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Recent Research Publications - September 2019

September 16-30

A Prospective Analysis of Motor and Cognitive Skill Retention in Novice Learners of Point of Care Ultrasound. Rappaport CA, McConomy BC, Arnold NR, Vose AT, Schmidt GA, Nassar B. Crit Care Med. 2019 Sep 30. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000004002. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31569139 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Treatment of <i>Enterococcus faecalis</i> infective endocarditis with penicillin G plus ceftriaxone. Suzuki H, Carlson JR, Matsumoto E. Infect Dis (Lond). 2019 Sep 30:1-4. doi: 10.1080/23744235.2019.1672888. [Epub ahead of print] No abstract available.  PMID: 31566044 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Inpatient Fluoroquinolone Stewardship Improves the Quantity and Quality of Fluoroquinolone-prescribing at Hospital Discharge: A Retrospective Analysis among 122 Veterans Health Administration Hospitals. Suzuki H, Perencevich EN, Alexander B, Beck BE, Goto M, Lund BC, Nair R, Livorsi DJ. Clin Infect Dis. 2019 Sep 28. pii: ciz967. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz967. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31562815 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Primary Care Providers' Preferences and Concerns Regarding Specific Visual Displays for Returning Hemoglobin A1c Test Results to Patients. Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Solomon JB, Scherer AM, Exe NL, Tarini BA, Fagerlin A, Witteman HO. Med Decis Making. 2019 Sep 26:272989X19873625. doi: 10.1177/0272989X19873625. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31556795 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Desensitization strategies: is it worth it? Kuppachi S, Axelrod DA. Transpl Int. 2019 Sep 25. doi: 10.1111/tri.13532. [Epub ahead of print] Review. PMID: 31553805 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

A Brief Review of Cardiovascular Diseases, Associated Risk Factors and Current Treatment Regimes. Flora GD, Nayak MK. Curr Pharm Des. 2019 Sep 25. doi: 10.2174/1381612825666190925163827. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31553287 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Mixed Actinomyces israelii and Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans infection causing empyema necessitatis and multiple skin abscesses in an immunocompetent patient. Kobayashi T, Arshava E, Ford B, Sekar P. BMJ Case Rep. 2019 Sep 24;12(9). pii: e230287. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2019-230287. PMID: 31551318 [PubMed - in process]

Temporal Trends and Outcomes of Mechanical Complications in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction. Elbadawi A, Elgendy IY, Mahmoud K, Barakat AF, Mentias A, Mohamed AH, Ogunbayo GO, Megaly M, Saad M, Omer MA, Paniagua D, Abbott JD, Jneid H. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2019 Sep 23;12(18):1825-1836. doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2019.04.039. PMID: 31537282 [PubMed - in process]

Temporal Trends and Outcomes of Transcatheter Versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement for Bicuspid Aortic Valve Stenosis. Elbadawi A, Saad M, Elgendy IY, Barssoum K, Omer MA, Soliman A, Almahmoud MF, Ogunbayo GO, Mentias A, Gilani S, Jneid H, Aronow HD, Kleiman N, Abbott JD. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2019 Sep 23;12(18):1811-1822. doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2019.06.037. PMID: 31537280 [PubMed - in process]

Current Evidence on Oral Antibiotics for Infective Endocarditis: A Narrative Review. Kobayashi T, Ando T, Streit J, Sekar P. Cardiol Ther. 2019 Sep 18. doi: 10.1007/s40119-019-00148-4. [Epub ahead of print] Review. PMID: 31535282 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Characteristics of older adults using patient web portals to view their DXA results. Edmonds S, Lou Y, Robinson B, Cram P, Roblin DW, Wright NC, Saag K, Wolinsky FD. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2019 Sep 18;19(1):187. doi: 10.1186/s12911-019-0904-y. PMID: 31533717 [PubMed - in process] Free PMC Article

