Farnoosh Nik-Ahd, MD
Resident Physician
Urology
School of Medicine

Publications (33)

Top publication keywords:
Prostatic NeoplasmsProstate-Specific AntigenFrailtyRobotic Surgical ProceduresEquipment FailureDelayed DiagnosisTransgender PersonsUrinary Bladder Neck ObstructionPostoperative ComplicationsPelvic Organ ProlapseUrinary Incontinence, StressUrologic Surgical ProceduresTranssexualismInsuranceUrinary Bladder, Overactive

• Reply to Editorial Comment on "UroARC: A Novel Surgical Risk Calculator for Older Adults Undergoing Suprapubic Tube Placement".
  Urology 2025 Nik-Ahd F, Suskind AM
• Outcomes following intradetrusor onabotulinumtoxinA in a national cohort of nursing home residents.
  BJUI compass 2024 Dreyfuss LD, Nik-Ahd F, Wang L, Shatkin-Margolis A, Covinsky K, Boscardin WJ, Suskind AM
• Prostate cancer in transgender women - challenges in research and clinical care.
  Nature reviews. Urology 2024 Nik-Ahd F, Anger JT, Cooperberg MR, Freedland SJ
• UroARC: A Novel Surgical Risk Calculator for Older Adults Undergoing Suprapubic Tube Placement.
  Urology 2024 Nik-Ahd F, Zhao S, Wang L, John Boscardin W, Covinsky K, Suskind AM
• UroARC: A novel surgical risk calculator for older adults undergoing pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence surgery.
  Neurourology and urodynamics 2024 Nik-Ahd F, Zhao S, Wang L, Boscardin WJ, Covinsky K, Suskind AM

