This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published May 23-30.

Anesthesiology

A Pilot Study of Procedural Oxygen Mask (POM) in Patients With Obesity During Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Under Monitored Anesthesia Care. Bonge, Sam, James M. Mirocha, Theodore Stein, Deena Midani, David Padua, and Megumi Nakamura. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 96 (May): 111501.

Biomedical Sciences

MivacunaLA (MyshotLA): A Community-Partnered Mobile Phone Intervention to Improve COVID-19 Vaccination Behaviors Among Low-Income, Spanish-Speaking, and Immigrant Latino Parents or Caregivers. Castellon-Lopez, Yelba M., Alexandra M. Klomhaus, Cruz Garcia, Denise Marquez, Hilda Avila, Hannah Gravette, Ray Lopez-Chang, Brenda Ortega, Keith C. Norris, Arleen F. Brown, and Luisa Blanco. Vaccines 12 (5): 511.

Neutrophils Expressing Programmed Death-Ligand 1 Play an Indispensable Role in Effective Bacterial Elimination and Resolving Inflammation in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Infection. Terasaki, Azusa, Faizan Ahmed, Alato Okuno, Zhenzi Peng, Duo-Yao Cao, and Suguru Saito. Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) 13 (5): 401.

Lactococcus Lactis Subsp. Cremoris C60 Upregulates Macrophage Function by Modifying Metabolic Preference in Enhanced Anti-Tumor Immunity. Saito, Suguru, Duo-Yao Cao, Toshio Maekawa, Noriko M. Tsuji, and Alato Okuno. Cancers 16 (10): 1928.

HIV Infection and ART Exposure Impact Tumor T-Cell Receptor Repertoire of Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma. Roush, Sophia M., Jenny Coelho, Alexander M. Xu, Kaushik Puranam, Marriam Mponda, Edwards Kasonkanji, Maurice Mulenga, Tamiwe Tomoka, Jonathan Galeotti, Amy Brownlee, Hormas Ghadially, Maganizo Chagomerana, Blossom Damania, Matthew Painschab, Akil Merchant, Satish Gopal, and Yuri Fedoriw. JCI Insight, May, e180771.

Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaque Activity and Risk of Myocardial Infarction. Wang, Kang-Ling, Craig Balmforth, Mohammed N. Meah, Marwa Daghem, Alastair J. Moss, Evangelos Tzolos, Jacek Kwiecinski, Patrycja Molek-Dziadosz, Neil Craig, Anda Bularga, Philip D. Adamson, Dana K. Dawson, Parthiban Arumugam, Nikant K. Sabharwal, John P. Greenwood, Jonathan N. Townend, Patrick A. Calvert, James H. F. Rudd, Johan W. Verjans, Daniel S. Berman, Piotr J. Slomka, Damini Dey, Nicholas L. Mills, Edwin J. R. van Beek, Michelle C. Williams, Marc R. Dweck, David E. Newby, and PRE(18)FFIR Study Investigators. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 83 (22): 2135–44.

Cardiac Surgery

Safety Outcomes of Anti-Platelet Therapy Post Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis of Randomized Control Trials. Hasan, Syed U, Alina Pervez, Arshad A Shah, Syed DA Shah, Muhammad Aslam, Anosha Arshad, Amna S Rajput, and M. Mujeeb Zubair. Perfusion 39 (4): 684–97.

Cardiology

Contemporary Management of the Failing Fontan. Venkatesh, Prashanth, Hans Gao, Islam Abudayyeh, Ramdas G. Pai, and Padmini Varadarajan. Journal of Clinical Medicine 13 (11): 3049.

Genome-Wide Association Study of Apparent Treatment-Resistant Hypertension. Niiranen, Teemu, Anni Kauko, Felix Vaura, Joe Ebinger, Daniel Gordin, and Susan Cheng. Journal of Hypertension 42 (Suppl 1): e175.

