Lung - Basic Science

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CT Findings Maintains the Predictive Performance of an Existing Radiograph-Based Donor Lung Acceptability Score

September 17, 2026 | Akshay PatelSilver Contributor

This study assessed whether chest computed tomography (CT) findings improve the validated Lung Donor (LUNDON) score for predicting acceptance of brain-dead donor lungs. Among 2,454 donors who underwent CT, emphysema, pulmonary oedema, and traumatic lung...

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CT Findings Maintains the Predictive Performance of an Existing Radiograph-Based Donor Lung Acceptability Score

September 17, 2026 | Akshay PatelSilver Contributor

This study assessed whether chest computed tomography (CT) findings improve the validated Lung Donor (LUNDON) score for predicting acceptance of brain-dead donor lungs. Among 2,454 donors who underwent CT, emphysema,...

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Cystic Fibrosis

November 22, 2023 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

The value for the surgical team is to be found in the systematic approach and especially the candid discussion on benefits of pulmonary transplantation, with the frank statement that may...

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Osimertinib with or without Chemotherapy in EGFR-Mutated Advanced NSCLC

November 10, 2023 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A manuscript that wil certainly be discussed in lung MDT! The thought of a RCT in these earlier stages may be already in the mind of the sponsors… The authors...

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The Right Ventricle During Veno-Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Can We Protect the Injured Ventricle?

January 21, 2022 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

An editorial with some interest for the cardiothoracic surgeon, in particular the awareness of changes in the right vantricle during ECMO support , mostly drawn from the recent Covid experiences,...

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Discussion of “Intraoperative Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation and the Possibility of Postoperative Prolongation Improve Survival in Bilateral Lung Transplantation”

May 3, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A stimulating discussion of the Vienna paper that advances elective ECMO support for bilateral pulmonary transplantation.

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In Global News: Boy Band-Induced Collapsed Lung, Magnet Esophageal Anastomosis, and AKI After Heart Surgery

October 13, 2017 | Claire Vernon

Patient Care A teenager suffered a “boy band-induced pneumothorax” at a One Direction concert, and the case was recently reported in the Journal of Emergency Medicine. At the 48th Union...

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What’s New in Pulmonary Transplantation: Finding the Right Lung for Every Patient

February 20, 2016 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A succinct editorial from a British academic transplant surgeon. It discusses the need for stratifying the utilization of donor lungs based on recent and previous retrospective papers from North American...

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Integrating Tumor and Stromal Gene Expression Signatures With Clinical Indices for Survival Stratification of Early-Stage Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

August 26, 2015 | Marcelo Jimenez

Investigators from Stanford developed a nine-gene expression predictor for survival outcome in early-stage nonsquamous NSCLC. They developed and validated a quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction assay easily applicable to routinely...

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miR-Test: A Blood Test for Lung Cancer Early Detection

March 21, 2015 | Marcelo Jimenez

Concerns remain about the definition of a high risk population who can benefit from low-dose computed tomography screening programs. In this paper, the authors present a promising tool to optimize...

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Objective Measurement and Clinical Significance of TILs in Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

March 12, 2015 | Marcelo Jimenez

Samples from tissue microarrays of 552 NSCLC patients were analyzed to measure the levels of 3 different tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs): CD3, CD8, and CD20. An elevated level of CD3 or...

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Untreatable Tuberculosis: Is Surgery the Answer?

March 1, 2015 | Marcelo Jimenez

The increasing prevalence of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/XDR-TB) in some countries is alarming. When few therapeutic options remain, old procedures need to be re-evaluated based on evidence, specially,...

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Aerogenous Metastases: A Potential Game Changer in the Diagnosis and Management of Primary Lung Adenocarcinoma

December 10, 2014 | Marcelo Jimenez

This interesting article summarizes the evidence from clinical, radiologic and pathologic investigations that lung cancer, specifically adenocarcinoma, may metastasize through the airways, defined as discontinuous spread of cancer cells from...

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