Seen in the Papers
Congratulations to the following individuals for publication of their work in respective journals from August 1 - October 31, 2025 as reported to The Pulse.
This list is compiled from submissions by faculty and staff – it is only as complete as the information we receive. Please let us know about your publication by emailing Denise at dflock@lsuhsc.edu.
Medicine
Allen-Watts K, Rumble D, Taylor T, Sims A, Antoine LH, Logan G, Brown CJ, Buford TW,
Goodin BR, Cherrington A, Kennedy R. Factors associated with the use of combined nutritional complementary and alternative
medicine among southern US older adults: results from the study of aging II. Front Nutr. 2025 Aug 11;12:1595919. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2025.1595919. PMID: 40860472;
PMCID: PMC12375454.
Cates, Katherine Westbrook and Hudson, Catherine. Case Report: Sarcina ventriculi, a masquerade of motility. Frontiers in Gastroenterology ,Volume 4 – 2025. doi: 10.3389/fgstr.2025.1607667
Edward W. Hook III, MD, Jodie A. Dionne, MD, MSPH, Kimberly Workowski, MD, Candice J. McNeil, MD, MPH, Stephanie N. Taylor, MD, Teresa A. Batteiger, MD, Julia C. Dombrowski, MD, MPH, Kenneth H. Mayer, MD, Arlene C. Seña, MD, MPH, Matthew M. Hamill, MB, Ch.B., PhD, MPH, Harold C. Wiesenfeld, MD, Chunming Zhu, PhD, Charlotte Perlowski, MSPH, Jorge E. Mejia-Galvis, MD, and Lori M. Newman, MD. One Dose versus Three Doses of Benzathine Penicillin G in Early Syphilis. NEJM. 2025/09/03. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2401802
Kaur H, Pandey N, Chandaluri L, Shaaban N, Kumar D, Pandit R, Martinez A, Anand SK, Das S, Rohilla S, Arias F, Reece E, Gaddam RR, Murnane KS, Vikram A, Mohandas R, Zhang X, Bhuiyan MAN, Lu XH, Orr AW, Rom O, Yurdagul A Jr, Dhanesha N. Neutrophil Integrin α9 Impairs Efferocytosis and Worsens Long-Term Recovery After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2025 Jul 31:10.1161/ATVBAHA.125.323072. doi: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.125.323072. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40740133; PMCID: PMC12333561.
Krishnan, Amita; Jain, Siddharth; Lammi, Matthew R. Management of Lung Manifestations in Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies. Rheumatic Disease Clinics. 2025/10/15. doi: 10.1016/j.rdc.2025.07.007.
MacWilliams, K., Marmion, J., Blascyk, D., Sharon Urbina, Rachel Moyers & Gala True. Opportunities and barriers to engaging caregivers in firearm suicide prevention: findings from focus groups with caregivers of veterans. Inj. Epidemiol. 12, 59 (2025).
Pervaze S, Mohandas S, Gopalan P, Morse SA, Bajracharya S, Krone LA, Yazdi F. Cholesterol crystal embolization induced kidney disease. Am Heart J Plus. 2025 Jul 2;56:100572. doi: 10.1016/j.ahjo.2025.100572. PMID: 40689045; PMCID: PMC12272466.
Rohan EA, Townsend JS, Torres A, Thompson HL, Holman DM, Reza A, et al. Public Understanding of and Engagement With Community Health Workers and Promotores de Salud: Findings From Two National Surveys. Prev Chronic Dis 2025;22:240441. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd22.240441
Taylor SN, Lillis RA, Wilcox RD, Damioli L, Martin DH, Riener A, Figueroa JE, Nsuami MJ. LSU-CrescentCare Sexual Health Center: An interorganizational partnership initiative to improve access to sexual health services in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States Electron J Gen Med. 2025;22(5):em684. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejgm/16748
Watson M, Barbour J, Rayburn D. Ultrasound Detection of Pulseless Rhythm with Echocardiographic Motion (PREM) in Prehospital Cardiac Arrest: A Case-Series. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2025 Aug 25:1-8. doi: 10.1080/10903127.2025.2543444. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40768368.
Wennerstrom A, Adkins C, Witmeier K, Whittington A, Haywood CG, Bachhuber MA. Uptake of Medicaid Billing for Community Health Worker Services in Louisiana, 2022-2023. Med Care. 2025 Sep 15. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000002216. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40971559.
Westbrook Cates K, Loganantharaj N, De Felice K. Pregnancy in IBD: keeping mom healthy for a healthy baby. Frontline Gastroenterology Published Online First: 30 July 2025. doi: 10.1136/flgastro-2024-103002
Zègre-Hemsey JK, Goyal A, Poudel R, Thomas K, Ali MJ, Best P, Bieniarz M, Fonarow GC, French W, Granger CB, et al. Treatment Times and In-Hospital Mortality Among Patients with ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Throughout the Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned. COVID. 2025; 5(8):114. https://doi.org/10.3390/covid5080114
Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology
Bam A, Hu Y, Wu X, Luo M, Rizvi N, Del Valle L, Zea AH, Hossain F, Danos DM, Zabaleta
J, Ochoa A, Miele L, Trapido E and Yu Q. Differential miRNA Expressions Linking Environmental Risk Factors to Triple-Negative
Breast Cancer Stages at Diagnosis. Cancers (Basel). 2025 Aug 11;17(16):2618. doi: 10.3390/cancers17162618. PMID: 40867247.
Gisclair LN and Johnston DA. Trypanosoma cruzi infection-induced changes in cardiac microvascular endothelial cell morphology and function. Journal of Medical Microbiology 2025.
