Research News and Publications

Artificial Urinary Sphincter Alert Study Wins Best Poster at This Year’s American Urologic Association (AUA) National Meeting

May 6, 2024

Dr. Philip Olson, Urology Resident at the Tallwood Institute, presented the findings from a recent study conducted at Hartford Hospital to attendees of the AUA national meeting in San Antonio.  The study won the blue ribbon for best poster, and there was an overwhelmingly positive reaction from colleagues, with many institutions expressing a desire to implement the alert in their hospital system.

According to Dr. Olson, the artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) remains the gold standard treatment option for men with post-prostatectomy incontinence. Unfortunately, many medical providers are unaware of when a patient has an AUS. This may lead to inadvertent urethral catheterization, without device de-activation. Dr. Richard Kershen of the Tallwood Urology Group at Hartford Hospital created a novel, best practice advisory in the electronic medical record to alert medical staff of a patient's AUS. After the advisory was implemented in the system, there have been no episodes of inadvertent catheterization leading to urethral trauma in men with an AUS. The alert has strong safety implications for men with an AUS and may limit these adverse events in the future. 


Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Research Presented at IFSO conference in Naples, Italy

Dr. Devika Umashanker, metabolic weight loss specialist, presented an excellent talk at the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO) conference held recently in Naples, Italy. Based on her presentation, Prevalence and Risk Factors of Migraine in a Clinic-based Sample of Patients Pursuing Surgical or Medical Treatment for Obesity, Dr. Umashanker was awarded the IFSO integrated health early stage scientific investigator award. The study was conducted in collaboration with Dr. Brian Grosberg, Director of the HHC Headache Center and his team.


Dr. Oscar Serrano appointed to the American College of Surgeons Scientific Forum Committee

We are proud to announce that Dr. Oscar Serrano was recently appointed by the American College of Surgeons Board of Regents as a member to the Owen H. Wangensteen Scientific Forum Committee. In this role Dr. Serrano will be responsible for coordinating the program of Transplant and HPB abstracts to be presented at the Clinical Congress for the next three years. Dr. Serrano has been involved with the Scientific Forum during his residency and fellowship training and as an attending surgeon. We are very excited for his opportunity to represent Hartford HealthCare at the national level in such a prestigious professional organization.


Recent Publications

October 2024

Elkalawy H,Abosena W,Elnagger M,Allison H Wake up to gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: The interplay between arousal and night-time reflux. Journal of sleep research

Cook NE,Kissinger-Knox A,Iverson IA,Stephenson K,Norman MA,Hunter AA,Saadi A,Iverson GL Social Determinants of Health and Health Equity in the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Sport-Related Concussion: A Content Analysis of Intervention Research and Call-To-Action. Journal of neurotrauma

Akhtar RR,Rana MJ,Joychan S,Malik S Assessing the Factors Affecting Recruitment to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Programs. Academic psychiatry: the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry

Ben Haj Frej K,Dean J,Bacare B,Burch T,Kureshi IU,Chozick B,Bulsara KR The History of the Development and Use of Suction Devices in Neurosurgery. World neurosurgery

Janela D,Areias AC,Moulder RG,Molinos M,Bento V,Yanamadala V,Correia FD,Costa F Recovering Work Productivity in a Population With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: Unveiling the Value and Cost-Savings of a Digital Care Program. Journal of occupational and environmental medicine

Ethington S,Volpe A,Guenter P,Simmons D The lingering safety menace: A 10-year review of enteral misconnection adverse events and narrative review. Nutrition in clinical practice: official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

Di Pietro G,Improta R,Bruno F,De Filippo O,Leone PP,Nebiolo M,Giacobbe F,Caporusso D,Birtolo LI,Ielasi A,Mohamed AW,Ho KW,Meguro K,Ferrara J,Waksman R,Pilgrims T,McKay RG,Seiffert M,Massimo M,De Ferrari GM,D'Ascenzo F Impact of Small Aortic Annuli on the Performance of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Bioprostheses: An Updated Meta-Analysis of Recent Studies. The American journal of cardiology

