Publications

Publications


Ilana Addis, MD, MPH

Cardenas-Trowers O, Meyer I, Richter HE, Addis I, Markland AD. Association of Urinary Phytoestrogens With Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Fecal Incontinence Symptoms in Postmenopausal Women. Female Pelvic Med Reconstr Surg. 2019 Mar/Apr;25(2):161-166. doi: 10.1097/SPV.0000000000000661. PMID: 30807421; PMCID: PMC6504965.

Winget VL, Gabra MG, Addis IB, Hatch KK, Heusinkveld JM. Laparoscopic pectopexy for patients with intraabdominal adhesions, lumbar spinal procedures, and other contraindications to sacrocolpopexy: a case series. AJOG Glob Rep. 2021 Nov 14;2(2):100034. doi: 10.1016/j.xagr.2021.100034. PMID: 36275496; PMCID: PMC9563903.


Andrea Aguirre, MD

Steck-Bayat KP, Foote JA, Mourad J, Roy KH, Aguirre AG, Mahnert ND. Surgical Equipment Price Awareness Amongst Obstetrician-Gynecologists. JSLS. 2019 Apr-Jun;23(2):e2019.00010. doi: 10.4293/JSLS.2019.00010. PMID: 31148914; PMCID: PMC6535465.

Steck-Bayat KP, Henderson S, Aguirre AG, Smith RB, Mahnert NM, Gerkin RD, Mourad J. Prospective randomized controlled trial comparing cephalad migration in robotic gynecologic surgery using egg-crate foam versus the Pink Pad®. J Robot Surg. 2020 Apr;14(2):343-347. doi: 10.1007/s11701-019-00990-7. Epub 2019 Jun 29. PMID: 31256328.


Holly Bullock, MD, MPH

Kaur G, Fontanilla T, Bullock H, Tschann M. "The Difference between Plan b and ella®? They're Basically the Same Thing": Results from a Mystery Client Study. Pharmacy (Basel). 2020 May 1;8(2):77. doi: 10.3390/pharmacy8020077. PMID: 32369906; PMCID: PMC7355904.

Gabra MG, Gonzalez MG, Bullock HN, Hill MG. Cell-Free DNA as an Addition to Ultrasound for Screening of a Complete Hydatidiform Mole and Coexisting Normal Fetus Pregnancy: A Case Report. AJP Rep. 2020 Apr;10(2):e176-e178. doi: 10.1055/s-0040-1709981. Epub 2020 Jun 18. PMID: 32566367; PMCID: PMC7302929.


Setsuko K. Chambers, MD

Phenotype of vigilin expressing breast cancer cells binding to the 69nt 3’UTR element in CSF-1R mRNA.  Woo HH, Lee SC, Stoffer JB, Rush D, Chambers SK. Translational Oncology 12(1): 106-115, January 2019 [epub ahead of print 10/3/2018].  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranon.2018.09.012

Garcia A, Frahm C, Jeter JM, Abraham I, Chambers SK, Cragun JM, McBride A. Incidence of hypersensitivity reactions to carboplatin in patients with ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer with or without BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. J Adv Pract Oncol 2019;10(5):428–439.  https://doi.org/10.6004/jadpro.2019.10.5.2

Comparison of reproductive function in female transgenic TgMISIIR-TAg and wildtype C57BI/6 mice.  Hoyer PB, Rice PF, Howard C, Watson K J, Dominguez Cooks J, Hutchens G, Chambers S, Craig ZR, Connolly DC, Barton JK.  2019 Feb; Comparative Med 69(1): 16–21. https://doi.org/10.30802/AALAS-CM-18-000008

Pandey R, Woo HH, Varghese F, Zhou M, Chambers SK. Circulating miRNA profiling of women at high risk for ovarian cancer. Transl Oncol. 2019 May; 12(5): 714–725. Published online 2019 Mar 9.

Sawyer TW, Koevary JW, Howard CC, Austin OJ, Rice PS, Hutchens GB, Dominguez Cooks JP, Chambers SK, Connolly DC, Barton JK. Fluorescence and Multiphoton Imaging for Tissue Characterization of a Model of Postmenopausal Ovarian Cancer.  https://doi.org/10.1002/lsm.23251 Lasers Surg Med 2020 12 20;52(10):993-1009. Epub 2020 Apr 20.

Woo HH and Chambers SK. The alternative spliced 3’UTR mediated differential secretion of macrophage colony stimulating factor in breast cancer cells. Biochem Biophys Res Comm 525 (4), 1004-1010, 14 May 2020. [Epub 2020 Mar 13]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.03.007

Fader AN, Roque DM, Siegel E, Buza N, Hui P, Abdelghany O, Chambers SK, Secord A, Havrilesky L, O’Malley D, Backes F, Nevadunsky N, Edraki B, Pikaart D, Lowery W, ElSahwi K, Bellone S, Azodi M, Lithouhi B, Ratner E, Silasi D-A, Schwartz PE, Santin AD. Randomized phase II trial of carboplatin-paclitaxel compared to carboplatin-paclitaxel-trastuzumab in advanced or recurrent uterine serous carcinomas that overexpress Her2/neu (NCT01367002): Updated survival analysis. Clinical Cancer Research, DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-20-0953 Published August 1, 2020.