Equity and Representation in Cardiology Research: A Comprehensive Analysis of Authorship From Low and Low-Middle Income Countries in Cardiology Journals. De Oliveira-Gomes, Diana, Christian Guilliod, Karim Gebran, Alfonso Martinez de Majo, Gabriela Lombardo, Ruth Garcia, Victoria Abadi, and Martha Gulati. Current Problems in Cardiology 49 (8): 102667.

Safety and Efficacy of Adaptive Atrial Pacing Regulated by Blood Pressure During Low-Level Exercise: A Proof-of-Concept Study. Burnam, Michael, Robert Develle, Leo Polosajian, Shakeh Nalbandian, Kenneth Ellenbogen, and Eli Gang. ESC Heart Failure, May.

The Impact of the OPTN Policy Change on Patients With a Durable Left Ventricular Assist Device and Chronic Kidney Disease: Analysis of the UNOS Database. Warner, Eric D., Christopher Pritting, Sawan Dutta, Matthew Bierowski, Waqas Ullah, Yevgeniy Brailovsky, Michelle Kittleson, Rene J. Alvarez, J. Eduardo Rame, Alexander Hajduczok, Vineeta Kumar, Danial Ahmad, Vakhtang Tchantchaleishvili, and Indranee N. Rajapreyar. Artificial Organs, May.

Women Trainees in Electrophysiology and the Effect of Role Models. Baykaner, Tina, Shana Greif, Ramya S. Vajapey, Christine M. Albert, Zaid Aziz, Nitish Badhwar, T. Jared Bunch, Jim W. Cheung, Jonathan Chrispin, Mina K. Chung, Paul Clopton, Daniel H. Cooper, Joshua M. Cooper, Alexandru Costea, Henry D. Huang, Jodie L. Hurwitz, Lior Jankelson, Ridhima Kapoor, Anne Kroman, Rakesh Latchamsetty, Jackson J. Liang, Moussa Mansour, Nassir F. Marrouche, Faisal M. Merchant, John M. Miller, Stavros Mountantonakis, Jonathan P. Piccini, Andrea M. Russo, Benjamin A. Steinberg, Usha Tedrow, Wendy S. Tzou, Elaine Y. Wan, Paul J. Wang, and Janet K. Han. Circulation. Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, May, e012577.

Kidney Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries After Hospitalization for Heart Failure. Ostrominski, John W., Stephen J. Greene, Ravi B. Patel, Nicole C. Solomon, Karen Chiswell, Adam D. DeVore, Javed Butler, Paul A. Heidenreich, Joanna C. Huang, Michelle M. Kittleson, Karen E. Joynt Maddox, Karthik K. Linganathan, James J. McDermott, Anjali Tiku Owens, Pamela N. Peterson, Scott D. Solomon, Orly Vardeny, Clyde W. Yancy, Gregg C. Fonarow, and Muthiah Vaduganathan. JAMA Cardiology, May.

Imaging

Imaging of Spondylodiscitis: A Comprehensive Updated Review-Multimodality Imaging Findings, Differential Diagnosis, and Specific Microorganisms Detection. Crombé, Amandine, David Fadli, Roberta Clinca, Giorgio Reverchon, Luca Cevolani, Marco Girolami, Olivier Hauger, George R. Matcuk, and Paolo Spinnato. Microorganisms 12 (5): 893.

Application of Quantitative Assessment of Coronary Atherosclerosis by Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography. Lee, Su Nam, Andrew Lin, Damini Dey, Daniel S. Berman, and Donghee Han. Korean Journal of Radiology 25 (6): 518–39.

