Seen in the Papers
Congratulations to the following individuals for publication of their work in respective journals from May 1 through July 31, 2026 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.
Anesthesiology
Book chapters:
Helmstetter JA, Pino RM. General Neuroendocrine Axis. In: MGH Review of Critical Care
Medicine, 2nd ed. Philadelphia, Walters-Klewer, 2027, p. 273-274.
Helmstetter JA, Pino RM. Dermatologic Conditions. In: MGH Review of Critical Care Medicine, 2nd ed. Philadelphia, Walters-Klewer, 2027, p. 373-374.
Pino RM, Fahimipour K, Pelaez L. Dynamic laryngeal obstruction by Reinke's edema. Anesthesiology 2026;144:666-66
LSU-LCMC Cancer Center
Hui-Yi Lin, Kenneth R. Muir, Johanna Schleutker, Nora Pashayan, Jyotsna Batra, David
E. Neal, Henrik Grönberg, Sune F. Nielsen, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Catherine M. Tangen, Robert
J. MacInnis, Alicja Wolk, Demetrius Albanes, Ruth C. Travis, Janet L. Stanford, Lorelei
A. Mucci, Adam S. Kibel, Olivier Cussenot, Sonja I. Berndt, Stella Koutros, Karina
Dalsgaard Sørensen, Cezary Cybulski, Eli Marie Grindedal, Josef Hoegel, Christiane
Maier, Robert J. Hamilton, Barry S. Rosenstein, Ana Vega, Manolis Kogevinas, Fredrik
Wiklund, Kathryn L. Penney, Manuel R. Teixeira, Hermann Brenner, Esther M. John, Radka
Kaneva, Christopher J. Logothetis, Susan L. Neuhausen, Kim De Ruyck, Piet Ost, Marija
Gamulin, Nawaid Usmani, Frank Claessens, Jose Esteban Castelao, Paul A. Townsend, Zsofia
Kote-Jarai, Christopher A. Haiman, Rosalind A. Eeles & Jong Y. Park. . Polygenic risk score with KLK3 SNP-SNP interaction pairs for predicting prostate cancer aggressiveness. Commun Med (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-026-01645-z
Medicine
Boykin D, Romero L, Parra-Valencia I, Lee J, Chen PV, True G, Fortney J, Hundt NE,
Cully JA. Perspectives of Rural and Urban Veterans with Military Sexual Trauma Seeking Psychotherapy
Through Community Care: A Qualitative Study. J Behav Health Serv Res. 2026 Aug 6. doi: 10.1007/s11414-026-10011-9. Epub ahead
of print. PMID: 42562930.
Butz Crow, Rachel, Seicshnaydre, Jacob, Ali, Juzar. Otolaryngologic Effects of Inhaled Medications Used in Pulmonary Medicine: A Review. Medical Research Archives, [S.l.], v. 14, n. 5, June 2026. ISSN 2375-1924. doi: https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v14i5.7505.
Cerna P, Coggins S, Blyth M, Reagan KL. From ebola to feline infectious peritonitis: the cross-species journey of GS-441524 and the future of antiviral translation. Rare Dis Orphan Drugs J. 2026;5:20. https://dx.doi.org/10.20517/rdodj.2026.07
Khazanov, GK, Geffen, G, McKay, J, Simonetti, J, Day, R, Sczymecki, T, Silverman, S. & True, G. Development of an intervention to incentivize secure firearm storage among veterans at risk for suicide. Inj. Epidemiol. 13, 33 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40621-026-00674-5
Rajesh Mohandas, Bhagwan Dass, Abutaleb Ahsan Ejaz. The Inflammatory Storm: Targeting Residual Risk in Combined ASCVD and CKD. Am Heart Journal Plus. Vol. 66, p. 100800.
Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Aerin J. DeRussy, Joshua S. Richman, Melissa E. Dichter, Stefan G. Kertesz, Gala True, Richard E. Nelson, Kashfi Pandit, Jack Tsai. Characterization of Veterans Who Contact the National Call Center for Homeless Veterans. Journal of Public Health Management & Practice 32(4):p 602-607, July/August 2026. | DOI: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000002246
Kaleb J. Robin, Joshua M. Campbell, and Jorge A. Castellano. 4-Dimensional Intracardiac Echocardiography-Guided Antegrade TAVR Using a Novel CABLE-TAVR Technique. JACC: Case Reports, 15 May 2026.