Wang Y, Lin W, Wang Y, Wang Y, Chambers SK, Li B, Lea J, Zheng W.  Loss of tubal ciliated cells as a risk for “ovarian” or pelvic serous carcinoma. American Journal Cancer Research 2020; 10(11): 3815–3827. Published online 2020 Nov 1. PMCID: PMC7716167 PMID: 33294269

Swisher EM, Kwan T, Oza AM, Tinker AV, Ray-Coquard I, Oaknin A, Coleman R, Aghajanian C, Konecny GE, O'Malley DM, Leary A, Provencher D, Welch S, Chen L-M, Wahner Hendrickson A, Ma L, Ghatage P, Kristeleit RS, Dorigo O, Musafer A, Kaufmann SH, Elvin J, Lin D, Chambers SK, Grace C, Vo L-T, Goble S, Maloney M, Giordano H, Harding T, Dobrovic A, Scott CL, Lin KK, McNeish IA. Molecular and clinical determinants of response and resistance to rucaparib for recurrent ovarian cancer treatment in ARIEL2 (Parts 1 and 2). Nature Communications, 03 May 2021, 12(1):2487 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22582-6 PMID: 33941784 PMCID: PMC8093258

Regulation of closely juxtaposed protooncogene c-fms and HMGXB3 gene expression by mRNA 3’end polymorphism in breast cancer cells. Woo H-H and Chambers SK. RNA. 2021 Sep;27(9):1068-1081. doi: 10.1261/rna.078749.121. Epub 2021 Jun 21.RNA,  DOI: 10.1261/rna.078749.121,  PMID: 34155128 PMCID: PMC8370744.

Moore KN, Chambers SK, Hamilton EP, Chen L-M, Oza AM, Ghamande SA, Konecny GE, Plaxe SC, Lewis Spitz D, Geenen JJJ, Troso-Sandoval TA, Cragun JM, Rodrigo Imedio E, Kumar S, Mugundu GM, Lai1 Z, Chmielecki J, Fields Jones S, Spigel DR, Cadoo KA. Adavosertib with Chemotherapy in Patients with Primary Platinum-Resistant Ovarian, Fallopian Tube, or Primary Peritoneal Cancer: An Open-Label, Four-Arm, Phase II Study. Clin Cancer Res. 2022 Jan 1;28(1):36-44. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-21-0158. PMID: 34645648, Epub 2021 Oct 13.

Dissection of transcriptome dysregulation and immune characterization in women with germline BRCA1 mutation at single-cell resolution. Yu X, Lin W, Spirtos A, Wang Y, Chen H, Ye J, Parker J, Liu CC, Wang Y, Quinn G, Zhou F, Chambers SK, Lewis C, Lea J, Li  B& ZhengW. BMC Medicine 20: 283 (2022). PMID: 36076202 PMCID: PMC9461201 DOI: 10.1186/s12916-022-02489-9.

Invited commentary: Advances in chemotherapy and targeted therapies in endometrial cancer. Setsuko K. Chambers. MDPI Cancers 2022, 14(20), 5020; https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers14205020. Commentary to Special Issue Advances in Endometrial Cancer: From Pathogenesis, Pathology Diagnosis and Molecular Classification to Targeted Therapy.

A Phase III Study of Pafolacianine Injection (OTL38) for Intraoperative Imaging of Folate Receptor-Positive Ovarian Cancer (Study 006). Tanyi JL, Randall LM, Chambers SK, Butler KA, Winer IS, Langstraat CL, Han ES, Vahrmeijer AL, Chon HS, Morgan MA, Powell MA, Tseng JH, Lopez AS, Wenham RM. J Clin Oncol. 2022 Sep 7:JCO2200291. doi: 10.1200/JCO.22.00291. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36070540.


Lynn M. Coppola, MD, MPH

Stephens L, Miller H, Coppola L. Transfusion medicine diagnostic error by facsimile. Transfusion. 2022 Jun;62(6):1157-1158. doi: 10.1111/trf.16875. Epub 2022 Apr 8. PMID: 35394673.


Janiel Cragun, MD

Moore KN, Chambers SK, Hamilton EP, Chen L-M, Oza AM, Ghamande SA, Konecny GE, Plaxe SC, Lewis Spitz D, Geenen JJJ, Troso-Sandoval TA, Cragun JM, Rodrigo Imedio E, Kumar S, Mugundu GM, Lai1 Z, Chmielecki J, Fields Jones S, Spigel DR, Cadoo KA. Adavosertib with Chemotherapy in Patients with Platinum-Resistant Ovarian, Fallopian Tube, or Primary Peritoneal: An Open-Label, Four-Arm, Phase II Study. Submitted, 2020.

LM, Oza AM, Ghamande SA, Konecny GE, Plaxe SC, Spitz DL, Geenen JJJ, Troso-Sandoval TA, Cragun JM, Rodrigo Imedio E, Kumar S, Mugundu GM, Lai Z, Chmielecki J, Jones SF, Spigel DR, Cadoo KA. Adavosertib with Chemotherapy in Patients with Primary Platinum-Resistant Ovarian, Fallopian Tube, or Peritoneal Cancer: An Open-Label, Four-Arm, Phase II Study. Clin Cancer Res. 2021 Oct 13. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-21-0158. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34645648

Incidence of Hypersensitivity Reactions to Carboplatin or Paclitaxel in Patients With Ovarian, Fallopian Tube, or Primary Peritoneal Cancer With or Without BRCA1 or BRCA2 Mutations.

