Publications
Research and Peer Review Publications
Residents at BMC are encouraged to undertake research projects during their residency. Each year, our residents publish an exceptional number of research studies in various sub-specialties. The titles of our recent graduates’s most recent publications can be found below.
Cardiology
2018
Anantha Narayanan M, Reddy YNV, Sundaram V, Reddy YNV, Baskaran J, Agnihotri K, Badheka A, Patel N, Deshmukh A. What is the optimal approach to a non- culprit stenosis after ST-elevation myocardial infarction – Conservative therapy or upfront revascularization? An updated meta-analysis of randomized trials. Int J Cardiol. 2016 Aug 1;216:18–24. PMID: 27135152
Karigyo C, Batalini F. Penetrating cardiac trauma by firearm: better outcomes and importance of prehospital care system. J Pak Med Assoc. 2015 Sep;65(9):1032. PMID: 26338760
Karigyo CJT, Batalini F, Murakami AN, Teruya RT, Gregori Júnior F. Off-Pump Triple Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in a Patient with Situs Inversus Totalis: Case Presentation and a Brief Review of the Brazilian and the International Experiences. Braz J Cardiovasc Surg. 2016;31(2):198–202. PMCID: PMC5062722
Kluge MA, Hamburg NM. Erectile dysfunction in the trajectory of cardiovascular disease. Vasc Med. 2018;23(1):21–22. PMID: 29243992
Seth B, Body Weight Fluctuations and Coronary Disease Outcomes — A Time Bomb? Boston: NEJM From Pages to Practice; 2017 April [ cited 2017 April] Available at: https://resident360.nejm.org/content_items/2598/
Seth B, Is it time to be dis-enchanted with low-dose alteplase for acute ischemic stroke? Boston: NEJM From Pages to Practice; 2016 June [cited 2016 June 15] Available at: http://blogs.nejm.org/now/index.php/is-it-time-to-be-dis-enchanted-with-low-dose-alteplase-in-acute-ischemic-stroke/2016/06/15/
Seth B, Scaling the alps: Anti-arrythmic drugs in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Boston: NEJM From Pages to Practice; 2016 May[cited 2016 May 4] Available at: http://blogs.nejm.org/now/index.php/scaling-the-alps-antiarrhythmic-drugs-in-out-of-hospital-cardiac-arrest/2016/05/04/
Valero-Muñoz M, Backman W, Sam F. Murine Models of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: a “Fishing Expedition.” JACC Basic Transl Sci. 2017 Dec;2(6):770–789. PMCID: PMC5764178
Yang E, Ipek EG, Balouch M, Mints Y, Chrispin J, Marine JE, Berger RD, Ashikaga H, Rickard J, Calkins H, Nazarian S, Spragg DD. Factors impacting complication rates for catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation from 2003 to 2015. Europace. 2017 01;19(2):241–249. PMID: 28172794
2017
Arvanitis M, Simon S, Chan G, Fine D, Beardsley P, LaValley M, Jacobson D, Koch C, Berk JL, Connors LH, Ruberg FL. Retinol binding protein 4 (RBP4) concentration identifies V122I transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis. 2017 Mar; 24(sup1):120-121. doi: PMID: 28434357
Arvanitis M, Koch CM, Chan GG, Torres-Arancivia C, LaValley MP, Jacobson DR, Berk JL, Connors LH, Ruberg FL. Identification of Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis Using Serum Retinol-Binding Protein 4 and a Clinical Prediction Model. 2017 Mar 1; 2(3):305-313. doi: PMID: 28196196
Ahmadian A, Pawar S, Govender P, Berman J, Ruberg FL, Miller EJ. The response of FDG uptake to immunosuppressive treatment on FDG PET/CT imaging for cardiac sarcoidosis. 2017 Apr; 24(2):413-424. Doi PMID: 27457527
Haq M, Pawar S, Berk JL, Miller EJ, Ruberg FL. Can 99mTc-Pyrophosphate Aid in Early Detection of Cardiac Involvement in Asymptomatic Variant TTR Amyloidosis? 2017 Jun; 10(6):713-714. doi: PMID: 27568122.
