15-21 Dec 2020 Central Clinical School publications

Medihoney antibacterial wound gel
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Recent publications featuring research as notified by PubMed during 15-21 December 2020 from Central Clinical School affiliated researchers in the following departments. The below is not a comprehensive list:

• Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine
  
• Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
• Diabetes
  
• Infectious Diseases
  
• Medicine - Alfred & Peninsula
• Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
• Neuroscience
• Psychiatry

Department of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine

Schmickl CN, Lettieri CJ, Orr JE, DeYoung P, Edwards BA, Owens RL, Malhotra A. The Arousal Threshold as a Drug Target to Improve Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Adherence: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Trial. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2020 Dec 1;202(11):1592-1595. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202003-0502LE. PMID: 32673496; PMCID: PMC7706152.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32673496/


Department of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

Myles PS, Richards T, Klein A. Preoperative intravenous iron for cardiac surgery. Lancet. 2020 Dec 12;396(10266):1883-1884. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32406-5. PMID: 33308468.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33308468/


Department of Diabetes

Sharma A, Choi JSY, Stefanovic N, Sharea AA, Simpson DS, Mukhamedova N, Jandeleit-Dahm K, Murphy AJ, Sviridov D, Vince JE, Ritchie RM, de Haan JB. Specific NLRP3 Inhibition Protects Against Diabetes-Associated Atherosclerosis. Diabetes. 2020 Dec 15:db200357. doi: 10.2337/db20-0357. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33323396.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33323396/


Department of Gastroenterology

Lubel JS, Roberts SK, Strasser SI, Thompson AJ, Philip J, Goodwin M, Clarke S, Crawford DH, Levy MT, Shackel N. Australian recommendations for the management of hepatocellular carcinoma: a consensus statement. Med J Aust. 2020 Dec 13. doi: 10.5694/mja2.50885. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33314233.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33314233/


Department of Infectious Diseases

Burrell AJ, Pellegrini B, Salimi F, Begum H, Broadley T, Campbell LT, Cheng AC, Cheung W, Cooper DJ, Earnest A, Erickson SJ, French CJ, Kaldor JM, Litton E, Murthy S, McAllister RE, Nichol AD, Palermo A, Plummer MP, Ramanan M, Reddi BA, Reynolds C, Trapani T, Webb SA, Udy AA. Outcomes for patients with COVID-19 admitted to Australian intensive care units during the first four months of the pandemic. Med J Aust. 2020 Dec 15. doi: 10.5694/mja2.50883. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33325070.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33325070/

Hoy J, McMahon J. Is it time for injectable antiretroviral therapy for HIV? Lancet. 2021 Dec 19;396(10267):1944-1946. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32231-5. Epub 2020 Dec 9. PMID: 33308428.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33308428/


Department of Medicine

Cosentino CB, Mitchell BG, Brewster DJ, Russo PL. The utility of frailty indices in predicting the risk of healthcare associated infections: a systematic review. Am J Infect Control. 2020 Dec 10:S0196-6553(20)31037-3. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2020.12.001. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33309842.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33309842/

Lynch EA, Labberton AS, Kim J, Kilkenny MF, Andrew NE, Lannin NA, Grimley R, Faux SG, Cadilhac DA. Out of sight, out of mind: long-term outcomes for people discharged home, to inpatient rehabilitation and to residential aged care after stroke. Disabil Rehabil. 2020 Dec 14:1-7. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2020.1852616. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33307842.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33307842/

Qu Y, McGiffin D, Kure C, McLean J, Duncan C, Peleg AY. In vitro Evaluation of Medihoney Antibacterial Wound Gel as an Anti-biofilm Agent Against Ventricular Assist Device Driveline Infections. Front Microbiol. 2020 Nov 23;11:605608. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.605608. PMID: 33329497; PMCID: PMC7719625.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33329497/


Melbourne Sexual Health Centre

Ablona A, Falasinnu T, Irvine M, Estcourt C, Flowers P, Murti M, Gómez-Ramírez O, Fairley CK, Mishra S, Burchell A, Grennan T, Gilbert M. Validation of a clinical prediction rule to predict asymptomatic chlamydia and gonorrhoea infections among internet-based testers. Sex Transm Dis. 2020 Dec 10. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001340. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33315748.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33315748/

Machalek DA, Tao Y, Shilling H, Jensen JS, Unemo M, Murray G, Chow EPF, Low N, Garland SM, Vodstrcil LA, Fairley CK, Hocking JS, Zhang L, Bradshaw CS. Prevalence of mutations associated with resistance to macrolides and fluoroquinolones in Mycoplasma genitalium: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Infect Dis. 2020 Nov;20(11):1302-1314. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30154-7. Epub 2020 Jul 2. PMID: 32622378.


