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Abstract Disclosure: A.A. Khan: Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Amgen Inc, Amolyt Pharma, Ascendis Pharma. B.L. Clarke: Amolyt Pharma, Ascendis Pharma, EnteraBio, Extend Bio, Takeda. M.R. Rubin: Ascendis Pharma, MBX Biosciences. P.E. Schwarz: Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Genmab, Novo Nordisk. D.M. Shoback: Ascendis Pharma. C. Gagnon: Amgen Inc, Ascendis Pharma, Novo Nordisk, Shire, Takeda. A. Palermo: None. L.G. Abbott: Abbott Laboratories, Ascendis Pharma, Clarus, Shire, Takeda. L. Kohlmeier: Amgen Inc, Ascendis Pharma, Radius Health, Inc. E. Tsourdi: Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Ascendis Pharma, Kyowa Kirin, Takeda, UCB. F. Cetani: None. R. Jain: Amgen Inc, Ascendis Pharma. C. Zhao: Ascendis Pharma. B. Lai: Ascendis Pharma. M.A. Makara: Ascendis Pharma. J. Ukena: Ascendis Pharma. C.T. Sibley: Ascendis Pharma. A.D. Shu: Ascendis Pharma. L. Rejnmark: Amolyt Pharma, Ascendis Pharma, BridgeBio, Kyowa Kirin, Takeda. Background: Hypoparathyroidism is an endocrine disease caused by insufficient levels of parathyroid hormone (PTH) and is associated with reduced quality of life and a high comorbidity burden. Conventional therapy for hypoparathyroidism (active vitamin D and elemental calcium) aims to alleviate hypocalcemia but does not address insufficient PTH and may increase the risk of renal complications. Palopegteriparatide is a prodrug of PTH(1-34), administered subcutaneously once daily, designed to provide active PTH within the physiological range for 24 hours/day. It is approved by the Food and Drug Administration, European Commission, and Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. This analysis evaluated the long-term efficacy and safety of palopegteriparatide in adults with chronic hypoparathyroidism through week 156 of the PaTHway trial. Methods: PaTHway is a phase 3 trial with a 26-week randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled period followed by an ongoing open-label extension period. Serum biochemistries were assessed at baseline and regular intervals. Renal function was assessed by estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR). Safety assessments included 24-hour urine calcium and treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs). Results: At week 156, 89% (73/82) of participants remained in the trial; of those, 96% were independent from conventional therapy (no active vitamin D and ≤600 mg/day elemental calcium) and 88% had normal albumin-adjusted serum calcium levels (8.3-10.6 mg/dL) with a mean (SD) of 8.9 (0.6) mg/dL. Mean (SD) serum phosphate (3.4 [0.6] mg/dL) and calcium x phosphate product (30.6 [5.4] mg2/dL2) levels remained within normal ranges through week 156. Mean (SD) eGFR at week 156 was 78.0 (14.5) mL/min/1.73 m2, reflecting a mean (SD) increase of 8.8 (11.9) mL/min/1.73 m2 from baseline (P<0.0001); 59% and 43% of participants had an increase in eGFR of ≥5 mL/min/1.73 m2 and ≥10 mL/min/1.73 m2, respectively. Among participants with baseline eGFR <60 mL/min/1.73 m2 (n=23), the mean (SD) increase in eGFR was 14.0 (8.9) mL/min/1.73 m2 from baseline to week 156. Mean (SD) 24-hour urine calcium levels normalized with palopegteriparatide treatment, remaining below the upper limit of normal (≤250 mg/day) through week 156 (162.1 [117.8] mg/day). TEAEs were mostly grade 1 or 2, with no new safety signals identified. Conclusion: Through year 3 of the PaTHway trial, retention rate was high and palopegteriparatide demonstrated consistent longer-term safety and efficacy, which included the maintenance of serum and urine biochemistries within normal levels and sustained improvement in renal function. Presentation: Saturday, July 12, 2025

