Intensive Care
In this retrospective study of 170 patients undergoing pulmonary thromboendarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension at a high-volume center, 25 percent developed recurrent moderate or greater tricuspid regurgitation. Reoccurrence was associated with preoperative and residual...
In this retrospective study of 170 patients undergoing pulmonary thromboendarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension at a high-volume center, 25 percent developed recurrent moderate or greater tricuspid regurgitation. Reoccurrence was...
This editorial argues that climate-driven wildfires are an escalating respiratory-health emergency. Smoke containing high concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), ozone, and toxic gases can travel far beyond fire zones....
In this single-center retrospective review from the Toronto Lung Transplant Program, a two-surgeon donor-review system in which lungs declined by the primary on-call surgeon were reassessed by a second surgeon...
Mediastinal and intrathoracic germ cell tumors are rare in the pediatric population, and extragonadal yolk sac tumors presenting as giant thoracic masses are rarer still. These tumors pose a dual...
