomics. Accortt, Eynav, James Mirocha, Dongsheng Zhang, Sarah J. Kilpatrick, Towia Libermann, and S. Ananth Karumanchi. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, January, S0002-9378(23)00016-9.

Orthopaedics

Ultrasound-Guided Pulsed Radiofrequency of Cervical Nerve Root for Cervical Radicular Pain: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial. Chalermkitpanit, Pornpan, Patt Pannangpetch, Yuwarin Kositworakitkun, Weerasak Singhatanadgige, Wicharn Yingsakmongkol, Porntipa Pasuhirunnikorn, and Teerachat Tanasansomboon. The Spine Journal, January, S1529-9430(23)00008-6.

Pathology

Multiply Recurrent Composite Hemangioendothelioma of Penis With Histologic Progression to High-Grade Features. Bui, Chau M., and Bonnie Balzer. Dermatopathology (Basel, Switzerland) 10 (1): 41–45.

Pediatrics

A DLG1-ARHGAP31-CDC42 Axis Is Essential for the Intestinal Stem Cell Response to Fluctuating Niche Wnt Signaling. Castillo-Azofeifa, David, Tomas Wald, Efren A. Reyes, Aaron Gallagher, Julia Schanin, Stephanie Vlachos, Nathalie Lamarche-Vane, Carolyn Bomidi, Sarah Blutt, Mary K. Estes, Todd Nystul, and Ophir D. Klein. Cell Stem Cell, January, S1934-5909(22)00492-1.

Psychiatry

Extracurricular Activities, Child and Caregiver Mental Health and Parental Aggravation-a National Cross-Sectional Study. La Charite, Jaime, James Macinko, Rebecca Hedrick, Mercedes Santoro, and Rebecca Dudovitz. Academic Pediatrics, January, S1876-2859(23)00002-5.

Surgery

Preoperative Computed Tomography Indices Predict Non-Reach Prior to Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastomosis. Adams, Evan D., Charlotte A. Lansky, Cindy E. Kallman, Karen N. Zaghiyan, and Phillip R. Fleshner. Diseases of the Colon and Rectum, January.

Cochlear Implantation after Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Vestibular Schwannoma: Initial Hearing Improvement and Longevity of Hearing Restoration. Young, Kurtis, Maeher R. Grewal, Rodney C. Diaz, Arthur W. Wu, and Mia E. Miller. Otology & Neurotology, 10.1097/MAO.0000000000003815.

Urology

Use of Voice Recordings in the Consultation of Patients Seeking Genital Gender-Affirming Surgery: An Opportunity for Broader Application Throughout Surgery? Smith, Shannon M., Jenna Stelmar, Grace Lee, Peter R. Carroll, and Maurice M. Garcia. Journal of Surgery and Research 5 (4): 618–25.

Effects of Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy on Orgasm Function of Transgender Men and Women: A Long Term Follow Up. Zaliznyak, Michael, Marie Lauzon, Jenna Stelmar, Nance Yuan, Shannon M. Smith, and Maurice M. Garcia. Urology, January, S0090-4295(23)00034-1.

Reply to Sandra Patricia García Nader, Sebastián Peña Rodríguez, and Cesar Alejandro Diaz Ritter’s Letter to the Editor Re: Farnoosh Nik-Ahd, Andrew Jarjour, Jane Figueiredo, et al. Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening in Transgender Patients. Eur Urol. 2023;83:48-54. Nik-Ahd, Farnoosh, Matthew R. Cooperberg, and Stephen J. Freedland. European Urology, January, S0302-2838(22)02918-9.