This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published March 14-21. 

Biomedical Sciences

CT Pericoronary Adipose Tissue Density Predicts Coronary Allograft Vasculopathy and Adverse Clinical Outcomes After Cardiac Transplantation. Wall, Christopher, Jonathan Weir-McCall, Katharine Tweed, Stephen P. Hoole, Deepa Gopalan, Yuan Huang, Andrej Corovic, Marta Peverelli, Damini Dey, Martin R. Bennett, James H. F. Rudd, Anna Kydd, Sai Bhagra, and Jason M. Tarkin. European Heart Journal. Cardiovascular Imaging, March, jeae069.

Cardiac Surgery

Choice of Revascularization Strategy for Ischemic Cardiomyopathy Due to Multi-Vessel Coronary Disease. Alzahrani, Anas H., Shinobu Itagaki, Natalia Egorova, and Joanna Chikwe. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, March, S0022-5223(24)00208-3.

Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion in Donation After Circulatory Death: A Post-Hoc Analysis of the NOVEL Trial. Gouchoe, Doug A., Pablo G. Sanchez, Jonathan D’Cunha, Christian A. Bermudez, Mani A. Daneshmand, Robert D. Davis, Matthew G. Hartwig, Thomas C. Wozniak, Zachary N. Kon, Bartley P. Griffith, William R. Lynch, Tiago N. Machuca, Michael J. Weyant, Michael E. Jessen, Michael S. Mulligan, Frank D’Ovidio, Phillip C. Camp, Edward Cantu, Bryan A. Whitson, and NOVEL and NOVEL Extension Trial Investigators. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, March, S0022-5223(24)00212-5.

Cardiology

Advancing the Care of Individuals With Cancer Through Innovation & Technology: Proceedings From the Cardiology Oncology Innovation Summit 2020 and 2021. Brown, Sherry-Ann, Craig Beavers, Brenton Bauer, Richard K. Cheng, Generika Berman, Catherine H. Marshall, Avirup Guha, Prantesh Jain, Austin Steward, Jeanne M. DeCara, Iredia M. Olaye, Kathryn Hansen, Hugo Martinez, et al. American Heart Journal Plus: Cardiology Research and Practice 38 (February): 100354.

Sex Differences in High-Cost Users of Healthcare for Atrial Fibrillation. Sandhu, Roopinder K., Hena Qureshi, Heather Halperin, Douglas C. Dover, Nathan Klassen, Nathaniel M. Hawkins, Jason G. Andrade, and Padma Kaul. CJC Open 6 (2Part B): 407–16.

The Canadian Women’s Heart Health Alliance ATLAS on the Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Management of Cardiovascular Disease in Women - Chapter 7: Sex, Gender, and the Social Determinants of Health. Norris, Colleen M., Kerri-Anne Mullen, Heather J. A. Foulds, Shahin Jaffer, Kara Nerenberg, Martha Gulati, Nazli Parast, Nicole Tegg, Christine A. Gonsalves, Jasmine Grewal, Donna Hart, Anna L. E. Levinsson, and Sharon L. Mulvagh. CJC Open 6 (2Part B): 205–19.

The Canadian Women’s Heart Health Alliance ATLAS on the Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Management of Cardiovascular Disease in Women - Chapter 9: Summary of Current Status, Challenges, Opportunities, and Recommendations. Mulvagh, Sharon L., Tracey J. F. Colella, Martha Gulati, Rebecca Crosier, Saleema Allana, Varinder Kaur Randhawa, Jill Bruneau, Christine Pacheco, Shahin Jaffer, Lisa Cotie, Emma Mensour, Marie-Annick Clavel, Braeden Hill, Amy A. Kirkham, Heather Foulds, Kiera Liblik, Andrea Van Damme, Sherry L. Grace, Karen Bouchard, Heather Tulloch, Helen Robert, April Pike, Jamie L. Benham, Nicole Tegg, Nazli Parast, Najah Adreak, Laurie-Anne Boivin-Proulx, Monica Parry, Zoya Gomes, Hope Sarfi, Chinelo Iwegim, Harriette G. C. Van Spall, Kara A. Nerenberg, Stephen P. Wright, Jayneelkumar A. Limbachia, Kerri-Anne Mullen, and Colleen M. Norris. CJC Open 6 (2Part B): 258–78.