Pakala P, Cates KW, Uhlhorn AP, Loganantharaj N (2026) Preventative Healthcare Maintenance in IBD: Addressing Clinical Practice Gaps in the United States. J Dig Dis Hepatol 11: 235. DOI: 10.29011/2574-3511.100235
Pandit K, deRussy A, Blosnich J, True G, Montgomery AE. Differential mortality among US veterans: Social determinants of health, substance use disorder, and substance use treatment. Am J Addict. 2026; 1-10. doi:10.1111/ajad.70158
Sharma RK, Krishnan S, Gomes J, Kallis P, Mckee A, Broderick B, Kanumuri SRR, Sharma A, Gumz ML, Mohandas R. Loss of the Circadian Clock Protein Period 1 Mediates Sex Dependent Increase in Arterial Stiffness and Hypertrophic Remodeling in Mice. Journal of the American Heart Association. 0:e047632. doi: doi:10.1161/JAHA.125.047632
Sugarman OK, Marks C, Whitley P, Saloner B, German D. Xylazine-Fentanyl Positivity and Concentration in Urine Drug Tests. JAMA Netw Open. 2026;9(7):e2622473. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.22473
Trahan, Taylor, Wexler, Christopher. Reducing Community-Acquired CDIFF Admissions: Outpatient Antimicrobial Stewardship. Journal for Healthcare Quality 48(2):e0507, April-June 2026. | DOI: 10.1097/JHQ.0000000000000507
Tran HV, Van Dreumel C, Schafer A, Mukherjee M, Mathai SC, deBoisblanc BP, Lammi MR. Blood Pressure Change After Six-Minute Walk Test Is an Independent Predictor of Clinical Worsening in Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension. Ann Am Thoracic Soc. 2026 Jul1: aaoag178. doi: 10.1093/annalsats/aaoag178. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42384918
True G, Cusack M, Cullen SW, Dichter ME, Blosnich JR, Brecht T, Montgomery AE. Addressing Veterans’ Social Determinants of Health in the Context of Suicide Prevention: Staff-Identified Implementation Barriers and Strategies. J Gen Intern Med.2026 Jul 7. doi: 10.1007/s11606-026-10612-2. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42414797
Ruth Ann Vleugels, Julie J. Paik, Iazsmin Bauer Ventura, Aaron R. Mangold, Prateek C. Gandiga, Anna Haemel, Hector Chinoy, Yessar M. Hussain, Kumaraswamy Sivakumar, Zoltan Griger, Eun Bong Lee, Francisca Bozan, Chung-Yuan Hsu, Alisa Femia, Mazen M. Dimachkie, Michelle S. Min, Tahseen Mozaffar, Christina Charles-Schoeman, David R. Fernandez, Oluwakemi Onajin, Raquel Campanilho-Marques, Galina Marder, Floranne Ernste, Elena Schiopu, Jason Sluzevich, David Pearson, Stephen Lindsey, Michael Luggen, Michael R. Bubb, Erin Boh, Rashmi Maganti, Latisha Heinlen, Katharina S. Shaw, Matthew D. Cascino, Paul N. Mudd, Jr., Jiri Vencovsky, Anthony P. Fernandez, David Fiorentino, Lisa Christopher-Stine, Victoria P. Werth, and Rohit Aggarwal for the VALOR Investigators. A Phase 3 Trial of Brepocitinib in Dermatomyositis. N Engl J Med. 2026/05/14. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2503531.
Ophthalmology
Galor A, Rapuano C, Epitropoulos A, Weiss J, Pflugfelder S, Gupta P, Dhaliwal D, Periman
L, Henderson BA, Nguyen TT, Samarawickrama C, Wu H, Stryjewski T, Stefater JA, Hinds
M, Bhindi P, Ifantides C. A Randomized Double-Masked Study Evaluating Safety and Efficacy of a Novel Topical
Cooling Device for Chronic Ocular Surface Pain. Ophthalmology and Therapy. 2026;15(6):2033-2050. doi:10.1007/s40123-026-01392-3.
Orthopaedic Surgery
Clifton Daigle, Robert Branstetter, Leland Van Deventer, Ravi Rajendra, Claudia Leonardi,
Amy Bronstone, Vinod Dasa. In-Hospital Exposure and Opioids Prescribed after Total Knee Arthroplasty. The Journal of Arthroplasty, Volume 41, Issue 5, 2026, Pages 1412-1417, ISSN 0883-5403.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arth.2025.09.011.
Khan, Irfan A, Ahmad, Tarick, Faheem, Fahad, Squali-Houssaini, Badr, Synchef, Dillon, Cole, Brian J, and Phillips, IV Paul. Increasing Patient Interest in Meniscus Surgery During Last 15 Years With Pain and Recovery Being Most Frequently Searched Topics Online. Arthrosc Sports Med Rehabil. 2026; 000, e70044. https://doi.org/10.1002/ars2.70044
Khan IA, Faheem F, Ahmad T, Squali-Houssaini B, Phillips P 4th, Cole BJ. Google Searches About Rotator Cuff Repair Have Increased Over the Past 15 Years With Pain and Postoperative Recovery Being the Most Frequently Searched Topics. Arthrosc Sports Med Rehabil. 2026 Jun 2:e70045. doi: 10.1002/ars2.70045. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42500140; PMCID: PMC13399654.
