Recent CCS publications: Week ending: 16 Sep 2016

Heart patient at the time on the donor wait list wearing a
Ventricular Assisted Device, associated with loss of platelet
receptors. See article

Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the departments of Australian Centre for Blood Diseases(ACBD), Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre (MAPrc):

Australian Centre for Blood Diseases

Carrim N, Arthur JF, Hamilton JR, Gardiner EE, Andrews RK, Moran N, Berndt MC, Metharom P. Thrombin-induced reactive oxygen species generation in platelets: A novel role for protease-activated receptor 4 and GPIbα. Redox Biol. 2015 Dec;6:640-7. doi: 10.1016/j.redox.2015.10.009. Epub 2015 Oct 28.


Liu H, Pattie P, Chandrasekara S, Spencer A, Dear AE.  Epigenetic regulation of miRNA-124 and multiple downstream targets is associated with treatment response in myeloid malignancies. Oncol Lett. 2016 Sep;12(3):2175-2180. Epub 2016 Jul 25.

Lukito P, Wong A, Jing J, Arthur JF, Marasco SF, Murphy DA, Bergin PJ, Shaw JA, Collecutt M, Andrews RK, Gardiner EE, Davis AK.  Mechanical circulatory support is associated with loss of platelet receptors glycoprotein Ibα and glycoprotein VI.  J Thromb Haemost. 2016 Sep 7. doi: 10.1111/jth.13497. [Epub ahead of print]


Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine

McIlroy DR, Myles PS. Does the use of statins improve outcomes in coronary artery bypass graft surgery? Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2015 Dec;13(12):1285-8. doi: 10.1586/14779072.2015.1099434. Epub 2015 Oct 16.


Immunology

Corrigan CJ, Hamid Q, O'Hehir RE, Wardlaw AJ. Farewell. Clin Exp Allergy. 2015 Dec;45(12):1721-2. doi: 10.1111/cea.12662.


Infectious Diseases

Cameron DR, Jiang JH, Kostoulias X, Foxwell DJ, Peleg AY. Vancomycin susceptibility in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is mediated by YycHI activation of the WalRK essential two-component regulatory system. Sci Rep. 2016 Sep 7;6:30823. doi: 10.1038/srep30823. 10.2217/nmt.15.50. Epub 2015 Dec 1.

Chang CC, Perfect JR.  Repeated therapeutic lumbar punctures in cryptococcal meningitis - necessity and/or opportunity?  Curr Opin Infect Dis. 2016 Sep 6. [Epub ahead of print]
Infectious Diseases


Medicine

Lee JY, Biemond M, Petratos S. Axonal degeneration in multiple sclerosis: defining therapeutic targets by identifying the causes of pathology. Neurodegener Dis Manag. 2015 Dec;5(6):527-48. doi: 10.2217/nmt.15.50


Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre (MAPrc)

Kulkarni J, Galletly C. Improving safety for women in psychiatry wards. Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2016 Sep 8. pii: 0004867416667234. [Epub ahead of print]

Thomas N, Farhall J, Foley F, Rossell SL, Castle D, Ladd E, Meyer D, Mihalopoulos C, Leitan N, Nunan C, Frankish R, Smark T, Farnan S, McLeod B, Sterling L, Murray G, Fossey E, Brophy L, Kyrios M.  Randomised controlled trial of a digitally assisted low intensity intervention to promote personal recovery in persisting psychosis: SMART-Therapy study protocol.  BMC Psychiatry. 2016 Sep 7;16(1):312. doi: 10.1186/s12888-016-1024-1.


Surgery 

Burton PR, Ooi GJ, Shaw K, Smith AI, Brown WA, Nottle PD. Assessing quality of care in oesophago-gastric cancer surgery in Australia. ANZ J Surg. 2016 Sep 6. doi: 10.1111/ans.13752. [Epub ahead of print]