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Salfer B, Anderson M, Thingvold A, Kroymann T, Hendricks C, Boden LM, Sheppard W, Davies M, Paziuk T. Are Expandable Cages the Ideal Implant for Use During Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion? Clin Spine Surg. 2026 Sep 21. PMID: 42766441.
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Wexner SD, Galandiuk S. Invited Commentary: A Life of Service: What Herand“ Harry” Abcarian Teaches Us About Surgical Citizenship. J Am Coll Surg. 2026 Oct 1; 243( 4): 1001-1002. Epub 2026 Sep 16. PMID: 42505037.
Maniya MT, Aisha E, Ahmad A, Saleem H, Awan AR, Manzoor I, Lohana S, Zainab A, Amir R, Ul Ain N, Tariq L, Zahid A, Arif A, Akbar O, Mattumpuram J. Transcatheter vs surgical aortic valve replacement in young adults with chronic kidney disease: a national inpatient comparison of in-hospital outcomes. Int Urol Nephrol. 2026 Sep; 58( 9): 3941-3949. Epub 2026 Apr 1. PMID: 41922882.
Nickel I, Birks E, Li H, Slaughter MS, Rame E, Lowes B, Patel S, Goldstein D, Maybaum S, Um J, Cunningham C, Trivedi J, Atluri P, Starling R, Stehlik J, Drakos S, Selzman CH. Surgical Approaches to Left Ventricular Assist Device Deactivation: Lessons From Remission From Stage D Heart Failure. Ann Thorac Surg Short Rep. 2026 Feb 18; 4( 3): 1023-1026. PMID: 42719643.
Dasarathy S, Karpyak VM, Arab JP, Singal AK, Simonetto DA, Brown S, Tu W, Gawrieh S; AlcHepNet Investigators. Therapies for alcohol use disorder in alcohol-associated hepatitis clinical trials: Integrated trial design with a composite clinical outcome as the primary endpoint. Hepatology. 2026 Sep 28. PMID: 42804611.
de Avila L, AlNaamani KM, Papatheodoridi M, Petta S, Hagström H, Kim SU, Nakajima A, Crespo J, Castera L, Alkhouri N, Zheng MH, Treeprasertsuk S, Shalimar, Tsochatzis E, Trivikrama SK, Fan JG, Roberts SK, Alswat K, Wong VW, Yilmaz Y, Dunn W, Francque S, Cordie A, Yu ML, Ekstedt M, Goh GB, Oliveira CP, Pessoa MG, Chan WK, Castellanos Fernandez MI, Duseja A, Arab JP, Papatheodoridis G, Sebastiani G, Villela-Nogueira C, D’ Ambrosio R, Lampertico P, Holleboom AG, Valsan A, El-Kassas M, Kobayashi T, Kakizaki S, Caussy C, Pearlman B, Pugliese N, Vessby J, Choudhary NS, Kawaguchi T, Russo FP, Gadano A, Diaz LA, Singal AK, Gunn N, Mauricio D, Arrese M, Fracanzani A, Lombardi R, Aghemo A, Alqahtani SA, Stepanova M, Younossi ZM; Global MASLD Study Investigators on behalf of the Global NASH / MASH Council; Ananchuensook P, Balakumaran LK, Lam B, Venu A, Pennisi G,
Shang Y, Liu WY, Lee HW, Iruzubieta P, Nadeem R, Cinque F, Zoncapé M, Yang RX, Song SJ, Dunn N, Gadi Z, Yeh ML, Teh KK, Mahadeva S, Fabian LG, Almohsen A, Leite N, Xie C, Friend E, Poca M, Segrestin B, Racila A. Histologic Features and Clinical Outcomes of Lean Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease. JAMA. 2026 Sep 30: e2618491. PMID: 42814439.
Speck KE, Gilliam EA, Van Arendonk KJ, Hirschl RB, Goldstein SD, Leys CM, Markel TA, Rymeski B, Wright T, St Peter SD, Lal DR, Mak G, Shah NR, Halaweish IF, Bergus KC, Criss CN, Ayala SA, Zeineddin S, Joshi DS, Landman MP, Mannava S, Trinidad S, Carter SR, Georgeades C, Yeh A, Shakhsheer B, Flynn-O’ Brien KT, Minneci PC; Midwest Pediatric Surgery Consortium. Recurrent small bowel obstruction following contrast challenge versus surgical intervention at index presentation: 1-year follow-up of the adhesive bowel obstruction in children( ABC) study. J Pediatr Surg. 2026 Sep 21:163490. PMID: 42767333.
Quinn L P, Walter D, Kyle R S, Prejesh P, Kelly M M, Michael E E. Validation of previously proposed criteria for selecting nonulcerated T1b melanoma patients for sentinel lymph node biopsy. Surgery. 2026 Sep; 197:110344. Epub 2026 May 30. PMID: 42335728.
Adams A, Farabee E, Nugent C, Goldsberry W. Anti- < i > N </ i >-methyl-d-aspartate( NMDA) receptor encephalitis associated with mature ovarian teratoma: a case report. Case Rep Womens Health. 2026 Sep 19; 52: e00859. PMID: 42820230.
