Congratulations to all Department of Surgery members who were published in August! Published faculty were Doctors Mazen Al-Mansour, Thomas Beaver, Dejana Braithwaite, Guoshuai Cai, Michol Cooper, Sergio Duarte, Kirsten Freeman, Thomas Huber, Shama Karanth, Sailesh Konda, Tyler Loftus, Robert Maile, Giles Peek, Steven Raymond, Salvatore Scali, and Gilbert Upchurch.
ACS Applied Bio Materials
- Purvis ME, Picciotti SL, Lynch AL, Bradshaw TM, Anderson DE, Warchol MF, Bucci MP, Maile R, Wallet SM, Schoenfisch MH. Nitric oxide-releasing, hyaluronic acid-coated electrospun fibers as dual-action wound dressings. ACS Appl Bio Mater. 2025 Sep 15;8(9):7771-7782. doi: 10.1021/acsabm.5c00754. Epub 2025 Aug 12. PMID: 40794539.
Annals of Thoracic Surgery
- Blackmon SH, Weiderhold A, Abdelsattar ZM, Antonoff MB, Badhwar V, Edwards M, Freeman KA, Martin LW, Mathisen DJ, Nichols FC 3rd, Romano JC, Sabik JF 3rd, Thourani VH, Varghese TK Jr, Ikonomidis J. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons 2024 Member Practice Survey. Ann Thorac Surg. 2025 Aug 19:S0003-4975(25)00758-1. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.07.037. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40840840.
Cancer Research Communications
- Washington CJ, Lattimore CC, Brown JJ, Silver NL, Braithwaite D, Fredenburg KM, Karanth SD. Treatment outcomes differ for racial and ethnic minorities with advanced-stage laryngeal cancer: a Florida cancer data system analysis. Cancer Res Commun. 2025 Aug 1;5(8):1310-1318. doi: 10.1158/2767-9764.CRC-25-0239. PMID: 40698735.
Carcinogenesis
- Xu S, Cai H, Wu J, Shi J, Courtney R, Yoon HS, Shu XO, Blot WJ, Zheng W, Cai Q. Associations of pre-diagnostic serum liver enzyme levels with lung cancer risk in predominantly low-income African and European Americans. Carcinogenesis. 2025 Aug 29:bgaf052. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgaf052. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40879454.
Circulation
- Beckman JA, Drooz AT, Farber A, Hamdan A, Huber T, Hussein M, Jaff MR, Kashyap VS, McGinigle KL, Menard MT, Rosenfield K, Semel ME, Strong MB, Doros G, Creager MA. The impact of coronary artery disease in patients with peripheral artery disease undergoing lower-extremity revascularization for chronic limb-threatening ischemia. Circulation. 2025 Aug 5;152(5):346-348. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.124.072241. Epub 2025 Aug 4. PMID: 40758772; PMCID: PMC12327766.
Clinical and Translational Science
- Eken E, Duarte S, Angeli-Pahim I, Ladd AD, Warren C, Langaee TY, Zarrinpar A, Johnson JA. Recipient versus donor CYP3A4/5 genotypes in adult liver transplant recipients to achieve therapeutic tacrolimus concentrations early post-transplant. Clin Transl Sci. 2025 Sep;18(9):e70329. doi: 10.1111/cts.70329. PMID: 40883875.
Dermatologic Surgery
- Samia AM, Jain NP, Konda S. Reconstruction of a defect involving the preauricular cheek and anterior ear. Dermatol Surg. 2025 Aug 12. doi: 10.1097/DSS.0000000000004821. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40792646.
Genes and Diseases
- Li C, Liang Z, Vontz G, Kent C, Ma W, Liu L, Dahal R, Zabaleta J, Cai G, Zhou J, Ding H, Shen Q. Exploring CISD1 as a multifaceted biomarker in cancer: Implications for diagnosis, prognosis, and immunotherapeutic response. Genes Dis. 2025 May 8;12(6):101677. doi: 10.1016/j.gendis.2025.101677. PMID: 40831536.
eGastroenterology
- Guccione C, Dantas Machado AC, Youssef F, Angeli-Pahim I, Duarte S, Warren C, Farmer S, Humphrey G, Richter RA, McDonald D, Weng Y, Burgoyne A, Loomba R, Curtius K, Zarrinpar A, Knight R, Zarrinpar A. Blood microbial DNA signature differentiates hepatocellular carcinoma from metastatic lesions. eGastroenterology. 2025 Aug 14;3(3):e100193. doi: 10.1136/egastro-2025-100193. PMID: 40843454.