Kampaktsis PN, Ullal AV, Minutello RM, Feldman DN, Swaminathan RV, Voudris K, Baduashvili A, Pastella K, Pawar S, Kaple RK, Vavuranakis M, Bergman GS, Skubas NJ, Lin F, Salemi A, Devereux RB, Chiu Wong S. Impact of Paravalvular Aortic Insufficiency on Left Ventricular Remodeling and Mortality after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. 2016 May; 25(3):301-308. PMID: 27989040
Patchett ND, Pawar S, Miller EJ. Visual identification of coronary calcifications on attenuation correction CT improves diagnostic accuracy of SPECT/CT myocardial perfusion imaging. 2017 Apr; 24(2):711-720. doi: PMID: 26850031
Wong SC, Pawar S, Minutello RM, Horn EM, Skubas NJ, Devereux RB, Salemi A. Device success and 30-day clinical outcome in patients undergoing preimplant valvuloplasty in transfemoral versus omitting valvuloplasty in transapical transcatheter aortic valve replacement. 2015 Nov; 150(5):1111-7. doi: PMID: 26277463
2016
Harb SC, Haq M, Flood K, Guerrieri A, Passerell W, Jaber WA, Miller EJ. National patterns in imaging utilization for diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis: A focus on Tc99mpyrophosphate scintigraphy. J Nucl Cardiol. 2016 Mar 25 PMID: 27016106
Moll M, Payne JG, Tukey MH, Farber HW. Gestational pulmonary arterial hypertension. Pulm Circ. 2015 Dec; 5(4):730-3. doi: PMID:26697182
Sardana M, Moll M, Farber HW. Novel investigational therapies for treating pulmonary arterial hypertension. Expert Opin Investig Drugs. 2015; 24(12):1571-96. doi: PMID:26484967
Patchett ND, Pawar S, Miller EJ. Visual identification of coronary calcifications on attenuation correction CT improves diagnostic accuracy of SPECT/CT myocardial perfusion imaging. J Nucl Cardiol. 2016 Feb 5 PMID: 26850031
Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition
2018
Guaraldi F, Gori D, Beccuti G, Prencipe N, Giordano R, Mints Y, Di Giacomo VS, Berton A, Lorente M, Gasco V, Ghigo E, Salvatori R, Grottoli S. Usefulness of an ad hoc questionnaire (Acro-CQ) for the systematic assessment of acromegaly comorbidities at diagnosis and their management at follow-up. J Endocrinol Invest. 2016 Nov;39(11):1277–1284. PMID: 27153851
Herron A, Sullivan C, Brouillard E, Steenkamp D. Late to the Party: Importance of Dietary Fat and Protein in the Intensive Management of Type 1 Diabetes. A Case Report. J Endocr Soc. 2017 Aug 1;1(8):1002–1005. PMCID: PMC5686679
Jaberi A, Seth B, Steenkamp D, Alexanian S, Borkan SC. Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors and Euglycemic Diabetic Ketoacidosis: Metabolic Acidosis With a Twist. Clin Diabetes. 2016 Oct;34(4):214–216. PMCID: PMC5070590
Seth B, Can ACE inhibitors and Statin help adolescents with type 1 diabetes? Boston: NEJM From Pages to Practice; November [cited 2017 November 2] https://resident360.nejm.org/content_items/can-ace-inhibitors-and-statins-help-adolescents-with-type-1-diabetes
2017
Willard DL, Stevenson M, Steenkamp D. Type B insulin resistance syndrome. 2016 Aug;23(4):318-23. PMID: 27254267.
2016
Kurani P, Steenkamp D. The complexity of elucidating whether novel mutations in the hepatocyte nuclear factor one alpha gene are responsible for maturity onset diabetes of the young in ethnic minorities. Minerva Endocrinol. 2015 Sep 22. PMID: 26393317
Mathew H, Farr OM, Mantzoros CS. Metabolic health and weight: Understanding metabolically unhealthy normal weight or metabolically healthy obese patients. Metabolism. 2016 Jan; 65(1):73-80. doi: PMID:26683798
Polyzos SA, Mathew H, Mantzoros CS. Irisin: A true, circulating hormone. Metabolism. 2015 Dec; 64(12):1611-8. Doi PMID: 26422316
Nelson AM, Dispenza MC, Cong Z, Moll M, Gilliland KL, Thiboutot DM. Selective Rho Kinase Inhibitor Allows for Expansion of Human Primary Sebocytes In Vitro. J Invest Dermatol. 2016 Jun; 136(6):1278-80. doi: PMID:26934599
Thomas DD, Safer JD. A Simple Intervention Raised Resident-Physician Willingness to Assist Transgender Patients Seeking Hormone Therapy. Endocr Pract. 2015 Oct; 21(10):1134-42. doi: PMID:26151424
Gastroenterology
2018
Calderwood AH, Schroy PC, Kluge MA, Cabral HJ, Burgess JF. Predictors of Adherence to Post-Polypectomy Surveillance Colonoscopy. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2016;27(1):261–279. PMID: 27763469
Kluge MA, Williams JL, Wu CK, Jacobson BC, Schroy PC, Lieberman DA, Calderwood AH. Inadequate Boston Bowel Preparation Scale scores predict the risk of missed neoplasia on the next colonoscopy. Gastrointest Endosc. 2018 Mar;87(3):744–751. PMCID: PMC5742069
2017
Basil M, Pudusseri A, Lowe R. Weight Loss and Abdominal Pain Caused by Pancreatic Squamous Cell Carcinoma. 2017 Jan; 15(1):A41-A42 PMID: 27574755.
Downs IA, Aroniadis OC, Kelly L, Brandt LJ. Postinfection Irritable Bowel Syndrome: The Links Between Gastroenteritis, Inflammation, the Microbiome, and Functional Disease. 2017 Nov/Dec;51(10):869-877 PMID: 28885302.