Paudel S, Ghimire L, Jeansonne D, Cai S, Bhattarai D, Le J, Taylor C and Jeyaseelan S. NLRC4 deficiency improves host protection during sepsis by regulating macrophage and T-cell responses. Journal of Immunology 2025 Oct 10;. doi: 10.1093/jimmun/vkaf272. PMID: 41071588.
Zaparte A, Lammons JW, Taylor CM, Luo M, Lin HY, Siggins RW, Molina PE and Welsh DA. Sex specific gut bacterial community structure: implications for frailty risk in people with HIV. Geroscience. 2025 Oct 16;. doi: 10.1007/s11357-025-01923-z. PMID: 41102477.
Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery
Boyce C, Joseph J, Smith R, Fang Z, MacDowell S, Hetzler LT. Role of perinasal musculature in ipsilateral nasal obstruction during synkinesis progression. Facial Plast Surg Aesthet Med. 2025;27(5):431-436. doi:10.1177/26893614251372080.
PMID: 40876003.
Cecola C, Patel K, Jones L, Oghenefefiro O, Hetzler L. Surgical management of unilateral cleft lip. Facial Plast Surg Clin North Am. Published online August 2025.
Hagen J, Hornung L, Barham W, Mukhopadhyay S, Bess A, Contrera K, Basu D, Sandulache V, Spielmann G, Kansara S. Artificial intelligence in head and neck cancer: towards precision medicine. Cancers (Basel). 2025;17(18):3023. doi:10.3390/cancers17183023. PMID: 41008865; PMCID: PMC12469001.
Lacourrege KE, Mansour FM, Fonseca V, Brignac M, Matthews MR, Sen J, Son LS, Walvekar RR, Hackman T, Sridharan S, Schaitkin BM, Marzouk MF. Perioperative antibiotics in sialendoscopy: a retrospective cohort study. Laryngoscope. Published online October 1, 2025. doi:10.1002/lary.70182. PMID: 41030111.
Liddell PH, Lee JH, Mechatto A, Myatt GD, Lewis JW, Tayara A, Warren JD, Kane AC. Health inequities in head and neck cancer: disparities across the continuum of care. Head Neck. 2025;47(10):2867-2880. doi:10.1002/hed.70006. PMID: 40747754.
Oyer SL, Baptista R, Boahene K, Borschel GH, Byrne P, Chuang DC, Dey JK, Diels J, Guerreschi P, Gur E, Hadlock T, Hetzler L, Kim J, Klebuc M, Labbé D, Lassaletta L, Loyo M, Mardini S, Miller MQ, Pepper JP, Rozen S, Snyder-Warwick A, Stephan S, Tzafetta K, Azizzadeh B. International, multispecialty expert consensus on nomenclature for facial paralysis. Facial Plast Surg Aesthet Med. 2025;27(5):408-415. doi:10.1177/26893614251363957. PMID: 40876002.
Robichaux MG, Fang Z, D'Souza JN. Antibiotic stewardship in pediatric head and neck surgery. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol. Published online July 28, 2025:112503. doi:10.1016/j.ijporl.2025.112503. PMID: 40749434.
Rosenberg JD, Hetzler LT, Spector ME, Pepper JP, Lighthall J, Gray ML, Kochhar A. The use of nerve allografts in facial nerve repair and facial reanimation. Facial Plast Surg Aesthet Med. 2025;27(5):459-467. doi:10.1177/26893614251374412. PMID: 40875998.
Pathology
Chen Y, Liu Y, Fu Z. Gastric Sarcina ventriculi: A Report on Two Cases. Reports. 2025; 8(3):128. https://doi.org/10.3390/reports8030128
Pediatrics
Helen C. Wang, Chad Vercio, Nikita Nagpal, Chris Peltier, Joseph Jackson, Amal Khidir, Caroline
R. Paul, Gary Beck Dallaghan, Terry Kind, Amy M. Creel. Medical Students’ Sense of Belonging in Patient Care Settings: A Multi-institutional
Qualitative Study. Med.Sci.Educ. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-025-02461-1
Physiology
Bazan HA, Giles B, Bhattacharjee S, Edwards S, Bazan NG. A non-toxic analgesic elicits cell specific genomic and epigenomic modulation by targeting
the periaqueductal gray brain region. Neurobiology of Pain. 2025 18:100192.
Gallivan, KM, Ondrak, KS, Danow, DM, Luo, M, Taylor, CM, Meyer, LE, Byerley, AM, Nguyen, AW, Chatterjee, S, Adamec, J, Byerley, LO. Dietary Protein's Effect on the Gut Microbiome and its Metabolites: Protocol Description and Recruitment Efforts for a Remote Randomized Controlled Trial. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 August 2025, pp. 1-34
Herrera, M., & Byerley, L. O. Dietary Nitrogen and Its Role in the Gut Microbiome and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Narrative Review. Nutrients, 17(14), 2373. 10.3390/nu17142373.
Rodríguez-Graciani KM, Molina PE, Simon L. Alcohol-Mediated Skeletal Muscle Adaptations and Their Impact on Comorbidities. American Journal of Pathology. S0002-9440(25)00243-3. doi: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2025.05.025.
Simon L, Couvillion KE, Donovan ME, Gallegos EM, Souza-Smith FM, Molina PE. Physiological Mechanisms Vulnerable to Alcohol-Induced Alterations: Role in Chronic Comorbidities. Comprehensive Physiology. 2025 Oct;15(5): e70057. doi: 10.1002/cph4.70057.
Zaparte, A., Lammons, J.W., Taylor, C.M., Luo, M., Lin, H.Y., Siggins, R.W., Molina, P.E. Welsh, D.A., 2025. Sex specific gut bacterial community structure: implications for frailty risk in people with HIV. GeroScience, pp.1-19.