Garcia A, Frahm C, Jeter JM, Abraham I, Chambers SK, Cragun JM, McBride A.J Adv Pract Oncol. 2019 Jul;10(5):428-439. doi: 10.6004/jadpro.2019.10.5.2. Epub 2019 Jul 1.PMID: 33457057


John M. Heusinkveld, MD 

Vega D, Galvez D, Romano G, Pham NY, Cordova R, Aitken M, Suebka S, Heusinkveld J, Barton JK. Triple-modality co-registered endoscope featuring wide-field reflectance imaging, and high-resolution multiphoton and optical coherence microscopy. Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng. 2021 Oct;1(4):044502. doi: 10.1117/1.jom.1.4.044502. Epub 2021 Dec 17. PMID: 36325111; PMCID: PMC9625855.

Heusinkveld J, Hatch K. Regarding "Laparoscopic Pectopexy with Burch Colposuspension for Pelvic Prolapse Associated with Stress Urinary Incontinence". J Minim Invasive Gynecol. 2020 Feb 8:S1553-4650(20)30090-X. doi: 10.1016/j.jmig.2019.12.020. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32045700.

Cordova R, Kiekens K, Burrell S, Drake W, Kmeid Z, Rice P, Rocha A, Diaz S, Yamada S, Yozwiak M, Nelson OL, Rodriguez GC, Heusinkveld J, Shih IM, Alberts DS, Barton JK. Sub-millimeter endoscope demonstrates feasibility of in vivo reflectance imaging, fluorescence imaging, and cell collection in the fallopian tubes. J Biomed Opt. 2021 Jul;26(7):076001. doi: 10.1117/1.JBO.26.7.076001. PMID: 34216135; PMCID: PMC8253554.

Howard C, Rice PFS, Keenan M, Dominguez-Cooks J, Heusinkveld J, Hsu CH, Barton JK. Study of fallopian tube anatomy and mechanical properties to determine pressure limits for endoscopic exploration. J Histotechnol. 2022 Mar;45(1):10-20. doi: 10.1080/01478885.2021.1972250. Epub 2021 Sep 9. PMID: 34496720.

Winget VL, Gabra MG, Addis IB, Hatch KK, Heusinkveld JM. Laparoscopic pectopexy for patients with intraabdominal adhesions, lumbar spinal procedures, and other contraindications to sacrocolpopexy: a case series. AJOG Glob Rep. 2021 Nov 14;2(2):100034. doi: 10.1016/j.xagr.2021.100034. PMID: 36275496; PMCID: PMC9563903.



Chaur-Dong Hsu, MD, MPH

Romero R, Jung E, Chaiworapongsa T, Erez O, Gudicha DW, Kim YM, Kim J-S, Kim B, Kusanovic JP, Gotsch F, Taran A, Yoon BH, Hassan SS, Hsu CD, Chaemsaithong P, Gomez-Lopez N, Yeo L, Kim CJ, Tarca AL. Toward a new taxonomy of obstetrical disease: improved performance of maternal blood biomarkers for the great obstetrical syndromes when classified according to placental pathology. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2022 Sep 3; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2022.04.015

Goshgarian G, Jawad R, O’Brien L, Muterspaugh R, Zikos D, Ezhuthachan S, Newman C, Hsu CD, Bailey B, Ragina N. Prenatal Buprenorphine Naloxone or Methadone Use on Neonatal Outcomes in Michigan. Cureus. 2022 Aug 8; 14(8): e27790. doi:10.7759/cureus.27790.

Wolf HM, Romero R, Strauss JF 3rd, Hassan SS, Latendresse SJ, Webb BT, Tarca AL, Gomez-Lopez N, Hsu CD, York TP. Study protocol to quantify the genetic architecture of sonographic cervical length and its relationship to spontaneous preterm birth. BMJ Open. 2022 Mar 17; 12(3):e053631. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053631. PMID: 35301205

Uzianbaeva L, Yan Y, Joshi T, Yin N, Hsu CD, Hernandez-Andrade E, Mehrmohammadi M. Methods for monitoring risk of hypoxic damage in fetal and neonatal brains: A review. Fetal Diagn Ther. 2021 Dec 6. doi: 10.1159/000520987. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34872080.

Bhatti G, Romero R, Gomez-Lopez N, Chaiworapongsa T, Jung E, Gotsch F, Pique-Regi R, Pacora P, Hsu CD, Kavidia M, Tarca AL. The amniotic fluid proteome changes with gestational age in normal pregnancy: a cross-sectional study. Sci Rep. 2022 Jan 12; 12(1):601. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-04050-9. PMID: 35022423.