Le ST, Lash BR, Schroy PC 3rd, Calderwood AH. Physician Perceptions of Surveillance Follow-up Colonoscopy in Older Adults. 2017 May-Jun; 30(3):371-373. PMID: 28484069
Reich J, Guo L, Hall J, Tran A, Weinberg J, Groshek J, Rowell TE, DiPalma JA, Farraye FA. A Survey of Social Media Use and Preferences in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2016 Nov; 22(11):2678-2687.
Zullow S, Fazelat A, Farraye FA. Central Serous Chorioretinopathy in a Patient with Ulcerative Colitis with Pouchitis on Budesonide-EC. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2017 May; 23(5):E19. doi: 10.1097/MIB.0000000000001091
Zullow S, Flasar MH, Greenberg D, Tracy JK, Rustgi A, Cross RK. A Health Survey of Gastroenterologist Prescribing Practices of Adalimumab for Treatment of Crohn’s Disease: Final Results. Gastroenterol Hepatol (N Y). 2014 Aug; 10(8):503-509
Zullow S, Jambaulikar G, Rustgi A, Quezada S, Cross RK. Risk Factors for Vitamin D Deficiency and Impact of Repletion in a Tertiary Care Inflammatory Bowel Disease Population. Dig Dis Sci. 2017 Aug; 62(8):2072-2078. doi: 10.1007/s10620-017-4614-y. Epub 2017 May 25.
Wasan SK, Zullow S, Berg A, Cheifetz AS, Ganley-Leal L, Farraye FA. Herpes Zoster Vaccine Response in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients on Low-dose Immunosuppression. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2016 Jun; 22(6):1391-6. doi: 10.1097/MIB.0000000000000743.
Zullow S, Wasan SK, Shah B, Farraye FA. Reply. 2016 Nov; 22(11):E44-E45. PMID: 27755275
2016
Hughes M, Qazi T, Berg A, Weinberg J, Chen X, Kelly CP, Farraye FA. Host Immune Response to Clostridium difficile Infection in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2016 Apr; 22(4):853-61. doi: PMID:26954708
Reich JS, Farraye FA, Wasan SK. Preventative Care in the Patient with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: What Is New? Dig Dis Sci. 2016 Aug; 61(8):2205-16. doi: PMID:27061291
Guo L, Reich J, Groshek J, Farraye FA. Social Media Use in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2016 May; 22(5):1231-8. doi: PMID: 26894839
Reich JS, Miller HL, Wasan SK, Noronha A, Ardagna E, Sullivan K, Jacobson B, Farraye FA. Influenza and Pneumococcal Vaccination Rates in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Gastroenterol Hepatol (N Y). 2015 Jun; 11(6):396-401. PMID: 27118933
Zanchetti DJ, Schueler SA, Jacobson BC, Lowe RC. Effective teaching of endoscopy: a qualitative study of the perceptions of gastroenterology fellows and attending gastroenterologists. Gastroenterol Rep (Oxf). 2016 May; 4(2):125-30 PMID: 27005761
Geriatrics
2018
Courtright KR, Madden V, Gabler NB, Cooney E, Kim J, Herbst N, Burgoon L, Whealdon J, Dember LM, Halpern SD. A Randomized Trial of Expanding Choice Sets to Motivate Advance Directive Completion. Med Decis Making. 2017;37(5):544–554. PMCID: PMC5303189
2017
Afezolli, D, et al. “Sweatin’ to the Oldies!” Attitudes of Older Hemodialysis Patients Regarding Physical Activity. Journal of General Internal Medicine. Vol. 31. 233 Spring St, New York, NY 10013 USA: Springer, 2016.
Gifford KA, Liu D, Carmona H, Lu Z, Romano R, Tripodis Y, Martin B, Kowall N, Jefferson AL. Inclusion of an informant yields strong associations between cognitive complaint and longitudinal cognitive outcomes in non-demented elders. 2015; 43(1):121-32 PMID: 25061054.
Hematology/Oncology
2018
Batalini F, Econimo L, Quillen K, Sloan JM, Sarosiek S, Brauneis D, Havasi A, Stern L, Dember LM, Sanchorawala V. High-Dose Melphalan and Stem Cell Transplantation in Patients on Dialysis Due to Immunoglobulin Light-Chain Amyloidosis and Monoclonal Immunoglobulin Deposition Disease. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2018 Jan;24(1):127–132. PMID: 28865972
Raimondi P, Hylek EM, Aronis KN. Reversal Agents for Oral Antiplatelet and Anticoagulant Treatment During Bleeding Events: Current Strategies. Curr Pharm Des. 2017;23(9):1406–1423. PMID: 27917717
Schueler SA, Shet NS, Stienstra N, Chen DC. A Masked Case of Vancomycin-induced Immune Thrombocytopenia. Am J Med Sci. 2016 Jun;351(6):636. PMID: 27238931
2017
Agarwal A, Freedman RA, Goicuria F, Rhinehart C, Murphy K, Kelly E, Mullaney E, St Amand M, Nguyen P, Lin NU. Prior Authorization for Medications in a Breast Oncology Practice: Navigation of a Complex Process. 2017 Apr; 13(4):e273-e282. doi: PMID: 28245148
Mak KS, Agarwal A, Qureshi MM, Truong MT. Hypofractionated short-course radiotherapy in elderly patients with glioblastoma multiforme: an analysis of the National Cancer Database. 2017 Jun;6(6):1192-1200. doi: PMID: 28440040.