Department of Neuroscience

Dilcher R, Malpas CB, Walterfang M, Kwan P, O'Brien TJ, Velakoulis D, Vivash L. Cognitive profiles in patients with epileptic and nonepileptic seizures evaluated using a brief cognitive assessment tool. Epilepsy Behav. 2020 Dec 11:107643. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2020.107643. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33317941.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33317941/

Eratne D, Schneider A, Lynch E, Martyn M, Velakoulis D, Fahey M, Kwan P, Leventer R, Rafehi H, Chong B, Stark Z, Lunke S, Phelan DG, O'Keefe M, Siemering K, West K, Sexton A, Jarmolowicz A, Taylor JA, Schultz J, Purvis R, Uebergang E, Chalinor H, Creighton B, Gelfand N, Saks T, Prawer Y, Smagarinsky Y, Pan T, Goranitis I, Ademi Z, Gaff C, Huq A, Walsh M, James PA, Krzesinski EI, Wallis M, Stutterd CA, Bahlo M, Delatycki MB, Berkovic SF. The clinical utility of exome sequencing and extended bioinformatic analyses in adolescents and adults with a broad range of neurological phenotypes: an Australian perspective. J Neurol Sci. 2020 Dec 3;420:117260. doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2020.117260. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33310205.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33310205/

Frey BM, Boutitie F, Cheng B, Cho TH, Ebinger M, Endres M, Fiebach JB, Fiehler J, Ford I, Galinovic I, Königsberg A, Puig J, Roy P, Wouters A, Magnus T, Thijs V, Lemmens R, Muir KW, Nighoghossian N, Pedraza S, Simonsen CZ, Gerloff C, Thomalla G; WAKE-UP investigators. Safety and efficacy of intravenous thrombolysis in stroke patients on prior antiplatelet therapy in the WAKE-UP trial. Neurol Res Pract. 2020 Nov 20;2:40. doi: 10.1186/s42466-020-00087-9. PMID: 33324940; PMCID: PMC7678217.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33324940/

Iva P, Fielding J, Clough M, White O, Noffs G, Godic B, Martin R, van der Walt A, Rajan R. Speech discrimination performance in multiple sclerosis dataset. Data Brief. 2020 Dec 3;33:106614. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.106614. PMID: 33318987; PMCID: PMC7726651.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33318987/

Maltby VE, Lea RA, Burnard S, Xavier A, Van Cao T, White N, Kennedy D, Groen K, Sanders KA, Seeto R, Bray S, Gresle M, Laverick L, Butzkueven H, Scott RJ, Lechner-Scott J. Epigenetic differences at the HTR2A locus in progressive multiple sclerosis patients. Sci Rep. 2020 Dec 17;10(1):22217. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-78809-x. PMID: 33335118.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33335118/

O'Brien WT, Symons GF, Bain J, Major BP, Costello DM, Sun M, Kimpton JS, Chen Z, Brady RD, Mychasiuk R, O'Brien TJ, Monif M, Shultz SR, McDonald SJ. Elevated serum interleukin-1β levels in male, but not female, collision sport athletes with a concussion history. J Neurotrauma. 2020 Dec 14. doi: 10.1089/neu.2020.7479. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33308001.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33308001/

Rath L, Bui MV, Ellis J, Carey J, Baker J, Taylor L, Fernando H, Taylor N, Savage P, Richards J, Zhong M, Kalincik T, Skibina O, Wesselingh R, Nguyen AL, Monif M, Butzkueven H, van der Walt A. Fast and safe: Optimising multiple sclerosis infusions during COVID-19 pandemic. Mult Scler Relat Disord. 2020 Dec 1;47:102642. doi: 10.1016/j.msard.2020.102642. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33321356.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33321356/

Tan TH, Perucca P, O'Brien TJ, Kwan P, Monif M. Inflammation, ictogenesis, and epileptogenesis: An exploration through human disease. Epilepsia. 2020 Dec 14. doi: 10.1111/epi.16788. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33316111.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33316111/


Department of Psychiatry

Pikoos TD, Buzwell S, Sharp G, Rossell SL. The COVID-19 pandemic: Psychological and behavioral responses to the shutdown of the beauty industry. Int J Eat Disord. 2020 Dec;53(12):1993-2002. doi: 10.1002/eat.23385. Epub 2020 Sep 16. PMID: 32936467.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32936467/