Pique-Regi R, Romero R, Garcia-Flores V, Peyvandipour A, Tarca AL, Pusod E, Galaz J, Miller D, Bhatti G, Para R, Kanninen T, Hadaya O, Paredes C, Motomura K, Johnson J, Jung EJ, Hsu CD, Berry SM, Gomez-Lopez N. Single-cell atlas of human parturition: the myometrium. JCI Insight. 2022 Mar 8;7(5):e153921. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.153921. PMID: 35260533

Helmi H, Siddiqui A, Yan Y, Basij M, Hernandez-Andrade E, Gelovani J, Hsu CD, Hassan SS, Mehrmohammadi M. The role of noninvasive diagnostic imaging in monitoring pregnancy and detecting patients at risk for preterm birth: a review of quantitative approaches. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2022 Feb;35(3):568-591. doi: 10.1080/14767058.2020.1722099. Epub 2022 Feb 23. PMID: 32089024

Garcia-Flores V, Romero R, Xu Y, Theis K, Arenas-Hernandez M, Miller D, Peyvandipour A, Galaz J, Levenson D, Bhatti G, Gershater M, Pusod E, Kracht D, Florova V, Leng Y, Tao L, Faucett M, Para R, Hsu CD, Zhang G, Tarca A, Pique-Regi R, Gomez-Lopez N. Maternal-fetal immune responses in pregnant women infected with SARS-CoV-2. Nat Commun. 2022 Jan 18;13(1):320. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-27745-z. PMID: 35042863

Para R, Romero R, Gomez-Lopez N, Tarca AL, Panaitescu B, Done B, Hsu R, Pacora P, Hsu CD. Maternal circulating concentrations of soluble Fas and Elabela in early- and late-onset preeclampsia. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2022 Jan;35(2):316-329. doi: 10.1080/14767058.2020.1716720. Epub 2020 Feb 2. PMID: 32008387

Alhousseini A, Romero R, Benshalom-Tirosh N, Gudicha D, Pacora P, Tirosh D, Kabiri D, Yeo L, Thachil J, Hsu CD, Hassan SS, Erez O. Nonovert disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) in pregnancy: a new scoring system for the identification of patients at risk for obstetrical hemorrhage requiring blood product transfusion. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2022 Jan;35(2):242-257. doi: 10.1080/14767058.2020.1716330. Epub 2020 Feb 3. PMID: 31931643

Bhatti G, Romero R, Gomez-Lopez N, Pique-Regi R, Pacora P, Jung EJ, Yeo L, Hsu CD, Kavdia M, Tarca AL. The amniotic fluid cell-free transcriptome in spontaneous preterm labor. Sci Rep. 2022 Jan 12;12(1):601. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-04050-9. PMID: 35022423

Tarca AL, Taran A, Romero R, Jung E, Paredes C, Bhatti G, Ghita C, Chaiworapongsa T, Than NG, Hsu CD. Prediction of preeclampsia throughout gestation with maternal characteristics and biophysical and biochemical markers: a longitudinal study. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. 2022 Jan; 226(1): 126.e1-126.e22. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2021.01.020. Epub 2021 Apr 16. PMID: 34998477

Uzianbaeva L, Yan Y, Joshi T, Yin N, Hsu CD, Hernandez-Andrade E, Mehrmohammadi M. Methods for Monitoring Risk of Hypoxic Damage in Fetal and Neonatal Brains: A Review. Fetal Diagn Ther. 2022;49(1-2):1-24. doi: 10.1159/000520987. Epub 2021 Dec 6. PMID: 34872080

Schwenkel G, Romero R, Slutsky R, Motomura K, Hsu CD, Gomez-Lopez N. HSP70: an alarmin that does not induce high rates of preterm birth but does cause adverse neonatal outcomes. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2021 Dec;34(24):4110-4118. doi: 10.1080/14767058.2019.1706470. Epub 2020 Jan 6. PMID: 31906756

Bhatti G, Romero R, Gomez-Lopez N, Pique-Regi R, Pacora P, Jung E, Yeo L, Hsu CD, Kavdia M, Tarca AL. The amniotic fluid cell-free transcriptome in spontaneous preterm labor. Sci Rep. 2021 Jun 29;11(1):13481. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-92439-x. PMID: 34188072

Gomez-Lopez N, Romero R, Hassan SS, Ghatti G, Kusanovic JP, Pacora P, Hsu CD, Tarca AL.  The cellular transcriptome in the maternal circulation during normal pregnancy: A prospective longitudinal study.  Scientific Reports (submitted)

Belotte J, Ruterbusch JJ, Awonuga AO, Hsu C-D, Morris RT.  Clinical survival outcomes of squamous vaginal cancer in the United States: A SEER based study.  Am J Obstetet Gynecol 2017

Tarca AL, Romero R, Erez O, Gudicha DW, Than NG, Benshalom-Tirosh N, Pacora P, Hsu CD, Chaiworapongsa T, Hassan SS, Gomez-Lopez N. Maternal whole blood mRNA signatures identify women at risk of early preeclampsia: a longitudinal study. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2021 Nov;34(21):3463-3474. doi: 10.1080/14767058.2019.1685964. Epub 2020 Jan 3. PMID: 31900005

Romero R, Jung E, Chaiworapongsa T, Erez O, Gudicha DW, Kim YM, Kim J-S, Kim B, Kusanovic JP, Gotsch F, Taran A, Yoon BH, Hassan SS, Hsu CD, Chaemsaithong P, Gomez-Lopez N, Yeo L, Kim CJ, Tarca AL. Toward a new taxonomy of obstetrical disease: improved performance of maternal blood biomarkers for the great obstetrical syndromes when classified according to placental pathology. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2022 Sep 3; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2022.04.015

Jung E, Romero R, Yeo L, Diaz-Primera R, Marin-Concha J, Para R, Lopez AM, Pacora P, Gomez-Lopez N, Yoon BH, Kim CJ, Berry SM, Hsu CD. The Fetal Inflammatory Response Syndrome. Semin Fetal Neonatal Med. 2020 Aug; 25(4):101146. doi: 10.1016/jsiny.2020.101146. Epub 2020 Oct 23. PMID: 33164775.