Ali S,Kumar M,Khlidj Y,Hendricks E,Farooq F,Alruwaili W,Keisham B,Duhan S,Gonuguntla K,Sattar Y,Shaik A,Brar V,Asad ZUA,Sorajja D,Dominic P,Helmy T Impact of frailty in hospitalized patients undergoing catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation. Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

Batal I,Watts AJB,Gibier JB,Hamroun A,Top I,Provot F,Keller K,Ye X,Fernandez HE,Leal R,Andeen NK,Crew RJ,Dube GK,Vasilescu ER,Ratner LE,Bowman N,Bomback AS,Sanna-Cherchi S,Kiryluk K,Weins A Pre-transplant anti-nephrin antibodies are specific predictors of recurrent diffuse podocytopathy in the kidney allograft. Kidney international

Xu W,Li A,Yackel HD,Sarta ML,Salner A,Judge MP Dietary consumption patterns in breast cancer survivors: Pilot evaluation of diet, supplements and clinical factors. European journal of oncology nursing: the official journal of European Oncology Nursing Society

Sullivan AJ,Anderson J,Beatty M,Choi J,Jaccard J,Hawkins K,Pearlson G,Stevens MC A randomized clinical trial to evaluate feasibility, tolerability, and preliminary target engagement for a novel executive working memory training in adolescents with ADHD. Behaviour research and therapy

Solomito MJ,Garibay EJ,Cohen A,Nissen CW The Role of the Lead Hip in Collegiate Baseball Pitching: Implications for Ball Velocity and Upper-Extremity Joint Moments. Journal of applied biomechanics

Zhanel GG,Mansour C,Mikolayanko S,Lawrence CK,Zelenitsky S,Ramirez D,Schweizer F,Bay D,Adam H,Lagace-Wiens P,Walkty A,Irfan N,Clark N,Nicolau D,Tascini C,Karlowsky JA Cefepime-Taniborbactam: A Novel Cephalosporin/beta-Lactamase Inhibitor Combination. Drugs

Snow Caroti K,Joseph A,Sapowadia A,Michael White C Elemental impurities (heavy metals) in kratom products: an assessment of published individual product analyses. Clinical toxicology (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Black C,Temple S,Acquaye A,Fields C,Konopasky A Sociohistorical justice: a corrective framework to mend the modern harms of medical history. Lancet regional health. Americas

Cobar JP,Gunstad J,Bond DS,Michalak I,Ebadinejad A,Wu Y,Tishler D,Stevens M,Pearlson G,Papasavas P Prospective Comparison of Mental Planning Ability in Sleeve Gastrectomy Patients and Non-operative Controls. Obesity surgery