Purpose Genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM) describes the symptoms and physical changes that result from declining estrogen and androgen concentrations in the genitourinary tract during the menopausal transition. This guideline provides information to clinicians regarding identification, diagnosis, counseling, and treatment for patients with GSM to optimize symptom control and quality of life while minimizing adverse events. Methods The systematic review used in the creation of this guideline is based on research conducted by the Minnesota Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) under contract to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and funded by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute. The EPC synthesized effectiveness and/or harms outcomes from 68 publications. An additional 66 articles evaluating 46 nonhormonal interventions were described in an evidence map. Results Clinicians diagnose GSM based on symptoms, with or without related physical findings, and after ruling out other etiologies or co-occurring pathologies. There is a large body of evidence examining the use of hormonal and nonhormonal treatment options to manage the symptoms of GSM; however, the local low-dose vaginal estrogen has the most robust evidence base. Conclusion The strategies defined in this document were derived from evidence-based and consensus-based processes. Given that there is insufficient information to recommend one hormonal therapy over another, this guideline is not meant to support a stepwise progression through different hormonal approaches. The clinician should make treatment decisions in the context of shared decision-making, considering patient goals and preferences, using the evidence of efficacy and adverse events of each possible intervention as a guide.

Abstract Background and Aims Intestinal ultrasound (IUS) is increasingly used to monitor treatment efficacy in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) trials. However, standardized definitions for response, remission, and optimal assessment timing remain undefined. An international expert consensus meeting was held to establish IUS endpoints for clinical trials. Methods A panel of 35 international gastroenterologists and radiologists participated in a modified Delphi process, reviewing the literature and developing consensus statements. Agreement was defined as at least 75% consensus. Results Consensus was reached on 150 statements across four domains: general IBD (30 statements), luminal Crohn’s disease (CD) (43), perianal CD (51), and ulcerative colitis (UC) (26). For luminal CD and UC, ultrasound response was defined by: (1) a ≥25% reduction in bowel wall thickness (BWT) from baseline, or (2) multifactorial improvement, combining BWT reduction with ≥1 grade decrease in color Doppler signal (CDS) or another IUS parameter. Assessments were set at weeks 4-8 for the colon and week 12 for the terminal ileum. Ultrasound remission in luminal CD was defined as: (1) BWT normalization (≤3 mm) or (2) normalization of multiple parameters, including BWT, CDS, and all other IUS parameters. Similar remission criteria were proposed for UC, but the sigmoid BWT normal range (3-4 mm) remained uncertain. The bowel ultrasound score (BUSS) for CD and the Milan ultrasound criteria (MUC) for UC were supported as standardized scoring systems for trials. Conclusion This consensus provides standardized IUS definitions to enhance consistency in IBD trials, supporting the integration of IUS in future research.

Abstract Sex differences in cancer outcome, including that of glioblastoma (GBM), are shaped by biological, hormonal, and immunological factors and impact disease progression, treatment responses, survival, and tumor microenvironment (TME) interactions. Platelets regulate the immune responses and tumor progression in many cancers, but it is not clear how they contribute to these sex-based differences by affecting the dynamics of the TME. Here, we show that GBM patients exhibit heightened platelet reactivity driven by PAR4 signaling. In murine GBM models, both pharmacological inhibition of PAR4 using BMS986120 and genetic deletion of PAR4 significantly prolong survival in females but not males. This survival advantage is estrogen dependent: it is preserved in chromosomal male-hormonal female mice within the four-core genotype model and is rescued in ovariectomized mice treated with estrogen. The survival benefit is TME specific and is mediated by platelet-driven enhancement of CD8⁺ T cell infiltration into the tumor. Inhibition of platelet PAR4 signaling increases calcium signaling through an estrogen-dependent interaction between PAR4 and estrogen receptor β (ERβ)—a receptor interaction not previously described. PAR4-activated platelets within the TME suppress CD8⁺ T cell function, and depletion of CD8⁺ T cells abolishes both the tumor-induced platelet reactivity and the survival benefit conferred by PAR4 inhibition. These findings establish platelet-mediated PAR4 signaling as a critical driver of tumor progression and identify sex-specific immune responses as key to therapeutic efficacy.

