Recent publications from Central Clinical School: 1-11 Nov 2019

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
experience high rates of diabetes in pregnancy
 (DIP), contributing to health risks for mother
infant, and the intergenerational cycle of diabetes 
Study link. Image courtesy NACCHO communique

Recent publications from Central Clinical School affiliated researchers in the following departments. This is not a comprehensive list:

• Diabetes
• Infectious Diseases
• Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
• Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre
• Neuroscience
• Peninsula Clinical School
• Surgery

Diabetes

Kirkham R, Trap-Jensen N, Boyle JA, ... Zimmet P, ... Maple-Brown L; NT Diabetes in Pregnancy Partnership. Diabetes care in remote Australia: the antenatal, postpartum and inter-pregnancy period. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2019 Oct 28;19(1):389. doi: 10.1186/s12884-019-2562-6.


Infectious Diseases

Hoy JF, Richardson R, Ebeling PR, Rojas J, Pocock N, Kerr SJ, Martinez E, Carr A; ZEST Study Investigators. Zoledronic acid is superior to tenofovir disoproxil fumarate-switching for low bone mineral density in adults with HIV. AIDS. 2018 Sep 10;32(14):1967-1975. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000001911.


Melbourne Sexual Health Centre

Aung ET, Chow EP, Fairley CK, Hocking JS, Bradshaw CS, Williamson DA, Chen MY. International travel as risk factor for Chlamydia trachomatis infections among young heterosexuals attending a sexual health clinic in Melbourne, Australia, 2007 to 2017. Euro Surveill. 2019 Oct;24(44). doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.44.1900219.

Cornelisse VJ, Fairley CK, Stoove M, Asselin J, Chow EPF, Price B, Roth NJ, Willcox J, Tee BK, Penn M, Chang CC, Armishaw J, Forgan-Smith G, Wright EJ; PrEPX Study Team. Evaluation of Preexposure (PrEP) Eligibility Criteria, Using Sexually Transmissible Infections as Markers of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Risk at Enrollment in PrEPX, a Large Australian HIV PrEP Trial. Clin Infect Dis. 2018 Nov 28;67(12):1847-1852. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciy370.

Phillips TR, Fairley CK, Maddaford K, Danielewski J, Hocking JS, Lee D, Williamson DA, Murray G, Kong F, De Petra V, Bradshaw CS, Chen MY, Wigan R, Snow A, Howden BP, Garland SM, Chow EPF. Bacterial load of Chlamydia trachomatis in the posterior oropharynx, tonsillar fossae and saliva among gay and bisexual men with untreated oropharyngeal chlamydia. J Clin Microbiol. 2019 Nov 6. pii: JCM.01375-19. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01375-19.


Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre

Hill AT, McModie S, Fung W, Hoy KE, Chung SW, Bertram KL. Impact of Prefrontal Intermittent Theta-Burst Stimulation on Working Memory and Executive Function in Parkinson's Disease: A Double-Blind Sham-Controlled Pilot Study. Brain Res. 2019 Oct 18:146506. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2019.146506


Neuroscience

Cheng B, Boutitie F, Nickel A, ... Thomalla G; WAKE-UP (Efficacy and Safety of MRI-Based Thrombolysis inWake-Up Stroke Trial) investigators [including Cloud, G]. Quantitative Signal Intensity in Fluid-Attenuated Inversion Recovery and Treatment Effect in the WAKE-UP Trial. Stroke. 2019 Oct 30:STROKEAHA119027390. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.119.027390.

Dvir N, Javaid MS, Jones NC, Powell KL, Kwan P, O'Brien TJ, Antonic-Baker A. The effects of cell therapy on seizures in animal models of epilepsy: protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis of preclinical studies. Syst Rev. 2019 Nov 1;8(1):255. doi: 10.1186/s13643-019-1169-3.

Iverson GL, Gardner AJ, Shultz SR, ... Castellani RJ. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy neuropathology might not be inexorably progressive or unique to repetitive neurotrauma. Brain. 2019 Oct 31. pii: awz286. doi: 10.1093/brain/awz286. PMID: 31670780

Malpas CB, Wang AD, Leong M, ..., Kwan P, O'Brien TJ, Velakoulis D. Abbreviated assessment of psychopathology in patients with suspected seizure disorders. Epilepsy Behav. 2019 Oct 25;100(Pt A):106530. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2019.106530. PMID: 31665694

Zhou Y, Claflin SB, Stankovich J, ..., Butzkueven H, ..., Taylor BV. Redefining the Multiple Sclerosis Severity Score (MSSS): The effect of sex and onset phenotype. Mult Scler. 2019 Oct 31:1352458519881994. doi: 10.1177/1352458519881994.


Peninsula Clinical School

Dalli LL, Kim J, Thrift AG, Andrew NE, Lannin NA, ..., Kilkenny MF; Stroke123 Investigators and the AuSCR Consortium. Disparities in Antihypertensive Prescribing After Stroke: Linked Data From the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry. Stroke. 2019 Oct 25:STROKEAHA119026823. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.119.026823.

Moore MN, Picone DS, Callisaya ML, Srikanth V, Sharman JE, Schultz MG. Comparison of manual and automated auscultatory blood pressure during graded exercise among people with type 2 diabetes. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2019 Oct 22. doi: 10.1111/jch.13717


Surgery

Lam K, Tan EW, Lee JC. Case of dysphagia lusoria in a patient with a non-recurrent laryngeal nerve. ANZ J Surg. 2019 Oct 24. doi: 10.1111/ans.15530

Stewart R, Leang YJ, Bhatt CR, Grodski S, Serpell J, Lee JC. Quantifying the differences in surgical management of patients with definitive and indeterminate thyroid nodule cytology. Eur J Surg Oncol. 2019 Oct 7. pii: S0748-7983(19)30885-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ejso.2019.10.004.