CCS Publications update: 31 March – 7 April

Prof Harshal Nandurkar and some of his
group. He has two publications listed this
week, a review on IDDVT and

anti-clotting to prevent kidney injury

Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the departments of Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD), Anaethesia and Perioperative Medicine (APOM), Diabetes, Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine (AIRmed), Immunology and Pathology, Gastroenterology, Medicine, Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC), Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre (MAPrc) and Surgery.

ACBD

Ho P, Lim HY, Chua CC, Sleeman M, Tacey M, Donnan G, Nandurkar H. Retrospective review on isolated distal deep vein thrombosis (IDDVT) - A benign entity or not? Thromb Res. 2016 Jun;142:11-6. doi: 10.1016/j.thromres.2016.04.003. Epub 2016 Apr 7.

Sashindranath M, Dwyer KM, Dezfouli S, Selan C, Crikis S, Lu B, Yuan Y, Hickey MJ, Peter K, Robson SC, Cowan PJ, Nandurkar HH. Development of a novel strategy to target CD39 antithrombotic activity to the endothelial-platelet microenvironment in kidney ischemia-reperfusion injury. Purinergic Signal. 2017 Mar 25. doi: 10.1007/s11302-017-9558-3. [Epub ahead of print]


AIRmed

Taranto-Montemurro L, Sands SA, Edwards BA, Azarbarzin A, Marques M, de Melo C, Eckert DJ, White DP, Wellman A. Effects of Tiagabine on Slow Wave Sleep and Arousal Threshold in Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Sleep. 2017 Feb 1;40(2). doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsw047.

Azarbarzin A, Sands SA, Taranto-Montemurro L, Oliveira Marques MD, Genta PR, Edwards BA, Butler J, White DP, Wellman A. Estimation of Pharyngeal Collapsibility During Sleep by Peak Inspiratory Airflow. Sleep. 2017 Jan 1;40(1). doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsw005.

Anaesthesia

Hiller JG, Myles PS, Ramsay RG, Riedel BJ. Improving trial design in cancer anesthesia (onco-anesthesia) research. Can J Anaesth. 2017 Mar 30. doi: 10.1007/s12630-017-0873-5. [Epub ahead of print]


Diabetes

Kostner K, Nicholls S, Amerena J, Brown A, Cooper M, Hammett C, O'Brien R, Kritharides L, Hare DL, Watts GF, Aylward P, Kostner K, Nicholls S, Amerena J, Brown A, Cooper M, Hammett C, O'Brien R, Kritharides L, Hare DL, Watts GF, Aylward P. Intensive LDL Reduction Post Acute Coronary Syndromes: A Catalyst for Improved Outcomes. Heart Lung Circ. 2016 Nov;25(11):1051-1054. doi: 10.1016/j.hlc.2016.09.005.

Khan AW, Ziemann M, Corcoran SJ, K N H, Okabe J, Rafehi H, Maxwell SS, Esler MD, El-Osta A.  NET silencing by let-7i in postural tachycardia syndrome. JCI Insight. 2017 Mar 23;2(6):e90183. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.90183.
See feature story on this article: "Fainting disorder figured out"


Gastroenterology

Yao CK, Tuck CJ, Barrett JS, Canale KE, Philpott HL, Gibson PR. Poor reproducibility of breath hydrogen testing: Implications for its application in functional bowel disorders. United European Gastroenterol J. 2017 Mar;5(2):284-292. doi: 10.1177/2050640616657978. Epub 2016 Jul 7.


Immunology 

Carrington EM, Zhan Y, Brady JL, Zhang JG, Sutherland RM, Anstee NS, Schenk RL, Vikstrom IB, Delconte RB, Segal D, Huntington ND, Bouillet P, Tarlinton DM, Huang DC, Strasser A, Cory S, Herold MJ, Lew AM. Anti-apoptotic proteins BCL-2, MCL-1 and A1 summate collectively to maintain survival of immune cell populations both in vitro and in vivo. Cell Death Differ. 2017 Mar 31. doi: 10.1038/cdd.2017.30. [Epub ahead of print]


MAPrc

Tan EJ, Rossell SL. Formal thought disorder and neurocognition in schizophrenia: The question of individual mechanisms. Schizophr Res. 2017 Mar 28. pii: S0920-9964(17)30179-2. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2017.03.039. [Epub ahead of print]

Xiao CL, Gavrilidis E, Lee S, Kulkarni J. Do mental health clinicians elicit a history of previous trauma in female psychiatric inpatients? J Ment Health. 2016 Aug;25(4):359-365. Epub 2016 Feb 5.


MSHC

Bellhouse C, Walker S, Fairley CK, Chow EP, Bilardi JE. Getting the terminology right in sexual health research: the importance of accurately classifying fuck buddies among men who have sex with men. Sex Transm Infect. 2017 Mar 29. pii: sextrans-2016-053000. doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2016-053000. [Epub ahead of print]

Kong FY, Rupasinghe TW, Simpson JA, Vodstrcil LA, Fairley CK, McConville MJ, Hocking JS. Pharmacokinetics of a single 1g dose of azithromycin in rectal tissue in men. PLoS One. 2017 Mar 28;12(3):e0174372. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0174372. eCollection 2017.

Templeton DJ, Roberts JM, Poynten IM, Law C, Hillman RJ, Farnsworth A, Fairley CK, Tabrizi SN, Garland SM, Grulich AE, Jin F; On behalf of the SPANC Study Team. Prevalence and predictors of unsatisfactory anal cytology tests in a cohort of gay and bisexual men in Sydney, Australia: baseline findings from the Study of the Prevention of Anal Cancer (SPANC). Eur J Cancer Prev. 2017 May;26(3):212-216. doi: 10.1097/CEJ.0000000000000321.


Medicine

Phan TG, Beare R, Chen J, Clissold B, Ly J, Singhal S, Ma H, Srikanth V.
Googling service boundaries for endovascular clot retrieval hub hospitals in a metropolitan setting: proof-of-concept study. Stroke. 2017 Mar 29. pii: STROKEAHA.116.015323. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.116.015323. [Epub ahead of print]

Pham TL, Blizzard L, Srikanth V, Thrift AG, Lien NT, Thang NH, Gall SL. Case-fatality and functional status three months after first-ever stroke in Vietnam. J Neurol Sci. 2016 Jun 15;365:65-71. doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2016.03.013. Epub 2016 Mar 12.


Surgery

Gabbe BJ, Cleland H, Watterson D, Schrale R, McRae S, Taggart S, Darton A, Wood F, Edgar DW; BRANZ Adult Long Term Outcomes pilot project participating sites and working party: Predictors of moderate to severe fatigue 12 months following admission to hospital for burn: Results from the Burns Registry of Australia and New Zealand (BRANZ) Long Term Outcomes project. Burns. 2016 Dec;42(8):1652-1661. doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2016.08.036. Epub 2016 Oct 27.

McIlroy D, Murphy D, Kasza J, Bhatia D, Wutzlhofer L, Marasco S. Effects of restricting perioperative use of intravenous chloride on kidney injury in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: the LICRA pragmatic controlled clinical trial. Intensive Care Med. 2017 Mar 25. doi: 10.1007/s00134-017-4772-6. [Epub ahead of print]