Rotenstein LS, Agarwal A, O’Neil K, Kelly A, Keaty M, Whitehouse C, Kalinowski B, Wagle N, Martin NE. Implementing patient-reported outcome surveys as part of routine care: lessons from an academic radiation oncology department. 2017 Sep 1; 24(5):964-968. doi: PMID: 28339771.
Agarwal A, Shah A, Shah B, Koottappillil B, Hirsch AE. The Impact of a Radiation Oncologist led Oncology Curriculum on Medical Student Knowledge. 2017 May 9. Doi. PMID: 28488259
Arun M, Sloan SB, Shelton A, Sanchorawala V . Penile ulcers complicating systemic AL amyloidosis: a case report. 2016 Sep; 23(3):203-204. Epub 2016 May 17. PMID: 27187183
Desai P, Lehman A, Chlebowski RT, Kwan ML, Arun M, Manson JE, Lavasani S, Wasswertheil-Smoller S, Sarto GE, LeBoff M, Cauley J, Cote M, Beebe-Dimmer J, Jay A, Simon MS. Statins and breast cancer stage and mortality in the Women’s Health Initiative. 2015 Apr; 26(4):529-39. PMID: 25736184.
Dumontier C, Clough-Gorr KM, Silliman RA, Stuck AE, Moser A. Motivation and mortality in older women with early stage breast cancer: A longitudinal study with ten years of follow-up. 2017 Mar; 8(2):133-139. PMID: 27986501.
Louie RJ, Tonneson JE, Gowarty M, Goodney PP, Barth RJ Jr, Rosenkranz KM. Complete blood counts, liver function tests, and chest x-rays as routine screening in early-stage breast cancer: value added or just cost? 2015 Nov; 154(1):99-103. PMID: 26467045.
Aravantinos G, Isaakidou A, Karantanos T, Sioziou A, Theodoropoulos GE, Pektasides D, Gazouli M Association of CD133 polymorphisms and response to bevacizumab in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. 2015; 15(6):843-50. doi: PMID: 26406410.
Christofides A, Karantanos T, Bardhan K, Boussiotis VA. Epigenetic regulation of cancer biology and anti-tumor immunity by EZH2. 2016 Dec 20; 7(51):85624-85640. doi: PMID: 27793053.
Karantanos T, Evans CP, Tombal B, Thompson TC, Montironi R, Isaacs WB. Understanding the mechanisms of androgen deprivation resistance in prostate cancer at the molecular level. 2015 Mar; 67(3):470-9. Doi PMID: 25306226.
Karantanos T, Karanika S. Assessing the cardiovascular risk of hormonal therapy in patients with prostate cancer. 2016 Mar; 4(5):99. doi: PMID: 27047958.
Karantanos T, Karanika S, Gignac G. Uncontrolled diabetes predicts poor response to novel antiandrogens. 2016 Sep;23(9):691-8. doi: PMID: 27515296.
Karanika S, Karantanos T, Kurosaka S, Wang J, Hirayama T, Yang G, Park S, Golstov AA, Tanimoto R, Li L, Thompson TC. GLIPR1-ΔTM synergizes with docetaxel in cell death and suppresses resistance to docetaxel in prostate cancer cells. 2015 Jun 19; 14:122. doi: PMID: 26084402
Karanika S, Karantanos T, Li L, Corn PG, Thompson TC. DNA damage response and prostate cancer: defects, regulation and therapeutic implications. 2015 May 28;34(22):2815-22. doi: PMID: 25132269
Karanika S, Karantanos T, Li L, Wang J, Park S, Yang G, Zuo X, Song JH, Maity SN, Manyam GC, Broom B, Aparicio AM, Gallick GE, Troncoso P, Corn PG, Navone N, Zhang W, Li S, Thompson TC. Targeting DNA Damage Response in Prostate Cancer by Inhibiting Androgen Receptor-CDC6-ATR-Chk1 Signaling. 2017 Feb 21; 18(8):1970-1981. doi: PMID: 28228262.
Karantanos T, Karanika S, Wang J1, Yang G1, Dobashi M, Park S, Ren C, Li L, Basourakos SP, Hoang A, Efstathiou E, Wang X, Troncoso P, Titus M, Broom B, Kim J, Corn PG, Logothetis CJ, Thompson TC. Caveolin-1 regulates hormone resistance through lipid synthesis, creating novel therapeutic opportunities for castration-resistant prostate cancer. 2016 Jul 19; 7(29):46321-46334. doi: PMID:27331874.