Abo Kasem R, Dietz N, Abecassis IJ, Rahmani R, Mistry AM, Williams BJ, Ding D, Akbari SHA, Mohammad LM. Predicting the need for syrinx shunting after posterior fossa decompression in Chiari I malformation: a real-world machine learning analysis. J Neurosurg Spine. 2026 Sep 4:1-9. PMID: 42696766.
Serio L, Rossi M, Askarinejad A, Tartaglia E, Bucci T, Marrone E, Kalra DK, Ferri C, Lip GYH. SGLT2 Inhibitors and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Fabry Disease: Observations From a Federated Research Network. Diabetes Obes Metab. 2026 Sep 8. PMID: 42712107.
Pagadala M, Khurshid T, Zhang W, Vatsalya V, McClain CJ, Kong M, Dunn W, Singal AK. Steatosis liver index: A validated machine learning model using clinical data distinguishes steatotic liver disease phenotypes. Dig Liver Dis. 2026 Sep 5: S1590-8658( 26) 00895-9. PMID: 42701090.
Garcia-Carbonero R, Pazo Cid R, Macarulla T, Laquente B, Nguyen A, Guillén- Ponce C, Muñoz A, Kim EJ, Cazorla M, Seery T, Lobo de Mena M, Nevala-Plagemann C, Sharma V, Martínez de Castro E, Hojouj M, Le C, Mato-Berciano A, Connelly S, Kaleko M, Rojas LA, Wacher VJ, Shallcross MA, Blasco C, Cascallo M, Hidalgo M. Intravenous hyaluronidase-expressing oncolytic adenovirus with chemotherapy in metastatic pancreatic cancer: a randomized phase 2b trial. Nat Med. 2026 Sep
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Yaligar AR, Ramachandran SP, Kulkarni A, Kalra DK. Non-HDL Cholesterol as a Predictor of Coronary Atherosclerosis in South Asians: A Narrative Review. Curr Atheroscler Rep. 2026 Sep 30; 28( 1): 97. PMID: 42814261.
Crane JG, Sinha A, Endo T, Gallo M, Pahwa S, Vaidya Y, Slaughter MS, Trivedi J. Preoperative Hypoalbuminemia as an Independent Predictor of Postoperative Acute Kidney Dysfunction After Cardiac Surgery. Ann Thorac Surg Short Rep. 2026 Jan 22; 4( 3): 1053-1057. PMID: 42719127.
Byrd T, Lu L, Boland S, Sperry J, Guyette F, Wisniewski S, Moore E, Schreiber M, Joseph BA, Wilson CT, Ostermayer D, Harbrecht BG, Patel M, Brown JB. Racial Disparities in Prehospital Interventions Among Injured Patients. JAMA Surg. 2026 Sep 30: e264509. PMID: 42814427.
Bose R, Wilkinson MJ, Kalra DK. The Future Framework for Diabetes Risk Management:“ Glucose-Years” and the Area Under the Hyperglycemia Curve. JACC Adv. 2026 Sep; 5( 9): 103195. PMID: 42782011.
Bradley J, Wallace M, Chandler TR, Furmanek S, Ramirez J, Cavallazzi R. The Impact of Black Race on Pneumonia Severity Scoring Systems. CHEST Pulm. 2026 Feb 5; 4( 3): 100234. PMID: 42807177.
Chan WW, Franz A, Garcia-Marmolejo JP, Hurtte E, Pesantez F, Pía A, Smith N, Tudehope F, Yehuda RM, Arguero MJ, Barber-Caselles C, Chen CL, Cisternas D, Glasinovic E, Hani A, Morales E, Rogers BD, Sawada A, Serra J, Serra K, Wong MW, Yazaki E, Zerbib F, Sifrim D, Gyawali CP. Excessive supragastric belching can be identified in up to one-fifth of patients with conclusive gastro-oesophageal reflux disease. Gut. 2026 Sep 7: gutjnl-2026-339248. PMID: 42705698.
Price MJ, Ali ZA, Kim M, Schmidt TR, Roberts J, Oseni AO, Mannino S, Doukas D, Jeremias A, Johnson MA, Allocco DJ, West NEJ, Davies RE. A Novel 2-Hz Coronary Intravascular Lithotripsy Catheter for Calcified Coronary Artery Disease: One-Year Outcomes of the DISRUPT CAD Duo Trial. Am J Cardiol. 2026 Sep 20; 279:117-122. PMID: 42763030.
Yap TA, Fontana E, Cook N, Fakih M, Bechter O, Tsang ES, Calvo E, Rohrberg KS, Ros J, Matos I, Strickler JH, Ameratunga M, Pelster M, Sharp A, Grewal J, Ulahannan S, Belani R, Patricelli MP, Blake SM, Dejardin D, Fowler S, Godfried Sie C, Heller A, Henkel N, Hettich M, Lahr A, Lamparter D, Lane C, Liu T, Meistermann H, Meille C, Parrott N, Sotiriou SK, Reeves D, Romagnoli B, Pettazzoni P, Waterkamp D, Wittwer M, Fu Y, Postel-Vinay S. Werner helicase inhibitor for advanced microsatellite instability solid tumors: a phase 1 trial. Nat Med. 2026 Sep 29. PMID: 42811189.
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