Shu L,Akpokiere F,Mandel DM,Field TS,Leon Guerrero CR,Henninger N,Muppa J,Affan M,Haq Lodhi OU,Heldner MR,Antonenko K,Seiffge DJ,Arnold M,Salehi Omran S,Crandall R,Lester E,Lopez-Mena D,Arauz A,Nehme A,Boulanger M,Touze E,Sousa JA,Sargento-Freitas J,Barata V,Castro-Chaves P,Brito MT,Khan M,Mallick D,Rothstein A,Khazaal O,Kaufmann JE,Engelter ST,Traenka C,Aguiar de Sousa D,Soares MD,Rosa SB,Zhou L,Gandhi P,Mancini S,Metanis I,Leker RR,Pan K,Dantu V,Baumgartner K,Burton TM,Von Rennenberg R,Nolte CH,Choi R,MacDonald J,Bavarsad Shahripour R,Guo X,Ghannam M,Almajali M,Samaniego EA,Rioux B,Zine-Eddine F,Poppe A,Fonseca AC,Baptista MF,Cruz D,Romoli M,De Marco G,Longoni M,Keser Z,Griffin KJ,Kuohn L,Frontera JA,Amar JY,Giles JA,Zedde M,Pascarella R,Grisendi I,Nzwalo H,Liebeskind DS,Molaie A,Cavalier A,Kam W,Mac Grory B,Al Kasab S,Anadani M,Kicielinski KP,Eltatawy A,Chervak L,Chulluncuy Rivas R,Aziz YN,Mistry EA,Bakradze E,Tran TL,Rodrigo-Gisbert M,Requena M,Saleh Velez FG,Garcia JO,Muddasani V,de Havenon A,Sanchez S,Vishnu VY,Yaddanapudi S,Adams L,Browngoehl A,Ranasinghe T,Dunston R,Lynch Z,Penckofer M,Siegler JE,Mayer S,Willey JZ,Zubair AS,Cheng YK,Sharma R,Marto JP,Krupka D,Klein P,Nguyen TN,Asad SD,Sarwat Z,Balabhadra A,Patel S,Secchi T,Martins SC,Mantovani GP,Kim YD,Krishnaiah B,Elangovan C,Lingam S,Qureshi AY,Fridman S,Alvarado A,Khasiyev F,Linares G,Mannino M,Terruso V,Tountopoulou A,Tentolouris-Piperas V,Martinez-Marino MM,Carrasco Wall V,Indraswari F,El Jamal SE,Liu S,Zhou M,Alvi MM,Ali F,Sarvath M,Morsi RZ,Kass-Hout T,Shi F,Zhang J,Sokhi D,Said J,Mongare N,Simpkins AN,Gomez R,Sen S,Ghani M,Elnazeir M,Wangqin R,Xiao H,Kala NS,Khan F,Stretz C,Mohammadzadeh N,Goldstein ED,Furie K,Yaghi S Intravenous Thrombolysis in Patients With Cervical Artery Dissection: A Secondary Analysis of the STOP-CAD Study. Neurology

Tolat AV Ventricular Pace Mapping and TR Fusion: What More Can Be Learned from the ECG? JACC. Clinical electrophysiology

Thompson PD Can Exercise Injure the Sinus Node? Circulation

Bushey E,Wu Y,Wright A,Pescatello L The Influence of Physical Activity and Diet Mobile Apps on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: Meta-Review. Journal of medical Internet research

Dunnack Yackel H,Xu W,Wun Lee J,Cong X,Salner AL,Duffy VB,Judge MP HPV Status and Oral Health Symptom Patterning During Treatment and Survivorship in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer: A Longitudinal Analysis. Oncology nursing forum

Fouad A,Kobic E,Nicolasora NP,Bastin MLT,Adams PM,Shen Y,Fratoni AJ,Ye X,Kuti JL,Nicolau DP,Asempa TE Validation of Cefiderocol Package Insert Dosing Recommendation for Patients Receiving Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy: A Prospective Multicenter Pharmacokinetic Study. Open forum infectious diseases

Schneider DJ,McMahon SR,Angiolillo DJ,Fanaroff A,Ibrahim H,Hohl PK,Wanamaker BL,Effron MB,DiBattiste PM Platelet FcgammaRIIa as a Marker of Cardiovascular Risk After Myocardial Infarction. Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Kozyra M,Kostyun R,Strecker S The prevalence of multisystem diagnoses among young patients with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and hypermobility spectrum disorder: A retrospective analysis using a large healthcare claims database. Medicine

Areias AC,Janela D,Molinos M,Bento V,Moreira C,Yanamadala V,Cohen SP,Correia FD,Costa F Exploring the Importance of Race and Gender Concordance Between Patients and Physical Therapists in Digital Rehabilitation for Musculoskeletal Conditions: Observational, Longitudinal Study. Journal of medical Internet research

Gujarathi R,Lakhanpal MR,Chelikam N,Manjani D,Lahori S,Akella SA,Shivashankar PG,Savio FVD,Ali AI,Annareddy N,Singh A,Manjani L,Vanga P,Adiga A Prevalence, outcomes, and complications of vitamin D deficiency among patients with multiple myeloma: Nationwide burden of disease. Journal of investigative medicine: the official publication of the American Federation for Clinical Research