Phull P, Quillen K, Hartshorn KL. Acute Oxaliplatin-induced Hemolytic Anemia, Thrombocytopenia, and Renal Failure: Case Report and a Literature Review. 2016 Nov 23. pii: S1533-0028(16)30259-6, PMID: 27989485.
Pulido V, Doros G, Berk JL, Sanchorawala V. The six-minute walk test in patients with AL amyloidosis: a single centre case series. 2017 May; 177(3):388-394. doi. PMID: 28340285
Westhoff CL, Yoon LS, Tang R, Pulido V, Eisenberger A. Risk Factors for Venous Thromboembolism among Reproductive Age Women. 2016 Jan; 25(1):63-70. doi: PMID: 26317174.
Tran A, Sarosiek S, Ko NY. Challenges in the use of immunotherapy in metastatic melanoma. 2016 Nov 18; 2016. PMID: 27864299
2016
Simmons J, Gould MK, Woloshin S, Schwartz LM, Wiener RS. Attitudes about low-dose computed tomography screening for lung cancer: a survey of American Thoracic Society Clinicians. PMID: 25679109
Humanism in Medicine
2017
DuMontier C. Poetry: Sonnet on pain. 2016 May; 66(646):264. PMID: 27127286.
Jawa, R. ICD 10- Z73.0: Burnout. Gold Humanism Foundation Blog.13 Mar 2017. http://www.gold-foundation.org/newsroom/blog/icd-10-z73-0-burnout/
Pulido, Vina. Five minutes of compassion just isn’t enough. Gold Humanism Foundation Blog. 12 May 2016. http://www.gold-foundation.org/newsroom/blog/five-minutes-compassion-just-isnt-enough/
Pulido, V. The Difficult Discharge. Humanism in Medicine. SGIM FORUM 2015; 38(5)
Infectious Disease
2018
Hensel RL, Kempker RR, Tapia J, Oladele A, Blumberg HM, Magee MJ. Increased risk of latent tuberculous infection among persons with pre-diabetes and diabetes mellitus. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2016 Jan;20(1):71–78. PMCID: PMC5652325
Seth B, Glucocorticoids in Sepsis – the ADRENAL and APROCCHSS trials. Boston: NEJM From Pages to Practice. February[cited 2018] https://resident360.nejm.org/content_items/glucocorticoids-in-sepsis-the-adrenal-and-aprocchss-trials
Seth B, cTherapy for symptoms attributable to lyme disease, PLEASE Trial. Boston: NEJM From Pages to Practice; 2016 Mar[cited 2016 Mar 30] Available at : http://blogs.nejm.org/now/index.php/therapy-for-symptoms-attributed-to-lyme-disease/2016/03/30/
Seth B, “Treating Ebola with convalescent plasma.” Boston: NEJM From Pages to Practice. 2016 Jan [cited 2016 Jan 6] Available at http://blogs.nejm.org/now/index.php/treating-ebola-with-convalescent-plasm/2016/01/06/
Yamin A, Bornstein E, Hensel R, Mohamed O, Kempker RR. Predictors of Latent Tuberculosis Infection Treatment After Introduction of a New Regimen: A Retrospective Cohort Study at an Inner City Clinic. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2016 Oct;3(4):ofw082. PMCID: PMC5066457
2017
Arvanitis M, Anagnostou T, Fuchs BB, Caliendo AM, Mylonakis E. Molecular and nonmolecular diagnostic methods for invasive fungal infections. 2014 Jul; 27(3):490-526. doi: PMID: 24982319.
Arvanitis M, Anagnostou T, Mylonakis E. Galactomannan and Polymerase Chain Reaction-Based Screening for Invasive Aspergillosis among High-Risk Hematology Patients: A Diagnostic Meta-analysis. 2015 Oct 15; 61(8):1263-72. doi: PMID: 26157047.
Desalermos A, Tan X, Rajamuthiah R, Arvanitis M, Wang Y, Li D, Kourkoumpetis TK, Fuchs BB1, Mylonakis E1. A multi-host approach for the systematic analysis of virulence factors in Cryptococcus neoformans. 2015 Jan 15; 211(2):298-305. Doi. PMID: 25114160.
Arvanitis M, Li G, Li DD, Cotnoir D, Ganley-Leal L, Carney DW, Sello JK, Mylonakis E. A Conformationally Constrained Cyclic Acyldepsipeptide Is Highly Effective in Mice Infected with Methicillin-Susceptible and -Resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 2016 Apr 21; 11(4):e0153912. doi: PMID: 27101010.
Arvanitis M, Mylonakis E. Characteristics, Clinical Relevance, and the Role of Echinocandins in Fungal-Bacterial Interactions. 2015 Dec 1; 61 Suppl 6:S630-4. doi: PMID: 26567281.
Arvanitis M, Mylonakis E. Diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis: recent developments and ongoing challenges. 2015 Jun; 45(6):646-52. doi: PMID: 25851301.
