11-17 Feb 2020 Central Clinical School recent publications

Monash neuroscience researchers have

published a review of research on long-term 

consequences of TBI in childhood.

Image source: Brainline

Recent publications as notified during the week 11-17 Feb 2020 by PubMed from Central Clinical School affiliated researchers in the following departments. This is not a comprehensive list:

• Australian Centre for Blood Diseases
• Diabetes
• Gastroenterology
• Immunology and Pathology
• Infectious Diseases
• Medical Education
• Neuroscience
• Psychiatry
• Surgery/NTRI

Australian Centre for Blood Diseases

Dimopoulos MA, Jakubowiak AJ, McCarthy PL, ..., Spencer A, ..., Anderson KC. Developments in continuous therapy and maintenance treatment approaches for patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma. Blood Cancer J. 2020 Feb 13;10(2):17. doi: 10.1038/s41408-020-0273-x.


Department of Diabetes

Campbell MD, Sathish T, Zimmet PZ, ..., Tapp RJ. Benefit of lifestyle-based T2DM prevention is influenced by prediabetes phenotype. Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2020 Feb 14. doi: 10.1038/s41574-019-0316-1.

Cooper ME, Rosenstock J, Kadowaki T, ..., Johansen OE; CARMELINA investigators. Cardiovascular and kidney outcomes of linagliptin treatment in older people with type 2 diabetes and established cardiovascular disease and/or kidney disease: A prespecified subgroup analysis of the randomized, placebo-controlled CARMELINA® trial. Diabetes Obes Metab. 2020 Feb 9. doi: 10.1111/dom.13995.


Department of Gastroenterology

Ket SN, Sparrow RL, McQuilten ZK, Tacey M, Gibson PR, Brown GJ. Wood EM3. Clinical coding data algorithm to categorize type of gastrointestinal bleeding as a primary reason for massive transfusion: results from the Australian and New Zealand Massive Transfusion Registry. Vox Sang. 2019 Nov;114(8):853-860. doi: 10.1111/vox.12840.

Majeed A, Majumdar A, Bailey M, Kemp W, Bellomo R, Pilcher D, Roberts SK. The authors reply [to 'Dilution or decrease in prevalence and mortality of patients with variceal bleeding admitted to the ICU]. Crit Care Med. 2020 Mar;48(3):e258-e259. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000004189.


Department of Immunology and Pathology

van Zelm MC, Condino-Neto A, Barbouche MR. Editorial: Primary Immunodeficiencies Worldwide. Front Immunol. 2020 Jan 22;10:3148. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.03148. eCollection 2019.


Department of Infectious Diseases

Angelovich TA, Churchill MJ, Wright EJ, Brew BJ. New Potential Axes of HIV Neuropathogenesis with Relevance to Biomarkers and Treatment. Curr Top Behav Neurosci. 2020 Feb 11. doi: 10.1007/7854_2019_126.


Medical Education

Brewster DJ, Waxman BP. Adding kindness at handover to improve our collegiality: the K-ISBAR tool. Med J Aust. 2019 Jul;211(2):93-93.e1. doi: 10.5694/mja2.50238. Epub 2019 Jun 12. PMID: 31187877


Department of Neuroscience

Chen Z, Brodie MJ, Kwan P. What has been the impact of new drug treatments on epilepsy? Curr Opin Neurol. 2020 Feb 11. doi: 10.1097/WCO.0000000000000803. PMID: 32049739

Sharkey JM, McDonald SJ, Sun M, Kaukas L, Shultz SR, Turner R, Leonard AV, Brady RD, Corrigan F. Beyond the brain: peripheral interactions following traumatic brain injury. J Neurotrauma. 2020 Feb 11. doi: 10.1089/neu.2019.6885. PMID: 32041478

Symons GF, Clough M, Fielding J, O'Brien WT, Shepherd CE, Wright DK, Shultz SR. The neurological consequences of engaging in Australian collision sports. J Neurotrauma. 2020 Feb 14. doi: 10.1089/neu.2019.6884. PMID: 32056505

Zamani A, Ryan N, Wright DK, Caeyenberghs K, Semple BD. The impact of traumatic injury to the immature human brain: a scoping review with insights from advanced structural neuroimaging. J Neurotrauma. 2020 Feb 10. doi: 10.1089/neu.2019.6895. PMID: 32037951


Department of Surgery/National Trauma Research Institute

Bowden P, See AW, Frydenberg M, ..., Grummet J, ..., Everitt C. Fractionated stereotactic body radiotherapy for up to five prostate cancer oligometastases: Interim outcomes of a prospective clinical trial. Int J Cancer. 2020 Jan 1;146(1):161-168. doi: 10.1002/ijc.32509.

Rosenbaum E, Cox S, Smith K, Fitzgerald M, Braitberg G, Carpenter A, Bernard S. Ambulance management of patients with penetrating truncal trauma and hypotension in Melbourne, Australia. Emerg Med Australas. 2020 Feb 11. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.13450.