The Development of a Chest-Pain Protocol for Women Presenting to the Emergency Department. Jaffer, Shahin, Meagan Noble, Anita Pozgay, Varinder Randhawa, Martha Gulati, Emma Mensour, Nazli Parast, Nicole Tegg, Emilie Theberge, Elsa-Karine Harchaoui, and Sharon L. Mulvagh. CJC Open 6 (2Part B): 517–29.

Closing the Sex Gap in Cardiovascular Mortality by Achieving Both Horizontal and Vertical Equity. Bugiardini, Raffaele, and Martha Gulati. Atherosclerosis 392 (March): 117500.

Myocardial Glycophagy Flux Dysregulation and Glycogen Accumulation Characterize Diabetic Cardiomyopathy. Mellor, Kimberley M., Upasna Varma, Parisa Koutsifeli, Lorna J. Daniels, Victoria L. Benson, Marco Annandale, Xun Li, Yohanes Nursalim, Johannes V. Janssens, Kate L. Weeks, Kim L. Powell, Terence J. O’Brien, Rajesh Katare, Rebecca H. Ritchie, James R. Bell, Roberta A. Gottlieb, and Lea M. D. Delbridge. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology 189 (March): 83–89.

Author’s Reply to Cardioneuroablation: Excessive Risk or Excessive Fear? Chakraborty, Praloy, Peng-Sheng Chen, Michael H. Gollob, Brian Olshansky, and Sunny S. Po. Heart Rhythm, March, S1547-5271(24)00278-9.

Characterization of Skin Sympathetic Nerve Activity in Patients Undergoing Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia. Chen, Jingjing, Brent L. Quam, Chuanwei Li, Xiao Liu, Peng-Sheng Chen, and Yong-Mei Cha. Heart Rhythm, March, S1547-5271(24)00279-0.

Efficacy and Safety of Aficamten in Symptomatic Non-Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Results From the REDWOOD-HCM Trial, Cohort 4. Masri, Ahmad, Mark V. Sherrid, Theodore P. Abraham, Lubna Choudhury, Pablo Garcia-Pavia, Christopher M. Kramer, Roberto Barriales-Villa, Anjali T. Owens, Florian Rader, Sherif F. Nagueh, Iacopo Olivotto, Sara Saberi, Albree Tower-Rader, Timothy C. Wong, Caroline J. Coats, Hugh Watkins, Michael A. Fifer, Scott D. Solomon, Stephen B. Heitner, Daniel L. Jacoby, Stuart Kupfer, Fady I. Malik, Lisa Meng, Regina L. Sohn, Amy Wohltman, Martin S. Maron, and REDWOOD-HCM Investigators. Journal of Cardiac Failure, March, S1071-9164(24)00082-4.

Inflammation, Infection, and Cardiovascular Risk. Sharma, Sanjiv, and Rohan Sharma. Lancet (London, England) 403 (10431): 1024–25.

Apolipoproteins Quantified Using Blood Volumetric Absorptive Microsampling and High-Throughput Mass Spectrometry for Risk Assessment in Ischemic Heart Disease. Marano, Paul, Kelly Mouapi, Andy Kim, Mitra Mastali, Irene van den Broek, Danica Manalo, Qin Fu, Susan Cheng, Chrisandra Shufelt, Brennan Spiegel, C. Noel Bairey Merz, and Jennifer E. Van Eyk. Circulation 149 (12): 970–72.

Deep Learning to Detect Left Ventricular Structural Abnormalities in Chest X-Rays. Bhave, Shreyas, Victor Rodriguez, Timothy Poterucha, Simukayi Mutasa, Dwight Aberle, Kathleen M. Capaccione, Yibo Chen, Belinda Dsouza, Shifali Dumeer, Jonathan Goldstein, Aaron Hodes, Jay Leb, Matthew Lungren, Mitchell Miller, David Monoky, Benjamin Navot, Kapil Wattamwar, Anoop Wattamwar, Kevin Clerkin, David Ouyang, Euan Ashley, Veli K. Topkara, Mathew Maurer, Andrew J. Einstein, Nir Uriel, Shunichi Homma, Allan Schwartz, Diego Jaramillo, Adler J. Perotte, and Pierre Elias. European Heart Journal, March, ehad782.

Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists Modestly Reduced Blood Pressure Among Patients With and Without Diabetes Mellitus: A Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression. Rivera, Frederick Berro, Grace Nooriza O. Lumbang, Danielle Rose Magno Gaid, Linnaeus Louisse A. Cruz, John Vincent Magalong, Nathan Ross B. Bantayan, Kyla M. Lara-Breitinger, Martha Gulati, and George Bakris. Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism, March.

Elevated High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Adverse Outcomes in Women With Symptoms of Ischemic Heart Disease. Ranasinghe, Sachini, Yujie Cui, Amer Muhyieddeen, Okezi Obrutu, Janet Wei, Martha Gulati, Vera Bittner, Steven Reis, Eileen Handberg, Carl J. Pepine, and C. Noel Bairey Merz. American Heart Journal Plus: Cardiology Research and Practice 40 (April): 100376.

Computational Biomedicine

TCGA-Reports: A Machine-Readable Pathology Report Resource for Benchmarking Text-Based AI Models. Kefeli, Jenna, and Nicholas Tatonetti. Patterns (New York, N.Y.) 5 (3): 100933.

Methods and Annotated Data Sets Used to Predict the Gender and Age of Twitter Users: Scoping Review. O’Connor, Karen, Su Golder, Davy Weissenbacher, Ari Z. Klein, Arjun Magge, and Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez. Journal of Medical Internet Research 26 (March): e47923.

Medicine

Reduced Left Ventricular Function on Cardiac MRI in SLE Patients Correlates With Measures of SLE Disease Activity and Inflammation. Hagiwara, Audrey M., Erica Montano, Gantseg Tumurkhuu, Moumita Bose, Marianne Bernardo, Daniel S. Berman, Galen Cook Wiens, Michael D. Nelson, Daniel J. Wallace, Janet Wei, Mariko Ishimori, C. Noel Bairey Merz, and Caroline Jefferies. Journal of Radiology and Clinical Imaging 6 (4): 197–207.

What Is Medical Extended Reality? A Taxonomy Defining the Current Breadth and Depth of an Evolving Field. Spiegel, Brennan M. R., Albert Rizzo, Susan Persky, Omer Liran, Brenda Wiederhold, Susan Woods, Kate Donovan, Korak Sarkar, Henry Xiang, Sun Joo, Rohan Jotwani, Min Lang, Margot Paul, Mike Senter-Zapata, Keith Widmeier, and Haipeng Zhang. Journal of Medical Extended Reality 1 (1): 4–12.

Comprehensive Association Analyses of Extraintestinal Manifestations in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Khrom, Michelle, Millie Long, Shishir Dube, Lori Robbins, Gregory J. Botwin, Shaohong Yang, Emebet Mengesha, Dalin Li, Takeo Naito, Nirupama N. Bonthala, Christina Ha, Gil Melmed, Shervin Rabizadeh, Gaurav Syal, Eric Vasiliauskas, David Ziring, Steven R. Brant, Judy Cho, Richard H. Duerr, John Rioux, Phil Schumm, Mark Silverberg, Ashwin N. Ananthakrishnan, William A. Faubion, Bana Jabri, Sergio A. Lira, Rodney D. Newberry, Robert S. Sandler, Ramnik J. Xavier, Subra Kugathasan, David Hercules, Stephan R. Targan, R. Balfour Sartor, Talin Haritunians, and Dermot P. B. McGovern. Gastroenterology, February, S0016-5085(24)00232-4.

Natural Products and Derivatives in Renal, Urothelial and Testicular Cancers: Targeting Signaling Pathways and Therapeutic Potential. Li, Dengxiong, Jie Wang, Zhouting Tuo, Koo Han Yoo, Qingxin Yu, Akira Miyamoto, Chi Zhang, Xing Ye, Wuran Wei, Ruicheng Wu, and Dechao Feng. Phytomedicine: International Journal of Phytotherapy and Phytopharmacology 127 (February): 155503.