PURPOSE Automated curation of breast cancer treatment data with minimal human involvement could accelerate the collection of statewide and nationwide evidence for patient management and assessing the effectiveness of treatment pathways. The primary challenges are the complexity and inconsistency of structured clinical data streams and accurate extraction of this information from free-text clinical narratives. MATERIALS AND METHODS We proposed a hybrid two-phase information extraction framework that combined a Unified Medical Language System parser (phase-1) with a fine-tuned large language model (LLM; phase-2) to extract longitudinal treatment timelines from time-stamped clinical notes. Our framework was developed through end-to-end joint learning as a question-answering model, where the model was trained to simultaneously answer five questions, each corresponding to a specific treatment. RESULTS We fine-tuned and internally validated the model on 26,692 patients with breast cancer (diagnosed between 2013 and 2020) receiving treatment at Mayo Clinic and externally validated the model on 162 randomly selected patients from Stanford Healthcare. Zero-shot LLM (out-of-the-box) had high specificity but low sensitivity, indicating that although these frameworks are useful for generic language understanding, they are lacking in terms of targeted clinical tasks. The proposed model achieved 0.942 average AUROC on the internal and 0.924 on the external data, demonstrating only marginal drop in performance when evaluated on external. The proposed model also achieved better trade-off between sensitivity (average: 79.2%) and specificity (average: 76.2%) compared with rule-based (average sensitivity: 70.5%, average specificity: 68.1%) and structured codes (average sensitivity: 64.1%, average specificity: 83.5%). CONCLUSION The proposed framework can extract temporal information about cancer treatments from various time-stamped clinic notes, regardless of the setting of treatment administration (inpatient or outpatient) or time frame. To support the cancer research community for such data curation and longitudinal analysis, we have packaged the code as a docker image, which needs minimal system reconfiguration and shared with an open-source academic license.

Background: The use of validated risk stratification tools for the workup of suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) is a recommendation of the American Society of Hematology and the American College of Emergency Physicians. Methods: We designed and implemented electronic clinical pretest probability (PTP) tools for use in emergency departments (ED). Overall, 38 EDs (tertiary and regional EDs) in the United States were involved across three health systems. PTP use was analyzed between September 12, 2022 and January 11, 2023 in 270,247 ED visits. PTP use was examined in terms of the percentage of visits for which patients underwent computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA). Each site chose the 3-tier Wells’ score for implementation and Site 2 designed a combined Wells’, pulmonary embolism rule-out criteria (PERC), and YEARS score. Results: At Site 3, forced use resulted in documented PTP scores in 49–53% of ordered CTPAs. At Sites 1 and 2, where PTP scores were optional, documented PTP scores occurred in 2–3% and 1–3% of CTPA orders, respectively. At Site 1, the use of PTP increased slightly over the study period, with signs that PE yield on imaging was also increasing (3.4–5.9%). At Site 2, PE yield on imaging was 9–10%, and it remained similar, with similar use of PTP tools over the study period. PE yield (6–8%) on imaging also remained similar throughout the study at Site 3. Conclusions: Guideline-endorsed PTP scores for PE at three independent health systems in the United States did not increase PE yield on imaging. Novel implementation strategies involving interdisciplinary teams are urgently needed.

Abstract A variety of genetic diseases of the kidney tubule are amenable to correction via gene therapy. However, gene delivery to renal tubule epithelial cells mediated by viral vectors via the blood is inefficient due to the permselectivity of the glomerular barrier. We hypothesized that effacement of podocyte foot processes would disrupt typical glomerular limitations on filtration and make renal tubule epithelial cells susceptible to transduction from viral vectors delivered intravenously. We determined that adeno-associated virus serotype 8 (AAV8) transduced significantly more epithelial cells in the kidney under the conditions of LPS-induced proteinuria. Use of AAV1 in tandem with LPS-induced proteinuria yielded an ideal two-pronged effect of both partially detargeting the liver and transducing the kidney with a higher bioluminescent signal than AAV8 did, and at half of the dose. Using adenovirus serotype 5 (Ad5) in conjunction with LPS-induced proteinuria showed that kidney transduction was enhanced, but only in glomerular cells. These studies mechanistically test the efficacy of different viral vectors and demonstrate their capacity to transduce kidney epithelial cells. This is a fundamental step in designing future treatments for kidney gene therapy. Significance Statement The slit diaphragms in the glomerulus of the kidney are too narrow to allow most solute from the blood to enter the nephron. As a result, large particles such as viral vectors generally cannot access tubule epithelial cells necessary to correct genetic disorders. In this study, mice are induced into a state of proteinuria and subsequently administered viral vectors intravenously. This group of mice had higher levels of transduced kidney epithelial cells than the control (non-proteinuria) group. The induction of transient proteinuria before intravenous viral vector administration is a novel approach that could make tubulopathies treatable via gene therapy in both animal models and humans.