Arvanitis M, Mylonakis E. Fungal-bacterial interactions and their relevance in health. 2015 Oct; 17(10):1442-6. doi: PMID: 26243723.
Arvanitis M, Ziakas PD, Zacharioudakis IM, Zervou FN, Caliendo AM, Mylonakis E. PCR in diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis: a meta-analysis of diagnostic performance. 2014 Oct; 52(10):3731-42. doi: PMID: 25122854.
Zacharioudakis IM, Zervou FN, Arvanitis M, Ziakas PD, Mermel LA, Mylonakis E. Antimicrobial lock solutions as a method to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. 2014 Dec 15; 59(12):1741-9. doi: PMID: 25156111.
Maze MJ, Biggs HM, Rubach MP, Galloway RL, Cash-Goldwasser S, Allan KJ, Halliday JE, Hertz JT, Saganda W, Lwezaula BF, Cleaveland S, Mmbaga BT, Maro VP, Crump JA. Comparison of the Estimated Incidence of Acute Leptospirosis in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania between 2007-08 and 2012-14. 2016 Dec 2; 10(12):e0005165. PMID: 27911902.
Karantanos T, Christofides A, Bardhan K, Li L2, Boussiotis VA. Corrigendum: Regulation of T Cell Differentiation and Function by EZH2. 2016 Sep 14;7:346. doi: PMID: 27648006.
Karantanos T, Chistofides A, Barhdan K, Li L, Boussiotis VA. Regulation of T Cell Differentiation and Function by EZH2. 2016 May 3;7:172. Doi PMID: 27199994.
Elias R, Karantanos T, Sira E, Hartshorn KL. Immunotherapy comes of age: Immune aging & checkpoint inhibitors. 2017 May;8(3):229-235. doi: PMID: 28223073.
Karanika S, Karantanos T, Arvanitis M, Grigoras C, Mylonakis E. Fecal Colonization With Extended-spectrum Beta-lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae and Risk Factors Among Healthy Individuals: A Systematic Review and Metaanalysis. 2016 Aug 1; 63(3):310-8. doi: 2016 Aug 1;63(3):310-8. doi: PMID: 27143671.
Karantanos T, Karanika S, Obiokoye K, Sullivan M, Phillips C, Ananthakrishnan S. Pyogenic Liver Abscess Due to Fusobacterium nucleatum in a Patient With Liver Hemangiomas. 2017 Apr;353(4):417-418. doi: PMID: 28317637.
Politikos I, T Kim H, Karantanos T, Brown J, McDonough S, Li L, Cutler C, Antin JH, Ballen KK4, Ritz J3, Boussiotis VA5. Angiogenic Factors Correlate with T Cell Immune Reconstitution and Clinical Outcomes after Double-Unit Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation in Adults. 2017 Jan;23(1):103-112. doi: PMID: 27777141.
Rogge M, Yin XT, Godfrey L, Lakireddy P, Potter CA, Del Rosso CR, Stuart PM. Therapeutic Use of Soluble Fas Ligand Ameliorates Acute and Recurrent Herpetic Stromal Keratitis in Mice. 2015 Oct; 56(11):6377-86. PMID: 26444718.
Menon, A.A., Nganga-Good, C., Martis, M., Wicken, C., Lobner, K., Rothman, R.E. and Hsieh, Y.H., 2016. Linkage-to-care Methods and Rates in US Emergency Department–based HIV Testing Programs: A Systematic Literature Review Brief Report. Academic Emergency Medicine, 23(7), pp.835-842.