Yan Y, Hernandez-Andrade E, Basij M, Alshahrani SS, Kondle S, Brown BO, Gelovani J, Hassan S, Hsu CD, Mehrmohammadi M. Endocavity ultrasound and photoacoustic system for fetal and maternal imaging: design, implementation, and ex-vivo validation. J Med Imaging (Bellingham). 2021 Nov;8(6):066001. doi: 10.1117/1.JMI.8.6.066001. Epub 2021 Nov 9. PMID: 34778491

Jung E, Romero R, Yoon BH, Theis KR, Gudicha DW, Tarca AL, Diaz-Primera R, Winters AD, Gomez-Lopez N, Yeo L, Hsu CD. Bacteria in the amniotic fluid without inflammation: early colonization vs. contamination. Journal of Perinatal Medicine. 2021 Jul 6. Online ahead of print. PMID: 34229367

Nguyen T, Khaksari K, Khare SM, Park S, Anderson AA, Bieda J, Jung E, Hsu CD, Romero R, Gandjbakhche AH. Non-invasive transabdominal measurement of placental oxygenation: a step toward continuous monitoring. Biomed Opt Express. 2021 Jun 15; 12:4119-4130. PMID: 34457403

Tarca AL, Pataki BA, Romero R, Sirota M, Guan Y, Kutum R, Gomez-Lopez N, Done B, Bhatti G, Yu T, Andreoletti G, Chaiworapongsa T, The DREAM Preterm Birth Prediction Challenge Consortium, Hassan SS, Hsu CD, Aghaeepour N, Stolovitzky G, Csabai I, Costello JC.  Crowdsourcing assessment of maternal blood multi-omics for predicting gestational age and preterm birth.  Cell Reports Medicine. 2021 Jun 15; 2:100323. PMID: 34195686

Pacora P, Romero R, Jung E, Gudicha DW, Hernandez-Andrade E, Musilova I, Kacerovsky M, Jaiman S, Erez O, Hsu CD, Tarca AL. Reduced fetal growth velocity precedes antepartum fetal death. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2021 Jun; 57:942-952. PMID: 32936481

Motomura K, Romero R, Galaz J, Tarca AL, Done B, Xu Y, Leng Y, Garcia-Flores V, Arenas-Hernandez M, Theis KR, Gershater M, Jung E, Hsu CD, Gomez-Lopez N. RNA sequencing reveals distinct immune responses in the chorioamniotic membranes of women with preterm labor and microbial or sterile intra-amniotic inflammation. Infect Immun. 2021 Apr 16; 89: e00819-20. PMID: 33558326

Gudicha DW, Romero, R, Kabiri D, hernadez-Andrade E, pakora P, Erez O, Kusanovic JP, Jung E, Paredes C, Berry SM, Yeo L, Hassan SS, Hsu CD, Tarca AL. Personalized assessment of cervical length improves prediction of spontaneous preterm birth: a standard and a percentile calculator. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2021 Mar; 224:288. e1-288.e17. PMID: 32918893

Romero R, Pacora P, Kusanovic JP, Jung E, Panaitescu B, Maymon E, Erez O, Berman S, Bryant D, Gomez-Lopez N, Theis KR, Bhatti G, Kim CJ, Yoon BH, Hassan SS, Hsu CD, Yeo L, Diaz-Primera R, Marin-Concha J, Lannaman K, Alhousseini A, Gomez-Proberts H, Varry A, Garcia-Sanchez A, Gervasi MT. Clinical chorioamnionitis at term X: microbiology, clinical signs, placental pathology, neonatal bacteremia and implications for clinical care. J Perinatol Med 2021 Jan 26; 49:275-298. Print 2021 Mar 26. PMID: 33544519

Garcia-Flores V, Romero R, Xu Y, Theis K, Arenas-Hernandez M, Miller D, Peyvandipour A, Galaz J, Levenson D, Bhatti G, Gershater M, Pusod E, Kracht D, Florova V, Leng Y, Tao L, Faucett M, Para R, Hsu CD, Zhang G, Tarca AL, Pique-Regi R, Gomez-Lopez N. Maternal-Fetal Immune Responses in Pregnant Women Infected with SARS-CoV-2. Res Sq. 2021 Mar 31:rs.3.rs-362886. doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-362886/v1. Preprint. PMID: 33821263 

Gomez-Lopez N, Romero R, Panaitescu B, Miller D, Zou C, Gudicha DW, Tarca AL, Para R, Pacora P, Hassan SS, Hsu CD. Gasdermin D: in vivo evidence of pyroptosis in spontaneous labor at term. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2021 Feb; 34:569-579. PMID: 31006293

Yeo L, Romero R, Chaiworapongsa T, Para R, Johnson J, Kmak D, Jung E, Yoon BH, Hsu CD. Resolution of acute cervical insufficiency after antibiotics in a case with amniotic fluid sludge. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2021 Feb 17:1-11. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33596766.