Marchand LS, Slobogean G, O’Hara NN, Anthony D Harris, Mohit Bhandari, David W Grainger, Lehana Thabane, Gregory J Della Rocca, Patrick J Kellam, Robert D Zura, Debra Marvel, Jeffrey L Wells, I Leah Gitajn, Kyle J Jeray, Roman M Natoli, Patrick F Bergin, Jennifer E Hagen, Ashley E Levack, Ernesto Guerra-Farfan, Gregory M Schrank, Joan N Hebden, Franca Mossuto, Cassandra Tsoutsounakis, David Pogorzelski, Hailey Pineda, Sofia Bzovsky, Sheila Sprague, BvV Investigators. Randomised controlled trial comparing antibiotic cement bead pouch versus negative pressure wound therapy for the management of severe open tibia fracture wounds: Beads versus VAC (BvV) protocol. BMJ Open2026; 16:e088521. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-088521.
Mastracci JC, Averkamp B, Braswell M, Yu Z, Chen AT, Natoli RM, Farooq H, Mir H, Rivera J, Seymour RB, and Hsu JR; Evidence-based Musculoskeletal Injury & Trauma Collaborative (EMIT). Rates of union and risk factors for continued nonunion following exchange nailing of tibial nonunion. Arch Orthop Trauma Surg. 2026 May 9;146(1):180. doi: 10.1007/s00402-026-06208-4. PMID: 42126445; PMCID: PMC13171982.
Miller, AN, Haydel, A, Lauck, BJ, Krause, PC, Guissé, NF, Leonardi, C, Poirier, J-L, Jang, Y, Dasari, SP, Zhang, T, Claude Sagi, H, Lin, CQ, Kurkowski, SC, Karunakar, M, Spitler, CA, Johnson, T, Hartline, J, Chintalapudi, N, Khaleel, M, … Chen, AT. (2026). Treatment and Outcomes for Gunshot Wound Humerus Fractures: A Multicenter Analysis. Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma, 40(5), 262–268. https://doi.org/10.1097/BOT.0000000000003142.
Otolaryngology
Cecola CF, Settoon C, Buck LS, Evans AK, Dunham ME. AI-Assisted Video Monitoring for Tracheostomy-Dependent Infants: A Proof-Of-Concept
Study. Laryngoscope. 2026 Jun 5. doi: 10.1002/lary.70666. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42248801.
Helou V, Reddy PD, Rumde PH, Klem ML, Kansara SG, Virag O, Mowery YM, Scheff NN, Spector ME, Sridharan S, Nilsen ML, Contrera KJ. Measurement Tools for Radiation-Induced Fibrosis in Head and Neck Cancer: A Systematic Review. Head Neck. 2026 Jul 2. doi: 10.1002/hed.70380. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42392995.
Pathology
Haibo Wang, Yaomin Chen, and Ridin Balakrishnan. An unusual case of ovarian high-grade carcinoma and neuroendocrine tumor: Dedifferentiated
ovarian carcinoma or mixed adenocarcinoma and neuroendocrine carcinoma? Clinicopathologic
features and literature review. Edorium Journals 2026
Yaomin Chen, Haibo Wang, Zhiyan Fu, and Ellen Connor. Incidental Cardiac Metastasis in Breast Carcinoma. MDPI 2026
Yaomin Chen, Yu Liu, and Zhiyan Fu. Gastric Sarcina ventriculi: A Report on Two Cases. MDPI 2025
Haibo Wang, Yu Liu, Asra Feroze, Zengying Wu, Jonathan Somma, and Zhiyan Fu. Should we subtype gastric intestinal metaplasia in gastric biopsies, a single institution’s experience. ScienceDirect 2026
Ayesha Younus, Yu Lie, Yaomin Chen, Ritu Bhalla. Diagnostic Dilemma in Reporting of Cribriform Pattern of Prostate Carcinoma: A Retrospective Review. CAP 2025
Pediatrics
Marisol Betensky, Muayad Azzam, Rachel Sara Bercovitz, Rukhmi Bhat, Tina T Biss, Brian
Re Branchford, Leonardo R Brandão, Anthony KC Chan, E. Vincent S. Faustino, Qais Hamarsha, Julie
Jaffray, Sophie E Jones, Hassan Kawtharany, Bryce A Kerlin, Jana Khawandi, Grace Krider, Nicole
Kucine, Riten Kumar, Christoph Male, Paul Monagle, Marie-Claude Pelland-Marcotte, Leslie
Raffini, Chittalsinh M Raulji, Sarah E Sartain, Clifford M. Takemoto, Cristina Tarango, C.
