30 March - 5 April 2021 Central Clinical School recent publications

Why is the brain a major target for SARS-CoV2 infection? ACBD
haematologists @dr_maithili & Prof Harshal Nandurkar hypothesise
that it could be the cerebral endothelium (lining of the inner surface
See their review article in Stroke

Recent publications featuring research as notified by PubMed during 30 March - 5 April 2021 from Central Clinical School affiliated researchers in the following departments. The below is not a comprehensive list. Most recent validated publications for the school and departments can be seen on their publications pages, linked to from the headings below. Otherwise, read down the entry for recent notifications.

• Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
• Gastroenterology
• Immunology and Pathology
• Infectious Diseases
• Medicine (including Alfred and Peninsula)
• Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
• Psychiatry
• Neuroscience
• Psychiatry
  
• Surgery (including National Trauma Research Institute)

Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine

Bousquet J, Agache I, Blain H, ..., O'Hehir RE, ..., Klimek L. Management of anaphylaxis due to COVID-19 vaccines in the elderly. Allergy. 2021 Apr 2. doi: 10.1111/all.14838. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33811358. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33811364/

Sampath V, Rabinowitz G, Shah M, ..., O'Hehir RE, ..., van Zelm M, ..., Nadeau KC. Vaccines and Allergic reactions: the past, the current COVID-19 pandemic, and future perspectives. Allergy. 2021 Apr 2. doi: 10.1111/all.14840. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33811364.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33811364/

Department of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

Phan TD, Uda Y, Peyton PJ, Kluger R, Myles PS. Effect of fluid strategy on stroke volume, cardiac output, and fluid responsiveness in adult patients undergoing major abdominal surgery: a sub-study of the Restrictive versus Liberal Fluid Therapy in Major Abdominal Surgery (RELIEF) trial. Br J Anaesth. 2021 Apr;126(4):818-825. doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2021.01.011. Epub 2021 Feb 23. PMID: 33632521.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33632521

Australian Centre for Blood Diseases

Bergin K, Wellard C, Moore E, ..., Spencer A; Australian and New Zealand Myeloma and Related Diseases Registry. The Myeloma Landscape in Australia and New Zealand: The First 8 Years of the Myeloma and Related Diseases Registry (MRDR). Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk. 2021 Jan 30:S2152-2650(21)00034-3. doi: 10.1016/j.clml.2021.01.016. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33785297.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33785297/

Medcalf RL, Keragala CB. Fibrinolysis: A primordial system linked to the immune response. Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Mar 26;22(7):3406. doi: 10.3390/ijms22073406. PMID: 33810275.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33810275/

Reale A, Khong T, Xu R, Chen M, Mithraprabhu S, Bingham N, Spencer A, Greening DW. Human Plasma Extracellular Vesicle Isolation and Proteomic Characterization for the Optimization of Liquid Biopsy in Multiple Myeloma. Methods Mol Biol. 2021;2261:151-191. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1186-9_10. PMID: 33420989.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33420989/

Sashindranath M, Nandurkar HH. Endothelial Dysfunction in the Brain: Setting the Stage for Stroke and Other Cerebrovascular Complications of COVID-19. Stroke. 2021 Apr 2:STROKEAHA120032711. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.120.032711. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33794655.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33794655/

Suwakulsiri W, Chen M, Greening DW, Xu R, Simpson RJ. Analysis of Annotated and Unannotated Long Noncoding RNAs from Exosome Subtypes Using Next-Generation RNA Sequencing. Methods Mol Biol. 2021;2254:195-218. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1158-6_12. PMID: 33326077.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33326077/

Wei AH, Döhner H, Roboz GJ. Oral Azacitidine Maintenance for Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Reply. N Engl J Med. 2021 Apr 1;384(13):e51. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc2101283. PMID: 33789023.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33789023/


Department of Diabetes

Gong J, Harris K, Hackett M, Peters SAE, Brodaty H, Cooper M, Hamet P, Harrap S, Mancia G, MacMahon S, Chalmers J, Woodward M. Sex differences in risk factors for cognitive decline and dementia, including death as a competing risk, in individuals with diabetes: Results from the ADVANCE trial. Diabetes Obes Metab. 2021 Mar 30. doi: 10.1111/dom.14391. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33783955.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33783955/


Department of Infectious Diseases

Fitzpatrick LP, Levkovich B, McGloughlin S, Litton E, Cheng AC, Bailey M, Pilcher D. Infection management processes in intensive care and their association with mortality. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2021 Mar 30:dkab103. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkab103. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33783491.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33783491/