Polymerase Chain Reaction Negative Cryptococcal Meningitis. O’Meara, Kyle T., June L. Chan, Stacey Ceron, and John C. Lam. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease 109 (2): 116251.

Geriatric Emergency Medication Safety Recommendations (GEMS-Rx): Modified Delphi Development of a High-Risk Prescription List for Older Emergency Department Patients. Skains, Rachel M., Jennifer L. Koehl, Amer Aldeen, Christopher R. Carpenter, Cameron J. Gettel, Elizabeth M. Goldberg, Ula Hwang, Keith E. Kocher, Lauren T. Southerland, Pawan Goyal, Carl T. Berdahl, Arjun K. Venkatesh, and Michelle P. Lin. Annals of Emergency Medicine, March, S0196-0644(24)00071-4.

Evidence-Based Guideline for the Management of Osteoporosis in Men. Fuggle, Nicholas R., Charlotte Beaudart, Olivier Bruyère, Bo Abrahamsen, Nasser Al-Daghri, Nansa Burlet, Manju Chandran, Mario M. Rosa, Bernard Cortet, Céline Demonceau, Willard Dere, Philippe Halbout, Mickaël Hiligsmann, John A. Kanis, Jean-Marc Kaufman, Andreas Kurth, Olivier Lamy, Andrea Laslop, Stefania Maggi, Radmila Matijevic, Eugene McCloskey, Ali Mobasheri, Maria C. Prieto Yerro, Régis P. Radermecker, Shaun Sabico, Yousef Al-Saleh, Stuart Silverman, Nicola Veronese, René Rizzoli, Cyrus Cooper, Jean-Yves Reginster, and Nicholas C. Harvey. Nature Reviews. Rheumatology, March.

Phase 2, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of a c-Jun N-Terminal Kinase Inhibitor in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Mattos, Waldo L. L. D., Nasreen Khalil, Lisa G. Spencer, Francesco Bonella, Rodney J. Folz, J. Douglass Rolf, Nesrin Mogulkoc, Lisa H. Lancaster, R. Gisli Jenkins, David A. Lynch, Paul W. Noble, Toby M. Maher, Vincent Cottin, Stefanie Senger, Gerald S. Horan, Steven Greenberg, and Zoran Popmihajlov. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, March.

Reactive Oxygen Species-Responsive Nanoparticles Toward Extracellular Matrix Normalization for Pancreatic Fibrosis Regression. Qi, Liang, Bo-Wen Duan, Hui Wang, Yan-Jun Liu, Han Han, Meng-Meng Han, Lei Xing, Hu-Lin Jiang, Stephen J. Pandol, and Ling Li. Advanced Science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), March, e2401254.

The Role of Inflammation and Fibrosis in ILD Treatment Decisions. Behr, Juergen, Margaret L. Salisbury, Simon L. F. Walsh, Anna J. Podolanczuk, Lida P. Hariri, Gary M. Hunninghake, Martin Kolb, Christopher J. Ryerson, Vincent Cottin, Mary B. Beasley, Tamera Corte, Allan R. Glanville, Ayodeji Adegunsoye, Cory Hogaboam, Wim A. Wuyts, Imre Noth, Justin M. Oldham, Luca Richeldi, Ganesh Raghu, and Athol U. Wells. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, March.

Restaging With Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen Imaging in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: When Seeing More Is Detrimental to Care. Madan, Ravi A., Evan Y. Yu, Edwin M. Posadas, Richard J. Lee, Fatima Karzai, and Peter L. Choyke. Journal of Clinical Oncology:  Journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, March, JCO2302727.

Designing a Predictive Framework: Immune-Related Gene-Based Nomogram and Prognostic Model for Kidney Renal Papillary Cell Carcinoma. Lim, Adrian, Mouad Edderkaoui, Yi Zhang, Qiang Wang, Ruoxiang Wang, Stephen J. Pandol, and Yan Ou. International Immunopharmacology 131 (March): 111878.