Bathobakae L,Elshaarawy S,Bashir R,Phuu P,Melki G,Hajjar B Orogastric Tube Fracture and Ingestion in a Patient With Hyperacute Delirium: A Unique and Potentially Catastrophic Complication. Journal of medical cases


September 2024

Olatunji BO,Knowles KA,Adamis AM,Cole DA Linking a latent variable trait-state-occasion model of emotion regulation to cognitive control. Cognition & emotion

Fiszdon JM,Wang K,Le K,Parente L,Choi J Efficacy of cognitive training on cognition, symptoms and functioning: Impact of motivation and attendance. Schizophrenia research. Cognition

Arnoff TE,Mirza FN,Yumeen S,Ben Khadra S,George DD,Robinson-Bostom L Cytophagic histiocytic panniculitis leading to a diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia with monocytic differentiation: A case report and literature review. Journal of cutaneous pathology

Cleary CM,Adajian A,Gifford ED,Healy L,Li YH,Dawiczyk S,Bozeman P,Guerin E,Farrell H,Shah P Patient Reported Barriers for Participation in Supervised Exercise Therapy for Symptomatic Peripheral Artery Disease. Annals of vascular surgery

Monteiro S,Acai A,Kahlke R,Chan TM,Sukhera J Shifting paradigms: A collective and structural strategy for addressing healthcare inequity. Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

Cleary CM,Adajian A,Gifford ED,Orosco E,Li YH,Healy L,Dawiczyk S,Bozeman P,Guerin E,Farrell H,Shah P Incentives and individualized coaching improve completion rates of supervised exercise therapy for claudication. Journal of vascular surgery

Bombardieri AM,Seners P,Wouters A,Zamarud A,Mlynash M,Yuen N,Albers GW,Sussman ES,Pulli B,Lansberg MG,Steinberg GK,Heit JJ Advancing diagnostic precision of delayed cerebral ischemia in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: The potential for a vasospasm index score on perfusion imaging to detect vasospasm. European journal of radiology

Buyukyanbolu E,Genc L,Cyr EA,Karakus M,Comert F,Otlu B,Aktas E,Nicolau DP Antimicrobial susceptibility profile of ceftolozane/tazobactam, ceftazidime/avibactam and cefiderocol against carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates from Turkiye. European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology

Abouelhassan Y,Nicolau DP,Abdelraouf K Defining optimal sulbactam regimens for treatment of Acinetobacter baumannii pneumonia and impact of blaOXA-23 on efficacy. The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

Gillard KK,Bloedon L,Grady-Benson JC,Edwards A,Fahy S,Sasiela WJ,Louie MJ,Thompson PD Prevalence of Tendon Rupture and Tendinopathies Among Patients with Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Derived From United States Administrative Claims Data. Cardiology and therapy

Abouelhassan Y,Kuti JL,Nicolau DP,Abdelraouf K Ampicillin-sulbactam against Acinetobacter baumannii infections: pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic appraisal of current susceptibility breakpoints and dosing recommendations. The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

Kermansaravi M,Chiappetta S,Shikora SA,Musella M,Kow L,Aarts E,Abbas SI,Aly A,Aminian A,Angrisani L,Asghar ST,Bashir A,Behrens E,Billy H,Boza C,Brown WA,Caina DO,Carbajo MA,Chevallier JM,Clapp B,Cohen RV,Jazi AHD,De Luca M,Dilemans B,Fried M,Gagner M,Neto MG,Garneau PY,Gawdat K,Ghanem OM,Al Hadad M,Haddad A,ElFawal MH,Herrera MF,Higa K,Himpens J,Husain F,Kasama K,Kassir R,Khoursheed M,Khwaja H,Kristinsson JA,Kroh M,Kurian MS,Lakdawala M,LaMasters T,Lee WJ,Madhok B,Mahawar K,Mahdy T,Almomani H,Melissas J,Miller K,Neimark A,Omarov T,Palermo M,Papasavas PK,Parmar C,Pazouki A,Peterli R,Pintar T,Poggi L,Ponce J,Prasad A,Pratt JSA,Ramos AC,Rezvani M,Rheinwalt K,Ribeiro R,Ruiz-Ucar E,Sabry K,Safadi B,Shabbir A,ShahabiShahmiri S,Stenberg E,Suter M,Taha S,Taskin HE,Torres A,Verboonen S,Vilallonga R,Voon K,Wafa A,Wang C,Weiner R,Yang W,Zundel N,Prager G,Nimeri A Metabolic and Bariatric Surgeon Criteria-An International Experts' Consensus. Obesity surgery