2016
Fawzy A, Evans SR, Walkey AJ. Practice Patterns and Outcomes Associated With Choice of Initial Vasopressor Therapy for Septic Shock. Crit Care Med. 2015 Oct; 43(10):2141-6. Doi PMID: 26079345
Gwynn RC, Fawzy A, Viho I, Wu Y, Abrams EJ, Nash D. Risk factors for loss to followup prior to ART initiation among patients enrolling in HIV care with CD4+ cell count ≥200 cells/μL in the multi-country MTCT-Plus Initiative. BMC Health Serv Res. 2015 Jun 25; 15:247. doi: PMID:26108273
Hughes M, Qazi T, Berg A, Weinberg J, Chen X, Kelly CP, Farraye FA. Host Immune Response to Clostridium difficile Infection in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2016 Apr;22 (4):853-61. doi: PMID:26954708
Pac L, Horwitz MM, Namutebi AM, Auerbach BJ, Semeere A, Namulema T, Schwarz M, Bbosa R, Muruta A, Meya DB, Manabe YC. Implementation and operational research: Integrated pre-antiretroviral therapy screening and treatment for tuberculosis and cryptococcal antigenemia. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2015 Apr 15; 68(5):e69-76. doi: PMID:25761234
Young KL, Huang W, Horsburgh CR, Linas BP, Assoumou SA. Eighteen- to 30-year-olds more likely to link to hepatitis C virus care: an opportunity to decrease transmission. J Viral Hepat. 2016 Apr; 23(4):274-81. doi: PMID:26572798
Preventative Medicine
2018
Seth B, A Balanced Diet Is Not a Cookie in Each Hand: Are Diet Quality and Mortality Associated? Boston: NEJM From Pages to Practice; 2017 July [ cited 2017 July 12] Available at: https://resident360.nejm.org/content_items/a-balanced-diet-is-not-a-cookie-in-each-hand-are-diet-quality-and-mortality-associated/
2017
Oikonomou MT, Arvanitis M, Sokolove RL. Mindfulness training for smoking cessation: A meta-analysis of randomized-controlled trials. 2016 Apr 1:1359105316637667. doi: PMID: 27044630
2016
Garg A, Toy S, Tripodis Y, Cook J, Cordella N. Influence of maternal depression on household food insecurity for low-income families. Acad Pediatr. 2015 May-Jun;15(3):305-10. doi: PMID:25454368
Pulmonary
2018
Seth B, Moving upstream in the PATHWAY for persistent uncontrolled asthma: anti-TSLP Tezepelumab. Boston: NEJM From Pages to Practice; September [cited 2017 September 7] Available at: https://resident360.nejm.org/content_items/moving-upstream-in-the-pathway-for-persistent-uncontrolled-asthma-anti-tslp-tezepelumab
Seth B, HYBERNATUS: Therapeutic Hypothermia in Status Epilepticus — Blowing Hot and Cold, Boston: NEJM From Pages to Practice; 2017 December [ cited 2017 December]. Available at: https://resident360.nejm.org/content_items/2114/
2017
Kollisch-Singule M, Emr B, Smith B, Ruiz C, Roy S, Meng Q, Jain S, Satalin J, Snyder K, Ghosh A, Marx WH, Andrews P, Habashi N, Nieman GF, Gatto LA. Airway pressure release ventilation reduces conducting airway micro-strain in lung injury. 2014 Nov; 219(5):968-76 PMID: 25440027.
Schmickl CN, Biehl M, Wilson GA, Gajic O. Comparison of hospital mortality and long-term survival in patients with acute lung injury/ARDS vs cardiogenic pulmonary edema. 2015 Mar; 147(3):618-625. doi: PMID: 25474475.
Schmickl CN, Mastrobuoni S, Filippidis FT, Shah S, Radic J, Murad MH, Toy P, Gajic O. Male-predominant plasma transfusion strategy for preventing transfusion-related acute lung injury: a systematic review. 2015 Jan;43(1):205-25. doi: PMID: 25514705.
Schmickl CN, Pannu S, Al-Qadi MO, Alsara A, Kashyap R, Dhokarh R, Herasevich V, Gajic O. Decision support tool for differential diagnosis of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) vs Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema (CPE): a prospective validation and meta-analysis. 2014 Nov 29; 18(6):659. doi: PMID: 25432274.
2016
Howrylak JA, Moll M, Weiss ST, Raby BA, Wu W, Xing EP. Gene expression profiling of asthma phenotypes demonstrates molecular signatures of atopy and asthma control. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2016 May; 137(5):1390-1397.e6. doi PMID:26792209
Simmons J, Gould MK, Iaccarino J, Slatore CG, Wiener RS. Systems-Level Resources for Pulmonary Nodule Evaluation in the United States: A National Survey. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2016 May 1; 193(9):1063-5. doi: PMID:27128706
Quality Improvement & Patient Safety
2017
Chowdhry, S, et al. Problem-oriented charting: A review. International Journal of Medical Informatics. Volume 103, July 2017, Pages 95-102
Starmer AJ, Spector ND, West DC, Srivastava R, Sectish TC, Landrigan CP; Menon AA et al. I-PASS Study Group. Integrating Research, Quality Improvement, and Medical Education for Better Handoffs and Safer Care: Disseminating, Adapting, and Implementing the I-PASS Program. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2017 Jul; 43(7):319-329. doi: 10.1016/j.jcjq.2017.04.001
Pulido V, Lee SY, Ko NY. Arriving at the Right Diagnosis in an Era of Precision Medicine. 2016 Jun 27;9(2):351-357. PMID: 27752243.
Barwise A, Garcia-Arguello L, Dong Y, Hulyalkar M, Vukoja M, Schultz MJ, Adhikari NK, Bonneton B, Kilickaya O, Kashyap R, Gajic O, Schmickl C. Checklist for Early Recognition and Treatment of Acute Illness (CERTAIN): evolution of a content management system for point-of-care clinical decision support. 2016 Oct 3; 16(1):127. PMID: 27716243
Schmickl CN, Biehl M, Wilson GA, Gajic O. Response. 2015 Dec; 148(6):e194-e195. Doi. PMID: 26621308
Erdogan A, Dong Y, Chen X, Schmickl C, Sevilla Berrios RA, Garcia Arguello LY, Kashyap R, Kilickaya O, Pickering B, Gajic O, O’Horo JC. Development and validation of clinical performance assessment in simulated medical emergencies: an observational study. 2016 Jan 15; 16:4. doi: PMID: 26772732
Kilickaya O, Schmickl C, Ahmed A, Pulido J, Onigkeit J, Kashani K, Gajic O, Herasevich V, Pickering B. Customized reference ranges for laboratory values decrease false positive alerts in intensive care unit patients. 2014 Sep 18; 9 (9):e107930. Doi PMID: 25233485.
