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

August 2024

Becker EC,Siddique O,O'Sullivan DM,Dar W,Einstein M,Morgan G,Emmanuel B,Sotil EU,Richardson E,Serrano OK Disparities in Liver Transplantation for Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis in Women. Transplantation

Smithy JW,Kalvin HL,Ehrich FD,Shah R,Adamow M,Raber V,Maher CA,Kleman J,McIntyre DAG,Shoushtari AN,Betof Warner A,Callahan MK,Momtaz P,Eton O,Nair S,Wolchok JD,Chapman PB,Berger MF,Panageas KS,Postow MA Early On-Treatment Assessment of T Cells, Cytokines, and Tumor DNA with Adaptively Dosed Nivolumab + Ipilimumab: Final Results from the Phase 2 ADAPT-IT Study. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research

Aziz YN,Vagal V,Mehta TV,Siegler JE,Mistry AM,Yaghi S,Khatri P,Mistry EA Higher blood glucose is associated with the severity of hemorrhagic transformation after endovascular therapy for stroke. Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association

Zweibel SL Switching to exclusive remote follow-up of CIEDs: Further proof of feasibility and safety. Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

Kompella R,Amin H,Mather JF,Hashim SW,McKay RG,McMahon SR Impact of Persistent Versus Paroxysmal Preoperative Atrial Fibrillation on In-Hospital, One-Year, and Late Clinical Outcomes Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation. The American journal of cardiology

Koenig C,Kuti JL Evolving resistance landscape in gram-negative pathogens: An update on beta-lactam and beta-lactam-inhibitor treatment combinations for carbapenem-resistant organisms. Pharmacotherapy

Riley SP,Flowers DW,Swanson BT,Shaffer SM,Cook CE,Brismee JM 'Trustworthy' systematic reviews can only result in meaningful conclusions if the quality of randomized clinical trials and the certainty of evidence improves: an update on the 'trustworthy' living systematic review project. The Journal of manual & manipulative therapy

Fouad A,Berry A,Gates J,Kuti JL,Keating JJ Effect of Blood Product Resuscitation on Cefazolin Pharmacokinetics in Trauma Patients. Surgical infections

Butler F,Holcomb JB,Dorlac W,Gurney J,Inaba K,Jacobs L,Mabry B,Meoli M,Montgomery H,Otten M,Shackelford S,Tadlock MD,Wilson J,Humeniuk K,Linchevskyy O,Danyliuk O Who needs a tourniquet? And who does not? Lessons learned from a review of tourniquet use in the Russo-Ukrainian war. The journal of trauma and acute care surgery

Shulman J,She T,Kohen B,Atia H Woman With Cardiac Arrest. Annals of emergency medicine

Reid MM,Amja JJ,Riestra Guiance IT,Andani RR,Vierkant RA,Goyal A,Reisenauer JS A Retrospective External Validation of the Cleveland Clinic Malignancy Probability Prediction Model for Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodules. Mayo Clinic proceedings. Innovations, quality & outcomes

Anderson MG,Mannam P,Leclair NK,Martin JE,Bookland MJ,Kelley BJ,Kureshi IU,Hersh DS Healthcare transition in pediatric neurosurgery: lessons learned from a pilot program for patients with hydrocephalus and spina bifida. Neurosurgical focus

Nagarkatti A,Strecker S,Nagarkatti D,Witmer D The Role of Imageless Computer-Assisted Navigation During Total Knee Arthroplasty on Femoral Component Sagittal Alignment and Outcomes. Arthroplasty today

Pak DH,Liu M,Kim T,Ozturk C,McKay R,Roche ET,Gleason R,Duncan JS Robust automated calcification meshing for personalized cardiovascular biomechanics. NPJ digital medicine

Perzhinsky J,Schachman KA,Cheng CI,Nagia S,Noveloso B,Sawyer T,Lepisto BL,Sukhera J,Cleek EN,Chisolm MS A Pilot Interprofessional Education Curriculum for Optimizing Mental Health in Chronic Pain Treatment and Understanding Interprofessional Practice. Cureus

Fares MY,Liu HH,da Silva Etges APB,Zhang B,Warner JJP,Olson JJ,Fedorka CJ,Khan AZ,Best MJ,Kirsch JM,Simon JE,Sanders B,Costouros JG,Zhang X,Jones P,Haas DA,Abboud JA Utility of Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Artificial Intelligence in Predicting Hospital Readmissions After Orthopaedic Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. JBJS reviews

Kumar S,Chaudhary RK,Shah SS,Kumar D,Nepal P,Ojili V Current update on the role of endoanal ultrasound: a primer for radiologists. Abdominal radiology (New York)

Nasir MM,Ikram A,Usman M,Sarwar J,Ahmed J,Hamza M,Farhan SA,Siddiqi R,Qadar LT,Shah SR,Khalid MR,Memon RS,Hameed I Valve-in-Valve Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Versus Redo-Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients With Aortic Stenosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. The American journal of cardiology

Mihalek ME Structural Racism and Use of Labor Neuraxial Analgesia Among Non-Hispanic Black Birthing People. Obstetrics and gynecology

Qureshi Z,Jamil A,Altaf F,Siddique R,Adilovic E,Fatima E,Shah S Elacestrant in the treatment landscape of ER-positive, HER2-negative, ESR1-mutated advanced breast cancer: a contemporary narrative review. 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

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

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