Wolman DN,Kuraitis G,Sussman E,Pulli B,Wouters A,Wang J,Wang A,Lansberg MG,Heit JJ Dual-Energy CTA Iodine Map Reconstructions Improve Visualization of Residual Cerebral Aneurysms following Endovascular Coiling. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology

Prevelige J Building bridges with physicians. JAAPA : official journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants

Youngstrom DW,Sutton TS,Kabala FS,Rosenzweig IC,Johndro CW,Al-Araji R,Burke-Martindale C,Mather JF,McKay RG Community-level bystander treatment and outcomes for witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the state of Connecticut. Resuscitation plus

Chobufo MD,Ali S,Taha A,Duhan S,Patel N,Gonuguntla K,Ludhwani D,Thyagaturu H,Keisham B,Shaik A,Alharbi A,Sattar Y,Mamas MA,Kohli U,Balla S Temporal Trends of Infant Mortality Secondary to Congenital Heart Disease: National CDC Cohort Analysis (1999-2020). Birth defects research

Nunez-Medina HJ,Monero M,Torres LM,Leal E,Gonzalez-Sepulveda L,Mayor AM,Renta JY,Gonzalez-Garcia ER,Gonzalez A,Melin K,Scott SA,Ruano G,Hernandez-Suarez DF,Duconge J Implementing a pharmacogenomic-driven algorithm to guide antiplatelet therapy among Caribbean Hispanics: a non-randomised clinical trial. BMJ open

Thakkar B,Tidwell J,Nguyen MTT,Yu G,Parikh N Beyond the Norm: Acute Multifocal Diverticulitis. ACG case reports journal

Kumar M,Wilkinson K,Li YH,Masih R,Gandhi M,Saadat H,Culmone J Association of a Novel Electronic Form for Preoperative Cardiac Risk Assessment With Reduction in Cardiac Consultations and Testing: Retrospective Cohort Study. JMIR perioperative medicine

Lian X,Song W,Si TM,Lian NZ Classification of musical hallucinations and the characters along with neural-molecular mechanisms of musical hallucinations associated with psychiatric disorders. World journal of psychiatry

Kuhnly N,Coviello JS,Kobza CA,Patel DA,Lagoy JS,Cyr ML Carcinoid Heart Disease. Journal of the advanced practitioner in oncology

Ghazy F,Ebrahimi N,Ebadinejad A,Barzin M,Mahdavi M,Valizadeh M,Azizi F,Hosseinpanah F Association of obesity severity and duration with incidence of chronic kidney disease. BMC nephrology

Qureshi Z,Jamil A,Altaf F,Siddique R,Fatima E,Dost S,Zelkowitz RS,Shah S Revolutionizing triple-negative metastatic breast cancer treatment: sacituzumab Govitecan's role in advancing chemotherapy. Annals of medicine and surgery (2012)


2024 Annual Publications

Hernandez AV,Hwang J,Nasreen I,Sicignano D,Pasupuleti V,Snow-Caroti K,White CM Impact of Berberine or Berberine Combination Products on Lipoprotein, Triglyceride and Biological Safety Marker Concentrations in Patients with Hyperlipidemia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of dietary supplements

El Hasbani G,Ahmad Y,Cassetta M Refractory Adult-onset Still's Disease Treated with a Combination of Methotrexate and Etanercept. Current rheumatology reviews