Safety and immunogenicity of investigational seasonal influenza hemagglutinin DNA vaccine followed by trivalent inactivated vaccine administered intradermally or intramuscularly in healthy adults: An open-label randomized phase 1 clinical trial. Carter C, Houser KV, Yamshchikov GV, Bellamy AR, May J, Enama ME, Sarwar U, Larkin B, Bailer RT, Koup R, Chen GL, Patel SM, Winokur P, Belshe R, Dekker CL, Graham BS, Ledgerwood JE; VRC 703 study team. PLoS One. 2019 Sep 18;14(9):e0222178. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222178. eCollection 2019. PMID: 31532789 [PubMed - in process] Free PMC Article

Modulators of platelet function in aging. Iyer KS, Dayal S. Platelets. 2019 Sep 16:1-9. doi: 10.1080/09537104.2019.1665641. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31524038 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Antecedent Carbapenem Exposure as a Risk Factor for Non-Carbapenemase-Producing Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae and Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae. Marimuthu K, Ng OT, Cherng BPZ, Fong RKC, Pada SK, De PP, Ooi ST, Smitasin N, Thoon KC, Krishnan PU, Ang MLT, Chan DSG, Kwa ALH, Deepak RN, Chan YK, Chan YFZ, Huan X, Zaw Linn K, Tee NWS, Tan TY, Koh TH, Lin RTP, Hsu LY, Sengupta S, Paterson DL, Perencevich E, Harbarth S, Teo J, Venkatachalam I; CaPES Study Group. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2019 Sep 23;63(10). pii: e00845-19. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00845-19. Print 2019 Oct. PMID: 31383670 [PubMed - in process]

September 1-15, 2019

Results of a prospective phase 2 study of pazopanib in patients with surgically unresectable or metastatic chondrosarcoma. Chow W, Frankel P, Ruel C, Araujo DM, Milhem M, Okuno S, Hartner L, Undevia S, Staddon A. Cancer. 2019 Sep 11. doi: 10.1002/cncr.32515. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31509242 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Attitudes about sickness presenteeism in medical training: is there a hidden curriculum? Kaldjian LC, Shinkunas LA, Reisinger HS, Polacco MA, Perencevich EN. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2019 Sep 5;8:149. doi: 10.1186/s13756-019-0602-7. eCollection 2019. PMID: 31508227 [PubMed - in process]

A texting-based blood pressure surveillance intervention. Zahr RS, Anthony CA, Polgreen PM, Simmering JE, Goerdt CJ, Hoth AB, Miller ML, Suneja M, Segre AM, Carter BL, Cavanaugh JE, Polgreen LA. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2019 Sep 10. doi: 10.1111/jch.13674. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31503408 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

A Phase I Study of Alpha-1,3-Galactosyltransferase-Expressing Allogeneic Renal Cell Carcinoma Immunotherapy in Patients with Refractory Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma. Hahn AW, Drake C, Denmeade SR, Zakharia Y, Maughan BL, Kennedy E, Link C Jr, Vahanian N, Hammers H, Agarwal N. Oncologist. 2019 Sep 6. pii: theoncologist.2019-0599. doi: 10.1634/theoncologist.2019-0599. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31492769 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind, Dose Escalation, Single Dose and Steady State Pharmacokinetics Study of 9cUAB30 in Healthy Volunteers. Kolesar JM, Andrews S, Green H, Havighurst TC, Wollmer BW, DeShong K, Laux DE, Krontiras H, Muccio DD, Kim K, Grubbs CJ, House MG, Parnes HL, Heckman-Stoddard BM, Bailey HH. Cancer Prev Res (Phila). 2019 Sep 4. pii: canprevres.0310.2019. doi: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-19-0310. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31484659 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

An RNA Aptamer-Based Biomarker Platform Demonstrates High Soluble CD25 Occupancy by IL2 in the Serum of Follicular Lymphoma Patients. Veeramani S, Blackwell SE, Thiel WH, Yang ZZ, Ansell SM, Giangrande PH, Weiner GJ. Cancer Immunol Res. 2019 Sep;7(9):1511-1522. doi: 10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-18-0821. Epub 2019 Aug 5. PMID: 31383650 [PubMed - in process]