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• Prostate-Specific Antigen Values in Transgender Women Receiving Estrogen.
  JAMA 2024 Nik-Ahd F, De Hoedt AM, Butler C, Anger JT, Carroll PR, Cooperberg MR, Freedland SJ
• Prostate cancer in transgender women: A propensity score-matched analysis of disease severity and survival.
  Cancer 2024 Meagher M, Morgan K, Deshler L, Riviere P, Dolendo I, Rose B, Jamieson C, Morris S, Nik-Ahd F, Freedland S, Anger J, Salmasi A
• Development of the UroARC Surgical Calculator: A Novel Risk Calculator for Older Adults Undergoing Surgery for Bladder Outlet Obstruction.
  The Journal of urology 2024 Nik-Ahd F, Zhao S, Boscardin WJ, Wang L, Covinsky K, Suskind AM
• Sacral neuromodulation in nursing home residents: Predictors of success and complications in a national cohort of older adults.
  Neurourology and urodynamics 2024 Dreyfuss LD, Nik-Ahd F, Wang L, Shatkin-Margolis A, Covinsky K, John Boscardin W, Suskind AM
• Prostate Cancer in Transgender Women in the Veterans Affairs Health System, 2000-2022.
  JAMA 2023 Nik-Ahd F, De Hoedt A, Butler C, Anger JT, Carroll PR, Cooperberg MR, Freedland SJ
• Prostate cancer is not just a man's concern - the use of PSA screening in transgender women.
  Nature reviews. Urology 2023 Nik-Ahd F, Anger JT, Cooperberg MR, Freedland SJ
• Seeing the unseen: how can we best identify transgender women within the Veterans Affairs healthcare system's electronic medical record?
  The journal of sexual medicine 2023 Nik-Ahd F, Waller J, De Hoedt AM, Garcia MM, Figueiredo JC, Carroll PR, Cooperberg MR, Freedland SJ
• Patient decision-making for surgical treatment of post-prostatectomy stress urinary incontinence: a mixed-methods exploratory pilot study.
  Translational andrology and urology 2023 Shaw NM, Nik-Ahd F, Jones C, Breyer BN, Walter LC, Sudore R, Cooperberg MR, Baussan C, Quanstrom K, Allen IE, Hampson LA
• Reply to Sandra Patricia García Nader, Sebastián Peña Rodríguez, and Cesar Alejandro Diaz Ritter's Letter to the Editor re: Farnoosh Nik-Ahd, Andrew Jarjour, Jane Figueiredo, et al. Prostate-specific Antigen Screening in Transgender Patients. Eur Urol. 2023;83:48-54.
  European urology 2023 Nik-Ahd F, Cooperberg MR, Freedland SJ
• Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening in Transgender Patients.
  European urology 2022 Nik-Ahd F, Jarjour A, Figueiredo J, Anger JT, Garcia M, Carroll PR, Cooperberg MR, Vidal AC, Freedland SJ
• The Role of Frailty on Surgical Outcomes Following Pelvic Organ Prolapse Surgery in Medicare Beneficiaries: A National Study.
  Urology 2022 Reddy R, Zhao S, Boscardin WJ, Nik-Ahd F, Van Kuiken M, Suskind AM
• Population Trends in Frailty in Older Adults with Benign Urological Conditions in Northern California.
  Urology practice 2022 Nik-Ahd F, Jin C, Boscardin WJ, Suskind AM
• Reply by Authors.
  Urology practice 2022 Nik-Ahd F, Jin C, Boscardin WJ, Suskind AM
• Pharmacotherapy for Erectile Dysfunction in 2021 and Beyond.
  The Urologic clinics of North America 2022 Nik-Ahd F, Shindel AW
• Seeking the Truth About Primary Elective Cesarean Delivery and Pelvic Floor Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
  Female pelvic medicine & reconstructive surgery 2022 Tholemeier L, Souders CP, Bresee C, Nik-Ahd F, Caron A, Eilber KS, Anger JT
• Comparative outcomes for older adults undergoing surgery for bladder and bowel dysfunction.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021 Suskind AM, Zhao S, Nik-Ahd F, Boscardin WJ, Covinsky K, Finlayson E
• Beyond "Don't Ask, Don't Tell:" Our Role as Physicians, Scientists, and Urologists in the Care of Transgender Patients.
  European urology 2021 Nik-Ahd F
• Obese men undergoing radical prostatectomy: Is robotic or retropubic better to limit positive surgical margins? Results from SEARCH.
  International journal of urology : official journal of the Japanese Urological Association 2020 Nik-Ahd F, Howard LE, Aronson WJ, Terris MK, Klaassen Z, Cooperberg MR, Amling CL, Kane CJ, Freedland SJ
• Robotic Urologic Surgery: Trends in Food and Drug Administration-Reported Adverse Events Over the Last Decade.
  Journal of endourology 2019 Nik-Ahd F, Souders CP, Houman J, Zhao H, Chughtai B, Anger JT
• Poorly controlled diabetes increases the risk of metastases and castration-resistant prostate cancer in men undergoing radical prostatectomy: Results from the SEARCH database.
  Cancer 2019 Nik-Ahd F, Howard LE, Eisenberg AT, Aronson WJ, Terris MK, Cooperberg MR, Amling CL, Kane CJ, Freedland SJ
• Robotic urologic surgery: trends in litigation over the last decade.
  Journal of robotic surgery 2019 Nik-Ahd F, Souders CP, Zhao H, Houman J, McClelland L, Chughtai B, Anger JT
• Robotic sacrocolpopexy: adverse events reported to the FDA over the last decade.
  International urogynecology journal 2019 Souders C, Nik-Ahd F, Zhao H, Eilber K, Chugtai B, Anger J
• Neomycin-polymyxin or gentamicin bladder instillations decrease symptomatic urinary tract infections in neurogenic bladder patients on clean intermittent catheterization.
  Journal of pediatric urology 2018 Huen KH, Nik-Ahd F, Chen L, Lerman S, Singer J
• Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections in Females and the Overlap with Overactive Bladder.
  Current urology reports 2018 Nik-Ahd F, Lenore Ackerman A, Anger J
• Electrophysiology and structural interventions in adults with congenital heart disease: Comparison of combined versus separate procedures.
  Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology 2018 Lindsay I, Nik-Ahd F, Aboulhosn JA, Moore JP
• Predictors of electrocardiographic screening failure for the subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator in children: A prospective multicenter study.
  Heart rhythm 2018 Campbell M, Moore JP, Sreeram N, von Alvensleben JC, Shah A, Batra A, Law I, Sanatani S, Thomas V, Nik-Ahd F, Williams S, Nosavan N, Maldonado J, Hart A, Nguyen T, Balaji S
• Mechanisms and predictors of recurrent tachycardia after catheter ablation for d-transposition of the great arteries after the Mustard or Senning operation.
  Heart rhythm 2016 Gallotti RG, Madnawat H, Shannon KM, Aboulhosn JA, Nik-Ahd F, Moore JP
• Ex vivo gene editing of the dystrophin gene in muscle stem cells mediated by peptide nucleic acid single stranded oligodeoxynucleotides induces stable expression of dystrophin in a mouse model for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
  Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio) 2014 Nik-Ahd F, Bertoni C