Selva KJ, van de Sandt CE, Lemke MM,..., Cheng AC, ..., Kent SJ, ..., Chung AW. Systems serology detects functionally distinct coronavirus antibody features in children and elderly. Nat Commun. 2021 Apr 1;12(1):2037. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-22236-7. PMID: 33795692.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33795692/


Department of Medicine - Alfred and Peninsula

Andrew NE, Wang Y, Teo K, Callisaya ML, Moran C, Snowdon DA, Ellmers S, Beare R, Richardson D, Srikanth V. Exploring patterns of personal alarm system use and impacts on outcomes. Australas J Ageing. 2021 Mar 28. doi: 10.1111/ajag.12941. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33779038.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33779038/

Robins LM, Lee DA, Bell JS, Srikanth V, Möhler R, Hill KD, Haines TP. Definition and Measurement of Physical and Chemical Restraint in Long-Term Care: A Systematic Review. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Mar 31;18(7):3639. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18073639. PMID: 33807413.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33807413/


Melbourne Sexual Health Centre

Arum C, Fraser H, Artenie AA, ..., Ong JJ, ..., Vickerman P; Homelessness, HIV, and HCV Review Collaborative Group. Homelessness, unstable housing, and risk of HIV and hepatitis C virus acquisition among people who inject drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Public Health. 2021 Mar 26:S2468-2667(21)00013-X. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(21)00013-X. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33780656.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33780656/

Mi GD, Zhang BB, Yu F, Ren XL, Ong JJ, ..., Zhang MY. HIV incidence among men who have sex with men using geosocial networking smartphone application in Beijing, China: an open cohort study. Infect Dis Poverty. 2021 Apr 2;10(1):27. doi: 10.1186/s40249-021-00814-7. PMID: 33795011.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33795011/

Shilling HS, Garland SM, Costa AM, ..., Bradshaw C, Vodstrcil L, ..., Machalek DA. Chlamydia trachomatis and Mycoplasma genitalium prevalence and associated factors among women presenting to a pregnancy termination and contraception clinic, 2009-2019. Sex Transm Infect. 2021 Mar 29:sextrans-2020-054695. doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054695. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33782146.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33782146/

Towns JM, Leslie DE, Denham I, Azzato F, Karapanagiotidis T, Williamson DA, Graves SR, Fairley CK, Bissessor M, Chow EPF, Zhang L, Chen MY. Timing of primary syphilis treatment and impact on the development of treponemal antibodies: a cross-sectional clinic-based study. Sex Transm Infect. 2021 Mar 29:sextrans-2020-054739. doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054739. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33782149.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33782149/


Department of Neuroscience

Deng H, Jayawardena A, Chan J, Tan S, Kwan P. An ultra-portable, self-contained point-of-care nucleic acid amplification test for diagnosis of active COVID-19 infection. Europe PMC; 2021. https://europepmc.org/article/ppr/ppr279742 

Erlichster M, Bedo J, Skafidas E, Kwan P, Kowalczyk A, Goudey B. Letter: improved parsimony of genetic risk scores for coeliac disease through refined HLA modelling. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2021 Mar;53(6):759-760. doi: 10.1111/apt.16263. PMID: 33599319.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33599319/

Levy T, Christie LJ, Killington M, Laver K, Crotty M, Lannin NA (2021) “Just that four letter word, hope”: stroke survivors’ perspectives of participation in an intensive upper limb exercise program; a qualitative exploration, Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1080/09593985.2021.1875525

Roman C, Cloud G, Dooley M, Mitra B. Involvement of emergency medicine pharmacists in stroke thrombolysis: A cohort study. J Clin Pharm Ther. 2021 Mar 22. doi: 10.1111/jcpt.13414. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33751617. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpt.13414

Department of Psychiatry

Fitzgerald PB, Gill S, Hussain S, ..., Loo C. The place of non-invasive brain stimulation in the RANZCP clinical practice guidelines for mood disorders. Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2021 Apr;55(4):349-354. doi: 10.1177/00048674211004344. PMID: 33797285.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33797285/

Modak A, Fitzgerald PB. Personalising transcranial magnetic stimulation for depression using neuroimaging: a systematic review. World J Biol Psychiatry. 2021 Mar 29:1-40. doi: 10.1080/15622975.2021.1907710. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33779486.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33779486/

Perera MPN, Mallawaarachchi S, Miljevic A, Bailey NW, Herring SE, Fitzgerald PB. Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): A meta-analysis of randomised, sham-controlled trials. Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging. 2021 Mar 25:S2451-9022(21)00087-2. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2021.03.010. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33775927.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33775927/