Hsu R, Tong A, Hsu CD. Hypervolemic hyponatremia as a reversible cause of cardiopulmonary arrest in a postpartum patient with preeclampsia. Case Rep Obstet Gynecol. 2021 Feb 4; 2021:8850725. PMID: 33628547

Jaiman S, Romero R, Pacora P, Erez O, Jung E, Tarca AL, Bhatti G, Yeo L, Kim YM, Kim CJ, Kim JS, Qureshi F, Jacques SM, Gomez-Lopez N, Hsu CD. Disorders of placental villous maturation are present in one-third of cases with spontaneous preterm labor. J Perinat Med. 2021 Jan 13; 49:412-430. PMID: 33554577

D'Mello RJ, Hsu CD, Chaiworapongsa P, Chaiworapongsa T. Update on the use of intravenous immunoglobulin in pregnancy. Neoreviews. 2021 Jan; 22: e7-e24. PMID: 33386311

Florova V, Romero R, Tarca AL, Galaz J, Motomura K, Ahmad MM, Hsu CD, Hsu R, Tong A, Ravel J, Theis KR, Gomez-Lopez N. Vaginal host immune-microbiome interactions in a cohort of primarily African-American women who ultimately underwent spontaneous preterm birth or delivered at term. Cytokine. 2021 Jan; 137:155316. PMID: 33032107

Jung EJ, Romero R, Gomez-Lopez N, Paredes C, Diaz-Primera R, Hernandez-Andrade E, Hsu CD, Yeo L. Cervical insufficiency, amniotic fluid sludge, intra-amniotic infection, and maternal bacteremia: the need for a point-of-care test to assess inflammation and bacteria in amniotic fluid. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2020 Dec 23:1-7. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33356687

Motomura K, Romero R, Tarca AL, Galaz J, Bhatti G, Done B, Arenas-Hernandez M, Levenson D, Slutsky R, Hsu CD, Gomez-Lopez N.  Pregnancy-specific transcriptional changes upon endotoxin exposure in mice.  J Perinat Med 2020 Sep 25;48(7):700-22.  PMID: 32866128

Para R, Romero R, Miller D, Panaitescu B, Varrey A, Chaiworapongsa T, Hassan SS, Hsu CD, Gomez-Lopez N. Human β-defensin-3 participates in intra-amniotic host defense in women with labor at term, spontaneous preterm labor and intact membranes, and preterm prelabor rupture of membranes. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2020 Dec; 33:4117-4132. PMID: 30999788

Galaz J, Romero R, Xu Y, Miller D, Levenson D, Para R, Varrey A, Hsu R, Tong A, Hassan SS, Hsu CD, Gomez-Lopez N. Cellular immune responses in amniotic fluid of women with a sonographic short cervix. J Perinat Med. 2020 Sep 25; 48:665-676. PMID: 32716907

Jung E, Romero R, Yeo L, Diaz-Primera R, Marin-Concha J, Para R, Lopez AM, Pacora P, Gomez-Lopez N, Yoon BH, Kim CJ, Berry SM, Hsu CD. The fetal inflammatory response syndrome: the origins of a concept, pathophysiology,diagnosis, and obstetrical implications. Semin Fetal Neonatal Med. 2020 Aug; 25:101146. PMID: 33164775

Pique-Regi R, Romero R, Tarca AL, Luca F, Xu Y, Alazi A, Leng Y, Hsu CD, Gomez-Lopez N.  Does the human placenta express the canonical cell entry mediators for SARS-CoV-2? Elife. 2020 Jul 14;9: e58716. doi: 10.7554/eLife.58716.PMID: 32662421 

Gomez-Lopez N, Arenas-Hernandez M, Romero R, Miller D, Garcia-Flores V, Leng Y, Xu Y, Galaz J, Hassan SS, Hsu CD, Tse H, Sanchez-Torres C, Done B, Tara AL.  Regulatory T cells play a central role in idiopathic preterm labor and birth.  Cell Rep. 2020 Jul 7;32(1):107874. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107874.PMID: 32640239.

Jaiman S, Romero R, Pacora P, Jung Jung E, Kacerovsky M, Bhatti G, Yeo L, Hsu CD.  Placental delayed villous maturation is associated with evidence of chronic fetal hypoxia. Short Communication. J Perinatol Med 2020 Jun 25;48(5):516-518. doi: 10.1515/jpm-2020-0014.PMID: 32396141.

Motomura K, Romero R, Xu Y, Theis KR, Galaz J, Winters AD, Slutsky R, Garcia-Flores V, Zou C, Levenson D, Para R, Ahmad MM, Hsu CD, Gomez-Lopez N.  Intra-amniotic infection with Ureaplasma parvum causes preterm birth and neonatal mortality that are prevented by treatment with clarithromycin. mBio 2020 Jun 23;11(3): e00797-20. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00797-20.PMID: 32576673.

Jaiman S, Romero R, Pacora P, Jung E, Bhatti G, Yeo L, Kim YM, Kim B, Kim CJ, Kim JS, Qureshi F, Jacques SM, Erez O, Gomez-Lopez N, Hsu CD.  Disorders of placental villous maturation in fetal death.  J Perinat Med. 2020 Apr 1:/j/jpme.ahead-of-print/jpm-2020-0030/jpm-2020-0030.xml. doi: 10.1515/jpm-2020-0030. Online ahead of print.PMID: 32238609

Garcia-Flores V, Romero R, Furcron AE, Levenson D, Galaz J, Zou C, Hassan SS, Hsu CD, Olson D, Metz GAS, Gomez-Lopez N.  Prenatal maternal stress causes preterm birth and impacts neonatal adaptive immunity in mice.  Frontiers in Immunology 2020 Feb 26; 311:254. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.00254. eCollection 2020.PMID: 32174914.