Heleen van Ommen, Maria C Velez, Sara K Vesely, John T Wiernikowski, Suzan Williams, Hope
P Wilson, Gary Woods, Reem A. Mustafa; ASH ISTH 2026 guidelines for Anticoagulant Prophylaxis of Pediatric Patients at Risk
of Venous Thromboembolism. Blood Adv 2026; bloodadvances.2025019415. doi: https://doi.org/10.1182/bloodadvances.2025019415
Cyrus KE, Creel AM, Fang Z, Autrey AK, Surcouf JW. Values in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Insights into Caregiver Priorities. J Pediatr. 2026 Jun 15;296:115198. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2026.115198. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42297335.
Katherine M. Satrom, Ellen Kerns, Makayla Schissel, Matthew Garber, Jennifer Monti, Eliza H. Bakken, Julie Gallois, Elisa P. Hampton, Leela Sarathy, Carole H. Stipelman, Kaitlin M. Widmer, Sloane Magee, Pearl W. Chang; A National Quality Improvement Collaborative to Reduce Subthreshold Phototherapy for Jaundice. Pediatrics 2026; e2025071494. 10.1542/peds.2025-071494
Svynarenko R, Weaver MS, Williams A, Autrey AK, Cortezzo DE, Wilpers AB, Cohen AD, Lindley LC. Geographic Distance Between Perinatal and Pediatric Palliative Care Services and Implications for Practice Standards. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2026 May 14:10499091261452650. doi: 10.1177/10499091261452650. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42132837.
Weaver MS, Williams A, Cohen AD, Autrey AK, Cortezzo DE, Wilpers AB, Lindley LC. Notify-Caution: Care Components Missing in Perinatal Palliative Care Notification Laws. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2026 May 5:S0885-3924(26)00774-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2026.04.622. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42097188.
Physiology
Gill L, Molina P, Simon L. Sepsis Dysregulates Mitochondrial microRNA and Biogenesis in the Diaphragm but Not
Limb Muscle. Int J Mol Sci. 2026 9;27(10):4222. doi: 10.3390/ijms27104222. PMID: 42196205.
Li Z., Edwards S. Cognitive and Affective Elements of Pain Pathophysiology: Relevance for Substance Use Disorders. Current Addiction Reports 2026 13:33.
Murnane PM, Xia F, Afshar M, Brown JL, Chamie G, Cook RL, Couture MC, DiClemente RJ, Fatch R, Ferguson T, Francis JM, Haberer JE, Jacobson KR, Justice AC, Kapiga S, Kim TW, Krupitsky E, Marcus GM, Molina PE, Muyindike WR, Myers. B, Page K, Phillips SA, Piano MR, Richards VL, So-Armah K, Stewart S, Sulkowski MS, Tien PC, Woolf-King S, Hahn JA. Exploring hosphatidylethanol Cutoffs for Self-Reported Unhealthy Alcohol Use: An International Multi-Site Analysis. Alcohol Clin Exp Res (Hoboken). 2026 e70361. doi: 0.1111/acer.70361. PMID: 42345465.
Paloczi J, Byerley LO, Primeaux SD. The aftermath of alcohol misuse: Linking cellular damage, suboptimal micronutrient nutrition, and organ dysfunction. Pharmacol Ther. 2026 283:109038. PMID: 42049155. doi: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2026.109038.
Simon L, Mire M, McTernan PM, Gallegos EM, Coleman L, Siggins RW, Caro AC, Baker CL, Molina PE. Alcohol and calorie-dense diets modulate immune phenotype and metabolic health in simian immunodeficiency virus infection. Function (Oxf). 2026 doi: 10.1152/function.033.2026.
Simon L. microRNA profiles in slow and fast skeletal muscle fibers. Physiol Genomics. 2026 1;58(6):270-271 PMID: 42187049. doi: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00047.2026.
St. Onge CM, Erickson C, Cruz B, Borgonetti V, Hashimoto JG, Cucinello-Ragland JA, Fitzpatrick-Schmidt T, Rodriguez L, Khom S, Palmisano M, Vlkolinsky R, Oleata CS, Nadav T, Salem NA, Edwards S, Mayfield RD, Guizzetti M, Roberts AJ, Bajo M, Roberto M. Translational Evidence for Increased Central Amygdala IL-6 Activity in Alcohol Dependence. Journal of Neuroinflammation 2026 23(1):211.