Lac-Phe Mediates the Effects of Metformin on Food Intake and Body Weight. Xiao, Shuke, Veronica L. Li, Xuchao Lyu, Xudong Chen, Wei Wei, Fahim Abbasi, Joshua W. Knowles, Alan Sheng-Hwa Tung, Shuliang Deng, Gaurav Tiwari, Xu Shi, Shuning Zheng, Laurie Farrell, Zsu-Zsu Chen, Kent D. Taylor, Xiuqing Guo, Mark O. Goodarzi, Alexis C. Wood, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Leslie A. Lange, Stephen S. Rich, Jerome I. Rotter, Clary B. Clish, Usman A. Tahir, Robert E. Gerszten, Mark D. Benson, and Jonathan Z. Long. Nature Metabolism, March.

Family Health Beliefs and Cascade Genetic Testing in Asian Families With Hereditary Cancer Risk: ‘Okay, Now What?’ Tran, Leena, Jennifer L. Young, Claire M. Barton, Rachel Hodan, Andrea Hanson-Kahn, and Nicolette Chun. Journal of Genetic Counseling, March.

Pulmonary Vascular Dysfunctions in Cystic Fibrosis. Amoakon, Jean-Pierre, Goutham Mylavarapu, Raouf S. Amin, and Anjaparavanda P. Naren. Physiology (Bethesda, Md.), March.

Considerations Regarding Mohs Surgery for Early-Stage Merkel Cell Carcinoma. Faries, Mark B. JAMA Dermatology, March.

Reciprocal Inhibition Between TP63 and STAT1 Regulates Anti-Tumor Immune Response Through Interferon-? Signaling in Squamous Cancer. Jiang, Yuan, Yueyuan Zheng, Yuan-Wei Zhang, Shuai Kong, Jinxiu Dong, Fei Wang, Benjamin Ziman, Sigal Gery, Jia-Jie Hao, Dan Zhou, Jianian Zhou, Allen S. Ho, Uttam K. Sinha, Jian Chen, Shuo Zhang, Chuntong Yin, Dan-Dan Wei, Masaharu Hazawa, Huaguang Pan, Zhihao Lu, Wen-Qiang Wei, Ming-Rong Wang, H. Phillip Koeffler, De-Chen Lin, and Yan-Yi Jiang. Nature Communications 15 (1): 2484.

Reply to ‘Tumour Fibrosis in Dopamine Agonist-Exposed Prolactinomas Is a Diminishing Concern.’ Petersenn, Stephan, Maria Fleseriu, and Shlomo Melmed. Nature Reviews. Endocrinology, March.

Long-Term Open-Label Vebicorvir for Chronic HBV Infection: Safety and Off-Treatment Responses. Yuen, Man-Fung, Scott Fung, Xiaoli Ma, Tuan T. Nguyen, Tarek Hassanein, Hie-Won Hann, Magdy Elkhashab, Ronald G. Nahass, James S. Park, Ira M. Jacobson, Walid S. Ayoub, Steven-Huy Han, Edward J. Gane, Katie Zomorodi, Ran Yan, Julie Ma, Steven J. Knox, Luisa M. Stamm, Maurizio Bonacini, Frank Weilert, Alnoor Ramji, Michael Bennett, Natarajan Ravendhran, Sing Chan, Douglas T. Dieterich, Paul Yien Kwo, Eugene R. Schiff, Ho S. Bae, Jacob Lalezari, Kosh Agarwal, and Mark S. Sulkowski. JHEP Reports: Innovation in Hepatology 6 (4): 100999.

Neurosurgery

Optic Nerve Sheath MR Imaging Measurements in Patients With Orthostatic Headaches and Normal Findings on Conventional Imaging Predict the Presence of an Underlying CSF-Venous Fistula. Schievink, Wouter I., Marcel M. Maya, Angelique Sao-Mai S. Tay, Peyton L. Nisson, Jay Acharya, Rachelle B. Taché, and Miriam Nuño. AJNR. American Journal of Neuroradiology, March.

Orthopaedics

Bandage Contact Lens for In-Game Corneal Abrasion Can Allow Immediate Return to Play. Kubba, Rohan, Ganesha R. Kandavel, Joshua Scott, Cesar Roldan, and Hayden Jackson. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living 6: 1351906.

Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived iTenocytes via Combined Scleraxis Overexpression and 2D Uniaxial Tension. Yu, Victoria, Angela Papalamprou, and Dmitriy Sheyn. Journal of Visualized Experiments: JoVE, no. 205 (March).

Field Testing the Transferability of Behavioural Science Knowledge on Promoting Vaccinations. Saccardo, Silvia, Hengchen Dai, Maria A. Han, Sitaram Vangala, Juyea Hoo, and Jeffrey Fujimoto. Nature Human Behaviour, March.

Primary and Revision Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty Using a Patient-Matched Glenoid Implant for Severe Glenoid Bone Deficiency. Michelin, Richard M., Isaac Manuputy, Rajesh Rangarajan, Brian K. Lee, Mark Schultzel, and John M. Itamura. Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, March, S1058-2746(24)00184-8.

3D Analysis of Joint-Sparing Charcot-Marie-Tooth Surgery Effect on Initial Standing Foot Alignment. Song, Jae Hwang, Max P. Michalski, and Glenn B. Pfeffer. Foot & Ankle International, March, 10711007241232976.

Analyzing the Effect of Intraoperative Stimulation Voltage on Facial Numbness Following Radiofrequency Thermocoagulation in the Treatment of Idiopathic Trigeminal Neuralgia. Wang, Aitao, Jingjing Bian, Na Li, Jiaxiang Ni, Lea Zila, and Yuanzhang Tang. Pain and Therapy, March.

Characterizing Antibiotic Prophylaxis Practices in Pediatric Deformity Spinal Surgery and Impact on 30-Day Postoperative Infection: An NSQIP Pediatric Database Study. Chan, Vivien, David L. Skaggs, Robert H. Cho, Selina C. Poon, and Geoffrey Shumilak. Spine Deformity, March.

Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) Augmentation Enhances the Mechanical Characteristics of Midfoot Beam Constructs in Charcot Neuroarthropathy Cadaver Model. Pattisapu, Naveen, Dave T. Huang, Giselle Porter, Rebisi Owhonda, Timothy Charlton, Christopher Gross, David Thordarson, and Melodie F. Metzger. Foot & Ankle International, March, 10711007241237804.

Coronal Vertical Fracture of Vertebral Body Following Minimally Invasive Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion: Risk Factor Analysis in Consecutive Case Series. Ha, Kee-Yong, Young-Hoon Kim, Yong-Chan Kim, Hyung-Youl Park, Hyun Bae, and Sang-Il Kim. Acta Neurochirurgica 166 (1): 143.

Current Management of Acute and Posttraumatic Critical Bone Defects. Bernstein, Mitchell, Milton T. M. Little, and Geoffrey Marecek. Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma 38 (4S): S1–8.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Utility of Artificial Intelligence in a Binary Classification of Soft Tissue Tumors. Di, Jing, Caylin Hickey, Cody Bumgardner, Mustafa Yousif, Mauricio Zapata, Therese Bocklage, Bonnie Balzer, Marilyn M. Bui, Jerad M. Gardner, Liron Pantanowitz, and Shadi A. Qasem. Journal of Pathology Informatics 15 (December): 100368.

Radiation Oncology

Noninferiority of Hypofractionated vs Conventional Postprostatectomy Radiotherapy for Genitourinary and Gastrointestinal Symptoms: The NRG-GU003 Phase 3 Randomized Clinical Trial. Buyyounouski, Mark K., Stephanie L. Pugh, Ronald C. Chen, Mark J. Mann, Rajat J. Kudchadker, Andre A. Konski, Omar Y. Mian, Jeff M. Michalski, Eric Vigneault, Richard K. Valicenti, Maroie Barkati, Colleen A. F. Lawton, Louis Potters, Drew C. Monitto, Jeffrey A. Kittel, Thomas M. Schroeder, Raquibul Hannan, Casey E. Duncan, Joseph P. Rodgers, Felix Feng, and Howard M. Sandler. JAMA Oncology, March, e237291.