Theis K, Romero R, Motomura K, Galaz J, Winters A, Pacora P, Miller D, Slutsky R, Florova V, Levenson D, Para R, Varrey A, Kacerovsky M, Hsu CD, Gomez-Lopez N.  Microbial burden and inflammation activation in amniotic fluid of patients with preterm prelabor rupture of membranes.  J Perinatol Med 2020 (Feb 25);48(2):115-31. PMID: 31927525

Helmi H, Siddiqui A, Yan Y, Basij M, Hernandez-Andrade E, Gelovani J, Hsu CD, Hassan SS, Mehrmohammadi M. The role of noninvasive diagnostic imaging in monitoring pregnancy and detecting patients at risk for preterm birth: a review of quantitative approaches. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2020 Feb 23:1-24. doi: 10.1080/14767058.2020.1722099. Online ahead of print.PMID: 32089024

Tarca AL, Romero R, Pique-Regi R, Pacora P, Done B, Kacerovsky M, Bhatti G, Jaiman S, Hassan SS, Hsu CD, Gomez-Lopez N.  Amniotic fluid cell-free transcriptome: a glimpse into fetal development and placental cellular dynamics during normal pregnancy.  BMC Medical Genomics 2020 Feb 12;13(1):25 [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 32050959.

Para R, Romero R, Gomez-Lopez N, Tarca AL, Panaitescu B, Done B, Hsu R, Pacora P, Hsu CD.  Maternal circulating levels of soluble Fas and Elabela in early- and late-onset preeclampsia.  J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 2020 Feb 2: 1-14 [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 32008387.

Galaz J, Romero R, Xu Y, Miller D, Slutsky R, Gingell L, Hsu CD, Gomez-Lopez N.  Cellular immune responses in amniotic fluid of women with preterm clinical chorioamnionitis.  Inflammation Research 2020 Feb;69(2):203-16. PMID: 31912179

Panaitescu B, Romero R, Gomez-Lopez N, Pacora P, Erez O, Vadillo-Ortega F, Yeo L, Hassan SS, Hsu CD.  ELABELA plasma concentrations are increased in women with late-onset preeclampsia. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2020 Jan;33(1):5-15. doi: 10.1080/14767058.2018.1484089. Epub 2018 Jul 22. PMID: 29890874

Schwenkel G, Romero R, Slutsky R, Motomura K, Hsu CD, Gomez-Lopez N.  HSP70: An alarmin that does not induce high rates of preterm birth but does cause adverse neonatal outcomes.  J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 2021 Dec; 34(24):4110-4118 doi: 10.1080/14767058.2019.1706470. PMID: 31906756

Tarca AL, Romero R, Erez O, Gudicha DW, Than NG, Benshalom-Tirosh N, Pacora P, Hsu CD, Chaiworapongsa T, Hassan SS, Gomez-Lopez N. Maternal whole blood mRNA signatures identify women as risk of early preeclampsia: a longitudinal study. J Matern Fetal Neonat Medicine 2021; 34:3463-3474. doi: 10.1080/14767058.2019.1685964. PMID: 31900005

Galaz J, Romero R, Slutsky R, Xu Y, Motomura K, Para R, Pacora P, Panaitescu B, Hsu CD, Kacerovsky M, Gomez-Lopez N.  Cellular immune responses in women with preterm prelabor rupture of membranes. J Perinat Med 2020 Mar 26:48(3):222-33. PMID: 32083453.

Romero R, Gomez-Lopez N, Winters AD, Jung E, Shaman M, Bieda J, Panaitescu B, Pacora P, Erez O, Greenberg JM, Ahmad MM, Hsu CD, Theis KR.  Evidence that intra-amniotic infections are often the result of an ascending invasion – a molecular microbiological study.  J Perinatol Med 2019 Nov 26; 47(9):915-31.  PMID: 31693497

Gomez-Lopez N, Romero R, Leng Y, Slutsky R, Levenson D, Pacora P, Jung E, Panaitescu B, Hsu CD.  The origin of amniotic fluid monocytes/macrophages in women with intra-amniotic inflammation or infection.  J Perinatol Med 2019 Oct 25;47(8):822-40. PMID: 31494640.

Gomez-Lopez N, Romero R, Xu Y, Miller D, Arenas-Hernandez M, Garcia-Flores V, Panaitescu B, Galaz J, Hsu CD, Berry SM.  Fetal T cell activation in the amniotic cavity during preterm labor: A potential etiology for a subset of idiopathic preterm birth.  J Immunol 2019; 203:1793-1807. PMID: 31492740.