Medicine

Landscape of TPMT and NUDT15 Pharmacogenetic Variation in a Cohort of Canadian Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients. Kennedy, April M., Anne M. Griffiths, Aleixo M. Muise, Thomas D. Walters, Amanda Ricciuto, Hien Q. Huynh, Eytan Wine, Kevan Jacobson, Sally Lawrence, Nicholas Carman, David R. Mack, Jennifer C. deBruyn, Anthony R. Otley, Colette Deslandres, Wael El-Matary, Mary Zachos, Eric I. Benchimol, Jeffrey Critch, Rilla Schneider, Eileen Crowley, Michael Li, Neil Warner, Dermot P. B. McGovern, Dalin Li, Talin Haritunians, Sarah Rudin, and Iris Cohn. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, May, izae109.

Disparities in Palliative Care Use for Patients With Blood Cancer Who Died in the Hospital. Hsieh, Tien-Chan, Yee Hui Yeo, Guangchen Zou, Chan Zhou, and Arlene Ash. The American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care, May, 10499091241254523.

Percutaneous Microaxial Ventricular Assist Device Versus Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump for Nonacute Myocardial Infarction Cardiogenic Shock. Watanabe, Atsuyuki, Yoshihisa Miyamoto, Hiroki Ueyama, Hiroshi Gotanda, Yusuke Tsugawa, and Toshiki Kuno. Journal of the American Heart Association, May, e034645.

Inhaled Treprostinil in Pulmonary Hypertension Associated With COPD: PERFECT Study Results. Nathan, Steven D., Rahul Argula, Maria G. Trivieri, Sameh Aziz, Elizabeth Gay, Boris Medarov, Joseph Parambil, Amresh Raina, Michael G. Risbano, Thenappan Thenappan, Jose Soto Soto, Heidi Bell, Victoria Lacasse, Prakash Sista, Michael Di Marino, Aimee Smart, Brittanie Hawkes, Elizabeth Nelson, Todd Bull, Victor Tapson, and Aaron Waxman. The European Respiratory Journal, May, 2400172.

Two Genome-Wide Interaction Loci Modify the Association of Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs With Colorectal Cancer. Drew, David A., Andre E. Kim, Yi Lin, Conghui Qu, John Morrison, Juan Pablo Lewinger, Eric Kawaguchi, Jun Wang, Yubo Fu, Natalia Zemlianskaia, Virginia Díez-Obrero, Stephanie A. Bien, W. James Gauderman, et al. Science Advances 10 (22): eadk3121.

Neurology

Advancements in Dementia Research, Diagnostics, and Care in Latin America: Highlights From the 2023 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference Satellite Symposium in Mexico City. Sosa, Ana Luisa, Sonia Md Brucki, Lucia Crivelli, Francisco Javier Lopera, Daisy M. Acosta, Juliana Acosta-Uribe, Diego Aguilar, Sara G. Aguilar-Navarro, Ricardo F. Allegri, Paulo Hf Bertolucci, Ismael L. Calandri, Maria C. Carrillo, Patricio Alexis Chrem Mendez, Mario Cornejo-Olivas, Nilton Custodio, Andrés Damian, Leonardo Cruz de Souza, Claudia Duran-Aniotz, Adolfo M. García, Carmen García-Peña, Mitzi M. Gonzales, Lea T. Grinberg, Agustin M. Ibanez, Maryenela Zaida Illanes-Manrique, Clifford R. Jack, Jorge Mario Leon-Salas, Jorge J. Llibre-Guerra, José Luna-Muñoz, Diana Matallana, Bruce L. Miller, Lorina Naci, Mario A. Parra, Margaret Pericak-Vance, Stefanie D. Piña-Escudero, Elisa de Paula França Resende, John M. Ringman, Gustavo Sevlever, Andrea Slachevsky, Claudia Kimie Suemoto, Victor Valcour, Andres Villegas-Lanau, Mônica S. Yassuda, Simin Mahinrad, and Claire Sexton. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, May.

OBGYN

Evaluation of a Conference on Cancer-Related Financial and Legal Issues: A Potential Resource to Counter Financial Toxicity. Ghazal, Lauren V., Joanna Doran, Monica Bryant, Brad Zebrack, and Margaret I. Liang. Current Oncology (Toronto, Ont.) 31 (5): 2817–35.