2016
McFadden KL, Steinmetz SE, Carroll AM, Simon ST, Wallace A, Rojas DC. Test-retest reliability of the 40 Hz EEG auditory steady-state response. PLoS One. 2014 Jan 22; 9(1):e85748. doi: PMID:24465679
Worsham C, Ackrivo J, Breu AC. Prompt Extubation After Intensive Care Unit Procedures: A Teachable Moment. JAMA Intern Med. 2015 Sep; 175(9):1447-8. doi: PMID:26193488
Renal
2018
Chen C, Upadhyay A. Renal denervation for uncontrolled hypertension: critical review of the evidence. Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens. 2017;26(2):114–122. PMID: 27922849
Rajagopalan P, Abraham G, Reddy YN, Lakshmanasami R, Prakash ML, Reddy YN. Population-based estimation of renal function in healthy young Indian adults based on body mass index and sex correlating renal volume, serum creatinine, and cystatin C. Int J Nephrol Renovasc Dis. 2016;9:243–247. PMCID: PMC5045901
Reddy YNV, Abraham G, Sundaram V, Reddy PP, Mathew M, Nagarajan P, Mehra N, Ramachandran A, Ali AAM, Reddy YNV. Is there a genetic predisposition to new-onset diabetes after kidney transplantation? Saudi J Kidney Dis Transpl. 2015 Nov;26(6):1113–1120. PMID: 26586047
Reddy YNV, Nunes D, Chitalia V, Gordon CE, Francis JM. Hepatitis C virus infection in kidney transplantation-changing paradigms with novel agents. Hemodial Int. 2018 Apr;22 Suppl 1:S53–S60. PMID: 29694721
Reddy YNV, Siedlecki AM, Francis JM. Breaking down the complement system: a review and update on novel therapies. Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens. 2017;26(2):123–128. PMID: 27977428
2017
Feng D, DuMontier C, Pollak MR. The role of alpha-actinin-4 in human kidney disease. 2015 Aug 18; 5:44. Doi. PMID: 26301083.
Chan L, Mehta S, Chauhan K, Poojary P, Patel S, Pawar S, Patel A, Correa A, Patel S, Garimella PS, Annapureddy N, Agarwal SK, Gidwani U, Coca SG, Nadkarni GN. National Trends and Impact of Acute Kidney Injury Requiring Hemodialysis in Hospitalizations with Atrial Fibrillation. 2016 Dec 20;5(12). pii: e004509. Doi. PMID: 27998917
Interdisciplinary/Other Sub-Specialty
2018
Reiser ML, Mosaheb MM, Lisk C, Platt A, Wetzler LM. The TLR2 Binding Neisserial Porin PorB Enhances Antigen Presenting Cell Trafficking and Cross-presentation. Sci Rep. 2017 07;7(1):736. PMCID: PMC5428659
Seth B, A PRECISE Study of Pregabalin for Sciatica, Boston: NEJM From Pages to Practice; 2017 March [cited 2017 March] Available at: https://resident360.nejm.org/content_items/2534/
Yadav KN, Gabler NB, Cooney E, Kent S, Kim J, Herbst N, Mante A, Halpern SD, Courtright KR. Approximately One In Three US Adults Completes Any Type Of Advance Directive For End-Of-Life Care. Health Aff (Millwood). 2017 Jul 1;36(7):1244–1251. PMID: 28679811
2017
Zhu Z, Zhang D, Lee H, Menon AA, Wu J, Hu K, Jin Y. Macrophage-derived apoptotic bodies promote the proliferation of the recipient cells via shuttling microRNA-221/222. 2017 Jun;101(6):1349-1359. PMID: 28274991
Schmickl C, Vukoja M, Riviello E, Gavrilovic S, Adhikari NK, Kashyap R, Bhagwanjee S, Gajic O, Kilickaya O; CERTAIN Investigators. A survey on critical care resources and practices in low- and middle-income countries. 2014 Sep; 9 (3):337-42.e1-5. doi: PMID: 25667185
2016
Fawzy A, Bradford M, Lindenauer PK, Walkey AJ. Identifying Vasopressor and Inotrope Use for Health Services Research. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2016 Mar; 13(3):414-8. doi: PMID: 26653145
Swamy L, Phan LT, Sadah ZM, McCulley TJ, Warwar RE. Oculocardiac reflex in a medial orbital wall fracture without clinically evident entrapment. Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol. 2013 Jul-Sep; 20(3):268-70. doi: PMID:24014996