Adjusted Indirect Treatment Comparison of Progression-Free Survival With D-Rd and VRd Based on MAIA and SWOG S0777 Individual Patient-Level Data. Durie, Brian G. M., Shaji K. Kumar, Eric M. Ammann, Alex Z. Fu, Shuchita Kaila, Annette Lam, Saad Z. Usmani, and Thierry Facon. Advances in Therapy, March.

Metabolic Targeting of Cancer Associated Fibroblasts Overcomes T-Cell Exclusion and Chemoresistance in Soft-Tissue Sarcomas. Broz, Marina T., Emily Y. Ko, Kristin Ishaya, Jinfen Xiao, Marco De Simone, Xen Ping Hoi, Roberta Piras, Basia Gala, Fernando H. G. Tessaro, Anja Karlstaedt, Sandra Orsulic, Amanda W. Lund, Keith Syson Chan, and Jlenia Guarnerio. Nature Communications 15 (1): 2498.

Surgery

Anatomical and Technical Considerations in Fascicular Nerve Transfers for Foot Drop. Seruya, Mitchel. Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery, March.

Initial Outcomes of the Gore TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis for Endovascular Repair of Blunt Thoracic Aortic Injury. Chou, Elizabeth L., Eileen Lu, Michael D. Dake, Michael P. Fischbein, Joseph E. Bavaria, Gustavo Oderich, Michel S. Makaroun, Kristofer M. Charlton-Ouw, Thomas Naslund, Bjoern D. Suckow, Jon S. Matsumura, Himanshu J. Patel, and Ali Azizzadeh. Annals of Vascular Surgery, March, S0890-5096(24)00097-9.

Reconstruction of an Obliterated Eustachian Tube: Transnasal Lighted Guidewire Catheter Stenting. Hsue, Victor Bor-Chang, Yu-Tung Wong, Arthur Wu, and Dennis Tang. BMJ Case Reports 17 (3): e256748.

Sinonasal Tumors Masquerading as Invasive Fungal Sinusitis (IFS). Pak, Kaitlynne Y., Victor B. Hsue, Matthew K. Lee, Michelle M. Chen, Bonnie Balzer, Arthur W. Wu, and Dennis M. Tang. The Annals of Otology, Rhinology, and Laryngology, March, 34894241238864.

Bullet Holes: A Novel Model to Identify the Most Impactful Gaps in the Firearm Homicide Prevention Laws of Each State. Laudon, Aksel D., Elizabeth S. Davis, Xuewei Zhao, Kelly Kenzik, Crisanto Torres, Sabrina E. Sanchez, Tejal S. Brahmbhatt, and Dane R. Scantling. The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, March.

Trends in Gastric Surgery Operative Experience Among General Surgery Residents in the United States: A Nationwide Retrospective Analysis. Sohail, Amir Humza, Samuel L. Flesner, Kevin A. Martinez, Hoang Nguyen, Christian Martinez, Ivan B. Ye, Bshara H. Jreisat, Amal Rohail, Mohammed A. Quazi, Tulio Brasileiro Silva Pacheco, Caroline Elizabeth Williams, Umar F. Bhatti, Abu Baker Sheikh, and Aman Goyal. Surgery, March, S0039-6060(24)00075-8.

Urology

Contemporary Risk of Biochemical Recurrence After Radical Prostatectomy in the Active Surveillance Era. Das, Sanjay, Michael Luu, Martha Terris, Zachary Klaassen, Christopher J. Kane, Christopher Amling, Matthew Cooperberg, Lourdes Guerrios Rivera, William Aronson, Stephen J. Freedland, and Timothy J. Daskivich. Urologic Oncology, March, S1078-1439(24)00344-2.

High-Resolution Diffusion-Weighted Imaging to Detect Changes in Tumor Size and ADC, and Predict Adverse Biopsy Histology During Prostate Cancer Active Surveillance. Saouaf, Rola, Yibin Xie, Sungjin Kim, Yaniv Raphael, Christopher Nguyen, Daniel J. Luthringer, Timothy J. Daskivich, Eric Lo, Mourad Tighiouart, Debiao Li, and Hyung Lae Kim. Cancer Research Communications, March.