Trends in Estimated PARP Inhibitor Eligibility and Benefit Among US Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Patients. Carballo, Erica V., Kenneth H. Kim, and Courtney A. Penn. Gynecologic Oncology 187 (May): 204–11.

Implication of United States Abortion Policies on Quantity and Impact of Abortion-Related Research. Levin, Gabriel, Yoav Brezinov, Kacey M. Hamilton, and Raanan Meyer. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, May.

Orthopaedics

Incidental Dural Tears During Pediatric Posterior Spinal Fusions. Nilssen, Paal K., Edward Compton, Stephen Stephan, Lindsay M. Andras, Jason K. Chu, David L. Skaggs, and Kenneth D. Illingworth. Spine Deformity, May.

Staged Versus Same-Day Surgery in Circumferential Minimally Invasive Deformity Correction. Kolcun, John Paul G., Richard G. Fessler, Pierce D. Nunley, Robert K. Eastlack, Praveen V. Mummaneni, David O. Okonkwo, Juan S. Uribe, Kai-Ming Fu, Michael Y. Wang, Adam S. Kanter, Neel Anand, Gregory M. Mundis, Peter G. Passias, Dean Chou, and International Spine Study Group. Neurosurgery, May.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

B-Cell Prolymphocytic Leukemia: An Enduring Bona Fide Entity. Gonzalez-Mancera, Miguel S., Jean Lopategui, David Hoffman, Sumire Kitahara, and Serhan Alkan. International Journal of Hematology, May.

Pediatrics

Patterning and Folding of Intestinal Villi by Active Mesenchymal Dewetting. Huycke, Tyler R., Teemu J. Häkkinen, Hikaru Miyazaki, Vasudha Srivastava, Emilie Barruet, Christopher S. McGinnis, Ali Kalantari, Jake Cornwall-Scoones, Dedeepya Vaka, Qin Zhu, Hyunil Jo, Roger Oria, Valerie M. Weaver, William F. DeGrado, Matt Thomson, Krishna Garikipati, Dario Boffelli, Ophir D. Klein, and Zev J. Gartner. Cell, May, S0092-8674(24)00465-3.

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Fast Facts and Concepts #483: Commonly Used Supplements for Cancer-Related Symptom Management. Chang, Philip, Lauren J. Amaral, Yen Nien (Jason) Hou, Jyothirmai Gubili, and Arash Asher. Journal of Palliative Medicine, May.

Surgery

Transcriptomic Profiling of Plasma Extracellular Vesicles Enables Reliable Annotation of the Cancer-Specific Transcriptome and Molecular Subtype. Bahrambeigi, Vahid, Jaewon J. Lee, Vittorio Branchi, Kimal I. Rajapakshe, Zhichao Xu, Naishu Kui, Jason T. Henry, Wang Kun, Bret M. Stephens, Sarah Dhebat, Mark W. Hurd, Ryan Sun, Peng Yang, Eytan Ruppin, Wenyi Wang, Scott Kopetz, Anirban Maitra, and Paola A. Guerrero. Cancer Research 84 (10): 1719–32.

The Aging Surgeon: Considerations for Navigating a Successful and Satisfying Career. Smith, Brian R., Edward H. Phillips, Julie A. Freischlag, Kenji Inaba, and Michael Stamos. The American Surgeon, May, 31348241256076.

Establishing the Preface for a Unified Otolaryngology Residency Curriculum: Implications and Considerations. Nadeem, Wasiq, Matthew K. Lee, Meridith M. Lind, Jeffrey P. Simons, James C. Denneny, and Sonya Malekzadeh. Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery, May.

Etiology and Management of 800 Patients With Facial Palsy at a Private Practice Setting Over a 5-Year Period. Melhem, Antonio M., Nicole Leshgold, Henry Pokress, Robert A. Younan, Mario Haddad, Rami S. Kantar, and Babak Azizzadeh. The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, May.