Flowers DW,Swanson BT,Shaffer SM,Clewley DJ,Riley SP Is there 'trustworthy' evidence for using manual therapy to treat patients with shoulder dysfunction?: A systematic review. PloS one

Grosberg BM,Veronesi M Retinal migraine. Handbook of clinical neurology

de Jesus M,Chanda A,Grabauskas T,Kumar M,Kim AS Cardiovascular disease and lung cancer. Frontiers in oncology

Ahmed S,Hanif A,Khaliq I,Ayub S,Saboor S,Shoib S,Jawad MY,Arain F,Anwar A,Ullah I,Naveed S,Mahmood Khan A Psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in children with autism spectrum disorder - a literature review. International journal of developmental disabilities

Wangding S,Lingard L,Haidet P,Vipler B,Sukhera J,Moniz T Disorienting or Transforming? Using the Arts and Humanities to Foster Social Advocacy. Perspectives on medical education

Cannata D,Love C,Carrel P,She T,Lotterman S,Pacheco F,Herbst MK Radiology Imaging Adds Time and Diagnostic Uncertainty when Point of Care Ultrasound Demonstrates Cholecystitis. POCUS journal

Drayton KD,Mahajan A,Gates JD,Worth JM,Aitcheson EM,Ricaurte D Subclavian vein injury secondary to blunt chest wall injury. Trauma surgery & acute care open

Shaik A,Rojulpote M,Roma N,Patel N,Sattar Y,Thyagaturu H,Chobufo MD,Bansal R,Alharbi A,Taha A,Raina S,Gonuguntla K Procedural and cardiovascular outcomes of geriatric vs non-geriatric patients undergoing permanent pacemaker implantation - a nationwide cohort analysis. American journal of cardiovascular disease

Baker WL,Sharma M,Cohen A,Ouwens M,Christoph MJ,Koch B,Moore TE,Frady G,Coleman CI Using 30-day modified rankin scale score to predict 90-day score in patients with intracranial hemorrhage: Derivation and validation of prediction model. PloS one

Coppersmith N,Sznol J,Esposito A,Flom E,Chiu A,Yoo P The persistent benefits of decreasing default pill counts for postoperative narcotic prescriptions. PloS one

Kassam A,Antepim B,Sukhera J A Mixed Methods Study of Perceptions of Mental Illness and Self-Disclosure of Mental Illness Among Medical Learners. Perspectives on medical education

Steele VR,Rotenberg A,Philip NS,Hallett M,Stein EA,Salmeron BJ Case report: Tremor in the placebo condition of a blinded clinical trial of intermittent theta-burst stimulation for cocaine use disorder. Frontiers in psychiatry

Tarhini A,El Hasbani G,Farhat L,Ghieh D,Uthman I Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis, Erythema Nodosum, and Polyarthritis. Clinical medicine insights. Arthritis and musculoskeletal disorders

Bihag Z,Patail H,Ghani A,McKay RG,Haider J,Rizvi A,Fram DB Spontaneous coronary artery dissection: a case series illustrating current challenges in diagnosis and treatment. Future cardiology

Kumar M,Kostyun RO,Solomito MJ,McClure M Multiple risk factors are associated with an incremental increase in acute venous thromboembolism risk after total joint arthroplasty: A pearldiver cohort study. PloS one

Elzamzamy K,Naveed S,Dell ML Religion, spirituality, and pediatric mental health: a scoping review of research on religion and spirituality in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry from 2000 to 2023. Frontiers in psychiatry

El Hasbani G,Madi M,Zoghbi MASE,Srour L,Uthman I,Jawad AS The Impact of Tobacco Smoking on Systemic Sclerosis, Idiopathic Inflammatory Myositis, and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Clinical medicine insights. Arthritis and musculoskeletal disorders

Horvath B,Kloesel B,Cross SN Persistent Postpartum Pain - A Somatic and Psychologic Perfect Storm. Journal of pain research

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