Frontiers in Immunology
- Nguyen DT, Schaller MA, Terracina KP, Xu X, Pedro DI, Pepe A, Urueña JM, Dupee Z, Diodati N, Smolchek RA, Famiglietti JE, Nguyen NTY, Tushoski-Alemán GW, Cheng K, Chen L, Linn D, Vidimar V, Fatima A, Kwon SW, Sun D, Chen H, Xu H, Long B, Moy LY, Howell BJ, Addona GH, Sawyer WG. Patient-derived colorectal microtumors predict response to anti-PD-1 therapy. Front Immunol. 2025 Aug 12;16:1640500. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1640500. PMID: 40873566.
Frontiers in Physiology
- Kantrowitz AB, Ben-David K, Morris M, Wittels HL, Wishon MJ, McDonald SM, Renaghan EJ, Feigenbaum LA, Wittels SH. Pulse rate variability is not the same as heart rate variability: findings from a large, diverse clinical population study. Front Physiol. 2025 Jul 30;16:1630032. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2025.1630032. PMID: 40809286; PMCID: PMC12343505.
Innovations
- Brinkley L, Azarrafiy R, Sharaf O, Beaver T. Hybrid thoracoscopic redo mitral valve replacement. Innovations (Phila). 2025 Aug 16:15569845251364259. doi: 10.1177/15569845251364259. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40817767.
Intensive Care Medicine
- Combes A, Supady A, Abrams D, Agerstrand C, Badulak J, Camporota L, Fan E, Ferguson ND, Fraser JF, Hodgson C, Jaber S, MacLaren G, Patel BV, Peek GJ, Schmidt M, Shekar K, Slutsky AS, Brodie D. Extracorporeal life support for adult patients with ARDS. Intensive Care Med. 2025 Sep;51(9):1674-1686. doi: 10.1007/s00134-025-08070-1. Epub 2025 Aug 6. PMID: 40768066.
Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
- Salna M, Bavaria JE, Heimansohn D, Beaver T, Griffith B, Svensson LG, Pibarot P, Borger MA, Thourani VH, Blackstone EH, Cornwell LD, Puskas JD, Takayama H. Seven-year results for RESILIA tissue in bicuspid aortic valve replacement patients: age and valve size considerations. Interdiscip Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2025 Aug 5;40(8):ivaf176. doi: 10.1093/icvts/ivaf176. PMID: 40748697; PMCID: PMC12342796.
Journal of Pediatric Surgery
- Thobani H, Nepomuceno HML, Schwab ME, Emengo PO, Khan R, Raymond SL, Shah AA, Mathew R, Tirrell TF, Islam S, Sylvester KG, Khan FA. Antibiotic stewardship in pediatric complicated appendicitis: assessing the role of oral antibiotics after discharge. J Pediatr Surg. 2025 Aug 20;60(11):162594. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2025.162594. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40845978.
Journal of Plastic, Reconstruction and Aesthetic Surgery
- Ahmed SH, Mumtaz M, Shekouhi R, Chim H. Utility of the scratch collapse test for diagnosis of neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome: patient-reported outcomes after surgical treatment with at least 1 year follow-up. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2025 Sep;108:111-120. doi: 10.1016/j.bjps.2025.07.024. Epub 2025 Jul 28. PMID: 40749573.
Journal of Vascular Surgery
- Eid MA, Columbo JA, Perry I, Neal D, Huber TS, Upchurch GR Jr, Cooper MA, Stone DH, Scali ST. Surgical intervention among asymptomatic patients aged ≥80 with a contralateral carotid occlusion appears selectively warranted. J Vasc Surg. 2025 Aug 5:S0741-5214(25)01567-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2025.07.051. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40769462; PMCID: PMC12450360.
Nature Communications
- Contreras M, Silva B, Shickel B, Davidson A, Ozrazgat-Baslanti T, Ren Y, Guan Z, Balch J, Zhang J, Bandyopadhyay S, Loftus T, Khezeli K, Lipori G, Sena J, Nerella S, Bihorac A, Rashidi P. Real-time prediction of intensive care unit patient acuity and therapy requirements using state-space modelling. Nat Commun. 2025 Aug 8;16(1):7315. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-62121-1. PMID: 40781071; PMCID: PMC12334695.
Surgical Endoscopy
- Lewis SA, Huang LC, Al-Mansour MR. Quality of life outcomes of minimally invasive repair of occult contralateral inguinal hernias: an ACHQC analysis. Surg Endosc. 2025 Aug 11. doi: 10.1007/s00464-025-12060-1. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40789772.