Approach to tapering antisarcoidosis therapy. Ussavarungsi K, Gerke AK. Curr Opin Pulm Med. 2019 Sep;25(5):526-532. doi: 10.1097/MCP.0000000000000607. PMID: 31365387 [PubMed - in process]

Impact of Rural Residence on Kidney Transplant Rates Among Waitlisted Candidates in the VA Transplant Programs. O'Shea AMJ, Franciscus CL, Kaboli PJ, Kalil RS. Transplantation. 2019 Sep;103(9):1945-1952. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000002624. PMID: 31343570 [PubMed - in process]

Interstitial lung disease associated with anti-PM-Scl antibody: A single center experience. Ussavarungsi K, Nugent K, Gerke AK, Krasowski MD, Tuetken RS, Lenert PS. Autoimmun Rev. 2019 Sep;18(9):102355. doi: 10.1016/j.autrev.2019.102355. Epub 2019 Jul 16. No abstract available.  PMID: 31323356 [PubMed - in process]

Current infection prevention and antibiotic stewardship program practices: A survey of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) Research Network (SRN). Chiotos K, Rock C, Schweizer ML, Deloney VM, Morgan DJ, Milstone AM, Henderson DK, Harris AD, Han JH. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2019 Sep;40(9):1046-1049. doi: 10.1017/ice.2019.172. Epub 2019 Jul 17. PMID: 31311610 [PubMed - in process]

The Bardet-Biedl syndrome protein complex regulates cell migration and tissue repair through a Cullin-3/RhoA pathway. Guo DF, Rahmouni K. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2019 Sep 1;317(3):C457-C465. doi: 10.1152/ajpcell.00498.2018. Epub 2019 Jun 19. PMID: 31216194 [PubMed - in process]

Acute cellular rejection in hepatitis C recipients following liver transplantation in the era of direct-acting antivirals: chronological analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing database. Tanaka T, Voigt MD. J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Sci. 2019 Sep;26(9):393-400. doi: 10.1002/jhbp.645. Epub 2019 Jul 15. PMID: 31211912 [PubMed - in process]

Do neoprene sleeves and prophylactic knee braces affect neuromuscular control and cutting agility? Bodendorfer BM, Arnold NR, Shu HT, Leary EV, Cook JL, Gray AD, Guess TM, Sherman SL. Phys Ther Sport. 2019 Sep;39:23-31. doi: 10.1016/j.ptsp.2019.05.007. Epub 2019 May 24. PMID: 31203143 [PubMed - in process]

Renal denervation and CD161a immune ablation prevent cholinergic hypertension and renal sodium retention. Raikwar N, Braverman C, Snyder PM, Fenton RA, Meyerholz DK, Abboud FM, Harwani SC. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2019 Sep 1;317(3):H517-H530. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00234.2019. Epub 2019 Jun 7. PMID: 31172810 [PubMed - in process]

Targeting transcriptional machinery to inhibit enhancer-driven gene expression in heart failure. Minerath RA, Hall DD, Grueter CE. Heart Fail Rev. 2019 Sep;24(5):725-741. doi: 10.1007/s10741-019-09792-3. PMID: 30972522 [PubMed - in process]

Malondialdehyde-Acetaldehyde Adducts and Antibody Responses in Rheumatoid Arthritis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease. England BR, Duryee MJ, Roul P, Mahajan TD, Singh N, Poole JA, Ascherman DP, Caplan L, Demoruelle MK, Deane KD, Klassen LW, Thiele GM, Mikuls TR. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2019 Sep;71(9):1483-1493. doi: 10.1002/art.40900. Epub 2019 Jul 22. PMID: 30933423 [PubMed - in process]

Cardiac sodium-dependent glucose cotransporter 1 is a novel mediator of ischaemia/reperfusion injury. Li Z, Agrawal V, Ramratnam M, Sharma RK, D'Auria S, Sincoular A, Jakubiak M, Music ML, Kutschke WJ, Huang XN, Gifford L, Ahmad F. Cardiovasc Res. 2019 Sep 1;115(11):1646-1658. doi: 10.1093/cvr/cvz037. PMID: 30715251 [PubMed - in process]