Recent publications from Central Clinical School: 16 Nov - 1 Dec 2019

Prof Jo Fielding is last author on

a paper describing her group's

research on accurate measurement 

of cognitive deficits in MS patients

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

• ACBD
• Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
• Diabetes
• Infectious Diseases
• Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
• Neuroscience
• Psychiatry: Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre
• Medical Education

Australian Centre for Blood Diseases

Chua CC1, Grigg A2, Singh J1, Droogleever MP1,3, Zhang L1, Lim A2, Fong CY2, Ting SB4, Schwarer A4, Tiong IS1, Wei AH1. Treatment practice and outcomes in FLT3-mutant acute myeloid leukemia in the pre-midostaurin era: a real-world experience from Australian tertiary hospitals. Leuk Lymphoma. 2019 Nov 21:1-7. doi: 10.1080/10428194.2019.1691192.


Department of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

Hiller JG1, Cole SW2, Crone EM3, Byrne DJ4, Shackleford DM5, Pang JB4, Henderson MA3, Nightingale SS3, Ho KM6, Myles PS 7, Fox S8, Riedel B9, Sloan EK10. Pre-operative β-blockade with propranolol reduces biomarkers of metastasis in breast cancer: a Phase II randomized trial. Clin Cancer Res. 2019 Nov 21. pii: clincanres.2641.2019. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-19-2641


Department of Diabetes

Reutens AT1, Jandeleit-Dahm K2, Thomas M3, Bach LA4, Colman PG5, Davis TME6, D'Emden M7, Ekinci EI8, Fulcher G9, Hamblin PS10, Kotowicz MA11, MacIsaac RJ12, Morbey C13, Simmons D14, Soldatos G15, Wittert G16, Wu T17, Cooper ME18, Shaw JE19. A physician-initiated double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 2 study evaluating the efficacy and safety of inhibition of NADPH oxidase with the first-in-class Nox-1/4 inhibitor, GKT137831, in adults with type 1 diabetes and persistently elevated urinary albumin excretion: protocol and statistical considerations. Contemp Clin Trials. 2019 Nov 15:105892. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2019.105892.


Department of Gastroenterology

Ket S1, Metz A2, Moss A3,4, Ogra R5, Tam W6,7,8, Secomb R1, Reynolds J9, Gibson PR1, Brown G1,10. Study design of endoscopic polypectomy on clopidogrel (EPOC): A randomised controlled trial. Contemp Clin Trials Commun. 2019 Nov 1;16:100479. doi: 10.1016/j.conctc.2019.100479


Department of Medicine

Zentner D, Celermajer DS, Gentles T, ... McGiffin D, ..., Wood A. Management of People With a Fontan Circulation: a Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand Position statement. Heart Lung Circ. 2019 Nov 14. pii: S1443-9506(19)31458-1. doi: 10.1016/j.hlc.2019.09.010.


Melbourne Sexual Health Centre

Chen Y, Ji H, Shao J, Jia Y, Bao Q, Zhu J, Zhang L, Shen Y. Different Hepatitis C Virus Infection Statuses Show a Significant Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Network Meta-Analysis. Dig Dis Sci. 2019 Nov 23. doi: 10.1007/s10620-019-05918-7.


Department of Neuroscience 

Brady RD, Wong KR, Robinson DL, Mychasiuk R, McDonald SJ, D'Cunha RA, Yamakawa GR, Sun M, Wark JD, Lee PVS, O'Brien TJ, Casillas-Espinosa PM, Shultz SR. Bone Health in Rats With Temporal Lobe Epilepsy in the Absence of Anti-Epileptic Drugs. Front Pharmacol. 2019 Oct 29;10:1278. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2019.01278. eCollection 2019. PMID: 31749702

Clough M, Dobbing J, Stankovich J, Ternes A, Kolbe S, White OB, Fielding J. Cognitive processing speed deficits in multiple sclerosis: Dissociating sensorial and motor processing changes from cognitive processing speed. Mult Scler Relat Disord. 2019 Nov 22;38:101522. doi: 10.1016/j.msard.2019.101522.


Department of Psychiatry

Meikle SE1, Liknaitzky P2, Rossell SL3, Ross M4, Strauss N5, Thomas N2,3, Murray G2,3, Williams M6, Castle DJ7,8. Psilocybin-assisted therapy for depression: How do we advance the field? Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2019 Nov 22:4867419888575. doi: 10.1177/0004867419888575.


Medical Education

Whyler NC, Teng JC, Brewster DJ, Chin R, Cox I, Druce J, Prince HM, Sheffield DA, Teh E, Sarode V. Diagnosis of West Nile virus encephalitis in a returned traveller. Med J Aust. 2019 Nov 17. doi: 10.5694/mja2.50416. [Epub ahead of print] No abstract available. PMID: 31736076