Gomez-Lopez N, Romero R, Panaitescu B, Miller D, Zhou C, Gudicha DW, Tarca AL, Para R, Hassan SS, Hsu CD.  Gasdermin D: EThe orvidence of pyroptosis in spontaneous preterm labor with sterile intra-amniotic inflammation or intra-amniotic infection.  Am J Reprod Immunol 2019 Dec;82(6) doi: 10.1111/aji13184. PMID: 31461796

Gomez-Lopez N, Romero R. Galaz J, Xu Y, Panaitescu B, Slutsky R, Motomura K, Gill N, Para R, Pacora P, Jung E, Hsu CD.  Cellular immune responses in amniotic fluid of women with preterm labor and intra-amniotic infection or intra-amniotic inflammation.  Am J Reprod Immunol 2019 Nov;82(5): e13171.doi: 10.1111/aji.13171. PMID: 31323170

Winters AD, Romero R, Gervasi MT, Gomez-Lopez N, Tran MR, Garcia-Flores V, Pacora P, Jung E, Hassan SS, Hsu CD, Theis KR.  Does the endometrical cavity have a molecular microbial signature?  Scientific Reports 2019 Jul 9:9(1):9905. PMID: 31289304

Para R, Romero R, Miller D, Panaitescu B, Varrey A, Chaiworapongsa T, Hassan SS, Hsu CD, Gomez-Lopez N.  Human β-defensin-3 participates in intra-amniotic host defense in women with labor at term, spontaneous preterm labor and intact membranes, and preterm prelabor rupture of membranes.  J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 2019 Apr 18:1-16. Doi: 10.1080/147670458.2019.1597047 [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 30999788.

Gomez-Lopez N, Romero R, Panaitescu B, Miller D, Zhou C, Gudicha DW, Tarca AL, Para R, Hassan SS, Hsu CD.  Gasdermin D: in vivo evidence of pyroptosis in spontaneous labor at term.  J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 2019 May; 21:1-11. Doi: 10.1080/14767058.2019.1610440 [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31006293.

Shafik S, Mallick S, Fogel J, Tetrtokalashvili M, Hsu CD.  The utility of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) for diagnosing sepsis in the immediate postpartum period.  J Infect Public Health 2019 Nov-Dec;12(6):799-802. PMID: 31010644.

Arenas-Hernandez M, Romero R, Panaitescu B, Garcia-Flores V, Ahn H, Done B, Hassan SS, Hsu CD, Sanchez-Torres C, Gomez-Lopez N.  Effector and activated T cells induce preterm birth that is prevented by treatment with progesterone. J Immunol 2019 May 1;302(9):2585-2608. Doi:10.4049/jimmunol. 1801350. Epub 2019 Mar 27. PMID: 30918041.

Pacora P, Romero R, Erez O, Maymon E, Panaitescu B, Kusanovic JP, Tarca AL, Hsu CD, Hassan SS.  The diagnostic performance of the beta-glucan assay in the detection of intra-amniotic infection with Candida species.  J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 2019 May;32(10):1703-20. ;doi: 10.1080/14767058.2017.1416083. [Epub 2017 Dec 27] PMID:29226760.

Gill N, Leng Y, Romero R, Xu Y, Panaitescu B, Miller D, Arif A, Mumuni S, Qureshi F, Hsu CD, Hassan SS, Staff AC, Gomez-Lopez N.  The immunophenotype of decidual macrophages in acute atherosis.  Am J Reprod Immunol 2019 Apr;81(4): e13098. Doi: 10.1111/aji. 13098. Epub 2019 Mar 4. PMID: 30734977

Tarca AL, Romero R, Xu Z, Gomez-Lopez N, Erez O, Hsu CD, Hassan SS, Carey VJ.  Targeted expression profiling by RNA-Seq improves detection of cellular dynamics during pregnancy and identified a role for T-cells in term parturition. Scientific Reports 2019 Jan29;9(1):848. PMID: 30696862.

Gomez-Lopez N, Romero R, Panaitescu B, Leng Y, Miller D, Xu Y, Tarca AL, Faro J, Hassan SS, Hsu, CD.  Inflammasome activation during spontaneous preterm labor in intra-amniotic infection and sterile intra-amniotic inflammation.  Am J Reprod Immunol 2018; Nov;80(5):e13049. Doi: 10.1111/aji.10049. [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 30225853

Gomez-Lopez N, Romero R, Maymon E, Kusanovic JP, Panaitescu B, Miller D, Pacroa P, Tarca AL, Motomura K, Erez O, Jung E, Hassan SS, Hsu CD.  Clinical chorioamnionitis at term IX: In vivo evidence of intra-amniotic inflammasome activation.  J Perinat Med 2019 Apr 24;47(3)276-87.  PMID: 30412466.

Gomez-Lopez N, Romero R, Arenas-Hernandez M, Garcia-Flores V, Leng Y, Miller D, Hassan SS, Hsu CD, Panaitescu B.  Inhibition of the NLRP3 inflammasome can prevent sterile intra-amniotic inflammation, preterm labor/birth and adverse neonatal outcomes. Biol Reprod 2019 May 1;100(5):1306-18.  PMID: 30596885.


Heather A. Reed, MD

Jordahl-Iafrato MA, Reed H, Hadley SK, Kolman KB. A systematic approach to chronic abnormal uterine bleeding. J Fam Pract. 2019 Mar;68(2):82;84;86;92. PMID: 30870533.


Sarah Weinstein, MN, CNM, IBCLC, PMH-C

Mitchell KB, Weinstein SR. Concerns Regarding the Article Entitled 'Safe Handling of Containers of Expressed Human Milk in all Settings During the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)'. J Hum Lact. 2020 Aug;36(3):542. doi: 10.1177/0890334420922580. Epub 2020 Apr 23. PMID: 32324442.