27 Oct - 2 Nov 2020 Central Clinical School publications

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Recent publications featuring research as notified by PubMed during 27 October - 2 November 2020 from Central Clinical School affiliated researchers in the following departments. The below is not a comprehensive list:

• Australian Centre for Blood Diseases
• Diabetes
• Infectious Diseases
• Medicine - Peninsula
• Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
• Neuroscience

Australian Centre for Blood Diseases

Daver N, Wei AH, Pollyea DA, Fathi AT, Vyas P, DiNardo CD. New directions for emerging therapies in acute myeloid leukemia: the next chapter. Blood Cancer J. 2020 Oct 30;10(10):107. doi: 10.1038/s41408-020-00376-1. PMID: 33127875.

Kaiser M, Beksaç M, Gulbrandsen N, Schjesvold F, ..., Spencer A, ..., Dimopoulos MA. Correction to: Adverse event management in the TOURMALINE-MM3 study of post-transplant ixazomib maintenance in multiple myeloma. Ann Hematol. 2020 Oct 27. doi: 10.1007/s00277-020-04302-0. Epub ahead of print. Erratum for: Ann Hematol. 2020 Aug;99(8):1793-1804. PMID: 33106909.

Pollyea DA, Pratz K, Letai A, Jonas BA, Wei AH, ..., DiNardo CD. Venetoclax with azacitidine or decitabine in patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia: long term follow-up from a Phase 1b study. Am J Hematol. 2020 Oct 29. doi: 10.1002/ajh.26039. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33119898.

Department of Diabetes

Kowlessur S, Ori B, Zimmet P, Tuomilehto J, Chitson P, Ramphul Y. Tackling the COVID-19 pandemic in paradise: the Mauritian experience. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2020 Nov;8(11):878-879. doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(20)30336-3. Epub 2020 Sep 24. PMID: 32979933; PMCID: PMC7515597.

Sathish T, Tapp RJ, Cooper ME, Zimmet P. Potential metabolic and inflammatory pathways between COVID-19 and new-onset diabetes. Diabetes Metab. 2020 Oct 28:S1262-3636(20)30155-5. doi: 10.1016/j.diabet.2020.10.002. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33129968.

Department of Infectious Diseases

Henderson A, et al; MERINO Trial Investigators and the Australasian Society for Infectious Disease Clinical Research Network (ASID-CRN). Association between minimum inhibitory concentration, beta-lactamase genes and mortality for patients treated with piperacillin/tazobactam or meropenem from the MERINO study. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Oct 27:ciaa1479. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1479. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33106863.

Department of Medicine - Peninsula

Callisaya ML et al. Face masks and risk of falls – a vision for personalised advice and timing? 5 Nov British Medical Journal https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4133/rr

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 Dec;21(12):1872-1878. doi: 10.1111/jch.13717. Epub 2019 Oct 22. Erratum in: J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2020 Jun;22(6):1106. PMID: 31638321.

Paynter JA, Tobin V, Rozen WM, Hunter-Smith DJ. Dupuytren Disease Management Trends: A Survey of Hand Surgeons. J Hand Surg Asian Pac Vol. 2020 Dec;25(4):453-461. doi: 10.1142/S2424835520500502. PMID: 33115367.

Melbourne Sexual Health Centre

Vogel JP, Tendal B, Giles M, ..., Homer CSE; National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce. Clinical care of pregnant and postpartum women with COVID-19: Living recommendations from the National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce. Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol. 2020 Oct 29. doi: 10.1111/ajo.13270. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33119139.

Department of Neuroscience

Gonen OM, Moffat BA, Desmond PM, Lui E, Kwan P, O'Brien TJ. Seven-tesla quantitative magnetic resonance spectroscopy of glutamate, ?-aminobutyric acid, and glutathione in the posterior cingulate cortex/precuneus in patients with epilepsy. Epilepsia. 2020 Oct 28. doi: 10.1111/epi.16731. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33111330.

Major BP, McDonald SJ, O'Brien WT, Symons GF, Clough M, Costello D, Sun M, Brady RD, Mccullough J, Aniceto R, Lin IH, Law M, Mychasiuk R, O'Brien TJ, Agoston DV, Shultz SR. Serum Protein Biomarker Findings Reflective of Oxidative Stress and Vascular Abnormalities in Male, but Not Female, Collision Sport Athletes. Front Neurol. 2020 Sep 30;11:549624. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2020.549624. PMID: 33117257; PMCID: PMC7561422.

Meretoja A, Yassi N, Wu TY, ..., Cloud GC, ..., Davis SM. Tranexamic acid in patients with intracerebral haemorrhage (STOP-AUST): a multicentre, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial. Lancet Neurol. 2020 Oct 28:S1474-4422(20)30369-0. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(20)30369-0. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33128912.

Nesbitt C, Rath L, Yeh WZ, Zhong M, Wesselingh R, Monif M, Richards J, Minh VB, Jokubaitis VG, Skibina O, Butzkueven H, van der Walt A. MSCOVID19: Using social media to achieve rapid dissemination of health information. Mult Scler Relat Disord. 2020 Oct;45:102338. doi: 10.1016/j.msard.2020.102338. Epub 2020 Jun 24. PMID: 32629402.

Oxley TJ, Yoo PE, Rind GS, ..., O'Brien TJ, ... Opie NL. Motor neuroprosthesis implanted with neurointerventional surgery improves capacity for activities of daily living tasks in severe paralysis: first in-human experience. J Neurointerv Surg. 2020 Oct 28:neurintsurg-2020-016862. doi: 10.1136/neurintsurg-2020-016862. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33115813.

Pham L, Wright DK, O'Brien WT, Bain J, Huang C, Sun M, Casillas-Espinosa PM, Shah AD, Schittenhelm RB, Sobey CG, Brady RD, O'Brien TJ, Mychasiuk R, Shultz SR, McDonald SJ. Behavioral, axonal, and proteomic alterations following repeated mild traumatic brain injury: Novel insights using a clinically relevant rat model. Neurobiol Dis. 2020 Oct 27:105151. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2020.105151. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33127468.